Posts by M.

"Where's the beef?"

The article does not link to the GitHub codebase being discussed, only to past articles about each company and a couple of their initiatives. In the immortal words of Clara Peller - "Where's the beef?"

Missed Opportunity on Title

I can't believe your especially studious headline writers missed this opportunity!

The headline should read - "Ivan to be left alone: Russia preps to turn its internet into an inter-Nyet if West opens cyber-fire"

Otherwise, fine business and carry on!

- K

When will the tech media figure out that WE NO LONGER CARE about Microsoft? The consumer train has left the station (with any memories of Microsoft's old, craptacular baggage far behind), and we are never looking back.

The more daylight consumers can put between us and Microsoft, the better - for both us and the tech industry.

U.S. President Obomba Wants it All!

Here in the U.S. we are hearing grumblings over "the rich have too much!"

It surely is only a matter of time when Obomba and his ilk will announce a new government "program" of siezing, then redistributing these bloke's wealth, couching it as some sort of "social equality" plan.

Why didn't the "climate change scientists" just do the same thing that they have always done - throw out the ACTUAL dataset, then comprise their own set using selective filtering and/or flat out lies, reverse their original statements, blame everything on man, and then proclaim that they were right all along?

Nobody here across the pond gives a rat's patootie about any phone that runs a Microsoft Windows-based operating system. We are all too war-weary of the dreadful fights and horrible "user experiences" of fighting with Windows at the workplace to continue the Don Quixote tactics when we try to ring grandma on a winblows phone.

No thanks. Maybe you guys need a little end user frustration to bring down your day... we're done.

Key Words: "Best *Windows* Phone..."

Because it's "a Windows Phone" it is doomed to the dustbin of irrelevance.

On this side of the pond the word "Windows" is a swear word. We work (fail, actually) with Windows at our day jobs. We get bad customer (dis) service from technicians using Windows computers that constantly fight the agent, fail, or are nebulously "down right now". Our drive thru screens (Windows CE based) display the (stuck) Windows graphic, or blue screen - eventually papered over with a rain-soiled cardboard sign saying "We'll have your total at the window". Microsoft-powered subway ticket machines just sit there, unresponsive. Kiosks display Windows internal failure messages.

Yeah, we Yanks see lots of examples, and almost daily, of how "Windows" sucks in our digital lives.

Why the hell would we want to pay our own hard earned money to participate in more of this disappointment and agony on a (should be stupid-simple) telephone!?!

The only thing worthy about it might be that Nokia's competitors (Apple, Google) might take a cue from what looks well done on it, and take a stab at introducing the same feature(s) on their offerings. (An omage to Microsoft's "embrace and extend" gameplan.)

NOBODY on this isde of the pond cares *what* Microsoft phones do... we just don't care.

Thanks For the Lulz!!

"Cybersecurity is as important as border security".... OMFG, what a funny joke!!

The USA has border security?!!

Hahahahahahah! No, stop, you're killing me!

Omg, I can't take it! Make it stop!

Running Symantec on your work computer is about as close an analogy as you can make to USA's <quote>border security<unquote>. Because both are trivial to breech, reactionary, and only change in any meaningful way *AFTER* a newsworthy event has ALREADY OCCURRED.

Americans talking about "border security" is like Brits talking about "football fans' restraint"

Possibly due to lock switch

The only times my Thrive has done this was when the lock switch was in the "locked" position. Since there was no owners or users manual in the box I only figured out that it was in the locked position after a few days of use.

Not good to have a brand spankin' new device with absolutely no documentation on how to use it, Toshiba! Bad form indeed.

This Line Gave it Away as a Joke - "Google cares about privacy"

Still funny, though!

Try Wigle.net

Wigle.net (http://www.wigle.net) has a large database of European and United States geocoded WIFI access points. Each access point (whether open or secured - both types are in the database) has a GPS lat/long. You can use the data however you wish, including for "assisted GPS" type projects.

This data is FREE to use. You don't have to "pay to play".

- Enjoy!

Hardly Anyone (in USA) Uses Vista Anyway!

Not many people or companies in the USA ever use, or even plan on using, Vista, so this news does not really "send any shock waves".

- Mike S.

California, USA