This guy has no clue about open source anyway. I never heard Yahoo among the names who fund open source. So if we are going to lose a penny or two, fine with me.
It's a company. It can afford to do less evil when it has money and stock price skyrockets, but if it has to choose between the two, which one do you think it'd pick?
It may not justify the five year development after XP's release, but it works for me (maybe some games run slower due to DX). I actually like it (including the gadgets).
I'd not recommend everyone upgrading their existing machines, but for a new machine capable of Vista, I see no reason to install XP either.
I have a Nokia 6682. I bought a bluetooth GPS receiver for $60 and downloaded Route 66 (for "free") on it and it has been a fantastic GPS device for me. I would never drive without such a phone anymore. I actually like it more than any dedicated GPS device which for a decent one could easily take $500 as mounting a normal GPS would be a pain (and too easy to attract thieves to break your window and take it). With a cell phone based GPS, it's easily attached to the vent (holder included with the receiver), and really portable.
If Nokia provides gps software out of the box, it definitely will be the biggest factor for my purchase decision.
The "virus" was not just a show-off job. Nowadays they are always tied to revenue. This virus in particular was used to earn click cash and they got like 10 million yuan a month due to its widespread infection.
So the companies that are offering this kind of money are the companies that want to use spyware technology to boost their own revenues. In China, if you write a virus by your own, you are a criminal; if you write a virus as a company, it's called a "product".
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I didn't read TFA (apparently), but this last name sounds like Taiwanese. In mainland it should be chang, chuang, etc, but not chung.
Apparently, only in such cases is Taiwan part of China.
This review is so premature that it's not even funny. I'd expected a more professional one.
This guy has no clue about open source anyway. I never heard Yahoo among the names who fund open source. So if we are going to lose a penny or two, fine with me.
for people just like him?
It'd be unfair either way, for him or for the normal athletes.
How to get slashdot coverage if I have a startup?
But it also inherited all the generic improvements! Like, knowing where to pee and how to date.
Or more precisely, "behind" Google.
AOL was shutting down!
"They copied our code!" Another chair was thrown somewhere at Redmond..
that EU did something the US government couldn't.
Do they publish all the bugs that got found internally?
Thank you very much. Now can we see some real news?
Oh come on, you are not that naive are you?
It's a company. It can afford to do less evil when it has money and stock price skyrockets, but if it has to choose between the two, which one do you think it'd pick?
Business is business.
Pick another color!
Hmm, that's a lot. However, how many of them actually will end up doing real work when real work comes? But still, very impressive number.
The Windows Update will do so.
Why is this news again?
NASA is now outsourcing its jobs.
From Butterfly Effects.
I hope they fail.
Well, the problem is that he chose a "random" address.
He should have chosen the address of the mayor or head of police. That'd make him a hero instead of an asshole.
It may not justify the five year development after XP's release, but it works for me (maybe some games run slower due to DX). I actually like it (including the gadgets).
I'd not recommend everyone upgrading their existing machines, but for a new machine capable of Vista, I see no reason to install XP either.
They know what to test for. The unlock software is publicly available. So I blame Apple for that.
I have a Nokia 6682. I bought a bluetooth GPS receiver for $60 and downloaded Route 66 (for "free") on it and it has been a fantastic GPS device for me. I would never drive without such a phone anymore. I actually like it more than any dedicated GPS device which for a decent one could easily take $500 as mounting a normal GPS would be a pain (and too easy to attract thieves to break your window and take it). With a cell phone based GPS, it's easily attached to the vent (holder included with the receiver), and really portable.
If Nokia provides gps software out of the box, it definitely will be the biggest factor for my purchase decision.
The "virus" was not just a show-off job. Nowadays they are always tied to revenue. This virus in particular was used to earn click cash and they got like 10 million yuan a month due to its widespread infection.
So the companies that are offering this kind of money are the companies that want to use spyware technology to boost their own revenues. In China, if you write a virus by your own, you are a criminal; if you write a virus as a company, it's called a "product".
It really depends on the surgery..
..the motive behind the baseless lawsuit: to hurt the competition?