Posts by gimbal 259 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Dec 2009
Sorry, guess I just gave the punchline away.
If Microsoft really wants their customers to misunderstand the significance of Cloud Computing, they sure are on the right track for that, so far.
Well enough, though, I suppose we may not need any overhyped contributions from Microsoft, in that domain, after all.
My First response: Well, what a lot of Schadenfreude from a Microsoft executive - and what a surprise, at that! That is how Microsoft does competitive business, these days, after all - don't they, though? by FUDing the competition?
My Second response: Who cares what he has to say about it? I expect that his remarks will only serve to pique interest in that which he's apparently tried to wipe out of the popular attention, with the remarks. *
* Comment does not apply to Microsoft Certified Tools. May apply to non-tool engineers.
Well, it's nice to see that the mobile phone market is not headed into political, environmental, or cultural armageddon.
On a more sincere note: I'm happy to see that RIM is still holding a sizable share, in themarket. No matter how Windows-centric their Java development environment happens to be, it's still a decent OS - overall - that RIM has put together, such that I can possibly ascertain, by an rational faculties of my own, in fact.
"The screen was developed, the boffins say, to aid research into geographic information systems,"
...yeah, because the same old computer displays just aren't working, any more, for GIS development. :cough:
Pardon me, I am almost jealous, except for how it looks like such extreme overkill. These days, I can only imagine it devolving into a new form of advertising technology.
I'm skeptical about it, to say the least.
As I read it:
"The vast majority of the industry supports free and open development", Google says.
"Yeah, except for us", says the people to whom the bulk of movie income is going to.
If it goes to the courts - as it looks like it will - I have no doubt, though, that Google already has a lot of practice in finding good lawyers, and will bring that experience to bear, on the situation, along with all their plain technical strengths, no argument about it.
Mine's the one with the Flux Capacitor in the pocket - going to go back to the past, to some time shortly before legislators were lobbied to enable the MPAA, RIAA, and friends to pull off the amazingly consumer-unfriendly feats they have, so far.
Good Guiness, what a fine monstrosity we've made.
A round for ... 1/12 the entire world....
Hey, but at least, it's a monstrosity residing in a free-market economy - not without present, and *effective* competition, either.
...and it may be a little more than a spectator's sport, though. I mean, really....
A round for the whole room, at least.
....*then*, optionally, comment. Thanks.
Hey just kidding. Go ahead and kneejerk away...even when the article actually conveys useful information essentially rendering the comment irrelevant. We need those kind of comments, for their simply distracting qualities, it's really quite useful.
and Happy New Year!
"The new suit, as noted by Computer World, has many similarities with the original complaint. " - ok. What an eloquent ... echo ... echo ... echo ....
So, I wonder what the courts will actually do about it, though, given that it's really their opinions that matter, in the foremost, to this matter?
I predict: In no sooner than ten years' time, they'll finally upgrade to 128-bit encryption - at five times the cost to the consumer, then portraying that necessary feature on the item, as if it had attributed any kind of "value added" quality to the basic, essentially dysfunctional model.
For marketers, I suppose, ignorance really may resemble bliss. What a happy game....
It sounds to me like that's going to sock Sun, er I mean Now Oracle's Netbeans IDE - right in the tuckus.
Certainly, one of the recognizable strengths of Netbeans, if compared to Eclipse - besides in the brand-name loyalty side of the equation - has been in Netbeans' (free) WYSIWYG-esque GUI designer, which Eclipse had (previously) been absent of any alternative to (in the free market). Now barring that matter from the comparison, I honestly find it difficult to imagine why a Java developer might choose Netbeans instead - but pardon my abjectly biased statement, there. I'm sure, everyone has one's own reasons, amply sound.
...and furthermore, WindowBuilder can work with SWT? and GWT? and so on and so forth.. well, what an advantage! I suppose that all I'll have to do, then, is to wait patiently on the availability of an Eclipse update site, for the items....
....then it becomes a bit more complex than the (affectionately put) average shmoe might be expected to comprehend.
Of course, that may be only one visible side of the matter - namely, the licensing of the components, themselves - but, I digress.
I think it must be a fine situation, if the market - collectively - may finally be maturing past the point where the situation would have been portrayed as if it was no more than a matter of some sort of abstract yet personal competition between "closed source" and "open source" agency and individuals. Certainly, the use of open source components does not change the fundamental laws of business and competition - as compared to those same laws on which business using only closed-source components will also have to operate, along with the natural limitations on their applications' available service lifetimes, and so-on. As far as who's competing with whom, though, as I see it, it boils down to no more and no less than: Business competing with business - as far any essentially useful, more-than-ephemeral competition in the market would ever occur.
If more companies are finally learning how to make such software as would be made available on open source licensing models, to make that software and the licensing terms on it work, in their competitive endeavors, and there's no more of such as SCO's polytricks, then I think, that's wonderful - and what a year it must have been, after all.
To a better 2011, and so on.
It's great to see that Musk can continue the tradition of bringing a sense of humor to success in spaceflight. I hope SpaceX does very well in realizing their spaceflight projects.
Maybe it'll give Virgin Intergalactic a run for their money, as well. Cheers, all, for halfpence on the two cents.
..."Who was the first [out of all my favorite political opponents and more general gripe-targets]?"
I would apologize for the fact that one might so need a decoder ring in order to decypher the "hidden" meanings of statements of that US opinion broadcaster, but - I must realize - I'm not responsible for his (oh so popular) brand of obsessiveness.
Thanks for the existential play-by-play, El Reg. I'm sure that a Kafka-esque version of the event will be forthcoming, by the sound of it - from some bright no-fanboi below the horizon?
Mine's the one that doesn't look like a beetle's bum
...but, lawfully, they cannot outsource the final responsibility. It's their name on the operation, and it's their blame to take the final seat for.
If they need to vet their PR firms for tech savviness, before making a contract with whom - but, well, by the looks of it, they just might want to outsource that vetting work, come to think of it.
Where does the madness end? At the OFF button, for which a STOP button will novelly suffice.
Years down the line, we see that the same country in whose home was the Enigma-breaking enigma of the WWII era Enigma-breaking kit - that I don't know the name of - is also home to this fine work of High Literature, the BOFH.
I see that the tradition of innovation is being proudly continued in the UK - BOFH, when self-advertising tech-heads have really shown their mettle ;)
Microsoft loves to invent new words for things already having inherently simple explanations, albiet using the real words that have been used, for some time, to describe those same things.
Whether or not you'd happen to understand my explanation of this long-standing practice of theirs, all that air-headed conceptual inventiveness of Microsoft's is just another approach to Microsoft branding - and I, for one, find it very distracting, let alone that i wonder how far it's crept in as to needlessly complicate the very designs of Microsoft systems.
Will it usher in a whole new round of chair-throwing? Oh, I hope there's pictures!
Hey if we can run with the chair-throwing motif .... It'd be like UFC meets Silicon Valley, all over again - the Royal Rumble Royale! ><
...because, most of all, Big Brother cares for you and his certified marketing engineers ><
I still don't know how Oracle may try to justify that their practices have driven off some real brainpower behind Java, right around the time of the acquisition. Until they may resolve that, I will continue to hold any further decisions by Oracle in only a doubtful perspective - on the downside of genuine skepticism.
...the Dr's cast and crew have as many reasons as any other professional entertainers to enjoy their layover here in the states.
My recommendation: Just look out for the funny ones reading the Constitution backwards - separation of state by church and all that.
Cheers, y'all.
In the States, as well, we've had a government that, once sufficiently pressed to make acknowledgement, then consented to improve labor standards.
In China, they have a government that shoves as much as it can under the carpet. Of course, some of those carpets cover prisons, too.
...and some of those carpets are made of international IOUs, I'm afraid. That's a fact of life, these days, at the international level.
None of that indicates as if we should be complacent about humans rights abuses, however - even those made in and of that manufacturing giant of the modern world.
If we don't start facing this one side of it, now - now that these indicators are coming out, reaching us over here - then it will come back to haunt us. I say we save our children the effort, and face up to it, today - and actually follow though on our corporate pledges, as such.
Whine whine gripe gripe? No, I just don't like AT&T, and I don't like having to change service providers just to be able to use a given model of popular smartphone.
Verizon's alright. Vendor-monopolization of phone models ain't. Cheers anyway, a round for everyone....
I may love to joke and scorn about some of the news, here, but this is something I don't play around about: I heart space business, even in the government-sponsored continuing tradition of the same that keeps it all alive when everyone else is obsessing about Lady Gaga's latest Kielbasa accessory.
If the good people of the free market keep up at it, maybe we'll start to see some actual private-enterprise manned ventures beyond the lowest reaches of the great blue. Tipping the hat to the folks who have been in this for decades, though - good fare.
PlayBook! Now that's fun.
I remember using an old not-for-profit demo that QNX offered on Intel platforms, a certain version of their their Neutrino OS, for a time - it was available sometime around 2002, maybe. It had a swell GUI, with a comfortable design look to it .
Pardon me for not being one of those low-level-systems guys, who might be able comment more meaningfully about it ;)
...and they didn't even have to invest actual materials into an actual production line, for the thing.
Maybe it's also a testament to the value of peer review - at least, depending on the community of peers, and the subject under review. Designers proceeding unawares of the prior art to this item, and largely not inclined to actually analyze its design, might think - or, at least, might talk - as if it was the hottest new idea under the sun. I think, it's a waste of time and resources, and I think that some people living the "genius" stereotype probably do have too much free time on their hands - to which, I believe, this design may serve as a nearly tangible case in point.
If it looks ridiculous, I'll venture, odds are that they won't even want to look at it, let alone, to try to shoot it.
Ever seen those orange balls they stick on power lines near runways? Paint 'em pink with crazy-looking (no pun intended) googly eyes, and put 'em all the way along the line. Candy-stripe the lines with purple ribbon. They'll be so confused, they won't be able to shoot straight enough to hit the ground with the odd shot.
Hey, it's psychology, kind of in reverse....
I for one proudly welcome our surreal overloards!
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