Filed under: Desktops
Just when Apple has started to make some friends at
Greenpeace, it looks like another one of its fine products might be a wee bit
toxic. According to the French newspaper Liberation, that mysterious stench emanating from your
Mac Pro contains benzene — which can irritate the eyes, skin and respiratory tract. Instead of being a mere inconvenience, that smell could be a cloud of poison gas that threatens to dizzy up, nauseate and migraine-ify you and everyone you care for.
Apple has yet to issue a statement on any of this, but until it’s all straightened out, those of you with the stinky Macs might want to seriously consider wearing a hazmat suit when checking your email.
[Via the Guardian]
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October 1 2008 by
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Filed under: Home Entertainment
We knew Hollywood wouldn’t let RealNetworks sell its RealDVD DVD-ripping-and-archiving software without a fight, and right on schedule, six major studios have filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent it from being sold. Of course, RealNetworks has been planning on hiding behind that Kaleidescape ruling all along, but straight CSS circumvention isn’t really what’s at the heart of the suit: according to the studio’s request for a restraining order, consumers won’t be able to contain themselves in the face of RealDVD’s voodoo magic and will start ripping rental DVDs en masse — seriously, the suit calls the incentive to do so “all but overwhelming.” Here’s a hint, guys: if you believe the temptation to do something is that strong, it probably means you can get people to pay to do it — and you should probably be working out a business model that embraces consumers instead of funding new BMWs for your lawyers while actual piracy tears down the fragile house of cards your entire industry is built on. Or you know, whatever.
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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Networking
While a good chunk of this month’s
Professional Developers Conference will be focused on
Windows 7, it looks like Microsoft has another little surprise up its sleeve, with CEO Steve Ballmer himself dropping word that the company also plans to introduce its new, tentatively-titled “Windows Cloud” OS at the conference. Of course, Ballmer isn’t about to get very specific about the OS just yet, though he does seem to be dampening expectations a bit by saying, “just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteristics and new features, so will Windows Cloud look a lot like Windows Server.” He also apparently confirmed that geo-replication and other features “designed for the cloud” would be built into the OS, and he confirmed the existence of
Midori, but said it was still in the incubation phase, adding that, “the guy in the office next door to somebody working on Midori is not supposed to know about Midori.” We assume that also means that Windows Cloud is not Midori, but we’ll know for sure once PDC gets underway on October 27th.
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