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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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Amid online discussion of the proposed laws to ban activity that stirs religious intolerance, the point is raised that everybody can find something to upset them in other people's beliefs. It's not the third day, of course, but it's the third...
[October 19, 2001, 17:52]
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]
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]
Disney battles coupon goof
News Using a coupon code that was passed around on shopping discussion sites, such as FatWallet.com and DVD Talk, consumers flooded DisneyStore.com with four times the normal volume of orders. Word of the latter code quickly spread on the Internet via...
[November 7, 2002, 14:09]
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]
Safety experts meet in Cyberspace
News Running from 2 to 13 November, it aims to educate and stimulate discussion about all aspects of safety including basic domestic stuff, the dangers of children trespassing on railways and the increasingly important issue of work-related safety.
[November 2, 1998, 11:35]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Should programming supercomputers be hard?
Comment In an attempt to press this point during a panel discussion session at a conference recently, I tried an analogy. Most people agree that programming parallel computers is hard, especially if performance at scale is required — that is, if it...
[October 1, 2009, 11:41]
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]
