Posts by Shunnabunich

Given that I have no personal interest in the Kindle whatsoever, and am a big fan of many of Apple's products... Holy shit, Dan. You're "surprised" that the Kindle doesn't use a 30-pin iPod connector? The plastic tray it...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider The Mac maker's green notebook campaign comes after years of criticism from activists over the company's refusal to follow suit with other leading consumer electronics firms by bribing Greenpeace...

Quote: Originally Posted by BuzDots Good Ad - 'cept Apple could "fire" back with an ad about RIM shooting blanks!! Or, as many Engadget commenters pointed out, they could just use that oh-so-badly-chosen tagline against...

Can we maybe not give them their own local account on the machine this time around?

Quote: Originally Posted by groverat No ordinary human knows what the fuck a plist file is. Be that as it may, Ms. Sunshine, plists are a good deal simpler to deal with than the Hindenburg-esque disaster known commonly as the Windows...

Another way to think of the tabs: The old titlebar, aside from about an inch on one end, was devoid of any useful function (not counting double-clicking to minimize, which still works). Now, instead of taking up screen real estate with...

Quote: Originally Posted by caliminius I'm assuming you're just trying to be silly, but NT didn't get merged into the consumer version of Windows. It replaced it. And if you're going to count every service pack, Snow Leopard would...

Quote: Originally Posted by TiAdiMundo ...Like 10.6 is the 7th version of OSX, 6.1 is the 7th version of Windows. By the logic of considering 6.1 to be the seventh Windows version: Windows 1 (1.0) Windows 2 (2.0) Windows 3...

The problem isn't that Microsoft prevents competition between browsers, but, as is the case with many other aspects of its business, that Microsoft circumvents competition by feeding the pervasive misconception that what they provide is...

For reference's sake, below are links to Dan's articles about why the "market share myth" he supported in this article doesn't work. They were written the better part of a year ago. The Unavoidable Malware Myth: Why Apple...