Posts by TheVogon

Re: Standardised connector

" I recognise that they may quite legitimately have simply tried to improve on Micro USB."

They tried to improve the cash return over using Micro USB....

"And most of the non-idiots can trace their direct lineage to Scotland or Ireland."

Ahh yes - all those prison ships full of the scum of the earth....It was a better model imo than letting them hang round London railway stations abusing passers by with a can of Super Tenants in hand....

Re: Combi boilers v Old Boilers

Over 90% actually...

Re: About time for SIM to go

Starts at $799 PER SERVER ?! What planet are they on?

Re: Lost strategy

"Ok, Nokia are in the shit "

No, Nokia are now a profit making business with lots of cash and plenty of credit lines (and were forecast to head back into profit this quarter even if they hadn't sold their mobile business). Nokia have always leveraged their IP assets. For instance against Apple:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20070970-37/apple-agrees-to-pay-nokia-patent-licensing-fees/

" "a bloated public sector"

If every one is complaining of massive cuts to services how can this be?"

Because Labour added ~800,000 public sector employees (mostly up North of course) in their last stint of wasting tax payers' money and subsidising freeloaders...Even with drastic cuts, it takes a while to reverse that kind of profligacy...

"target practise"

An organisation renting them out as targets? Or did you mean target practice?

Re: Erm

"A zero-day (or zero-hour or day zero) attack or threat is an attack that exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in a computer application, meaning that the attack occurs on "day zero" of awareness of the vulnerability. This means that the developers have had zero days to address and patch the vulnerability"

Re: At this rate...

"Office is now losing market share to both QuickOffice and iWorks"

Clearly you would like to think so, but that simply isn't the case. Office is still growing revenue - especially via Office 365 which is growing rapidly:

http://betanews.com/2013/06/03/shock-survey-37-of-orgs-plan-to-adopt-office-365-within-24-months/

Re: Birds of a feather

Hardly surprising the French security services are reverse engineering things. Anything to do with the French military always has historically gone much faster in reverse.....

Re: Confused

"Ubuntu is always free"

If your time has no value....

Re: About time!

Will considering Silverlight and .Net are installed on pretty much ever Windows PC, if those bugs were actually realistically exploitable (e.g. just visit a web page) then I would have expected to see exploits. But I havn't....which says to me that Java's security sucks a lot more...

"Apple will probably (finally) push proper security forward with fingerprints"

LOL, I think that use of that (at least ten years old) system will be short lived in mobile phone devices. I'm betting it won't be too long before an iPhone theft involves the use of a meat cleaver:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396831.stm

Re: even office documents have their own compression

"Sure. If you use the Office 2010 format."

Actually, Microsoft Office started using the "zip" archive format in 2003 for their Office Open XML .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc. files, which became the default file format with Microsoft Office 2007...

Re: simpler to move to FLOSS?

Citrix Xen Desktop?

Perhaps not the best example of Microsoft's uniqueness....

There are plenty of features that Microsoft does have that are a long way ahead of the competition though. A good example would be Dynamic Access Control....

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/05/22/introduction-to-windows-server-2012-dynamic-access-control.aspx

Re: Management

It's a pretty good product too....

Yep - their advertising is terrible.

Similar issues with O2 advert here. I have had to disable Flash for this site now...

Re: KitKat?

That's the crappy US copy that uses Hershey's vomit flavoured 'chocolate'. The real KitKat site is here: http://www.kitkat.co.uk/content

Re: I'd prefer the term 'Faffing'

Sure - I bet you £1 that VMWare's % share of the Hypervisor market shrinks for each of the next 3 years...

2 WP OS versions is hardly comparable to the hundreds of flavours of fragmented Android....

See http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/17975_What_apps_are_incompatible_wit.php

"Out of 149,078 currently live (active) content items that we are currently tracking in the Windows Phone 8 Store, 331 (0.24%) are not compatible with 512MB devices. When just looking at the games category, which has the highest proportion of incompatible content items, these figures are 65 out of 17,029 items (0.361%)