GAAP?

Maybe they're deStarbucksing them?

Conspiracy Theory

I wonder what other bills were quietly passed while the press focussed everyone's attention on this one?

SRB?

I know it's probably not, but this reeks of a Sir Richard Branson-style PR stunt.

Almost makes me want to go out and buy some commercial antivirus software.

Almost.

"Soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside"

ARMADILLO!

No, wait....

???

What. The. Fuck?

Wolf!

Oh wait no, there's no evidence of wolves round here. Just hearsay, conjecture and competiting statistics (and we all know how many of those are made up on the spot - that's right, 22.8% of them).

Seriously though...

I wish they'd stop combatting symptoms and start looking at the root cause. Make energy companies pay 100% tax on profits gained from fossil fuels, and 0% tax on renewables.See how fast you get workable, commercially-viable, clean vehicles and power when you hit companies in their bottom lines.

Or...

WE COULD JUST SCORCH THE SKIEZ!!!

Finally, a new social network!

(Oh wait...)

I like it, the design is nice, it's very modern. And most importantly I know it hasn't been created just to Borg even more of my information that a huge web company wants so it can create more targeted adverts on its search pages. Not mentioning any names.

The last thing Google+ needs is another competitor in the space.

Extradition

So, America claims unlawful copyright infringement, without properly charging anyone and circumventing a nation's duty to protect its (no apostrophe) people. The result, after that nation chooses to duly investigate, is a big fat middle finger.

Surely this must affect the Richard O'Dwyer extradition case that Jimbo Wales is petitioning against? (http://www.change.org/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard)

Isn't it time Theresa May did some work for a change?

It's a matter of taste but...

Of all the henges, it's definitely my favourite.

Google+ vs. Facebook

Facebook just announced 901 million active monthly users (up from 845m in Dec 2011) and a 41% jump in daily active users to 526 million.

WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/04/23/facebook-first-quarter-revenue-jumps-45-profit-drops/

Cool!!!

"Mission controllers immediately declared a spacecraft emergency"

That's my favourite sentence ever.

Not Exclusive, Sorry

TechCrunch got there first, last week.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/

Ouch

These are the actions of a desperate company that knows how precarious its situation is.

If they're sensible, Facebook could be about to kill AdWords: http://richstokoe.com/blog/?id=66

15x9

If it's 0-based.

Send Light Too?

I'm no scientificationist but why don't they just send light and neutrinos down the same pipe at the same time and see if they arrive together?

Hmmm

"... the targeted site then required to defend itself via counter-notices."

Gone are the days of innocent until proven guilty (in an appropriate court of law). Now you can have punitive action taken against you ON SUSPICION of copyright infringement.

How hard would it be to create a new Internet which the US Government can't get their grubby, egotistical hands on? (Could even be IPv6 from the start to take advantage of the inevitable collapse of the USGov's Interwebz and ensuing public/commercial panic).

Jesus Christ

Yet another episode (all of them, so far) I can't listen to because Gavin talks like he's reporting from inside a roll of the BOFH's carpet and Mary-Jo sounds like she's speaking through a bullhorn.

E-minus. Must Try Harder (See me).

True

No degree here, just passion and enthusiasm. Driving strategy for one of the world's top 10 software co's.

A new interface to learn?

Hmmmm, well, seeing as I have a new interface to learn anyway I might as well see what else is on the market. Oh hello Linux, Mac!

Paranoid Android

Google is actually whinging because the other kids are picking on it in the playground? Way to be professional, Mountain Viewers....

Fukushima

"The most likely cause of a meltdown is a complete loss of power to a facility"

It's a nuclear power plant, how does it lose power???! Can't it power its own cooling?

Paris is more of a gravity specialist (going down on a body with a large mass), but maybe she'll know?

The only thing you have to realise is...

... There Is No Cloud.

Distributed applications running on boxes public to the Internet primarily utilising HTML, HTTP, Scripting and SOAP/REST services? Paying for hosting without having to manage the servers?

That's not 'cloud', that's 'The World-Wide Web'. That's how it has always been.

Stop hunting for Cloud Developers, and look for what you're really after: Good web developers who have understood for decades how to write scalable, stateless, uber-connected systems with HTML front ends.

Umm...

Who is saying HTML5+JS is going to be used to write business logic?

Microsoft are taking HP's webOS idea (well received... by those few who actually bought a handset...), and updating it to use HTML5 + JS. This will begin a new era of lightweight, interoperable applications speaking to cloudy services. If we really want the Star Trek/Minority Report/Demolition Man world then this is a mandatory step. I'm not a MS fan, but I think they might actually be doing the right thing here and thinking longer term.

The Java/.NET/PHP/Python/Ruby/Go war will still go on, but it will be isolated to the server side. This is where all the 'proper' programming will be done. The winner of that will be whoever has the best server features. MS wins there too, best IDE, promising native support for WCF coming in the 'WCF Web Api [sic]' package (wcf.codeplex.com).

This will result in a world of software that updates automatically, isn't version-fragmented (like Android), is multimedia-friendly, is easily entered by people with little skill (good and bad thing...) and has a good learning curve which might result in some interesting applications of the technologies.

Stop worrying, and start embracing.

And the little one said "roll over, roll over..."

What annoys me is that Windows Phone 7 is clearly not ready for primetime and they're going to take Nokia down with them when they fail. Nokia's a good company, just misguided of late. They don't deserve to be tainted by Ballmer's dumbphone.

And to top it off, when they cock up a patch (which they said wouldn't happen because they had restricted the OS to only 5 different types of handsets) and the Community tries to help eachother out, they shaft their customers. It's been nice knowing you, Microsoft.

Mine's the one with the Android smartphone in the pocket, cheers.

Remember...

... you don't have to worry about privacy unless you have something to hide! - Schmidt

Hmm

Is this another case of the Streisand Effect? Are Sony now going to lose big-style because they've cracked down on this Chocolate Zeppelin chappie, or do people here think it's just going to be forgotten soon? I favour the latter because people are generally stupid with short attention spans.

What really bugs me is that this is a guy who cracked the uncrackable (Sony claimed). He's clever, he's innovative and creative, he's went up against billions of [currency] of R&D investment and won. What would have happened if Whittle had been sued by propeller engine manufacturers for stealing their IP (twirly things providing thrust). Or Oracle suing Google for Android Java (oh wait, bad example).

We seriously need to stop this oppression of our best minds, slap him on the wrists, make your point, Sony, but give this guy a job! Applaud his innovative spirit! Learn from the experience and use it to make the PS4 even better, and more serving to your customers wants: open technologies and a bit of healthy competition between operating systems which will result in better breeds.

Credit due

Credit where credit's due (even if they're late in getting their act together by EU standards).

Well done OFCOM.

There's a modicum of novelty in being able to write that!