Re: Cloud based services continue
Yeah, why can't we have good old fashioned Internet services with no data centres and no temperature contro...WAIT A SECOND!
130 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Feb 2013
One of the adverts displayed on your site is an obnoxious flash concoction that automatically plays an annoying fanfare without any user interaction. The flash video URL in question is http://www.aldaniti.net:8080/imagenes/creatividades/20130228112406.swf (The audio seems to only play once in a while). The URL it takes you to is http://www.aldaniti.net/wingames/apple_dk/index.php
I hope that you find chaps over at El Reg will agree that automatically playing sound is a no-no and will euthanise this particular advert.
Oh and to pre-empt the standard web user reply to posts like these, no I wont use adblock because I'm not a parasite.
@Grikath
Yep, one can only surmise that people are so sensitive to criticism about their chosen company that the articles seem, to them, to be worse than those about other corps.
Additionally, a number of commentards accuse El Reg of being in Microsoft's pocket. So there you have it, El Reg is both anti-Microsoft & pro-Microsoft at the same time. The commentards have spoken!
I'm one of the three people who really likes Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. That out of the way I would like to add that this site isn't anti-Microsoft any more than it's anti-Apple, anti-Google, anti-Blackberry etc... Stop taking it so seriously. Corps don't need you to stick up for them.
I haven't had any issues with outlook this time either (though there was an issue a few weeks back that I got stung by). Microsoft ballsed up and people should know they did.
Happy to see that El Reg app is the only news app I have seen that is smart enough to have a view in browser button so its easy to access features the app doesn't deliver such as copy & paste.
I get quite a lot of use out of the feature as the WP8 app doesn't add the headline when sharing to twitter (hint, hint).
Let me explain
See, Apple is the name of the company that produces iOS but it's also the name of a fruit.
Now pay attention as this is where it gets a bit botanical or what have you.
The thing about your basic apple (the fruit) is that it has a quality that could be described as "fruity" and the thing about Apple corp, your basic Apple corp thing, is that it's named after said, fruity fruit. So the writer of this article decided - and I hope you are prepared for this humdinger of a pun realization - to use the term to describe Apple.
I hope I have been able to put your mind at ease by explaining this clearly enough. If you need further assistance the El Reg news desk may be willing to borrow Anna on a consultancy basis so she may try her hand at explaining.
I can't see advertising changing enough that it would prevent such services from selling advertising space. We have had advertising for a long time and it only seems to be increasing both online and out in the real world.
I'll admit that I know sod all about advertising but the only way I can ever see Facebook having trouble selling adverts is if the advertisers decide that they aren't reaching enough users. This could happen if Facebook's user base plummets or if major shopping websites (e.g. Amazon) start to have a more effective form of advertising i.e. not suggesting that people buy the same product (or type of product) that they purchased 5 mins ago
"As part of its weekly patent-application release, the US Patent and Trademark Office published "Magnetic Stand for Tablet Device" on Thursday, which describes "a way for securely attaching a tablet device to a stand where it can be removed and replaced with ease.""
Your Honour, as you can see the witness was able to remove the tablet from its holder without even the most minor of wrist injury. I therefore feel justified in requesting an immediate ban on all sales of it in this country.
Would that be because he questioned a high profile open source project (Firefox OS), questioned an "open" source product (Android), made a small remark that could cast WP in a positive light or some other reason?
I suppose you could object to the overall tone but I found it quite amusing whilst still being news.
"The fact that it only comes to less than 200MB is exactly my point - if I have GBs free, why can't I use it?"
As said, Google are in the business of gathering data on you, storing it, and using it to sell you stuff. If you are offline then they can't gather data about you. Arguably they could have it all uploaded later when you go online but this would be harder to spin as they couldn't use the "necessary to provide the service" excuse.
@dogged
Of course it's an OS feature! Making sure there is a little image there to let people know they can get to a list of programs and save them from the terror of having to press Windows Key & Q at the same time is just as important as process scheduling & memory management ;)
Of all the sheer bloody minded arrogance...
"after the company informed the software people it was applying for Community Trademark on the name “Python”."
Is there some legal reason they needed to do that before the trademark was approved? If not then it smells like a (bizarre) publicity stunt to me.