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Comment Woohoo GOOGLE! (Score 4, Insightful) 218

All the power to you!

You're working on fiber to the home.

Now you're working on Power.
Perhaps someday soon your name will appear on my utility bills as well.

So-far everything is good. But I'm afraid.
You control my email, you control my web searches, you pay me for ads on my site.
You say don't be evil. And I believe you.

But I'm still afraid.
I'm afraid that if I will ever wrong you,
if you're ever displeased with what I say about you,
I will dissapp#~s8 -`15ht@#&fge LOST CARRIER ...

Comment More choices? wtf? (Score 4, Insightful) 113

FTA

"I believe that together, Microsoft and Yahoo will promote more choice, better value and greater innovation to our customers, as well as to advertisers and publishers."

Wait, Two companies combining forces, eliminating the better search engine(IMHO) and then we're told this will result in "more choice"?

I really don't understand how this could be, but I won't use Yahoo (a mediocre SE. at best) anymore. For me it means less choice.

Idle

Submission + - Free Netbook From Microsoft, Then Things Got Weird (wordpress.com) 2

paiute writes: Matt Karolian, a Marketing Communications major at Emerson College in Boston "won" a netbook in a Microsoft re-tweet competition (whatever that is). Then the prize arrived, and it was not exactly the high-quality major award he had expected from a Microsoft:

"A few months back I entered a re-tweet contest that Microsoft was holding. I know, I know, as a marketer I should cringe at the thought of a re-tweet contest but one of the prizes for this re-tweet contest was an xbox 360, so I caved and took part. Time passed and I heard nothing about anyone winning, and I eventually forgot about it..."

NASA

Submission + - Astronauts having trouble with Tranquility module (usatoday.com)

Coldeagle writes: Astronauts ran into trouble while trying to connect up the new Tranquility module onto the ISS. A critical insulating cover didn't fit quit right:

"The fabric, multilayered cover is supposed to go between Tranquility and its observation deck, but the metal bars are not locking down properly because of interference from a hand rail or some other structure at the hatch."

One has to wonder if this is another imperial metric snafu.

Comment Re:But what did Apple want? (Score 1) 401

Source please? Last figures I saw were about a mere 40 million.

Anyhow, you do realise that the market for mobile phones is about a billion every year? Of course, you probably don't, since you're an Apple fan. Yes, I'm sure Apple can make some money in their niche market, but it's nothing particularly notable.

The 75 million figure is for "iPhone" OS devices from a slide that Jobs showed at the iPad event. This figure includes iPod touch devices, not just phones(I had to double-check).

I'm not a Apple fan, but I do think OS X is much better than Windows. One of the reasons I tell people to get a Mac is cause then I end up helping them with their computer once a year at most, not every month.

Comment Re:But what did Apple want? (Score 1) 401

How may of those friends have an iPhone?

3. But 2 of those are work phones, which were provided with heavy subsidy.
Only one friend outright bought the iPhone, and he waited until the 3GS model.

Alright, so those friends do know what the iPad will be about.

I have 3 friends with iPhones who like them and 2 friends who got rid of theirs.
I personally dislike the iPhone, but I probably will get an iPad sooner or later.
It all depends on how much tinkering and development will be allowed without
Apple's blessing.

I'm impressed by the iPad, not because of its specs or software. I'm impressed
because it is a work of art with microchips inside of it.

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