iPhad and iPhone eventually Niche?
A tablet that costs far more than an x86 laptop and has over 40% margin (less margin on iPhones, Apple average is greedy 38%)?
That's not sustainable as a mass market product.
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OFFICIAL: Fondling of Apple's slab declines – iPad sales DOWN in Q3
Pixel mania: Apple 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display
Friday 31st October 2014 13:47 GMT 
Re: Value for money?
Resale price is irrelevant.
I keep tech till it is beyond economic repair. My Jan 2000 laptop is controller now for a piece of test gear.
I'm not sure why there an authentic IBM AT (upgraded to VGA, Network and bigger HDD with 2 x full size AST memory expansion cards) and upgraded Amstrad PCW256 (2nd drive is DS 3.5" and RAM is 512K and has Clock/2xserial/1xParallel adaptor) in my attic. I did dump the 68000 based Mac with single 3.5" floppy drive. No-one wanted it even for free.
Friday 31st October 2014 13:39 GMT
The display
Where can I buy the screen (preferably in black), with VGA, DVI and HDMI connections.
Also should cost about 1/3rd of iMac price.
I don't need an iMac. I rarely edit video (Have ancient Adobe Première on Windows as well as various more modern Windows & Linux free tools) and Email + Web is much the same on anything.
Even a broken watch is right twice a day: Not an un-charged Apple Watch
Tuesday 28th October 2014 12:55 GMT 
Steve Jobs appeared able to do in his sleep
Really?
I don't think very many new successful product categories in Apple ever (Steve wasn't there for some)
In about 36 years ...
Apple II
Lisa (fail)
Mac
Newton (Not Steve's): Killed by Steve but had potential
Pippin (Failed game console)
iMac
laptop Mac
OSX based on NextStep/BSD replaced Mac OS
iPod
Wristable Ipod mini thing
iPad
iPhone
Various incremental developments of above are NOT really new products. So maybe on average one really new Apple product / category every four years. Did Steve sleep so infrequently?
Hungary PM ditches internet tax plans after mass protests
Google’s dot-com forget-me-not bomb: EU court still aiming at giant
Plasma-spaffing boffins plan spaceships driven by FRIKKIN' LASERS
Friday 31st October 2014 09:09 GMT
Re: Saw this on Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle's novel, Footfall
?? I don't remember that, but must be 25 years since I read it. I do remember (who could forget!) that Footfall used Project Orion style Nuclear bombs as a propulsion.
"The Mote in God's Eye" (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, 1974) has an awesome ground based laser speed a Light sail propelled craft. The 1990 approx sequel is good too.
FIFTEEN whole dollars on offer for cranky Pentium 4 buyers
DRUPAL-OPCALYPSE! Devs say best assume your CMS is owned
The NO-NAME vuln: wget mess patched without a fancy brand
Thursday 30th October 2014 09:32 GMT
Windows
Wget has a windows version too. I presume it's as vulnerable.
I also presume that on all versions Wget can only overwrite directories you have permission for.
Also on Windows as well as Linux if you bother to install:
X
Bash and other shells
Gimp
Libre Office
Thunderbird
Firefox
Wget
dd (raw byte copy direct to devices)
Putty
Filezilla
Mysql
Apache
... and many other programs / utilities
FCC boss Wheeler clears way for internet TV and cable unbundling
Wednesday 29th October 2014 19:39 GMT 
for the more popular networks to subsidize the less popular channels
No, it allows them to "compete" by claiming to offer more channels and to make more profit. E.g. justification of prices for Sky UK priciing and bundles.
In days of Analogue Access cards they only could do bundles. Now though the card can have any mix of channels, Satellite and Cable operators deliberately have bundles because it's more profitable.
Pay TV is stunningly bad value in UK and Ireland since over 96% of what Irish & UK Pay TV subscribers watch (based on time watching) is Free Channels. That's not even counting content that was Free To Air repeated on Animal Planet, Gold / Dave etc.
See BARB (UK) and Nielsen (Ireland Figures). USA is different.
Of course compared to 1980s there is far too much mediocre USA content in Europe and BBC/ITV/RTE too much soaps/RealityTV/Xfactor style etc garbage.
Multichannel is killing decent TV content. Too much fragmentation.
Also BBC & RTE too much enamoured with delivery, web content, digital (esp DAB), twitter etc rather than actually making content to broadcast and doing Journalism.
Traditional Broadcasters risk becoming irrelevant and wiped out by Netflix, iTunes, YouTube etc if they do not concentrate on producing quality content themselves and their own journalism. They can't compete in the future and have a reputation simply commissioning and buying it in.
China lunar mission readies for return to Earth
Tim Cook: The classic iPod HAD TO DIE, and this is WHY
Tuesday 28th October 2014 21:15 GMT 
Nonsense
They just didn't want to do it.
Plenty of 2.5" HDD available.
maybe though no OEM wanted the hassle of the stupid Apple formatting which means that such drives don't work in other things such as Notebooks, and 3rd party drives don't work in Apple's gadget.
The procurement and engineering needed is trivial. There is a decent market for a 500 Gbyte USB backup drive that works as an iPod.
Men who sleep with lots of women lessen risk of prostate cancer
Netflix and other OTT giants use 'net neutrality' rules to clobber EU rivals
Does the Googler tapped to run the US Patent Office still believe in patent reform?
Microsoft to bake Skype into IE, without plugins
Tuesday 28th October 2014 09:54 GMT
Re: Skype has stopped working
QQ is better features than Skype and works on every platform I think.
From the biggest ISP you never heard of!
Which is worse (potentially) the Chinese listening or NSA/Microsoft?
Unless you are in China / Hong Kong / Taiwan the question doesn't really need answered.
Microsoft has Windows Server running on ARM: report
Tuesday 28th October 2014 09:31 GMT
Alpha, 64 bit Alpha, PPC, MIPS and Itanium
Yes we were here before. I think in 1992/1993 there was some other cpu type that the original development was happening on. The 64 bit XP Itanium Workstation version was quietly dropped possibly even before Vista was released. The other versions died with NT3.5x / NT 4.0
However potentially there are more native applications likely for ARM than Alpha, 64 bit Alpha, PPC, MIPS and Itanium, especially for server. I did after all have MySQL, Apache and X running on Windows before I ditched our last Windows server.
Samsung turns off lights on LEDs worldwide – except in South Korea
Monday 27th October 2014 17:51 GMT
much better light quality?
Unless the CFL is garbage, CFL is HUGELY better colour rendition. LED source is simply too long a wavelength to have the decent mix of phosphors.
Colour Temperature is NOT Colour Rendition/Quality.
Also more efficient CFLs have poorer colour than other CFLs, but all kinds are better spectrum that any LED.
Light diffusion is still an LED issue.
UNCHAINING DEMONS which might DESTROY HUMANITY: Musk on AI
Monday 27th October 2014 11:45 GMT 
I'm not worried
We don't even know what intelligence is.
The Computer AI people only make progress because like Humpty Dumpty in "Through the Looking glass" they have redefined it.
If it was possible to write a real AI program and the only issue was lack of computer power we would have a slow AI already.
I'm sceptical that a true AI program can be developed.
There are many other scenarios in the world that seem much more of a risk!
FATTIES: Boffins say their miracle sunshine skin cream 'prevents obesity'
Pssst. Want to buy a timeshare in the clouds?
Monday 27th October 2014 08:43 GMT
Cloudy depression
Also we have website builders happy to have your browser run code from a Google server instead of putting that open source code on their own site. Google then gets all the Browser info of everyone visiting that site.
Twitter & Facebook buttons that instead of a link are javascript loaded from Twitter and Facebook allowing them to track who is accessing your site even if you don't click the button.
Now I have many domains blocked and only enable them temporarily when explicitly using them (i.e. posting stuff or looking at stuff with various fake identities on Facebook/Twitter/Google etc).
I don't look forward to an Internet which is simply a portal to a bunch of US Megacorps.
BAE points electromagnetic projectile at US Army
Knocking Knox: Samsung DENIES vuln claims, says mysterious blogger is a JOKER
Ubuntu 14.10 tries pulling a Steve Ballmer on cloudy offerings
SKYPE has the HOTS for my NAKED WIFE
Microsoft discovers long-lost phone division down back of sofa
FTDI yanks chip-bricking driver from Windows Update, vows to fight on
Friday 24th October 2014 21:55 GMT
do so in a non-invasive way
At least FTDI responded quickly and changed their mind on the extreme solution. Good.
I wonder what they will try next?
I have sympathy for FTDI's problem, just not the solution of setting USB ID to zero. The consumer can't tell
a) exactly what they are buying
b) what happened,
In general, in the EU, the CE mark scheme is buggered.
Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface: Anatomy of a disaster
Friday 24th October 2014 17:58 GMT
Re: "the UI is too deeply embedded in the OS"
Though having a different shell last worked reliably on NT3.51 and NT4.0 (3.51 did have Explorer Preview and running Filemanager possible on NT 4.0 and /or Program manager instead of Explorer Shell)
It would be truer to say that on NT4.0 they stupidly made some stuff needed by GUI move into Kernel and on Vista and later they messed up the conventional GDI / WinAPI to make the newer GUI components work faster and put a performance penalty on the old way of doing Windows via API.
Friday 24th October 2014 15:09 GMT
Microsoft now embraces an “any device”
No they don't
it's the same crap they ever had. They did Excel and Word for Mac before Windows!
Once upon a time they tried to Make Server, NT Workstation, Win On Dos (Win 3.1, Win9x ME), Win CE, etc be all the same as desktop (either Program Manager or Explorer).
They are still doing this nonsense, Servers, Workstations, Phones, TVs, Media Centres, Game Consoles etc might in many cases have related Kernels. (Though sensibly CE wasn't, stupidly a Phone is supposed to migrate to same Kernel as Server/Workstation). But One App for all and common branding and common GUI is stupidity and arrogance.
Adobe spies on readers: EVERY DRM page turn leaked to base over SSL
Friday 24th October 2014 09:22 GMT
Re:Railo vs ColdFusion
Railo fixes some bugs in ColdFusion and seems to do all that older versions do. It seems to me a better product. It's not trivial to migrate a very large existing site using CF and Oracle to Railo and MySQL or MariaDB. But possible. If starting a new project, using Railo & MariaDB is probably some advantages over various PHP frameworks if you have a lot of Coldfusion experience.
Thursday 23rd October 2014 23:58 GMT
Re: How does Adobe stay in business?
There is an alternate to Coldfusion
No-one needs Dreamweaver, sorry. That's like claiming you need MS Publisher to produce a Magasine.
Flash is Action Script and/or Video. There are alternate ways to do both.
Very few people need photoshop or Illustrator. Some people that use those seriously would not be happy with the alternates.
Most people using Adobe products don't need them. Also they are making it that you can't even buy, but only rent. Stuff that!
Would you blow $5.6m to own a dot-word? Meet a bloke who did just that
Friday 24th October 2014 09:17 GMT
Re: Weird Reality
An Estate Agent in USA is a Realtor. In Ireland an Auctioneer, possibly because in 19th C. an "Estate Agent" was a rent collector for Absentee Landlords.
.Reality is for reselling to USA Estate Agents
Yes, I agree it's daft, I have no idea why USA Estate Agents are Realtors
see www.realtor.com
Zuckerberg bombshell: Man married to Chinese woman speaks Chinese in China
The future health of the internet comes down to ONE simple question…
Thursday 23rd October 2014 10:55 GMT
ITU
Absolutely they should have 1/2 as much or less staff and just be part of ITU.
Much as ITU has flaws it works better than ICANN and is ultimately answerable to its members.
Formed 17 May 1865
Survived a gazzillion wars and technological changes. WWI, WWII, League of Nations and UN. Agrees usage of every aspect of Communications (including most international physical layers) except the actual stuff ICANN mis-controls. IP4 was handed out very unfairly. Loads of US Universities, US Corps and US state agencies still with more IPs than many countries, that they don't even need.
What ever crazyness ITU might do, it won't be as bad as ICANN record on charges, TLD, DNS and IP.
How to hit the top of Google's rankings: 'Use a new dot-thing gTLD'
Thursday 23rd October 2014 09:00 GMT
Cost
These domains are more expensive than decent hosting.
Money for a database entry.
Paid every year for ever.
Having a decent domain name is turning into something only big corporations own. Eventually 50 or so big companies will completely control the internet and host all it's content. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, eBay etc.
The bike shop will have to rent space in someone else's cyber mall. It will be no place for the small guy.
Maybe the IBM guy wasn't totally wrong... Just call Google's system a single distributed parallel processing Computer.
Chipmaker FTDI bricking counterfeit kit
Thursday 23rd October 2014 08:09 GMT
So Wrong
What if the device ISN'T a fake, but the FTDI programmers make a mistake? (Cue FTDI getting sued)
Are they ONLY looking at USB ID? What if it starts disabling real FTDI IDs due to a bug?
This is arrogant unacceptable behaviour. At the most their driver should simply not operate non-FTDI hardware. It's immoral of them to change the ID.
If they have a problem with vendors allegedly doing fakes they need to
a) Prove the copies are illegal. Not all kinds of functional copies are illegal
b) Use due process of law.
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