Posts by Magnus_Pym

Just to get this straight...

...the Windows 64bit version is late because the OSX 64bit version is late. The Office for Mac team is now taking the lead in office development?

It was always going to be difficult

So many people have made so much money over the years from lock-in's and de facto 'standards' that sweeping them away was always going to be a difficult job. Look at the never ending argument about video encoding. So many middle-men trying desperately to cling on to their meal tickets.

All this crap is just the death throws of the leviathan old school computer industry that has keep itself alive for far to long. The Hardware-OS-Apps lock-in should have died years ago. There is no need for it. HTML5 is just one more plank for its coffin. It's a lot of work to keep per-browser special coding going on a commercial web site but it's nothing compared to what it will be like if standards are not rigidly applied. More and more divers hardware is becoming capable of browsing that it will become impossible to keep track of every PC, laptop, palmtop, tablet, phone, book reader, TV, radio, domestic appliance, wristwatch, car, advertising hoarding, alarm clock and god know what else they will think of in the next few years.

Run out of battery? Not a problem

There is a lot of negativity here about how much less suitable electric power is than the internal combustion engine. hey seem to forget that the current systems and infrastructure have been growing organically and naturally over the the last century or so.

Most of the problems of running an electric car are soluble. If you run out of power, for instance, the roadside assistance could bring out a battery pack trailer that you tow home and they take away again. You wouldn't need to wait 8 hours while it charges up. All these problems are soluble given enough of a market.

It's all very well criticising the Tesla but it has certainly moved the argument forward. Can you imagine ten years ago anyone would be saying that a commercially available electric car would not be quite as good as a super car for some track day fun?

soundbite-age

"Muglia said there are now 40 million customers for hosted Exchange, SharePoint, and Live Meeting"

I wonder what percentage of that 40 million is using only using Exchange? Pretty high is my guess. Sharepoint and Live Meeting are only mentioned here in case people have forgotten they exist.

Win or lose MPEG_LA

Microsoft are being very careful when choosing their anti-linux battles. They have to win via private agreement because if it becomes worthwhile for the opposition to fight the whole thing become precedent. If it becomes precedent then other companies also appear to be involved and must also defend or pay by default. Even if the patent holder wins in court they may find that a later ruling overrides their claim and they would have to give all the money back.

It is not the winning or loosing that matters here but simply the going to court . It is too big a risk for the big portfolio owners to risk.

88% of the internet is not porn!!!!

That would have made a better headline. Most people believe that almost all of the internet is made of pron.

Also looking at the way these people have judged their statistics you could probably say 88% of the internet is suitable for children of all ages.

Question...

Ballmer is head of the largest software company in the world. Why?

Cold Rubber

What do they make weather balloons out of then?

Well that's what you get...

... for trusting a politician. If she only lost £30 she's done well.

Two points

1.Becta stands between a Tory politician and his back-handers from commerce, of course they had to go.

2. The comprehensive system is designed to feed industry with grunts. Your kids are taught what is useful to industry in your area. If you want then to get an education in how to make decisions and do stuff you have to pay for it.

surely, by now...

... anybody who wants a Beatles track has got it. It's not like they're putting out any new stuff.

What about laptop fingerprint readers

Does the law still apply? Can having your laptop hacked or nicked expose your fingerprint to the criminal world for nefarious activities?

P.S. No way am I'm not allowing the government to get any biometric data on my kids. I sent them to school in hockey masks so no one could use recognition of their biometric faces in future criminal cases. I they made a fuss at the time but I think they will thank me in the future ( when they come off the medication anyway).

Local vs National

Where I live there will only ever be a Tory MP. The constituency borders were drawn up to ensure that. Frankly I don't know why the other parties bother. For there to be any real choice here there should be 4 or 5 Tory MP's standing for the same constituency. We might have a chance of getting rid of the corrupt and the useless then. As it stands a turnip in a blue tie would get in. Democracy, huh!

Coincidence? I think not.

So HTC sign a deal with Microsoft and, hey presto, they find some IP to counter sue apple with.

See title.

advertising, research and development...

...is one business unit? jeez.

Well

There's a Linux penguin, a fanboi, and a Windows luser in a plane, and the pilot says, we're carrying too much weight, one of you has got to go, and the fanboi says, well, I can't jump because...

I don't have a parachute. iChute was not approved because it was created using a third party interface as c# strings where not strong enough. Anyway there are always far more apps on Windows the luser must have something he can use.

The luser says I can't jump because although there are a lot of app, iChute was not released so we have nothing to copy. I will be able to jump in another 5 years when Windows 8 has it built right into the OS but I prefer to wait another year or so until SP2 comes out.

The penguin sees that a parachute is required but that current a parachute does not exist. Using freely available tools he creates his own. He (or she) then offers them free to everyone else. The pilot takes one as he can recognise a good thing when he sees it. after all if the plane was OK a few minutes ago but now will not support all of them there is a good chance it's not going to make it.

The fanboi doesn't like the look of t as it is not officially endorsed and is sure that his Steviness will not let him down.

The luser doesn't take one as he is sure that if he doesn't have to pay for it, it must be a trick. After all they are going to die here who in their right mind would not extort him for all he was worth.

The Penguin and the Pilot jump and although the parachute is a bit crap at first, by the time they reach the ground many modifications have been added by many other Penguins and their lives are saved (as are the lives of other Pilots and Penguins in later Planes-too-heavy jokes).

The fanboi and the luser plummet to their deaths with their eyes closed and their fingers in their ears shouting 'Ha ha, stupid Penguin trusts his life to home made crap. Our superiors told us everything will be OK if just do as we are told, they will never lets us down.'

Google has a huge internal market

Of course if they stop buying commercial chips the reduction in market size may make them more expensive for the rest of us.

Could be quite good...

... if it could filter out all the shit that people say but don't think and gobbed out the infinitesimally tiny nugget of important stuff which is what people think but don't say.

Otherwise it is just aggregating the shit in the manner of a sewerage works.