Posts by Ocular Sinister
175 posts • joined Friday 29th August 2008 13:03 GMT
Re: Bingo
> I'd rather live in a policed state than a robber or terrorist state.
Then you, sir, are a coward.
I don't really care much, but...
Surely we must be due for a female doctor by now?
Re: Clever people make. Clever people break!
Or you block mirrorad.com at your firewall...
Two words spring to mind:
Mirror and Black, but not necessarily in that order.
Sony Xperia?
They always compare with iPhones and Samsungs - but Sony claims to have a comparable low light camera on their Xperia range. Any chance of a comparison between those two cameras?
Paris, 'cos she's always taking photos with the lights - and everything else - off.
Re: Content before Chrome
Ironically, X applications in the 90's suffered from the problem if inconsistent chrome and tool kits and everyone complained (quite rightly in my opinion) that it was hard to use. Now a days my KDE desktop is blissfully consistent - even non-KDE applications - and Windows apps are all over the place!
Re: Easily subverted...
Hmm... feed a cat for $1-5 a month? I think your cat is going to be doing a lot of hunting!
Posted in Shiny, shiny! The window's behind me...
@lanzz
Its even worse when you've got the wrong glasses on and you see a reflection of your glasses reflecting the monitor in front of you... all with a ghostly reflection of your own eye ball apparently floating in mid air! Gahhh!
Posted in Shiny, shiny! The window's behind me...
Rooms with no lights
The only condition where glossy looks best is a room with no light at all - neither natural nor artificial. Given that most offices won't offer such a space, for office use at least matte is best. Glossy might make sense for TVs as you can close the curtains and turn the lights off to watch the box, though I'm not sure the advantage over matte is that great.
Posted in Shiny, shiny! The window's behind me...
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather...
I'm over 40 and currently humming The Velvet Underground's Venus in Furs....
But you were right about the matte screen.
Unique emails.
Each web business that requests an email gets a different email address, something along the lines of companyurl@myemail.co.uk. Once the transaction is completed, the email address gets added to my junk filter.
Problem solved!
Printed books are just as bad...
I mean, there's even some weird zombie death cult with an obsession with crosses - all because they've got a book that says its true.
In other news...
The rate that this lot are going, there will be no public sector by 2015...
Posted in Nokia Lumia 820 WinPho 8 review
Re: That bright yellow one
HI! YEAH, ITS NATHAN! YOU KNOW, NATHAN BARLEY!
Re: Really?
If recent reports are anything to go by, Windows Phone 8 - the same kernel as Windows 8 - does exactly that.
Re: liquid lenses
They actually exist as a product you can buy: http://www.lifeactivated.com/
No idea whether they are any good or not, but they are certainly expensive!
Posted in Vote now for the ULTIMATE BACON SARNIE
Bagel? Bacon?
I can't be the only one that finds the idea of bacon in a bagel a little... jarring. Bagels are Jewish after all!
Now if they made it two lawyers...
I think you could be on to a winner, with one minor adjustment - switch the CEOs for lawyers. I'd certainly tune in!
> . For example, "this application should *never* access the internet" or "this application only needs access to these libraries and this particular data directory,"
You can already using tools like hosts.{allow|deny} and chroot... oh, you mean on Windows...
> Or only an admin can flag/unflag a file as executable and executables are immutable.
Even Windows does this, so I'm not sure what you are on about.
> Would anyone else find VMS' version controlled files being on by default handy
Not really. Windows 7 & OS X does this and I've never found it useful - everything is checked into source control anyway. Similar tools exist for *nix, but I've never felt motivated enough to try them. My solution is put everything important (including /etc) into subversion which has the added advantage of supporting branching, labels and so on.
> That might be a little more interesting than a new gui.
Quite.
Re: Really dumb idea
> SIM-less works fine if the consumer is in control
...
> Apple's idea was to let the consumer sign up for network access via iTunes
That, right there, is your problem. Can you even access iTunes on Android or Windows Phone (I honestly have no idea as I don't own a smart phone)? Even if you can, why would they allow you to transfer your virtual SIM to a non-Apple branded phone?
I predict more asinine predictions by market research businesses
Why on earth do CIOs/CEOs even waste time reading this crap? And what is the WitView's track record of actually predicting anything anyway? I tried to Google but information of that nature is scarce (I wonder why...?)
One of the best SuSE releases I can remember
The boot time on my ancient Dell laptop went from > 60 seconds down to 3 seconds once I enabled Grub 2. My jaw literally dropped when I rebooted. Unlike the previous two releases, all my upgrades went smoothly so I'm pretty happy. That, and KDEPIM getting stable/useful again makes this an outstanding release. Kudos to the SuSE team.
Will they share this technology with other trusts?
Will they share this technology and their experience with other trusts? Well, its open source so the code will be available for all and sundry, but it would be nice if there was some inter-trust collaboration to share knowledge and experience.
Re: Why can't we have normal sizes and colours for phones anymore?
I can only think Nokia are trying to replicate the success they had in the 90s with the swappable covers for their 6220 (I think). They don't seem to realise that the market has matured a lot since then and no-one wants those stupid garish covers any more.
Re: A very thoughtful article Andrew.............
Sony Xperias already do the low light trick - see Mike Judge's link. And they didn't have to fake it.
Re: It's clear what the Lumia market is
The U.S. carriers aren't scared of Google or Android, they are scared of Skype... which is owned by Microsoft now and included in WP8.
Skype may well be one of the greatest own goals in the history of IT.
Your argument has one of the laziest fallacies
Reductio ad Hitlerum - or a slight variation thereof.
Well, that's that then
So Apple will block all the Android devices they can - that is anything that isn't shit - and Microsoft will move in to the gap left.
Much as it pains me to say this, given this ruling I think there will be only two players in the mobile/tablet OS market by the end of the decade: Microsoft and Apple. Yes, you heard me right - Microsoft, not Apple are the big winner here, while Apple will be quite happy to keep the luxury end of the market, just like they always have.
Posted in Nokia CEO: No shift from Windows Phone
Re: Don't fracture your base
> ...wanting to be a leader rather than a follower
You stopped being a leader when you got rid of the R&D people. You are now, and from hence forth always will be, a follower. Another HTC. Or LG. Or whatever knock of Chinese brand. Just with an OS that's a bit more shitty and a lot less open to Nokia customisations - even if you had the people left to do that.
Welcome to the low/no margin world of the grey box shifter, following the tune played in Redmond.
Classic Microsoft tactic
This is classic Microsoft - massively undercut the competition with a large loss leader. They could only do this if they made the hardware themselves as they have plenty of cash to burn. Plus they don't have to pay the OS licenses. They are going to piss off the OEMs, but frankly, I don't think they care - they are going for an XBox here and if they are the sole manufacturer I doubt they would loose any sleep.
The question now is - can Google and their OEMs cut the prices to compete with this? I doubt this will affect the Apple ecosystem much, so there will be little if any changes there.
Re: At least it's not Accenture
> Symbian is still owned by Nokkers, Symbian maintainence is carried out by Accenture
Yeah, Stevie Wonder is driving and Chales Manson is co-pilot. Yeeeeeahaaaa!
@Jim Coleman
Re-compilling and cross compiling is not the problem. The fact that it compiles doesn't mean it is in any way ready for market.
Hint: Our test team is 50% bigger than our development team.
Swapping the kernel?
They already have as they have made a lot of custom modifications. You could argue its not a Linux distribution at all.
The good news is they are heading in the correct direction - they are actively working on getting these changes approved for inclusion in Linux. This will benefit us all, especially the power management stuff they've been working on.
So, no they're not going from Linux to some other kernel. Quite the opposite.
Pronounced Mention...
...or Menschen?
Bloody Germans getting the nose in again...
Part of the deal...
> As part of the deal, Microsoft has wiped away its patent disputes with the bookseller
Ergo, they won't get tested in court. The only winner here is Microsoft.
Re: Woa is me
I disagree - at least at first. I expect Microsoft to be heavily subsidizing tablets to get some presence in the market. It has lots of cash, so it can afford to do this. What it can't afford to do is let Android/iPhone take the market as their own. Microsoft has done this before, allegedly paying people substantial sums to switch from Netware to the vastly inferior (at the time) Windows Networking (aka Windows for Workgroups).
Microsoft isn't going to give up on the tablet market lying down, so Google, Apple et al had better get their hands to the pump!
I thought the communications network was privatised already
Does this mean my hard earned cash is being handed over to BT? Why are we subsidising private businesses like this?
Judging by past performance, the cost of Windows 8, at least initially, will be negative - and potentially substantially negative: "We will give you £200 per tablet you sell with Windows 8, plus 500K towards development costs".
Re: Need Start Menu back. Not much reason to upgrade
If it is anything like the things to 'fix' the ribbon bar back to a normal menu, it won't be free. So I can pay $$$$ for Windows $ for a thing to fix the ribbon bar, $ to fix the start menu, $ to fix whatever else is broken/weird/shit ...and then the whole thing will be wobbly as fuck 'cos of the all the low level hacks.
Or I could just not bother.
Posted in Windows 7 squeezed into Android tablets
Re: Wow VNC
Calligra, perhaps? http://blogs.kde.org/node/4521
Note that Nokia already ship Calligra on some devices. I haven't tested it myself, but they claim to have better compatibility with MS Office than {Open|Libre}Office.
Re: I guess common grounds would be Lazarus
Christian, I think you are kidding yourself. If you are a programmer capable of shooting yourself in the foot with C++ you will quite likely achieve the same in other, higher level languages. Maybe not buffer over/under runs but there are a myriad other ways to write crap, insecure software - SQL Injections, lack of input validation, XSS, ... the list is endless. A crap programmer will shoot themselves in the foot regardless.
With all this shooting at feet, its a miracle there isn't some kind of explosion...
KDE...
All I can say is thank god for KDE, sticking to the recognisable paradigm... I note that Plasma Desktop runs after a fashion on XP. I've not tried 6, 7 or 8 but with a bit of effort it could be made to work...
You installed the trial version...
...and you didn't use a VM? Brave... very brave.
On Nationwide's 2-factory system, you have to enter the sum into the calculator thing. If the criminal changed the sum, the generated code would not be valid. They could change the target account - but they may be encapsulated in the code that you have to supply to the calculator.
The KDE Weather widget with the BBC source
If find it works very well, and I'm fairly sure Auntie gets her info from the Met Office. Problem solved.
Posted in Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO
Unbelievable
I could *just* about believe alexh20 when he claimed he bought five phones in four years, but £1,500/year on phones plus an unspecified amount on a 'gaming rig' and car... AND he has a 'misses'? Pull the other one, Alex.
Joke alert because this guy clearly is yanking our collective chains.
Posted in Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO
Let me get this straight
"from someone who has owned an HTC Hero, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and a Samsung GS2 over many years."
As far as I can tell, the iPhone 3G was the earliest of those. Assuming you got the 3G the day it came out in 2008, you have had *five* phones - if we include your current Lumia too - in four years!? Maybe I'm a cheapskate, but I try to keep my phone for at least a year! Are there even any contracts for such high end phones that run < 12 months?
Posted in Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO
No applications
I keep seeing adverts for various smart phone applications on the tube - Kabbee, Hail-o, various dating sites, you know the usual nonsense. They all have iOS and Android logos. None have a Windows logo. I'm sure that Microsoft is pushing these businesses to make a WinPho version, but the attempts seem half hearted. Even when there are WinPho versions, they are not promoted in any way - after all, what's the point when no one has a WinPhone?
This alone would be enough to make me discard it as a 'burning platform'. Or maybe two burning platforms colliding in the middle of the night, long after the proverbial boat has sailed.
@fajensen
Two words: Pirate Party
