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- DuzzQuest2 1.0 (Windows)
- DuzzQuest2 is a freeware indie adventure game set in suburban Australia. Feel your adventuring blood, pumping through your veins. Put down that plastic rockband guitar, grab some sort of plastic beard or something and clean out your inventory. You are a professional adventurer. You are a hero. You are Duzz....
- Software downloads 2009-10-08
- Bathing the earth in acid?
- The head of NOAA says global warming has an evil twin. It's a variety of oceanic acid stomach. The chemistry is pretty straight forward for those who managed first-year chemistry in high school. CO2 + H20 = H2CO3. That would be carbonic acid, not the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris
- Quick thoughts on the possible demise of OpenSolarisWhere's the news?All I see here is a blog post from someone who says that people working on OpenSolaris are worried about the future. What else is new?Above and beyond that, the post is pure speculation. He's afraid OpenSolaris is going to "die...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- AMD introduces 45nm quad-core "Shanghai" Opteron processors
- AMD introduces 45nm quad-core "Shanghai" Opteron processorsAnd what's your opinion?In the past you have been harsh with AMD, and it might have been for good reasons. However, you do not tell us what's your opinion of Shanghai. Will it allow AMD to compete better with Intel or not? What's your...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit
- Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit"somewhat limited"?[i]A successful attacker will have access to any information the browser may use, such as cookies used for accessing sites, .....However, they can not control other, unrelated aspects of the phone, such as dialing the phone directly[/i]At least if my phone was dialing,...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- Can Google not do evil?
- Can Google not do evil?So happy"We are so, so happy with Google Chrome," mumbled Mozilla CEO John Lilly through gritted teeth. "That most of our income is from Google has no bearing on this statement." - http://notnews.today.com/?p=57RE: Can Google not do evil?Your vision of Microsoft being the dark side and...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- 2008 BMW X6 xDrive35i
- Photo gallery:2008 BMW X6Even after driving the 2008 BMW X6 for a week, we're still not sure what to make of it. BMW's marketing campaign calls it the coupe's evil twin, but with the 3-liter twin-turbo inline six-cylinder in our xDrive35i model, it doesn't feel particularly diabolical. It seems more...
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?No such thing as a free lunch....While I don't lay all the blame on open source, I do blame open source for many of the problems with VMWare's business model. It is very difficult to plan when you have "free" products in the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Rumor Mill: All things WWDC
- Hey there, it's Jake (Jason's evil twin). It's Friday so that means I get to write my crazy rumor column today. It's also the last business day of the week before WWDC, so you can probably guess what today's installment is going to be about. So, there's...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- 25-year-old BSD bug found--and fixed
- 25-year-old BSD bug found--and fixedSteve is the evil twin...The good Balmer twin, Marc, is out there doing productive things for society! ;)
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Rumor Mill: What's on the Apple horizon
- Hey there, it's Jake, Jason's evil twin. It's Friday which means that it's my turn to take the wheel for trip down Apple rumor lane. Fasten your seat belts because here we go: Apple Developing Wiimote-Like Controller? â€" AppleInsider reports that a new Apple patent application reveals...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactlyI'm with you....Facebook - why on earth would MS do it? It just doesn't make any sense - hell look for new business models, don't just play dumb catch up!More over here - http://diversity.net.nz/ms-considering-a-facebook-purchase/2008/05/08/It's called flounderingWhen they can't go forward, they can't go back, and...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Rumor Mill: what's just around the bend from Apple (updated)
- Hey, it's Jake again, Jason's evil twin. My big brother liked my last three columns [1, 2, 3] so he's cool with making it a regular thing. I hope that you do to. Anyway, here's the latest Apple rumors making the rounds: Fans are...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Rumor Mill: What you should be saving up for
- Howdy. It's Jake, Jason's evil, rumor-mongering twin. It's Friday, which means that it's time for a peek at the current raft of Apple rumors: iPhone 3G â€" This one is getting more persistant, so it's probably getting closer to being real. The latest word...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- The sum of Google's fears
- The sum of Google's fearsMS wants to use Yahoo to create dependencies on Silverlight.They will over time re-write or create premium versions of Yahoo applications that require Silverlight on the client. If MS can get even as few as 5% of the cool web applications running on Silverlight, they will...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Google: Is Microhoo all that unnerving?
- Google: Is Microhoo all that unnerving?Maybe, maybe notThere's an assumption that M$ would have its eye off the ball. Having seen what they did with aQuantive, I'd be surprised if that's the case. They *could* get an online suite out the door very quickly, using Y! as the mechanism. Sure,...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- Microsoft-Yahoo: The end game nears; Was there an Amazon-Yahoo deal in the works?
- Microsoft-Yahoo: The end game nears; Was there an Amazon-Yahoo deal in the works?I guess you theory makes more sense than anything else. By itself,the MS/Yahoo tie-up makes little sense given all of the integration problems, completely different cultures, product overlap, and very big, the difference in OSes.So, I suppose blocking...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Striking writers and digital media
- The members of the Writer's Guild of America WGA, a union that consists of most of the writers responsible for TV and movie content produced by the LA-based movie industry (a position defended by the fact that union contracts require most sets to use only union writers), continues unabated, thus putting...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?
- Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?You are again trashing Christopher Dawson's blog. Get you own bloginstead of trashing somebody else's.No.All this talk about training, etc, the Sugar OS on XO requires no training. Security is also baked in, and it has mesh capabilities, ultra low power, etc...Now, all...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Is anyone surprised Microsoft is lobbying to thwart Google?
- Is anyone surprised Microsoft is lobbying to thwart Google?Some day Someone will have to force MS to behaveSadly EC AND EU made a small scratch on MS but soon we should have a real hit across the head off MS with real penalty something that MS will remember for...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
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