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Comment Re:More good news! (Score 2, Insightful) 499

'Guys' as you put it may mean companies, since both Microsoft and Apple are companies. If that is what you mean then the answer is, Linux is not a company and therefore it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

I like Windows. I like lots of products all over the place. I simply don't like the release terms and the fees and legal threats and the "you don't like it? well that's kind of too bad" attitude many consumers will encounter.

I have the strangely old fashioned view that if I pay someone for something, I should be treated better for it than before I was paying them. In many instances with Microsoft or Apple, the customer may experience restrictions which can be quite insulting and frustrating.

Comment Re:Shell history tricks (Score 1) 2362

exactly, it's not needed. If you go out of your way to alias a command differently, that's your fault.

ls > filename is the same as ls -1 > filename, unless you go out of your way to change it to mean something else.

I'm not concerned about non modern systems. punch card holes are a mystery to me.

Saying something is waste is not an insult from me. I'm interested in efficiency for this case.

Comment More good news! (Score 1) 499

Keep it up Microsoft. You and Apple are showing more and more the tight grips you squeeze on the consumers you serve. Betraying even your own honor system to sell more. Every giant public outrageous greed-driven corporate-minded move you make drives more and more users away from the licenses and ideals that give you the power to do so.

That means more and more users will use Ubuntu. Which means lots of them will move on to Fedora and the like. Which means some of them will continue on and eventually a few will actually end up being real linux and unix users and developers.

So thanks for the help and enjoy your success! Just remember what happens when the grip gets too tight and too monopolistic - we break your fingers.
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HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade 499

More documents are coming out in court proceedings over the Vista Capable debacle. Internetnews.com has good coverage of HP's fury over Microsoft lowering the requirements for a Vista Capable sticker, at Intel's request. "Intel officials may have been pleased that Microsoft lowered standards for obtaining the company's Windows Vista Capable logo program sticker, but the same can't be said about HP's execs. 'I can't be more clear than to say you not only let us down by reneging on your commitment to stand behind the [device driver model] requirement, you have demonstrated a complete lack of commitment to HP as a strategic partner and cost us a lot of money in the process,' said one e-mail from Richard Walker, the senior vice president of HP's consumer business unit, to [Microsoft executives]." PCPro.co.uk follows the trail of accusatory emails inside Microsoft from there: "HP's email prompted then Microsoft co-President, Jim Allchin, to send a furious email of his own to company CEO Steve Ballmer. Allchin's email suggests the decision to lower the requirements was made in his absence by Ballmer, following 'a call between you and Paul [Otellini, Intel CEO].' 'I am beyond being upset here,' Allchin wrote to Ballmer. 'What a mess. Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility [sic], as well as my own credibility shot.' Ballmer, in turn, blamed another Microsoft executive, Will Poole, in a rather erratically typed reply to Allchin."

Comment Rejoice! (Score 1) 329

There's already flash for 64-bit systems. It's called use-32-bit-browser-with-flash. Now that the 64-bit will be released, milliseconds of waiting on 5% of the sites I visit will be shaved off by me using the 64-bit version instead of the 32-bit.

Of course by the time those milliseconds add up to the amount of time it took to download it in the first place, we will be living in a time much like Disney's Tron except mixed with Dark City.

Thanks for all your work Adobe! You've put so much time into shaving mere milliseconds from the bottom end of my internet usage!

PS can you add some features to Adobe Reader? I have some files I need correlated and also I was thinking you should add some anti-spyware features. Wait is that cyclic? Also, if you don't add even more features to Adobe Reader (just make it an OS already please), I will let out the truth. The sad messed up truth about how you have been tricking the american public. You know. Yes I'm talking about Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Guess what world? They are exactly the same as they were 8 or so years ago! Suprise, bitches! They just move the features around to confuse you and charge you again.

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