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  1. Re:The "X" in Xbox stood for something. on Lenovo To Launch Chinese Gaming Platform Called Ebox · · Score: 1

    Staples is being sued by Paul Allen for his invention, "Not Being Office Max."

    In fact, we all need to tread carefully around that one, unless we actually are Office Max.

  2. Re:The "X" in Xbox stood for something. on Lenovo To Launch Chinese Gaming Platform Called Ebox · · Score: 1

    It's the sound the low-end notebook market made the first time they heard it was coming.

  3. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The devs with the bugs aren't my devs. I wouldn't have told them to use .Net.

    I have no reason to distrust the devs with the bugs. I also have no reason to implicitly trust that .Net does not have bugs. Therefore their testimony that it's a .Net bug is valid.

    I'd be an idiot and a sucker to believe you when you have no first-hand knowledge of the problems encountered.

  4. Re:Cool. Can we do this to Fox News? on PR Firm Settles With FTC On Fake Game Reviews · · Score: 1

    Fox News was founded by Reagan apparatchiks. It's owned by Rupert Murdoch. It donated money to the RNC.

    I wouldn't even know where to go to get the employee records needed to make the counts you imply someone's made.

    As for "comments I have seen online", I used the word "astroturfing" in my OP. And I don't know how you get an impression about a propaganda organization by not watching it.

  5. Re:Cool. Can we do this to Fox News? on PR Firm Settles With FTC On Fake Game Reviews · · Score: 1

    You need to look up astroturf. Those outlets are reporting the facts. If anything, they're failing to properly deal with the facts about Fox News.

  6. Re:Politicians are not serving you on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: 1

    We overhauled democracy in the late-19th/early-20th century. Before then, your state legislature appointed your Senators and Congressmen.

    But the real problem is that plural voting results in a need to bifurcate the electorate. Approval voting would make things much less choppy.

  7. Re:Politicians are not serving you on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: 1

    Considering that both US parties will sell you down the river,

    This is an utter myth, promulgated by the US party that actually will sell you down the river.

  8. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I made a simple claim about .Net not working on Windows so expecting it to work on Android is a stretch. When asked for details I gave two cases (thus preemptively proving you can't count) with all the necessary details. Based on the discussion here my posts are factual and your entire premise for claiming otherwise is a leap of faith.

  9. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Or they isoltated the problem to .Net and couldn't do anything about it.

  10. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Apparently it worked in some situations, but not in all. My system was nothing special, so it should have worked in my situation. Yes, they aren't bright. They chose to use .Net's FTP libraries, which apparently have a bug in them.

  11. Re:He can't win on Paul Allen Files Patent Suit Against Apple, Google, Yahoo, Others · · Score: 1

    I patented patenting.

    I also patented suing.

    You're in deep kim-che, friend.

  12. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's it. I must have made it all up.

  13. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_windows_platform

    That article has a rundown on the pedigree of the LSE's code.

    I've done real-time on Windows platforms (well, pseudo-real-time; but I worked around the jitter and built robustness into the receiving end in case Windows did something unusual) and it's not impossible even at those speeds. From the sound of it, the people who implemented that system had it all balled up; typical of inexperienced people doing real-time without proper supervision. There's no indication there that .Net was the culprit, and that article's author is just being silly claiming that "linux" is the solution. The solution is proper coding and using a real-time OS, which most versions of linux aren't.

  14. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I'm prepared to ignore your changing the subject from .Net's bugs to other people's bugs.

  15. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Absolute FUD. It works fine on Windows

    In that subset of things you've used it for, maybe. Other people have run into its bugs. Your presumption that they haven't is called "ignorance".

  16. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well, first, I'm not Anti-MS. I'm not even Anti-.Net. I'm anti-unstable code and anti-blinkered fealty.

    Maybe you should stop being a fanboi and realize their shit do stink, just like everyone else's.

  17. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Or you could stop hitting reload and read the rest of the thread.

  18. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    No, you broke it. The apps are broken because .Net is broken. The devs would fix it but they can't do anything about broken parts of .Net.

  19. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because some random app doesn't work right and the developers of the app isolated the problem to a .Net component, it's .Net's fault.

    Because you make presumptions like you did you're an idiot.

    Take better care of your car.

  20. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't use a certain app to store file on an FTP server. The app's devs blame .Net. I believe them, as I can use FTP through a terminal to store files to that site.

    I can't use another app that has embedded Google maps unless I manually turn off all the security in Internet Explorer first; now, this one may be a dev issue, if there's a way for .Net to use IE libraries with settings of its own instead of the settings for the browser, but so far they say there's no way for them to do that.

  21. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You're prepared to tell me there are no bugs in the most recent version of .Net? None? Zero? Nil?

    It's software. It has bugs. In this case, bugs that pop up in critical places and can't be hammered into place without avoiding .Net for that feature entirely.

  22. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    .Net has bugs. My devs shouldn't have to reimplement portions of .Net to do what .Net says it's supposed to do.

  23. Re:It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: -1, Troll

    A number of applications that rely on .Net that don't work properly. There's nothing you can do to fix them except wait for Microsoft to fix the behavior of .Net.

  24. Re:Filter, not Display on Nanoresonators Create Ultra-High-Res Displays · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Somehow I got that they were doing that in their film, but it appears all they've done is make the film polarizing and omitted one of the LCD layers.

    Which means that M isn't an active display, it's a canned demo set into the film.

    Oh well. Maybe next week.

  25. It's just not stable. on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: -1, Troll

    .Net doesn't work on Windows operating systems. Why expect it to work on Android?