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• I noticed you have no link showing from where your hilarious delusions have sprung. QUICK, look under your bed...it's a BOOGYMAN! In reply to: "Memo to FTC: Update your Intel dossier"

  December 19, 2009

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• Brooke, Brooke, Brooke. I can't believe you posted this.
  
  It's beyond obvious to anyone in the tech industry that Intel has been illegally restraining trade against AMD and you got a couple hack law professors to blabber about it MAY not be, and obfuscate the issues...?
  
  And you thought you'd use the Neanderthal "but chip prices have always been falling" canard? Even when AMD out-designed Intel, did they get a jump in share? No. And you're saying that it's OK for a chip firm (or any firm) to have enough monopoly profits to pump $2 BILLION of bribes into Dell and that's somehow legal or even economically sane? Oh, you mean, like how real estate prices would always go up? Or, somehow, IE legitimately claimed their high market share with no tying to Office formats or secret Win32 APIs?
  
  On what planet do these truths hold...the one that has LSD as one of the four food groups?
  
  AND...you get your hack "experts" to badmouth the EU, Japan, and Korea for enforcing their anti-trust laws? How pathetic was that? We had 8 yrs of do-nothing, know-nothing, keep-the-Fed-Rate-at-1%-forever, destroy-the-dissenters violence while letting multi-nationals pay minuscule taxes and collapse the economy...and we're to believe that de-funded government agencies have been properly carrying out their regulatory oversight and Intel's just being harassed...?
  
  You should apologize for your misinforming CNET readers and contempt for tech consumers, in general. What a sad display of "journalism." In reply to: "One charge hard to level at Intel: Raising prices"

  November 7, 2009

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• While discussing browser share is great for a religious comments section, let's not assume that any "one" browser statistic site is reliable and/or statistically valid. It is not, and they are not.
  http://tr.im/E2D0
  
  Also, trying to discern browser IDs via user-agent strings and spoofing is a clusterf-ck, at best. (Of course, when you're the monopolist browser, you never have to spoof, all other competing browsers need to spoof -- in the beginning -- because shortsighted developers are (were) only using development tools tied to that majority browser. Most are only know learning the usefulness, time-savings, and power of web-standards coding (with HTML5 starting to roll now).
  http://www.virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/05/statistics-nonsense
  
  Isn't it fun how that works? In reply to: "Chrome and others nibble away IE usage"

  November 3, 2009

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• No difference, except for that 20% Intel tax we've been paying for years and years, while they threatened OEMs that tried to include AMD chips while back...thank you, EU, Japan, Korea...no thank you, US DOJ. In reply to: "Intense Intel-AMD rivalry set for light laptops"

  October 16, 2009

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• Very cool idea by the Finnish government. It's obvious to anyone over 10 years old that if you don't have access (no, not free) to the web, it will take you 100x longer to do anything. (Yes, I know, some people still choose to get in their car to go write a check to pay a bill.)
  
  One of the great advantages of the internet, though, is I get to read the most brain-dead, ignorant comments from people I would never meet or spend more than 3 seconds listening to if I happened to be within ear-shot of them....spouting stupid, Founding Father faux quotes that have no bearing on the present, urbanized world.
  
  Are you people even aware how blatantly stupid you sound or actually are...? Are you?
  
  Do you have any clue how many billions of dollars were and are spent on rural electrification to get power to farmers in the 1930's, so we don't have pitiful, hopeless rural slums?
  
  Do you know how many trillions, probably, have been spent on that street outside your house or freeways near you, so you can actually get to your important therapy sessions without getting stuck in the mud? Or those government-funded sewage systems or water systems or trash trucks or fire services or police protection or public education and a million other services that you're completely clueless of...?
  
  Do you know about the small charge on your landline bill (I'm assuming you haven't discovered newfangled cell phones yet) to pay for phone lines out to rural America, so everyone can have cheap phone service?
  
  Adding the idea of low-cost internet service is only the next logical step for modern, enlightened societies (i.e., like basic healthcare). Unfortunately, though, "enlightenment" is not a right yet, we do still have the freedom to be a knuckle-dragger. Jeez.
  
  Wake-up out of your stupor, people. Read. Listen (but, not Rush, not Beck). Watch (but not Fox News). Think. Think some more. Ask a dumb question. Be humble. Ask another dumb question. Don't be insecure. Ask another dumb question. Think some more. Don't fear the unknown. Learn. Raise your IQ half a point. Repeat. In reply to: "Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right"

  October 14, 2009

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• Shaver makes a good point, I think. Google Frame is quite clever, but sneaky though.
  
  I think while Google's stated concern is the truly ugly coding required to make Wave work (or any standards-based site) in IE, they also know that Microsoft will be dragged kicking & screaming to support HTML5 in a transparent way.
  
  Google knows that a tiny number of users know about the site patching madness that web developers and browser makers go though every day; which means that when an IE user goes to try Wave and something breaks, they'll blame Google (the site), not IE (the browser maker).
  
  Just check out how ugly it's been the last few years to manage site patching issues.
  http://my.opera.com/core/blog/show.dml/3130540
  
  On a sidenote, anyone notice Google leaving out Opera 10 off their browser pop-up for Wave...? Really lame; especially given Opera continuous fight for web standards for years that benefits them, while the CTO at Opera, Håkon Wium Lie, actually invented CSS. In reply to: "Mozilla VP: Chrome Frame is the wrong answer"

  September 29, 2009

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• I see a class-action lawsuit coming.
  
  I can't believe I'm reading all these AT&T apologists here -- or is it astro-turfing by AT&T PR staff? Did you read Dong's article?? Can he even watch MobiTV on his iPhone? No.
  
  It's the customer's job to see if he's getting reamed for something that has nothing to do with his handset or current plan or service? And then AT&T pulls the billion-dollar corporate weasel routine with the: "Sorry, we have a 3-month policy on refunds, even though we've been gouging you like there's no tomorrow. Call the FCC and see if they can push us to do the right thing, OK?"
  
  Corporate fraud, plain & simple. In reply to: "AT&T customers, check your plan once in a while"

  September 20, 2009

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• Interesting article, Martin, but I'm just going to say what everyone tippy-toe's around. Lutz is a PUTZ along with the rest of the GM bozo team. Always making excuses and hedging and moaning that they can't seem to offer any competitive cars.
  
  They had their EV-1 & EV-2 (which had 163 miles range on one charge, btw) and they killed it to go along with the oil companies...meanwhile, the CEO of Toyota sank $2B into hybrid R&D with long-term thinking. That's what competent executives do: show vision, be a fearless leader, and change the game. (And the Prius is now about $23K, and the Honda hybrd is even less.)
  
  Lutz knows how to thump his chest and jump around and be macho and talk about his helicopter and plane, but has he done anything except signing off on dumb cars that people bought out of patriotism? No.
  
  GM had to get nationalized and we kept him on? Are you kidding me? Nader was grappling with these knuckleheads in 1959, for god's sake!! Expect more excuses as the Volt embarrasses us all further... In reply to: "GM's Lutz: Volt needs high gas prices to be 'generalized'"

  September 20, 2009

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• Just point IE on the Zune HD to < http://www.opera.com/next/ > and get Opera Mini 5 or Opera Mobile with Visual Tabs and Speed Dial, and web browsing will be like on an iPhone...
  
  Then log-in to Opera Link and sync all your Opera desktop bookmarks, Speed Dial settings, search engines, Notes, and typed history. Now, wasn't that simple? In reply to: "Zune HD: You call that a browser?"

  September 17, 2009

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• I see a smackdown coming in an upcoming Apple ad. What an ugly, cheesy rip-off by Dell... In reply to: "Dell to pay $4 million in fraud case"

  September 15, 2009

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