Archive for March, 2007

Switch To Something Other than IE

Devthought – Guillermo Rauch’s Blog » IE7 still creating problems for developers? 5 Reasons to switch from IE to something else: Its Horrible confusing and counter-intuitive (in versions 5 – 7) Its unSafe See Here It causes headaches on a monumental scale, I only play with web design its not a serious job and it [...]

Its Official the RIAA is the Worst Company in America

The RIAA won The Consumerist’s “Worst Company In America 2007″ reader poll.We predicted an RIAA landlslide, but they only managed a 53.8% majority over Halliburton’s 46.2% RIAA Wins Worst Company In America 2007 – Consumerist No Surprises here folks, apart from the fact the RIAA will never acknowledge they are the least liked company in [...]

Piracy: The Loss of Objectivity and Intelligence

“Unfortunately, many schools have turned a blind eye to piracy,” Berman said. “I don’t doubt that there are legitimate issues that universities must grapple with, including privacy and cost concerns. However, when a university such as Purdue tells the AP that it rarely even notifies students accused by the RIAA because it is too much [...]

Less DRM is Good…

Whether you believe that it was an elaborate publicity stunt or actually Steve Jobs own hand that wrote the “Thoughts on Music” there is one important feature that we all need to take action upon. The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in [...]

Microsoft Does it again…

A Vista ad i saw at Microcenter, I just thought it was kind of funny that they decided to use a mac in the ad. read more | digg story Its obviously a stock image but you would think Microsoft with a marketing budget that could dwarf Dells would spend a little money in getting [...]