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Comment Re:Analogy overload (Score 0) 63

by thripper on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @10:34AM (#41386847) Attached to: Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers

The comparison is found in TFA where it's quoted from the original paper. So it's not the submitter who adds this (should have been obvious because quotes are used). Also, all the alternatives you provided are correct but when presenting to the public, if an analogy is to be used, you chose to make comparison with something that people know and recognize off the bat. Out of the available options, I think Apple is the best choice.

Comment Re:Sprint and T-Mo should merge (Score 0) 301

by thripper on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @01:00PM (#37266140) Attached to: Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger

Sprint and T-Mobile? They don't even use the same technologies! That makes about as much sense as an AMD / ATi merger! Oh, wait...

On the bright side, at least the new Intel server motherboards stopped coming with those horribly crappy on-board ATi ES1000 video chips, replaced with some Matrox 200 descendant that's refreshingly less crappy. On the bright side for the telecom industry... hmm, I don't see any bright side for any of the telecom mergers.

Matrox is as crap as the old ones. The driver from either or intel or matrox is having a lot of hardtime determining that there *is* a Matrox chip on the frikin MB.

Comment 100MB/month (Score 0) 154

by thripper on Friday May 13, 2011 @06:53AM (#36116358) Attached to: Hands On With the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook

Really what is wrong with bandwidth in the states? I mean, I live in Romania and for 4 euros/month I get 8GB/moth worth of traffic at 7.2 Mbps. Beyond that limit i get 128kbps. (Disclaimer: It's a corporate sim card but it doesn't get much worse for consumers.)

Comment Re:Safari (Score 0) 550

by thripper on Thursday February 28, 2008 @02:24AM (#22584900) Attached to: Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost

Why not ? You paid for those gigs. USE them.

Google Desktop for Mac Released 186

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @08:31AM from the very-frooty dept.

Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes "Google on Tuesday will release a Mac version of Google Desktop. This software, like the PC version, indexes the content of a hard drive and serves it up on familiar Google-style search-result Web pages (or via a its own drop-down results list, if you prefer). But Google Desktop for the Mac is streamlined compared to the busy, gadget-y Windows version, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The focus is squarely on search — including local indexing of an online Gmail account of your choice. It will also index your iDisk."

Feed News: European Commission sues Apple, others over pricing (macworld.com)

From feed by macworldfeed on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @08:32AM

European regulators have charged Apple and several music labels with restrictive pricing practices.

Feed Google primes DoubleClick bum rush (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @08:32AM

$2.6bn Microsoft spoiler

Google is preparing a spoiler to slap down Microsoft's bid to acquire online advertising broker DoubleClick, according to reports.

Feed Visual-cortex simulator sees animals as humans do (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @07:32AM

The software may help explain how we make snap visual decisions and could provide new ways to build vision software for robots and security cameras

Feed French go for fastest train title (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @07:12AM

560km/h target for TGV

The French will today attempt to claim the world's fastest "train on rails" title by accelerating a modified TGV to a white-knuckle 560km/h (350mph), the BBC reports.

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