Posts by IGnatius T Foobar

Microsoft: OIN or GTFO

That ought to be the standard response to anyone who dares to suggest that Microsoft is no longer an aggressive monopolist: "Hey Microsoft: OIN or GTFO."

Gates FAIL

No amount of "philanthropy" by Gates will make up for the decades of destruction by which he made his money. How many careers were ruined because someone dared to compete with Microsoft?

Facebook FAIL

Facebook is the worst thing ever to happen to the Internet. And as for Zuck the F**k, every time I see a picture of him I want to remove that stupid grin from his face with the back of a garden shovel.

Microsoft FAIL

What's truly important is that Windows Phone is still an also-ran that nobody wants. May it continue to be that way forever.

Still preferable

Twitter, even when it's completely down, still is better than Facebook.

The real problem...

The real problem is that the artificial construct of "copyright" still exists in the first place. Not that it matters, because 99.9% of what Hollywood spews out is utter crap anyway.

Microsoft FAIL

Any factory whose purpose is to make money manufacturing Windows Phone handsets is going to get shuttered very quickly.

How many customers have actually chosen and bought a Windows Phone? I think it numbers in the single digits. Nobody likes it, nobody wants it, everyone wishes they'd just go away.

And once Microsoft's bogus patents are busted and they have to stop extorting Android, their "mobile revenue" will drop into the ten-figure red.

Kenya

The only thing most people know about Kenya is that it is the birthplace of Barack Obama.

Apple?

Apple? Are they the company that used to be relevant when Steve Jobs was still around?

Apple?

Apple?

They're still around?

THE permanent solution

It's time to break up the monopolies again, and this time here's how to do it right.

One simple rule: anyone providing last mile connections, may not provide telecom services of any kind over those connections.

This divides the industry neatly into two groups: those who provide the wire or fiber from the central office to your home or business, and those who provide services on those wires, whether they be for Internet, television, phone, private connections, or whatever.

If it's done that way, the latter group doesn't have to be regulated at all. As long as they all have equal access to central offices, any telecom provider that gets as obnoxious as Comcast can easily be swapped out for another -- likely on the exact same wire.

Eventually some companies would pop up to be wholesalers of wireline services: "we have a presence in thousands of central offices, sell your telecom services on our network" and that would be fine too.

Apple who?

Apple? Is that the empty husk of the company that The Steve Jobs used to run? I didn't know they were still around.

VMware and KVM

VMware and KVM are one of those examples that show the focus of both proprietary and open source software. Proprietary software has to keep adding new features to justify the price tag; people don't like to think they're paying for bug fixes. Meanwhile, open source software like KVM isn't driven by the upgrade treadmill, so they focus on doing the basics better than anyone else.

When you get down into the hypervisor level, KVM is far more manageable than ESXi. But you need other stuff on top of it to make it "enterprisey."

The reason nobody will buy Dovecot

The reason nobody will buy Dovecot is because it's a pretty basic tool that anyone with a decent development team could write on their own in a very short time. The Dovecot guys have built a solid IMAP server, for sure, but at the end of the day it's just an IMAP server.

Microsoft removes 1,500 apps from WindoPhone Store...

...and the two or three actual WindoPhone users out there may or may not have noticed.

I smell payola

If the success of Munich is discarded and they downgrade to Windows, several things are clear:

1. Microsoft is supplying the Windows for free

2. There are probably millions of euros in kickbacks coming from Microsoft on the back end

In short, any change from Linux to Windows means that Microsoft finally found the right people to buy off.

New name for IE

They should just call it "Chrome/Firefox Downloader" (that's all it's useful for anyway)

Apple?

Apple? Aren't they the company that built a half-baked smartphone before Google perfected the product?

Villify Zuckerburg, not Zuckerman

Facebook is *much* worse than pop up ads.

Here's an idea

Here's an idea: Intel should just buy an ARM license and build those using its "new process." Linux runs great on ARM, and Linux is what matters for mobile devices. Trying to run any form of Windows on a tablet or phone is really just a clunky backport that nobody's really asking for.

Microsoft FAIL

Dear Microsoft,

Welcome to the OpenGL working group. Before you are permitted to have any input towards future development of the technology, you must first axe DirectX and fully support the current version of OpenGL in all of your products. No bastardization, no microsoftization, implement it as specified. Become a supporter of this open standard. Only then will you be permitted to have any input towards future development.

Microsoft FAIL

This just in: the world's least secure browser blocks a third party plugin. Nice try, Microsoft. IE is still swiss cheese.

Android+Linux FTW!

This is called "Linux kicking Microsoft's butt." How do you like your 2% market share, M$?

Apple is also demonstrating that their hope of ever being more than a distant second place died along with Steve Jobs. Let's face it: Apple without Jobs is incapable of delighting users.

VIVA LAS PENGUINISTAS!

Best reason to avoid using the FB app...

Anyone even remotely interested in privacy should avoid having the Faecesbook app installed on their mobile device. The app requires your permission to turn on the microphone whenever it wants. It can spy on you at will.

http://www.infowars.com/facebook-wants-to-listen-to-your-phone-calls/

AGW == socialism

Gotta watch out for those watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside). Climate "scientists" who claim that AGW exists are not scientists; they are lobbyists. They are socialist tools who are pushing to raise taxes on energy.

Microsoft FAIL

A messaging app whose popularity is waning, now available on a platform nobody wants. Dinosaurs mating.

Microsoft FAIL

The problem with abandoning Windows Server 2003 is that it won't be long before they also abandon support for Windows Server 2008 ... leaving Windows Phone Server 2012 as the only option. I hope all of you sysadmins have your touchscreen servers ready. Or better yet ... start moving your applications to Linux where they belong. :)

Microsoft FAIL

So this is it, Microsoft just turning into a patent troll. Moving from non-innovation by poorly imitating others' products and services, now into non-innovation by wielding bogus patents as a blunt object.

Climate alarmists are NOT scientists.

Anyone who says "the science is settled" is NOT a scientist. Science is never settled; it always wants to be tested, experimented, learned. Climate alarmists are not scientists; they are political lobbyists who have made up a fictional story, and an even more fictional "concensus," to justify the increased taxation of energy.

Abusive relationship

Facebook users are in an abusive relationship. They keep thinking that Facebook is going to change, that it's going to somehow have a change of heart and stop beating the crap out of them. Guess what kids, it's not going to change. It's time to quit Facebook.

Russia WIN

If they're willing to source their own microprocessors to get out from under American-designed silicon then that means they're probably also wanting to do the same with the operating system. This means a win for Linux in some form, and that's always a good thing.

Microsoft FAIL

The nice thing about doing this stuff in a declarative language is that after the Microsoft-led fad of ugly UI's with blocky 2-D stuff finally fades, the same declarative language will compile down to code that drives the attractive and usable UI that comes later.

Hopefully we will settle down somewhere between the ugly 2-D extreme and the unusable skeuomorphic extreme. We want buttons that are 3-D enough to stand out and look like buttons, but not so photorealistic that you need a thousand pixels to show every detail.

Microsoft says...

Microsoft says... "Pleeeeeeeease use our lovely open source C# compiler so that we can slap you with a patent lawsuit the moment you have a successful product!"

Microsoft FAIL

So ... the Windows Phone that nobody wants, branded Nokia, will become the Windows Phone nobody wants, branded Microsoft. Nothing really changes here. Android still rules the roost, Apple still rakes in the megabucks, Microsoft still has a phone nobody wants, and a desktop that's been bastardized to look like the phone nobody wants.

Face it Satya, you've got a losing product that will continue to lose. The sooner you abandon it and start producing top-shelf applications for Android and iOS, the sooner you'll be able to start recording "mobile revenue" that comes from something other than patent extortion.

Bollocks

Real Americans know that the whole "man made global warming" scam is just that: a scam. The fact that global warming stopped and the commies had to rename it "climate change" and attribute it to every weather event that would have happened anyway is proof.

This whole thing is being pushed by socialists both inside and outside of the US borders who want to accelerate the decline of America. Carbon TAXES are a great way to push that agenda along.

No matter what kind of energy one proposes, there are always a bunch of "watermelons" (green on the outside, red on the inside) finding a reason to knock it down. Guess what, kids: the answer is, in the words of Jethro Tull, "Nuclear -- the better way!"

Tizen FAIL

While it is admirable of Samsung to attempt controlling more of their software stack, the fact is, we already have a declared winner in the volume market for a mobile Linux operating system. It's called Android. It has utterly dominated mobile (partially at the hands of Samsung itself) and is now in the process of dominating tablets, is creeping onto other devices, and is even starting to make inroads on the desktop.