Posts by m0rt

Also handy for that other bastion of corporate steadfastness, SCO

What a bunch of DCX...

That's Telecom company DMAing buggered then.

So if your new phone numbers aren't working....

"GfK floats another reason for flagship fatigue: vendors aren't giving consumers the features they really value. GfK's consumer panel cited "good battery life" as the most important feature of a phone – but batteries have got smaller this year. Meanwhile, the company notes, "water resistance has become a feature of many devices over the last 12-18 months, but this doesn't even make the top 10 of most important features when buying a new device"."

All of that. And...suprisingly, regular updates/patches would be a good pull. The new branded Nokia phones are making a big thing of this, and Blackberry.

Doesn't this also show the current trend regarding 'news' as nothing more than rehashing gossip and hear-say?

Didn't news used to be about checking references, ensuring that what you are stating as news has been checked and cross checked with verifiable sources?

Our addiction to updates, ('Breaking News' from BBC website is pretty much 'Breaking News - we have some Breaking News' when you click on the article), is basically ensuring anything at all is now considered news. I still think that Al Jazeera is one of the better news agencies out there. The BBC is even more risible because it used to be the example to be followed. Not the slow sad decline into mediacrityy it is now.

Bah..in my day nostalgic vitriol blah blah blah...

""We believe that advertising and editorial should be split. We do the best job we can with computers and such to give you the best search result content. We don't do pay for placement," said Page.

Sounds like another era."

And this is what happens. Money starts to influence all decision makers, the one at the top end up in a protected circle of people who both feed and reflect back the ethos that generally colours all positions of wealth and power.

All political ideals are lost. Lost touch with any kind of 'doing good' you thought you were achieving as an excuse for chasing after money.

So you become the big, faceless corporate powerhouse that you at one time despised. Well done, Google, you have hit the heady heights of IBM, HP, Microsoft et al and you can now see what awaits you. You will become irrelevant as you lose more and more touch as you try to control more and more. Sure you have years of your dotage left, but as long as you keep worshipping at your own alter, you will kind of end up as one of Pratchett's small gods. Belief in something that no longer exists. Just a shell. A body on life support, al the signs are there except that which makes it a person.

Don't worry, though, Facebook is fast on your heels.

You can't stop the signal.

Shit. This is what happens when I comment before two cups of coffee...

Long term LO user here on mac and linux. Apart from the odd weird bug, like LO affecting video perfromance across the board for some bizarre reason, I prefer it over the MS offering, not for political reasons, but because it pretty much does what I expect it to. MS Excel is just plain difficult to work with. It tries to be helpful, and does weird things to longer numbers assuming it knows better what you want than you do yourself. *

So here is a thing, if you make something so complicated that it starts to second guess you, then the argument goes stop making it that complicated in the first place.

*Excel and phone numbers has long been a bane of my existance...and yes, I know about formatting etc.

"We built these tools to help people connect and to bring us closer together, and they used them to try to undermine our values."

*Vomit*

"What they did is wrong, and we are not going to stand for it."

OH RLY?

"We're also building new AI to detect bad content and bad actors, just like we've done with terrorist propaganda"

Define bad content...because pretty much most marketing is 'bad' content.

"I am dead serious about this."

You sound like you mean it. I, however, just cannot take you seriously.

Sorry, don't like facebook, don't like the faux values they claim to uphold. So this is just an excuse to be infantile and post a vacuous comment.

Pretty much like his, really.

AMP will die

It will disappear. It will be quietly dropped, or rather given a new name, which is similar to the name of another project, then they will be 'merged for efficiency', then that will be it. Quietly dropped.

The web is a mess. Pages of trackers and ads, which ironically, google is king at, and it has had its toll. We have faster computers to serve ever more complex pages, to ever more complex computers/tablets and we are in a loop of 'progress' without any real refinement.

Someone will come along to, excuse me for this, 'disrupt' the current thinking. When that happens people will flock to that, the ease of use, transparancy, speed, simplicity. Then the entire loop begins again...

"Dell confirmed it lost control of the domain to The Register"

Sooo - you admit it was you guys?

First post!

Wait....userfriendly.org flashback....wonder if that is still a thing?

"In the tech industry, we're never really sure which is more important: the tool, or how people use the tool."

"with many doubts that IT's not up to the task of transforming to the point where they can reliably create, refine, and run software"

Two statements that stand out, for me at least, why there is still issues with software despite it now becoming (has become?) a mature industry.

Ultimately it is the users and the consumers, of the software that should be put first. Because the software is pretty much that - the interface between a person and allowable actions, and data stored on objects and/or persons. If you forget that, then you will ultimately build your software in such a way that it will have flow paths that are at odds with what it will be used for.

Failing often, in my book, is not optional when you are dealing with either a critical system or confidential data. I think Agile gets a bad rap because there are lots of things that get ascribed to Agile, that are not really part of the 'manifesto'. Failing often, for example. The manifesto states Working software...

Agile got co-opted into a term which gets plastered over any shop's dev process as a way of saying 'me too', similar to the way TWAT™ gets used. It is a way to cover up having to explain what you really mean.

Anyway, i cringe when I see the term DevOps. I know plenty of Devs who shouldn't be allowed near infrastructure, and plenty of Ops that shouldn't program. There is different set of drivers for both, rightly so. Otherwise, if the be-all and end all was a jack of alltrades, then why do we have security professionals?