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Wonder what browser the IRS use...
If Mozilla lose, expect all searches for the IRS performed in Firefox to re-direct to some tax-bashing pages.
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...they need to quit complaining while they're getting ahead. They won a good decision in EU, leave it at that.
Also the comment about Opera downloads doubling - true, but did people stick with it after trying it? Or, because it doesn't "look" like IE, did people go back to what they were used to?
I'm as big an Opera fan as anyone, but all this complaining about MS strangle-holds just makes them look like petulant children, in my opinion.
I lived in DC when the iPad was released. Now I live somewhere a little more rural, but all the same, in the 6 months the iPad has been out I've seen maybe 5 people in total with them. Is there any info about the demographics, which locations are the highest-selling? I'm guessing San Francisco is popular (the iPhone seems to be there) and perhaps New York, Boston too being a heavy college town but that can't account for all off them. Any info, anyone?
I, for one, welcome the Android-based tablets when they go on sale.
Streaming is just too unreliable right now. Plus not everyone wants every appliance in the house hooked up to the internet at all times. When you take into account the cost of XBox Live Gold, a Netflix subscription, the cost of your internet service plus time wasted if the download stream is interrupted, it's easier and cheaper to buy a basic player and some movies occasionally. In my opinion.
@Peter is right - I wouldn't trust MS any more than Google with a companies' data. If I were forced to go cloud (thank God I'm not) I'd probably consider IBM - but as their offering is called "Cloud Burst" and that just gives me bad vibes about failing servers and downtime, I think I'd try to give them a miss too!
How does Amazon perform in this arena?
@Piggy - the guy said in his fourth paragraph that (in his opinion) it's hard to scratch the discs. So if you'd read his whole comment you'd be a bit more informed about what he said.
@Cameron - it's about stopping a device that can be used for piracy. Not about stopping people adding bling - which is what you described. Apple have no right to stop people from adding anti-scratch covers to their iPod - but they are well within their rights to stop people from adding mechanisms to pirate apps.
If nothing else, people forget all this stuff is in the T&C you agree to when you buy the product. If you don't like it, stop using the product. I'm a XBox owner and I disagree with having to pay to play online. So I don't. That's my choice but I'm the only one who loses out.
I know there's a lot of Opera haters on the El Reg forums sometimes - but it really has the best feature-to-bloat ratio of all the browsers available. Tons of useful features - Speed Dial alone is worth the install - and it's pretty lightweight and fast. I don't get why people don't like it.
Flame, for the inevitable downvotes and criticism I'm about to receive...
Doesn't matter how easily a Mac can be owned. Compare the number of malware packages/virii on Windows to the amount on OS X. The ratio would be, ooh, maybe 500:1 or so in favor of Windows?
Of course there's going to be nasty code around - but there's a damn sight less than with the popular OS of choice.
...with all the people here complaining that Apple have a set of rules for their device.
Microsoft won't let you futz with the Xbox 360. If you do, you're banned from Live.
Sony limit what you do with a PS3. Can't even run Linux on it anymore.
Nintendo have the Wii locked down.
I can't unlock my blu-ray dvd player so it plays Region 2 dvd's (original dvd's, not br ones)
What's the difference? Apple have a set of guidelines for what they will and will not allow on the device they created and spent millions of dollars and man-hours on developing. I know Apple can change the rules and apply them arbitrarily, but you know what, that's their prerogative. They created it, they can do what they want with it. At least I know that when I download something from the App store it will work on any new device I get and it probably won't crash or cause other issues. Stop complaining people.
You can't argue with statistics? WTF you smoking dude? Lies, damn lies and statistics!!! It's a fact that 85% of statistics are made up, but only 40% of those were taken from a poll of 55% of the population and 62% of those didn't know what statistics are.
Just ask the IE team or the Firefox team if you can/can't argue with statistics.
That was my thought exactly - he's saying "we haven't said it's open source, so it's not".
Reminds me of a meeting I had with FAST several years ago - they guy said that unless we paid their membership fee and let them audit us, they'd assume we were using pirated software. We told them to get stuffed.
I just upgraded from a T-Mobile G1 to a Verizon Droid Eris, and I can honestly say the battery life appears to be almost double that of the G1, with even a few more apps running on it. The Eris has v2.1 of Android, I believe the G1 had v1.6.
Android is a good mobile OS (from a users perspective anyway, don't know about developing for it) although the Market could be made a bit slicker.
It's APPLE's platform. They can do what they want as far as rules go on who can run what. It's their device, their OS. Period. If they want to stop any flash stuff, they can. If Adobe want to boycott it or other idiots like that "go screw yourself" guy, well there's plenty of other people who'll develop for it. Just look at the amount of apps available.
If people like EA Games can put Need For Speed on there without violating SDK T&Cs, I don't see why people are bitching about closed platform. And the poster who mentioned about Xbox/PS3 etc coding is exactly right - you try building an Xbox game without Microsoft's approval and toolkit and you see what happens to it.
Adobe just need to fook off.
"Microsoft's CEO had claimed Microsoft produced little ad revenue of Hotmail, a problem shared by Google with Gmail."
Great, so now they admit it doesn't make them a lot of money, how about turning ads off altogether?
Also...
"This is enshrined in policy across all our online services,"
Translated: - "Every MSN-based site or portal you visit will be chock full of ads for crap no-one wants".
Evil Bill for this, even though he's probably got nothing to do with it. Where's the Ballmer icons?
"But a blog is different because it has to be a conversation, otherwise there's no point in having a blog."
No it isn't. Blog - from the original word "Weblog", referring to an online diary or journal. It is not a discussion or conversation arena. A "blog" is a piece of news or information to be read by others. If it's going to be discussed, it becomes a Forum. A blog is roughly the online equivalent to a notice board, and nothing more. If it's being used any other way, it shouldn't be called a blog.
If, as the article states, that 20% (that's one out of five) of web access is still via IE6, it ain't dead. How many people worldwide use the internet on a Windows based computer? Then one in five of them still use IE6? That's a LOT of people still. You can't say it's dead until MS start forcing IE7 via Windows Update, with no option to deny it. THEN you can start to cheer.
Terminator icon, because of the zombie look... because that's what IE 6 is!!!
I have an iPod Touch (64Gb) and an PSP 3000. For games, I'll take the PSP anyday - it's far more natural to play games on that than the iPod is, even though it does have some cool games... but I can't see how I would be able to play Street Fighter properly on a touch screen. On the other hand, for music, pictures, movies and most definitely web surfing, gimme on iPod. Sony should be embarrased and ashamed about the quality of the web browser on the PSP.
I'd love to see the PSP become a cellphone though... they could do a really, really good job with that as Sony Ericsson phones usually rock.