- 2014-03-05 04:03
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: NSA Word Soup and The Cloud
- Replies: 2
NSA Word Soup and The Cloud
m Ever since Snowden provided reporters with a trove of top secret documents, we've been subjected to all sorts of NSA word games. The word "collect" has a very special definition, according to the US defence department (DoD). A 1982 procedures manual says: "Information shall be considered as 'colle...
- 2014-03-04 00:01
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Stick a fork in it
- Replies: 2
Stick a fork in it
It's over. Any belief that Mr. Nadella might have half a brain can be abandoned: m On Monday, the company confirmed a number of executive changes, most notably the elevation of Mark Penn to the role of chief strategy officer. Penn was the brains behind Microsoft's "Scroogled" ad campaign, ...
- 2014-03-02 17:44
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Microsoft cuts Windows price 70% on low end devices
- Replies: 17
I couldn't put my finger on it at the time, but something was bugging me about the ad that I posted above other than the fact it was running Windows 8. I finally figured it out. This things are supposed to be portable. It seems that once you get above the size of an average clipboard, that you've de...
- 2014-03-02 00:50
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Forum fools
- Replies: 3
- 2014-03-02 00:06
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Microsoft cuts Windows price 70% on low end devices
- Replies: 17
- 2014-03-01 21:57
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Microsoft cuts Windows price 70% on low end devices
- Replies: 17
Check this twat out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Pm_hecE1o She needs a touchscreen to plan her wedding. Macs don't have touchscreens yet. OMG! Why isn't Apple taking part in Microsoft's abortion of a business plan? I can't figure it out. Thinking is like hard and stuff. Gotta go, don't wanna be...
- 2014-03-01 19:06
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Microsoft cuts Windows price 70% on low end devices
- Replies: 17
I see MS's position. Buying operating systems is becoming unpopular with all the free and libre OS choices available, so the future remains a big question mark, although the writing is on the wall. Does Microsoft charge now and suffer later, or go free and maybe havechance in the long term? They ar...
- 2014-03-01 15:47
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Microsoft cuts Windows price 70% on low end devices
- Replies: 17
- 2014-02-27 22:53
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Microsoft cuts Windows price 70% on low end devices
- Replies: 17
My "Winston doing his job" crack was a reference to Orwell's 1984. Just so we're all clear on that.
https://archive.org/stream/ost-english- ... a_djvu.txt
https://ia600800.us.archive.org/17/item ... stopia.pdf
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xthahf ... rte_school
https://archive.org/stream/ost-english- ... a_djvu.txt
https://ia600800.us.archive.org/17/item ... stopia.pdf
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xthahf ... rte_school
- 2014-02-24 22:22
- Forum: The lounge
- Topic: Microsoft cuts Windows price 70% on low end devices
- Replies: 17
The history of kill switches on smartphones and e-readers suggests they're double-edged swords for the companies that wield them. In 2009, Amazon reached into users' Kindles to delete e-book copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm that had been sold by a publisher without the necessary right...