Posts by tribalogical

IT sure does beg the question what the FBI is doing with that many UDID's to begin with….. I suppose we could have 12 million "suspected terrorists" and "felony suspects" and "drug-related criminals" in the US… but no doubt mixed in...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  The bolded part says that you're wrong. Personal use does not involve giving something way. The only possible argument that he might have is first use doctrine, but I believe...

I'll pipe in by saying I agree in principle… that principle being, it shouldn't be treated any differently than bequeathing "physical media" like a book, a record or a CD… those fall under "fair use" laws and principles. WIth physical...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    Then why do businesses just buy new computers instead of upgrading their decade old ones?   OK, that's verging on foolish now… because, a "decade old"...

Quote: Originally Posted by Shidell    Yeah, this is true. Windows 8 is extremely efficient; it runs well even on old hardware, like  Pentium M's and Pentium 4's with a a gig of RAM, which is quite the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gwydion    It is down to 82% if you count mobile devices, if you count only desktop it is still 92%   But we're no longer in a purely PC or "desktop centric" world....

Quote: Originally Posted by TBell      I still think it's displays look the best. My newer Sharp TV is noticeably better than Samsung and Sony offerings in the same price range. Sharp also is the...

Most telling to me isn't the simple (and mostly unimportant) statistic that OSX surpassed Windows Vista usage… that's a rather bland point...   More astonishing to me is how far overall Windows usage has fallen in the past few...

Quote: Originally Posted by allmypeople  If these reports are true.... Anyone else starting to feel bad for Sharp???   Seems like we've been reading/hearing about LCD production problems from them...

This is interesting… it seems like a lot of effort just to support one "retina" laptop… do most Photoshop users do the majority of their work using a 15" laptop display…? I don't think so...   Rather, this implies Apple might...