Re: Apple support
Apple's software support would have a lot more fans if they didn't release service packs as a new OS every year just so they can say sorry we only support security updates for the current version and the last version (ie 2 years).
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Apple beckons fanbois back into its golden era... of, er, 2010
Wednesday 18th September 2013 22:00 GMT
Apple support
One poster wrote: "I really like how apple supports their devices."
Guess he didn't buy one of the original iPADs then in which case apple only supported it for about two years with ios updates. They pull tricks on the desktop/laptop side also but at least there you can go with Linux or Windows (security updates and even new versions) which will support Mac hardware years after Apple quits supporting it. Apple is a hardware company first and looks at software only as a way to sell hardware.
Google fluffs DEATH DEFEATING startup Calico
You thought slinging Photoshop into the cloud would fail? Look who's laughing NOW
Wednesday 18th September 2013 21:39 GMT
Re: The real reason for the laughing
Except money is not always a reliable predictor of success of a mega software project. Sometimes small rather cheap teams can do amazing things and sometimes you get massive team epic fails like OS2 or at least half of EA's titles. A massive amount of money will usually ensure a project gets completed but the end product quality can differ massively.
Leaked docs: NSA 'Follow the money' team slurped BANK records, CREDIT CARD data
Wednesday 18th September 2013 20:55 GMT
More proof
Yet more proof Bin Laden though dead and gone won. He probably knew all he needed to do was give an excuse for the jagoffs inside the system to start undermining democracy from the inside out. They would be much more effective than him and his buddy goat farmers at changing our values.
Open source Android fork Cyanogen becomes $7m company
Torvalds shoots down call to yank 'backdoored' Intel RdRand in Linux crypto
Tuesday 10th September 2013 18:19 GMT
Re: I think Torvalds is losing it
I guess we should just be glad one of the world's great coders (speed he got git up and running proved that) only has some sociopath tendencies. He could be in jail for murder like that idiot Reiser. Lol as almost all on here know computer skillz != people skillz.
Tuesday 10th September 2013 17:49 GMT
no surprise
Randomness is a remarkably complex mathematical topic. It seems easy enough but is remarkably easy for the layman (like me sadly) to screw up and misunderstand. Still my guess is he means it might spit out verifiable random numbers today but if some magic date(s) (such as around 9/11 every year for example) is hit it suddenly by a slight bit doesn't for example. Just trusting a black box and verifying outputs has more than once in science been accepted as dogma and held things back.
Microsoft does a U-turn, releases Windows 8.1 to developers early after all
ICAHN'T with this guy: Activist investor gives up battle with Big Mike
Monday 9th September 2013 16:51 GMT
hmm
Isn't it funny how the free market types always like saying well if you want to change things money talks, and then when somebody with money does what they don't like, they get all bent? I thought money always flows where it deserves and the market takes care of all. I am not saying he is not a douche just that the holy system is as responsible for his actions as anything.
Finns, roamers, Nokia: So long, and thanks for all the phones
Friday 6th September 2013 23:35 GMT
Re: I *really* want one of the Nokia imaging units in my next phone...
>and not a game, please.
Yeah because games never drive hardware sales especially in the consumer space huh? There probably wouldn't be a windows monopoly on PC in the home if not for DirectX. I remember a lot of people sticking with DOS instead of W95 due to a lack of gaming prowess.
Now we know why UK spooks simply shrugged at SSL encryption
Friday 6th September 2013 20:41 GMT
Re: The code-ring on the golf course
>There aren't enough hard drives in the world for the NSA to be archiving all of the internet traffic from across the world... not even just the encrypted stuff.
You do know the majority of the information (protocol stuff aside) is sitting on one hard drive to begin with and often on two or more right? Gaming and VOIP traffic (which still do often get recorded, see black ops 2 theater feature) make up a very small portion of traffic compared to porn videos, netflix and warez which are all on media storage.
Crack open those wallets: Microsoft is raising software prices AGAIN
Microsoft, Nokia and the sound of colliding garbage trucks
Australia's anti-smut internet filter blueprint lasts LESS THAN A DAY
Forget Mars: Let's get someone on the Moon – NASA veteran
Wednesday 4th September 2013 21:54 GMT
Re: Bah!
>Notwithstanding the fact that the original moon landing were a publicity stunt as much as a serious scientific endeavor
Publicity stunt is a definitely a more polite term than I would use (ie. US dick waving). At first reading I thought I was going to read drivel from a moon landing hoax birther but quickly realized my mistake.
Ofcom launches idiot's guide to traffic-shaping
Wednesday 4th September 2013 20:49 GMT
net neutrality shouldn't be needed
The market could take care of this if the telecom/internet/wireless market was truly open but in many countries they are so heavily regulated to the point where the barrier of entry is so high the few big incumbent players are virtually guaranteed no new competition (in US cable market local monopolies are the norm). Commanding heights is such a fail it will bite you in the ass for decades after the decision.
Wednesday 4th September 2013 20:43 GMT
Re: illegal for anyone to pay extra for a decent Netflix connection
>be more upfront about contention ratios and the like, but there's a chance they'd just confuse people.
And they would just confuse people trying to explain why they make Netflix nearly unwatchable but due to the big kickback from Hulu they deliver it first at the expense of all other traffic. The confuse people excuse is a load of horse shit.
Xbox One launch date REVEALED - and it's on the 360's birthday
Wednesday 4th September 2013 19:55 GMT
Re: Version One.0
Yep definitely waiting until after the holidays before deciding and buying. I hate both companies about equal so in no rush to buy right away. Leaning PS4 because I resent spending $100 more on a stupid novelty hardware device I have no interest in (Kinnect). I almost wish Nintendo had any kind of the third party support so they were a viable option.
Give us a break: Next Android version to be called 'KitKat'
Wednesday 4th September 2013 17:42 GMT
Re: Hershey's chocolate
I forgot about one thing Hersey's makes I can stand. Their chocolate syrup is ok if you were raised on it. Like using to make chocolate milk or to top vanilla ice cream. Its not really chocolate and is probably still an acquired taste but knew there was something they made I could tolerate.
Microsoft's $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected
Wednesday 4th September 2013 17:35 GMT
Re: Shame
Notice every single thing you have named were purchased back when Billy G was running things on a day to day basis? Have to give the man credit for being so good in the late 80s and early 90s to allow the company to not only print money in the 90s but coast on autopilot for ten years after that making bank.
Tuesday 3rd September 2013 17:14 GMT
Re: Nokia is more than a single division
>remain as an independant company, just not making phones any more.
Well considering they killed most of their internal software on the phone side I am sure this is just a small bump and they will be just as big a few years from now. Probably not of course but they might actually start making money again I guess.
Snide hashtags, F1 cars, death by PowerPoint: I'm sick of EMC hypegasms
ICANN destroys Google's dotless domain dream
Intel's new top-dog desktop 'Extreme' CPU fails to excite geekerati
Wednesday 4th September 2013 00:34 GMT
wow
The world really has changed. I remember when these releases were followed for months and people knew by heart the chipsets and sockets involved. Been years since I cared. I game just fine on my Mac Pro desktop I bought in 2007 which is simply dual core dual socket with an ancient ATI 48xx series card. Of course the on real shooter I play on the desktop is Counter strike which isn't that taxing. Still the days of new processors and new cards opening up new killer apps and games is past.
Researcher bags $12,500 after showing how to hack Zuck's pics
Vodafone, can you get a signal at the top of your $130bn Verizon cash pile?
Tuesday 3rd September 2013 17:30 GMT
Re: Nothing to the taxman?
Bah quit arguing. Of course anything have to do with shares is going to have no tax in most places and very low tax in others. Its the whole golden rule about those with gold (share owners) making the rules. They let the middle class in some of course but put all kinds of rules on the rift raft's pensions and mutual funds.
Finally it happens: MAN BITES DOG - after stabbing himself
Tuesday 3rd September 2013 16:58 GMT
Re: asdf maybe
Sorry Matt but wrong as usual. No I didn't grow up in a house on the hill but have never been arrested or even questioned by police. I have had a few friends that got DUIs when they were younger but that is all. When you don't grow up in a house exactly like all the other houses in the suburbs you hear a bit more about life from other people, some of which are warnings of course. This just reinforces my impression of you being a posh jagoff. The kind that talks about bootstrapping himself to success never mentioning his mommy and daddy paid for his college. Your friends may have gotten in trouble with the law but their daddy's made sure it didn't escalate past a slap on the wrist.
Monday 2nd September 2013 05:36 GMT
maybe
I have a feeling most of the damage to the suspect was not caused by the dog in the US case. Everybody I have ever known that took a swing at a cop either got put in the hospital (cops are a pack animal after all) or didn't have a fun time in jail afterwards (suicide watch often means your naked for days in a cold concrete cell, and yes cops do talk to the boys down at the jail). In general though if you are fighting with a police dog you are a nut stain who probably deserves what you get.
Myst: 20 years of point-and-click adventuring
Tuesday 3rd September 2013 16:46 GMT
Troll time
>But puzzle solving is timeless, and so is adventure gaming
It is timeless. It has been garbage since invented and still is today. The only time I don't hate puzzle solving in a game is when it is so well done that I hardly realize I am solving a puzzle (think Half life). Even friggin Uncharted (2, 3) with its juvenile puzzles annoyed me. Yes there are visceral thinking gamers and then there are twitch killers that simply love blowing shit up and tea bagging other players corpses and I am definitely of the latter. Oh and RTS blows too.
Baffled boffins 'closer' to finding origins of extragalactic COSMIC RAYS
Boffins follow TOR breadcrumbs to identify users
Monday 2nd September 2013 05:50 GMT
>Sorry, BitTorrent fans, your traffic is extremely vulnerable over time
Good because if you are running bittorrent over Tor you are officially an ass nine muppet. Tor has many good uses but lame piracy using volunteer resources means your the kind of guy that shits all over a public restroom for teh lulz.
Are you for reel? How the Compact Cassette struck a chord for millions
Sunday 1st September 2013 04:44 GMT
Re: Fascinating article
Granted cassettes were the bomb for early copying of CDs but when it came to tape drives for computers they were pants. Kids today have no idea what its like for a game to literally take 15 minutes to load. So I guess at my age its a bit of love hate with the tech. I am sure if I would have owned more 8 tracks or lugged around a reel to reel I would loved cassettes more for how compact they were.
Oracle revs up Sparc M6 chip for seriously big iron
Saturday 31st August 2013 16:52 GMT
Re: re: Wow somebody doesn't understand the market worth a damn.
>No one is using Power/Cell in their new game consoles.
Wii U CPU - Tri-Core IBM PowerPC "Espresso"
Granted its not selling worth a damn but the volume of consoles has done a lot to help IBM justify making chips. In the future we will see.
I understand HPC is not where the profits are but they are one use I see not disappearing any time soon. Deny all you want but sales of non x86 proprietary Unix boxes are dying on their ass.
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