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Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight e-reader review

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Re: just delete the B&N advertising apps

With Kindle paperwhite you have an option to get rid of ads legally BTW

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Re: Odd

Well, but disadvantages at DRMed material are not equal - I'd say there are far more DRMed books available at Amazon than at B&N and Apple combined (and I suspect B&N reader won't be able to read Apple books either).

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Microsoft Surface: Designed to win, priced to fail

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I'd even buy one

if Microsoft provided Linux kernel patches for the Surface, and a bootloader.

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Why Google and Amazon could end up cooking their own chips

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Re: PowerPC Macs

PowerPC perfomance per watt was and still is inferior, Steve was absolutely right to dump that shit

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HP veep: 'Lenovo won't be No 1 in PCs... oh wait...'

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Re: Schmidt

You don't like patent wars? Just move (out of battlefield).

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Windows 8 pricing details announced as preorders begin

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Re: Real reason for not having a full retail version?

Probably because they are not counting on any conversions from OSX, Linux, BSD etc anyway...

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Microsoft sues Google directly in German Maps-on-Moto lawsuit

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Re: Big G have more mapping sueball

And Microsoft had web maps at least 6 years before Google: "Bing Maps was based on existing Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft MapPoint, and TerraServer", and the latter was "under continuous operation from June 1998". Guess do MS have any patents for the tech?

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Re: Big G have more mapping sueball

Not necessarily true. First digital maps were created before Google was even founded: "Etak, founded in 1984, was the first company to digitize the maps of the world, as part of the first commercial automotive navigation system". Google didn't develop its maps, it bought Australian company Where 2 Technologies in October 2004. I very much doubt that either Where 2 Technologies or Google hold any of original digital map patents...

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Apple to drop chip-baking partnership with Samsung?

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Re: Something Does Not Add UP

And most probably, Apple intentionally made Samsung to believe that it will order more chips to be manufactured, while at the same time secretly trying to move production to TSMC in the hope that Samsung loses billions of dollars building unneeded factories.

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Re: Something Does Not Add UP

Apple just hates Samsung and wants to kill it (it's the same as when Bill Gates hated Philippe Kahn personally and wanted to squeeze Borland from market). Apple methodically tries to destroy its main competitor by cutting as much of its profits as possible (remember the Punic Wars -- never pay money to your enemy).

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Microsoft spruces up crap apps in early Win8 update

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Re: Windows8 is not the new Vista.. it is the worst desktop OS

The truth is that without something like Windows8 their OS business will be dead (and Vista is THE WORST desktop OS Microsoft have EVER produced, except for OS/2, of course).

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Re: Because with a web browser you can ... block ads etc

Wrong! Because with web browser you'll need to buy new computer every 5 years (or more often), while you could read email via IMAP on 80386 PC just fine.

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Re: Why not just use a web browser?

Twinkle, twinkle, Web2.0, how I wonder how you'll crash and burn (Sam & Max Save the World)!

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Re: delete multiple emails at a time with

does it allow to delete the whole thread (concept of "thread" probably seems alien to you)? E.g. mutt does this with CTRL-D...

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Re: business types thought the internet was going to be like TV

They came and asked, What's on the Internet today?

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Sony Vaio T13 Ultrabook review

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The Register failed to review this Sony notebook properly

Remember to always check the CPU's virtualization bit (VT/vmx) when dealing with Sony tech. Sony are well known (VAIO UX, TZ, Z Series) to have the VT/vmx bit disabled by their BIOS and leaving no way to turn it back on.

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WoW cities wiped out by 'exploit'

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Re: a mace "The Unstoppable Force", and a shield "The Immovable Object"

Kind of Samurai Jack meets Scotsman on a rope bridge?

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Microsoft releases JavaScript alternative

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FAIL

That's why they made plugins for emacs and vi.

Both emacs and vim exist for Windows, so this proves nothing. In order to compile ts code one presumably needs a tsc (ts compiler). Get your popcorn and watch:

$ git clone https://git01.codeplex.com/typescript

$ cd typescript

$ make

Makefile:123: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop.

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any browser, host or operating system

"TypeScript is free, open source and compiles into garden-variety JavaScript that Microsoft has taken pains to state repeatedly will run on any browser, host or operating system". Surly they meant "will run on any Microsoft browser, host or operating system" instead, didn't they?

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free software guidelines

free as in "free beer" + open source != free software

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Fujitsu, Oracle pair up on future 'Athena' Sparc64 chips

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faster than anything

"By this time next year, that Sparc microprocessor will run the Oracle database faster than anything on the planet". Did he mean that SPARC will run Oracle faster than SPARC will run MySQL, PostgreSQL etc?

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Huawei: Inside the lair of the not-so-hidden dragon

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Re: Sinophobia

90% of Muslims I met were lying to me in one way or another - it's just part of their culture^Wattitude towards infidels, so I think we can just ignore _everything_ Huawei tells, by extension to the Islam principle

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Intel: Behold the TABLETS of our partners, proof of Win8's MIGHT

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Re: This is all well and good BUT....

When Microsoft enters a market, it always plans to destroy competition.

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Ballmer: Win8 'certainly surpasses' Win95 in importance

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Re: NT HAD ACLs. At the time almost all *NIXes did not

BTW, do you know which UNICes did have ACLs at the time?

IBM AIX had ACLs since at least 1991 (most probably since 1990).

Not sure about HP-UX, looks like it had lsacl/chacl commands since at least 1994 (v9.05?).

Solaris got ACLs in v2.5 (1995).

Digital UNIX got ACLs in v4.0 (1996).

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Re: Better than 95 because?

It will run on modern hardware - win95 won't

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Re: @Doug: Windows 95 was significant, because ... IBM

Bill Gates did his side bet when doing Windows 1.x and 2.x series in parallel to developing Presentation Manager for IBM. When Windows 3.0 came out it became apparent that MS Windows was winning over IBM's OS/2. Windows 3.1 strengthened Microsotf's grip on the market even more. Thus, Windows 95 was absolutely of no risk for Microsoft.

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Re: Logitech aren't able to produce drivers for Linux?

"Logitech have previously stated that due to licencing issues they aren't able to produce drivers for Linux distros"

I always thought that you don't need no edu^Hspecific driver for USB keyboard or mouse - they are handled just fine by generic USB HID driver (usbhid.ko), or by even simpler usbkbd/usbmouse drivers...

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Re: He can't use an MacBook Air

given that it's possible to install Windows or Parallels on Macbook, I think the reason is religious or financial (he'd need to buy a license for Windows/Parallels to legally use it) rather than technical

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Eric Schmidt: Ha ha, NO Google maps app for iPhone 5

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Re: @Ben Tasker: market cap is what shareholders think it's worth

Wrong. It's what market thinks the shares are worth.

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Re: this is pretty shitty behavior on behalf of Google

Some boxers are said to have a heart (apple) and public loves them despite all their illogical behaviour, while others (microsoft, google) are just soulless boxing machines. So yes, people will definitely forgive this Inferior Maps App, which will be polished and improved BTW

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Politico's locked room mystery Linux install crime solved

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Re: Just inserting the disk is not enough no matter how deep you try to insert it

Unless it's a Live CD and it sticks in the drive (that way Linux becomes permanently installed on the computer).

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Google spikes old MS file formats

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Re: Ask yourself: Why???

maybe Microsoft started to require royalty per each file saved in its old proprietary format?

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Re: new features that might not be able to be exported

So they are suckers because THEY CANNOT export those features... Let's leave that to better developers than Google, end of story

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Carbon fiber MacBooks to appear soon?

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Re: Been done surely?

Sony patented use of CFRP for laptop back then, did they?

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Ex-HP boss Mark Hurd's $53m gold parachute approved by judge

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Was he so ugly that even his $53 millions didn't help him to get laid?

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Haynes Build Your Own Computer book review

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Re: Wow an anti-static strap!

"isn't wearing a pink shirt?" - I've read this as "isn't wearing a pink skirt"

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Re: attention to detail, from choosing the components to ...

http://megatokyo.com/strip/653

> Most boxes are assembled from standard components.

> Only by building it yourself can you be sure that every component is l33t. W34k components will cripple your machine.

> Also, it is not enough to just buy l33t components. You must select them with a skill and assemble them with care.

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Re: as if anyone actually uses a anti-static strap

http://megatokyo.com/strip/918

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Google offers tool to bridge Android and iOS app dev

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Re: there are millions of libraries written in Java

prove your point -- start counting

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@AC

What you've just said proves that Google's intentions are not that obvious as you are. Google doesn't care about developers or iOS users. Developing in java2objc fashion means that Android apps would work OK but iOS ports would be terrible without extensive manual tuning (BTS, have you ever tried to find errors in autoconf-generated ./configure scripts)? Then users would grow frustrated with inferior iOS versions of apps and developers would grow frustrated with fixing and patching the inferior iOS versions of their apps, and voila, profit!

If Google's gnomes really wanted to help anyone besides themselves, they'd develop two-way java <==> objc converter

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Amazon: Pay more for Kindle Fire, smoke ads from slabs

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Re: Paperwhite

I've pre-ordered Paperwhite 3G without ads from USA 2 days ago (via shipito.com). I suggest you do the same if you want it shipped into UK so badly.

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Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL'

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@Linus: compatibility

Please don't forget that GNU/Linux won't run on true 80386 CPU anymore (since 2003).

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@Tom 38

You aint seen nothin' yet. There are OSS, ALSA, ESD, aRtsd, JACK, NAS, PulseAudio and even one modern low latency JACK replacement which name I've forgotten

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