Re: This is a good start Valve - I'll be putting in 3 sign ups.

I'm not sure what any of that has to do with me, or which of my comments you might be referring to? All I can guess is that because you personally know several people using Linux you think that makes it popular. Hmm, no. If I go into Starbucks I'd conclude Mac is the dominant laptop seller. That's not true either.

And can there be anything more pathetic than a man who evangelises an OS because he truly believes in his very soul that he's saving people from MS?

Re: 299,008 Opteron cores

How does 300k cores compare to an average data centre?

Re: This is going to be funny

>>Explain the popularity of Ubuntu then.

What popularity? How are you getting your information on desktop users and where is it? Or does 1% count as 'popular' in LinuxLand?

Re: This is going to be funny

Lee if you think making your app work on another platform is as simple as hitting "recompile", even if you write it with cross-platform in mind, you're sadly mistaken. Even Java doesn't work that smoothly!

And then you probably need to rewrite ALL your shaders to GLSL from HLSL.

Re: ".....and admits to Moonraker being his favorite 007 film...."

MR is wonderful. Mainly for Jaws.

Re: Why always FakeOS?

Well touch-based has been a staple of sci-fi for a while. Forget minority-report, Stark's GUI in Iron Man is pretty lovely.

Re: "Free"...?

It's a bonus for Prime, forming a link between both services. Nothing more to it... Kindle users will be slightly more likely to take out Prime, Prime users will be slightly more likely to buy a Kindle as their next e-reader.

Re: beats me

The billions of dollars?

grow up.

Re: Freedom only for the deserving?

So if 100 people all turn up making claims, with contracts they made and printed out last week, we should have 100 proper court cases lasting several years each?

The 'undeserving' have a right to justice but this should have taken about 5min to resolve, not years and involve Harvard trawling their backups. THAT is what's crazy. $millions of work done which the guy presumably won't be paying for.

You say that like you think it's some cynical secret rather than simple common sense.

Still a better resolution than my 13" MacBook.

Re: Rubbish

My iPad2 and my eyes are just the same as they were before iPad3 was invented. Nobody was clamouring for that kind of resolution/density before Apple released iPad3, and no rivals are rushing to emulate them. There's a good reason for that.

Re: Only on a hardware reader

that would be a really important and useful addition to the article, if someone can corroborate it?

Re: Actually, I approve.

I think you might need an XBox Richard.

Re: Utterly irrelevant

Joe, W8 will overtake Linux as a home OS within about a day of launch. Mac within a month.

And perhaps you might care to read the article where it clearly says it will be coming to other OS.

Re: Ballmer has plans for more Microsoft own-brand hardware

And all those news stories about XBox getting hacked

Re: Ballmer has plans for more Microsoft own-brand hardware

Yeah look how that has flopped.

Re: Perhaps it's time for other hardware manufacturers to seek another O/S.

Google has no interest in getting you to use Linux. Unless it's their stupid Chromebox Linux.

Everybody's so unexcited about it that the BBC had a story on it on their homepage.

I can't see it being used much but I wonder, is it the same price for everyone? I thought when I looked it was £2 - perhaps it depends on your network size?

I can see RARE times it might be useful, because you can never tell who will see your posts otherwise.

Re: Its been coming

Paying to promote personal posts I find weird and I doubt it will get much use, I don't really want people to use it but it's a valid thing for FB to offer.

For people using FB for advertising/business, I have absolutely no problem with them having to pay for it. If my viewing your advert is worth my time, it's worth your dime.

Re: Windows8 Metro/ModernUI is the most lazy thing in IT ever

Apple had 0% of the smart-phone market and the tablet market, and decided what everyone needed.

I applaud MS for taking the bold move and pushing what they think is a step forward, even if it IS crap. If nobody tried to revolutionise for fear of failing, we would not get anywhere.

Re: 3rd generation iPad

Then people are stupid. The iPad they bought is still very fast, in fact the iPad2 is fast! They are NOT expecting people to upgrade every new version, which is why they've stopped numbering them.

Re: when you can get a 7in tablet for £160

>>I don't think he's suggesting you use a 7" tablet instead. He's just saying if you can make a 7" tablet for that price, can't you make a 4" mp3 player/tablet (or whatever it is) for less?

In technology, it's well known that the smaller you make something the less it costs?

Your device broke outside warranty and they only wanted £50 to replace it - the bastards!

Re: Best get those scientists out there to do their research

Nice as it is hear you bitter anti-religious zealotry (or not), what does that have to do with the topic?

You wouldn't like it if I used a discussion on the new x86 chips to strong-arm in a gospel presentation, I'd wager.

Re: Steady decline

You cannot simply state that closed source == bad.

But thanks for the patronising suggestion anyone who likes Windows just hasn't seen anything better. I've been using Macs quite a lot recently and have to brush against Linux for work, and I'd chose Windows every time.

Re: "but that for some long-term Windows users it is simply too different"

You're just looking for a fight. They don't blame the users, they simply state users don't want so much change.

Get over yourself.

Re: Shame on Amazon managers!

What are you on about Joerg? The PaperWhite IS an e-ink device, It's the newest version, replacing the old version.

Re: App-store

You can certainly install plugins as normal... I have my own plugin installed.

Moving to nix just because you don't like W8 seems a big overreaction, if you like W7. Wait until W9 before deciding is my view... by that time the OS might genuinely be of little importance.

Re: Great!

So set it so only your contacts can IM you, and set it to "appear offline".

Re: Am I missing something?

I thought the same but assume they simply report the data they are given, and people hired on an hourly rate are paid less for different roles.

Re: I drink Lewis Page's tearshake

You miss the entire point. People act on what they think is true.

Re: Science is not democracy

It doesn't matter if science follows the majority view or not. The importance of this news is that people act on what they believe to be the facts. What people believe shapes the world more than the facts do.

I know it's not like that when you're coding but dismissing an article as useless because "Science is not democracy" is just plain ignorant.

Re: funny

Well done Don for beautifully illustrating the kind of ignorance this subject is plagued with.

I've been thinking about Nokia quite a lot. But I don't really have the funds for such a high-risk speculation. Not until Apple stop messing about anyway.

Re: Wow..

Did you mean Anon or HSBC?