MacUser points to ShutDownDay.org, which asks if you can go 24 hours without your computer.
A: No. I’ve been needing to send my MacBook Pro in to have some work done on the network card for 6 months now. I haven’t sent it in because I need it. Every day. Not only that, but [...]
Their crime wasn’t in committing the act, but rather in photographing it. And the funny part is that these laws were put in place to protect children, not prosecute them. Well, not “haha” funny.
Wil Shipley tears into Ballmer’s recent comments regarding Vista and piracy.
Damn, that’s a fine idea, Steve! Those freaking Chinese are sitting on piles of gold! They pirate your software because they are a greedy, greedy people, not because Windows Vista Basic costs $295 in China and laborers rake in about $160 a month. Read the whole [...]
Grant Robertson nails it:
DRM is a lot like hiring Barney Fife to guard your record store. He irritates the paying customers while the shoplifters just laugh behind his back and walk away with the merchandise. How much longer can the Fife-like DRM hang on to a job it does so poorly? (Via Daring Fireball.)
Michael Tsai details his problems getting the hard drive replaced in his MacBook Pro. There really is no excuse for this level of service, particularly when it entails shipping the laptop back and forth to the company. I’ve come to expect poor service from Dell. It’s Dell’s new standard. But not [...]