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The Galaxy Note confirms it: people want larger screens(osnews.com)
2 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|1 comments
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Thanks to the ZenBook, I'm no longer recommending MacBooks(osnews.com)
11 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|7 comments
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
[author of the OSN article here] Which is exactly why I always link to the source. Always check the source material, whether you agree with an article or not. Most people on HN (and OSNews) do so, luckily.
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Windows 8's desktop mode: Microsoft's version of Mac OS X's 'Classic'(osnews.com)
1 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|0 comments
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TV is even more broken in The Netherlands(osnews.com)
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
He is being paid by Microsoft. He wrote a Microsoft-sponsored report on FRAND patents... Quite coincidentally the very focus of the current strategy by Apple-Microsoft. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/10/study-on-worldwide-u...
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
...and continue onwards with GO Launcher vs. Launcher Pro vs. Zeam vs. ...
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
The complete and utter inability to come up with a consistent, modern, human-readable, non-arbitrary directory structure comes to mind. People are so blinded by the arbitrarily "designed" [1] FHS they refuse to even entertain the idea that
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
While your assertion may very well be true, the link you provided is not, in any way, any kind of proof. There's nothing in there - at all - to support your claim that "app store piracy is a huge problem". Do we have any actual figures to s
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European independent Apple resellers on verge of Bankruptcy(osnews.com)
1 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|0 comments
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No, Mac OS X wasn't ported to ARM by an intern(osnews.com)
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Microsoft Removes Start Menu, Button from Windows 8(osnews.com)
6 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|4 comments
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
And ironically enough, the court-ordered block of The Pirate Bay just went into effect in The Netherlands as well (For Ziggo, at least; XS4ALL follows tomorrow).
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Dutch Court Obliterates Apple's Appeal, Galaxy Tab 10.1 Not Banned(osnews.com)
2 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|0 comments
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Apple's Education Event: On the Road to Vendor Lock-in(osnews.com)
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
We at http://www.osnews.com used it as well (we're back up after 24hrs in UTC time). You can still view our version at http://www.osnews.com/?sopa=1 (for posterity). Great work by Zachary Johnson.
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On the Virtues of Comments on Websites(osnews.com)
1 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|0 comments
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Mandriva Faces Bankruptcy - Again(osnews.com)
1 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft To Acquire Nokia's Smartphone Division?(osnews.com)
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Richard Stallman Was Right All Along(osnews.com)
731 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|226 comments
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
[author here] Nope. It doesn't mean "reaches the most people". It means "has the most impact on the world". I think that Android will be the technology that allows people in poorer places of the world to have the internet - and thus, knowle
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What Makes Android Revolutionary(osnews.com)
246 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|146 comments
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Review: Android(osnews.com)
2 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|0 comments
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
[author of the article here] You're right, and I thought about including it in the article. However, I decided not to include it as to not cloud the waters, for two reasons: 1) Oracle v Google is a US case, and this opinion only covers the
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EU: Copyright Doesn't Cover Functionality, Programming Language(osnews.com)
141 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|14 comments
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
The Zenbooks ARE unibody aluminium.
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
The internals of the MacBook Air were designed by Intel, not by Apple. The same goes for the internals of the current ultrabooks. It's basically a reference design.
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
I don't think you've been reading my posts long enough, then. Every review I've ever written on an Apple product has been positive. Each and every one of them. On top of that, OSNews barely does any reviews - only a few every year. In other
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by thomholwerda 15y ago
It's actually a much older term than that. http://www.osnews.com/story/24882/The_History_of_App_and_the... [disclaimer: I'm the author of both the parent article as well as the article linked to in this comment]
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The Community Design: ...and you Thought the USPTO Was Bad(osnews.com)
8 points by thomholwerda 15y ago|1 comments

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