curious timing
And in other news Lenovo continues to make money, expand, buy companies and enter new markets by kicking the shit out of bloated stagnant has been incumbents like Dell. Market forces can be brutal to the inept (lol Streak 7).
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Dell disputes 15k layoff figure: Only a few staffers accepted 'voluntary separations'
NHS website hit by MASSIVE malware security COCKUP
Microsoft to build 'transparency centres' for source code checks
Monday 3rd February 2014 04:15 GMT
Re: Great, so that means they're going to issue cryptographically signed releases as well, right?
This is what happens when a government agency cares more about attacking the rest of the world (including its own citizens) instead of securing and protecting its own nation's citizens and their IT infrastructure. Even if Microsoft has done nothing wrong with all the secret letters and courts and such its very hard to prove it. Still I am not shedding a tear. The only thing that ever gets anything changed in government in my homeland of The United States of Corporate Whores is when some Megacorp starts losing money.
Sony on the ropes after Moody's downgrade to junk
Friday 31st January 2014 19:36 GMT
Re: What Sony they did 10 years ago bizarre bubble.
>I can't recall (off-hand) any ever getting back on its feet.
The one the fanbois always parade is Apple in the mid 1990s and my guess is they were junk bond status back then as well. Of course there isn't a lot of Steve Jobs waiting in the wings.
Tuesday 28th January 2014 23:58 GMT
Re: Have to agree with many points
Wow I take that back the memory was a huge problem after all. Sony in their short sided greed not only pissed off customers buy charging 3x more for the memory than other open standards but cut off their own balls but discouraging high margin digital downloads due to a lack of space.
Tuesday 28th January 2014 23:42 GMT
Re: Have to agree with many points
> IMO explains why the handheld didn't sell as well as it should have.
Yeah keep believing it was the proprietary memory and not the garbage games for much of its early life, lack of 3rd party support and the fact we are still in a major recession regardless of what the eggheads say.
Tuesday 28th January 2014 17:08 GMT
what ifs
There is a good chance if Sony doesn't buy a media studio in the early 1990s they come out with the iWalkman (or equivalent) long before Apple comes out with the iPod and history changes. What happened instead is the media studio side vetoed any innovative devices the hardware side came up long enough to make Sony no longer Sony. The media side also put that asshat Howard Stringer in charge and he proceeded to do nothing but lose money his entire tenure.
Tuesday 28th January 2014 16:59 GMT
Nerds are a small market
I have to say yes the rootkit and other OS may have brought out the nerd rage but I bet you talk to analysts and they will tell you the epic fail that is the Velvetta (Vita) cost Sony far more than even the goodwill hit from the being hacked and PS live being down for a month.
Tuesday 28th January 2014 16:55 GMT
no surprise
Samsung is to people under 30 what Sony was to us that remember Sony's heyday in the 1970s and 1980s. Buying that media studio in the early 1990s should be listed as the cause of death here in five years or so. Even non nerds understand that people who make media are not the people you want making your devices.
Tuesday 28th January 2014 16:50 GMT
Re: RE: Jesus give it a break with the rootkit nonsense.
> every single store bought PC game in that time has imposed far worse DRM
And if you search a little you will find in most cases the far worse DRM scheme was either invented by Sony or one of their affiliate companies. Sony is still the only technology company that believes DRM is viable in the long term (mostly because they are the only tech company owned by a media studio). You also lose all credibility when you try to claim Steam is worse than anything Sony has done (obviously never dealt with either DRM then). Yes the rootkit fiasco is getting long in the tooth but its just a symptom of the arrogance that hasn't gone away even after losing tens of billions of dollars and many years straight in the red. They don't learn and they release epic fails like the Vita and now find their corporate bonds are junk.
It's big, it's expensive and it's an audiophile's dream: The Sonos Sub
Thursday 30th January 2014 21:34 GMT
Re: de-oxygenated copper
>I've been looking at Bose's new system that uses WIFI, looks promising,
Wow you are probably going to get downvoted on that statement. I am far from an audiophile and even I know (and can hear) Bose with their paper cones are garbage. They are only priced like they are legitimate. The one exception I have ever seen was a few years back they had a decent looking and sounding sub $100 desktop computer speaker set but even then there was still better quality to be found for cheaper.
IT executive at JP Morgan dies in fall from bank's London HQ
UK internet filtering shouldn't rely on knee tappers, says Tory MP
Prince sues 22 music file-sharers for ONE MEEELLION dollars each
Tuesday 28th January 2014 22:35 GMT
Re: hmm
>Are you seriously suggesting that bootlegs are stopping people from going to concerts?
Nah but the live show is his creation and he does get to do with it what he wants. The ticket has contract language about your rights only to watch and not record. Still yeah he is coming across as a jackwagon. I guess you get desperate when you are so irrelevant you are looking at having to play the casino circuit.
BlackBerry makes its devilish Android trickery official in OS update
Prof Stephen Hawking: 'There are NO black holes' – they're GREY!
Valve showers Debian Linux devs with FREE Steam games
Saturday 25th January 2014 00:18 GMT
Can't resist
Well if he restricts them to the native linux titles then it wouldn't cost that much even retail wise currently. Yes yes I know more are coming any day now but when I have like 12 titles on my shelf for windows and like 8 of them work on the Mac client but like 2 on linux they have aways to go. And where the hell is CS GO on linux?
MPAA spots a Google Glass guy in cinema, calls HOMELAND SECURITY
Thursday 23rd January 2014 00:31 GMT
f*cking 9/11
Many empires don't have a hard date when everything went to shit but the US empire sure does. F*cking 9/11 pity gave us the most useless government department in US history Homeland Security. It also destroyed more American's civil and political rights than any other event in US history. In many ways it destroyed what the US stood for. The terrorists won in the end and this is just more proof. Doesn't matter which clown is running the show. The US is starting to learn how the Brits felt losing their empire. Neither country looks like its getting better any time soon.
LogMeIn: We're stopping our free offering from now
Wednesday 22nd January 2014 04:18 GMT
>and learn how to use SSH and SFTP and do your work in the command line
Yeah its just too bad many employers pay employees to use Visual Studio (only way I use it) and provide shitty or non existent remote solutions. Technically you might be able to do this from the command line (text edit cpp and h(pp) files and compile using command line) but it would be very painful.
Tuesday 21st January 2014 23:39 GMT
Re: VNC?
For the record I do think in this case proprietary software makes sense and why in this space there is no real open source competitor. The reason is because the way Teamviewer and Logmein work it requires the software company to have a rock solid secure server infrastructure available to work correctly which obviously has some decent overhead. If a person is willing/able to provide their own infrastructure there are plenty of open source solutions available such as VNC, X11 over ssh, etc as well as free proprietary solutions such as Win RDC. In the end I think Teamviewer will probably go all paid as well and its hard to fault them (as long as they do better PR). Again each has its place.
Tuesday 21st January 2014 23:12 GMT
Re: VNC?
>one of the contributing factors to this notion that buying software is wrong, somehow
Oh is that why the software store for both Apple and Google are making hand over fist these days? If anything probably more people have bought software in the last year than any other year in the past. I would even be surprised if the total dollar amount was much lower than any year in the past as well. Just because your wintel world and skill set is crumbling a bit doesn't mean it is for everybody.
Tuesday 21st January 2014 22:58 GMT
Re: VNC?
>that buying software is wrong, somehow. As someone who makes software for a living, the idea that people will look shocked at the idea they have to pay for my work is not great.
Another example of how JDX worldview falls apart in any scenario where anything is not owned by one person or entity. Tragedy of the Commons does not translate to the digital world near as well. There are plenty of people who are paid to develop open source software. Many companies have realized one way to pool their resources legally with many other companies is through open source. Hadoop for example allows everyone to scale like Google. The flaw in your logic is free as in beer != free as in free speech (or in a language you understand freedom to spend money). I am not so naive to believe proprietary software does not have its place but plenty of people and even some businesses have realized they don't need it (and I would dare say most companies these days do use some open source products). Proprietary software is just another option out there but it being the only option can be bad even for developers.
Tuesday 21st January 2014 17:18 GMT
Re: VNC?
As for TightVNC it requires you to open a port and do port forwarding on the router which is not trivial for some people and impossible for others (such as on corporate network). Logmein and Teamviewer phone home to servers owned by the companies (so only need outbound access) that can be logged into on the other side from anywhere on the internet. Easy way to access a machine with internet access from anywhere else on the internet without having to setup anything else up but the software (corporate IT can block though by requiring a web proxy and blocking it with their software.
US can't get its hands on Navy hacker Victor Faur, aka SirVic
Bottom falls out of Nokia's network rump
FCC boss: I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never gonna keep net neutrality down
Friday 17th January 2014 16:58 GMT
Re: so do the telephone networks
Cable companies at least in the US have a geographical monopoly as well. The reason for these monopoly rules originally was to keep many competing companies from laying intrusive infrastructure all over the place. Sadly like everything else in US culture it has been perverted to simply funnel money to the %1ers who can't get enough.
Techies CAN sue Google, Apple, Intel et al accused of wage-strangling pact
Microsoft buries Sinofsky Era... then jumps on the coffin lid
Thursday 16th January 2014 22:40 GMT
Re: What we want to know is...
>But we are talking about learning and adapting, something that a vast majority of the population seems to have great difficulty with
People don't want to learn and adapt to a solution that is not considered better by the majority of the market. Also Enterprise has to spend money to get employees to learn and adapt and again unless it increases productivity they aren't going to. As the article correctly points out Win8 has been a lead balloon in the enterprise. Face it all the butthurt in the world isn't going to save Win8 or Metro. The market has spoken.
9,000 heads to roll at Dell? Tosh. It'll all go down in Feb and it's THOUSANDS more - insiders
Security holes in Word, the Windows kernel and Adobe Flash. Party like it's Patch Tuesday again
Thursday 16th January 2014 16:50 GMT
elementary
Microsoft default settings are set up with one thing in mind usually, reducing calls to their support line. They have gotten a little better security wise due to enterprise hammering on them but Microsoft's default OS choices have always left a bit to be desired. Here by default have an obscure dll for some long obsolete product included for compatibility reasons that also just happens to have a massive security vulnerability.
Top patent troll sues US regulators for interfering with its business
Thursday 16th January 2014 16:45 GMT
Re: Venue
Oh kk. But also because of the quality of jury pool the courts have been setup as well to mostly handle patent cases. As you imply the entire industry has built up around it including in the judiciary. FYI the heart and soul of the KKK is now largely found in East Texas which also backs up your point.
Intel shutters BRAND NEW chip factory as PC market storm rages
HACKLASH! Syrian Electronic Army's website hacked by angry rivals
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