Comment MS invented (Score 1) 193
They didn't. They copied lotus 123 and word-perfect. As they did later with Netscape. They always surfed existing waves....
Comment Re:She should ask Google to forget her (Score 1) 246
if you kill your channel, you kill your sales...
these people do not get it?
Comment Re: I dub all unswitchable hardware: disposable (Score 1) 362
he knows better
Comment The EC rule was not a good judgement (Score 1) 210
And these comments by the EC spokesman are unfortunate.
Comment separation of powers (Score 1) 106
Regulators (and judges) should not complain or make comments about the law, as much as law makers should not comment on how it is applied. If the limit was set (purportedly) low by the law maker, the regulator has to apply it and shut up. If they want to make laws get elected first.
Comment Re:DRM free (Score 1) 570
music is drm free since 2009 only
Comment Re:Nothing. (Score 1) 129
as Old97 said -- MS bought patents, not copyrights.
Netscape browser code was open sourced by Netscape just before its demise. Mozilla is not a complete re-write. It is
based on said open sourced code.
Comment competition authorities (Score 1) 241
Something useful the competition authorities (US, EU,
Submission + - Linus thinks virtualization is "evil" (networkworld.com) 1
crdotson writes: "Linus said in an interview that he thinks virtualization is "evil" because he prefers to deal with the real hardware. Hardware virtualization allows for better barriers between systems by running multiple OSes on the same hardware, but OS-level virtualization allows similar barriers without a hypervisor between the kernel and the hardware. Should we expect more focus on OS-level virtualization such as Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, and LXC?"
Comment Re:No money no development (Score 4, Insightful) 182
Mozilla is not a competitor. Google does not sell browsers, it sells ads, and mozilla is one more channel.
Submission + - Kindergartens ordered to pay copyright for songs (dw-world.de)
BBird writes: Deutsche Welle reports — up until this year, preschools could teach and produce any kind of song they wanted. But now they have to pay for a license if they want children to sing certain songs.
Submission + - Why Teach Programming with BASIC (kickstarter.com) 3
chromatic writes: "To answer the perennial question "How can we teach kids how to program?", we created a web-based programming environment. As we began to write lessons and examples, we surprised ourselves. Modern languages may be powerful and useful for writing real programs, but BASIC and Logo are great languages for demonstrating the joy of programming."
Comment Re:Cruise Ship + Cantenna = ?? (Score 1) 308
But th ship is also in the ocean, so maybe you can use the same solution the cruise ship uses.
Comment what part of ourselves (Score 1) 247
is pornographic?
Comment Re:Bad summary, article also below par (Score 1) 840
Bravo!!
