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(Gallery: Study: Arctic ice cap to melt in 10 years)

sunspotsSince global warming is actully caused by the Sun and not man. I am sure the reduced sunspot activity we are now experiencing will allow the artic to refreeze.RE: (Gallery: Study: Arctic ice cap to melt in 10 years)Best ViewSo you can choose listen radio streaming from worldwide.Just Click...

Tags: ice cap, Arctic, Gallery

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Open source advocates still called zealots

Open source advocates still called zealotsHow about Microsoft zealots?I am certain any group includes a few wackies. Law of averages and all. If the shoe fits....... wear it!I find it funny...the a blogger calls what a journalist does worthless. Considering the difference in quality control and that...

Tags: Blogging, word zealot, Moderators, Ashlee Vance, NYT, open source, zealot, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Hey, I love you too, guy

Hey, I love you too, guySeems to me that SO.CAL Guy did his homework very well......considering you had to dig out an article from Feb 2006 to try and refute what he said (which it didn't considering the Feb '06 article had absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with the trash...

Tags: Strategy, Engineering Principles, zealot, business model

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

Irony and the GLITCH/OS

Irony and the GLITCH/OSAre there correctly written software bugs?Just wondering.You couldn't think of anything worthwhile to writeother then more windows attacks? And lame ones at that? I expect better from you.RE: Irony and the GLITCH/OSI've had a few employees that might be described as 'seasoned Windows users' who's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GLITCH/OS, irony, zealot

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

Microsoft Windows hardware leader takes a 'vacation'

Microsoft Windows hardware leader takes a 'vacation'Better go get out while the gettin' is good.They also get tired of people laughing when they say they work at Microsoft.right decisionwhen the [i] Windows Hardware Ecosystem[i] vanished, what need for a leader is there?Linux is eating M$ lunch!Translation:In view of the recent...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, window, Microsoft Corp., zealot, hardware, leader

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Mac OS X Leopard installation as a spiritual practice

Mac OS X Leopard installation as a spiritual practiceWay too many optionsThere should be only 1 upgrade option and that is the one that Steve Jobs thinks is best. I don't pay a premium for OSX so I have to think, I do it so Jobs can think for me...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Leopard, zealot, OSX, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, MSFT, Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2007-10-26

Patches in ten f***ing days? Not really, says Mozilla

Patches in ten f***ing days? Not really, says MozillaSo, somebody gets carried away at a "do"...... and all of a sudden it's a commitment? Give the guy a break.Even if they turn out the patches in 20 days, rather than 10, they are still more than a week ahead...

Tags: Linux, Patches, OCCAM, zealot, Mozilla Corp., patch management

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Apple plugs eight more QuickTime holes

Apple plugs eight more QuickTime holesDoesn't affect me, I steer clear of all Apple softwareSo far, I've yet to be infected with any type of malware in the 12 years I've been running Windows. Hmm, we already know that [url=http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/10/apple_ships_video_ipods_with_w.html] Apple deliberately infects their Windows software with viruses [/url] so...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Digital music, SECURITY, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple Software, zealot, software, Apple QuickTime, flaw, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-07-11

Microsoft, Samsung in patent swap deal

Microsoft, Samsung in patent swap dealExcellent for users!WHine about it all you like but eliminating *possible* issues for users is a very good thing, even if it makes Stallman's hair fall out.boycott $amsungBoycott:that should be the natural consequence of doing bussines with M$ against Linux best ineterest!Microsoft is wrongThese deals...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp., boycott, zealot, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Discussion threads 2007-04-19

There's no room for bias in academia

Whenever I sit down to review the comments posted about an article written by one of my fellow bloggers, I am struck by the level of bias that abounds among our readers. To be sure, there are zealots on almost every subject under the sun but sometimes our readers...

Tags: Classroom Tech, Education Technology, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, K-12, Policy

Blog posts 2007-03-07

Jobs drowning in his own Kupertino Kool-Aid

Jobs drowning in his own Kupertino Kool-AidWatch the zealots resort to personal attacksI've written exactly what you wrote and the best the Mac zealots can do is make personal attacks on me and my mother. I'd give you 2 thumbs up but the system will only let me give you...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., job, Kupertino Kool-Aid, digital-rights management, zealot

Discussion threads 2007-02-08

Pictures of the iTV remote

Pictures of the iTV remotei don't buy it for a second...there is nothing apple whatsoever about that remote even ignoring the lack of a logo. that ridiculous little piece of plastic acting as a built-in stand seems so fragile. the entire thing is so aesthetically unappealing as to be mind-blowing....

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, cultist, Apple Inc., zealot, Microsoft Corp., touch screen, sports team, iTV

Discussion threads 2006-12-15

Microsoft rebuts "back-of-envelope" man-year calculations to offer full Office Open XML support

Microsoft rebuts "back-of-envelope" man-year calculations to offer full Office Open XML supportIt is funny all the arguments Microsoft has for not having a MAC versionready any time soon.Seems to me, either they have an awfull pile of spagetti code that is impossible to work with, or, they just want the...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, XML, OSX, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Mac Version, zealot, Dell Computer Corp., hardware

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

Apple Mac OS X patch plugs 31 vulnerabilities

Apple Mac OS X patch plugs 31 vulnerabilitiesHey now![i]"Know anyone who has a Mac that has been impacted by any of the security flaws?"[/i]That's not exactly a fair question, as most people don't know anyone who even *has* a Mac.But that isn't what the zealots say[i]That might be the difference...

Tags: Desktops, SECURITY, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, vulnerability, zealot, Mac-user, Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2006-11-28

IE7 and standards compliance - Microsoft's Chris Wilson charts progress

IE7 and standards compliance - Microsoft's Chris Wilson charts progressSlashdot is about zealotsSlashdot made a horrible mistake reposting a year old article by Paul Thurrot. If I'm not mistaken, slashdot did a post on Paul's article when it first came out. The only thing the repost did was cause...

Tags: Quality, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, anti-Microsoft, browser company, zealot, standards, Web browser, Slashdot

Discussion threads 2006-08-16

How to make an anti-spyware zealot

Some adware company respresentatives and adware apologists like to refer to people like me as zealots. At Spyware Warrior I've blogged another installation of 180solutions software in the wild with... drum roll... No Notice and No Consent, along with a huge pile of other xxxware (call it...

Tags: zealot

Blog posts 2005-11-29

Adware company unfairly criticized?

180solutions has referred to their critics as anti-spyware zealots and seems to think the "zealots" have unfairly maligned them. In a recent interview with Spyware Informer, 180's public relations spokesperson Cory Magnus was asked about 180solutions' plan to become certified by TRUSTe’s Trusted Download Program with a reference to...

Tags: Coast, zealot, 180Solutions

Blog posts 2005-11-21

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Apple seeks injunction to end Psystar Mac clones ... oh, and $2.1m

Let's cheer the death of competition!!!Competition is good... as long as it doesn't hurt Apple. Cue the double standards...Apple, congrats for winning in the legal court. Maybe you can take that $2.1M (that you won't get) and add it to your PR budget to repair the damage you've done in...

Tags: Apple Inc., Psystar, gizmo

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Apple contemplating free, ad-supported iPhone?

Apple has no tasteOh, wait, no, that was Microsoft that had no taste because there are Windows 7 desktop themes available that have images of Coke cans in them. Isn't that right tigertank? For some reason that I can't wait to hear, this move by Apple, however, is very tasteful.Cue...

Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Microsoft bracing for malware attacks from embedded fonts

Not too worried here......Been using group policy for a long time with font downloads always being disabled for all users on my network. I am patching no doubt, but much less concerned knowing I have always had this blocked. I'm coveredno windoze , no threat.Again with the fear...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, font, Microsoft Windows, malware attack, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, malware, Windows7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-12