Hey chris ....
Well if the two US companies can't sell in the EU, how soon do you think it will take the far east competition to step into the breach?? where there's money theres a way!
Let me guess your american? ;)
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When Macs have a virus problem like windows then they will have a problem. But you will notice they dont! and considering the Uderlying UNIX system is run by most of the major financial organisations in the world , you would think the writers would target Unix vulns..
They dont target Macs with viruses becuase of the simply fact that unlike Windows is damned hard to propergate a Virus via UNIX systems , GET OVER IT PEOPLE!
Now social malware like this mac denfender relies on user stupidity and there is no software that can defend against that!
This is what happens when you let a bunch of lawayers run the country, and bunch of bankers ruin the economy and BAE steal the money from the cold dead hands of under equipped british soldiers !
or the love of god, how they hell a destroyer in the missle age does not have ship to ship missle systems escapes me, ffs they could even slap a quad box of exocets on the sucker like we did with the old county class!
Our country is turning into a bad joke :'(
The Xbox360 team is laughing their heads off!
Say what you want about microsoft, eveny they would be hard pushed to create this kind of cockup. When people are paying for your service and it is a major revenue generator , you actually put effort into building the system and making sure it is secure!
We now have the Bil Laden supporters giving the US grief for telling everyone he had porn in hide out, and how its not nice to sully the reputation of the poor wee man. Yeah because its Osama Bin Laden what he ever do ? LMAO
The comutards of El Reg hav reached new levels !
Well personally I've heard on the grape vine that it was a mix of child porn involing little boys, and repeated animiations of goatsee ;)
Nope, they pphysically changed the HTTP spec, I had to resort to using Netmon to actually look at what they had done. They swapped the HTTP OK http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.2.1, with the word 'OK' this caused IIS to split it into 2 separate messages and send that to the test apps.
Believe , there was many a night I wished it had of been a bug in my code, I would have found the SOB a damn sight faster than the 6 months it took to track it down. Who the F*ck goes and changes the HTTP for no reason , escapes me , which is why it took me so long to twig what the idiots had done. Due to time pressures we just changed are system to ignore the second message, but in the end I decided that like getting stabbed in the leg and treating it by wearing red trousers!, so decided to hunt it down! lol
I can say from the start it was doomed... the iSoft software in particular was a humougous piece of execrement, programmed out in india as they were cheap. When we asked for bugfixes, they would return the soffware with dialog clours improved but none of the bugs actually fixed!!!
One of the problems that I had to deal with, was the way it was sending messages, for some reason it would always send the same message twice oh so it seemed, which when dealing with a system that would be expected to send millions during the day , and all of them having to be stored in a database for audit, a bit of a problem. After 6 months of trying virtually everything to solve this, finally tracked it down to idiot devs , putting the word 'OK' instead of the equiverlent Http success message, and using that for doing thier debugging and leaving it in the network code for handling SOAP messages!!!! Of course our software was confused by the fact they had broken the HTTP standard at network level, and was interpreting it as two diffent messages being sent to it !!!
Outsoucing got to love it! :S
But the thing about war is then someone will think of a counter measure, be it better armour or , fast reacting lightweight, AI controlled AA that willl snuff out any helicopter that comes walzting in.
At the moment everyone in thew western military, is saying drones are the future and that all attacks will now be carried out either at medium level or by cruise misslies.
You can better your bottom dollar, right at this moment, people are working on systems to bring down drones, interfere with satelite control, or working on AA systems capable of tracking and taking down cruise missiles over a designated area.
Of course its easy to launch cruise missles against eniemies without a significant navy, but I will bet people are also working on long range , ship hunting misslies and costal diesal subs to again make people think carefully before coming in close to launch,
and then the other side will start work on how to counter that and so on.
Death tech , making a boring afternoon at work fun :D
You do know he posted it to wind up the tin foil hat brigaded dont you ?
As for this file,Unless the data is somehow transmitted back to apple, then they have to nick your phone to get where you have been anyway. I posit that anyone that intreated in you would have been following your ass anyway!!!
Paris becuase she can spot when The Reg is posting bollocks articles to get click responses FFS
Billions upon billions wasted for no good reason whatsoever, except to fund the retirement plans of MOD mandarins and Military personelle , but dont worry , pretty soon some munchkin will come along , spouting how his brother /sister/father-in-law benefits from having this a job in the UK
While british servicemen die on the front lines due to equipment shortages and the pride of the nation is once more rubbed in the dirt to fund the lifestyles of the arms industry !
I would fill the rest of this with swear words but quite frankly I just want a drink! :(
Of course this is wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_wars
But its Wii first by a mile every where , with the Xbox second and Ps3 bringing up the rear ;)
Worldwide sales figures
Wii – 84.64 million as of 31 December 2010[8]
Xbox 360 – 50 million as of 6 January 2011[30]
PlayStation 3 – 47.9 million as of 31 December 2010[31]
Japan sales figures
Wii – 11,450,000 as of 31 December 2010[8]
PlayStation 3 – 4,020,563 as of 17 May 2010[32]
Xbox 360 – 900,000 As of 20 February 2009[33]
Europe sales figures
NOTE: Figures include UK sales, which are listed below.
PlayStation 3 – 16 million as of 17 August 2010[34]
United Kingdom sales figures
Wii – 8.3 million as of 1 October 2010[35]
Xbox 360 – 3.9 million as of 13 January 2009[36]
PlayStation 3 - 3 million as of 25 January 2010[37]
United States sales figures
Wii – 30 million as of 10 August 2010[38]
Xbox 360 – 18.6 million as of 31 December 2009[39]
PlayStation 3 - nearly 12 million as of 14 April 2010[40]
It sold more, becuase its a better piece of technology simples!
as for the PS3 having sold more units, last time I checked thats true in Japan, but still behind in USA and last time I checked the European sales were still if it kept selling at such and such a rate, but was still behind.
Kinect is not aimed at fat boys sitting in thier mothers basements lol
Hey genius , ever tried hitting something from 1.5km with a machine gun ?? distance means increased probaility of missing, therefore anything that makes your enemy have to try and hit you from further away is good!
The reason you posted AC is that you are a moron, therefore leaving us unable to associate your future posts with stupidity automatically!
Paris, becuase even she is smarter than you!