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Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps
Anti-Globalism sends along a PCWorld article outlining two technologies from Intel and Dell that do an end run around Windows. "Dell, Intel and their partners announced last week new technologies that represent major leaps forward for mobility. The companies seem to have discovered the secret to making such bold leaps: Cut Microsoft out of the deal. One technology involves enabling users to gain instant access to a laptop's e-mail, browser and other basic functionality — without booting Windows at all. The second technology enables an Internet-based message to wake a Windows PC from sleep mode. These new technologies are perfect metaphors for what's happening in the industry... Windows is asleep while Microsoft's own partners give users what they really want."
Well, at least windows platform is open enough to be able to do all that - unlike some other particular 'hardware' supplier.
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I wish I had some moderator points.
A lot of us thought this years ago when we got sick of trolling our way through MSDN trying to find the magic page that held the answer to the Microsoft bit of hell for the week. That's one reason why Java is the primary language now, like it or not--because it's neutral as to platform. This is merely the market taking over. This is the American way. Goliath who is sitting on his pile of money eventually gets tipped over. Good riddance to Microsoft.
Gawker publicity is not good publicity. Nobody who reads the shit over there is going to see the movie. Does Tucker have you guys by the balls so hard that you can't even see past his idiotic assertions? Most of the stuff they mocked at Gawker came from Tucker Max's script and a story posted on this message board (where he puts someone in his "Awesome Guy Hall of Fame" for killing Mexicans). Look at the bad reviews on amazon, half of them say that their review was deleted 2 or 3 times. Look at the Opie and Anthony show. Even the stuff that is unverifiable is said upfront to be unverifiable.
Also, where is Tucker saying that Bunny's "What it is like to date Tucker Max" list is fake? No where because Tucker Max is garbage.
The kicker here is that the shit with BC Woods was written to answer a frequently asked question. Why was "What happened to your Rudius Media site?" a frequent question? Because that site was second only to Tuckers in terms of traffic, and he had a lot of fans wanting to know what happened. Go to daddydonthitme.com and look at the comments on BC Woods entries. No one was saying that his entries sucked.
What the hell are you guys clinging onto here? Do you just like having a dick to suck? To the moderators who will inevitably delete this since it is negative (God forbid Tucker actually responds to legitimate issues), don't you have something better to do than to white wash Tucker's message boards? Then again, if you're a moderator of it already, probably not.
Grandma said it. Wikinonsense disagrees. Maybe it was allegory or parable. I'm going with Grandma here.
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You sound like a MS employee. That or you're applying for a job there. ;)