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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 02:39 AM EST |
Windows 7 was a lie.
In a privately distributed
report, NPD concludes that
“netbooks did an incalculable amount of damage to
the PC
market,” driving average selling prices down at an
unsustainable rate.
Long-time Windows watcher Paul Thurrott, however,
sees a
different picture in NPD's data. Thurrott argues that
Microsoft looked
to the lowly netbook to prop up its sagging
Windows franchise, back with
Windows 7, and is paying the
price now:
It’s not pat to say that the
Windows PC market went for
volume over quality, because it did: Many of those
20
million Windows 7 licenses each month—too many, I think—went
to machines
that are basically throwaway, plastic crap.
Netbooks didn’t just rejuvenate the
market just as Windows 7
appeared, they also destroyed it from within: Now
consumers
expect to pay next to nothing for a Windows PC. Most of them
simply
refuse to pay for more expensive Windows PCs.
'Not even
Santa could save Microsoft's Windows
8'
Explaining Windows 8 PC
Sales Over the Holidays It's time to stop
denying that
Windows 8 is off to a slow start by Paul
Thurrott
--- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 08:30 AM EST |
Think this falls under 'Really Off-Topic'
Lowering
the Bar
He does have a point of sorts. Should be interesting to
watch his appeals.
Wayne
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 08:45 AM EST |
Looks like it is time for a Free Software Anonimizer Project, the idea
being
to scrub documents and posts of identifiable words.
Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users
I'm not being
facetious. On-line Anonimity is important. If you can be
identified by word
choice, you aren't anonymous.
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- Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users - Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 08:54 AM EST
- It's not just about words - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 03:14 PM EST
- Translated ... - Authored by: cjk fossman on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 04:59 PM EST
- Translated ... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 05:22 PM EST
- Hmmm...... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 05:10 PM EST
- Hmmm...... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 05:33 PM EST
- Hmmm...... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 08:51 AM EST
- Hmmm...... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 10:32 AM EST
- Sites to Anonymize your writing - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 01:25 PM EST
- Gleick - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 10:23 PM EST
- Gleick - Authored by: PJ on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 10:33 PM EST
- Gleick - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:07 PM EST
- Gleick - Authored by: PJ on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:23 PM EST
- Gleick - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:25 PM EST
- Gleick - Authored by: PJ on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 12:09 AM EST
- Truth proves itself at least as strange as fiction... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 08:48 AM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 12:57 PM EST |
Totally off-topic, but I know women who were raped, and too terrified to
report it. So I tend to believe the girl's side (note that she was unconsious
the entire evening, and only learned what happened when shown the
images
posted to Twitter and Instagram).
Yes, it is important that the
accused get a fair trial. It is also important to let
other potential victims
what happened. Rape and/or Sexual Assault is a
widely under-reported crime.
Some studies have indicated that nearly 50%
of all women will undergo an
assault in their life time.
And that's really horrible.
Ste
ubenville Rape Crew Are Outraged That Their Character
is Being
Questioned
So rather than 'questioning their character, I look at
it as asking more
victims to come forward. Rapists rarely have only one
victim.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: rcsteiner on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 02:22 PM EST |
Ars Technica - Patent trolls want $1,000—for using
scanners
Fascinating. :-( --- -Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA
USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 06:37 PM EST |
Looks super hi-tech, but where's the challenge?
$17,000 Linux-powered rifle
brings “auto-aim”
to the real world
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 11:47 PM EST |
Link
The loose-knit
group of hackers submitted a petition to President Obama this week asking that
distributed denial-of-service attacks be recognized as a legal form of
protest.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 12:17 AM EST |
Bloomberg
WSJ
arstechnica
New candidates for
the MacRumors list?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 02:00 AM EST |
Guess who's rearing their head in the shareholder lawsuit against the government
for bailing out AIG, and asking for too much in exchange for keeping the
shareholders from have ZERO return? Mr. David Boies. He and the shareholders
of AIG are, get this, suing the U.S. Government for bailing out AIG and
saving their investments from being worth nothing and instead insisting on high
interest rates to repay the bailout.
I guess having 0 ethics get's
you quite a bit of cash in the bank at least. Disgusts me though.
AIG declines to sue government for saving them from
non-existence
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- The pattern - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 12:15 PM EST
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 12:08 PM EST |
The H Nice to see that despite
competition from cheap Chinese trash, they have still been beavering away at
designing new and better products. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 01:11 PM EST |
Nokia's Q4 Results: A Last
Moment
Of Hope... Before It All Collapses? --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 02:30 PM EST |
In a world where data now moves effortlessly between computers on
the Internet without regard for geographic borders, is the appearance of a
website on a computer screen sufficient for a court to claim that a trademark
has been used in the country? Is the use of a computer server enough to assert
jurisdiction over a non-resident? Two recent cross-border cases -- one
Canadian and one U.S. which both pitted a U.S. company against a Canadian
individual -- found that it is.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 02:58 PM EST |
The allegation according to Slate, isn't that they copied the books, or
any
text from the books, but that they copied the chapter titles and
order.
Article on Slate
I haven't read the full article, haven't had
time yet, but since it is a copyright
lawsuit, I thought I'd post it
quick.Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 07:00 AM EST |
What happened to the "legally armed citizenry leads to less violent
crime" thread?
Did someone manage to answer my question about finding somewhere with high crime
rates and a high proportion of legal gun owners? I really do want to see an
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- We seem to have lost a thread... - Authored by: PJ on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 07:41 AM EST
- It's not lost, it's where it belongs. /nt - Authored by: artp on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:01 AM EST
- The Constitution - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 01:29 PM EST
- personal nuclear weapons - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 03:10 PM EST
- personal nuclear weapons - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 10:53 PM EST
- ROFL - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 11:06 AM EST
- Davy Crockett - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 07:43 AM EST
- Davy Crockett - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 08:11 AM EST
- The Constitution - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 09:57 AM EST
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Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 08:13 AM EST |
The H That is the beta version 25. But it gets even
better. Stable Chrome 24 supports MathML and
closes security holes, and gains a flash player too, so it seems that Chrome
is going to be the browser of choice for many. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 08:26 AM EST |
The H This
I do not like at all. Why does anyone need to run OSS on a bug-infested, closed
Monopolistic cloud? The usual spin says it all: "VM Depot is another
illustration of how the Azure platform is effectively open," said Gianugo
Rabellino, Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft Open
Technologies. Oh, and someone who understands Azure, please re-write
the Wikipedia entry, as
it currently has the warning:This article appears to be written like
an advertisement. Please help improve it by rewriting promotional content from a
neutral point of view and removing any inappropriate external links.
(November 2012) That is of course because it has been written
to be an advert, by either M$ or the fanbois. I hate to see something
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Authored by: hardmath on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:59 AM EST |
'Oldest fossils' found in Pilbara
Ridges
that crisscross the rocks like strands in
a spider web hint that primitive
bacteria linked up in
sprawling networks. Like their modern counterparts, they
may
have lived in the equivalent of microbial cities that hosted
thousands of
kinds of bacteria, each specialised for a
different task and communicating with
the others via
chemical signals.
The discovery pushes back by
90Myr the previous record for
oldest fossil life, also found at Pilbara last
year.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 06:37 PM EST |
Solar variability is back on the
global warming table
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 02:24 AM EST |
Link
A representative for the Consumer Electronics
Association, which runs CES, said the organization is "extremely disappointed"
in CBS's move.
"CBS has decided to censor CNet, and CBS has always been a
strong defender of the First Amendment," said Jeff Joseph, senior vice president
of communications for CEA. "It's sad to see them not applying the same standards
to a site that they own."
What is being ignored, is the
elephant in the room,
which is that advertising does not really work as
the
marketing people would have the network execs believe.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 05:17 PM EST |
This is kind of on-topic from one point of view. A lot of us, me included,
have Autism related issues. Even now Autism isn't all that well understood.
Anything that brings it into mainstream discussion is wonderful.
So,
hot woman who would understand my hey look at that chicken....
Coverage at E
Online
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 11:16 AM EST |
The Vulnerability Notes Database entry is here.
At which
point I have some questions that I'm not in shape to research
myself, as I'm in
massive pain today.
1) The article mentions Linux & OSX as
vulnerable.
2) It doesn't mention IOS, BB-OS, Android, Windows for ARM,
BSD, or
Symbian as vulnerable.
3) All of examples are Windows
X86/AMD64
Is anyone capable of digging out details on this, and
checking if it really
capable of damaging anything other than Windows? I
strongly suspect it
can't, but I'm in bad shape today, and would probably mess
up the tests if I
tried to do
them.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 11:27 AM EST |
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Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 12:03 PM EST |
False reports of
Toronto sex assault, murder-suicide go viral in Korean media
I'm
surprised the newspapers and TV would run this without a bit of fact
checking.--- The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 09:14 AM EST |
<p>...if <a href="http://mars-one.com/en/">the MarsOne
project</a> delivers on what it plans.</p>
<p>On the bright side, the plans do seem reasonably thorough...</p>[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 12:18 PM EST |
There are a number of news reports today that Apple has drastically cut back
component orders for their new iPhone 5 because of inventory build up due to low
sales. On the other hand, the major Android vendors are reporting increased
sales.
Their major problem is being attributed to their policy of having a single
product at a single price (or at least one price per country), while Android
devices are available at multiple price points.
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