Posts by Disintegrationnotallowed
74 posts • joined Thursday 15th April 2010 10:47 GMT
Re: "We like android but we prefer Tizen"
I think you have missed the last 6 months, Samsung have been branding themselves strongly. They have been pretty much ignoring the Android branding where they can.
Originally people bought Android because they wanted a phone that was like the iPhone. Now people want a Samsung, very few people buy it because its Android, not in the general public anyway.
Re: Freudian Slip?
quite:
WSJ: Samsung has become a dominant maker of Android-based phones. Has your relationship with Google changed?
Mr. Shin: We like Android and we plan to continue our good relations with Google. I don't think it's correct to say that there's friction.
Statement Analysis:
Two sentences that oppose one another, the first says they like Google, so it is probably true. However one suspects that the sentence really was more like "We like android but we prefer Tizen" in his head.
He also says he doesn't think it is correct to say there's friction, as above, it's very non committal. He might not use the word friction, but he might use another word in his head.
OTOH, there is no surprise here, Samsung would rather drop Android, if they can, for Tizen.
Re: Why Care About The OS?
I guess your new to these forums? The people who hate Apple and would never by something from them, whilst frothing about Android, is only matched by those people who love Apple no matter what crap they produce.
Windows seems to be hated by just about everyone though.
Hey I wonder if I can get down votes from three camps that'd be novel.
The Herald Sun understands remote access to the venue's security system was given to an unauthorised person.....
Hmmm so a social engineering hack then, i.e. they handed the person the "keys" to the door when he asked for them in the right way, hence they are at fault for handing the info over?
Re: Got access to the casino's CCTV systems
This is what got me too, how did they get access without breaking any laws?
The only thing that I can think is that there was a weakness in the security somewhere? Maybe in the transmission to the gambling commission. If somehow this was presenting on an "open" channel that anyone could see, then it may be considered publicly available. Any other method i.e. hacking into the system, intercepting transmissions, or man in the middle attacks would presumably fall foul of some law or other?
When
When I get paid I will be buying one for my two daughters . I am sure they will love it, and I love the anarchy of them robbing the bankers and taking their "shares" directly.
Re: I'd pay, if...
No tracking, you have realised this is google?? I mean if anyone is going to track you, with or without consent you are already google's bitch.
estimates
you will be dreaming of 1.5mb, unless you have proof anyone is getting it, estimates are usually double real world speeds :), harsh lesson learnt!
Re: The joys of rural existence.
be interested to know who/where, tied to BT for this year as on a new line, but will want to move once this contract runs out!
Cue the ranting
I would love it if I had X speed....
I get 0.7MB and remember the days of my Virgin cable 50MB connection. To be honest though I wouldnt swap living next to the idiots, for living in the middle of nowhere. Yes it makes iPlayer almost unusable but who cares!
Time to set your mega/pirate bay downloads for 4am lol
What? A post where most of the el Reg readers are in agreement, whodda thunkit? I always thought Gartner were a crock of shit, this however proves it.
Now can we get back to Apple or Android bashing please?
Re: @Eadon - openness selling Android
You missed the other point completely here, people get Android phones generally because they are cheaper than the iPhone on the same contract. When they look at what is on offer for their upgrade, they see a brand name they know, Samsung, at a contract price that is 1/2 to 2/3 the price of an apple contracted phone.
They then know that a lot of their friends have a Samsung and it seems to be good enough. You are however right, most of them will have no clue about Android really (other than the little green man), its a Samsung, a decent brand at a good price.
Geeks here who think that they understand openness, or that they buy a phone based on some geek recommendation are kidding themselves. I have recommended Android tablets and phones to family, largely based on a cost vs usage basis. If I was looking to get something simple for my parents to use I would go for the iPad, as I know it would be easier for me to support out of the box. However on a cost basis I couldn't justify the extra money, so have told them to get an android device, as I know it will be fine, ad may just end up with me being asked more questions.
Always follow the money, and this is why few consumers are going to buy RT or Surface Pro devices.
Posted in Which qualifications are worthwhile?
Questions
I guess as another voice, the only opinion I havent seen here is one which asks what are you willing to do? Where would you work? What kind of thing do you love doing? How much money do you want to earn?
I am looking for a new role at the moment, in my area, project management, most of the the big money is in Financial services (for example FX trading, derivatives), in the centre of London, or in software development. If I was you and money/location was no object I wouldn't look at helpdesk roles, I have seen a number of apprentice type roles around at the moment doing networks or hardware. Try and get into those rather than helpdesk, the best helpdesk professionals I know were not techies, they had enough IT savvy to clear the idiot questions, and knew their limits.
I only know one person who converted from helldesk to technical, and to be honest he was already running the site IT when he moved into proper IT, he quickly got picked up to work in networking when a role became available.
Fundamentally try and get the lowest paid/most menial technical job, actually doing something. If you are willing to work anywhere in the country all the better (note if it is away from your home, work out if you could afford to live in B&B, etc). You may need to sacrifice for a couple of years to get the experience you need.
I would also say that as an IT person nowadays you need to be right on the forefront of whatever is in vogue, or you need to have legacy skills. Anything in the middle is now considered to be "off the shelf" and will have either been outsourced (for example Win Server/DB) to India/Asia/South Africa, or will be about to be in any medium sized company. You cannot compete with a tecchie in India who earns 1/7 th of what you do (in fact project mgt is going that way, where it is cheaper to employ 5 crap PMs, and hope one gets it right, than one in the UK).
Be prepared for a life of working long hours, with no recognition, where your skills and experience need to be kept up to date. BE willing to move around for your first 5-10 years, and get experience in lots of places. However it can be a rewarding career with lots of great people, and you wlaways feel llike youre in it together (a sense of embattlement is usual in IT).
Good Kit, Best for Corps
I loved the IBM Thinkpad ranges, best corp kit ever. Always well built, easy to manage with great support for a good corporate environment. Can't see them taking on apple in the home/coffee shop/cool environment though. Whether you like them or not Apple kit is good for those people looking for that, the tough old black boxes don't really cut it against the aluminium and high res screens at the moment.
Coincidentally...
Symantec have launched one:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/norton-support/jsp/help-solutions.jsp?docid=v64690996_EndUserProfile_en_us&product=home&pvid=f-home&version=1&lg=en&ct=us
Re: @Steve Evans
Passive resistance by students to anything at school always seemed to get the desired effect. Just shows we are bringing up a society where kids now accept being tracked. In 20 years time we will all be tracked and maybe it will be down to our generation to rebel?
Re: The chances of anything coming from Mars...........
Life as we know it would be carbon based, although some theories suggest Silicon as an alternative, this would seem unlikely as Silicon is significantly larger and therefore unlikely to form the same level of strands (i.e DNA).
If we assume carbon based lifeforms but different methods of chemical processes then we still end up producing methane, this is because methane is the most basic compound of carbon, and would be expected to be produced as a biproduct of any process (either direct, as in breathing, or indirect as in decaying of organisms).
"They spoil everything. We are supposed to be a buffet, but they eat everything out of the bowls before people can get there. We just can’t keep doing this."
This is the clue, I am going to guess they turn up early before everyone else, eat everything on the buffet and just keep eating whatever is put out. Plus knowing your average rugby player they will be aggressive, rude and be self important.
The owner has put up with it for two years to be fair, with them making no effort to buy anything else, etc, I suspect it has as much to do with the fact that other people couldnt eat/get to the buffet and were put off by these two, than them actually eating the food.
Re: @JDX Apple's walled garden for music
Confused at the apple walled garden comment, as I can import any songs I want into an iTunes library and sync it happily with my iphone? Where you do struggle is, as mentioned if you want to move music off your iphone to a PC that isnt your main PC. simple answer to that is move it to that PC and copy/send, yes it's irritating but not a massive problem I ever get stressed about.
Lots of things to get irritated at apple for but this isnt one!
Re: which is it?
I read it the same way initially. However by re-reading this I gathered that the adapter runs at 2.0 (which they do know), but it is not certain if the standard lightning connection runs at 3.0.
Re: If they get this resolution where the rover is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_face.png
conclusive enough?
I remember studying this as part of my Degree thesis "Is there life on Mars?" back in 1995, before the latest images came to life
Should have sent him here:
http://www.princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp
Using Steve's conversation:
Steve: Hello Eben
Bot Eben: Salute again!
Steve:It’s Steve, B.A Applied Math Student
Do you have a minute?
Bot Eben: Even if I have a minute - it's my own business! And I forgot to ask you where you are from...
Steve: I wanted to present to my lecturers and administration your computer, I mean the RP.
Bot Eben: I hope you are not one of those computer "geeks"
Steve: And because I am going to visit my high school too I can show it there too
so if they will be interested then they may buy thousands of units
Bot Eben: What can I say? Good reason. Oh, what a fruitful conversation;-)
Steve: Can you please send me sample of model B so they can see it?
Bot Eben: Can't you do it yourself? What about me - I can do almost everything... But in extremely ugly way:-)
Steve: But what I do is a free advertisement for you
what will I get if they will buy thousands?
Eben Bot: No, I don't what will you get if they will buy thousands, unfortunately!
Steve: It doesn’t cost you 30 dollars, show me please where will you
find free advertisement with potential for thousand units to be sold?
Maybe, but who knows the future? I can't decide myself if I will find free advertisement with potential for thousand units to be sold or not.
fail
either revoke his login procedure wasnt in effect, or they are using generic passwords, or they gave him the admin domain logon, based on my experiences any of those three is likely in all the organisations i have joined, and I am a project manager (although with a tecchie background so people foolishly trust me)
Re: Good.
how is 16:10 closer to 16:11, than 16:12??
Re: So
Typical fandroid didn't bother to read the comment, we have the fanbois and fandroids arguing over shit again. As I said I didn't think Apple should be able to lay claim to rights to a rectangular screen with a button. However the commentards here stated that the litigation and apple are holding back innovation that I don't get may be I am missing something.
The innovation is in the software surely, the hardware is what Samsung have copied (and I dont blame them), and then added a little and charged less for, great, the reason why the hardware was blocked at all was apple could "show" that the hardware looked close enough to their design that you non savvy user wouldnt notice.....
Re: So
How is the Samsung design innovative?
Tablet format - Check
Touch Screen - Check
Button to press - Check
Stable OS - Check
2 more buttons to press - we just innovated boys!!!
Apple have not, despite Samsung's claims, stifled innovation, in fact I thought the point was that Samsung hadn't been particularly innovative, and that Samsung were stating that they didn't need to be because the design is ubiquitous?
If Samsung had been innovative with their design, like making it oval shaped with five large buttons (as a ridiculous example), then apple would have had literally no case!
Should apple be able to lay rights to the design? No, but let's not pretend this is about innovation. Innovation is not the upgrading of your tablet with an 8MP camera, or adding a HDMI. Samsung want to win this patent war so they can sell tablets that look like iPads, no more, no less.
For the fabulous 2007 tablet designs, that were oh so good before apple see:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/news-headlines/4969-ces-2007-oqo-unveils-model-02-tablet-pc-samsung-releases-q1p-ssd-umpc-medion-umpc-coming-january-30-a.html
Interesting
That the headline is about Apple and not Android, anyhoo the only real story here is that someone managed to do something bad with a completely legal use of the app permissions, I am not sure what people expect Apple or Google do, av wouldn't help, so the only way to stop this is to stop the whole ability for a phone to send/sync its contacts anywhere.
I guess el reg will hope to get lots of links from that bait
Re: I wish
Sounds great until you try and play on a console where hacking is rife. Ask anyone playing multiplayer games on the Wii such as MW3. The lobbies are full of hackers who have cheats galore, and make the game virtually unplayable.
Re: All about choice
Surely it depends on your total market capacity. So your app may have a possible
total user base of say 10k on each market place.
So in first 3 months:
On Google:
You sell your app for £3, and manage to sell to 3k without any adverts, and make £6300.
In iTunes:
You sell your app for £3, and manage to sell to 3k without any adverts, and make £6300.
In amazons:
You can't ask to sell for more than £3, and they can sell for £1, but they advertise more for you, and get you double the number of buyers at 6k. You make £4.2k.
Your potential income from Apple/Google is more than that from Amazon.
All theoretical, but maybe you get my point.
Posted in Ten... e-cars and hybrids
Re: Electric cars....pah
Erm as I remember this was the reason why motorised carts became so popular in New York? The smell was lower, there was less pollution on the streets (crap.. the reason why New york supposedly built the houses with big stairs), and no need to have lots of bales of hay and straw everywhere.
Re: The slowest place is wrong
I live out in the country so no 3G, and speeds of 750k, but I knew that when I moved here recently! I have no idea how BT would get me a superfast connection, they had to run 250m of cable to get me the broadband/phone line I have! God only knows where the nearest exchange actually is.
I assume the government are hoping to make it for 95% of the population or something to meet targets.
Posted in Ageing Mario blamed for Nintendo's woes
Re: Franchising is the death of creativity
So you are suggesting they begin suing their own customers then?
Vote with your feet
Want a more ethical phone, go buy a manufacturers who can show they are more ethical. Best way to hit a company is in the pocket surely?
Or is it, as I suspect, that all manufacturers behave as badly? Attacking Apple because they "make big profits" is not the point surely? All that will happen is that will push up the cost to other handset manufacturers who will simply buy from a different supplier who isnt as ethically managed?
at 3.1ghz and cloaked
You can see that the wave pattern shows no interference, I presume that is the point. Because there is no visible change in the wave pattern, the object is effectively invisible.
I love fandroids
As condescending as usual, no wonder you are the tech equivalents of dinosaurs. Also shows you did not read nor really understand the point of the post.
Anyway the phone is the samsung s9000, so no not a cheap £5 device, "cheap" agreed as that is what she wanted to determine if she wanted an smartphone.
Are you hiding the SSID of your network? Nope, the device simply refuses to connect, we are not running anything strange, any other device (including my new Galaxy S2), connects fine. The s9000 point blank refuses to see the network and simply connect. Could it be something on the LAN? Possibly, do I want to spend any more time trying to fix the stupid thing, no thanks.
Email: Yes of course it is likely this is the case. Rather than she wants to access her personal email which the s9000 refuses to pick up. Again it is accessible from other devices, PCs, etc. Could I spend another 5 hours trying to determine why her configuration is unhappy? probably..
I could go on, but seeing as you will have already stopped listening, I will make the point again:
The suggestion of one person that because their partner works perfectly (when they are tech illiterate), with Android does not prove a thing. It only proves a single use case.
And???
My girlfriend is very technically literate, and has Android which drives her insane as it requires serious effort and swearing to get it to simple things like join our home network (which she has to do manually every single time), adding new email accounts, transferring data, getting more apps on to her phone with an SD card, etc etc
Your point proves nothing, and neither does my gfs inability to get along with Android.
whine whine
elReg could not be more anti-Apple if they tried ffs, and the point as you are well aware was not that they mentioned this, but that OP was saying that the article suggested that the reader problems were Android related, which the article doesn't.
Honestly the Fandroids are worse than the Fanbois..
Who would use it though
How many users are going to want a Linux laptop? Outside of these elReg four walls?
Fecking Fandroids
Drinking so much kool aid from the chocolate factory that they dont even bother to read the article. At no point was it ever mentioned that it was anything to do with Android as an OS??
calculator
reminds me of an early 90s scientific calculator
Posted in Apple shouldn't bother with TV...
ITunes is crud
But this wasnt what made using an mp3 player hard. The difficulties that were resolved that I remember:
1) You needed a content management system to store all your stuff, these were clumsy and hideous. Lets not pretend otherwise.
2) To drag and drop an item, you had numerous steps. First you needed to find and install the drivers for your player, then connect it to your PC, then wait for it all to setup, then you would have to work out where to store the music/videos (usually in some random folder on the device).
3) The UI of my old MP3 player was bloody awful, no proper searching, no categorising, etc.
Now I am not claiming iTunes is particularly great, in fact I hate it with a passion, but it did give a one stop place, and was an easier tool than anything people had really done before.
Posted in Apple shouldn't bother with TV...
Hatred is an ugly thing
Remote controls are not a good example of usability, if they were most people would use them and all their functions, I am guessing look at my TV remote that 95% of people I meet press about 20 of the buttons (including the ten number ones).
Could they be better designed, yes, does your blind hatred of apple just make you froth at any apple piece, yes.
Posted in Orange Barcelona Android Qwerty phone
Fandroids
Cue fandroids whinging about how come this phoen gets 70% when the iphone get 90% and how El Reg is biased against the Android phones.
BOM
Isnt the BOM for an IPad or Transformer about $280-$350
Fanbois/Droidbois
There all the same, get the item that does the job for you and stop being so closed mind (of course if you are Droidboi you will be open source minded).
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned"
New Patent
I am going for a variation patent, I estimate all items to be delivered, anywhere, on a friday
Posted in iPhone 5 now set for October launch
Or
Android
1) Are you happy to accept your new device will not be officially supported after the next OS release? Or are you happy to trust that someone on the interwebs provides your updates for you, and you have to support your device yourself like in the "good old days" of PCs. (this one of a few reasons most people buy laptops nowadays)
2) Do you want to have to buy all your apps again.
3) Your data will be sold to the highest bidder, and ads will be your staple
Apple
1) Certain functions will be broken, never fixed and Steve tells you nothing is wrong
2) You can live with the walled cloud Stevie lets you have.
Microsoft
1) You can ever get decent handset/OS mix
Posted in Android gets talk-tastic Froyo upgrade
Best speech
Possibly best ever app for speech to text in dragon speaking.
