Posts by Trevor_Pott

Re: Should have called it Windows 15

Actually, I buy that, from a marketing standpoint.

You get to provide business to American corporations.

All the more incentive to buy Chinese.

Re: Limited audience

I've no truck with the "army of yes men" comment. Just the idea that all press become "yes men" when exposed to junkets. We do not.

Re: i hate this man

If you had to choose between 2 hours of flight or 8 hours in a car you'd realise that 2 hours of being glared at by fellow passengers is a *lot* easier to bear..

Why should I give a fuck about your comfort when you clearly place no value on mine, or an entire airplane's worth of people? Entitled much?

Children aren't special, they aren't wonderful and they aren't carte blanche to act luck a fuckbag. I, at least, don't scream at the parents and tell them to shape up or ship out. I do my best to ignore them, save for the odd glances to let them know that I am unimpressed and that as far as I am concerned, they have breached the boundaries of social acceptability.

So I do my part to restrain my hatred of the squealing nauseants. But fuck you in the face with a bronzed goat if you think for one second I should like having their irritating smell-larva damaging my calm.

Re: Open goal for USA bashers

I see no reason whatsoever not to be anti-American, nor are you providing me any reasons whatsoever.

As for "Toronto being a known hotbed of radical Islamic terrorists": bullshit. But there were plenty of Americans that left to fight for Allah. Guess they didn't appreciate your amazing country quite so much as you think the world should, hmm?

There are a bunch of really bad people in this world - ISIS amongst them - but America sure as hell aren't the good guys either.

Re: "mobile first, cloud first"

@Wade Burchette

You must be new here. That's Microsoft's paid AC shill. Don't be surprised or shocked that he twists the truth, stretches it beyond recognition and outright lies in order to defend Mother Microsoft. I've met slime molds with more honour.

Re: This is art!

I do, in fact, own an iPad Mini Retina. I even used it on the plane during last week's trip to Austin for Spiceworld to watch some Primeval New World, if you would believe it.

Like it or not, iOS is a major operating system and I am called upon to review iOS-based applications more and more. Thus I need to have one. I even - $deity help me - am beginning to appreciate certain aspects of it. It's a hell of a better design, physically, than any Android or Windows tablet I've ever used.

Even is the OS is pants.

Re: artist's impression....

Um....I don't think Hadrosaurs had feathers? Fleshy "combs", yes...and possibly even juvenile down. But feathers? I'd love to see a link to hard evidence of this in Hadrosaurs.

Re: Oh dear....

Yacht. Ellison has a fascination with them.

Chutzpah

Re: Fake Investigations

Except Microsoft actually were abusing a monopoly...and continue to do so. Windows 8 was nothing more than a transparent attempt to leverage a desktop monopoly to create one in the smartphone space...to the detriment of everyone.

I have to see any evidence that Google are abusing their monopoly. For the record, keeping the really low-quality shite results from the sorts of spammy link farms that are bitching about this with Microsoft's money behind them out of my searches is exactly why I use Google. Because it keeps the trash out of sight.

That's not an abuse of monopoly; that's providing a quality service. And I'd gladly pay for that quality, when I look at what the alternatives are.

Re: Kaboom?

Q_Q I are French and Dutch, with a strong ancestry from Quebec and France...

Re: HP disagrees

Red Hat has the ability, but probably not the resources. HP has the resources, but suffers from "fucking retarded" syndrome, and hence doesn't have the ability.

Resources can be acquired. You can't cure stupid.

Re: Two modes of investigation - you chose

"The fact I can stab you with a screwdriver or smash your head with a hammer doesn't make those things 'bad'."

No, but we sure as shit shouldn't give you tax breaks for doing so. We should hunt you down and put one in your head and two in your chest.

Re: Return journey

Because there's no reason to. Anything we want to learn about the moon we can do with a rover or a satellite. And there isn't much we care about up there. There's Silicon, Nickel, Iron and fuck all else. We've got lots of both here.

Remember: when Theia hit Earth, both bodies liquified and all the interesting bits sunk to Earth's core. Some return to the surface from time to time, but the cost of finding and extracting the pitiful few resources the moon has to offer are so astronomically high, you might as well try catching Apophis when it swings by next and pull the goodies out of that candy surprise. There's more of them per volume, and they aren't such a pain to get at.

There's no point putting much in the way of people up there, because the Moon's got a big gravity well, and pitiful resources. You want to explore/colonize/etc? Try Vesta or Ceres. All the resources you could want, all the volatiles you need. Bonus: not much of a gravity well so leaving and going to points more interesting is easy.

Build yourself a nice whirly ship for gravity. Mine resources as you expend them. Travel from rock to rock and consume the volatiles. Don't bother trying to make perfectly closed ecosystems; consume resources and spread across the stars like a plague. That's the human way.

There's nothing to consume on the moon but a few paltry dregs that make living in the Sahara look easy.

Re: How could anybody be fearful of terrorism?

two

Re: The 'thought' process is easy to understand

"yes they dont have desktop monitors with touch but it is quite obvious that is not the intended use of a desktop monitor."

Then why the fuck did they try to force a touch OS onto the world's desktop users? Please provide me your officially sanctioned Microsoft PR answer for that.

Re: Window Cleaner's Windows Monologue

"This article reads like the Windows monologue. I really feel sorry for you, really, but you should just do that thing I have been telling you to do for the past 14 years, switch to Linux."

The apps suck.

Re: Is it so confusing?

The Microsoft brand has value. And a "Microsoft Lumia 890" may be a phone that sells, and sells well.

The Windows brand, OTOH, has a negative value. A "Microsoft Lumia Windows Phone" will not sell.

Microsoft does not yet remotely understand what they've done to the Windows brand. Until they understand the dept of their mistakes, they'll keep repeating them, and ruining other aspects of their business via contamination.

"Care to explain why if "black hole" is mentioned the reference is to the situation at or outside the event horizon and never inside? So, if as in this article, I read the term "supermassive black hole" should I assume that the event horizon is "supermassive" and not the things within it? I had thought the event horizon was merely a boundary condition: one way light is trapped (well, except for Scarlet Pimpernelling across the boundary), the other way it isn't. Doesn't sound like it should have much weight to me."

Let me put it to you this way, and see if it makes more sense to you:

A balack hole forms from ultradense material collapsing to the point that it is so dense that an event horizon forms; a radius inside which even light can't escape. At the point of collapse, physics changes. Light cannot escape. Anything falling inwards towards the singularity takes an infinite amount of time to do so. So the singularity itself should theoretically never increase in size.

On the other side of that there is "space" (and that's not really the correct term, since physics basically stops on the other side of an event horizon) that exists between the edge of the singularity and the "surface" of the black hole (which, as far as we know is actually at this point a dimensionless gravitational anomaly in the fabric of space/time.)

It is this "space" between the edge of the event horizon and the "surface" of the black hole that fills up with new matter and becomes heavy, as that matter can never actually "hit" the black hole. (Infinite time, and all).

Hope that helps some...

Re: Storage software

Maxta makes damned good storage software. Nexenta seems to be doing well. Caringo make fantastic object storage software. Permabit are the software blue crystals that make storage work....

Storage is software. Where the bits reside is increasingly just a function of maths to determine how many IOPS you want at what latency.