Posts by unhandled_exception

Hey Linux newbie: If you've never had a taste, try perfect Petra ... mmm, smells like Mint 16

I installed Petra Cinnamon 64-bit...

...on a not too powerful machine and it just works, smooth and without a glitch. Perfect is a strong word but it does feel pretty close to it...

Health pros: Alcohol is EVIL – raise its price, ban its ads

Absolutely

There is no reason why a good wine should ever be more than 12%

Mind-melded rats could herald organic BRAIN-COMPUTERS

Perfect illustration of what's wrong with science today

Sadly too often it's all about getting research dollars/pounds/euros by producing buzzword-infested papers regardless of the real utility or contribution to actual knowledge, and regardless as well of the ethical implications, like this misguided Frankenstein experiment. It's the equivalent of plucking the legs of grasshoppers and claiming that you are doing research. Disgusting.

Intel prepping Atom bombs to drop on ARM microservers

Big, massive, blinking FAIL

The Atom are a complete failure, not even good for netbooks and this Adiletta guy is able to say with a straight face that it's going to be great for microservers? Yeah sure. Call him the Romney of the IT industry.

Mushroom cloud because of the atom bomb, obviously.

WikiLeaks lawyer dubs US subpoena on Twitter 'harassment'

Guilty until proven innocent?

Or was it the other way around? Doesn't matter if you're selling a Rolex for a tenner...

Goldman Sachs wants clouds, tablets and divis from Microsoft

It never ceases to amaze me

...how incompetent management is never fired. This Ballmer guy is way past his expiration date and they think that by reducing his bonus he's going to learn new tricks? Communismfailed but maybe US capitalism doesnkt work either.

Qualcomm outs dual-core ARM-based, LTE-capable pad chip

For the uninitiated...

What is the GPU like, DSP etc.? Please...?

Steve Jobs: 'Pad? That's my word'

Give me a break

Yeah sure Steve is a dicator and he was typing faster than thinking when he answered that email but, come on, 120 comments on this piece of "news"! Looks like we are all paying attention to smell when the Emperor farts...