Posts by jai

Re: Won't be selling many of these...

photocopier? that so 80s dude! someone will scan these in and then they'll be up on the interwebs and you'll be able to download it via torrent just like it was a normal audio release. 'cept the filesize of the rar's will be smaller so it'll download much faster.

All that's needed is some kind of OCR that can convert scanned sheet music into a midi file...

Re: Wow

Samsung spends nearly 2/3 of their profits on marketing?

costs a lot to find a way to market something without it saying "it's just like an iPhone" in a sort-of reverse VW-Golf advert

Re: Why on earth would you want to pay over the top rpice for an Apple television ?

yes, but Apple kit "just works" so you don't have worry about anything breaking

;)

Re: It will go to appeal.

yes it is - but you also paid a lot by the hour for it, and for the right price, most people are willing to put up with dull and unpleasant

@Peter 48 Re: Wasn't this

You do realise that "Hey. Look at our open platform. It can run Flash (if we want to)". and "but can you run flash? no? because i can with my android and so that makes it better"" are exactly the same statement?

No they're not.

I thought your point originally was that the Android user was saying "the platform is open, which makes it better, oh and also, as a result, i can run flash, yay \o/ lolz"

whereas what i was saying was that all the Android users i've encountered insisted that being able to run Flash was the key advantage of the platform over iOS. To them, the openness of the platform was a secondary consideration.

(which is weird, cos most of them a techies, so you'd think they'd appreciate the open platform, but it seems all they really cared about was the ability to run flash and also play divx and avi movie formats)

Re: The trend is social engineering

Rather than a trend, it is more the current fad.

As soon as a way is found to reduce the success of these social engineering attacks, then another method of attack will be chosen. social engineering attacks are only used now because previous vectors of attack are not longer so successful.

you're comment suggests that Apple users are brand new to the social network scene and will happily click and install malware without suspicion. that's not the case.

also, you suggest that because MS users have had malware installed in the past, they are more wary now? that's similar to suggesting that it's a good thing that your house burnt to the ground because now you'll be more careful about not leaving the gas on the cooker while lighting up a cigarette.

Re: And a bloody good thing too!

@toadwarrior

yes, and the world would be a much better place if we all coded in assembler like in the good ol' days, eh?

Re: The Unarchiver

+1 for TheUnarchiver - best thing, it keeps itself totally out the way too, much like the built in decompression tool.

Re: Anyone know

haven't the Beastie Boys long been known for not allowing any of their material to be used in advertising? since the 80s.

so this is merely a continuation of his wishes from when he was alive. presumably the other two feel the same, so this largely applies to any solo work of his

Re: Not bad...

what's 70 million Android activations in 70 days (2 and a half months) then?

a lot of activations divided across a lot of different manufactures

Re: Why isn't there anything about 'rethinking mobile' in the actual story?

oh good, i feared it might just have been me that couldn't find it in the article. i was worried my friday-fatigue was worse than usual this week

Re: Maybe...but...

that'd make the film Vanishing Point a whole lot less interesting if he had to stop and sleep while he waited for the batteries to recharge.

Re: I laughed SOOOO hard!!!

why would the Judge say that? it's his job, why would he want to stop them from providing him with work to do for which he gets paid? Sure, the judge would probably get paid the same for any other trial, but surely these cases are much easier than other ones he could get given.

That'd be like Usain Bolt saying "all this running about malarkey, especially in the summer, it's just stupid isn't it?"

Re: Two thoughts...

i suspect it's more that the top loading mechanism is far cheaper that a slot loader - no need for motors or for moving the laser head and spindle up and down.

Re: Bonkers? oh yes.

oh my! i want one of those so badly... to play my old Wombles records on :)

Re: YOu lost me here...

it's simple maths really.

AppWorld opened in 2009 - so that's about 3 years it's been open and in three years it's had 3 billion downloads.

Averaging one billion per year, if you like.

iTunes App Store opened in 2008. And after 3 years, it had reached 10 billion downloads. an average of 3.3 billion per year.

it's now been open for 4 years, and the downloads are approaching 30 billion. raising the average to 7 billion per year.

RIMs figures sound impressive by themselves, but in fact, they just confirm that they're at the back of the race and have a hell of a lot of work to do when/if their new OS is released to catch up with the Android/iOS pack at the front.

apparently 30,000 people have given him their usernames and passwords via this method, but he's only gotten less than $7 in paypal donations.

turns out, the kind of people who want to get free in-app purchases by any means aren't all that generous towards the hackers that help them either. who'da thought it?

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/13/hacker-releases-tools-for-bypassing-apples-in-app-purchase-mechanism/

Re: power source

thanks for that - can't remember if i grasped that fact at the time, but evidently if i didn't, it didn't stick around. that may well explain my poor A-Level Physics grade.....

Re: outside of a few Excel power users ...

and for good reason. no serious enterprise should still be using Access

but it does suggest that they're the only ones who do it (Apple/Foxconn, that is, not bankers) which is completely inaccurate and so not 'a matter of fact' at all

Re: Do my eyes deceive me, or...

yes, just behind OJ waving from behind a dune