Posts by Oninoshiko

to extend your point 1

for the love of $deity, ban the model dialog. This has been a complaint of mine since the introduction of the GUI. there is ABSOLUTELY nothing that so important an application has to interfere with my usage of another app. If you need to tell me something to continue, pop the dialog and go to sleep until I respond.

This is a good point

Or maybe hire more people, but it's a similar theory.

If more employees make more money, then more taxes will be had, and less government resources will be used by them.

Re: Giles Jones

"Who said it was patent related?"

Every

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/23/samsung_battles_apple_with_kubrick/

Reported

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/09/apple_wins_injunction_against_samsung_galaxy_tab_in_europe/

News

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20096061-248/samsung-cites-kubrick-film-in-apple-patent-spat/

Story

http://www.pcworld.com/article/238488/apple_again_cites_inaccurate_evidence_in_samsung_patent_case.html

On

http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/08/02/tech-wrap-itc-joins-apple-samsung-spat/

The

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383768,00.asp

Matter

http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?section_id=1038&doc_id=232290&itc=ebnonline_gnews

Lemme guess

you've never talked to the guys over at Violin, have you?

An 80T Violin system is pretty massively expensive. Their stuff is in the category of "we don't list prices, because if you have to ask, you can't afford it." Generally you don't put all your data on it, just your active data set (what you need to be fast).

You DEFINITELY wouldn't put silliness like disaster recovery, and volume testing on it. (that would be kept on a more-conventional array)

@ Cornz1

"X for morphine ergo X for insulin" FALSE.

Insulin and morphine are VARY different drugs, administered under VARY different rules, for VARY different conditions.

What is done for morphine (a highly addictive, opiate, analgesic (pain killer)) has nothing to do with with how Insulin (a hormone for regulating carbohydrate and fat metabolism) is regulated.

Microsoft can only hope

they can even call it surface and MS can sue for the trademark violation to boot.

@SplitBrain

Not even IBM want to do it anymore.

See also: Blue Waters.

I support this for dog fighters

virtual dog fighters should, of course, be ripped apart virtually.

Mines the one with the Code of Hammurabi in the pocket.

Bravo, sir!

That is an beautiful non-sequitor.

The person you are responding to did not ask "What makes him think rights holders want German copyright law imposed across the EU?" he asked "what makes him think he has the right to impose German copyright law across the EU?"

A German deciding German law should be imposed over all of the EU member-states is no less arrogant then an American deciding American law should be imposed across all EU member-states. Sovereign states are sovereign.

May I recommend a future in marketing and business consulting?

Never mind the glaring historical inaccuracies, you managed to may a one sentence thought drone on for four paragraphs, with a plethora of sesquipedalians. Good show!

(ok I can't leave the historical inaccuracies alone)

I'm not sure you really ever used an Apple II, or you'd know the inaccuracies of your description of Apple's founding principle. I almost get the impression you think Apple was founded in 1983, rather then 1976.

Later on, you again show a lack of understanding of history, only HP's this time. If you really look at when HP went down-hill, it started when they DROPPED many of the item's targeted at engineers. It has been in decline since shortly Carly Fiorina took the helm, and divested Agilent Technologies (which has been repeating the mistakes of history, and divesting parts of itself lately). Some of the major decisions under her "leadership" where openly opposed by Walter Hewlett. The engineers haven't been at helm of HP for a decade.

I donno

I think they are equally bad.

motogoo is making me think rule 34 on the RPG level-1 slime.

googlerola is making me think of a venereal disease.

Fire, when brain-bleach isn't enough!

wow, I seem to have hit a nerve

yes, there are a few of you here who like to run the never-ending PC upgrade treadmill. That maybe 20% of the elReg readership, it's closer to 1% of the (developed) world at large. A developer cannot depend on you having the newest wizzbang-shiny graphics card, ergo they cannot afford to assume you do.

Most people do not buy a top-of-the-line PC. Most people do not upgrade their PC every 2 years. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION, NOT THE RULE. (feel good about yourself, I just called you exceptional!)

Games are not made to show off the top-of-the-line machine, they are made to make money. That means they need to be playable by a wide-spread audience. Even if you make a PC version, you still have to target a 2-3 year old machine.

In processing resources, tablets may be able to challenge consoles (ignoring that tablets are a crap interface for most popular game-styles (would work well for RTS I bet)), you can't DEPEND on what's there. It's actually worse then the PC.

the question remains:

Why are we using browser detection at all? Hasn't CSS included notations for different formats for a while now?

@media handheld

Of course, many of the mobile and tablet browsers ignore it (because they generally look like crap where they exist at all), so many sites are resorting to UA detection to FORCE on us the crap-version.

Here's a thought, stop serving different pages to different browsers. Just serve everyone the same compliant page.

hrm..

I realize you're being sarcastic, but I rather like that.

Maybe rather then "empty their bank accounts" we can call it "pay for the damages they caused"

That doesn't take much....

Dan Brown wouldn't know a good plot twist if I beat him over the head with it!

I'll accept that the relational model does not alway map well to all tasks

but (as you point out) it maps DAMN well to a few tasks. the problem I'm seeing at the moment, is that all this non-relational hype is sometimes (but not necessarily always) just a cover for poor design.

Proper relational databases (sit down MySQL, you don't get any credit here. The lack of proper enforcement of relations in MySQL is IMNSHO one of the biggest issues this is a backlash against. MySQL is all the disadvantages of relational DBs, with none of the benefits.) means the DB is actually checking the data for you. Did some yahoo try to say John Smith drives a cat to work? Well "cats" are not in SillyDB.AutoMfgs, so a PROPER relational DB refuses to add it.

I've done some experimenting with redis, and it is nice for some things (session data is a great example), but for many things the advantages of relational are really hard to ignore.

mine the one with a PostgreSQL copy in the pocket

Re: Reading comprehension

You and I have a contract. I pay you 1M you deliver me 2M widgets in 6 mo. If you cannot deliver that within the time-frame and budget, then you did not deliver.

FULL STOP.

IOf course attitudes like yours are the reason no government project is anywhere near budget or on-time.

Re: That won't happen

"They're probably funded by Microsoft or some capitalist like Paul Allen."

Is it better when it's funded by capitalists like Steve Jobs?

If you're going to use "capitalist" as a slight, you might make sure they aren't on both sides.

buy a REALISTIC car (well pay mine off, anyway)

and pay off my remaining debt. Mine's the one with the slowly dissipating loan account summery in the pocket.

I nominate you for worst analogy of the year

You don't pay for cable, you pay for content. it's not the same as a bit of hardware.

@Evil Auditor

Despite the rather slathered on sarcasm, you kinda have a bit of a point.

It is the responsibility of the reader to sort out the quality of the material. you shouldn't depend on others to think for you. I'll admit I took the story at face value, but I also recognized that it stunk to high-heaven because of the extreme selection bias in (real) surveys like this.

In short what I saw mostly from the comments section of the last article was case study confirmation bias. This article and many of the comments could be categorized with a river in Egypt.

@Ru

As someone who has photo-induced seizures, yes, I HAVE heard of fluorescent tubes hurting people. The last seizure I had required two pins and a screw to fix a broken and dislocated shoulder. Followed by half a year of rehabilitation to restore full movement to my arm.

"The flicker of a faulty fluorescent strip light, however, could trigger a seizure in people with photosensitive epilepsy." --http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/photosensitive-epilepsy/triggers#lights

But I'm sure your ignorance is FAR better proof then the millions who have epilepsy and seizure disorders.