Posts by Truffle

One 'accidental' lapse and its "I told you so"

This is but a short lived 'victory'.

In a few months, maybe a year or two to be sure, there will be an act of 'terrorism' that will slip past the NSA and FBI 'Accidentally'.

An investigation will take place and it will be found that the alphabet agencies were unable to stop the event because they came up on a brick wall when trying to collect the required data.

Cue "we told you so" and the allowance of even greater surveillance, all in the name of protecting peoples freedoms.

No videos of the 'moving target' changing direction though. It's always on a straight and level trajectory.

I'd be interested to see a video where the 'target' moves left after moving right or up and down.

I'm just disappointed that they are not landing in some secret volcano base.

Elon Musk needs to work on his Bond Villain.

So, basic rule of building an effective and efficient team? Make sure the team consists of all the people needed to get the entire job done (preferably the minimum number).

And put them all in the same room.

By splitting up all these contracts into lots of small 'specialist' contracts, all they're doing is adding a massive amount of inefficiency into the process. I wonder if they will track how much time is wasted waiting for replies to queries and requests to/from other companies.

I can see huge out of date gantt charts on the walls now, and the words "oh well we are waiting on X to complete Y before we can continue...we've emailed them, but they haven't replied yet.".

Defending Subsrcriptions

I use the folowing Adobe Products on a regular basis:

Indesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

Lightroom

Muse

The current subscription model is the ONLY way i could afford to 'own' all these products.

I can easily budget a small monthly amount for it and know that every month or so i'll get new features to explore.

Before this, the one off cost of this package would simply be too expensive. I would have to download a torrent, then wait a year to get any new features (from the next version) and I wonder how many people who are complaining about the subscription model use an illegal version of the software anyway!

Adobe, masters of the trend

What impresses me most about Adobe is they are never behind for long.

A most recent example is Adobe Muse. It was clear that websites were getting more and more graphics-centric. Graphics artists, illustrators etc all want to create compelling websites/content but dont have the HTML skills to do it.

Adobe recognise this and develop Muse. A fantastic package for people like me who want a gorgeous website but don't know how to program it.

Some people might say that Adobe Flash was their first attempt at this sort of package but it was never designed to be used to create entire websites with. Graphic designers just saw what could be done with it and went mental.

The number of Flash websites that popped up almost overnight, and then disappeared just as quickly when they found their content was invisible to search engines. (and the rise of the search engine as the internet engine of choice).

Adam Sandler

Bet you cant survive an Adam Sandler marathon.

Education just got more interesting

For me, the biggest winner in this technology would be teaching.

Imagine history lessons, where you don't learn about the Battle of the Bulge, but you walk around in it, experience it. Or stand in the crowd at a Martin Luther King speech.

Science lessons where you can explore the surface of planets....

Muscle, not fat

Apart from one sentence at the end, the entire article misses the vital information that muscle weighs far more than fat. There are many, many people (especially as, in the last 5 years or so, people really are getting on the health 'bandwagon') like myself, who fall into the 'overweight' category despite having sub 15% bodyfat.

Whether the brackets for the height of people being measured is accurate, its a person's composition which vitally isn't measured in any way using BMI.

Says more about Reg readers

Who cares that Microsoft is now implementing this?

Its not like people have been screaming for it to start with, and by the looks of things its not Microsoft who are hailing it as some revolution like the numerous commentards above suggest.

These are leaked videos from unofficial sources.

Now, if Microsoft have a big fancy launch event and regale us with how this is the 'next wave in desktop' or whatever, then i retract my remarks but at the moment this is more about Reg readers seeing an opportunity to get on their high horses than M$ Marketing hyping up a non-feature.

Holy smokes

I was so shocked my this article...

I had to sit down.

Excellent news....

The irony is, if this was Microsoft making this level of profits, there would be Anti-competition lawsuits, European and US Federal judgements and Microsoft having to apologise for dominating a market with a single product.

Becuase its Apple though, they make nice shiny things which look pretty, awwwww they're fine. We dont want to sue them!

I wonder how long this attitude will last before Apple are seen as the mighty oppressive overlord.

Predictions?

Jet Packs, Hover Boards, Skyways, and robot butlers of course! (for the consumer, not just proof of concepts)

The results are heavily skewed surely. Just looking at the Top PC games shows Football Manager 2012 & 2011 as 1 and 2 respectively. Now lets be fair here, Football Manager 2011 would have gained sales from Jan-Dec. Whilst 2012 only Oct-Dec or Skyrim would be Nov-Dec!

Surely these results should be divided by the number of days in the year that the titles were actually on sale for?

Have these people not heard of 'hands free'?

If not, they can enjoy some 'facetime' before they grab their phone and facetime.