Re: Can't see what the fuss is all about...

Did you actually read the article?

The loss is due to other factors. Sales and income remain strong

As pointed out, this is their first loss in 26 years. Plenty of companies can make a loss, some even make a loss year after year, get bailed out by their biggest competitor and then come back to become huge.

Re: the dinosaur is staggering

It's like the end of Animal farm: "MS bad, Linux good."

The real end of Freeware Farm

All distros are equal but some are more equal than others

Re: I may be a bit simpole here but.....

There will be plenty of hardware vendors who will have already paid for Windows 8 licenses, ready to be able to sell those licenses with brand new PCs and laptops.

Since Microsoft have not yet delivered Windows 8, that income cannot be declared as profit until delivery has actually been made; hence the fact its been deferred

Re: Why is everyone competing to make the thinnest phone possible?

"Still everyone will know you've got lots of money when you sit and play with it, which I suppose is the key point."

Really? iPhones are ten a penny. I'm not saying their bad but when any Tom, Dick and Harry can go out and get one they are hardly an indicator of success, taste or wealth

Unless of course you were being ironic, in which case I agree whole heartedly :)

Re: @ratfox (was: "all of her education is in technology")

Yahoo needs someone technical at the helm, their value has been dropping as various non-technical management decisions interms of what to buy into and sell have come back to bite them on the arse.

Have a look at this if you want to see how bad their situation is

http://www.scores.org/graphics/yahoo/

Re: Upgrade?

Adobe killed off mobile Flash themselves last year. It makes sense for Google to drop support for a product which itself will not be supported long term

Re: Only On the First Look

Mr Torx

I would not argue with the view point that people could get away with only having the one device. But devices like the padfone are only just coming to the market now and it will take time for the non-tech savvy buying majority to catch on to the idea of having a single device.

I would say that we are a couple of device generations away from hitting mass market appeal for single device solutions for casual users and even further away for more serious users (even of the non-technical type) who want the real flexibility in application use that a full blown pc/laptop provides. I would not like to have to juggle multiple emails, spreadsheets, word documents and anything else that I need open at once on an iPad or Android device

Re: Sir Norman Foster

Having been shown round one Foster and Co building just after it was built with a view to buying one of the apartments and then working in another building from the final stages of construction to the first phases of it being put to use I can say that I was vastly underwhelmed on both occasions.

From the outside and as a casual visitor both buildings looked stunning and had a facade of functionality. The real problems are in the smaller details which you have to deal with on a more day to day basis. Corners get cut to keep the aesthetics right. impracticable service rooms, odd corridor arrangements. Rooms which have an outside wall but no windows for no apparent reason apart from to keep the building looking pretty.

And then there are other design fuck ups which had to be ripped out at the last minute and replaced with a more tried and tested method

Blockbuster

Last time I checked: Blockbuster rentals are the same price for DVD and Bluray

Re: Why would you want 6 speeds?

6 speeds gives you some sort of flexibility when coping with the natural variation between the different batches of rice and tofu yoi'll be feeding it.

"Where do you put a stop to that increase, 20 dollars per product, 50 dollars, 100 dollars....... When the Chinese have the same working conditions that we do we will no longer be able to profit from their cheap labour."

Just on iphones, Apple could absorb all of that cost and still make a profit.

nope

but Remote Web Desktop by SmartDog Studio does

Why would anyone want to carry a heavy laptop or be tied to a desk?

Because they need the power to run cpu, ram and disk intensive applications on or off line and in the case of laptops in different locations.

WHS

Have to agree with this one. My Swissgear/wenger has been through 4 years constant use and still looks almost new. I even managed to squeeze 2 15" laptops into it for a period!

Could be quite handy, saves having to retake photos due to someone blinking at the wrong moment.