Posts by Mage
1795 posts • joined Friday 23rd November 2007 08:43 GMT
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Firefox 3.0.19?
Umm the rest of the world is on 3.6.3 at least
a la carte software model?
We have had that since the 1970s.
The Microcomputer AKA PC since 1981.
All Netbooks etc.
It's only Internet tablet "wannabees" that are really personal media players that don't have "The result will be that buyers of slates will be able to take advantage of this a la carte software model, adding only the functionality they want on their devices."
And actually you can only add the functionality that Goopple permit.
Posted in Murdoch moves for full control of Sky
Your Sky Belong us
Sky UK or all of Sky (Italia, Mexico etc)?
I wonder what he is up to. Go Private and then ..?
Although he owns less than 40% he does in effect control it. A lot of money to spend unless he plans to do something that would make more than 51% of the 60% of "others" howl.
XP look?
My XP doesn't look like that. I have a slightly edited Classic NT4/Win98 theme. I'm not 6 years old so don't need the TellyTubbies Theme,
To get drop shadow on Icon text and plain background, add a plain wallpaper of the same colour as chosen background colour, as Drop shadow only turns on with wallpaper.
Hurt US economy?
More like help it.
Phones made in China.
Apple doesn't spend it's money, thus money spent on iPhones goes to Chine and Apple's iPiggyBank, thus less money in circulation in US?
Posted in iRex Technologies heading titsup
Not a tablet
I've used pre iThing tablets. The iRex isn't a tablet, only a too expensive Reader. It's the Kindle and Nook et Al that has done it in. Not the iPad.
Mine's the one with an Archos tablet in the pocket.
D Cell
half a kilo the size of D-Cell or a D-cup?
A 500g D cell is dense stuff.
The devil is in the detail
The limits in many ways are no different to many other places. The issue is in how the Authorities interpret a rule/law being broken.
Posted in Jobs: iPhone sales spank Android
Symbian & Meego
As Symbian & meego makers do phones more relevant to US Market expect an upset. Esp. if they get offered by Operator.
46% Worldwide and 2% in US?
RIM, PalmOS and Windows are only going to lose US Share.
Meego will increase Worldwide and Symbian will only slide slightly World Wide.
Symbian and/or Meego could easily wipe out Palm & Windows and you could see Android, Apple and Symbian/Meego (not just Nokia) neck and Neck ahead of RIM.
RIM is poor outside USA.
Posted in Apple's HTML5 'standards' hype debunked
Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/document_collections/2473917
seems much better than the earlier embedded Application.
Posted in Sky snaps up Virgin TV channels
STUPID Chocolate Teapot regulators in UK!
How can it be right for someone to own the only viable UK/Ireland Sat. PayTV platform and own even more of the channels?
The Irish regulators can do ZERO.
Because Sky is Foreign and the Irish Regulators can really only regulate content uplinked from Ireland.
The ONLY thing the Irish Regulators can do is monitor the installing and Selling?
Sky are somewhat over VAT exempt limit. They do charge Irish VAT on installs, but last time I looked they "breaking" the rules and repatriating ALL subscription VAT to UK. Over a certain amount of sales you are obliged to open a local company and charge Local VAT.
Chicks
But chicks are impressed by you
carrying out trash
ironing your own shirts
sewing own buttons
washing yourself
putting down toilet set
remembering all anniversaries
buying chocolates/flowers/whatever as present anyway and ignoring the "don't get me anything this year"
lifting your castoffs into clothes bin
Dressing neat
Keeping your word
Letting them have last word
and many other things.
In reality few chicks are impressed by cars (that's to impress other men, like Clarkeson fans) and fewer chicks are impressed by gadgets, unless they actually want it and it's exclusively theirs. Otherwise it's just a boy-toy that helps reduce time you spend watching sport, drinking and womanising. So if they seem impressed, it's only because they think it will keep you from more annoying activity.
Most prefer a reliable unobtrusive car that either has an owner-driver that takes them wherever they want without argument, or that they can easily borrow and drive.
Don't believe the adverts.
Posted in Intel puts x64 in a parallel universe
yes
It runs Crysis at very high resolution and frame rate, but they forgot to put vga/displayport/DVI/HMDI or any kind of video DAC or video connector,
So you can't actually watch it running crysis. Unless you have an optical dataport fitted to your neck (those gizmos Intel prefers to USB3.0)
Mmmm
I bet Archos does a slimmer 5" pmp/video player/tablet with one of these. The A605wifi is a bit fat :)
Maybe
It's voyager returning?
Posted in Queuing for an iPad? Why?
It's OK. The price and lacks are deliberate.
There is nothing "wrong" with it, except that it's overpriced and lacks features in competition and that a later model will add.
The existing iPhone has no features that could not have been on original. I think Apple does this deliberately.
Why has is the 3G/HSPA not an easily replaceable module you can add? Because Apple want to resell the product.
Similarly they won't spend 40c on adding an SD or MicroSD card slot on any product. They want to offer a range of prices according to storage. Rather than one model with adequate built in storage and a 40c slot.
Earth Final Conflict.
If this is on the horizon I won't update my E65 phone till this is in a phone.
10" x 5.8" display in a 6" x 2" phone. Yes please.
WiMax Whole of Irish Republic?
Ha ha ha.
What spectrum will they use? There is no National Spectrum on offer till MMDS closes. LTE is the main contender.
The existing Imagine setup is giving WiMax a bad name. So much that people selling FIXED WiMax only mention specs, not that it's WiMax.
This is also where the Government pretends that 3G phone Network can provide Broadband with a max ping of 120ms, min speed of 1.2Mbps and Always On and < 20:1 content. None of these can be Guaranteed on 3G, even if it is got iHSPA+ In fact you can't g'tee these on Mobile WiMax either.
WiMax
Fixed WiMax (Aerials and even LOS) is OK. But Mobile WiMax was always a non-runner and over hyped. As is LTE.
100Mbps LTE or 42Mbps iHSPA (3G/W-CDMA) or 10Mbps Mobile WiMax are all pretty much figures ignoring the realities of multiple users, streaming video and inverse square law reducing speed to 1/4 or less everytime you double distance to mast.
Maybe in a while Shareholders will ask why Intel did this?
Here is an example of Mobile WiMax going bad. Problem is that it's 3.5GHz (poor mobile / Nomadic band) and people are NOT using it as a short bursts of use Mobile Product but as an alternative to Fixed real Broadband. When Imagine 1st started Migrating users from Ripwave to WiMax people saw improvements. As user base grows to normal performance plummets to 2.5G EDGE standards at "busy hours".
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055709982
What Imagine needed was FIXED WiMax, with Outdoor Aerials. But Intel wasn't going to foot the bill for that, even though on 3.5GHz the capacity/performance would be x16 better approx than Mobile / Nomadic with Indoor aerials. They are using some fixed outdoor aerials where the signal is poor, but unless ALL aerials are such and the parameters/ Protocol is Fixed WiMax you overall get Mobile/Nomadic 3.5GHz performance.
Posted in Windows 3.0 turns 20
NT4.0 and USB
I had USB on NT4.0
It was a deliberate marketing decision NOT to release USB on NT 4.0 as it would hurt Win2K sales. Same reason they killed SP7.
H.264
H.264 is the standard. If everyone used it how easily would revenues be charged?
Posted in Windows 3.0 turns 20
Emulation/Virtual
Win3.0 loads on 8 old PC with XP via DosBox in < 20 seconds.
DosBox is a virtual environment also available for ARM. You can trivially run 3.0 on DOSBOX on Symbian.
Posted in Windows 3.0 turns 20
Can Microsoft Count?
he logic is this:
NT variants = version 3
Windows 2000 = version 4
Windows XP =version 5
Windows Vista =version 6
Windows 7 = version 7
Actually Win7 is 6.2 or 6.3 really. see Ver. It's a SP of Vista in reality.
Windows 2008 is 6.1
First version may be 3.1 for two reasons:
1) The next 32bit MS OS after MS Version of OS/2 + Lanmanager. NT has OS/2 and LAN Manager subsystems.
2) Match DOS GUI Win numbering?
NT 3.51 is NT3.5 with the gratuitous WinAPIs added to win95 that Office 95 used and only existed to stop Office95 running on Win3.11
NT 4.0 = 4.0
Win2000 = 5.0
XP = 5.1 (a complete version of 5.x)
Windows 2003 = 5.2
DOS Versions GUI
Win1.0, a failure
Win 2.0, Win286, Win386 all 2.x versions
Win 3.0, Win 3.1, Win3.11,
Win 3.2 (Chinese?)
WFWG3.1, WFWG3.11: Versions with Client For NT Server and LanManager Peer to Peer Networking. NetBEUI by default. TCP/IP and Novell options. Support to connect to NT named Pipes but not create them.
there is a DOS WG version with Named Pipes and TCP/IP
The only extra of Win95 was Explorer and bundle all the free option add-ons that WFWG3.11 had.
Posted in Windows 3.0 turns 20
Untill NT4.0?
NT 3.1, NT3.5, NT3.51 were REAL OS and Windows. 1993 to 1995
NT4.0 was 1996
The inexplicable was not cutting price of NT3.51, offering the later explorer desktop (which was available via MSDN before NT4.0 arrived) and promoting Win95 for Business.
Win95 was a Games Console. NT3.5x was a real OS. Shame on you MS.
Also Win95 /Office 95 was still largely 16bit. No more 32bit than WinFWG3.11 + 32bit disk + Win32S + 32bit TCP/IP. NT3.5x really was 32bit.
1995 to 2002. The wasted years.
Posted in Windows 3.0 turns 20
OS/2 came later?
No. It didn't. Maybe you think of OS/2 Warp.
By 1989, a year before Win3.0, MS & IBM fell out and MS released their own MS OS/2 with LAN Manager as a Server OS.
Why do you think NT "starts" at version 3.1 in 1993?
The development of OS/2 began when IBM and Microsoft signed the Joint Development Agreement in August 1985. The first version of OS/2 was released in 1987, 3 years before Win3.0 Unlike Windows1x to Windows 3.x (non NT), it was a real OS.
At consumer end it couldn't compete with Win95 and at Server/Network end couldn't compete with NT3.x which could run all OS/2 non-GUI server/Console apps natively.
Posted in I Married a Monster from ISO 9000
That was the Anglican version?
I wonder how the Pentecostals do it?
DAB radio
Most have FM anyway, and then the own listens on the better quality FM.
I don't see any DAB Radio in Tesco or Currys with LW, MW, SW AM or LW, MW,SW DRM.
Most don't do RDS and many don't do stereo!
Many are terrible styling.
This is almost a criminal act,
Posted in Dev goes 'Wild' with H.264 Firefox
De-Facto Standard?
But MPEG4 H.264 *IS* a world-wide established standard. All new Digital Broadcast is moving to it. The only TV Digital broadcast not using it is older MPEG2 systems.
The other option is for EVERYONE to use H.264 in everything and not pay royalties. Apple can't sue everyone.
Really
I don't want anyone to have a database of Macs, SSIDs and locations. Never mind the payload.
Only a tiny fraction of WiFi airpoints are public hotspots. It's an invasion of privacy.
I don't want people to be able to type in my car registration plate or Social Security number and get my geo lat long either.
Posted in Seagate preps three terabyte whopper
FUD
I think it's nonsense to claim XP can't deal with it.
What they mean is can't do it out of the box, or may not run efficiently . But since 1993 you could add drivers for storage devices. XP out of the box won't install on SATA. (I know it's a different issue).
NT (and thus XP etc) since the beginning (1993/1994) has supported Exabyte sized file systems. It's purely a matter of suitable drivers.
Posted in SAP buys Sybase - but why?
SAP
The main problem with SAP is that their ERP is too expensive and UI clunky.
I'd never have thought of them as a DB company, Simply to have their own MS-SQL like DB to bundle with SAP ERP this sort of makes sense.
But the price seems way too high.
AFAIK there is no older MS-SQL than 6 as it's based on Sybase. Surprised that Sybase are still around and not gobbled by MS. I assumed they were, like visio etc.
Sorry
I just don't believe you can do this by accident. They got caught, public and governments don't like it so as PR they claim to stop.
But how do we know they will stop?
(What's that Wop, Wop, Wop noise?)
Beacuse
People don't want Vista, Win7, Office 2007, Office2010?
Or
Vsat terminals as long as there was no Solar Storm too!
Posted in Mozilla spills plan for, yes, Firefox 4
550Mbyte?
With this page and 2 others on 1600x1200 screen I'm using 114Mbyte on FF 3.6
Posted in WiGig gets spec and Alliance endorsement
Hah!
I sneer at your feeble WiGig. I have an ancient Sony Laser Link "wireless" video link. Uses Infra Red.
Wiki
They cheated by editing earlier today
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siphon&action=history
No Thanks!
I shall continue to have no remote content enabled, no remote images, no clicking on links, no opening attachments that are not expected AND non-executable.
None of these will be reliable.
The problem is that people do trust links and emails sadly. That's why most infected PCs actually have AV software.
ROTM revenge
This is the future otherwise
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10102398.stm
Better
Much better that the Freetardia broken idea of Creative Commons or other similar totally broken denial of rights.
Also the EU wide copyright harmonisation should have idea that creators rights can only be licensed and not purchased outright. This should also apply to people working as employees. They are employees, not slaves or serfs. You are being paid, yes, but that should only give the company exclusive licence to exploit the products, not ownership of your creative thoughts.
Posted in Motorola buys own mobile Linux firm
Flash on ARM Linux?
I've had it for two years on my Archos A605WiFi, However, now it's a 3 years out of date Flash.
So?
Where do I vote on this Article?
"Vote Early and Often" is the motto in Norn Iron. A study showed it didn't affect results as all parties do it equally.
Posted in Lindsay Lohan to pull off Linda Lovelace
so..
No connection to the Ada Lovelace film, not even a lesser known relative?
I sure the readers here are more familiar with Ada and have never heard of Linda.
Esp. Tux.
Posted in Microsoft drops second IE9 preview
H.264 is a standard
Absolutely 100% of broadcast systems replacing MPEG2 use MPEG4 /H.264
Posted in Intel wades into smartphone wars
Hmm
At more than x10 the number of transistors per CPU core I believe this is a better pocket solution than an ARM when I see it in PMPs and Phones.
Do Intel realise how cheap ARM core chips are? Do they really want to be in the $1 to $10 part of the market competing with Samsung, NXP, Freescale, National Semi, Analog Devices and everyone else that isn't Via, AMD or Intel?
Meanwhile are Microsoft hedging their bets and porting NT Aka Windows 7 to ARM?
This might compete in larger 4" screen MIDs/Phones.
Products is what counts. Not vague hints of loads of customers we can't name.
Sounds good
But I'll wait for a non-beta. As Nokia doesn't pay me.
I looked at QT before and Symbian development before. Now if the confluence is as easy as VB6, we'll be flying it.
Suspiciously dressed in regular clothing
Brilliant.
