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  1. Re:So? on For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread · · Score: 0

    Android versus Apple is like braving the crime-riddled streets downtown versus shopping at a security-guarded mall...

  2. Re:News flash! on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article?

    The "Die Hard" actor's wife, Emma Heming-Willis, cast doubt on the report when she said Monday on Twitter, "It's not a true story."

    The record industry don't consider music you buy to be your property, Apple sells music, so therefore Apple don't consider music you buy to be your property. I see how that works.

  3. Re:Innovative on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    So, does that mean no-one should do the same since it's sufficient that Nokia do it? "No, Mr. Ford, you should not make cars, we already have a company here that does that"...

    Or maybe you took the AC's statement seriously?

  4. Re:why not buy spotify? on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    Do you have examples of such cases? I can get email clients, video and music players etc. from the app store for instance...

  5. Re:why not buy spotify? on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because it has the grubby fingers of the Big Four record labels all over it instead. That is so much better...

  6. Re:Paul McCartney should sue them for billions on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    Hey, was it warm under the rock where you slept for ten years? They settled that dispute on February 5, 2007.

  7. Re:another mediocre ecosystem on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    They make profits for their record company owners because they pay out a pittance to the artists. It's easy to turn a profit if you keep more than your fair share.

  8. Re:Sounds about right on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    What? Are customers "fanbois" if they are customers of a competitor to your particular choice? Why can't you enjoy the services you like and let others choose without such childish digs?

  9. Re:Innovative on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    No, they are making their own variety of it. Nobody said "Microsoft have invented word processing!" when they made Word but that did not stop them...

  10. Paris? on Cloud Firm MediaFire Flags Malware Samples For DMCA Violation, Bans Researcher · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hope that is Paris, Texas, since a company in Paris, France has fuck all to do with the United States' DMCA laws.

  11. Re:What some people don't realise on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the Catholics and their literal interpretation of "let the children come unto me"...

  12. Re:+1 Insightful on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 1

    In the hands of a fascist government.

  13. Re:surprise... on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Actually, most adds are mobs in the vicinity of the boss that aggro because some party members get too close while fighting the boss. Solution: Take out the adds first if possible.

  14. Re:The damage is already done on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    You mean iPhone 4S and GS3, I take it, since they use the same Sony sensor, and nothing is known about the iPhone 5 yet?

  15. Re:The damage is already done on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    So you are refuting Nokia's statement that PureView refers to the image processing and not the 41 megapixel sensor of the 808?

  16. Re:The damage is already done on Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad · · Score: 1

    Hush! *makes use of the confusion that has arisen to call his compact cameras DSLRs*

  17. Re:So is apple... on Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs · · Score: 1

    Certainty is in the eye of the beholder. How many of the people unable to disprove the existence of unicorns bother with leaving out hay for them in cold winters? They simply assume unicorns do not exist - maybe even going to the extent of saying they do not exist...

  18. Re:Anyone care to summarize? on Appeals Court: You Can Infringe a Patent Even If You Didn't Do All the Steps · · Score: 2

    Here's a summary: "Silly country allows software patents. Lawsuits galore."

  19. Re: need for native applications on the decline on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Why are you equating the web with Facebook or the like? If I fire up Tomcat and serve a web app, how does that get at "everything there is to know about you"?

  20. Re:osx really? on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Unsubstantiated flamebait is flamebait. No wonder you are anonymous, giving the Linux community a bad name by acting like a prick.

  21. Re:Client-side Linux on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that the Linux community squandered the chance to eat the Windows market share that OS X gobbled up.

    I am picturing "On the Waterfront", with Linux as the Marlon Brando character and the community as the brother. "I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody, instead of a bum, which I am"...

  22. Re:Gaming is what kills Linux desktop on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    The Steam support for Mac is a more significant contributor - though there are indeed a few iOS ports in the Mac App Store.

  23. Re:Whos desk? on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    It's a bit like my Windows PC with its godlike uptime because I never realized you needed to press "Start" in order to stop... :)

  24. Re:Wrong answer on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, and tell me wise guy, how are those blu-ray discs coming up on OS X ?

    Dunno, I never bought a Blu-ray player for the Mac (LaCie makes them) but I expect they have a player or a plugin for Apple's DVD player. Do Blu-ray discs work on my Windows laptop at work? No, it does not have a player since far from all PCs have one.

    (I play Blu-rays on my PS3 since it rocks at doing just that.)

  25. Re:How does a restricted OS beat Linux? on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Far more expensive? You mean to say that there are cheaper PCs. It's like wondering how BMW stays in business when people can get cheap Fiats.

    Quartz (unlike the underlying ocmponents) is closed sure, but please explain why Unity was made, a UI that tries hard to resemble the first OS X releases? I run Ubuntu 12.04 LTE on an old Pentium 4-based Dell, and I had to pinch myself when I saw how much they had copied from the Mac OS user interface. Port Unity to Darwin and you have a legal "Hackintosh"... :)