An ongoing dialog on an Internet newsgroup about some controversial subject. See flame.
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- Nokia: Our market share will slip over weak demand
- Nokia said Friday that its mobile device market share will slip in the third quarter from the second quarter "due to weaker consumer confidence in multiple markets." The company also said it refused to be lured into a price war. Nokia (all resources, reviews and blogs) said...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Michael Dell: Telcos may subsidize netbooks to sell 3G
- Dell CEO Michael Dell said he expects netbooks to eventually be subsidized by wireless telecom carriers that would sell the devices along with 3G service. The comments, made at the Citigroup Technology Conference on Wednesday, could shed some light on Dell's strategy as it announces a new...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Google Chrome ... the day after
- Google Chrome ... the day afterGoogle Chrome ... the day afterGoogle Chrome had its initial spike from people trying it then realizing how broken it is. So they went back to their default browsers leaving Google out in the cold. The countdown begins now for them to cut...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting case
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting caseGreater than what...."Server virtualization (in the PC/IBM sense of hosting multiple equivalent OS instances on one machine), for example, is extraordinarily popular right now and can definitely reduce data center cost - but almost always does so at greater cost to the business...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Toshiba XD-E500
- When Toshiba finally pulled the plug on HD DVD, nobody was quite sure what the next step for the company was going to be. Would it go back to making DVD players, or would it forget the tensions of the format war and release a Blu-ray player? Well, instead of...
- Product reviews 2008-09-02
- Liveblogging the Google Chrome announcement
- Liveblogging the Google Chrome announcementThe Chrome EffectIf three-quarters of people are using IE, no wonder so many people are so exciting. It's about time someone re-hauled the browser dinosaur. This interesting article talks about the effect on Windows and Microsoft.Google can take over the world...that is what I sayI have...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- LIVE: Google Chrome Press Conference
- LIVE: Google Chrome Press ConferenceMan, the publicity is nothing short of AMAZING. The mainstream press hasalready picked it up. The news is everywhere, there are already thousands of articles written. Seems like the whole world is buzzing about it.Firefox does NOT use WebKitFirefox uses Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, which is...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- What's on Obama's iPod?
- What's on Obama's iPod?Stupidity at its bestIf you don’t think every song on his ipod, if he really even owns one, isn’t a political calculation then you are a fool. At this stage of the game, I am sure their staffers are a picking every aspect of...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Google Chrome is complementary to Firefox
- Google Chrome is complementary to FirefoxAt lasta blogger who understands open source. Every idiot on the internet tries to paint Chrome as competition to Mozilla. They do not have the vaguest clue......RE: Google Chrome is complementary to FirefoxI am excited. I like firefox but with Googles track record,...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Data center energy use
- Data center energy useHmmmm....1. It's still a positive contribution, even if it is a small one. 2. And I think real enterprises are seriously eying desktops a real money sinks when it comes to power.3. The same argument could be applied to oil. We shouldn't...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- News to know: Google Chrome; CAPTCHA breaking; StatusHQ
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Google to launch browser to target IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer? Ryan Naraine: Google Chrome, the security...
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War
- Â Cummings of the Daily Express, 24 August 1953, "Back to Where it all Started" The events of the last several weeks surrounding Russia's invasion of Georgia and its recognition of the rogue provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have threatened to...
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Are we to have two Internets?
- Are we to have two Internets?And what machine were you testing?"Apache dies when hit with about seven to ten thousand user floods. Yaws just kept on going on up to 85,000 simultaneous users."What kind of setup did you test this on?Great responseI don't agree with all your premises but I...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- Google Earth to license new satellite imagery
- Google Earth to license new satellite imageryBest Commercial Cameras?Holy cow! If this is the best commercial imagery, what does the military have?RE: Google Earth to license new satellite imageryPity the article did not state what previous resolution was and how long to to do world imagery,I no they up...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-30
- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Psystar files answer to Apple complaint
- Psystar files answer to Apple complaintBut they don'tYou have to modify Leopard to get it to run on non-Apple hardware.Case closed, Psystar loses.Especially the asinine argument that OS X is not a copyrightable work.Except....I would imagine Psystar is well backed in its endeavor. Or would be. There is...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share lead
- IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share leadWhat about number of units?Looks like these "market share" figures are based on revenue, right? Don't you have any info on units installed? A cheaper alternative will always show a lower revenue share; a free alternative will show...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Are gamers doping during tournaments?
- It's not typical Toybox fare, but it made me wonder just what kind of "toys" people are keeping in their toyboxes these days. A fascinating recent Gameplayer interview chronicles some tokin' and smokin' at the World Cyber Games in Germany, with the Tournament Director's full knowledge: ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggeratedNormal operating procedureAll major news organizations have prewritten obits for prominent people, with those notes about who to contact for comment in the event of that person's death.This is done so as to avoid inaccuracies that often pop up when the news media has...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
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