Posts by streaky

Re: No portrait-mode?

Why would you seriously want to portrait a 16:9 screen anyways? And probably not because they all have hella cheap (read: crap) stands on them.

Re: Hypocrite

"That Dysons are made abroad does not stop Silicon Roundabout being bullshit"

The Silicon Roundabout is bullshit because there were loads of tech companies there long before the Libdemtards elected the Tories, not because it's implicitly bullshit. There's some serious cash and real companies floating around in between all the appstore entrants.

Thing about Dyson is he seems to be arguing for people to be on wage competition with Chinese people with everything he does and says. As a well qualified and experienced mechanical engineer to now writes software (for a company right next to the Shoreditch faddy app-about), on behalf of all of us: please shut the f**k up and hand back your KBE you clueless t**t.

Re: Trek downhill since then

"In it you'll see Nathan Fillion explain how he intentionally based his character on Han Solo"

Well, the, he totally fails as an actor. Also, Joss Whedon didn't so doesn't make a diff ;)

Re: Err...

"This is the age where bad crap cannot be called out, you gotta be "careful", everyone shall have prizes, a call from the union is just a cough away and every office jerk was a cool tech genius from the instant he tried to fit a square peg into a round hole at the age of three."

Truth be told it's one of the early warnings of you might have a psychopath on your hands, which is well worth looking out for.

Plus people should be able to expect to be not treated like shit, capable or not.

Re: About what I'd expect, really

"P.S. I don't understand if "scripter" is a word or not, seems legit."

Bash is a scripting language, PHP, Python, ASP etc aren't. I prefer 'developer' over the passé 'programmer' but each to their own. Just because it is an interpreted language doesn't make it a scripting language IMHO. PHP has some of the features of a scripting language but these days it's too complicated to be called one tbh.

Down in flames..

"Crippling rent and energy costs, and staffing those fucking barns, is going to be the death of PC world next."

Totally right, if you look at their red ink it's all about the rents. They like to be in places they don't need to be, which coincidentally are the places with high rent costs.

Re: WTF!

I saw that and WTF'ed too. Seems to me they still have massive growth. Even if you're not growing if you're making decent profits who cares?

Re: Streaky

Well yeah, not the people who want it out their own pockets which is the only way I'd find it acceptable (after I've made sure the whole country is using very strong crypto - sorry for wasting your time/money there Jonny Taxpayer).

Re: big bad US

The whole thing is a Russia global domination power-play anyways. There's a great article on CNET with some proper journalism (no offence there reg') which I dare not link to for fear of the ubiquitous spam filters which contains an interview with Anthony Rutkowski which explains what's really going on fairly well.

If we need the internet removing from US control it's within the capability of plenty of volunteers - we don't need and international treaty with the likes of China and Russia fighting for their brand of justice and freedom for all. I can totally see the argument for removing the total control of the US over it, but I can't see the argument for giving it to those guys - which is the intent.

Re: Big Deal

"it's their responsibility to decide how they run it - and users should vote with their feet just like any other product"

This is true but the reason it started is people *were* voting with their feet, so they put together a supposedly democratic system which worked fine until a few weeks ago when facebook forgot why the system is there in the first place.

We voted, they ignored the vote because they didn't like the outcome like it's Egypt or something, had another vote with even more absurd voting target they don't like that and we'll see what happens. Civil war possibly. Oh wait no that's Egypt again..

Re: Said it before and I'll say it again

"If I wanted a tablet with a keyboard, I'd buy an Asus Transformer (which is cheaper and has a proven record)"

Frankly to say they're not even in the same league is a massive understatement. Even the iPads aren't really. Totally agree with the sentiment that they need to be cheaper to penetrate though, no clue what's going on at Microsoft but it isn't happy times in the management department.

Re: Ivan Dobsky

I only said I'd done it so they'd take my bollocks out the vice!

By the powers invested in me by tabloid reading imbeciles I pronounce you guilty of paedophilia!

Re: Nah...

It fairly provably isn't the US govt. The so called "evidence" is pretty thin too - the low standard of code that allegedly only the US could put together, and "servers in 5 continents" - I have servers in 5 continents, does that mean it was me? Also arguing how long it took the French to clear it off their system as some indicator to sophistication level is fairly absurd too. Neither flame nor stuxnet were of any particular standard that was impressive.

Not for nothing but the people who started the allegations were the Russians. EK's FSB links (he is a Институт криптографии, связи и информатики; ИКСИ Академии ФСБ России graduate after all) are no secret so remind me again why we take his company's world over all else? Given that everybody hit by both stuxnet AND flame targets are more obvious motives if you link them to Russia I'm more than happy to call bull.

Re: He Was Hoping To Get $89 Worth Of Stuff For $0.83 - Really?

Apple can put what they like in their ToS, as can any company, doesn't mean they're legitimate. A lot of terms are usually there to scare off the terminally dumb. Think about the number of companies that try to indemnify themselves against death caused my negligence even though they're automatically illegal terms on every single country on the planet I've ever checked - including the USA.

Certainly in UK law you've made an offer and it's been accepted when they send you a receipt/you've paid, much less when they've sent the thing out the door and had to jump up and down on the courier to get it back (which I'd happy describe as theft on the part of Apple/The Courier because the items no longer belong to either party - they're yours and under the duty of care of the courier - frankly, though you probably wouldn't be able to make that stick in court in any but the most sensible of countries).

Re: If it is Protectionism, it's nothing new to foreign companies in China

Of course you're totally right, but it doesn't make it any less than the naughty naughty blacklist being a protectionist issue. Certainly isn't a legitimate security problem.

I mean of course potentially it could be but they haven't done anything wrong, yet, and it's easy to figure out if they did.

Re: Say what you like

"Something which, of course, you do every day before breakfast"

I've done it, also did 1080p HD web based video long before youtube even considered it. The problem is there's no point trying to compete because even if you have a better product 99.99% of people will stick with what they know.

Also OpenStreetMap does much more complicated stuff than just taking a user generated outline and has been doing for years, which is why they have completely independent mapping data for a large chunk of the planet.

Re: What a surprise

"Who on earth wants to work in London, with high prices, traffic, too many people and a very long journey to work unless they're paying very, very high salaries?"

I work in London, have done for about 3 years, from Lincoln. Let me explain the problems with your comment:

London isn't expensive.

London has less traffic than the rest of the country.

London has short journeys to work that are getting shorter all the time, unless you're... dumb.

Also FYI I don't have a "very, very high salary"

You're confusing London with tourist trap London. Stay out of Soho/Leicester Square, and maybe most of inner-West London - there's nothing interesting there anyway..

Re: Hmm

People promise all sorts of things, the court knew he was a flight risk and had no good cause to let him walk about freely. Same applies to this guy who shot the two WPCs near Manchester - can't fathom why he was out on bail either.

It would be easy to blame the tories and their prison policy, have a funny feeling this has been an issue for a long time.

SAS

There is actually SAS TA Reservists, so you can - technically - be weekend warrior SAS. They're not there for show either :)

Re: So cowell is not...

I gotta say, though I won't be watching, anybody who is stupid enough to get involved in this:

1) Won't be clueful anyways, and

2) Deserves everything they get.

Re: And yet people say Sony, Microsoft, Apple & co are evil...

"Yet here we have Samsung using stolen code on stolen technology"

This is just begging for Samsung to sue you for libel, be more smart.

Re: EU should look into others

"I'm just waiting to see how the EU deals with Windows RT not even allowing other browsers at all. Ha, should be funny"

Asside from not actually being true, my guess is Microsoft's reply would be "Apple plskthx".

Keynotes

"now just someone to be a keynote speaker at the latest whatever"

Except that's not why he was there, he was speaking on behalf of Fusion-IO - whom he works for - hence the line of questioning.

Re: Meanwhile, in the UK

This is why crypto?

Also seriously London is datacenterville (meanwhile, in the UK) - it's not even like this article says anything interesting, that's why I've got my nose in the comments...

Re: It is in use

"and no they couldn't have used RFC1918 addresses as many separate organisations and networks attach to it"

Uhm.. Nonsense?

Re: Domain renewal

None of the data in that implies they forgot to renew it:

Nobody registers a domain for 9 years, it'll be 10 years from last year. Also it would have expired on the 22nd of this month even if they did which would give them at least two weeks before the spam started.

Why do I get a feeling this actually has something to do with godaddy?

Re: Don't throw out the Floppy yet!

Windows XP is long-since dead. Get virtualbox or something if you really must...

I only mention it because people like you are the barrier to wide-spread SSL SNI adoption - and a better world. Yes your SSL implementation is old.

"If customers pay it, then its not too expensive"

Or install Linux instead. Microsoft should be extremely concerned about driving customers away. I say this as a desktop customer who used to upgrade windows on release day and isn't considering any move for the long term, possibly ever.

As for them paying, nobody has paid anything yet. So at this point there's no way to tell what people will actually pay. It's meet the touchy-feely new boss, same as the old boss. Need a lot of touch guis on servers do we, Microsoft?

Re: overkill?

"Interesting that you feel that Ubi went overkill with the D.R.M... Care to explain HOW they "went overkill"?"

Not really - google it or look at some of the other comments on this page or ubi's forum. They screwed the pooch and now nobody wants to buy their games.

There's an editorial on dvice.com that sums it up nicely also covering this story titled "Dear Ubisoft, please stop releasing PC games" - better out than in because their crappy cluelessness is actively hurting the industry.