Posts by Globe199

Wanna attend Apple's June developers' shindig? Ask yourself, 'Do I feel lucky?'

$1600 to prove you're an incurable sycophant.

Get lost, drivers: Google Maps is not for you – US judge

What about music?

OK, so please tell me what I *can* do with my phone while driving. People play with radios just as they did with a walkman, discman, iPod, and now music players on a phone. So is that OK?

Windows XP support ends a year from … now!

...and?

All the small businesses that have been running XP just fine for almost 12 years suddenly let out a gigantic yawn.

Look at your OS chart. WinXP is STILL number 2 of all OSs, which is pretty incredible considering the huge share it's lost since 2008.

Re: Engaging BS filter....

There are some good things in Vista/7/8 like Bitlocker. that, and moving to a 64-bit OS for more RAM and HD space is nice.

Adobe rushes out emergency fix for critical bug in Flash

I'd be a wealthy man if I had a nickel for every Flash update.

Google threatens Chrome address bar with death

Blech

Google, please find something for your developers to do. They are obviously bored, which is why they're now fucking around with standards. I expect this from Apple or Microsoft.

Probably it's the same level of boredom that led Microsoft developers to do away with the "up" arrow button in Windows explorer that I still find maddening.