Posts by Eadon
2420 posts • joined Monday 3rd August 2009 06:33 GMT
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Re: Paradox resolved
@AC 13:17
Thou whining AC wintards are so amusing :)
Internet should be free from meddling by the media cartels
The Internet is a machine designed for sharing. And Homo Sapiens LOVE to share.
The only way the govt / lawyers can prevent this sharing is to lock down the Internet to such a degree that they resemble a facist or communist state.
The people want freedom to share, freedom from snooping and freedom from extortion from representatives of the RIAA and MPAA - the lobbyists need to be curtailed, the scumbags.
Re: Elop
@dogged, it is you that misses the underlying point, my non-technical friend. MS has been in the mobile phone game for, what? well over a decade. They have FAILED. They are hardly "new".
Re: Elop
"At the moment, WinPhone is still relatively young"
No they're not. Win Pho 7 came out about 3 or 4 years ago now. In that time (at an earlier time), Android went from zero to owning the market.
Microsoft are still *Losing* market share in the mobile market. They lost market share even in the quarter that they released Win Pho 8.
They've spent billions on pushing these phones in marketing alone. Each Win Pho 7 sold had $450+ spent on it in marketing alone.
The problem is that Microsoft has a poor reputation in the computing world. Also, MS is in bed with Nokia and is also building its own mobile products (e.g. Surface).
So are OEM's going to push the Windows 8 platform on mobile? Not if they can help it. Contractual agreements may oblige some of then to do so, but the OEM's are throwing their weight behind Google who have a positive brand/image (albeit a scary spying-centric business model) and, as it happens, produce the most open, and technically advanced, phone operating system in Android.
Re: Really lovely?
@Sil "Interestingly enough Firefox, Tizen and Windows Phone's best chances are the developping countries if you ask me"
That's where FirefoxOS is aimed. However Windows 8 needs serious hardware just to run it, so that makes it inappropriate for 3rd world countries. Too expensive. (Icon - that's how hot MS Phones get).
Re: Really lovely?
"LG's not going to release any WP8 devices"
Correct - in the past they made serious losses on Win Pho 7.
Furthermore, MS has (in effect) bought Nokia as it's hardware phone making division. So why would LG - or any OEM/competitor of Nokia's - want to help/support/fund WP8? It would be helping MS's comatose platform and that in turn would help Nokia.
Paradox resolved
"But when the product is really good, it’s baffling"
When something is baffling, it usually means that an underlying assumption is incorrect. So let me explain:
The product is not good. In fact it's terrible.
Given the failure of Win Pho 7 in the market and the even more dismal failure of Win Pho 8, perhaps MS has decided to stop flogging the dead horse.
If MS keeps telling everyone that Windows Phone 8 is the best thing ever, people will just laugh. Perhaps MS has realised that its phone is deeply damaging its Windows brand.
EPIC FAIL!
People will pay for music if it is sanely priced
That's why the Musics Mafiaa cartel failed - they refused to operate within market forces.
Also you need a good product, and since the 80's the industry has largely failed to nurture bands to the point where they were great. Where are the Pink Floydds? The Queens? The Guns n Roses?
The Music industry went for cheap - manufactured boy and girl bands. And people refused to pay for that product.
Posted in Apprenda adds Java to its .Net PaaS
Post PC world issues daeth warrant to .NET
As the post PC, big data, mobile, competition from Google world continues to kill windows, .NET/C# will continue to fade in tandem.
Already the IT scene is not so good if you're gambling your career on MS tech - see
http://jobstractor.com/monthly-stats
Posted in Apprenda adds Java to its .Net PaaS
Cross platform
The world is going mobile and cross platform. Java is used for Android apps, and Android, I need not tell you, is on 80% of phones and a growing % of tablets, and is even encroaching on the laptop space.
.NET does not run on Linux (ignoring the dodgy mono, which is vulnerable to Microsoft submarine patent attacks). The serverside is such that Linux is increasing in terms of being installed on the most systems and that share of installations is growing annually and has been for years.
Java and Linux go together like hand and glove. But Java will run on anything (ignoring the usual bad programming glitches like hard-coded paths).
If you program in .NET you are stuck on a Windows Island that is shrinking. And even within the windows world, .NET is not MS's favourite kid (and internally MS never really liked it anyway) any more, HTML5 is.
Look closely and you can see that .NET is the next VB6.
Posted in Apprenda adds Java to its .Net PaaS
Re: @Eadon
@HelLuser - all is well and good, but MS are no longer pushing .NET, they are pushing their HTML5 and javascript dev tool.
.NET - within MS - has dies. First they killed Silverlight, and now they are more or less forgetting .NET ever happened. Of couse it will stick around - just like VB6 stuck around, for years, but where is it now?
Meanwhile Java is as strong and as energetic as it ever has been. Real work in the enterprise gets done with Java. Real stock exchanges use Java, and so on.
.NET might get used for some Windows-only UI tiers, with Java in the back-end, but HTML5 will make .NET Windows-only GUI's obsolete. That is why MS is now pushing it's extended version of HTML5.
It's not obvious but you heard it from Eadon - .Net is dead, prepare to be a coder of legacy systems, not green field systems.
Re: ie10 nice
Firefox / Chrome / Opera / Safari - there are some much better back-ups out there than IE. I was comparing it today with Chrome on a web app, and the latter rendered the pages three times faster.
East don't do that do they?
The East never copies western products and inventions. Never!
Paris, because plaster of Paris is used to copy things.
Posted in Apprenda adds Java to its .Net PaaS
Logical thing to do
.NET was MS's copy of Java. Internal factions within MS fought over whether .NET should be used for internal application development. The .NET guys within MS lost.
So Microsoft tell others to build apps using .NET but they don't themselves use .NET to build their own apps. The C++ guys won. Finally, Microsoft's mobile strategy does not use .NET at all, but some MS flavour of HTML 5 and javascript.
.NET is dead. Time to support Java then. Java is more open and more industrial strength anyway, and the critics of Java tend to misunderstand what it is now, compared to what it used to be.
Re: IMHO it will lead to an increase in cracked versions and torrents...
@AC - MS don't care if people pirate their stuff. Their real terror is having people abandon this MS Office scam and use Google Docs and/or LibreOffice. Customer is then lost forever. They have experienced the non-Microsoft experience:
No DRM. No Licence hell. No Ribbons. No product "activation". No Metro-isation of the UI. No Office "viruses". Lower TCO, No bloat. No deliberately-engineered incompatibility between document versions, no closed formats, cross platform, and no f*cking up bullets, indentations and other formatting artefacts.
Poo Plus
@Neil B - That's what I read, until I re-read your title. The truth is out there.
Re: Sounds like a product for Haemmorrhoids - Orifice Pro Plus
@AC
AC RHETORICAL QUESTION FAIL
Re: FFS
". you don't NEED to store your data in their cloud service. No one's making you"
I have a grand total of 2 points:
1) Why use Office 365 - which is a cloud service then?
2) You TRUST MS software NOT to send your data to their mothership?
Re: FFS
Meet "THE VOGON", Microsoft's Software Architect in chief
Re: TL:DR
@AC - let me educate thee, young padawan.
Early days:
MS Word copies Word Perfect, WordStar etc.
MS Excell copies Lotus123 and Calc etc.
MS Access is a copy of DBase and etc.
Later MS buys Project and buys visio.
Then Google creates Cloudy services including the innovative Google Docs.
5 years later, MS finally has managed to figure out how to copy Google Docs to create MS Office 365.
Microsoft's entire business model is in ripping off the inventions of others. There is no MS product that wasn't ripped off, or bought as an acquisition. e.g. even Kinnect was an acquisition.
AC FAIL
Re: TL:DR
@AC 15:45
"Google Office is a joke in comparison."
If so, then why did Microsoft desperately *** COPY *** Google Office to make Office 365?
Sounds like a product for Haemmorrhoids - Orifice Pro Plus
Quite apt really, considering how the victims are treated by MS.
GOOGLE DOCS-COPYING MS PRO PLUS OFFICE FAIL
Defence: Open source has the obvious advantage
Spooks and soldiers will get iPhones and Android kit
I should imagine that Android, for any military is a MUST - because it's open source, the Military would be able to compile their own versions of the software. True they could no doubt persuade the closed source guys to give access to the code also, but an OS that is inherently open source is a safer bet.
The reason? The military can fork the OS and make their own private "distro" of it, with tight control over every aspect, to keep the Chinese, Russians etc out. They would presumably call their Android Distro - "Terminator".
Posted in Ten smartphones with tablet ambitions...
No Nokia in this roundup then.
I thought Elop said he was *avoiding* burning platforms?
Nokia obviously dont' want to make desirable phones anymore
So now they have another terminal disease inherited from Microsoft - Google Envy.
Flash?
I've *heard* of that! Ah! Kitchen cleaner right?
Two Nines uptime...
Two Nines uptime... That's one nine better than Azure Cloud then.
{nb this is a ref to recent Azure stories e.g. PKI cert expiry etc.}
Linux for Big Data systems
Linux is has always been the only logical choice for modern "Big data" systems from an engineering POV (extremely scalable, secure and robust) performance POV (fast, strong memory management), infrastructure (Hadoop and other big data systems run on Linux) and financial (no licence costs, licence management overhead, lower TCO).
The ultimate, mind-blowing big data system is CERN's LHC grid - and CERN's boffins, with budgets of billions - but with an eye to reducing costs also - used Linux.
I am not aware of any serious big data systems that run on Windows servers.
On the Wintel front - MS needs ARM (hence Windows RT) and Intel needs Linux - Data centre systems, Hell, even mobile systems. So what we are seeing here is more proof of the end of the monogamous Wintel relationship.
This guy is naive
"To trigger a physically destructive event solely from the internet might not be impossible, but it is still, as of today, highly unlikely"
In a world where even our armed forces are essentially being replaced by remote controlled flying robots "drones" then the risk of hackers causing physically destructive events is not "highly unlikely" but inevitable. The risk increases every day. (Assuming it hasn't already happened a few times).
On the civilian level, SCADA systems that control physics systems are riddled with vulnerabilities and these are routinely accessible via the Internet.
@Galidron - but in my case (not that that matters) my critics are using Ad Hom attacks. They don't attack my arguments, they just name-call.
Where they do use technical arguments, I either agree with them "mea culpa" - and that does happen, I am fallible - or I indicate where the fallacy is in their argument. e.g. in the context of this conversation, what people think are viruses are actually trojans.
Re: Eadon
@sisk "Please, please, please for the love of Tux stop making all of us Linux geeks look bad with your ignorant prattle."
That you seem to think that I (or anyone here) am somehow a profound influence is an unintended compliment. You're most kind to imagine i wield such power. Come off it. Spending a few seconds firing off casual comments in a satirical website has next to zero influence on people.
"There are many viruses in the wild for OSX"
Go ahead, enlighten me. Whenever some clown posts claims like this, either it is a "virus" but it is not in the wild because it relies on some old, long-patched remote vuln, which won't spread in the real world and never did. Or it's not a virus but a trojan. So what have you got?
Re: Only Microsoft...
@Mark C Casey - be careful about posting the truth around here, they will hammer you for that. :-)
MS IE allegedly has undocumented API's that MS's own OS and other software is able to make use of, and expects to be present, API's that are not official and therefore not available (in practice) to third parties.
MS also swore in the DOJ case that IE was part of the OS and couldn't be run as a normal browser. That a software component to render HTML pages is irretrievably part of the OS is, of course, nonsense, but there you go. MS swore it was true in court. Hence you can't uninstall IE.
Seems to me that it's more secure to use a browser that's firmly in userland - e.g. firefox, chrome, opera, safari, etc, than a browser that has roots reaching down into the bowels of the OS. That does not seem like a good security architecture to me.
Re: Do not track?
@AC - "do not track" is a request that is not legally compelling. MS decided to set it by default, so advertisers said that they would take no notice of the flag if it was being sent by IE.
It's probably not effective even if you use other browsers but the flag may be useful as a foundation for future legislation that has teeth.
Myself, I find Firefox armed with noscript and adblock are more useful in preventing much tracking. If 3rd party systems can't run javascript in my browser, that's a plus.
Re: Graph with *3* lines on it
@JDX "WP has something new to offer"
- new as in what, exactly? WP8 has got the same ugsome UI as Win Pho 7 - Metro - but has even fewer apps available for it than WP7(!) WP has nothing to offer, that's its problem. Even 5 years ago it would have had little to offer.
WP does offer problems though. It's bloated so demands powerful hardware to run it. Which costs time and money and hence, bulky, heavy phones. And it's not cheap to licence, hence OEM's don't make much from a sale even if they could flog it. And it has high return rates.
@Ben Hanson : java is good for phones.
Java is under-appreciated, Java on a phone is what made Android a success. When people think of java, they think about slow applets from 1998. That's an out of date view.
If a Linux phone came out supporting Java, then the Android devs could easily port their apps to the Linux phone. What's the alternative? C++? C? Python? Ruby? Objective C? LISP? Javascript? Each one of those languages/platforms has benefits but also issues, it seems to me, that Java has the best of all worlds. It's OO, it's fast (JIT compiler), it's widely used, it's open source with many open source frameworks available for it, it's cross platform and it's powerful. It used to be secure until Oracle borked it up ;-)
Re: Eadon
@Wardy01
" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17623422"
"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20768996"
Those are not viruses. They are trojans.
You're welcome.
Firefox OS
Isn't the point of FirefoxOS phones that they so cheap that a mugger (in the west) wouldn't bother with it? It's designed for those in the 3rd world isn't it? It's not designed for the same market sectors as high-powered smart phones.
Re: Eadon
@Annihilator the - >HEADDESK< part went over your head didn't it?
My post was pointing out that if you use a system that is intrinsically vulnerable to viruses, then you're taking a huge risk.
Virus checkers used routinely on OSX? No.
Virus checkers used routinely on Linux? No.
Any virus checkers there are on Unix are checking for viruses that infect Windows systems. There's nothing complicated about that. Now trojans are a different, but, as I keep repeating, I have not offered an opinion on trojans.
I'm coming to the conclusion that it's nigh on impossible to explain simple concepts to the commenters here. This amuses me. Everyone has been so brainwashed by MS that they cannot conceive that other operating systems do not need Anti-virus. It's like trying to explain evolution to a creationist.
Re: Eadon
@AC - "I once was working at for a government IT department called the NHS"
- I didn't know the NHS was a govt dept, AC, thanks for this enlightening post. >HEADDESK<
In case you didn't notice, this is TheRegister. It's not a corporate intranet where we are all talking in terms of "moving forward to leverage our core competencies". This is an IT satirical site.
If you want a site where everyone talks like suits go and take your bs to Linked In. My comments on this page are absolutely true. I am not going to dress them up in some kind of insipid corporate blah blah blah here. doubleplus bad.
Again, people are not understanding the points I am making, they are projecting what they *think* am saying what what I really am saying. I discuss viruses are windows only, and people start droning on about how I must be wrong because trojans can infect other operating systems. This is typical of the low quality of technical discussion here.
Whether this annoys some AC who has an agenda of his own is of zero interest to me. Part of me wonders whether AC's patronising, vapid and clueless style is the real reason that the NHS were deterred.
Re: AV is a malicious Peril
And, despite my post, the commentards are confusing trojans with viruses. They are two DIFFERENT things.
Lean some basic security concepts, MUPPETS! The IT illiteracy around here is staggering.
Windows has 85% of the desktop market (and still falling). Yet, it has 100% of the viruses out there. *think about it*.
COMMENTARDS FAIL
Re: Note...
The BBC are massively left wing, I hardly think they're supporting the current govt. They're always cheering labour and Oh-so-PC causes.
Re: It's apparently possible to fall for a pig as long as it's branded Windows.
Why the pompous, humourless dour whining, Wintards? The article was funny, this discussion is not supposed to be deadly serious. Why do you take yourselves so seriously? Let your hair down, enjoy life, relax and have fun. (Quitting using Windows is one way to achieve this enlightenment ;-)
Re: American organisation offended by breathing
@Evil Auditor - indeed, and the koran is worse still
Re: Brand new code?
"Server 2012 is GOOD CODE" - how do you know? Did they open source it?
Re: American organisation offended by breathing
They're not offended by violence, only sex and nudity. Weird morality!
It's apparently possible to fall for a pig as long as it's branded Windows.
There are some (genuine?) "fans" on these very forums of Windows Phone 8, Surface and Windows 8 - there's 3 pigs right there. Though perhaps not very attractive pigs, mind.
BTW this article is hysterical! LOL
"Theory" - in science
A theory is a conjecture.
Newton's theory of gravity was proven with experiment. Then it should have become Newton's Law of Gravity (like his generic Laws of Motion). But often the word theory just sticks.
"Theory" in science can mean conjecture or sometimes it can mean irrefutable law. And, yes, creationists abuse this. "It's just a theory". Clowns.
Evil Empire
What we are seeing here is a sinister socialist dictatorship that censors anything not inline with its Stalinist agenda. It ruthlessly hammers any ideas of capitalism and freedom with torrents of relentless extreme left wing propaganda.
Also we are dealing with China.
I don't blame China for blocking the BBC. I'd block the damned pro-labour propaganda machine too.
BBC FAIL
