Posts by George 24

Not surprising

if you consider that over 50% of Americans voted for George W Bush....... TWICE...

Looking at it the wrong way

Here is a little idea. Why don't we start looking at the car strictly as a tool. We only make it as powerful as it needs to be, so we don't need all the electronics to compensate for the over power and under skills? 60 bhp per tonne would be sufficient.

Parking assist, why? If a driver does not have the skills to park, maybe they should not be on the road.

All of a sudden we have a vehicle that is safer, cleaner and much cheaper. The only electronic that we need is a signal jamming device so imbeciles cannot use their mobile phone while driving. Another step closer to safety heaven.

There are studies in Germany that have shown that by removing road signs and traffic lights in towns, accidents decreased. This is because the driver HAS to concentrate on driving and road rules instead of having such an easy drive that the mind can wonder.

Increase education and decrease horsepower. Technology is not always the answer.

iSCSI all the way

iSCSI across 10GB ethernet is performant, affordable, proven and routable.

If 10GB is too expensive (still cheaper than FC), 1GB NICs with offload engines are already part of most server architecture and are not the financial burden they once were.

Why not

Shame it has to be used for war. I can think of many ways of utilizing contraptions of this type for other things.

The ONLY solution

Apple must recall and replace all iPhone 4G. It is a design fault. I own an iPhone, I love my iPhone, I will not move to 4G until Apple has fixed the design.

Forget the brand

As always the war between the Mactards, Wintards and Tuxtards is raging. Thanks Reg for inciting. So lets forget the OS, because at the end of the day, this is a hardware review.... correct?

CPU, RAM, HDD, chipset etc. Nothing to report, it is stock standard stuff.

Connectivity = too limited. Need HDMI, need 4 USB. Can do without e-sata only because it is USB3

Case = cheap plastic, too fragile

Styling = Not one of Apple's best, but not too bad

Price = too high

Battery life = good

Display = Sharp and crisp, nice format, not too wide

I believe there is much better hardware available for the price.

Apple censors an app based on usefullness

What a crock. The vast majority of apps for the iPhone are useless, so why the censorship? It is amazing that Apple users are willing to fork out the $$ and accept the dictatorship!

AMD back to the fore front

Good to see that AMD is taking the fight to intel. Hopefully they will have great success with the Fusion. Also hope that developers will embrace the technology and that the M$ and intel of this world will not try to "persuade" the said developers to favor their technology...

Get Chrome....... NOT

If FF does not run on your version of OSX, use the wonderful browser that is provided with the OS, the only browser that makes IE look good. Alternatively there is always Opera and if you don't mind signing all rights to your data away, use Chrome, thanks Google.

Fail

Too expensive, too restrictive, but sooooo pretty......

Good News and Bad News

The good. Open Office is moving a little bit closer to being a real alternative to MS Office.

The bad. In view of Oracle licen$ing model, Open Office is not going to be in the open source for very much longer.

The question is...

Why would anyone buy an iPad?????

Governments

Quote: "If governments were as successfully at business as the Google guys were then the world might not be in the state it is in today."

That is 100% correct. We would be in a much worse state where all non profitable endeavors would have been canceled. You know stuff like Health, Unemployment benefits and all other unimportant things like that.

Google is far too powerful and far reaching. Just read some of their Terms of Use carefully... It is time that some Governments look into it.

I thought that Chrome OS

So Google is trying to "sell" Chrome OS as the OS that does not require much guts from your hardware, with low resource utilization web apps and then they want to build a high performance netbook???

Best anti-piracy method

If the greedy mongrels at M$ would only understand. Sell W7 for a good price and pirated versions would vanish, even in India and China.

Trust

I can't believe some think that only the Chinese are untrustworthy.. BAe are as unscrupulous as the rest of them. Use any brand mobile and you are sharing all your info and conversations.

Themes?

When you see the number of sites dedicated to windows, Linux and Mac themes or GUI customisation, many of them with adware and other unwanted programs attached, I think it is a good idea to have M$ providing a few wallpapers.

How many of us already have changed the colour and added our own backgrounds?

I just don't think that M$ is opening the GUI skinning enough. As far as I am concerned, the theme is always Aero. What is provided in those themepacks is nothing but the lipstick to be put on the proverbial pig.

Now as long as nothing from sponsors is forced onto me, why not. Hopefully sponsored themes will be of quality. If you like having a car as your wallpaper, you don't have to get the image from the net and infringe copyrights in the process.

US patents

US patents, what a joke. I think that the rest of the world should do what the US do, ignore patents that are issued by countries other than itself. US can blatantly and legally ignore patents from the UK or AUS, so why should we respect the US patent system?

Can you use stable and Vista in the same sentence??

M$ admitting copying from Mac, what a big deal. KDE copying Mac as well, and Gnome copying windows, and Mac copying KDE. Ford copies Toyota who copies Mercedes etc etc etc

Look and feel is always going to be copied to a certain extent. Which is good. If a design works, why not use it.

The worrying thing here is the claim that the Vista core is stable... Same as the San Andreas Fault being geologically stable...

Very nice

The Karmic Koala is nice, not without its issues, Intel chipsets amongst others. But Ubuntu 9.10 has not made any steps towards resolving the real Linux issue, which is not really a Linus issue. There are not enough workplace ready apps for Linux. Developers make money in the M$ platform and are not porting to Linux. What a shame.

Also, unless apps are installed from the repository, not all install properly, without tinkering and googling. Get all teh Linux flavours to standardise on file location and a single installer. That would go a very long way to eatup M$ market...

Great

It is so small, great. But without a super strong signal, you need an external antenna. So you have a tiny USB dongle a convertor for the coax and a coax cable. I'll take the DigitalNow TinyTwin any time. Yes it is bigger but it has 2 HD tuners. Support for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Discounted?

Windows 7 discounted? Even at its most discounted, Windows 7 is still expensive. As per M$ coffers, I am sure that they are still very stuffed...

Because

If there were as many apps for Mac that there are for Windows, then Mac would be a choice. But unfortunately, Mac is too limited and frankly I don't know why people spent top $ for an OS that can't run half the world apps, regardless how good the OS is.

Linux has a long way to go to satisfy both the ease of use and compatibility with apps.

MSE - good

Push it as an important update...

Missing the point

Why do car manufacturers must make an ecologically friendly car that packs the punch of a sport's car.

Who needs to get to 100km/h in 5 seconds? Who needs to release 350 bhp to the road in a car? Who needs to reach 155mp/h.

I say make all cars smaller, lighter, less powerful. Impose a maximum power to weight ratio. This and the technology shown by BMW will have a real impact on the environment...

You know you've made it

You know you have made it as an OS as far as popularity is going, when hackers are bothering writing code for you.

When Mac does it

As expressed in this forum, when M$ does not retain backwards compatibility they are a bunch of money hungry bastards (which may be true), when Mac does it, it is great. Hard to understand. By the time the snow leopard upgraders have paid for the update itself, and then upgrade all the apps that don't work any more, they will have parted with more cash than the Window 7 upgraders.

Yes please

Please develop the GUI, find better ways of using the desktop real estate, faster ways of scrolling etc.

Unfortunately, this is not the Linux problem. Make it easy to use. Make installers that work, make uninstallers that work, agree on a standard, get the manufacturer to release drivers for TUX straight away. Those who still pretend that any flavour of Linux just works has not tried to run it on the latest hardware or install software that is not in the repository.

Unfortunately, it is still M$ in front, then Mac and then Linux (despite its superiority as an OS).

At home I run Ubuntu because I love tinkering. At work, its the old M$.

Missed opportunities

If you are going to stay with Windows XP because of the 3 missed opportunities, then there is something wrong. These opportunities do not exist in XP. Files extensions are hidden, unhide them, it is very easy. Multitouch, M$ will probably release a "tablet" version as they have done previously. Taskbar and system tray. Look into it further as they are ways of customising.

If these little annoyances are the reason not to upgrade, then no OS will do. Linuxes have plenty of annoynaces that are worst than that, OSX has its share of problems too.

Could W7 be better, of course (so is everything else). Is it better than XP, it is a big YES from me.

What did you expect

The Pirate Bay pirated.... who would have thought that TPB would have the customer base to think of such thing...