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While I commend the people

Mikhail — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:12 -0500

While I commend the people that truly want to make the internet universal, I hope what that means is if I want to go to thestandard.com in russian or chinese, I can, and it links back to this website, not some other one. I also share your fear on the confusion aspect.

To bring the masses to one...is not human, in any context. Humans always seem to want the other one. So in that respect, having more languages available is great, as long as it doesn't become overwhelming.

What's that saying?..."United they stand, divided they fall"

Rich: I agree that most

Ian Lamont779313 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:33 -0500

Rich: I agree that most people will have far fewer issues with a new Mac than a new PC.

The issue that must be considered is price. There is a huge population of people and bulk purchasers (think schools) who might have shelled out money for an iMac two years ago who now simply can't afford it. Some may put off new computer purchases until their own cash picture improves, but others will grit their teeth and go for some of the cheap PC and netbook alternatives.

Apple doesn't break out iMac sales, but I would expect that the bulk of its Mac revenue is now derived from low-end MacBooks where the price/features comparison is attractive enough when true Windows laptops (as opposed to cheap netbooks) are the alternative.

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If Mac sales defy logic,

Rich Webber — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:39 -0500

If Mac sales defy logic, then the logic is flawed or someone is lacking some relevant data.

Having spent over a decade as a PC, my new world is faster, easier and I hope to be exploited with this improved Mac experience for many years to come.

PCs are a mixed bag of nuts. Just imagine if every win 95 machine for 10 bucks could have upgraded to win 98, and another 10 bucks and win 98 would be upgraded to win 2000. Microsoft won't do it

But Mac facilitates those OS upgrades instead of overcharging and rushing out more troubles. If your hardware is compatible, you can simply stay in the latest OS, all the time, for chump change. Most Mac users stay up with latest OS, so we are all having the same (great) experience.

PC defenders simply have not spent the time with Mac.

And I will be picking up 2 27" new imacs within the week. 1 for desk and TV type usage, one for an office desktop. Better choices? Maybe. But I will get more years out of these machines than most PCs can give. With far fewer issues.

While ARM Holding is going

Kamal Hussain — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:48:10 -0500

While ARM Holding is going up and Intel Corporation is moving down, I therefore have no doubt who will end up being a clear winner in the race to become no.1 micro chip producer in the years to come.

ARM with it ARM7 and ARM9 processor can easily take on Intel Atom for many reasons, firstly ARM7 and ARM9 consume less power and have longer standby times the Intel Atom processor. Secondly the ARM7 and ARM9 is much smaller in size then the Intel Atom, this will reduce cost for hardware vendors.

ARM Holding to date powers more then 95% of the smart phones, such as Nokia, iPhone, Blackberry and host of other communication devices such as TV Music player and set-top boxes.

Source:
http://www.payasyougomobilephones.mobi

FTI combines all the FAA

David Weiss — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:48 -0500

FTI combines all the FAA eggs into one basket. When a T3 fails, the sky falls. MCI and ATT had a great system/network. That is all gone.

I'll add my voice to the

Kennedy Brooks — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:55:34 -0500

I'll add my voice to the Pleas[e] ...Please Verizon: take all the lessons from AT&T's fumbling and the clear message about the public's Willingness To Buy - there is NO WTB QUESTION here - and build a network to support all of us AT&T Users who are ready to jump. 2 points from me: [1] I had a V1 iPhoney and spiked it after the umpteenth dropped call one busy Friday afternoon and [2] I just spent the week in San Francisco with my BB Curve - still with AT&T - and the EDGE service - as well as my colleagues' 3G iPhoney service - was abysmal. Network 'Busy' signals, 'call failed' messages with multi-bars showing, and dropped calls were constant: 2-3 such annoyances for every call made/attempted. AT&T should just quit pretending, because they have obviously quit trying to run a network that functions, let alone 'provides service', in SF.

Verizon: this is your chance to skim the cream of AT&T's customers and put T back into the primordial garbage dump from which this miserable excuse of a mobile operator has reared its ugly head.

Apple: you need to do the deal with Verizon because continuing AT&T's monopoly will drive everyone away to other handset hardware and the iToons tie-in won't be enough to overcome the inadequacy of AT&T's support of your otherwise wonderful device. The problem is that there is no telephoney app in the App Store. You need it, to complete the offering and maintain your market power. Announce the deal before Xmas so nobody will be tempted to buy anything until the Verizon deal is live. I'll wait, and I suspect many others will too.

Math fail. Alphanumeric is

Gordon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:54:16 -0500

Math fail.

Alphanumeric is 36 or 62 characters, depending on whether you count only upper/lower or both. With 6 characters, your total possible combinations is 36^6 (~2 billion), or 62^6 (~58 billion). In either case, nowhere near 280 trillion. And Trillian is a multi-network IM client, or a character in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, not a number.

why is this here? this has

travis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:32 -0500

why is this here? this has nothing to do with firefox or wii

I'm not sure it isn't

jansegers — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:30:03 -0500

I'm not sure it isn't achievable... my personal homepage and the French exercises on it run on almost any platform like they are written in standard DHTML (HTML 4.01 transitional and Javascript 1.1).

I've the exercises running under Google Wave right now thanks to an HTML gadget...
they're running under all current webbrowsers and they're running even from USBstick or diskette.

Pieter Jansegers
http://jansegers.classy.be

Judged! Closed yesterday

Ian Lamont779313 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:21:33 -0500

Judged! Closed yesterday above $30.

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This is a very bad

reader — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:29:05 -0500

This is a very bad suggestion. Palm Pre may have been somewhat of a success in US but not so much in the UK. Besides, Microsoft is better off improving windows mobile with its next offering then acquiring and completely ditching WinMo. Microsoft has already spent billions on resurrecting WinMo and ditching it now and starting a fresh with Palm Pre would just be plain stupid.

WinMo at the moment is way behind in the league but it has lots of potential (including Zune) only if Microsoft can play the cards right and integrate both of them well with its app store and windows and Xbox 360. Making these more of a one portable entertainment device. Perhaps merge Zune and Phone together into Zune Phone.

"Linux is light years ahead

reader — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:17:48 -0500

"Linux is light years ahead of Windows in technology"

How so? Please elaborate.

I am very curious to know

jennis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:25:38 -0500

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I am very curious to know

jennis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:25:00 -0500

well thats a great deal, i

philo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:15:10 -0500

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