Posts by jubtastic1

Always with the negative vibes

I'm looking forward to it, tank looks a bit MaK and I think they did a good job with Halo and Marathon almost cost me my job back in the day heh.

Assuming this will run on one of the boy's consoles It's going on my shopping list alongside GTA5, shut up and take my money style.

A little shocked by the comments here

Massive turnout of folks that think selling a 32GB device that's already half full is no different to the 1-10% fill rate we see on everything else, 50% isn't the start of the slippery slope, it's fucking halfway down, accept it and be damned.

Can't help but think this could be a major reason behind Sinofsky's abrupt departure.

Can't seem to face up to the facts, tense and nervous, can't relax.

Giveaway is that despite claiming the government raided him twice, wants him dead, poisoned his dogs and set him up for murder he still doesn't want to leave the country, because it's nice.

There's more on this story at wired, he's been regaling them with his tale of how he outwitted the Police by burying himself up to his neck in sand and disguising his head with a cardboard box.

My gut says he's tripping his balls off and is a danger to all and sundry.

Nice to know we have so much spare energy capacity

I was worried when I read here about the coming brownouts but I guess that's sorted if we're switching to charging systems that throw away 30%.

I'm in the killjoy camp

"You'll shoot your eye out!"

Massive potential for accidental permenent blindness outweighs coolness of these lasers.

Fuck them all

Anyone can build a business that's only profitable when they pay less than a percent in tax, fuck, my family would be well set in a nice house if we didn't have to pay tax, but someone has to pay for the roads, police, fire service, hospitals, schools, sanitation, etc etc. It's fucked up that the biggest corporations in the world are passing on their share of the costs to the public.

First against the wall etc

The problem with the 'give it away for free' model

And even the 'sell it at cost' model, Is that your customers absolutly have to purchase your content and services later to pay for it, which means the hardware is going to have to be locked down solidly if you expect to stay in business, otherwise you'll be reading the news one day to discover that some enterprising bastard has created a cluster out of a million of your free tablets.

I for one prefer the old school 'people get paid when I buy something and it's mine to do with as I like' model.

'One size fits all' BOFH excuse for the day (or week)

Sandy shorted the power at the datacenter, ripped up the Atlantic cable, has taken down the sat links, destroyed the data repeaters, flooded the internet pipes, is jamming the wifi...

"What's that, your printer isn't working and there's a flashing red light next to a 'drop' symbol? That will be the automatic storm protection kicking in, try and locate a working printer in a more protected part of the building, thank you for bothering IT support, have a nice day"

Really happy to see the death of digital stitching

And will be interesting to see SJI's take on a the UI, expecting an initial quick reskin of the awful stuff before we see a new direction though.

Also Eddy Cue picks up the pieces again, that guy is a fucking star.

Ideal for people that missed the 80s

And want to look like a beaten up new romantic.

That's not going to work (reliably)

Ignoring the size of it, which could be reduced to something hardly noticable, it's dependant on line of sight to work, so shirts, coats and desks are going to cause errors.

A better idea would be for a bracelet or watch strap to sense the mechanical activity and/or electrical fields created on the inside of the wrist when the fingers are moved.

More than that though, a virtual invisible keyswitch that's activated when your finger crosses an arbitrary line is a naive concept, on the face of it it would seem a virtual analogue to a common task but the only way they can implement more than ten actions will be through chording, and if you're going to have to learn a whole new way of typing you would be better off basing it on physical actions that are natural and comfortable to users, which definitely won't be jazz hands.

That seems unworkable to me

I mean it's obviously supposed to be a big stick, but unless they intend to cripple their economy and divert all funds into building prisons they're going to have to be extreamly selective with it's application.

But even so, download a TV series and you get imprisoned for life? can't see how that could possibly backfire.

Isn't this a 'bear shits in woods' story?

Pirating dropped when the content was made available for free, was that really surprising?

That's fine for stuff that was going to be essentially free anyway (broadcast), but was scheduled for different times in different regions, it's how it should have been from the start but I don't see what relevence this has to the more traditional piracy of media that needs to be sold.

Personally I feel the modern 'Cinema Experience' is responsible for a lot of piracy, Saw the remake of Total Recall* recently, £18 a ticket for the cheap seats, turns out that's just the first two rows of the centre section and the sides, the rest was 'Premier' and 'Gallery', needless to say the cinema was almost empty. The feeling of being robbed wasn't helped by what was in my opinion easily the worst film I've ever watched.

Obvious isn't it?

Either the app was breaking out of its sandbox to analyse other apps, or it was relying on an external database to report on other apps, from the article it's clear it was the latter and further that said database was often inaccurate.

Booted for failing the 'works as advertised' test.