Posts by JOKM

I want more security fixes more often.

Javas transition to Open Source and the decline of Sun and the eventual purchase by Oracle, meant that Java was pretty much left to rot for 5 years. However over the past couple of years Oracle have been ramping up production of new features and security fixes, this is only a good thing. I suspect the security issues will eventually become less of an issue.

Although to be fair most of the security holes are due to piss poor sys admins who have no idea how to secure their networks from the outside world, than oracles fault at releasing too many patches. Of course the excessive moaning on the Reg forums would make most believe otherwise.

Complete Tosh!!!!.. WTF??

I watched the video, there is no door at the back that I can see, in that video, or in any pictures I can see on apples website.

Being you have to buy new tape after install, remove a hard disk, fan, power supply, several fragile cables and the logic board just to get to the ram, I can somewhat understand people being a bit miffed.

I am more miffed about how cheap the components seem to be getting and at how high their price point is climbing. Next year I expect to find a dead hamster welded into the cpu slot.

IBM ingratiating themselves with those that have money not those that know.

I presume the software is not very good if they are having to approach people that so far up the food chain that they would have no experience in its day to day running. If there is something I have learnt as a developer, push back when the directors decide on a technology without consulting the people that use it, and run a mile if that technology is made by IBM. I still shudder to this day when someone mentions they use websphere.

Really?

How many icon libraries did you pick your icons from? did anyone actually sit down and come up with a consistant a ui/design?

Great

An article whose entire content boils down to 'we are going to write some articles'

Bored

Bored of these large multinationals tearing the patent system apart.

Bored of them wasting tax payers money on taking disputes to the court.

Bored of them telling consumers what they can and cannot buy.

Bored of them acting like spoilt children.

Anyone else thinking of just not buying any of their goods until they learn to get along.

Not surprising

The rule basically goes, if you had a choice of losing your job or choosing somone else losing their job, the majority would choose someone else. I am sure everyone can think of someone they know who just isn't quite up to scratch and as valuable/worthy as they are.

So if you leave it up to the leadership of a group of people to reduce the size of said group. Then those who can't choose are more likely to go than those that do.

This is all irritatingly contrary to the fact that the leaders need the workers to get anything done, and increasing the number of people calling the shots over those doing the work reduces productivity.

This happens in every industry known to man, I think they need a different approach to the choice, and as its the military can I suggest they all get given a pistol where 1 in 5 has a real bullet and send them all out on maneuvers.

Fast Forward

Instead of spending a fortune R&Ding drones we should fast forward the tech untill we have the 2 countries/combatants sitting on a sofa playing Street Fighter II, where every loss means the other gets a 5 mile tract of land shaved off your border, and 10'000 civilians executed. Well maybe not that last bit.

Well I loved it

For all the wrong reasons. I just cracked up for 3 minutes.

As fickle is fashion

Graphical design these days has less to do with the user and more to do with the trends and bullsh*t associated with the fashion industry, much like when you hear the words 'neon pink is the new black'. in the end it all comes back to the beginning which is why my money is on green text on black backgrounds.

Let the Flame wars begin.

Rory Cellan-Jones the BBC Technology correspondent went and dissed him right back.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17811925

Security Fail

SQL Injection its not exactly the hardest of attacks to prevent, even php provides methods to prevent it, I think the blame lies as much with the original developers as with the hacker.

Anti Virus

It looks like just having antivirus apps installed means the app self deletes, presumably to hide how far its impregnated. I had AV on my mac for 3 years now and glad of it, anyone who doesn't install antivirus apps on their machines and im including linux guys on this is doing the equivalent of having unprotected sex with as many different people as possible, and not bothering with an STD test the day after.

Also now apple have relinquished control of how java is ported to their machines and it is the responsibility of the open jdk project hopefully security hole fixes will be quicker.

No Surprise

Nokia will eventually fail, their technology R&D plan has always seemed to be management driven and never user driven. Which is fine in a feature scarce world, but the number of unusable phones models they have produced in the years because these underpowered devices were expected to do much, must be in the tens if not hundreds.

Why???

In short someone has decided that the problem with the modern gui is the graphics bit.

Hang on

They just say that they are not seeing would they would expect something going faster than the speed of light would do.

However since no one is quite sure why they are going faster than the speed of light, the symptoms you get are by their very nature are unexpected. So its less refuting the evidence and more sticking their heads in the ground.

Orientation

Doesn't the ipad use the accelerometers to determine screen orientation by measuring the umm.... force of gravity.

Good thing the astronauts have been trained by being spun round and round very fast, otherwise space porn is going to get messy, and not in a good way.

Only Failed Programmers Gamble

If you are any good you can be productive with a new language within a week, and count as an expert within 3 months. So why choose 1 new language and hope someone wants you, when you could learn all the currently popular, syntacticaly inbred languages, with little effort.

The only thing to fear is that someone creates a language someone with an mba might be able to fathom, then the world is in serious trouble and i'm out of a job.