Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops; Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%

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Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation?   |  Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping?     Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops  Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation?  Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%  Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping?  Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted"  Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade  Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer?  Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming  The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs  Multi-Server Microkernel OS Genode 12.11 Can Build Itself  Nintendo Power's Final Cover  "Self-Healing" NAND Flash Memory That Can Survive Over 100 Million Cycles  A Tale of Two Companies  Interview With Icculus on GNU/Linux Gaming  PengPod Hits Funding Goal, Plans to Ship Linux Tablet In January     Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops  From the too-soon? department theodp writes "Don't believe everything Steve Jobs and Tim Cook tell you, advises The Verge's Sean Hollister. Gunshy of touchscreen laptops after hearing the two Apple CEOs dismiss the technology (Jobs: 'Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical.'...   Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation?  From the illegal-in-michigan department theodp writes "Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has launched a website and gone social on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to educate taxpayers on why they must make good on pension promises to state workers. And, in addition to Squeezy the Pension...   Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%  From the meaningless-stats-to-ponder department An anonymous reader writes "Just three months ago, we reported how Windows 7 had finally overtaken Windows XP in terms of market share. Now it's time to see how long it takes Windows 8 to succeed its predecessors. Between October to November,...   Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping?  From the god-save-the-cd department I recently retired my ancient AthlonMP rig for something a bit more modern, and in the upgrade got a new DVD±RW drive. Since I have the new rig and a lot more disk space, the time has come to re-rip my ~450 disc CD collection into FLAC (I...   Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted"  From the war-and-disorder department dryriver writes "Russia Today's correspondents have visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Assange has been holed up for nearly 6 months now. In the 12 minute long interview with RT, Assange has many interesting things...   Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade  From the not-fixed-enough-for-me department Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Washington Post reports that Apple has finally unveiled their new version of iTunes, overhauling its look and feel and integrating it more closely with the company's iCloud Internet- storage service with one of the...   Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer?  From the whole-greater-than-parts department An anonymous reader writes "Joshua Simmons authored an article for the N.Y.U. Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. The article is a comparison of the developments in copyright law and patent law in the nineteenth century that...   Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming  From the compatibility-matters department sfcrazy writes "Martin Gräßlin, a lead KDE developer, addresses some queries around a topic bugging Gnome and Unity users — the fallback mode. In this post he says that 'having the non-composited mode around allows us to do things...   The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs  From the culture-police department hypnosec writes "The Pirate Bay's artist promotion platform (the Promo Bay), despite being perfectly legal, is being blocked by several UK Internet service providers including BT, and Virgin Media. The Promo Bay was launched this week as a...   Multi-Server Microkernel OS Genode 12.11 Can Build Itself  From the and-they-say-microkernels-won't-work department An anonymous reader wrote in with a story on OS News about the latest release of the Genode Microkernel OS Framework. Brought to you by the research labs at TU Dresden, Genode is based on the L4 microkernel and aims to provide a framework for...   Nintendo Power's Final Cover  From the centerfold-is-a-doozy department skade88 writes "Ars Technica has a review of the last-ever issue of Nintendo Power. It's bittersweet seeing a part of my childhood ending." Being in print for 25 years means it's got most single-platform computer magazines beat.   "Self-Healing" NAND Flash Memory That Can Survive Over 100 Million Cycles  From the forged-in-the-fires-of-mount-nand department another random user writes with an interesting use of 800C heating elements to keep flash working longer. It's long been known that heating NAND to temperatures around 250C can restore life, but doing so was practically impossible. From the...   A Tale of Two Companies  From the dying-breed department Rick Zeman writes "They've had the best of times, and now they're living through the worst of times. The Washington Post talks about the dissolution of both Kodak's and Polaroid's business models, what Kodak can learn from Polaroid's earlier...   Interview With Icculus on GNU/Linux Gaming  From the ioquake3-between-stories department Via Phoronix comes a link to an interview with prolific GNU/Linux game porter Icculus about the state of gaming on GNU/Linux. Topics include Steam, Windows 8, his experiences trying to push FatELF vs full screen games, and the general state of the...   PengPod Hits Funding Goal, Plans to Ship Linux Tablet In January  From the tablet-for-the-gnu-slash-rest-of-us department An anonymous reader writes "Quoting liliputing: 'PengPod plans to start shipping 7 and 10 inch tablets with support for Linux as well as Google Android in January. The company, founded by Neal Peacock, has been raising money to help support...

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