Patrick Havens on May 6th, 2008

I’ve been asked before what this DRM thing is, or why they can’t listen to their music anymore. Well Mark gets asked to explain it to his dad and linked is the letter… To give you an idea on how well written this was, read this one paragraph that may just answer your question [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 31st, 2008

FYI - Not everything Microsoft says is the truth…
Why don’t you click the link in the sidebar and get infected…

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Patrick Havens on June 22nd, 2007

“Your next computer will be a big ass table.”
[via Second Verse]
I want an iphone, and the Microsoft Surface does look interesting, but this video does make some valid points.

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Patrick Havens on May 31st, 2007

Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has sent me one of the best gifts I have ever received! It is called “Surface.” It is a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch.In addition to thumbing through thousands of my favorite family photos, I can listen to my music collection watch videos, etc. My children have also had [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 18th, 2007

OK… I’ve had a strange bug pop on occasionally for the last couple weeks, in which people surfing the site in Internet Explorer get the error “Operation Aborted” when surfing the main page. You don’t get it just reading any of the articles.
So does anyone out there have a clue? Firefox doesn’t see [...]

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Ok, Apple is backing away from DRM. The public is starting to clamor more against DRM. And here we have a company going, no one wants to use us, so we’re going to sue those companies that spurned us and force them to pay us royalties.

Media Rights Technologies (MRT), developers of technology that [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 5th, 2007

Chizen (Adobe CEO) was at San Jose State University in front of the engineering school, and discussed the challenges of the competitive software market.
…Chizen was straightforward in his assessment of Microsoft as a bullying tech power – a perspective that’s not surprising given Redmond’s latest moves challenging Adobe’s strongholds in PDF, Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash/Flex. [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 24th, 2007

Czech painter Jeremiah Palecek has created these Vista error message stickers (”Error: The Operation Completed Successfully”) that are the right size to stick over the Vista screens in bus-shelter ads and the like. Link
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After fighting Vista for the last couple weeks, I’ve come to really appreciate this artists [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 7th, 2007

I hadn’t been feeling well for the last few days… even spent a few hours in the emergency room Tuesday, So I decided to take it easy on making any posts.   But in some wandering around I came across this post about a guy who wanted to show that evolutionary is all in the [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 26th, 2007

Unless you’ve recently emerged from a coma, you know the consumer versions of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system ship Tuesday. Over the next few weeks, NBA star LeBron James will try to convince you to move to Windows Vista as part of Microsoft’s massive ad campaign.This column is not a review of Windows Vista. I’m [...]

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