Entries Tagged as 'Operating Systems'

Leading the Echosphere…

November 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

…in reporting other peoples’ analysis. Arik Hesseldahl, is at it again over on BusinessWeak, reporting the reports of reports of analysts rehashing Apple’s sales numbers from a frigging month ago.
His headline, “Analysts Sounds Off On Apple,” tells you everything you need to know about the quality of the rest of the post. BusinessWeak apparently doesn’t […]

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Tags: Blackberry · Dell · General Detritus · Little Psystar · Master Jobst Fimil · Microsoft · Monopoly · Operating Systems · Predictions · Punditbots and Fundtards · The Stock Market · Zune · iPhone · iPhone killer |

Wow. This is getting stupid.

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I swear to you, every day I get new entries with the search term “iPhone Killer.”
Not a single solitary one of the iPhone killers ever (fecking EVER) has all the features of an iPhone. Never. NEVER. I challenge you to find one iPhone Killer – one smartphone that has a multitouch screen.
That’s just one feature, […]

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Tags: Android · Blackberry · Operating Systems · Punditbots and Fundtards · The Stock Market · Vista sucks · iPhone killer |

Weekend Catch-Up

November 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

The patch is out for the Android bug.
Wow. An iPhone security threat that would send people to Home Depot for duct tape, iodine capsules, and plastic sheeting only has to be a vague gap into which one might, maybe be able to cause random code to be executed and then possibly shoehorn in some malicious […]

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Tags: Android · Microsoft · Operating Systems · Punditbots and Fundtards · Snow Leopard · Vista sucks · Windows 7 · iPhone |

Windows 7 Sucks, too.

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

That should be a big surprise. You can read about it over on the Macalope.
It might surprise you to know that Rob Enderle is somehow involved. It surprised me. I mean, I thought he had moved back into his old job super-sizing deep fried potatoes and grilled beef patties with pasteurized process American cheese on […]

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Tags: Darling Furball · Microsoft · Operating Systems · Vista sucks · Windows 7 |

The Buyback

October 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

All the analysts are talking about how Apple should buy back a bunch of stock, and how that would drive up the price, and about how wonderful that would be for the stockholders.
Meh.
I’m a poor but marginally honest Apple stockholder. A stock buyback might have the temporary effect of driving up the price of the […]

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Tags: Apple TV · Follies of Humanity · General Detritus · Microsoft · Operating Systems · Predictions · Punditbots and Fundtards · The Stock Market · Vista sucks |

Brief Note

October 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Has anyone noticed about the new “cloud” operating system from Microsoft? It’s called “Azure” according to the echosphere.
Azure = Blue
Blue = Clear sky
Clear sky = no clouds
So, instead of computing in the clouds, what? Maybe there’s a pie in the sky.
I think I’ll stick with Unix on my hard drive.
Thanks.

The new MacBook doesn’t have FireWire. […]

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Tags: Blackberry · History of the Personal Computer · Just stuff · Leopard · Master Jobst Fimil · Microsoft · Operating Systems · Punditbots and Fundtards |