Posts by tempemeaty 958 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Oct 2007
"Remember they already make about 4x as much from patents on Android phones as they do on their own winPho."
Wouldn't it be nice if those companies paying that patent fee found a way out of it. It would do them good. It's bad strategy in the long run to keep financially supporting a monopolistic tyrant company that exerts control over the computer industry. One that is doing great harm to it with that control.
I would hate to be an new author trying to research and write about the kind of subject matter Tom Clancy writes and researches about or a Hollywood writer researching for the next 007 script. Then have a USA Gov. agency decide you're a terrorist for looking and storing that kind of information in someone's cloud the NSA is gobbling up. You might get a knock on the door from the Gov. or worse. At least with the Chinese cloud the worst you can expect to happen is that your account gets closed or edited if anything stored there is found to be undesirable.
Interesting stuff. The Aurora from on of these was once so powerful it was seen as far south as Arizona. It would be cool to see that happen again. I hope it doesn't fry anything in orbit though. This isn't one, but it would suck if we had another "Carrington event" because everything is on magnetic only storage these days.
The US Gov bureaucrats will not listen to their own people who told them to stop. They will not listen to any people. They will not stop until they are stopped with outside military intervention now. I think it's now not a matter of if but when Putin sends in troops to stop this nonsense in the middle east and Washington once and for all.
I sat here tonight dealing with Mint giving me a an error saying it can't install any software due to packages being broken right after a fresh install. After cleaning that up and updating it boots up well only about three times then cant find it's shell on the last. Mr Torvalds I think Linux has bigger issues right now so please forgive me for not giving a flying fsck.
Face palm because there isn't a middle finger icon.
More than half the Congress is in violation of the constitution for voting for the NSA snooping to remain and are now internal enemies of the United States. That is serious. Perhaps this loss of Billions is now the blow back that the elite have to suffer for trying to use the Gov as the monitors of the population in conjunction with the controlling of their data in the cloud.
My unused Asus 1215n netbook completely failed to boot up forcing me to shop for a replacement two weeks ago. While shopping I found the same thing you did. There was no mention of Windows 8 on any of the PCs and notebooks feature lists. It was that way at every single store I shopped at. The avoidance of listing Windows 8 was extremely obvious.
I don't want to suffer Sony making backroom deals with the movie industry to skirt end user choice thereby cheating their way to a dominant position.
I want a Toshiba 300GB HD-DVD disk that is affordable and not like Sony's over priced over controlled Blue-ray(blue blood?) disaster.
Some times the truth bringers are not saints. They are faulty messed up human beings. Considering I am no saint myself I'm not about to cast stones. I don't care who brings the truth to the masses just so long as we do finally find out what the elite in this world are doing to us and trying to hide. I would love to see this human being get that Senate seat. I would also like to see him and others like him who expose the corruption and hidden truths that are kept from us to have the freedom we all wish to have.
For those of us who worked for a US telco it's no wonder that they are behind. The managements are abusive bureaucrats. During my time with one the clueless round the clock changes in internal policies and abusive attitude to staff was staggering. Management didn't know what they were doing. I can't imagine US broadband ever getting any better.
I've been telling people Microsoft has been setting up to do this for a year now. I've been saying they would use limited mobile device drive space as an excuse for holding your files hostage in the cloud for money. They want to train the next generation of users to be complacent with it. Once they have your files they can exercise the power to limit your access to them in order to control you and/or extort optimum cock bag levels of money from you.
I know this. Every Person in the industrialized world now is the owner of a smart phone and potential fondle slab owner. Almost every one of them is also a PC owner. Microsoft pissed off every PC owner by forcing the phone OS onto PCs. That pretty much killed any hopes they might have had of selling a Surface or Windows phone. It's a virtual boycott by silent consensus. They better make PC owners happy again and get farking TIFKAM off the PCs or Microsoft may never sell the surface or smart phones.
I'm sick and tired of the all programs I have that must be updated every fscking time my Linux OS of choice gets an update. I need them to run, as is, on this years, last years and next years Linux release without having to hope the programs will update to run on it or finding new re-compiled versions. If Apple can do it with their nix based OSX then why the fsck can't Linux after all these years! It's gotten so that it's pissing me off as much as Microsoft's OS shenanigans. If Shuttleworth somehow makes this possible then I'm aboard with it even if Ubuntu UI is weird.
I think there's even something bigger afoot. The move to "time shared systems" is also about putting and end to PC usage in order to end it's manufacturing with the goal of ultimately getting them out of end user hands. The big movers and shakers in the world don't want that kind of power in the hands of us "useless eaters". (btw, IBMs own move away from x86 based servers is not going unnoticed)
Sad mess isn't it. People in the US are in shock at how much they've been lied to by the Gov. Now a few who have clued in that they all have had the Gov steal their inalienable rights are starting to fight back for them. Trouble is US Gov has now reached optimum corruption in a marriage with the the worlds most powerful in Oil and Banking so it's not going to get fixed without a mess along the way. In the mean time the US Gov is out of the populations control.
Sad to see MS kill it but then it would be to much to expect them to upgrade it. MS just doesn't have what it takes to make any product or service that might have to compete with others.
More sadness, I once new a disabled person who could not afford a computer. It was the Web TV that gave him internet that he could afford.
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