Posts by Tony Paulazzo 1099 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2008
> it’s an interpretation of intellectual property rights that would also be unwelcome in Hollywood.<
Incorrect as Hollywood are the de facto government in America (and attempting global seizure), and I believe their motto is 'Do as we say, not as we do.'
They can afford to do this as they've been operating at a loss for the last 100 years or so (cf. Hollywood accounting).
This may be the ramblings of a delusional Mind.
http://churchofcriticalthinking.org/
I don't think revolution means what you think it means.
Sky can't even offer us true HD now, it's only 1080i (not sure about Virgin), But I'm not sure how they are going to offer us 4K content within the next ten years without some serious spending on infrastructure, which they don't do anymore.
TV sure does look nice tho', I reckon they'll make great pretend windows when we're living on Mars.
>one of my greatest pleasures<
will be collecting $4.05 billion
> the Star Wars films have collected over $4.4bn in global box office...
...due to the oddities of Hollywood, some of the films have never actually made a profit.<
Or as we plebs know it, legally screwing the system and getting away with it even tho' it's common knowledge, making it obvious Hollywood are more powerful than tax collectors, politicians and fully in control of the Matrix.
>Siri - Forstall's brainchild - is ambitious but has failed to fully deliver.<
In fact, since ios6 its dictation capabilities have intermittently stopped working on my ipad3 (it'll work a few times then the three dots just keep flashing and the keyboard clicks disappear for a few minutes - this is after a reset and clean reinstall), whereas before in ios5. it worked perfectly, there are a few threads scattered here and there about it. No response from Apple, it affects too few users.
However, there is now a hacked version of 'Google Now' working on Cyanogenmod for offline dictation on my rooted android phone which, luckily, 'just works' really well.
Good dictation on tablets is the future, it's better than virtual keypads.
>China’s censors have blocked the New York Times website after the paper ran a story alleging relatives of outgoing prime minister Wen Jiabao amassed a $2.7bn fortune.
They deny the allegations.
discussion of Wen on social networks is being curtailed by the nation's microblogging platforms, thanks to censorship of certain keywords.<
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear my shiny metal ass.
No Outlook - no thanks
£80 for a keyboard (quality unknown), £19 for a colour - koolaid paradise
Who wants MS Word & Excel (and maybe MS Onenote) that overpriced desperately?
And of course, this means the x86 versions are gonna come in at over a thousand sterling. This pisses me off mightily as I would have wanted one.
Asus Transformer is looking better...
So, they've publicaly shat on Google, Samsung and all Android phone makers, and now they've publicaly shit on Microsoft by muting their thunder on the 26th. Don't Apple worry about being ostracised from the business community? Doesn't really matter how much cash you're sitting on if you're the toxic poison surrounded by companies no longer willing to do business with you.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Plus the fact that if they release an ipad mini they're pretty much going against what St Jobs publicaly quoted about the iPad size being perfect. Way to test the faithful.
Does this mean that in the new hotmail app you can delete more than one email at a time? Fucking incredibly useful app that one, worth every penny, as was the ten second delay between touching / clicking an app and it displaying ... well, anything, especially funny on the pictures app.
Oh, and give me a Start Button! I want it, the customer is always right.
>most have been tight-lipped about pricing<
Heh, now we know why.
>Windows tablets will be hot sellers because you can run Microsoft Office on them<
So no worries from the anti competition agencies then? Also the RT versions don't include Outlook so might as well use QuickOffice (that Google just bought), works across ios and android, keeps formatting, opens and saves as Office 2003 thru' 2010, I use it on a daily basis on my iPad.
As for the full windows tabs I think people were expecting about $1000, but on Intel i7 chips, not Atoms, I know nothing about Atoms, will they run Photoshop CS6 fast?Civ5? If not, then pointless - I do recall Archos releasing a Windows tab a few years ago running Atom, it could barely run Windows Starter, and yea, I'm sure they're better now, but Intel i7 better?
come to mind, the honest customers of Kim Dotcom (of which there were, supposedly, a few), solar flares and electrical disruptions, American & Chinese government backdoor policies on their citizens cloudy information and the still very basic ISP internet infrastructure regularly falling over across the globe with ridiculously upload and download limits in America and the UK (don't know about Australian 'net usage).
Fools gold? It's still bright and shiny but I'll trust to my own offline backups solution.
Will I use it? Yes: Do I trust it? No!
>In truth, even most anti-intellectual-property agitators who get very angry about copyright acknowledge the quite staggering creativity and innovation that is unleashed by the patent system.<
You mean 'in spite of'. /sarcasm
>So, seriously: the system needs to be fixed. Where do we start?<
Fine the patent office if anything gets approved that isn't non obvious or already patented, for eg, slide to unlock (like a bolted gate ). Twice what the patentee paid seems fair.
>But in the biggest court case against Sammy... in the US.<
Yes but everythings bigger in the US, Hollywoods sense of entitlement, illegal wars (or why prohibition doesn't work), its people (the ones not on TV), the myopic view that the USA = The World, etc etc etc...
Oh, and I'm not saying Samsung didn't copy Apple (they did), just as Apple copied others. It's just not a big deal.
>Genuine question - what are people not liking about the Windows 8 start "screen"?<
It looks like crap and Microsoft are no longer allowing customers to change it easily. Maybe.
I personally don't like 'The Boxes UI', I prefer shading and faux 3D and start buttons.
If I didn't want choice I'd buy an Apple... Oops.
>Criminals exist for a multitude of reasons but I believe that unemployement and unfair wealth distribution are major factors concerning their existance.<
You sir, (or Ms), will report to room 101 for readjustment. Also, the wolves are there to create compliance among the sheep (unless you believe the Guardian - it was an insurance scam by the three little pigs).
>given the paranoia that exists around Chinese firms, especially in the US<
I'd personally trust the Chinese cloud more... not such good extradition possibilities if you leave a note saying something like 'Fuck the Chinese authorities' compared to the stupid FBI or CIA twats finding a note that says 'Fuck the American intelligence agencies' demanding your presence in a kangaroo - sorry, American court.
>anyone who believes their government is better in this regard than the US or Chinese is fooling themselves.<
As a British citizen I would be more than happy to use a British cloud service, for tho' our government is as corrupt and wanting to spy on their own citizens, as the others, I still kind'a trust them more.
'Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.' Ford Prefect.
Cinema goes 3D, Microsoft goes 2D
Augmented Reality adds information rich overlays on our 3D world, Microsoft goes flat
Subtle light and shading on realtime mapping, Microsoft goes primary... er, colours
Way to buck the trends Microsoft
And I'm not a MS hating anything - running Win8 now, with a ClassicShell plugin 'cause ModernUI sucks donkey balls, but I've been a windows advocate from version 3.1. I just haven't buried my head in the sand, nor do I think it's any kind of a good design... Tablets and PCs are different! Viva la difference!
what is the general consensus on Office 2013, yay or nay, better that Office 2010, too much cloud, awful or better GUI (MUI?)?
Surface RT will either sell or it won't - it's basically a brand new system and will be competing with iPads & Android, same kind of eco system (dependant on an apps store), and there is no built-in loyalty to ModernUI (it might say Windows on the box, but the picture next to it will not agree with that statement).
The Intel surface (other manufacturer versions) will succeed, you can take that to the bank - it's full fat Windows that will run Photoshop and all those other programs (not sissy apps) you have backed up.
>Con's - when using the desktop I'm used to pressing the windows key, type in a few letters and run the program of my choice, it's going to take some time to remember that the windows key just takes me back to the NewUI start page!<
Actually that still works, press the windows key, start typing and it auto searches (that's why the L is there when you press it).
>The problem is, every time they bring out a a new OS, they don't fix stuff that was wrong or missing in the previous versions, they just put a new front end on and say it's faster.<
Some of it is even funnier. Try uploading a folder to skydrive using the Metro New UI, you can't, it's file by file (same with deleting ModernUI emails, no selecting more than one at a time, whether you have a mouse/keyboard or not - in fact many of the MetroModernUI apps seem crippled (maybe you can buy fuller featured versions in the app store?).
Oh, and I've been using Win8 since it was called Metro, will upgrade but still think the StartScreenModernUI sucks donkey balls - and I've got a touch screen laptop. (it's actually an HP Touchsmart so the screen isn't flat against the edge and flicking your finger from either edges doesn't always register, sometimes windows thinks I'm trying to click one of the icons on the left hand side of the desktop).
>It is therefore extremely important that organisations take the threat posed by cyber-criminals seriously. <
Haven't the American 'Security Theatre professionals' CIA, FBI, Homeland Security et al been pushing for more draconian laws to deal with just this threat recently?
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
― Philip K. Dick
Whilst I love the idea of picking one of these up for £156 ish, there are a couple of stumbling blocks, Ballmer himself said they might only sell a few million of these due to their restricted market place, what is it, online and a couple of retail presences in America? So they come out with a $200 tab, every other manufacturer tries to sell theirs at $450. No one would buy one, even if they couldn't get hold of a MS one - and I just can't see MS subsidising all their OEM friends (cause Acer would have kept their mouth shut).
The Xbox was different because they were the only manufacturer.
The cheapest version of (legal) MS Office 2010 I could find (like really quickly) was £84.99, and Windows 7 at £109.95 (and yea, I know you can get an upgrade cost for Win8 that looks good), but that's your $200 in software alone. Short of MS giving away that magic metal slab fondler for free... Oh, and one last thing, if they had a $200 price point wouldn't they be shouting it from the rooftops this particular brushfire rumour seems to have come from an 'unknown source' who's probably laughing his arse off now.
"I want to make it clear to all the conspiracy theorists out there that we have nothing to do with the United States Government or Trapwire," DietPepsi wrote
Riiight... thanks for clarifying that to the rest of the world dear non government operative.
As for Julian Assange... I think he might've been better (ie safer) staying in the public eye and going to Sweden. It's just as easy to send a crack CIA assasination guy to Ecuador - and probably a lot less cameras.
>The outspoken Dotcom even went as far as to suggest that the impending launch of Megabox, with the potential threat it represents to the recording industry, was the real reason behind the US government's legal campaign against his companies.<
I believe it, and it's seriously gonna piss off his enemies if he pulls it off.
"Everyone can see what's going on. Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world."
True dat!
If HBO sold memberships globally to stream their content I'd sign up in a heartbeat. Likewise BBC could sell membership worldwide (no UK IP address - no problem). Do more to curb piracy than...
>Michael O'Leary, senior executive VP for global policy and external affairs at the MPAA, wrote, "We will be watching this development closely – the devil is always in the details – and look forward to Google taking further steps to ensure that its services favor legitimate businesses and creators, not thieves."<
ranting and raving about devils and thieves...
Welcome to the global village Hollywood, try the water, it's fine.
Call it what you want, if you have a second screen (as I do), you can extend it (to the right only), duplicate the main screen and use it as the only screen, but you can no longer make it the primary screen...
So, useless for games (assuming screen1 to be a laptop), unless there's a non obvious way of doing it.
PS been using it for months and I still think the start screen is an abomination of UI design, luckily there's a 'ClassicShellSetup' downloadable to give me a start button back.
Obviously, would prefer the option from MS at install.
>something of an about-face<
You mean when they finally got a surface RT tablet properly up and running, Office '13 killed it dead and somebody shouted 'damage control!'
I think less people would be pissing themselves laughing if Microsoft had just said right from the beginning that surface RT would be coming with a 'special' version of their popular office suite, especially as it's being bundled with the machine, an unusual step for Microsoft.
Mind you, with a price point still to be confirmed...
>under OA 3.0, manufacturers will be required to write a unique Windows product key into the BIOS of each new PC<
Cool, a whole new army of incurable botnets running illegal win8 (I'm willing to bet there's more illegal copies of windows globally than legal), when they upgrade to an infected copy of windows 8 all the machines will rise up and destroy the internets and humanity.
Cheers Microsoft.
Google Fibre - pay $300 American dollars and free broadband. They're rolling it out in some middle of nowhere, America - 5 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload speeds. Perhaps we should write a nice letter to them and ask them to sort out the UK (it's a lot smaller than America, probably do it in a couple of months). I would totally pay £300 English sterling for that deal.
The Hobbit would have made a nice 3 hour film (King Kong was overstretched at 3 hours 7 minutes), with a beginning, middle and (proper) end - like the book... that he wanted to film... Splitter!
DISCLAIMER: I actually bought the Extended King Kong DVD because it contained 13 more minutes of glorious dino action which I felt should have been in the cinema version (but they could easily have edited out about 30 minutes from the boat scenes and maybe shortened the tyrannosaurus fight).
Should be the new rallying call for the entire world. Then maybe, just maybe, those six old men* currently running the country (ie Hollywood and their banker friends), might finally begin to hear.
* http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read
PS. Boycott Hollywood.
Ipad 1 stuck on ios 5.1, Ipad 2 gets ios 6 but no Siri & Ipad 3 gets ios 6 & Siri
iphone/ipod 1 has iOS 3.1.3, iphone/ipod 2 has iOS 4.2.1, ipod 3 5.1.1 & iphone 3 & 4 gets iOS 6 but only the 4s gets Siri
Dear sweet God - the fragmentation!
PS Jelly Bean, aka Android whatever doesn't require internet for their Siri ripoff.
PPS. I've got a 'the new ipad' 3rd gen ipad and love it, but I have an android phone and plan on staying with that platform.
Copyleft stolen from http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read
>The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Together, the "big six" absolutely dominate news and entertainment in the United States.<
Or The Evil Collective (the six old men trying to control all governments), as I've come to call them (and is it really paranoia if they're actually out to get you?) - they're probably sucking on Satan's cock even as we speak.
Pond sucking scum lickers.
>Action has also been taken over defamation of the client's character, causing intentional emotional distress<
Actually, couldn't we use that one here in the UK as an accusation when falsely accused? I really think the UK needs a class action suit to be allowable against these megacorporations (and I'm not just talking porn barons).
>with 5,000 jobs being cut in a move that will cost a one-time charge of $350m. The company has however hired a new chief legal officer to replace Karima Bawa<
And I wonder how much she (he?) cost to come onboard, jeez, it sounds like a comedy of errors, who did Rim piss off in the Illuminati to get ground into the dirt like this.
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