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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez They're starting to make your dream come true: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/...orm_targe.html They're going to have to try harder than going after Java (esp. considering that IIRC Lion won't even ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stuffe Vatican? Nope... it's only the remnant of what used to be known as The Papal States (the Pope even had his own freakin' *army*): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States
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Quote: Originally Posted by AdonisSMU AT 5 or 10% market share, it's just not worth it. ...so at what percentage will this canard finally die? 51%? 70%? 99.44%? Funny thing is, and unlike (the currently dominant) Windows machines, there are…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stuffe History, heritage, tradition, the fact that we managed to keep our Monarchy and have them cede powers to parliament without needing a bloody revolution... Oliver Cromwell's ghost would like to have a word wit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NextTechnocrati And for $800? I will not risk my precious dollars for it even if Motorola would have a return policy of 90 days. that's $800 before the required VZW activation fee and the required one month of 3G se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Logisticaldron That?s a great idea. They can?t use that as an excuse for not meeting Apple?s battery times. Given the oh crap REVIEW IT NOW! mentality of most tech news sites, I suspect we'll get plenty of the 'befo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer This quote jumps out at you: ...that's because Mueller is a bit of a troll/shill himself. Take a peek at his postings on Slashdot sometime... he's all about instantly giving up and siding with Microsoft,…
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...to be fair, they're not counting server sales, either (are they?) I'm not trolling or anything, but I can see the haters immediately screaming that if iPads counted, servers should somehow count too. Yep, I know it says "PC" up there, but it's…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hypercommunist Rats from a sinking ship The only way to know for sure is to see how much stock these gents start selling off on the down-low. I'm fairly sure that most of them (especially Muglia) would still have mo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by noexpectations I hope that all of your travel is domestic....or else keep the AT&T iPhone for international coverage. You sound like a heavy user....may want to buy 2 iPhones from Verizon....1 for voice and 1 for …
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...I suspect that VZW will simply take it on the subsidy. They (more than most carriers) have a thousand ways of getting that money back with the customer remaining unaware, and will likely post the same prices for the phones. Also add to the fac…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I know people will laugh at Windows 8 on ARM but Cortex-A15 will be up 2.5GHz, have up to 8 cores and be designed with actual servers in mind. While this would be useful for SOHO servers, I sincerely doubt…
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Quote: Originally Posted by screamingfist thats what i used to think. let's see, my 17" mbp with 4gig ram and 2.66 c2d cost over 4 thousand. divide by 3 and get my cost per year. I paid $2k for my ancient dual G5 in early 2004. I'm still using…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Not exactly. They have a patent on using the host ID as a verification of the software license. This was the way UNIX software was licensed back in the 80s and early 90s - not so much anymore. This would (if …
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Quote: Originally Posted by rbonner I wonder if you can patent the patenting process? IBM did that a couple of days ago. No, really, see for yourself.
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Wait a minute... didn't Microsoft try something like this with UltimateTV (or was it MSN TV) 10 years ago (and got promptly slapped down by the government after TiVO complained)? What makes them think they'll be able to manage it this go 'round w…
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Daniel, Very nice walk-through. Only a couple of nitpicks... 1) Linux began life (as a barely-stable kernel and very little else) in October of 1991 - the OS roadmap chart is a bit long on the left-hand side of the bar showing "GNU/Linux", but…