Posts by fishman

Re: 8.1 and 8 should be grouped together

Neither was OSX.

Re: I wish ...

Of course, the Motorola Atrix had a fingerprint sensor *long* before Apple did.

Yeah, they seemed to forget that in 2012 WP7 phone sales dropped drastically once the details of WP8 became known.

Re: Samsung Board Room

My son had a 3GS - after a year, the battery wasn't lasting very long, and after two years (2 year contract), he had to use an external battery pack.

Re: IBM HW: going out of business?

If the iDataPlex line is going, it will be a nice boost for SGI and Cray.

Re: activist?

Asset Stripper? More like Asset Rapist.

Re: Advertising!

<<<If you can't/won't avoid sharing information, you can at least spread it around a bit so one company doesn't have the full picture. >>>

It doesn't take much for a company to have a good idea about you, so spreading it around means that instead of one company has a "very good" idea about you, three or four may only have a "good" idea about you.

I remember the Reg when it was sent as an email every two weeks.

Re: Wait a minute...

<<<but a lot of sites are running with a source citing that the new Samsung Galaxy S5 will be announced this April with a...... fingerprint scanner...... But, ...but surely that would be BLATANTLY RIPPING OFF APPLE, wouldn't it? >>>

No, Samsung would be ripping off the far older Motorola Atrix.

Re: sapphire glass scratches ?

Same here - my Seiko watch has sapphire glass, and no scratches. And I'm not gentle - the band and case are heavily scratched.

It's not surprising Apple is doing this - it will get harder and harder to differentiate premium smartphones in the future. At least until the next big thing is figured out.

Re: Gifts from the Gods (while walking in the meadows)

My brother in law was an airline mechanic - He called Airbus "Scarebus", and didn't like flying on them.

Re: Sounds like a brilliant move

"Yup, and also - who the fuck do we sue if it goes tits up."

How many companies have been sucessful suing Microsoft or IBM when their products go titsup?

Re: Who Else Won't It Be?

Now we know why Ballmer was throwing them....

Re: Perspective

A couple of years ago, the marketshare for Windows Mobile + Windows Phone was around 3.6%. Now that Windows Mobile is gone, Windows Phone has grown in its place to give Microsoft a marketshare of 3.6%.

But it was stated that it was a 20 year mission, to 2017.

2017 - 20 = 1997.

Microsoft market share not growing?

A couple of years ago, the Windows Mobile + Windows Phone marketshare was 3.6%. Now the Windows Mobile marketshare has died, and Microsoft still only has the same marketshare as before. So the growth of Windows Phone has been at the expense of Windows Mobile.

Re: How on Earth did McCain choose Palin?

Obama picked Biden as his VP. So McCain figured that he needed to pick a total idiot, too.

Re: Bing is the reason for buying the entry level phone business

"Actually Nokia make a profit last quarter, lost peanuts on it's rapidly growing Windows Phone business, and is likely to turn that into a profit on the mobile business alone in Q4 this year..."

You seem to have forgotten that Microsoft has been giving Nokia $1B/year.

Re: Out of pure curiosity...

"Nokia's Devices and Services division, which Microsoft picked up earlier this year, posted a $118m loss, as expected."

And that's including the $250M per quarter payment from Microsoft. Otherwise it would have been a $368M loss.

Power draw isn't as bad as it used to be. IIRC, a 50" plasma uses around $12. more electricity a year than a similar sized LCD. And the picture is far better.

It's really a shame to see them going. Hopefully mine will last long enough that some new technology will come along and at least equal the Panasonic Plasmas.

Re: Intel graphics - hahahahahahahaha, GMA = games my ass

<<Now I've got a laptop with HD4000 graphics which handily beats AMD's equivalently priced integrated graphics.>>

Every graphics benchmark I've seen has the AMD graphics superior to the HD4000.

Re: Total lack of story here...

Normally Apple sells the previous years iPhone at a reduced price. They are selling the 5c at the price they would have charged for the 5. And since the 5c is cheaper to make than the 5, their profit margin is higher. I would not be surprised if they make more profit off of each 5c they sell compared to the 5s.

Re: Forget 64 bit

Motorola had a fingerprint scanner in their Atrix Android phone a couple of years ago.

Re: Whose data is it?

Don't forget about the security cameras when you are using the wifi in that shop.

Re: at least you found 2 games for Windows phone

And the Windows Phone versions were more expensive than the Android/IOS versions.

[ I prefer to be different and not become borged.]

Ironic, considering that for many years quite a few associated Microsoft with the borg.

BTW, I'd rather have the one that works best for me, instead of trying to be different. I do many things different from most people, but that's because something works best for me.

Re: So they admitted 2000+ cases

[I wonder what the *real* number is ?]

It's probably like roaches - if you see one, you've got dozens.

Re: Next step??

[A number of studies show that supported enterprise Linux has a higher TCO - except as a web server...]

And who paid for those studies?

Re: Content is King.

<<"Yep, that's how Sony have ended up outselling the Xbox360"

That was purely because the PS3 included a BluRay drive - which is what many PS3s are only used for.>>

On the other hand, how many Xbox 360s were sold as a replacement for their high failure rate?

Re: Why

SGI offers the UV series. They claim "This latest SGI UV product family can scale a single system image (SSI) to a maximum of 2,048 cores", and runs SUSE or Red Hat Linux.

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/uv/

You already can slide directly into the camera function without unlocking the phone on android.

I'm really cheap. I buy my razors at the dollar store - $1 for a dozen disposible razors.

Re: Faboy here

<<<Windows Phone is approaching critical mass and has pushed Blackberry into a distant 4th place. >>>

Blackberry has pushed Blackberry into 4th place.

Re: It's all in the details

Be careful of what you ask for - Rosanne Barr is "full bodied",but I wouldn't want to see her in latex.