Posts by JDX

How do you know they can't find a way to make physical copies unique?

Is he keeping his Oracle shares?

Is Ellison dead?

Re: "the company should include one of its external SuperDrives for free"

Yeah, it's certainly possible to run Windows on a Mac. I run mainly in Windows so would go the bootcamp route if it ever came about. My Desktop PC and MacBook are both getting quite old...

Re: Ballmer’s bonus was just 79 per cent of his eligible total

I don't care a fig if they want to pay him $millions, but it seems silly that if Surface and W8 and WP8 had all done great, he'd NOT be able to be paid much extra.

Re: Anonymous Moron

>>"I have a Surface Pro 256GB on order. They are simply the best tablet on the market."

>Just shows there is an idiot born every minute.

A full x86 Windows PC in a tablet by its very nature kicks Android and iOS to the side, simply because you can do literally anything on it.

The problem with Pro is basically the price, not the spec or the OS.

Not even a small developer would trust it for private, internal code

What a stupid thing to say. Many, many businesses use services like github, bitbucket, asssembla.

Apart from anything else there are a whole slew of tech/software companies who are virtual/decentralised... they don't have a central location or an office in which to put a server.

Keeping a backup separate is another story of course. As is the fact that with git, losing your 'central' server doesn't matter.

But a physical git server in your basement... you do realise that's just security through obscurity, right? The moment anyone does want to attack you, you are far more likely to have serious problems. "Close the git server from the web" isn't an option if you want to allow your developers to work remotely.

Re: "enticing prizes or in this case, Apple products"

I was about to post the same comment. It's a bit harsh, an iPad is still pretty enticing :)

Re: Clancy and Dolby

None of the news stories have reported the cause of his death, which now makes me curious a)what it was b)why it isn't mentioned.

Re: But

Thanks for your valuable contribution to the forum.

640 (x 480) should be enough for anyone

As a wise man never actually said

lots of machines that people have forgotten about

If all those forgotten about 95/98/NT4 PCs are running, adding XP shouldn't change much should it? I mean you're already wide open to a gazillion attacks!

Re: think of the children

Your children likely won't even view the issue of privacy in the same way you do, just as young adults today view communications very differently from their parents (young person: I don't feel right without my phone with me. old person: I only turn the phone on if I want to use it).

Since privacy isn't enshrined as a basic human right (at least I don't think it is, though I am ready to be corrected) it's not possible to say "the old way is best" objectively.

Re: Weird Science

You do realise MS actually spend quite a lot on R&D, both mainstream stuff and wacky future messing about?

Pure not wanting to support older versions of the OS.

Re: Does not compute

Yes, and Google employ people, providing them the money on which to be taxed, spend in shops, etc. There is an argument that all tax should be point of sale.

Tell that to a parent whose kid spends 12 hours a day on FIFA.

So the reason Android users don't update the OS to fix bugs and security flaws is because they're too smart?

Since when can unwashed masses afford an iPhone? I am clearly in the wrong career.

Re: Watching with interest

"And consoles like that are the reason that modern games have to be deliberately dumbed down. PC game development is stagnating because of the constant need to make them run on outdated hardware."

That's totally untrue. For a start 90% of the extra power is used for prettier graphics only, which doesn't make the game less dumb.

Then, PC games have to support a range of hardware. This means it has to be as 'dumb' as the minimum spec allows. You don't get games which have better AI on faster machines, or gameplay features.

A fixed spec forces developers to work to get the most out of the hardware. This takes time... on a PC you don't get time to fine-tune to your hardware because it keeps changing. Take a release title from PS2/3 and the most recent games and compare them.