karearea - Slashdot User

Comment Software patents .. what software patents? (Score 1) 117

by karearea on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @03:46PM (#43723667) Attached to: Microsoft Patents "Cartoon Face Generation"

Ohh yeah, isn't it nice to be in a country that is moving away from this insanity?
http://www.iitp.org.nz/newsletter/article/430
http://no.softwarepatents.org.nz/

Comment Lack of DVD killed it (Score 1) 403

by karearea on Monday February 25, 2013 @03:26PM (#43006453) Attached to: Is the Wii U Already Dead?

Lack of DVD/Blueray player killed it. Seriously of you are making/using an optical drive using the same form factor as a CD/DVD/Blueray play, it can't be that much harder/more expensive to add that functionality into it.

I really only want one device that can play disks cluttering the area near my TV (and generally you can play games or watch TV/DVD). If it had been able to play my DVDs, I would have bought one.

Comment 2013? (Score 1) 474

by karearea on Monday January 21, 2013 @05:59PM (#42651359) Attached to: Valve Starts Promoting Steam For Linux To Windows Users

The year of Linux on the (gaming) Desktop?

Comment The Northern Hemisphere has already begun to Fall. (Score 1) 454

by karearea on Monday September 05, 2011 @05:04PM (#37310808) Attached to: I say (N. Hemisphere) Fall starts ...

Welcome to the new age, where the Southern Hemisphere springs into the light and is wrapped in it's warmth.

Submission + - Microsoft's bulk deal with New Zealand Collapses (computerworld.co.nz)

Submitted by

vik

on Monday May 25, 2009 @09:25PM

vik writes: "The 3-year whole-of-government deal that Microsoft has been establishing with the New Zealand government since 2000 has collapsed, opening the doors to the wider use of Open Source software in government. The NZ State Services Commission (already a prize-winning user of Open Source) says in a statement that it "...became apparent during discussions that a formal agreement with Microsoft is no longer appropriate". Having lost their discount, individual government departments will now have to put their IT requirements out to tender individually."

Comment woah boy woah (Score 1) 614

by karearea on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @03:14AM (#26722023) Attached to: Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office?

Let's not get carried away.

As far as I have known, APAC refers to Asia Pacific .. which includes place like NZ.

Probably best to refer to Bejing / China as China or maybe at a pinch Asia. But please not Asia Pacific.

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