rx-sp - Slashdot User

Comment RTFA people! (Score 1) 350

by rx-sp on Thursday May 21, 2009 @02:41PM (#28043581) Attached to: The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers

I know this is Slashdot, and that we don't like to RTFA, but please give it at least a glance before replying.

The guy says that he doesn't necessarily think BIOS-based OS is for everybody, and that some people (including him!) will go with a standard setup in this future scenario.

Slashdot people may think they're ordinary users, but that just ain't true. This guy is talking about a whole different class of users in the article.

Plus, bear in mind that Slashdot has a habit of trashing new and interesting technology. It was probably the only site to trash the iPod when it was released. And whatever happened to that?

Comment What the f*** is happening to Office? (Score 4, Insightful) 341

by rx-sp on Sunday May 17, 2009 @12:28PM (#27987053) Attached to: Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked

I know Office extremely well... Or at least I used to. With these latest releases, it's like the developers have taken magic mushrooms and decided to visit Venus. Seriously, what's going on? Why has everything changed? Who are these changes designed to help? Why did they decide to abandon the system of menus that's been in service since 1984? Just because they've been in service since 1984? That's like Ford abandoning the idea of a steering wheel because it's been used in cars since 1900. When I look at things like this, I see how far from the straight and narrow Microsoft has strayed. They are really losing all track of what's important to users. They've just lost touch completely. I'll say one thing for Bill Gates, and one thing only, but the guy could keep his organization together and produce some half-decent software. Ballmer's just a nutjob who's steering the company into the ground.

Submission + - Trademarks: The hidden menace

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09, 2009 @03:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a blog posting entitled "Trademarks: The Hidden Menace", Keir Thomas asks why open source advocates are keen to suggest patent and copyright reform, yet completely ignore the issue of trademarks, which can be just as dangerous. FTA: "Even within the Linux community, trademarking can be used as obstructively as copyright and patenting to further business ends. ... Is this how open source is supposed to work? Restricted redistribution? Tight control on who can compile software and still be able to call it by its proper name?"

Submission + - "Good enough" computer is the future

Submitted by on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @01:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: Over on the PC World blog, Keir Thomas engages in some speculative thinking. Pretending to be writing from the year 2025, he describes a world of "Good Enough computing", wherein ultra-cheap PCs and notebooks (created to help end-users weather the "Great Recession" of the early 21st century) are coupled to open source operating systems. This is possible because even the cheapest chips have all the power most people need nowadays. In what is effectively the present situation with netbooks writ large, he sees a future where Microsoft is priced out of the entire desktop operating system market and can't compete. It's a fun read that raises some interesting points.

Comment RSS feeds (Score 2, Interesting) 4

by rx-sp on Friday November 09, 2007 @09:07AM (#21293409) Attached to: Immobile Slashdot

Ever thought about tuning into the RSS feed? Trying to open the main webpage on a PDA is perhaps too ambitious.

Submission + - BBC quietly announces Linux/Mac iPlayer 1

Submitted by

Keir Thomas

on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @05:03AM

Keir Thomas writes: "When the BBC released its new iPlayer watch-on-demand service, there were many complaints about the fact it was Windows-only — the equivalent of current BBC broadcasts only being watchable on, say, a Sony television. The good news is that the BBC has announced a Flash-based player for Linux and Mac due by the end of the year (the announcement is buried half way down the page). The bad news is that it will probably only offer streaming, and not the ability to download programmes, like the Windows client. Quote: "It comes down to cost per person and reach at the end of the day". Sounds to me like discrimination on grounds of a user's operating system preference."

Apple's Leopard Will Exclude 800MHz G4 Processors 371

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 24, 2007 @03:57PM from the older-tech-gets-forked dept.

goombah99 writes "According to AppleInsider, Apple is about to announce that Leopard will not support 800 MHz G4 PowerPC processors. Previously developers had been told that it would require at least an 800 MHz G4. But AppleInsider alleges only 867 MHz G4s and higher will now be supported because of speed issues, and testers have been told that the new OS 'cannot be installed' on lesser machines. This cutoff in minimum requirements means that all those original iMac flat screens and Titanium PowerBooks are now forked to the Tiger (10.4) Update Path."

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