Posts by Mikel

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It's a security update

Windows is more secure if it can't communicate over any networks.

Doom

> And if you choose to do so, you'll be helping to chip away at Intel's domination of desktop CPU world and inject a little more competition and innovation into the market. ®

Or you could just get a Chromebook and an Android tablet. They work well with your phone, and inject even more competition and innovation into the market.

They lied

People in swing states lied to the pollsters. Deliberately. That is what went wrong. And that is the end of the utility of polling.

Oh wow

Like we wouldn't anyway.

Great!

Now let's look at Firestone auto maintenance chain. They rob people in the same way.

Nice site

Too hilly for a solar roadway. If there are some lava tubes nearby, those might do for a base though. Gotta start somewhere.

This is a huge setback

... for the copyright maximalists and their war on the Commons. Just the copyright part of this treaty was grand theft of public property on a global scale.

May now play more

The plan is never to get less money out of the same customer. Never.

It's a start

I imagine there is far too much to browse tonight. Some of the NASA stuff looks interesting.

What about mobile?

In Q2 Microsoft's phones are no longer called out by name in Strategy Analytics' report. They are grouped in "other", and all of "other" sold 0.3%.

An important milestone

The transition to mobile is here. Surprised it took so long.

The pee sea can't dry fast enough to suit me.

Downgrade rights

I remember these from the Vista campaign. They kept trying to convince the world Vista was going gangbusters because they had sold a lot of licenses. But usage wasn't showing up because everyone was using their "downgrade".

It's all the same to their bottom line though. They still got the money.

At this time however it looks like that "1 billion installs" target for Windows 10 is far away indeed. Developers can take their sweet time moving over.

It's OK. No big deal. Nothing to see here.

You weren't using Windows for anything important, were you?

Awesomesauce

A billion Vulcan devices shipping next year? Devs better skill up.

It's for Enterprise

In this case, "Enterprise" is defined as "Idiots spending way too much of somebody else's money on technology they're not personally going to have to use." Microsoft's ideal market - a field where the end user already knows he's a victim of procurement even before delivery, and must trudge on making the most of it because every month the rent comes due.

Because nobody sane would spend this much of their own money, or choose this.

It is good to see times have changed

Once upon a time their response would have been: "So?"

Only 4GB RAM?

What is this? Memory for ants?

And disk... So slow.

Hurray?

If it makes copyright maximalists unhappy, I'm for it. Copyright is a social contract: for a limited time you get a better ability to market your works, and when it's over it's over and the works are part of the common culture. As it had been immediately for the 10,000 years before copyright was invented.

Eternal copyright breaks the deal, indulging the creator in the fantasy of eternal profits but delivering instead consignment to eternal anonymity amongst a global forgettery where newer works are more profitable but older works can be locked away forever until they are lost to memory to make room for the new. This is not delivering the social good - progress - that was promised in the deal. A deal is a deal.

Each year we are cheated out of ever more due us under the deal. We did not agree to this and we will not comply!

"Write what should not be forgotten." - Mother Teresa

Tinfoil hat time

Meh

The sun will come out tomorrow

Where have I heard that before?

Sums

So. $800 for the phone, $600 for the dock, $960/year to actually use it like a $400 laptop anywhere you can get Internet.

Makes sense to me.

We feel your pain, Bill

This is where the comment would go if there were one.

All for nought

Most will keep using hopelessly insecure operating systems because they support some of their legacy systems and applications. With each "upgrade" some -but not all- of these must be deprecated, so they recommit by building new ones on top. That way they never have to admit that getting committed to such an amateurish hunk of junk was a mistake in the first place. They can make it to retirement with their pride intact.

So there is nothing to do.

Oh the horror!

No, wait. The other thing.

Only £4,529?

Cheap as chips. Probably use them as promotional incentives.

Peer exchange

I wonder if Google will own a share of the Hong Kong peering center also.

That's OK

You weren't using Excel for anything important, were you?

Musketeers to the rescue

I'm sure they'll sell NASA a few seats.

Am really excited to see the support for manned spaceflight again.

Of course, incoming Presidents do retask NASA and we are due for one of those. Also the other party controls the money, and they prefer "whatever the Democrat doesn't like, built in my district". You know how we bicker over here.

Oracle AI

I can't wait to see their PCA AI pricing. "Per Contemplated Alternative". It ought to be hilarious until I remember that my tax dollars will actually be buying it.