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there are several separate strands here
Talkback However that discussion has simply evolved from this one;- Gary McKinnon suffers from a condition that is (after a very long battle) finally just beginning to be recognised by the system in the UK. I know that sadly there are many people serving...
[November 19, 2009, 9:03]
Microsoft denies Windows 7 bug is 'showstopper'
News In a discussion on one of the blogs that has raised the issue, top Windows executive Steven Sinofsky said the company is looking into the issue. Bugs that are so severe as to require immediate patches and attention would have to have no workarounds...
[August 6, 2009, 8:51]
Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog Comment I had a link in the article to a discussion paper which would likely be instructive on this, and other related questions. If there was such a pent up demand from NORMAL, EVERYDAY people for alternatives to Windows then the market would address it.
[June 17, 2009, 12:31]
Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog Comment ZDNet UK Discussion Alert This Discussion Alert is brought to you by ZDNet UK. Why Normal People Don't Use Linux' has triggered the spam filter and it has gone to moderation I just tried to send you guys the urls for those projects and I just...
[June 10, 2009, 20:15]
What Do We Expect from Netbooks?
Blog Now, this has to be qualified with the fact that I have never tried any other netbook, and in particular I have never tried one with an Intel Atom CPU (the Mini-Note has a VIA C-7M CPU), but that is one of the reasons I am posting this for...
[March 26, 2009, 10:38]
What to expect from the Parallels Summit 2009
Blog Not only does this event have a web site, a Twitter stream and general info pack in the normal way, it also has it's own LinkedIn event discussion group to exchange recommended reading ideas pre-show.
[February 2, 2009, 3:06]
Web 2.0: what is it good for?
Blog For the most part though, forums are discussion websites where people go for help, advice and feedback. Online forums are full of normal business people who are experts in their respective fields and who are happy to answer questions posted by others.
[July 18, 2008, 13:43]
End of the show...
Blog Larrabee, Intel's as yet shadowy many-core IA chip, has been given a 2008 slot for detailed discussion: that means it's been in the works for a while. Intel says that it's purely a transitional step, the last of the old order: it's good enough to...
[April 18, 2007, 21:06]
Negroponte at NetEvents
Blog No discussion about games, they're there. When people ask me about China, people assume the regime is the issue. It takes 600 people to launch 1.2 million laptops A key specification, the laptop takes 2 watt as opposed to thirty or forty for normal...
[December 2, 2006, 6:09]
Home Office advisor urges biometrics testing
News I'm surprised how little we know about how people interact with this technology," said Rejman-Greene, appearing on a panel discussion at the Biometrics 2006 show in London. We need more research about how people confront this technology, especially...
[October 20, 2006, 13:50]
Factor in the productive hours per day when estimating duration
News For the sake of discussion, however, let's say that one person is assigned to this 40-hour activity. The duration could be less than a week if multiple people are involved, and it would take longer than a week if only a part-time resource is involved.
[April 26, 2006, 15:40]
France may sanction P2P downloads
Talkback Or can we get a meaningfull discussion here? Totally innocent people are already paying an added price on top of the normal price for various media, like CD-R's, because that's how 'the industry' is getting compensated for personal use copying.
[December 27, 2005, 22:23]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback His request started all this discussion in this web. In the other hand, you think Indian people have hard accent? And if, as Dell, you make a big effort to keep your customers with a service out of the normal boundaries and free, will you hire...
[November 26, 2005, 18:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In Apple's case, this has shown itself in a particularly rugged response to any reference to the problem on the official iPod nano discussion areas. Apple went through the normal deny/admit/fix cycle with some rapidity: these affairs can blow up...
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They have done a lot of work with Airbus, and the conversation naturally turns to the events of the day - as at least one of the journalists present, the evergreen freelance Manek Dubash, has held a private pilot's licence, this provokes a...
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
RealNetworks cries foul over Microsoft antitrust case
Talkback Far from being off-topic, this discussion is about a lot of the background of this current case. I would like to invite you to try this - uninstall it in the normal way, then run Windows Update, or go into Windows Explorer and type in a web URL.
[April 1, 2005, 12:48]
US voters turn to the Web
News People flocked to the Web sites of both US presidential candidates on Monday, according to the latest report issued by ComScore Networks. Traffic to the Kerry site was 128 percent higher than normal, while the Bush site was up by 103 percent.
[November 3, 2004, 7:33]
Network administrators told to secure servers
News On Wednesday, Blumenthal posted an alert on the popular spam-l discussion list saying the information campaign was about to begin. Starting on Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission and its counterparts in 26 other nations began sending email to...
[January 30, 2004, 14:05]
Film-swappers face three years' jail
News A copy of the bill seen by CNET News.com, marked "Discussion Draft," represents one of the fiercest attacks yet on peer-to-peer networks from copyright holders' allies on Capitol Hill. In September, the major studios responded by halting their...
[November 13, 2003, 7:55]
Intrusion detection team denies Trojan claim
News Australian security consultant Daniel Lewkovitz says that the mere fact that a rumour like this could turn out to be true, even though it looks unlikely in this case, means the issue at least warrants discussion.
[September 22, 2003, 10:05]
