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Google Asks Viacom to Respect User Privacy

Posted 07/08/2008 at 06:20:27am

...to crack down on folks watching music videos.

 

This is just so much crap. ><

NewsThere's different ways to look @ open source. on
Open Source Community Blasts Nvidia on Drivers

Posted 06/25/2008 at 03:34:36pm

Runnin Linux, in particular

People choose to run Linux, rather than Windows or Mac OS, for a variety of reasons. I think that this issue with Nvidia hoarding their graphics driver info is of concern to very few people who actually use Linux. Or any OS, for that matter.

For example, business users, hardcore gamers, and casual users aren't going to care who actually owns the software on their computer, they just want the thing to run Office, World of Warcraft, or a web browser. Generally speaking, of course. 

I would wonder about the actual benefit to end users would be, in the event that Nvidia was to open-source their drivers. For myself, if such an act was to bring the possibility of being able to leverage a video card's processing power to apps like Blender, then I might get excited.

NewsWhy would you NEED vista, anyway? on
Vista Activation Strikes Again - Time to Fight Back

Posted 10/28/2007 at 10:05:31am

I don't get why people are harping on the joy of running Mac OSX. It's been my experience that Apple is pretty iron-fisted on how their hardware and software can be used...

That being said, I have no idea why anyone really, REALLY needs vista.
The only reason that comes to my mind, even if I'm thinking REALLY hard about it, is playing bleeding-edge games at launch. Almost everything else can be done w/ free software.
If you absolutely MUST run a particular kind of application, see if it can run on a different operating system. I mean, most of the people I talk to only use a web-browser, an email client, and a word processor. Occasionally, they'll do some image editing or use a spreadsheet. Download Ubuntu, and you have all that. The learning curve is slightly steeper, but your savings can run on up into the thousands of dollars, depending on the software you need.
If you don't mind waiting a 'till a little bit after launch (and maybe learning a little bit, too) you can even run your games on linux with WINE. Okay, this solution isn't worry-free, since the game studios aren't supporting WINE, but you can look at WINE's website to see if any of your games'll run.
Granted, There are those applications that WILL NOT run on anything but a Windows or Apple platform, so switching to linux might not be the best solution. But w/ the pain people are feeling with windows, they really should step back and see what other options there is out there.

I can't imagine someone being so stupid... on
$100K Get Rich Quick iPhone Scheme Backfires

Posted 07/07/2007 at 07:59:25am

There's so many ways for that situation to go wrong. Remember the Playstation 3 release? People got mugged over that machine. Just imagine how pissed the people in line would've been if this woman got her way. Would she have been able to get back to her car, even? People would've been picking iPhones off her mashed-up corpse...

Oh, my GOD!!! on
It's my party, and I'll link who I want to

Posted 05/09/2007 at 02:17:59pm

How DARE you do that? Linking to some innocent corporation's website? I mean, have you thought about the additional TRAFFIC those websites are going to get? The potential customers that are even now browsing their site? How DARE you drive more customers to their site...

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