Posts by Mahou Saru
133 posts • joined Thursday 16th August 2007 11:25 GMT
Good foor the consumer??
If a third party (aka Apple) strangles the networks possible revenue streams, personally I think the choice of letting the shareholders suffer the loss, or passing it onto the consumer, they would choose the later....
Judge Dreads Ahoy!!!
Woah when did it become so popular to act like Judge Dread with so many individuals deciding that Swartz is guilty without it going to court? Especially when the law is open to question and does get amended frequently. If it wasn't for individuals like Swart| then maybe our societies would be something out of 2000AD.
Anyway I think the big issue isn't to do with individuals such as Swartz for doing what he did, or for Ortiz pushing as hard as she did (maybe she did it for what she thought was right, or maybe she did it to further her own agenda/career).
I think the problem is large organisations abusing the system to erode the rights of the individual, especially then their actions seem so out of proportion.
Each step we take as a society, it just seems darker then the last. With the media moguls with their copy right actions, the patent trolls acting like gangsters extorting money, and governments (US and UK) taking away our rights to preserve our "freedom", if it wasn't for people like Swartz then this world would be a much darker place then it is imho.
The bad aspects to touchy feely...
As some people have said there is no one type of management technique to rule them all. Good management is dependent on the manager, the employee and more importantly the situation, so basically the approach is different every time.
Whilst there are plenty of positives to the touchy feely management style, there are some really bad too and not just for the manager or team, but for the person in question.
For starters if a person isn't performing well, with the touchy feely style someone needs to mentor them, find out what is wrong, and/or send them onto training courses in hope that an improvement is made. Whilst this is happening either the person's responsibilities stall, or the rest of the team has to take up the slack. If the role stalls the team can look bad, if others are doing the person's work then this can easily create a bad atmosphere in the team.
For the person in question, each time they get dealt with there is a good chance that their role diminishes and basically they get sidelined out of chances to grow or worse out of a job.
Personally if I cock up I rather have my manager tell me straight to my face rather then have it drag out, of course after work have them take me to a pub a get me drunk when I've resolved the issue!
Re: ...spend “is not proportional to its effectiveness”
That is rubbish.
Securing a system, any system is based on the skill of the administrator and the policies of the org. Any statistical hypist can pull numbers out of their arses, but what it comes down to is do you have the ability to secure in terms or skill and are you allowed to.
The following not directly aimed at you, but in general is I wish people would stop basing enterprise situations on home/soho situations, they are totally different in terms of security and costs.
Bwuh...
Don't planes go near thunder storms?
I'm pretty sure that the electronic bits must be proofed against them, so how the {insert expletive of choice} can my piddly little gadget affect it?
The thing about reviews...
is you can get good ones to offset the bad ones. Of course that means some people may forge their good reviews, but much better then pouring petrol onto the fire.
A profession which there is much stories of bad doings, taking a retired military force member to court in the USA.... Me thinks this won't stand up very well...
Re: Globalisation is coming back home @ Chet
But can they?
Whilst I salute a company actually investing in their country of origin, isn't one of the reasons why their shares are so high, due to their large margins. If the margins drop it would be interesting to see if the share holders hold on or start selling.
I haven't had any malware on my Win7 box in ages...
Well ever since I only play games on it and everything else is done on a separate Debian box :p
Re: Culture rules.....
Can't for get the "Interesting Times Gang" whomever they may be :)
The great thing about the minds in terms of AIs is that they are all self programming, which makes them truly AI in my book. Also love the way the author gets past the issue of speed of limit limitation by their the majority of their processing being done in hyperspace.
Never made it to film, but I wish they would...
Any of the Culture Minds, for example "Grey Area" (aka Meatfucker) :)
They have done what most sci fi AIs want to do and already rule humanity, and with names like "Big Sexy Beast", or my favourite "No More Mr Nice Guy", no wonder they came out on top!
Posted in Ten technology FAILS
"Intel quickly figured that people really wanted laptops that were cheaper and more portable than those then available, and devised first the netbook..."
Wait wasn't that Asus's little baby???
I would laugh so hard if it outsold WinPho8
Then probably start crying when MS try to nuke it from orbit with the current weapon of choice, pointless patents...
I would laugh so hard if it outsold WinPho8
The probably start crying when MS try to nuke it from orbit using the current weapon of choice, pointless patents...
One GUI to rule them all...
I remember reading white papers many years ago when the focus was on _users_ being able to access their data and services from any device from a familiar interface.
A single OS is great for ensuring apps are available for what ever device with minimum fuss (allegedly), but shouldn't the interface tune itself for the device it runs on?
I don't get the trend of trying to shoe horn a single GUI onto every device. Just because in some countries the scooter is the most used form of private transport, it doesn't mean that cars should have handle bars instead of a steering wheel!
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
mutt for me
not because of geekness, but because it is nice to have all my email set up in one place and I can easily access archives without needing to do syncing shenanigans!
I still use the email client on my phone for notification and quick access
Intermittent reboots...
Are one of the worst things to happen to a new product, and if you love your new gadget it should worry you for a couple of reasons...
1. The intermittent faults are hard to diagnose and push out a fix, mostly because companies then to be sluggish in dealing with problems that only seems affect a few users.
2. It could happen to you, especially when you don't need it to. The fault could be caused by installing an app, or using a embedded service in a certain way, and sods law states that it will bite you in the arse just when you need it the most.
Mostly have a thought for those it does happen to, if your new shiny started rebooting intermittently wouldn't you be pissed?
Putting McAfee's state of mind to one side....
I personally think in general politicians to be a bunch of power hungry liars, now if the chief power hungry liar came out and told me that they weren't after me, I think I would become a little paranoid too :p
Just because he wants to give them away....
doesn't mean he doesn't want credit...
But I guess I might have been trolled....
The patent system maybe broken, but who helped break it in the first place?
All these large companies filing these frivolous patents are overloading an already broken system. It seems like they are trying to pay off the system to stifle competition rather then protect any actual ideas.
I propose that they should limit the number of patents a company can apply for each year in a country/region.
To increase the number they can apply for each year they must invest in that country/region. So moving cash to tax dodge will count against them. That way a company will have to choose what they wish to patent, or ensure that they invest more in that region.
They can of course donate to the region itself in the form of no strings attached donations to education and research groups (non affiliated).
If a patent is voided that slot is lost.
If a company buys up another company for their patents, the parent company must ensure that they have enough slots available, by ensuring they have donated, invested, or by dropping their existing patents.
Maybe that would stop all these stupid filings?
The customer always ends up paying for any additional costs...
Apple being Samsung's customer ended up with the cost which they were involved in creating, but will they pass off their costs to their customers?
I knew Asian parents were bad...
Didn't consider that the grandparents would be Asian parents squared oO
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Personally I think HTC let themselves down, with too large a range of phone models which mostly keep missing the mark (omg put in a good camera ffs).
Then they did the deal with the devil instead of innovating/engineering/fighting themselves out of it.
Then the kick in the balls from the cash flow loss.
Dunno if the new strategy will work, but right now when I'm on the tube in TW, I mostly see people using iPhones and Sammys, especially the Note <- not hard to miss xD
Apple infected with lawyers...
I read that they have patent lawyers sitting in on design sessions noting down everything that can be patented. I didn't realise that they also now control the PR and business strategy as well... "Image? Who cares as long as it lines our pockets!"
Re: Bad news for endangered species
My point is more about aggressive dismissal such as the kind you are showing, rather then keeping an open mind and investigating with modern techniques.
Currently before human trials can even begin a lot of money and research has to be carried out, so some cures may be missed. If uneducated camel riders realised that rubbing the mould from saddles onto their sores helped, just because it was not tested in a scientific way doesn't make it quackery. One form of quackery IMHO is the absolute belief that only one method, or thing is right (kinda like religion) which personally I think science isn't about.
Rather then dismissing experiences from the past just because they don't fulfil your requirements, I was advocating investigating it.
In 100 years time who knows they might be laughing at your comments and techniques the same way as you are doing of others!
Re: Bad news for endangered species
Chinese traditional medicine doesn't just involve animal bits, acupuncture, pressure puncture are just a few that have already been adopted by western medicine.
In terms of thousands of years of quackery, sure but isn't that the case with most things? Herbal medicines can work and not because of placebo, and the reason why is because they are medicines. Whilst western medicine likes to isolate a single active ingredient and make it into a pill, these plants can have hundreds of active ingredients in them.
Whilst modern medicine (western, eastern, whatever), now is restricted in the way it can test, these traditional medicines have had thousands of years of human testing. It is hard to separate snake oil (which actually is Chinese and very good for you), from real medicines, but sufferers of bad skin problems for whom steroids, UV treatments and other icky things don't work, find that a cup of real foul tasting tea does wonders.
So rather then dismissing traditional medicines as quackery, wouldn't it be better to adopt it as actual medicine and ensure that it undergoes the same rigorous testing?
So now can we ban iPhones and anything else made in China from work???
BYOD is a PITA so following USA's example we should be able to ban all devices made in China from work!!!
Wait stop leave my racks alone!!!!
Most of the money you pay for a book goes towards paying the writer...
Maybe for some of the bigger names, but me thinks most of it goes to the fat cats
They finally got it right...
Build on it, don't kick it down!!!!
Re: Sorry, but at the moment...
Banks any more trust worthy?
Well apart from putting bonuses into their own pockets!
@need for patent...
Doesn't matter if she has a patent or not, when Apple decides it wants it reality will warp and they would have invented it already!
That is more like it, but...
more mud at Apple please and less at the owners. They are suffering already, whether they know it or not :p
Castration is....
Balls out, or just the snip???
Re: End of the line
@harmony
"Have you ever looked at how many people buy their mobile phones on contract rather than buying SIM-free upfront? Case closed, I think."
Can you open that case again as most people end up with a mobile phone at the end of their contract!
VDI no longer in fashion???
I would have thought stuffs like spreadsheets, databases, you know things containing potentially confidential data would do much better staying on a server somewhere and not being left on a mobile device.
Connection??? Hopefully by 2015 always online won't be an issue....
The Genius of Jobs...
Personally I think it is how he created this "thing", not the rampant fanboyism, as most popular things have their fanatics.
I think he is a genius as he was able to take something which traditionally has been in the hands of the religious ilk and moved it over to a sector (consumer electronics) that has traditionally been hard to make a huge profit out of selling each item.
Until the Apple Factor, I would have said the majority of us gadgetty consumers have been of the sensible type. Each generation of device we expect more, for less. Only the really rich or hooked would pay out of their noses for grey imports.
Even if some of us ended up as {insert brand of choice} whores, we liked having other companies competing against each other as that drove down prices, forced innovation, but more importantly gave us more choices.
But now it seems that a huge amount of the consumer is willing to pay out of their noses for a gadget, and more importantly wants no choice. What has happened?
I once joked that Jobs would take over the world by converting us all to iBermen, using his iDevices as the mechanism to suck away our free will, and it seems I might have not been too far from reality...
Also if geekism can only be acceptable to general society by spending over the top for shiny rather then gadgetry, loss of choice and herdism, then I want the good old days of living in the parents basement with no friends etc etc etc!
Better ban all iPhones etc from government employees then...
And everything else made in China or other communist countries...
Doesn't this open up a can of worms on Apple?
Other companies have been playing the patent game a lot longer then Apple; IBM and Microsoft spring to mind... They patent some of the most absurd things, add in how Microsoft have been in the "smart phone" *cough* game longer then Apple I wonder will someone employ Apple's own tactics* against them?
MS really want the mobile market, and if one of Android's biggest players just got slapped down doesn't that make Apple a prime target?
*Using any legality what so ever to use the courts as their stick rather then just competing... Apple just shown it works, now it is a game of burning bucks and making lawyers rich...
Or...
Skynet is tired of bloated code that relies on grunt rather then elegance to work and has decided to commit suicide!
Posted in Nokia CEO: No shift from Windows Phone
Personally..
I'm down voting you coz I don't need to buy it to try it. There is this magical place called a shop where you can actually try things before deciding if you like it or not....
If this works I expect it to happen more frequently
It seems to be the same tactic used in school yards all over the world. If a bigger kid starts bullying everyone else, the only way to really deal with it is to get together and make a stand.
Of course if the environment didn't encourage this sort of behaviour in the first place then this wouldn't need to happen.
Re: @Brian Miller 1 (was: Honestly some people)
Nurse nurse Jake forgot to take his meds again!!!
I can't believe you actually told someone else to grow up :)
Re: Security by Obscurity?
errrmm that phrase means trying to make something secure by hiding it... It does cover the situation of something not being popular so hopefully no one will target it, but in this case me thinks it is to do with hiding your code and hoping that vulnerabilities won't be discovered.
prequel to the wind up girl?
Reads like it
I guess one area would be certification/training
I think the more popular Ubuntu becomes on the server side the greater the demand for certification and training which Canonical could capitalise on. Also the more certified Ubuntumins out there, could help with more adoption so it would be a win win situation.
Plan B...
Use the carriers as floating tax free havens or casinos
Good old SSM
I remember using good old System Safety Monitor when I was forced to use Windows. Never had a single breach on XP using that, but on Win7 I've had one infection when that _one time_ I forgot to use my VM web browser :(
antifanboi??
why must the doj look at amazon et el? The article even states currently amazon are not a monopoly (yet) and unlike the 2 that have basically admitted to doing wrong, have not been involved in price-fixing.
geezzz it sounds like you have been watching too much minority report!
Re: Move production to the U.S.
Maybe less of the insularism and more trying to understand each others cultures and situations would lead to a "type 1" culture, rather then everyone trying to lead lives which this planet doesn't have the resources to sustain.
The rest of the world is just like me...
I find it strange how so many people use only their own experiences as a yard stick to judge others and their situations. It also seems the more narrow minded the meddler the more vocal they are.
Does the working situation need to change is places like China? Dunno, I know I wouldn't want to work in some of the environments; but isn't this something the Chinese people have to resolve and not outsiders sitting in their ivory towers?
wtf he can't be a real project leader
making a statement like "the goal is not to move everybody over in the space of just 12 months but rather to lay a “solid foundation” that institutions can use to plan a move."
Normally project leaders say things that make my arse feel like it has been violated with a baseball bat...
