Posts by asdf
2589 posts • joined Saturday 7th April 2007 06:10 GMT
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Re: Hmm
And for the record I don't consider leaks of alpha quality software as being released.
Hmm
My guess is three years from now WinRT will be as dead as sliverlight and or at best folded into another framework. As for the supposed platform convergence based on the fact the WP8 SDK is MIA so close to launch the next year and half are going to be a train wreck for Microsoft.
Re: Of course...
>I wonder why that wasn't mentioned?"
>It isn't true?
When has little things like facts ever slowed down the greed crowd? The vast majority of them worship a sky fairy and a zombie they call Jesus who they believe wants them to be rich.
ruh roh raggy
>He notes that a stable development kit and software interfaces are still missing in action.
Wow its really looking grim for Nokia then. For Microsoft they will be ah darn another failed platform/technology (WM, Kin, Silverlight) we will abandon and use as a tax write off to offset the billions that continue to roll in off Windows/Office. Nokia is learning why Sendo is no longer with us.
everyone knows
The only "sysadmins" not comfortable with the command line and scripting are mouth breathing window licker MCSEs praying to make it to retirement before Windows becomes irrelevant. Not all windows admins mind you. I have seen some doing some impressive stuff with the power shell.
also
Lets all take a minute and salute the Vita for doing something it doesn't always do and that is selling more units worldwide last week than the PSP. Total sales to date for the Velveeta is now 2.5 million. Fail.
Re: Watch out, Sony!
The difference is Apple can get away with said douche baggery due to their bling cult status. Demand for Sony products on the other hand is about on par with Sharp. Even Samsung is cooler than Sony now.
Re: If this isn't a problem specific to the Vita...
OMG a vita owner wow!! You sir are a rare breed. Almost as rare a breed as a WP7 owner.
Re: Java VM = malware portal
>Applications have no security except for those placed on the current user.
Actually especially in windows this is not always true as well. A lot of malware takes advantage also of exploits in the OS to give itself root privileges instead of just the current user privileges.
Re: Java VM = malware portal
You can also include Oracle is bragging how secure java is also. Right on the download page it tells people "Java technology allows you to work and play in a secure computing environment.".
Re: Java VM = malware portal
>Applications have no security except for those placed on the current user.
Funny that isn't the line Sun used to push Java. Something about being able fine tune permissions on the vm. But then again when your vm sandbox can easily be breached you are correct that your app then has no security (http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2012/03/20/an-interesting-case-of-jre-sandbox-breach-cve-2012-0507.aspx). My point is the JRE is starting to accumulate CVE criticals as fast as Adobe's crap ware.
Re: Assets/Performance
They have cornered the market on crap security/monitoring ware that brings your computer to its knees and is harder to remove than a rootkit. Well maybe not cornered as McAfee is right there if they falter and release high quality software.
Re: Duh!
And as for win32 not running on phones or tablets that would only matter if anyone actually owned a phone or tablet running WP8 or win8 (funny how that works when you are years late to a market). As you can see they are trying to leverage their desktop to force developers to develop for WinRT but in the end all they are going to do is Vistaize (not sure of verb form here) another desktop release.
Re: I bought. It's nice. I prefer it to iOS, which I also have.
Simply because most web devs are hacks and don't develop web sites that work worth a shit on anything but the desktop (and no making a m.crappycompany.com site with functionality cut down to only text doesn't cut it either)
Re: I bought. It's nice. I prefer it to iOS, which I also have.
What you don't have however is a multi core processor or an external sd card. Why? Because M$ thinks its still 2007 and doesn't support or allow either.
Re: Duh!
You really think that even in 3 years from now their will be more machines running windows 8 and wp8 than all other windows versions? WinRT apps are not backwards compatible where as win32 is forward compatible. Even on the desktop Win8 is going to be Vista 2 or Windows ME 3. There will be no corporate refresh cycle on win8 so there goes the enterprise right there. WinRT is Silverlight all over again.
Re: The top-loading PS3 is pure garbage. If Sony releases that they are just idiots
>where your quality is so low that customers associate you with Chinese no name brands
See Sony BRAVIA for example.
Java VM = malware portal
This has less to do with Mac vs Windows security as it has to do with Oracle continuing Sun's tradition of a bloated insecure slow memory hungry crap VM implementation. Really the only bigger unintentional malware portal you can install on your computer is Adobe Flash and Reader.
Re: THEY are watching
>how many doctors will state that murdoch is unfit for trial for a fee in the US?
That particular defense actually doesn't work well in the US which is much of the reason for the outrage over Scotland letting the Lockerbie convict free. We regularly put 90+ year old people on trial. Lol vengeance over humanitarian over here. Murdoch best defense is to simply buy Presidents and Congressmen by bribing their superpacs.
Re: The top-loading PS3 is pure garbage. If Sony releases that they are just idiots
Reducing build quality to increase profits works in the short term usually but at some point you have your Schlitz moment where your quality is so low that customers associate you with Chinese no name brands or worst you make international news in a bad way. This is the type of short sided thinking that destroys brands.
good job
>A month after that announcement, the cuts reached the executive suite, with nearly one in five of its top execs taking the fall.
Wow that is how you really save money and "drive simplicity, speed of decisions and agility". Too bad too few companies realize layoffs should almost always start at the top and filter down.
why this case is special
The world is full of patent trolls but whats different is Kodak is trying to short circuit what few sanity checks the legal system has on patents through bankruptcy court. I hope the lawyers eat up so much they never come out of Chapter 11.
wow
The UK seems to have almost a 3rd world level of corruption when it comes to the government and private contractors. Its bad in the US also but generally the cockups don't rise to the level as seen in the UK.
Re: Just the tip of the iceberg
>These are just the ones that we get to know about because they have last names that do not indicate European heritage (cough token brown/asian people to make examples of).
There fixed it for ya.
Re: Googlerola
>Why are Google and Microsoft both going to be making hardware if OEMs are so great at what they do?
In Google's case I don't think it had much to do with hardware at all. The Motorola purchase was all about patent defense against the Apple sue machine so that Apple would have to go after Google instead of its partners. I wouldn't be surprised if Google really winds down the hardware Moto is putting out (lol do they still make phones?).
Re: No surprise or issues here that I see
>because no one is creating new jobs.
So when the Republicans talk about the rich as job creators they are being hypothetical eh? Hypocritical is more like it.
what this is really about
The french are just doing this as a back door way to eliminate more dirty english words from their "pure" country.
Re: Actually it's true
And in addition Dalvik actually allows a developer to write the app they want instead of having to use the complete joke gimp that is Java ME. The article doesn't address just how much different things would be today if Sun/Oracle's retarded artificial market segmentation hadn't insisted on the Java SE not being allowed on smart phones. The platform would really have been ubiquitous then.
Re: Sparc fanbois are hilarious
Not so sure. Yes there are still some Solaris fanbois around but I haven't heard anyone outside of Oracle use the term SPARC without dead, dog shit or dog slow in quite some time.
no surprises
IBM as usual is a full generation behind Intel x86 on process size (45 nm is so four years ago) with x86 breathing down its neck performance wise for a fraction of the cost. What saves IBM is the volume they do on gaming consoles where x86 compatibility is not desired. Still glad to have another player out there and one who realized the Cell BE SPEs were a mistake and quickly killed the idea when the market spoke.
not to be a dick
But I guess this experiment will succeed in setting a baseline of knowing how not to find WIMPS. My prediction is they find nothing. It will be the gravity wave detector all over.
wow
Well you have the broken English of an Eastern European hacker if nothing else.
Re: Washington?
Oops looks like from other posters this is one of those rare islands of southern redneck red in a very liberal state.
Re: Washington?
In the south liberal democrat areas tend to be isolated islands that still have to of course go by state law. Let me guess no strip clubs because its mostly retired old people like most of Florida?
Clovis
I had the misfortune of having to go there for a sporting event and wow what a dump. Being New Mexico its roads are very poorly maintained. Being very close to West Texas there is nothing to do and nothing around for miles. I went into the one convenience store in town and wanted to get some things for the road when I noticed a few local cops were reading the riot act to some dumb yocal teen who was caught shoplifting. I went to buy the things and the hick clerk freaked out when I tried to buy it with a credit card. He was like I'm sorry we don't take those (which in America is very very unusual). "You will have to go to ATM." I was like ok where? He told me the only one in town was in the bank which was closed because it was the weekend. Didn't get my food, never been back to that crap hole and haven't missed it a bit.
Re: @edge_e
People in the UK might get tired of it but then again they don't have school boards trying to push creationism as valid science in their schools. Lucky bastards.
Re: Washington?
If fact it looks like this area is near Seattle. You don't get much more liberal than this area. You pretty much can smoke a joint in public and not go to jail.
Washington?
Parts of it are very rural but its not very redneck. In fact I think Washington allows full nude strip clubs with alcohol (don't laugh but in us can tell how redneck state is by strip club laws lmfao).
all I can think of
""Why you must to pay for content, already included in purchased app? I think, you must not," he said.
Whenever I hear a Russian butcher the English language I can only think of one phrase, You're Winner!.
hmm
Wonder if the sequel will be defending Tibet which they will claim has always been Chinese from the evil outside rest of the world.
not quite
Or it could be the other sites can not be unambiguously proven to be the age some publicity seeking professor who need to publish to get tenure claims it is.
Re: not that much of a stretch
Especially check out the anti American rhetoric in the Pedra article coming from some butt hurt Brazilian editor. Wikipedia can be so petty and such a joke sometimes.
not that much of a stretch
14,000 years I can buy, 50,000 like these id10ts tried to claim not so much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(archaeological_site)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Furada_sites
Re: Everyone knows...
Well considering I grew up near both trust me you don't want to visit either. Not only are they dumps but they are fairly rural dumps as well.
