Posts by Lars

Re: Doesn't the GWPF take

http://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2014/03/06#.UxnU-1bgM7w

A pain in the arse, but there is no law against it. Perhaps some drug company should use his name in something arse related. Disclaimer, I might be a similar pain in the arse given a change.

Coat, trying to cover, never mind.

Re: goto is goto keyword of sloppy coders (potentially)

I have found that I am at risk every time I go to somewhere.

@no name needed

Sorry, but I don't get your "point", perhaps you use the wrong icon. Anyway Kursk is a town and perhaps more known as submarine that blew up it self without any western help, a tragedy no matter your, what ever background you have, if you are a human being. To understand what is going on in Ukraine you have to start from the WWII when Russia invaded countries in Eastern Europe and become a much larger Soviet Union. A super power through nuclear weapons, psychologically even more unprepared than the USA. Next the house of cards fell with much joy both within Russia and the occupied countries. Again, so to say, without any western help and more like from the inside. We have all heard the expression "American exceptionalism", share rubbish which many Americans can smile at without feeling un-American. In the Soviet Union the similar exceptionalism grew much deeper much because traveling abroad was still more a no no and typically (pun intended) learning languages was silly when foreigners naturally loved to learn the language of the master race. So what happens, all those countries "liberated from the Nazi" by the Soviet Union, celebrate independence without any feeling of gratitude towards the Soviet Union or Russia for the superb seventy years of happiness and prosperity within the union. In stead they smiled towards the west and the EU and Nato and farted towards the east. Putin is a child of the Soviet Union, one of many who is unhappy with a feeling things where better then and that evil powers are eating his cake. Ukraine is a pain in the arse for Putin, it's too close and now again they are looking towards the EU and what if later towards NATO. And there is Crimea and Sevastopol. But most of all people where able to ditch a president by "demonstration" on the streets. Hell, suppose people in Belarus start to get ideas and try to ditch my bastard friend who does not look towards the EU and suppose my own people start to get ideas too, if I decide to be prime minister then president for the next thirty years.

Re: Thank You Tim Cook!

"Can't make up my mind whether this is for real". It is real, and the problem here is that when a company gets big enough it starts to look backwards. It starts to look at the sharks approaching from behind and being in the lead give no incentive to speed forward, it is good enough to keep the sharks behind. The whole logic, dreams, incentives turn to looking backwards. It becomes less important to drive forwards than to prevent anybody to come close. All this litigation stuff that Apple is spending millions and energy on is a good example of this. Cook is not the guy who will invent or design anything new, his part is to drop the anchor as deep as possible in as many waters as possible. And for us, we can only hope that many many sharks will pass Apple eventually. If that was not true we would still live in caves.

Re: History says otherwise

Shurly some confusion her, must be a Dutch President.

Re: I can sort of understand it

I can too, to some extent, but why does Linux run on more or less anything without this "legally required to support older hardware for a certain amount of time by contracts with governments, large corporations, militaries, etc." Don't you think it's more about a demand to sell new hardware than adding some "if,then,else". Please don't fool yourself.

everybody’s a critic

I will agree with that having read all this, not a lot of cheers, indeed. I am now trying to be fair and leave my mean nature for a short while.

Among all the contenders there must have been several statues in the Lenin Stalin Mao type, right arm raised with some iThing in the hand. Liberty size perhaps, with a cafeteria in the iThing too perhaps. As that did not happen lets consider some other, sure as hell, contenders, the product statue. Perhaps a king size Mac, the plexi one, as a restaurant or perhaps a more modest buss stop or a "pissoir". That did not hit either so now we are left with a golden apple or some tangled steel construction a la Dali or something. The jury did not bend and now we will have to accept this herma. But look at the head, why this "death mask head". Jobs was a good looking chap most of his life. Around Apple II I was very impressed with Apple and him and a certain third person. And there is something wrong in the relation between the size of the head and the rest. And what about the E. It's like looking at a thalidomide child who died from starvation, put on a stick to remind drug companies of their responsibility. The elk shaped penis to the right makes the poor child look like a road kill. Non of my business but why did Apple not give us a change to choose between say eight "contenders" just for fun.

Re: And what about services?

@ Spearchucker Jones

And did you read this:

Nokia emphasises that the user can, if he or she so desires, prevent the phone from communicating with foreign servers. This, however, requires that the user knows how this is done through the phone settings. Even this is not necessarily enough. Even though one would disable the data transfer of the phone’s features, the operating system is still in contact with foreign countries.

Re: We DID have an Ice Age

Several in fact, but like before, I would like us to concentrate on keeping the air clean, I think a few in China will agree. The ice cube in the glass of water is a nice one, I have won a number of beers with it. But most of us know that dropping a ice cube into the glass of water will change the level.

Re: Microsoft needs to adapt

Not horseshit. just a joke. It was Windows that was designed to be a personal computer.

Re: Did I miss something?

That is both yes and no as the transaction has not happened yet, but it is definitely a no when it has happened. The introduction for Nokia X was made by Elop and he is "working" for MS now. Still I am a bit pissed of with Elop as I think he should have made that decision years ago when working for Nokia. But perhaps this was all in the grand plan from the beginning.

Re: Nothing new really...

But they seem to have been able to fix the "blue screen of death" with "stops working, the screen 'blacks out,".

Re: As Bruce Schneier put it

Did Bruce Schneier not say anything about playing with nuclear plants, the grid, traffic systems and such.

And to Oninoshiko, cyberwar fought in cyberspace is called playing war games on computers, no great need to ban that although it would be nice if there was no need for it.

Re: Thanks

"Doesn't the market decide which format should survive?". Is that not just what is going on here or do you think the market is the companies and not the users.

@ Tim Worstal

I have to think a bit about that. This reminds me about a true story a lawyer I knew told me. There was this old guy working in some stable with cows. So he had built a chair enabling him to fuck the cow of his choice.

Every now and then he was reported to the authorities involved. Asked by the judge why he did it (again), he would say - I just felt like it. He got some modest fine and apart from that the state sized his chair as it took part in the crime. So this lawyer was contemplating whether the state had some shed for his chairs or what the fuck they used them for. (Better get back to IT) Right now I will miss understand even that.

Re: The Big Elephant in the room

They did.

Re: I have said it before, I will say it again

Yes, and perhaps it's better to produce something than nothing and perhaps it would be clever to be a bit less nationalistic for all of us. And that goes very much for China too. As for copying we have copied stuff from China too and all American cars and engines are mere copies too if that "copying" is of such importance for somebody.

Re: Consistent

They will slow down the winds and the earth.

Re: sony

"to think there was a time". Nokia had a chance too, to by Apple, but If Sony or Nokia or somebody else had bought Apple, Apple would hardly be Apple so this "thinking" is more or less "if pigs could fly".