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Steve Jobs being a retard 2525
Let's see. A guy started a business in his parents' garage. He stayed in a town he liked and grew the business to employ thousands of people and...
Steve Jobs being a retard 2526
There was an article referenced in Slashdot a few months ago about all the effort that goes into a presentation for Macworld Expo. SJ gets coaching from his senior staff; they go...
iTunes Gets Real Compebreastion
Derek Currie Make another payment and your music is back. And to recycle the arguments you...
iTunes Gets Real Compebreastion
It was mny understanding that the license and DRM of those services didn't permit that -- the whole point of having a low-price subscription service, right Hardly -- I wouldn't...
Is there are any doubters about SATA
Lefty Bigfoot HD DV cams? Video interfaces (this is proving tricky to pin down; read plenty which suggests there MAY be hardware out there, but it's all muddled...
More On Major OS X Vulnerability
John Slade Guffaw!!! I'm not tho. The kernel has control over all apps that run. You need to read a book...
Address Book
Look. There is no more ardent Mac evangelist than I. My friends shun me when I get on the soapbox. But, lately, I find myself occasionally shouting that the emperor...
Address Book
No worries. No reason you have to use it at all. Lots of alternatives, lots free, and lots with different features. There's plenty to change and add to and adjust in Address Book. No, they...
Vista: Very Disappointing 2533
From the limited exposure it seemed to offer nothing more than 2000 or XP but with significantly more resource requirements. On my "production" system (PIII 800Mhz, 512MB, 20GB) it was horrible. On the...
Vista: Very Disappointing 2534
I've been using it on a test system for a while now. However since it wasn't my daily PC I wasn't doing...
Vista: Very Disappointing 2535
I'm not sure what my expectation was. But I wasn't very impressed with it. It doesn't appear to be much...
Ping Josh: I never used to get mad at Windows hope Vista will be better
I pinged Josh because some time ago he went through his expert trolling technique to get me to explain how the Mac experience was better. Nothing...
Totally OT: Apple are idiots
Maybe it's because I'm in a bad mood, or haven't been sleeping well because of the heat; I dunno, but I just got a Newsletter from Apple (I bought...
Totally OT: Apple are idiots
Homer on Tuesday 13 June 2006 11:56 You have my full sympathies. Marketing is one of the...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today
The Windiots here say this just doesn't happen.... From USA Today, today. Microsoft finds 60% infection rate in PCs SEATTLE — Microsoft on Monday said that...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2540
Jim Polaski That summary is wrong, and has been corrected: "EDITOR'S NOTE: This story, originally published Monday...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd
Mike wrote By your logic, you are much more likely to eat mad-cow infected beef from McDonald's than you are from Dairy Queen...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2542
Lars Träger You quoted only part of the sentence, idiot, and you threw away the context. Everyone who's read this thead knows the actual stats, so I...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2543
Lars Träger I never derided USA Today's report as a "lie", but as misreporting. And they issued a correction, so they admit that they misreported the story. And what they misreported...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2544
Snit No, I think only Lars is lying. When Lars says, "Microsoft still claims: 'a backdoor Trojan...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2545
Snit i agree it's silly, but i would guess those actively seeking a malware program are MORE likely...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today
If they are actively seeking it out, then I would say they are more likely to be infected. They must have had a reason - perhaps their...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2547
No, the report was specifically about bots -- not viruses, not spyware, not cookies -- just bots. It's possible, of course, that you just don't...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2548
Mitch You've posted multiple times in this thread in the last 24 hours, and all of your posts only go to...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2549
Yep those people used an online scanner probably because they don't have any protection running. Yep they scan tracking cookies as malware because it's a form of spyware. It can track where you've been and...
Who's right M4 or the WinDiots here USA Today. 2550
You have been claiming this for a long time -- it has been shown that it can't be true. It is nonsense. It is stupid. Do you have ANY kind of validation for this...
NeedHam predicts Mac Market Explosion
Needham & Co predicts Mac market explosion By Jonny Evans Apple's move to Intel processors and its...
NeedHam predicts Mac Market Explosion 2552
No it's now. You can get a dual core Dell that has a faster processor, more memory and a larger...
NeedHam predicts Mac Market Explosion 2553
I would respectully dissagree, I just looked, an XPS 400, with a 20" monitor and a 250GB hard drive is in the same price range, but it comes with a X300 Radeon...
NeedHam predicts Mac Market Explosion
Well, they give lip service to "market share gains", but then they don't really have any market share gains to praise, do they? The mini is "low priced", but only because it's...
NeedHam predicts Mac Market Explosion 2555
That's because they put out novelty items like the Mini Mac. It was sold mainly beause of it's size and look. It is nothing more than a laptop wtih no battery or...
Apple Takes the PAin Away
From the Sydney Morning Herald. "Apple today takes the MS pain away GRAEME PHILIPSON June 13, 2006 Next Page 1 of 2 Single page...
Apple Takes the PAin Away
Mike I knew of DAVE but I can't remember how it worked; IIRC DAVE was the thing which...
Apple Takes the PAin Away
Here are some parts that were cleverly omitted by the OP: "Microsoft is in a bind. It has to get Vista out...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2559
C Lund They already are. Foxconn are way better than many firms, in fact; if you want to see Chinese exploitation of labour, you have to look at local market employment. People these...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2560
Superspinner is, indeed, a very good name for you. Apple is one of probably thousands of companies who currently...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2561
George Graves *I'm* singling out Apple? I got this from the macworld.co.uk website! Of course it's going to be about Apple. The other thing is that...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2562
While Jobs IS an aging hippie and most butturedly a liberal, the company itself is not "liberal" in any political sense. That would mean that they eschewed...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2563
Super Spinner Just read it. First of all, iPods don't cost $40 to make - the figures have frequently been published. Also, they don't publish figures...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2564
RichardK Did you read it, or are you just very dishonest? "According to the report (paraphrased here by Macworld UK), Foxconn's...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2565
NashtOn (And the real comment intended) (content ends here) You do know that the EU contains several EPZs; Ireland has designated...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2566
RichardK And? Ireland has designated I guess that makes labor practices in China more morally acceptable. My bad. I don't...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2567
NashtOn EPZs are there to pander to the corporations. No. It means that you need a moral re-alignment. And to maybe find out more about working conditions. Westerners are all too...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2568
MuahMan A well-reasoned retort from the Pratt. Now. Identify items of Chinese manufacture in your household, including packaging, energy resources and...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2569
It would also be an insane thing to do all at once. Can you imagine what would happen to the local economies if people employed by or...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2570
Lars Träger "But you can buy a computer that was made in the USA. Last month, Gateway announced that it is in the...
Apple's iPod sweatshops 2571
Harri Mellin The first Systemax unit uses a Biostar U8668-D motherboard (that's the cheapest they're building) according to the pictures. That's a Taiwanese firm...
Is the Mac a PC 2572
It looked like a good gamble at the time. The smart money was on that these new breed of RISC processors would eventually leave behind the ye olde CISCs...
Is the Mac a PC 2573
First of all, jerk. There is NO war. Apple never tried to compete with the lowly PC on price. If by the...
Is the Mac a PC 2574
You are incorrect. The only thing that makes a PC clone a "PC clone" is the fact that it runs Intel chips and have similar architecture. When IBM came...
Is the Mac a PC 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2575
John Slade wrote Bullpoo. I was working for a 'clone maker' back then in R&D. If you didn't have those features correct, you weren't building a clone...
Is the Mac a PC 2576
A clone can be anything that runs on x86 architecture. It doesn't have to even have a BIOS. It can have EFI...
Is the Mac a PC 33HumfHSaKlA~jG9gd* 2577
John Slade wrote Of course we know they have more than one meaning. We're just not willing to accept that whatever you wish to *claim...
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