Recent content by digitalvampire

$1500 so people will call me a pretentious hipster douche? ... SIGN ME UP!!!

If these guys are stong privacy advocates (which I genuinely believe they are), they have to understand the HUGE problem if this isn't Free/Open Source Software. Without the source being readily available, this is just ANOTHER company that we have to trust and take at their word.

So exactly what people have been doing for 10+ years, but now with a browser dependency instead. Awesome!!!!!

You know. If the Linux kernel would change it's license to GPLv3 instead of GPLv2, they wouldn't be allowed to lock cell phones (at least Android) to start with.

Ubuntu showed so much promise several years ago. Establishing itself as a very good Linux distribution targeted at new Linux users. While that is still the case, it has also begun to (admittedly, by Shuttleworth himself) emulate Apple and it's platform. I'm curious if Canonical's ultimate goal...

Is anyone else tired of the entire industry giving Apple the soft glove while letting them say and do (ie sueing excessively) whatever they want. I'm so tired of the industry treating Apple like the annoying child that it feels bad for and doesn't want to look like the bad bad parent by...

IndignantSkepticOk, but coding in HTML5 basically makes it very easy for everyone to commit industrial espionage against you because they can easily see and steal/copy all of your exact source code. Correct? That's what I'm concerned about. Everyone stealing everyone else's intellectual property...

Fantastic!! All those slower, web-based versions of our already significantly faster desktop applications are coming back to the desktop and bringing the slower technology with them. (wait, what?) I really can't understand the trend of refusing to learn an actual programming language. I honestly...

I understand why they are targeting Ubuntu (it's intended for new linux users, good desktop installation base, it's the Apple/OSX of the linux world, etc. etc.), but I hate to see them targeting a certain distribution when they could have VERY EASILY made a generic linux version and just shipped...

Fantastic!! We can now run the stripped down version versions of the applications we've had for years on our desktops ... on our desktop ... wait ... something isn't right here. First of all, I'm sure this is a fun project for these guys, and they probably will get bought out (more than likely...

1) Linux "WAS"? ROFL!!!! Ping 70+ percent of the web servers ON THE PLANET and tell me what they are running. GO AHEAD. TELL ME!!! 2) Google is a Linux company. Their search engine is a 200,000+ machine Linux cluster. That's it. 3) Microsoft claimed that Linux violates many of it's patents...

If I we're Google, I would have said "Either agree to use Android now, or lose the option completely, forever." ... While Nokia is the largest phone manufacturer in the world, they wouldn't have much to fall back on if (and when) the Win7 phone OS fails. And for those in doubt, Microsoft (who...

Yea, I'm a loyal Firefox fan as well. It's familiar and it works w/o too many drastic changes. However, I only use 1-2 plugins (at the most) and I don't keep a facebook (or any other social media) tabs or sites open in a browser. I use Empathy for Google Talk, Skype, Facebook, and all my other...

In America, more money is spent every year on lawyer fees than on R&D. Anybody wonder why we aren't doing so well?

...and LG has just made it's way onto my "Do not buy products from ..." list. Before any of you point this out, Sony has been on there a couple of times as well. :) ...