Posts by Ramazan

Flash tax

IMO Flash usage by site owners must be taxed well beyond the costs of traffic and electicity wasted by site visitors.

tasteless

what a pathetic piece of crap colored in vulgar black'n'emo-purple, compared to the plain and stylish Mac mini

irrelevant platforms

Asassin's Creed app - no mention of PC platform

NFS: Undercoiver app - no mention of PC either

GTA: Chinatown Wars app - no mention of PS(2? 3? oh, whatever) console

Frogger - no mention of Atari

The! Flash! of! Genius! - Finalist! in! Camelstan/Mukhosransk/insert/your/favourite/here! Developer’s! Challenge!

there's no such thing as fairies

Ain't no more ratchets here, only paradise. You've got a problem?

P.S. ARM has 32bit wide address bus, and even after that its bus is typically further crippled down to e.g. 24 bits in devices like linksys wrt54gl

chippery

The lesser models will use Ericsson cheappery, it's claimed, while higer-end handsets will be based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon.

not any close to OLED

"For clarity and sharpness, it ranks along with those flashy new OLED screens we've been treated to recently"

Indeed? I've heard a different story (via http://www.mobile-review.com/review/lg-bl40.shtml -- sorry, still no english version, Google Translate to the rescue maybe?):

While BL40's screen is better than that of LG Arena, it's still very far from AMOLED display of e.g. Samsung HD i8910

libpst

I've already used some libpst tool 4 years ago. Since then all my data are free from M$, thanks to truly open mbox/Maildir formats.

Hawaii

In all the 123 above comments the only one man (NBCanuck) did mention Hawaii, which doesn't belong to any America (be it Norhtern or Southern), but does to the USA.

So maybe when one sings "G-d bless America" or alternatively "I'm afraid of Americans", this relates not to Hawaiians, and therefore to the Barack Obama neither.

NT7.x

There's no such thing as NT7.x (yet). According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT, Windows 7 is actually NT6.1

be at leas't

oh don't you judge a book just by the cover

unless you cover just another

and blind acceptance is a sign

of stupid fools who stand in line

@Ed 4: Oracle DB, on the other hand

is an open PL programming langauge plus open SQL query language (mostly ANSI-92 compatible BTW). You are free to implement your own DB engine according to these specs. Same as with Java VM.

@Mike

The Holy Release Cycle C^HWow! How fscking stably, predictably, reliably and enterprisey is it, dude! I see you're moving in the right direction indeed. Please keep on!

P.S. Maybe you are going to propose us using SCRUM next time?

@Citizen Kaned

Never witnessed flash crashing a browser? How many browsers have you seen during your 10+ years of web usage and web development career then?

I'm wondering how could you qualify to web developer at all...

pneumatic gun

if they pay $5 for a pair of crow legs, it turns out to be a profitable business

Editing TNSNAMES.ORA in Notepad - LOL

Indeed, why don't you use vim/emacs, stupi?

@PHUX

We use HP-UX, lovely HP-UX, wonderful HP-UX!

Mine with the PA-RISC in't

PPC

Sometimes people need a PowerPC computer for development, tests or builds (e.g. Debian build farm). Funnily enough, battery is typically irrelevant to such uses. If you don't have such needs, why keep an outdated crap around? Just sell it on eBay and invest money in something more up to date, less noisy and power hungry.

@techguy110323

wow, every toasted sandwich differs from his brethren... So, did you see the Standard Toasted Sandwich in International Bureau of Weights and Measures, anyone?

ethnically Russian region

Since when the Ossetia is "ethnically Russian separatist region"? Did you ever manage to see any ethnic "Russian" (I mean slavic) there?

Everything Chinese should be banned

from civilized world. Same holds for Russian, Pakistani, Lebanese, Palestinian and so on. All Huawei equipment found inside the civilized world, must be replaced by AL/NSN/Ericsson/Cisco or Nortel equivalent and burnt.

@Dave

1. You can have backdoors in hardware too. The most obvious examples are keyloggers and passkey-triggered timebombs

2. 99% of chips and PCBs are manufactured in China, so don't expect the abovementioned NSN gear to be free from backdoors

@Rupert

IOS XR does use QNX, never heard about KR thing though (except the K&R C of course).

ARM netbooks

won't take off, beleive me or not. All that proprietary crap like Flash and media codecs will bring the effort to the ground.

Amazon? ebid?

On ebay I can buy e.g. The Orange Box with shipping to Ukraine.

The same is not possible on Amazon, craigslist or ebid.

@Joe K

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/more_about_c&c/ ? If the MBWE requires tweaking to reduce heat/noise, then it's not relevant to this article's topic.

IMHO any ARM CPU (consuming lt 1Wt BTW) with decent amount of DRAM, some boot flash/ROM, USB host controller and Linux will do the job. And of course, it won't have no stinkin' WD drive connected to the mentioned USB controller when doing this, ever.

@Pony Tail

JFYI: HP has IUM.

But SunOS 5.9/sparc + Oracle used/uses to power Siemens' IN@vantage...

I for one

welcome our new overlords IBM and Intel!

All pathetic weaklings like Sun, AMD, HP, Qualcomm, Fujitsu, Samsung, NEC, ARM ltd, plc, co, etc :) must "bow before the ways of heavy metal", or die.

@Tom Cooke

Rage Against The Machine, dude? :) Apple won't fight the Evil Empire though, it's crippled by Darkness of Greed itself to its very bones.

design vs. practicality

2Alan: you are correct WRT the design, but just try to do something like sniffing RADIUS traffic for half an hour with your iPhone/iPod off the ethernet...

2Matt: how well does FreeBSD and/or GNU/Linux work on that blown up Sony UX1XN of yours?

2Gnusmas: do you guys have brains in your company? why not make fanless Q1 (like e.g. Samsung Q40 or legendary Sony X505VP)?

@DRendar

wow, you've gotta whopping 780 seconds of battery life, ain't ya? did you have enough time to enjoy typing with the keyboard and feeleng the soft genuine leather under your palms, dude?

what didst thou find in the chest?

* gold

* a medallion

* a scroll

* none of these

* all of these

trolls

PHP and BB users are well known for their higher than average (in IT) level of stupidity but even after that, parts of this article by El'Reg look like deliberate trolling attempt

pissing in the wind

No, it's more like defecating in the tornado :)

I see absolutely no point to invest efforts in something as useless as pascal/delphi always was and as lifeless as it is today. Probably, it could make sense if you add some conceptually new/revolutionary features to the language, otherwise you'd better help improving something more useful like e.g. python/ruby/haskell.

P.S. Especially given The Current Economic Situation

Gaza

I suggest placing Phalanx on zeppelins above Gaza so that stupid palestinians will be turned into farce-meat the same (or several milliseconds after the) moment they fire their "mortar shells or rockets" in Israel direction.

long link

@Adam: try tinyurl.com. That long link of yours is turned into the http://tinyurl.com/b69jfs

efiGL, efiIPv6, efiMobileIP, efiGPS

with support for pixel/vertex/whatever else shaders, with Clippy The EFI Assistant, with JavaEFI(TM) edition for 3rd party applets support, with EFI indexing service ("The one that is supposed to make finding [options in EFI BIOS] quicker, that is controlled by interaction with a cartoon dog that you thought you had turned off") and embedded audio/video player with DRM support for even richier, nicier, beefier luser sexperience...