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Comment Re:Patent fight not the only reason (Score 1) 542

by stanthegoomba on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @04:32AM (#38501016) Attached to: Techrights Recommends An Apple Boycott

There are more reasons to boycott apple. For example, - DRM. Download music from iTunes, and you can only play it on a limited number of computers (try it and you'll find out).

iTunes music hasn't been DRM-encrypted since 2006. You can play it on an unlimited number of computers (try it and you'll find out).

Pushing of proprietary standards. Many apps developed today could just as well be developed using open standards, e.g., HTML and javascript. Instead of aiding the further development of these standards, they are sucking developer power into their own eco-system and make the apps, that would otherwise be available to everyone, only accessible to their own customer-base.

Apple co-developed WebKit, the open source renderer which made the modern HTML/Javascript web app environment possible. The first iPhone only ran web apps--the App Store was a response to consumer demands. Apple has been one of the loudest voices pushing for HTML5 adoption in browsers and devices. They also make their own services (iCloud and iWork.com) available as web apps. There are many reasons to dislike Apple, but do your research first.

Comment Re:Dugg! (Score 0, Funny) 210

by superatrain on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @11:12AM (#22222202) Attached to: Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos

I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this.

Sir, the term "dugg" came from "Slashdotted". You fail at both nerdiness and the internet. I am afraid I will have to revoke your nerd card now, assuming you have one at all. Please reconsider ever referencing Digg on Slashdot again. Doing so again may result in injury or death.

Comment Re:How does the keyboard backlight work? (Score 1) 120

by stanthegoomba on Monday June 19, 2006 @11:38AM (#15562290) Attached to: Experimenting With Light on Apple Laptops

Even though it looks like each letter is individually lit, there is only one light underneath the keyboard. The letters on the keys are simply transparent. Of course, there is a keyboard that can truly take advantage of individually lit keys:
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

MAKE Switches To BUY 43

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @05:38PM from the be-a-good-consumer dept.

ptorrone writes "It's been a rough year for MAKE Magazine, you see, everyone wants to buy things and not make things, so we're switching our format and rebranding the magazine to BUY. The next volume will be filled with wonderful things you can buy and directives on things to do, like buy more. Our new designer, Nada, has some shots of the next volume here."

CUTEST WEB SITE EVER DISCOVERED!!! 341

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 31, 2006 @10:37PM from the danger-cute-alert-omg-lol dept.

ToeSocks06 writes "The cutest site i've ever or youve ever seen is this one CLICK IT NOW LOL!!! because they have the cutest pictures you will ever see :) :) :) Like hamsters wearing SO CUTE hats and so many kittens zomg i love kitties especially that brown one i hope they show him with hats to LOLOLOLOLOL!!! Ok I gottta go now bye!!!"

Journal Journal: Insert text here

Journal by superatrain on Sunday April 17, 2005 @09:53PM

while a friend wasnt looking, i made his desktop a dropbox on a macosx system, networked home folders. After running this script for 3 seconds, he had 103 items on his desktop, 1 of which mac os couldnt delete - so it is still there... He was on an imac 10.2, and he lost what he was working on due to pulling the plug cause finder kept crashing and reloading:

#!/bin/bash
a=1

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