Posts by stuff and nonesense

You can show anything with benchmarks. A properly written program, optimised for dual cores, using as little I/O as possible can run twice as fast on a dual core processor.

Most of the people who buy gadgets aren't going to read The Register / Anandtech / Toms / The inq etc.. They will associate dual core with faster and get bragging rights for a few nights.

"Free! Just promise to spend an exuberant amount for 2 years with a hidden premium that will more than pay for the cost of the phone"

The contract prices (on O2) are roughly the same for both Android and iPhone for the same minutes, texts and 3G internet access.

Wait and see what the prices are for the "free" iPhone.

All the monthly recurring fees contain an element which pays for the phone.

Hmmm... A Google sourced grub? A boot loader that logs all your activities and reports them to its master so that they can better serve you adverts...

Sounds like a bad virus to me.

"we don't see TalkTalk or Sky footing any of the bill"

BT Retail, Sky, Talk Talk et al pay BT Openreach for the services used.

There is an effective seperation of BT Retail and BT Openreach mandated by Ofcom to allow a "level playing field".

Patents

A design doesn't need to be revolutionary to be patented. It is required to be new and non-obvious.

Patent Offices grant patents based on this criteria. Sadly they also grant broad brush patents that stop development of related equipments.

A few suggested changes :

Patents should be required to be Specific, novel, non-obvious and TIME BOUND. Time bound in that if the patent design is not used to make a marketed product within a reasonable limit it is lapsed and becomes public domain.

The Apple v Samsung spitting match is not about patents. It is about the look and feel of the tablet devices. It is more akin to copyright.

Stairway to Heaven.. well it's a title

""which is much more of an advertising company than a software or hardware company"

And yet internet search/advertising is built on software that runs on hardware. Google build their own servers and even use their own file system which gives them the best search system on the market. Claiming they don't software or hardware is pure bull."

Google makes money from advertising. It is an advertising company.

That it uses home brew technology as tools does not make it a hardware company.

The software Google distributes is a tool to get information to better target advertisements.

numbers and letters

So long as it is protecting it's IP within the law it will not be deemed to be being anti-competitive.

Patents by their nature are anti-competitive. Their intention is to protect the innovator.

RE: RE: @Matt Bryant

Security reviews should be ongoing. No charge should be levied against the hacker for them.

An aside, Where are the data backups?

The biggest loss to NASA should have been time to restore the affected data Surely that should be minimal with an effective backup regime?

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All software patents are bad.

IF they had been prevalent in the early 80s then Compaq would not have been able to procure a BIOS clone. PCs would have been IBM only. NO compatibles!

Word Processors... Wordstar (?) only?

Only one source of spreadsheet / database / presentations software?

Doom (and ID derivatives) the only 1st person shoot 'em ups?

Donkey Kong the only platform game?

Copyright is fine. Copyright protects my code.

Copyright allows the development of competing products.

Going back to the BIOS..

Guru 1 is tasked with the analysis of the input/output functions of the BIOS chip.

Guru 1 writes a complete functional specification of the device - operation only - NO CODE.

This is handed to Guru 2 and Guru 1 is removed from the operation completely. There is no direct contact between Guru 1 and Guru 2.

Guru 2 codes the BIOS clone. The copyright is in tact.

STOP SOFTWARE PATENTS!!!!!!

Firefox in the office.

"From what I remember IE has a lot of settings that can be controled by group policy to "provide a consistent reliable system"."

+1

That is the main reason given to me that I am not 'allowed' to use Firefox at work.

At home the nightly 64 bit FF is nice to use, no crashes so far....

They do exist

An injunction stops the press from publishing a story, however, that story could be raised in Parliament (under parliamentary privilige). People involved could approach an MP to make this happen.

A super injunction prevents communication of the story (within the law). The parties involved, say Imogen Thomas, would not be allowed to talk to her MP and have the matter raised in parliament under parliamentary privilige.

No it doesn't

Maintaining many forks of a program costs money, time and focus.

Firefox is supporting 2 versions, 3.6.x and 4.0.x, and plans to release version 5 due in a few weeks.

Many people now are using 64 bit. Development should be directed there instead of supporting an outdated version.

With regard to the add-ons - get in contact with the addon programmers, see if they are going to update your must have extensions.

Sad II

Look at everything microsoft has bought. Full functionality remains for Windows clients, Macintosh is hobbled (reduced feature set). Linux ... what's Linux apart from an untouchable patent infringement (in microsoft's eyes)

Time to say farewell to Skype as a cross platform well featured system.

RIP Skype 10 May 2011

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"Just read The Register for a bit to see how true that is."

ROFLMAO

Second part

Read the title of my first post!!!!!!!!!!