Posts by asdf

Re: I am not a fan of APPLE or their products with their curated garden...

Ya get acquired (Motorola mobility) and your management loses it focus (often as they look for new jobs) you lose you mean.

Re: hmm

Never watched that garbage myself but heard from people that laughed at Hostel you won't laugh at that movie. It's probably not a "movie" that part of Europe wants advertising it either. Yeah I think I'll stay in Western Europe thank you.

Re: I think this is the wrong sort of burden

Yes net neutrality is not about filtering based on packet types but more filtering in the same class based on the source or even destination of the packet. Even that is an oversimplification obviously.

Re: Does this mean the end of the ARM powered Windows Phone?

>I'll be impressed if Microsoft and Intel can pull that off (but here and now I'm sceptical).

Why Intel the largest most advanced chipmaker in the world finally catching up to upstart ARM years later or Microsoft finally getting traction in a market post Gates? Intel biggest problem has been trying to make the ugly old dog x86 instruction set work in mobile and being motivated by the tiny margins in mobile chips to do so. They are being dragged in to make it happen. Microsoft well over half the company still seems to think its 1999.

Re: The trouble with journalists and foreign names

Yes it never gets old seeing what must be high school jocks inserting some poor schlub's name repeatedly in Wikipedia entries.

Re: golf clap

Forgot to specify that I am not a phablet fan, a market which is almost single-handedly keeping Samsung afloat right now. The Note seems like decent kit if you are into two handed phone usage.

Re: I have one and it's really good!

>What an absolutely splendid idea. And perhaps they could put them all in a special section of The Register that only those with a Windows Phone account can log in to.

And the same 6 people that actually log in can become blood brothers in suffering. The world just doesn't understand.

seen this before

> Microsoft’s goal is to cash in on services – bundling things like Office 365 for free for the first year and charged thereafter, when you forget to cancel.

So in other words the old MSN scam they pulled with Best Buy years ago. You think the class action settlement would still be fresh in their memory. I assume this time you have to actually give them your credit card info unlike the sales people volunteering it for you like before (not crying about Best Buy's slow death at all) so its a bit more above board. Still nothing like resorting to the free credit report business model.

Re: Dear HP

>Hows that shareholder lawsuit for sheer M&A incompetence looking now Meg?

That lawsuit was the whole reason for HP's half ass defense of its complete lack of due diligence. Without it it wouldn't even have bothered.

Re: No need to be a dick.

>- I want them building my kernels, my braking systems and my parachutes.

Unless they are encouraging people to cut your brake lines like Linus (half jokingly and also said something about poison in their coffee if I remember) did to the ARM SoC developers.

Re: @Gordon 10

>Want to guess why? ;-)

Cost of flight and the fact that our goat herding enemies aren't fielding many modern fighter aircraft?

Re: We're bigger

I think he was talking about all that tundra they have. Still modern climate change is one the greatest things to happen to Canada. If we hit the most dire of projections up to 1/3 of Canada might actually be inhabitable.

Re: GTA Prequel - Before They Went Bad

Zombie post but GTA ! always reminded me of Ghostbusters for the Atari home computers.

Re: I HATE comcast

Comcast an entire company composed of nothing but BOFHs.

Re: Microsoft needs to take responsibility for this

Don't a lot of enterprise IT shops already have software installed on each workstation to tell them what's on each computer? Think we do.

Re: 711

Wow Lusty you are something. You should see if you can get a job writing on Sinofsky's blog. They might even let you write the article trying to revise the history of why the APIs didn't converge before he was improperly shit canned. As I quote above Microsoft once again went me too trying to be like Apple and went out of their way to eliminate early general user feedback.

Re: Can I just have the case?

More than likely you could buy a decent new car for what IBM would charge just for the case/rack.

Re: They're still in deep trouble

Yep so BB needs to focus on selling to CIOs and government procurement officers because its obvious to all their butt ugly phones don't sell in the consumer market.