Comment Re: Metro UI (Score 1) 467
In other words, up is down, and black is white.
Comment Re:The first change.. (Score 1) 400
I would argue that he has in fact mismanaged Microsoft quite well. I have never seen anybody do a better job at mismanaging a company.
Oops, some bad wording on my behalf. But you are correct, such bad management is indeed a rarity in such large companies.
Comment The first change.. (Score 1) 400
Should be him retiring and leaving the company. He's mismanaged Microsoft badly ever since Bill Gates left.
Comment On a side note.. (Score 2) 356
What happened to Beagle for Linux? It used to work pretty well for me, and now it seems to have been abandoned.
Comment Someone had to say it... (Score 1) 127
News flash, now the PS3 is dying!
Xbox Live Pricing To Go Up To $60 Per Year 199
donniebaseball23 writes "Microsoft has raised the annual price of Xbox Live Gold to $60, which is a price hike of $10. The new price goes into effect on November 1, but gamers can lock in the current Xbox Live price by renewing now. EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich is not surprised by the move, nor does he think it will really have much impact on the Xbox momentum."
Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant 496
pickens writes "VOA reports that Russian and Iranian engineers have begun loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant located in the southern city of Bushehr amid international fears that Iran will use the facility to make nuclear weapons, a charge both Tehran and the Kremlin vehemently deny. Officials say it will take about two to three months for the plant to start producing electricity once all of the fuel rods have been moved into the reactor. The production capacity of the plant will initially be 500 megawatts, but will eventually increase to 1,000 megawatts. Earlier this year, Washington criticized Russia for going ahead with the planned opening of the plant amid global disagreement and concern over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. Moscow did, however, back a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran, which called for Iran to stop uranium enrichment."
Comment Kind of useless for most.. (Score 1) 273
I have a Nexus One that I purchased straight from Google on ATT. I have no idea when the Android 2.2 update will land. I'd much rather have the Apple System where it is relatively straight forward to update the iPhone OS and you know when it will be released. As far as I can tell, some people on T-Mobile had theirs upgraded, but it seems kind of random.
Want a Body Piercing With That Server? 19
1sockchuck writes "The web hosting business is known for promotional gimmicks. But here's an unusual one: ServerBeach UK is offering a free body piercing with every new server ordered on April 1st. 'We were tired of the typical boring giveaways that have been done to death' said ServerBeach's Dominic Monkhouse. The stunt revives memories of earlier guerrilla marketing efforts by web hosts, like the 'human billboard' who was paid $7,000 to tattoo a hosting company's logo on the back of his head."
France Bans Use of 2.0 114
illybilly writes "French President Nicholas Sarkozy was mad about what was called a 'version 2.0' website redesign for the presidential palace in Paris. So he pushed through legislation that bans the use of the term '2.0' in France."
Comment Re:Lenovo (Score 2, Informative) 583
Nope, Sony has them beat by a long shot. I too work in IT at a university. I ordered a Sony because a Faculty member really liked the looks of the computer and had to have it. Man, the start menu went halfway across the screen from all of the crap installed. Most of it was all of these useless multimedia stuff from Sony itself. Now I just order the Dell Latitudes, and they have a fairly clean image, but I always wipe and reimage them with our own University provided software.
Yemenis Should Be Incensed At Websense 93
Slashdot regular Bennett Haselton writes "Websense, a US-based Internet-censoring software maker, claims not to sell to foreign governments that are censoring Internet access for all of their citizens. But the OpenNet Initiative reports that national ISPs in Yemen have been using Websense to filter Internet access for at least the past four years. Will Websense revoke their license? And what would happen then?" Update: 08/10 21:01 GMT by KD : Bennett adds, "After the story ran, Websense sent me this update." "Since we were informed about the potential use of our products by Yemeni ISPs based on government-imposed Internet restrictions in Yemen, we have investigated this potential non-compliance with our anti-censorship policy. Because our product operates based on a database system, we are able to block updated database downloads to locations and to end users where the use of our product would violate law or our corporate policies. We believe that we have identified the specific product subscriptions that are being used for Web filtering by ISPs in Yemen, and in accordance with our policy against government-imposed censorship, we have taken action to discontinue the database downloads to the Yemeni ISPs."
Comment Is is just me? (Score 1) 440
Or is Windows 7 really not that different in terms of performance than Vista SP2? I tried the Beta on a machine of mine, and really saw no differnce. Well, Windows 7 booted faster, but after that they seemed pretty much the same in terms of the overall feel. The memory after bootup was essentially the same too, hovering right around 700MB.
More Indications Windows 7 Is Coming In 2009 369
An anonymous reader writes "Following on the news that Microsoft was going straight to a RC for Windows 7, the One Microsoft Way blog has put together some dates on the upcoming roadmap for Vista's successor. Microsoft has always said 'three years after the general availability of Windows Vista,' which was released on January 30, 2007, and that the release date was also dependent on quality. Internally though, Microsoft is saying other things. It looks like we'll see the RC coming in April, and a final RTM version before October 3. Yes, that means Redmond is currently hoping to get Windows 7 out the door in 2009."
Comment Windows 7 (Score 1) 864
I have used Windows 7 and for the most part it *is* the same as Windows Vista. Now you can tone down UAC, but under the hood I am pretty sure that not much has changed. On the system that I tested it on, after a fresh install, the system was eating up about 739MB of RAM, same as with Vista. So once again, if you don't have a dual core machine with 2GB of RAM and a decent video card, windows 7 will feel just like Vista.
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