Posts by John Sanders 1735 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Sep 2006
"""Lies. MS have said that an internet connection is not required so all you are is a fud spreading FUD."""
I do remember a certain Japanese company that once began removing features from its console, after saying they will not do it, also I do remember the same vendor blocking unlicensed peripherals.
Games which are licensed and tied to a specific hardware/console present the perfect opportunity to stop second hand copies of games.
And considering that this is something that benefits everybody in the game creation industry (both the console manufacturers and game studios) it will happen.
Or why do you think they did put the functionality there in the first place?
Also grow up! a government or corporation saying one thing doesn't mean they will not do the contrary tomorrow, it is almost a guarantee that they will do it sooner or later.
Spending peanuts, and delivering rubbish quality and service, a company unable to compete, eternally angry with the world because they think google, yahoo, microsoft and other companies got rich at their expense using their "Network".
Yes, literally they think like that, they think that they are the ones making any investment on that thing punters call the interwebs, and hence the googles and apples of the world should pay them, because without them (Telefonica) there would be no internet for the googles to get to customers.
They are royally pissed off because a guy in some remote corner of the globe can upload something to google play and make money, Telefonica thinks that they deserve their share of the guy's money because the application uses their network to get to the google play store.
Yes I know, it is nonsense as they already charge a fee for using the network, they do not operate a charity, but this is how they think.
So take a Spanish company with that mentality, put them in the 21st century and get them to buy an UK mobile operator.
"""What would have made more sense is integration into existing Cloud hosting services"""
But this is not about customer's convenience, it is about Adobe increasing their revenue size and predictability, or as the Americans say: "Better milking the customer".
Any likeness of improve service/new features useful to the paying customer is mere coincidence.
"""However, Adobe's move to the cloud is not a good idea on their part, and is just an excuse to milk users and reduce or eradicate illicit usage - or piracy, if you want to use the vernacular."""
Nope, all this is is an attempt to milk their paying customers better.
The pirates will either keep pirating (The apps run in your computer, they'll be cracked like before sooner or later) or move to other products.
Me I wish people who can not afford to pay the monthly fee would move to cheaper products, or open-source solutions. Why? So we have a healthy software market for that type of applications.
"" I am smart enough to work out that it's the samsung software bloat that's the problem""
I agree with you, and I will add that some of us even remove the vendor's OS and deploy a custom 3rd party image (Which Android is plenty rich of)
It seems Microsoft does not allow the same degree of freedom... why? Is Winmo as good as those communist paradises where they have to force people to stay?
"""Android into the kind of slick experience you get on Windows Phone today."""
TROLLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
Well, one thing is for certain, you really like your Winmo, (or just get money to look like.)
Android is not the mess you think it is, unless you call having freedom to change, mix+match any component on the system a "mess".
I'm not asking if it can do it, Windows 2008/R2 can do it too, but Microsoft does not support the set-up.
Meaning that if you have an issue in the Win2008/R2 Hyper-V production environment and have NIC bonding enabled Microsoft can/will refuse to give you support even if the problem has nothing to do with NIC bonding.
"""The Sinofsky way placed complete and total faith in telemetry data culled from how users interacted with Windows to build a "perfect" version of Windows that bore no resemblance to reality."""
Bullshit, I call all that bullshit.
They calculatedly and deliberately tried to replace the traditional Windows interface with a sort of universal interface geared towards creating their own wallet garden.
And this has backfired 100%
Obviously it is easier to blame it all on Sinofsky, but he did what he was asked for.
Does it appeal to the right audience? Because that can explain many things.
I, like another reader before spend way much more money in games and software than when I was younger and had lots of time to spare. If I find something I like I tend to buy it, so does most people my age.
Now the teenagers/kids with little disposable income...
"not giving a new GUI the chance to show it's strengths."
And what happens when you have tried the new GUI, and it doesn't not only show any strength but you find out is completely backwards?
Gnome 3.x is crap, Unity is slightly better but shit because it crashes an average of 10 times a day (I haven't tried 13.04)
My advice is: XFCE 4.10.2 rules, XFCE is the one that deserves a chance.
For the last few years have been selling based on the reputation they built years ago.
Anything they make nowadays which is interesting is incredibly expensive, and the rest is at the very least forgettable.
And the software they bundle... oh my god, that deserves a separate article/post.
If they want to level the playing field for small business, why not stopping charging for the tax altogether?
I know what I'm saying, even if it sounds preposterous. All taxes are evil, always get raised, and never fund what they say they will fund, it is all employed to buy voters.
"Is costing Europeans a fortune and isn't even environmentally friendly"
Like everything the environmentalists propose, I have a suggestion for all the pseudo green-comunist types out there, when time comes for the next green scam:
Potatoes, with potatoes one can light a light bulb, everyone knows this. So lets sell to the public this idea of setting up potato-based power plants. Potatoes are a green renewable energy source: All we need to do is link lots of potatoes with wires in an industrial scale and job done, lets cash the government subsidies.
It is the energy companies and the oil barons who do not want this to happen.
I do agree with you wholeheartedly, why on this time an age with computing technology being so accessible to everybody some people still struggle with things as basic such as to where to save files goes beyond my comprehension.
People already deal with insane levels of complexity when it comes to administrative stuff and regulations, yet they are unable to grasp what a program is and why installing programs at random from the net is a security risk.
When it comes to professionals, I'm amazed that most can not separate the different components of what constitutes an OS, or what file formats are, etc.
"""You'd not be able to ship a lot of servers it they couldn't run Linux and *BSD. If you sell to universities offering support for their flavour or Linux is essential as many departments depend on it."""
All is very true, but the OEMs allow MS to pay them to keep those alternative operating systems out of curious eyes. The OEMs have allowed themselves to depend on MS for much of their revenue, now they have to obey their master.
""UI that could switch the underlying OS without 90% of users noticing."""
You and the "The OS" doesn't matter do not get it, let me explain how it works:
You take away Android and people will notice that suddenly then, they can run a few crappy apps from a massively and I mean MASSIVELY shrunk down app store.
Suddenly the What'sapps, Lines, Beavers, and a million plus games are not available...
I think at the very least Aunt Amy will notice that her previous phone could run that "Guess the word" puzzle of the week so she could play with her friends...
Really, most people do not know the name of the OS, it could be called BacteriusOS or RedDwarf, they do not give a damn, but the "Guess the word" puzzle... that better be available.
That someone at some point explains to the general populace what "Radioactive for thousands of years" means.
Because something that is radioactive for so long does emit a very low amount of energy, and it is not that dangerous as long as it is not dispersed.
The danger with radioactive stuff comes from short-lived and medium-lived isotopes.
""I don't understand why VMware is going this way...""
I do, it is the good ol' "Show us the money Mahoney..." commonly known as greed.
The problem is that MS is perceived to be caching up with them, so they will have to drop more and more features from the Enterprise to the standard edition.
"For years El Reg wondered what the consumer electronics world would look like if the software was free. Now we know, and it's a rather depressing sight. Hardware manufacturers take the savings, pocket them, and cut the corners on the hardware."
Utter and complete disappointment and disagreement reading this (AKA: IT'S BOLLOCKS)
I run a Samsung phone (Good hardware for the money) using CyanogenMOD 10.x tell me which other ecosystem will allow me to run a phone using a supported modern OS without any link to any commercial entity, as I do not run the Google applications.
I would say that is a triumph, is it perfect? no, is it much better than anything else that came before for the end user? YES, do the majority of phone users of the world care about me running a free operating system, no sir.
But from there to say it is depressing... what would you expect? having hundreds of manufacturers in a market and having all of them get a proportional piece of the market, ie 5 players with 2% of the market each?, all of them selling essentially the same product? with the same capabilities?
The software is all that matters in 2013 (It has been always like that, hardware is nothing but the means, not the end) And having free software running not just on a phone, but on a majority of the phones is FANTASTIC.
At the peak of Apple's dominance with the iphone it looked like they would dominate the smart-phone market, and suddenly it is Samsung the one that looks will dominate... It was not that long ago that HTC looked like Samsung today...
Perhaps the author of the article just laments the lack of success of Windows phones, and would prefer a market dominated between Apple and Microsoft with the Android handset manufacturers in a distant third spot.
Because having Apple and Microsoft, dictate the direction of mobile computing will be such a good thing.
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