Posts by Shagbag

This is propaganda.

Any serious NK watcher knows it.

There is no market for smartphones in NK. They can't even feed themselves without foreign food aid, let alone afford to buy a smartphone. Furthermore, the regime doesn't even want people to be able to communicate with each other - let alone the outside world. It's still official policy to forbid unauthorised travel WITHIN the country.

Its well documented that NK's power supply is wholly unreliable. Even PyongYang - the most "sophisticated" of NK's cities - doesn't have a 24/7 supply.

Their assembly 'factory' is just DPRK spin on 'sweat shop'.

Failed from the start

At the time BB released the Z10 I could get a Nexus 4 band new for £279. Okay, the N4 is not 4G but the point is that the Z10's initial price (circa £550) wasn't going to work. BB were just too greedy and, just as I predicted, it has failed.

I'd be interested in some silicon roundabout socks that could cure verrucas and a pair of underpants that could poke my hemorroids back in when they popped out.

I didn't.

Google paying royalties?

The last time I looked, Google told MSFT to go away and stop annoying them.

Out of all these so called 'protection money' agreements I do find it curious that it's always MSFT that announces them. The silence from everyone else coupled with the refusal of some (Google, Red Hat, et. al.) and the total absence of litigation, leads me to conclude that something is not right with MSFT's continued crowing about these.

History will tell, but I would not at all be surprised if it turns out to be a case of The Emperor's New Patent Portfolio. As we have seen with Apple v Samsung, the issuing of a patent by the USTPO says absolutely nothing about its legal enforceability. That case has also shown how incredibly expensive such US litigation is. While you are threatened by a company the size of MSFT and the $$$ cash resources it has, it is no wonder that a CEO decides it is better to pay them off and be done with it rather than go through an expensive circus trial like Apple v Samsung. Maybe that's the reason why most relatively big companies have refused.

Pull the other one.

caused obvious distress and upset to customers trying to eat

WTF?

Do they know what they're eating? Pink slime, white slime, whatever you want to call it. A colon is still "100% beef" as long as it comes from a cow.

Same old, same old...

Change the OS to one that consumers actually want and it'll sell like hot cakes.

Windows Fail

In their own backyard, MSFT have failed.

'didn't even know it was on.

Smartphones make up 70 per cent of the giant firm's profits

I always suspected £500 for a top-of-the-range smartphone carried a hefty profit margin.

It's a shame we can't back-engineer the Nexus 4 profit margin to see what the true cost of a high end smartphone is.

Universal Credit system, which is universally loathed

It must be a small universe because I know A LOT of hard-working taxpayers who were sick and tired of seeing their hard-earned pounds being taken from them by a Government hell bent on offering 'working is a lifestyle choice' policies.

On the contrary, there are a HUGE number of taxpayers who support the Universal Credit system.

Stupid Question

Security is a process not an event.

The only 'secure' computer is the one that is not switched on.

"the Android Linux kernel"

That's like saying "British English". It doesn't exist. There's just English. And there's the Linux kernel.

The Patent Tit-for-Tat Circus

The longer it goes on the more Apple (who started it) seems like a spoilt brat having a trantrum that everyone ignores.

Props to Samsung for staying with it to show up Apple for what they really are.

"It's a Sony"

CD root kit.

PS3 Other OS.

No thanks Sony. In fact, you can politely go and do yourself.

He earned a scholarship at Oxford to study physics

Props to the guy. He must have been quite intelligent.

Win8 - Hype or Shyte?

Shyte.

So for the past 20+ years the UK clearers have not had much of an issue.

Along comes RBS after a 'successful' round of offshoring and BAM, the Regulator's knee jerks and all of a sudden the sky's falling in because the IT equipment could be faulty - despite it working for the last 20+ years.

Yes, the personnel has been replaced by clowns in India, Phillipines or whatever IT backwater (where they like to watch Eastenders and catch the company bus at 5:00:00pm) but those strategic decisions are why senior management get paid the big bucks. It's called capitalism. Survival of the fittest. Who gives if some patsy in Bangalore wants to get paid 1/3 of what they could get paid. Fuck 'em, I say. Idiots.

chroot? (FreeBSD) jail?

Are BB marketing something different?

The ignorance of youth

The guy could benefit from an open and frank discussion with Amnesty International.

The Author

Cyrus