23 May 2008
Windows XP bests OS X in RIA test on Intel

Read carefully: this isn't about XP vs OSX, it's about IE7 vs. Safari. Then take a look at the client list of the "independent" user experience guru and you'll understand what is meant by the marketing term "astroturf".

A benchmark test for rich internet application (RIA) frameworks claims Apple's OS X lags Microsoft's Windows XP on Intel when rendering HTML, being just over half as fast.

(link) [The Register]

18:55 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

Web creates America's new drug crisis

Let me see if I understand this. A guy gets a severe back injury, and his doctor won't give him anything for the pain, probably due to fear of the DEA. He then goes and orders the painkillers himself from an online pharmacy. He accidentally overdoses. And dies. And it's the online pharmacy's fault.

Right.

What a great excuse to expand the monopoly of brick and mortar pharmacy's, local doctors and drug companies. All the while fighting the good fight in the "War on Drugs".

It makes me sick.

Nancy Fitzpatrick tried to kill herself. A man died in a pool of vomit. Both had bottles of prescription drugs shipped to them without seeing a doctor. Fitzpatrick blames online pharmacies for being the new drug pushers. "They need to be stopped," she told CNN.

(link) [CNN.com]

06:24 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link