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IBM PC daddy: 'The PC era is over'

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Dead my a***

I'm still using vacuum tubes, vinyl records, CRTs and incandescent light bulbs; and have no intention of giving them up any time soon!

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Peaches Geldof explains Kubrick's 2001

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Devil

Re: Irony

In a US dictionary, irony = sarcasm.

So no, they don't do irony.

Or were you being sarcastic?

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Apple bars WinXP users from iCloud

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The New World

Sounds like you're a fashion victim to me.

Spending your hard earned on something new because it looks pretty, not because it does anything more useful than what you have already?

Still, it's your choice.

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Silly Steve

Problem is, XP users are more likely to upgrade to Win 7 instead.

I don't see how helping M$ sell copies of 7 will do Apple any favours?

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Man nabbed nude pics from women's email accounts

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Not Quite

This is more akin to leaving a car running with £1,000,000 on the back seat.

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Ditch the malware magnet

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Re: Jake

Sorry about the double post, the Mods took a while to release the first and I got impatient.

You are correct about "read-only documents". Modifications can usually be spotted, but that's not the direction I meant the discussion to go.

What I mean is: Why do companies send out 'informational' documents in a format that can only be read in an editor after a 200MB download, when all I need to be sent is a pdf that I can open with a 15MB reader?

What other formats can be used (except plain text) ;-) to accomplish the same goals? There's no need to add multimedia, that's just stupid and is probably the cause of a lot of the vulns. For 'universal' nicely-typeset docs, what options are there?

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I'm Curious

Please give some examples of alternatives for read-only, pretty-much OS agnostic documents?

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I'll take the bait...

OK then, name another product that allows creation of read-only documents that can be read on virtually any OS without having to do a 200MB download first...?

I'm curious as to how many "something else"s there are out there...

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