Posts by Mage

Subscriptions

Fine for support and updates.

A total kick in the teeth if you just occasionally use something and don't need updates. The Subscription Adobe is MUCH more expensive.

Applying Pay TV model to Applications or OS other than Payroll or Accounts* is plain evil.

(*Someone expert has to put changes on tax etc).

Doomed

Partly anyone reselling O2 Ireland or O2 Uk is now stuffed due to Three buying both.

Even apart from Tesco's other woes this is no surprise.

subscription to the Vergence software

Oh dear.

So it might work for Sieko - Epson. If Vergence and others buy these and supply them subsidised.

Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Vergence, Google, Amazon may like a subscription model, but smaller companies and individuals don't!

caused by human error and inattention

Google would say that.

"Google pointed out that those figures might be off, since a huge number of minor crashes aren't reported to the authorities. "

Our Cloud loving possibly future Overlord would say that.

The cars are 100% programmed by humans. When the many flaws in the software appear it may be mildly annoying or spectacularly fatal.

Microsoft has invested

i.e. they helped fund the cables. Not their private network.

Do the markets have it about right?

Markets are what are? Surely they can't be "right" or "wrong".

Then there is pricing by vendors. Too high and they lose sales. But sometimes too low and they lose sales. Sometimes they need to price higher than Competition (Apple).

So how do you even compare prices of similar products.

Right for who? Investors, Speculators, Consumers, Tax gatherers, resource producers, factory owners (who don't sell to public).

I think if I could figure it I should make money, maybe get a Nobel when I expose all in biography and not waste time writing here.

just $200

Crazy expensive for a video door bell.

I bet it's rubbish security too, unlike a cheap one that plugs into your existing TV.

Obviously for people that ONLY use a smartphone and have too much money!

I think too the camera will be rapidly stolen.

Hmmm

At least he admits he is anti EU.

Actually is sticking with Sterling good?

1) Gives opportunity for parasites to make money speculating

2) Increases cost to consumer of Euro imports as importers hedge on currency

3) Affects exports to Euro areas, due to currency hedging

Also leaving EU would hurt Ireland. Not being in Euro hurts Ireland as so much Irish Imports from Euro countries are via UK and currency hedged twice! Ireland can do nothing about Manufacturers that continue to regard Ireland as part of UK market and will only appoint UK distributors for Ireland.

The Anti EU sentiment in UK has some small amount of logic, but in dealing with China, Russia and USA is it better to be alone (62Million approx) or part of EU (500M), and Europe Centric (720M ?)

Sometimes it seems like UK is the least European part of Europe and thinks it's in the Middle of the Atlantic.

Anti EU sentiment in UK I think is mostly Xenophobia and also encouraged by USA who didn't mind Common Market but see a better, bigger EU as a threat to their own financial and cultural influence.

The EU needs to be reformed. The larger EU countries want to do this, UK needs to work as a partner and not throw toys out of pram or sulk on their own. Even some non-EU European countries are more committed and engaged with EU than UK.

Conservatives need to show leadership, ignore UKIP and Murdoch media.

the ten-year warranty OR

Ten year life, MINIMUM?

A warranty says more about marketing policy than it does about product life.

What sort of batteries are still good after 10 years of daily cycling?

Emoji vs emoticon

I don't even know what most of them mean.

It seems that Emoji have roots in asian text where smile / happy is

^_^

and western emoticons based on sideways text, but image version rotated

:-)

Great analysis

Yes, The error of false authority, Schneier is undoubtedly a genius in many areas and the leading expert on Cryptography and a good exposer of fake security solutions and responses.

But that doesn't make him an expert at everything and certainly not on what to do about privacy. Cory Doctorow and Martha Lane Fox are blinkered ideologues and are far far worse than Schneier's worst ideas in this area.

radio spectrum, government should be charging users for its use

Not by auctions.

Only by the use of the users. It's such a limited resource it needs to have one infrastructure per mobile band. Multiple physical operators splits the spectrum leading to over 50% inefficiency.

We need many different Spectrum uses, not just mobile. Under recent schemes the Mobile operators are favoured.

Since start of 3G auctions this has been a massive failure.

The so called Digital Dividend is a massive disaster for Terrestrial Broadcast and consumer, for a once of treasury injection and slight lowering of Mobile Operator costs with little long term increase in capacity or coverage. The auction idea encourages Regulators to have almost no conditions imposed.

Cable, Internet, Mobile and Satellite can't replace Broadcast and many other specialist services that need spectrum.

Even various satellite services have been threatened by foolish highest bidder spectrum auctions and religion of Mobile (Light squared in USA).

The rest of the article is only brilliant. Give me a call Worstal and I'll explain why Spectrum is a special case and why you can only have retail competition on Mobile, but the infrastructure needs to be a single operation for large geographic areas.

USA says ...

Reform your own thieving Patent Office, your Spies feeding USA Corps etc.

Pot Kettle

Glasshouses stones

Etc.

3D? Hologram?

No. It's a 3D simulation using a pair of 2D images at fixed focal length, Stereoscopic.

Seriously misnamed and overhyped.

Prolonged use will cause bad headaches and eyestrain.

Hardly news in a way ...

USA Spies have been stealing European IP for USA Corporations since 19th Century.

The West German spies got too cosy with USA during Cold War.

If properly tested ... Banned.

And if CE mark properly policed none of the these spectrum hog Transmitters would be on the market.

The testing is a lie as they do not test correctly.

They are really transmitters. It's impossible to transfer at more than about 0.1Mbps on house mains wiring without out illegal transmission.

Notching Amateur bands is a sop! It proves they are illegal. The Broadcasters are entitled to the same protection.

likely to be obsolete within ten years ...

More like 10 months before production.

Certainly many unlikely to meet SOGA requirements.

But the Fans will buy a new one in 10 months to 20 months. To match their new iPhone.

Oh Please! This is worse than 3D TV

It's Stereoscopic overlays. It's not really 3D and not remotely ANYTHING to do with Holograms.

Real Holograms and actual 3D work with one eye and don't cause eye strain. This is an illusion (2D Stereoscopic), so for 15% or more it doesn't work. For most people there is the focusing distance conflict between real distances and the Stereo image which is in a single plane, a single distance. The 3D illusion caused by stereoscopic offsets thus cause eye strain as the eye fruitlessly focus to further or nearer but image is really at a single distance.

posed a threat to the European Union's economy.

That would be people being enticed to post on Facebook and expose their private stuff to make Facebook money, while often reducing productivity?

Imagine the boost to EU economy if Facebook didn't exist?