Posts by Tim 8

Quality of implementation isn't a factor?

"No one liked it when we did it, so no one will like your version either"

I'd never heard of lenovo's, so I had to find it on youtube. Functionally theirs look like keys that changed labels. I assume Apple's will have gesture-like actions. But I think it's a false to project your own failures on to all subsequent attempts.

Cleversafe meets Isilon

putting together the clues, it appears to be scale-out NAS built on erasure code protection, perhaps with a RESTful API on top.

A reasonable concept. It will all come down to quality of implementation and not being too scary as a startup. 20ish people doesn't leave too many to answer the phone 24x7. Small object performance will kill them, so they'll need some adaptive handling of that.

A touch interface for windows?

obviously it should be called Smudge.

Firewall factor

They see half the internet at best, so divide by two.

Thank (insert your diety's name here)!

What utter crap that was anyway. I fiddled with blocking filters and noscript to get rid of it. It was pretty arrogant (surprise!) that there was no option to turn it off. (which would break anyway if you wisely flush your google cookie regularly.)

The Nanny state will not be ignored!

You will comply!

Justin Case?

His parents had a lame sense of humor.

At least he didn't let it force him into a career selling insurance...

memory usage?

If low memory usage is most important, the lynx browser wins. Firefox really does seem abysmal at that, inflating to near 1GB with a days usage. (one or two windows, less than 30 tabs)

Opera seems much better, though not as parsimonious as lynx. But it's worth it for the added features.

accident prone beginning..

There have been a number of aircraft with tragic periods during their development that later went on to have long periods of reliable service. The V22's complexity no doubt contributed, but it seems they may have a handle on that now.

one bad apple...

This isn't strictly a US issue, but I encourage those in the US to contact their congressmen to request an antitrust review of Apple's practices. I did, and even got a phone call from my Senator's office.

MICROS~1 was (deservedly) taken to the mat for less egregious behavior, and I think it is high time that the same happen to Apple. Clearly the people that run that company see themselves as disciples of a deity and above the law.

"You may be running nonfree programs on your computer every day without realizing it –"

OH the humanity!

Eesh. Just be honest and call it a religion.

Not the worst person in the world, but a self aggrandizing prick

So he cheats to amass a giant fortune, then gives it away through his foundation named after himself.

I'm not impressed with giving away money you didn't fairly earn.

Word processor?

Just get whatever text editor suits you and write in LaTeX, processing it off of the iPad.

The learning curve can be steep for anything fancy, but for all-text documents it's dead simple, and you use your brain cells on _content_ rather than formatting and layout.

Why not just use UMA?

Femtocells just act as WiFi - Cell (3G) gateways. But smartphones already can communicate over WiFi. All that is needed is for the carriers to support it. I had it in my T-Mobile Blackberry, and it was the single most important feature in my mind. I had perfect reception at my house and anyplace I had a reliable WiFi connection.

Having to use Skype or other separate app is too clunky. I want my phone to ring when I get called, and to be able to just click and dial out from my directory.

I'm still baffled why no other carriers support UMA, at least here in the US. It would solve many if not most complaints of weak or no signal.

never mind features, bring back stability

I've used Opera almost exclusively since version 4 or 5, about 10 years or more. I even paid for it at the time, since the alternative was banner ads in a toolbar.

But I haven't used it for 4 months or so, or whenever it was they pushed out the 10.5 update. That release blew up the memory footprint enormously, and the browser routinely starting locking up or crashing. I went back and tried the 10.5x releases and saw no improvement.

If 11 brings back speed and stability, and not just pointless options I don't want, I'll go right back. I really dislike firefox, but at least it will stay up for more than a day without crashing.

Opera 10.5 has been terrible

I've used Opera for about 10 years, but for the past few months I've been using (and hating) Firefox. Opera 10.5x has been extremely unstable on Windows. It locks up, memory consumption grows to 500-800 MB, etc.

I'm hoping 10.6 fixes all that, because I really hate Firefox.

The UK courts are without flaws?

The US court bashing might be easier to take (though misguided) if the UK wasn't burdening the world with their libel laws.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14845167

or, more generally:

http://www.google.com/search?q=UK+libel+abuse

Outsourcing isn't always a cost savings move

Regarding criticism of outsourcing system management to IBM, I doubt that it was done to save money. When is IBM _ever_ cheaper than doing it yourself? Perhaps they felt the best way to get proper mainframe expertise was to hire the company that built it. It isn't like they hired the Geek Squad from Best Buy.