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  1. Windows 7? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Microsoft Gets a New Open Source Chief

    This will be your first view of Windows 7. You heard it here first.

  2. I once wrote a petition draft... by Hanno · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus

    ...on how laptop batteries should be standardized. It never received any feedback, though, so I didn't start the petition.

    But I still wonder why companies still don't come up with a standard form factor. Come on, it's a GOOD thing to have a standard battery form factor. Where is the business sense in keeping a large stock of special-sized batteries for your product that may become useless before you can sell it to your customers?

  3. That's why we need a STANDARD for laptop batteries by Hanno · · Score: 3, Interesting · on IBM 600 Series Laptops and Flaky Batteries?

    Laptop batteries are disposable components with a very limited lifetime. You will have to replace them after a year or two. Every manufacturer and every experienced user knows this. The same is true for AC adapters. These, too, are designed to break.

    Laptops are only just taking to grab the market, after desktop PCs have become commonplace and profit margins declined, the best profits are now in mobile computing.

    But I still wonder why we, the users, accept overpriced short-life batteries, after all these years.

    A few weeks ago, I wrote up a text for an online petition with a long list of reasons why we need an industry standard for laptop batteries, similar to consumber electronics battery cells.

    Noone really showed interest, though, so I didn't expect enough people to join the cause and haven't started the actual petition.

    So again, I welcome your comments.

    (And I'm looking for someone willing to host the petition, too, since my puny web server isn't quite ready for that...)

  4. Yes, but will it... by Hanno · · Score: 2 · on New Mice from Apple - Without Buttons?

    ...squeak? Come on, a computer device that must be squeezed, tacked and stroked should make little rubber ducky noises, too.

    Just imagine a whole IT department in a major corporation equipped with these...

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  5. Re:Well-roundedness.. normal? by Hanno · · Score: 2 · on Nothing But Net - For Five Days

    I'd call that normal, it could probably even be called healthy.

    I spend additional time at my home PC only if I have an interesting private, not work- or university-related programming challenge to hack on.

    Anyway, I find that most geeks I know do use computers A LOT, but they know and they all say that they need other hobbies to compensate. I myself would go mad if *everything* I did was about computers.

    Luckily, I have my a cappella music which helps me stay sane.

    BTW, some time ago when I did *only* music for a few weeks (my a cappella group(s) are semi-professional and consume a lot of time), I found out that it's the same even when it's the other way round. In my case, music helps me cope with computers and computers help me cope with music.

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