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BlackBerry advert sticks it to Apple
Really, RIM, guys… if your product were any good, you wouldn’t need to compare yourself to your competition.
Oh, and is “nothing can touch it” really the best tag line for a touchscreen device?
How very Microsoft of you.
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Citi Gets Third Rescue as U.S. Plans to Raise Stake
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The U.S. government ratcheted up its effort to save Citigroup Inc., agreeing to a third rescue attempt that will cut existing shareholders’ stake in the company by 74 percent. The shares fell as much as 48 percent.
And no, it’s still not called a nationalization. But, according to the article, there’s more that’s wrong with my vocabulary. For example, I was always thought that the word “dividend” meant “a sum of money paid to shareholders of a corporation out of earnings.” Or perhaps it’s not the word “dividend” I’ve got problems with, but the word “earnings”, because I always thought of that as “profit”. Now check the following two sentences from the article, and explain them to me:
Citigroup also boosted its record 2008 loss 48 percent to $27.7 billion as it took an accounting charge for the value of acquired businesses whose value fell.
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Citigroup, which today suspended its dividend of a penny a share…
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Here Comes The Sun
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For example, take the following sample page:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> function sun() {} </script> </head> <body> </body> </html>Harmless, right? Actually it’s not. It turns out that Mozilla Firefox treats window.sun as a magic LiveConnect property. (I tested with Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 on Windows.) What’s LiveConnect? It was introduced in Netscape 4 to allow plugins to be scripted. Accessing any magic LiveConnect property will start the Java plugin — even if your code has nothing to do with Java. And starting the Java plugin will load a JVM. Oh, and did I mention that all of this will happen synchronously? As in, Firefox will stop loading your page and wait for the JVM to start up. And all you did was access window.sun.
“But, but, but…” I hear you sputter. “I’m not accessing the window.sun property!” Ah, but you are. Declaring a global function is like assigning a property to the window object. (The property’s value is the function itself.) In order to assign that property, Firefox first looks up the slot before reassigning it, and that lookup… launches a JVM. Synchronously.
Everything is amazing, nobody is happy…
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Music Executive Ridiculed at Pirate Bay Trial
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Laughter filled The Pirate Bay trial here Wednesday when John Kennedy, the chief executive of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, testified that people would have purchased every music track they got free file sharing.
Kennedy answered an affirmative “Yes” to Pirate Bay defense attorneys when asked whether that was true. Bursting laughter could be heard from the audio room beside the courtroom where the trial’s sound was being broadcast.
Now Packaged With LESS PLASTIC
Holder says Feds will stop medical marijuana raids
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For those of you keeping score at home, add another major policy shift by the Obama administration to the tally. Breaking with precedent set under former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Department of Justice will not raid medical marijuana dispensaries allowed under certain state laws.
President Obama had promised this during the campaign, but a recent raid — conducted before new officials were in place — led some to question whether that promise would be kept. On Wednesday, Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim reports, Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters that it would be.
That’s kind of like “Try our medicine! You will never get any better…”
You mean that Apple products – which almost only have comparing advertisements – are not any good?
I knew that Mac is not that good, but hearing it from you is a revelation
The ad is funny, Blackberries are not that bad, but yeah, I agree comparing advertisements are not really the way to go.
All software sucks. All of it. Just some of it sucks less than others, and if we’re lucky to the point where it actually becomes usable. Barely. That’s where Apple is…