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  1. Seamonkey on Firefox Usage Climbing In Europe · · Score: 1

    Seamonkey is counted as Mozilla 1.8. Try the beta by the way Faster and better than FF.

  2. Read TFA on Firefox Usage Climbing In Europe · · Score: 1

    If you had read the F*** article you would have noticed the similar data from a Monday. But no you wanted to mouth off rather than spend same amount of time actually finding stuff out.

  3. One Laptop per Child on Robert X. Cringely Weighs in on 2006 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Between 5 and 15 Million units of the One Laptop per child is supposed to ship in 2006 getting ready for 100-150Mu in 2007. I think he should have mentioned the expected succes or failure of this program. If successful it will make Linux the #1 client OS, surpassing Windows and totally change the tech dynamics in 2/3 of the world. FYI 2005 shipments of Laptops was 42MU.

  4. Human beings do not follow a power law on Scientists Spot Rare 'In Between' Black Hole · · Score: 1

    This is a silly objection and not even right. Anything to do with human beings follow a Gaussian distribution of sorts. We can argue about the deviation etc but for a large group the mean and the median is almost identical. You are proposing a power or Zipf distribution that does not exist for human traits.

  5. Amazon blooper on When Purchase Recommendations Go Bad · · Score: 1
    Look what Amazon offered for spiritual revival a few years back Six Steps

    Hard to tell who should be more offended.

  6. Remember Amazon and Pat Robertson? on When Purchase Recommendations Go Bad · · Score: 1
    Remember the recommendation from Amazon for people that liked Pat Robertson?

    I have put it up since I kept a screenshot. I think it is a riot

    Six Step to whatever , In this case I think it is the Gay community that should take offence.

  7. Reference to AMD on 'Intel Inside' No More · · Score: 1
    FYI, The Idiot Outside was aimed at people for not using AMD.

    Nothing to do with Apple

  8. Real reason: Distract effort from KDE India on Competing to Work for Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful
    KDE India was apparently just formed.

    Draw your own conclusion ;-)

    Kde India Announcement

  9. NO OS couints as Windows at Dell on A Look at Windows Server Outselling Linux · · Score: 5, Informative
    No it is not false

    If you buy a blade server without OS specified It comes with something called "No Operating System Microsoft Configuration [Included in Price]" and is counted as Windwos servers

    Look for yourselves Dell Bladeserver"

  10. Here is the 3Q breakdown on A Look at Windows Server Outselling Linux · · Score: 2, Informative
    $B

    Linux $1.44B 11.53%

    Other $2.55 20.42%

    Windows $4.60 36.83%

    Unix $3.90 31.22%

    Total $12.49 100.00%

    Now ask what "Other" is. Mainframe OS and AS400 is 10% tops the rest is servers bought without OS Guess what is being installed on those?

    . MS invested in Gartner here a few years back, since that no Units is being published only Value. By the wya the Linux partion went yp 37% in value and 22% unit (they poublished the growth not the absolute numbers) menaning the average price of Linux servers is rising 10%.

  11. Covered at Groklaw on JPEG Patent Challenged · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is covered in details over at Groklaw

  12. PDF is open standard on OpenDocument Gains New Fans · · Score: 1

    You do know that pdf is open and implemented in lot's of different programs. You do NOT have to use any Adobe SW.

  13. Look at Amazon on Trojan Using Sony DRM Rootkit Spotted · · Score: 1

    I think you are wrong. There was a list of the infected cds posted yesterday here at Slashdot. Go over to Amazon and read the reviews of every single item. They are schockful of "Stay Away" notes. I can only remember Neil Diamond. Look here at Neil Diamond's 12 Songs

  14. Ode to Fruit flies on Start of Life Gene Discovered · · Score: 1
    Time flies like an arrow

    Fruit flies like a banana

    G Marx

  15. Well said Bill on How Many Times Should We Pay For Our Software? · · Score: 1

    Nice to hear from you directly not through a strawman

  16. Re:believe me... on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Want to convince a kid that religion is bullshit, and make an atheist of him? Send him to Catholic school.

    Amen!

  17. Re:DONATE on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Disclaimer: I am an extermely cynical atheist and I am militantly anti-Christianity.

    Ditto

    I donated to Planned Parenthood

    The site has an explanation why condoms etc. is of some importance at this stage in the relief effort.

  18. Re:Enough!! on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1
    I pressume using this train on thought we should scrap WINE, OpenOffice and other "Linux emulating Windows" software.

    except Windows cost money and the Wine, OO.o etc. is free

  19. Zilch / nada on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: -1, Troll
    The Arab's ... they invented the zero

    How appropriate

  20. Borland Playbook on Microsoft Sues Google For Hiring MS Exec · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Poetic justice, maybe they should talk to Borland how this feels.

  21. Dell is the bane of the industry on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 4, Insightful
    On a more serious note, Dell computer is the bane of innovation in the PC area.

    They do not invest in R&D (>1%) and competes on price. This forces everyone else to pretty much follow (except Apple) as there is only so much delta price people is willing to pay for innovations.

    With Dell being the low-cost producer mainly due to Intel's discount this effectively means that the Innovations is being priced out of the industry.

    Innovations is left to the componets suppliers and they pretty much only knows how to make things faster and smaller.

  22. Re:Stupidity. on Wired Strongarms Subscribers? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If you ignore any request for payment from any company even if its fraudulent you again have only yourself to blame if you do not challenge it.

    Not at all You can not be held responsible through inaction, if no prior engagement.

  23. Journalist does this as well on Apple to Lock OSXi to Apple Hardware · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This trend about using blogs to report the news, when blogs are nothing but plagarizing, content-recycling engines, is pretty hilarious.

    I understand your point but normal journalists has been doing this since forever. In the old days they read each others papers and rewrote the stories.

    A few years ago I read a Danish major news paper along with NYT / Herald Tribune. You could find unaccredited articles in the Danish paper that were almost a verbatim translation of something I had read a few days earlier..

    Same thing with regional papers. Blogs are just a faster medium.

  24. Aztec link on Intel Preps Mac mini Look-Alike · · Score: 1

    Wow, This Aztec is butt ugly, Love the headline.

  25. Bollocks on Ground Rules for the Windows vs. Mac War · · Score: 1, Troll
    MAybe the first thing to establish is not to comapare something available now with something promised (and subject to change WinFS anyone) in the far future.

    19 Month is a lifetime is IT, so STFU