Posts by Captain Save-a-ho

@AC 16:09 GMT

"They don't 'deliver growth' - the sales guys do that."

Ah, so you aren't familar with the former EDS then? I left HP in November and I can assure you that the sales fail regularly until engineers rectify the situation. If I had only been there 3 months, I might agree with you. But I did my three years and can't believe I stayed past 3 months with the constant "deal saving" that goes on.

If sales knew what the feck they were doing, it wouldn't be an issue. But instead, they overpromise and underdeliver, which is the EDS (and now HP) SOP.

@ Blain Hamon

Excellent point! And that's what hundreds of years of the history of science teaches us (where's James Burke when you need him?!?) that seemingly unrelated research and discoveries lead the to some of the most amazing advances in medicine, technology, physics, etc. They don't test on humans because most people would get REALLY freaked out it. Instead, they test on snails, rats, fruit flies, and other assorted species because only PETA and other wackos (i.e. ALF) get upset about that.

Medical science would not exist except for the decades of animal testing that has contributed to the quality of life we all now enjoy.

The iPad is a computing device "for the rest of them"?

Not sure you really understand what a computing device is supposed to be, but the iPad isn't that. It's a media-consumption device, right along side your TV, Blu-ray player, and iPod. Given the predictable, quick fade of passion for the iPad (beginning of the end already?), it might be better classified as a toy, which is exciting and beloved by children for all of two seconds before they become bored with it.

Can't be a hypothesis either

Have to have an observation from which to draw a conclusion. They don't have that either. Religion is and always will be fiction. They just make all that shit up and I won't be happy until they admit that.

Not competing with Apple?

What the hell would you call iAd then? If you think Apple isn't in that same market, think again. In their minds, ads seem to be the only surefire way to make money on the Internet (and by extension, mobile phones too, it seems). Not sure I would say that iPhone OS is anything more than a way for Apple to sell their wares (including ads).

So where does the highly technical part come in?

1. The free encoder isn't visually better than commercial alternatives. Period. What a douche.

2. VP8 isn't considered lower quality that H.264 across the board. Next time, have fun reviewing facts before forming an opinion, such as the head-to-head comparison at streamingmedia.com.

3. "quality high profile x264 encodes at least gives you Today the easy ability to directly push your newly re-coded High profile content up your low bitrate 512Kbit/s ISP upload pipe at a good quality with VLC etc for remote quality viewing, no other codec can compete with the free x264 encoder on visual quality and and file-size,for such a low average bitrate ,saving masses of Your bandwidth as a very nice side effect." Not to go grammar nazi, but how technical can you be? Have you even finished primary school? Learn to write and type, then pretend to be Mr. Badass Technical Codec guy.

Precisely the point

If these bacteria experience genetic mutations as they reproduce (which virtually all life forms do), these "suicide genes" could mutate and all the worst fears of biological sci-fi can be realized. Surely they have to realize that potential and think (incorrectly) that the risk of mutation is not as great as the potential benefits.

For all those downvoting this, wake up and smell the science. Genetic mutations are fact, not pure speculation.

Everyone I know gained dick or less

A few in my former group took cuts of 30%, which they couldn't afford to accept and left the company within a month of two of last August (part A of the Turd plan for cost elimination). Personally, I was offered a 15% raise to stay on, but only after I showed my boss a offer from another company that HP couldn't possibly match. I was astounded at the counteroffer, but how could someone accept such a modest raise to stay at a company that treats it's employees so badly?

Best post ever

Fantastic post. Glad to see reason isn't dead.

You're definitely an iCretin

"I don't want an iPad as it's a not as functional as my iPhone."

There, I fixed it.

You can't be too concerned

if you're running a closed-source plugin like Adobe's Flash Player. Why aren't you running Gnash instead? If you're that open to closed-source options, looks like it's time to abandon Linux for Windoze.

/sarcasm

Nothing of significance

...though there are a few SF projects (like Ares) that seem to be getting a lot of weekly downloads:

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/?type_of_search=soft&fq[]=trove%3A265&sort=num_downloads_week&sortdir=desc&limit=25

To a point

While I agree that the Samsung UI selection isn't ideal, some of what's on there is what you would see on a book (page, title). I prefer the layout used by the Nook, with a separate bottom touch screen for all the items like music player, font size, TOC, etc.

Still better than iPod. Really love the eInk screens for easy reading. Backlighting is just too much after gazing on my work screen for 10 hours a day. Probably would put it about Kindle too, given support for PDF and ePub.

RTFM (or in this case, RTFL)

"It's more about the fact that Linux users cannot natively run Windows code and now Microsoft have finally learnt how to make their Office product available in a web browser, which will work in Linux, they are still making the Linux users pay for a licence to use the full version of the software which will not run on their OS anyway."

Office Web Apps aren't licensed separately, which is why a regular Office license is required. It's obvious that you and the other freetards on here don't want to run M$ products, so why the fuck do you even care? If OO is good enough for you, then be happy about it and stop pissing on Microsoft for trying to make money at the one bloody thing they're actually good at.

For those still unaware, Microsoft doesn't give two shits about Linux or its users. They aren't trying to cater to you at all. If you haven't figured this out by now, there's no hope for you.

Why aren't more Linux users happy about this note? The bain of your existence (Window$) isn't required to run Microsoft Office now and all you can do is bitch about the cost? Fuck you, you conceited, self-centered, petulant children.

Car batteries need not apply

Since they think they can get the idle power down to as little as 100 milliwatts, those battery times don't seem quite so unbelievable. Tom's Hardware has a really technical review of the chip architecture, explaining why the power savings is so dramatic compared to Z5xx and earlier Atom designs.

I for one welcome our new Smartphone-powering overlords. Competition from Intel in this space can only help us consumers. Having a choice of platforms beyond the Casinoesque universe of Cupertino is a very good thing indeed.

That's the PETA PoV

Even though they euthanize more than 60% of the animals they rescue, PETA is a cult of whackjobs, nature-worshipping idiots. I guess Monsewer Jobs is a person-killing, research bombing seal saviour. How lucky for seals.

Fuck PETA and fuck Apple. I keep telling myself that the level of bullshit can't go any higher, but they keep finding ways to stack it on top.

Not the same as life forms

What they generally are looking for are amino acids, proteins, enzymes, etc. Not life per se, but really important to the formation of living things. I believe the common theory has held for a while now that asteroids and comets seeded the early earth with water and the "raw materials" for life.

The problem is that research I saw last year demonstrated that all the water on earth had been here since VERY early, estimates around 100m years into the lifespan. Not sure all that shows up from just asteroids based on the shortened timeline, even if it's a possibility from water production perspective.

Is this real?

I would love to give you credit for the funniest comment of the day, but I'm a pessimist.

Actually, that's not true...

These are the group of scientists who weren't invited to those sorts of parties (and who thought it's a debasement of science).

I think I'm a sofa...

Famous last words in deed

Though, I will say that optics do offer a way to make a cabling investment that extends long beyond the life of the termination equipment. Of course, if this becomes the future standard, an investment in Corning is probably warranted too, to cash in on all the fiber optics required...

Bottoms up!

What's good for the goose...

Not that I believe this will happen, but it's possible that Adobe will play tit-for-tat and decide that they can't support all Apple products in general, pulling support of Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.

I hope and pray that's the next step in the escalating hostilities between both sides. Who needs reality TV when you have reality itself?!?

Limited options then...

"So, welcome to our Webbrowser Time Machine, where we'll transport you back to the day of Gopher!"

Can someone clarify why we should care about this?