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  1. Re:Open source music store on Radiohead's Thom Yorke Pulls Albums From Spotify In Protest of Low Royalties · · Score: 1

    Do you need a record label to make your music available on Spotify?

  2. Re:Microsoft Security Essentials on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Will it still be available for XP after 8th April 2014?

  3. Re:Not the Balmer! on Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface · · Score: 1

    I want to know where the flying chairs screensaver and the Ballmer as Donkey Kong throwing chairs are. Surely someone talented has had the same ideas I have.

  4. Re:I'm amazed... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    In the days of the founding fathers Zimmerman would have been tried for destroying someone's property not murder.

  5. Re:definitions matter on PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' In History · · Score: 1

    No it isn't and you know it. It requires a great deal of farting around with no guarantee of success or of all the hardware working and, unless things have changed recently there's no dual boot facility so you basically have a less functional device that may or may not run faster. That is of course assuming that CM supports your tablet or phone at all.

    On my netbook I have Android, Windows and Linux and they all work fine. I didn't have to connect my netbook to another computer, flash a custom ROM to get root and then flash a less functional OS over the one that works fine.

    I'm sick of the post-PC delusionists around here. I own a tablet, a laptop and a smart phone because they fulfil two different requirements. That is the reality, not your one device fits all idea.

  6. Re:Buh-bye, Microsoft! on Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found a quicker fix for my dad's poorly performing new laptop. I removed the Norton virus. I did something similar with McAfee for a friend when it decided that the best way to protect her from the dangers of the internet was to disable her networking stack.

  7. Re:definitions matter on PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' In History · · Score: 1

    I don't have to unlock my computer in order to install anything on it. I just plug in a USB stick of the OS and away I go. I shouldn't have to do anything more complex than that for any of the newer class of computing device.

  8. Re:Incompatible with AirPlay? on MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay · · Score: 1
  9. Re:I tested Windows 8.1 on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    Apple products are far easier to avoid than Microsoft ones.

  10. Re:Idiots on Reject DRM and You Risk Walling Off Parts of the Web, Says W3C Chief · · Score: 1

    Given that the same content is also available on PCs, consoles and Android devices why would the DoJ have any interest in what Apple do.

  11. Re:the return of the Start button on Hands-On With Windows 8.1 Preview · · Score: 1

    still rocking windows 8

    What does that mean? Using?

  12. Re:License war commencing... on PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD · · Score: 2

    Are there any Sony fanboys here? I only see negative comments about them.

  13. Re: A legitimate point flagged Flamebait? on Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 · · Score: 2

    And comparing Microsoft or Apple to corporations who have caused the deaths of millions is just ludicrous.

  14. Re: A legitimate point flagged Flamebait? on Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So buy an Android device that doesn't have those restrictions but has the same functionality. It's hard to be anti-competitive when you have several legitimate competitors. Microsoft had no legitimate competition, any pretense that OS9/OSX or Linux were a drop-in replacement for Windows was just laughable.

  15. Re:It was a very stupid idea on Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 · · Score: 1

    Read the findings of fact. It's a lot more complex than you imagine.

  16. Re:A legitimate point flagged Flamebait? on Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was very little alternative on the desktop when Microsoft was convicted. However Apple has a very strong competitor in both Android and Samsung. That's the difference.

    Try reading the findings of fact and focus specifically on applications barrier to entry. Moving from iOS to Android is not nearly as difficult as moving from Windows to Linux or OS9 was in 2000.

    Microsoft also deliberately, not once but three times, disrupted the development of middleware that would have made the migration easier. Now whether you think that any of the middleware (Netscape, Java and Intel's cross-platform device driver framework) was crap or not is irrelevant. Microsoft did this to prevent competitive threats from arising and to maintain their illegally gained market share.

    Apple have tried to disrupt Android but have failed, and they have also not prevented software that allows cross-platform development. It's all in the findings of fact which you clearly haven't read.

  17. Re:So the summary completely sucks on iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack · · Score: 2

    And that's an advert for iOS security software, so not exactly objective.

  18. "Microsoft will continue to innovate" on Half a Billion PCs To Ship In 2013, As Desktops and Laptops Dip But Tablets Grow · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When did they start?

  19. It's always made sense on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 5, Informative

    They want to prevent anyone else from starting an app store in competition with theirs.

  20. Re: because desktop linux is a toy and novelty on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    Or the leap of money in the case of OS X.

  21. Re:not to be a buzzkill but this isnt free. on Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users · · Score: 1

    Of course it will because margins aren't at all tight in the laptop market.

  22. Re:doesn't work on Why Your Users Hate Agile · · Score: 1

    It has? You've clearly never worked in financial IT.

  23. Re:Please EU, more laws! on EU Wants To Enshrine Network Neutrality In Law · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed]

  24. Re:My solution for fixing Windows 8 on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I bet a large percentage of Mac owners also have a Windows PC/Bootcamp partition/VM as well

  25. Re:sales figures? on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    They could have released an updated task manager as a Windows update and kept Windows 7.