It's a personnel matter.
that's can't be public, as opposed to a personal matter.
Paris, coz her personal matters are, well, public enough.
Posts by alwarming
471 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Aug 2009
Google 'sacked Apple pioneer over leaked Schmidt memo'
Blogger faces terror charges for 'naming MPs'
Thursday 18th November 2010 00:37 GMT
Right but..
it's the boiling frog effect...
People, like your self, reason that it's nearly impossible/pointless to trace me. And two elections down the line, everyone is sold to the idea and this whole barcode thing is forgotten...
Next come in the electronic ballot counting (which scan your vote as well as the barcode..) (and you get assurance that it's still a paper vote... just being counted by robots not humans)... And they start scanning the top and the bottom.. and lo they have a database.
Robot wars break out on poker sites
Google: Oracle doctored that 'copied Java code'
Saturday 13th November 2010 23:27 GMT
However the biggest question is....
Did Oracle remove the space between "if" and "(" from google code ?
Or is google saying we put it but Oracle removed it.
Or is Oracle saying that we had it but google deleted it.
It's all very confusing.
cheers!
Al.
ps: (The current code is following "if(" instead of "if ").
paris, coz she doesn't like a space between if and butt, either.
'One-trick pony' Zuckerberg yet to prove CEO worth
Tuesday 9th November 2010 23:27 GMT
Middle ages called...!
They want their economists back.
Most of the commentards seem to struggle with the concept of how "potential value in future" can translate in "real money" today.
Yes, sometimes these "potential valuations" are over-hyped/over-priced(more likely)...
But so could be your "real assets" like a house/gold/bag of dollars (tho less likely).
Go read stuff.
STINKY GREEN DWARF FROM SPACE - sensation at NASA
HP whips out iPad challenger Windows 7 fondle-slab
US forces drop dead drug-poison killer mice from helicopters
HP reported close to naming Hurd successor
Could Oracle buy HP?
Monday 13th September 2010 11:51 GMT
"Biggest" comes in many flavours..
- "biggest by revenue" (how much you sell) : which is what the said article was talking about. HP is the winner here.
- "biggest by market cap" (num shares X share price) : which is what this article is talking about. Apple@240billion would be the biggest here.
- "biggest by number of employees" : what a govt could be concerned about before taking down a giant. perhaps IBM would be a winner here ?
- "biggest by profit" (most profitable) ... maybe apple or nintendo for last year.
Paris, coz she likes the biggest ones.
US government recruits Paris Hilton
HP sues Hurd to keep secrets from Ellison
Wednesday 8th September 2010 12:31 GMT
Re: HP secrets
- vendor list & price points of computer components such as memory.
- route to market strategy for new servers, services.
- HP's least satisfied customer/partner list
that's all my engineer brain can think of... probably Larry would really know which buttons to press.
Paris,coz she doesn't have any dissatisfied partners.
Greenland ice loss rates 'one-third' of what was thought
Google Wave washes ashore in soggy cardboard Box
Friday 3rd September 2010 23:25 GMT
Re: 200,000 lines of complex gibberish?
1) Thanks for explaining the google wave to many of us.
2) They need more lines of code possibly because it needs to hook into google sign on, big table and scale for all the users. Or, maybe as many of us have seen that while a demo needs barely 1000 lines of code, the real app runs into 100s of 1000s.
3) I think it failed coz it was a seperate app instead of integratinginto gmail or buzz.
Pundits predict plunging iPad market share
Friday 3rd September 2010 13:17 GMT
Don't agree about keyboards
>Actually, Acer actually puts respectable keyboards on their machines unlike HP or Dell.
i have a 3 year old HP laptop and a 1 year old Acer. Acer keys have a wierd gap between them which allows gunk [like food particles] to slip under and makes the key unresponsive. Removing the key and putting it back is also not very easy [in fact I lost the "t"]. The cost to replace the key is 5$ per key and close to 100$ for the whole keyboard.
The battery also went kaput after 6 months - it lives only on live power.
I bought acer coz I wanted a 2nd PC (from a diff vendor) to make it my primary computer. But now I am trying this only HP laptop, coz I hate using my acer [due to the keyboard].
Paris, coz she doesn't swallow any gunk.
Thursday 26th August 2010 14:36 GMT
" closed platform will eventually lose to an open one" ?
"and noted that according to past experience, a closed platform will eventually lose to an open one, and that he believes Android simply needs a little more time before it turns strong, the paper added."
Like Linux has overtaken the windows market ?
Dollars and sense: tech startups discover revenue is good
Friday 27th August 2010 10:08 GMT
A question.
Are there any dotcoms from 2001 which started off without a real business model
except eyeballs. And went on to survive and make money ? It shouldn't matter if they were bought by a bigger fish - as long as they started making money at one point.
Only ones I can think of are:
allmusic.com
imdb.com [now amazon]
cricinfo.com [now ESPN]
(not sure if they are profitable now, but they are still around and supposedly going strong).Google probably doesn't qualify as they supposedly always had the plans of the adword model.
Oracle hates discs, loves tape
Friday 13th August 2010 14:40 GMT
energy angle: disk vs tapes:
.
While it depends, in general tapes are a lot cheaper per MB. Since a typical disk keeps spinning regardless of whether someone is watching it or not. Something like a street lamp which is always on regardless of the number of people on the street.
.Whereas a tape spins only when needed. So if you've a good app which caches all it's working set in RAM and well provisioned system which doesn't thrash - you have a tape which consumes very little (standby) energy. (eg: a database with a relatively predictable set of queries).
But if you've an extremely IO oriented app which needed a lot of random storage access and ran for a long time... (eg: a web server) - a disk might turn out to be better (& faster).
US chops 131,000 jobs in July
Oracle and HP make a deal for Solaris on ProLiants
Friday 30th July 2010 15:04 GMT
kill joyva ?
No such thing. Oracle is probably head butting on how to kill .Net and spread Java. they already have 100+ strategies to monetize Java - which Sun couldn't do (the techies in Sun didn't want to?).
This deal is something else though : Oracle doesn't understand the hardware business(& Sun didn't understand hw or sw business). This is about making someone else run hardware business for them. It had to be dell+hp : the guys who can peddle servers.
As proposed in the artile that it's about the stack: I don't think so. If it was the stack would be a compulsory part of the deal. I think all these announcements are just burps and farts from Oracle digesting Sun. Hopefully this is the last one before Oracle craps out the Sun's hardware parts(ugh).
Paris, coz she doesn't swallow everything she eats.
US legalizes jailbroken iPhones
HP scores billion dollar GM win
Google image search gets facelift
Steve Jobs denies Judas Phone antenna problems
Ballmer: Windows Mobile lost a 'whole generation'
Gulf spill to annihilate all earthlings, says seer
Tuesday 13th July 2010 08:54 GMT
Re:Nothing we can do about it?
... *_IF_* there was such a bubble underwater - how will you zippo it ? You'll need an O2 bubble - double the size of methane bubble - under water for oxidation.
CH4 + 2*O2 = CO2 + 2*H2O.
However fart bubbles come pre-mixed with O2 and hence lighting farts can burn under water & may cause burns where the sun don't shine :-)
'Holland wins World Cup' declares CBSNews
Tuesday 13th July 2010 08:31 GMT
Re : Common practice
Agreed.. this looks like forewriting the game. The screen shot says "SCORE to SCORE" - suggesting that followed by premature copyjaculation before the writer could actually plug-in the real scores. Or, he had two copies on his iphone and uploaded the worng'un.
Paris, coz she did SCORE during the world cup.
China renews Google's internet licence
Saturday 10th July 2010 16:23 GMT
History repeats itself
A powerful govt rules the world, not just own country. Rewind 150 years and look at blighty. Rewind 50 years and look at USA.
China very well maybe that power in the future. And the DNA of that govt is sum of the experiences that brought it to power.
IMHO it's duty of the rest of the world to put China thru a learning curve that makes it
1) open
2) accountable for the methods, not just results..
So when our Chinese overlords take over this planet, they'll care for human rights, planet rights and the value of free spirit(*). OR be ready to see another Tienanmen square in Trafalgar square - without a google to report it.
Today China is buying businesses, real estate and law firms in US. It won't be long before the dragon looks at the Lions.
Al.
PS: by "spirit" I meant the "essence of a human being". But "booze" will do fine.
RIM nemesis slaps patent suit on Apple, Google, Microsoft...
Friday 9th July 2010 21:08 GMT 
Where is New Zealand when you need it most ?
Amnesiacs, I am referring to the NZ lawyer who decimated the infamous Amazon's single click patent.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/17/amazon_1-click_patent_ruling/
It's quite obvious that B&N hired b-grade lawyers from the land who, while being payed, couldn't do what a guy in NZ trying to kill boredom could. Pretty sure RIM hired guys of the same ilk. Time for Apple, Goo & M$ to hire some kids from NZ.
Al.
disclaimer: I am not from NZ, never been there.
Indian firm offshores to Belfast
Monday 28th June 2010 14:56 GMT 
Accents ?? This is not a call centre, me thinks.
IIUC, this is a software development unit, not a "call centre".
(Hence, the ref to engineers and the Aunty headline says "s/w dev".
But, yeah, good news. What goes around, come around. In next 10 years, we'll surely see more of that. As India salaries rise and european govts lift their skirts a little.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
