Re: Cider: it just works.
With a bottle of cider, it really is your fault if you hold it the wrong way.
Posts by JDX
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'Bah, this Apple Shop is full of APPLES'
Ready or not: Microsoft preps early delivery of IE10 for Windows 7
Any storm in a port
Inside Microsoft's Surface Pro: A fiendishly difficult journey
Reg readers scuffle over the ultimate cuppa
Microsoft exec: No 'Plan B' despite mobile stumbles
Friday 15th February 2013 10:50 GMT 
Re: There's the Kool-aid...
>>There's that Kool-aid again if you think Windows is the best OS for getting things done. You can get far, far more work done by using Ubuntu or MacOS - they are so much faster.
Please don't spread these kind of lies. I work on a Mac and a PC and there is no perceptible difference in productivity. If the work you're doing is impacted by how fast you PC is running, you need a new PC regardless of OS.
My Windows PC is 3-4 years old and out of 8 hours a day, I lose maybe 5min waiting for it to keep up with me... far less than I spend on internet forums!
Friday 15th February 2013 09:09 GMT
Re: There's the Kool-aid...
Of course it's a success. On the PC, Linux STILL isn't a competitor. OSX is FINALLY getting to be one... but neither of these things are down to things like kernel stability, rather how easy it is to get your work done.
Ironically, OSX seems to be finally getting a serious slice of the pie just as it is starting to become unpopular due to some of the newer features, and as W7 marked a big step forward on MS' part. This illustrates further that the technical differences are not the most important. I might suggest the Linux crowd's focus on the technical side being the more important is one reason WHY they still have no market share, despite their product being very good.
Kiwi cops to buy 6,500 iPhones, 3,900 iPads
Opera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium
Friday 15th February 2013 09:45 GMT
Re: MS/IE
If MS announced the end of IE, we'd end up with exactly the IE6 problem all over again. Companies would simply end up sticking with IE9/10 for their in-house tools for years and years, while the rest of the world moves further and further away and the work to address porting the tools gets greater and greater.
ActiveX remains a very big deal and since it's clearly never going to be introduced to other browsers, this is rather a sticking point as I see it. Meanwhile, Google want to introduce their own alternative to ActiveX, rather than get behind NPAPI.
Thursday 14th February 2013 12:01 GMT
Re: the "open source is automatically better" argument.
>>And your argument as to why open source isn't better is...?
It's a stupid topic... you might as well ask if dogs are better than cats. Some OSS things are great, others are crap. Same closed software. FOSS is only demonstrably better when the FOSS equivalent has an active community who actually bother working on it, against a closed alternative which is poorly supported.
Simply slapping on an "it's open source" badge is about as meaningful as a "Windows Vista compatible badge".
Thursday 14th February 2013 11:58 GMT
Re: MS/IE
I wasn't talking about IE6, but IE in general and the way it's rolled out/supported.
Also of course, it doesn't matter how canny a company has been insisting pages are good on all main browsers, if you use any kind of custom plugin you're just as locked into IE10 with ActiveX as you were IE6. There ARE cross-browser plugin projects but that means re-writing your plugin just as people had to rewrite IE6-specific stuff.
Plugins still serve a real purpose in many niches.
Wednesday 13th February 2013 15:49 GMT
MS/IE
I think switching IE would be a massive issue for enterprise users, surely, who don't want a tool to have a new version all the time - even if it fixes bugs.
Long term, now there are all these 3rd-party browsers, is there any real point MS making a browser at all? Back in the day they had to but now... what if MS hatched a deal with Opera/Firefox to be the default browser on Windows? It's Bing they care about not IE surely?
Tesla's Elon Musk v The New York Times, Round 2
Nokia's Elopocalypse two years on: Has Microsoft kept its side of the bargain?
Thursday 14th February 2013 21:42 GMT
Re: Give it another year...
MS have now got themselves to the point their phone OS is as good as the competitors, give or take... for the majority not techies who like tinkering.
So now it's basically just inertia. Can they pay their way through or is the market sewn up? It might seem 'obviously' the latter but Windows had the desktop sewn up and Apple is slowly eating out a respectable bite of this.
Maybe time for some brand awareness to grow and they can. Probably a long haul thing though... even Android started off slowly.
The official iPhone actually runs Android - in Brazil
Thursday 14th February 2013 21:42 GMT
Re: um @JDX
>>JDX - So you say something stupid, then when it gets a deserved negative response you respond with "Oh, I was just trolling"?
I've never, ever, claimed to have been trolling on these forums before, regardless of how unpopular my comment was. You can search if you like.
Surely one is supposed to be accused of trolling rather than accused not pretending to be trolling?
LIVE NOW: Never mind Windows 8, speak your brains on Server 2012
Apple: iOS 6.1 network overload caused by our Exchange SYNC OF DOOM
Apple said to develop curved glass iWatch with Foxconn
Tuesday 12th February 2013 08:27 GMT
Re: A watch to make calls through your phone? How i-nnovative
Power is an issue but given how long an iPos nano/shuffle can last on a charge, maybe not an insurmountable one, depending what the device actually has to do.
Is self-winding technology applicable here? Any solution needs to be super-slick especially if it's Apple... no trailing wire or big clunky watch to fit the battery.
Android? Like Marvin the robot? Samsung eclipses Google OS - Gartner
Björk gives up trying to Kickstart Android music app
Register reader Ray revs radio-controlled Raspberry Pi race rover
#Forwhy: American Express lets you pay by tweet
Tuesday 12th February 2013 18:36 GMT
Yes, but in the non IT world everyone isn't obsessed about keeping everything secret that they do on the internet ;)
More seriously, these are likely promotional/special offers, so telling people you're buying it is a)not that weird b)quite deliberate.
It's not like you are under any illusion it's private after all.
It seems a bit of foolishness to me, a nice advertising gimmick but not much more.
Tuesday 12th February 2013 14:11 GMT
So what precisely is going to go wrong then? People can see what you are buying... OK fine but Amazon already have "post this purchase on FB/Twitter". But what specific security issues are there from knowing someone is buying something?
Are you thinking people hacking into your Twitter account, or something else? Not saying there isn't a massive problem, but it would be better to hear it than have everyone jump on the "it's obviously stupid just because it's Twitter".
Chrome OS code suggests Chromebook Pixel could be real
3 million Freesat receivers now out there, and boxes to get YouTube
Every single Internet Explorer at risk of drive-by hacks until Patch Tuesday
Competition crowdsources blisteringly-fast software
Monday 11th February 2013 21:23 GMT
Re: Glad I don't work for the firm that developed the original software
Generally, from having taken part in these contests before, they are designed so you can't just find an algorithm and use it. You can find ideas from certain areas of CS but then have to figure out how to use them. Algorithms designed in these contests tend to be HUGELY tied to the very specific way input data is provided... e.g. the random distribution used in generating test cases will affect the solutions posted.
The top guys really are VERY smart.
Monday 11th February 2013 21:20 GMT
Re: All your IP rights are belong to... everyone
People compete on TC largely for the sheer fun of it. Most problems have no prizes at all so the potential of a prize (most members are not in the West) and some recognition are just juicy bonuses.
This is proper all-night-coding-session-and-then-going-to-school nerdery, real stereotype stuff other coders here will no doubt identify with - I know I do (I used to compete but ran out of time).
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