Posts by toadwarrior

I believe going tits up is a feature of win 8. Expect it often.

It shouldn't be free forever

Use your PVR if you want it free forever. There is no additional cost to them when you do that.

However if they want to repeatedly stream the content there are bandwidth costs, server maintenance and all that. Plus I suspect they have to pay out fees to the studios, actors or whoever for each play since it's a broadcast.

The tv licence is relatively cheap on a per day basis. It's not really going to cover you streaming TV all day I suspect. The problem is streaming almost certainly costs more than pushing it over the airwaves. So something has to change. I don't think £1.89 is that much for the ability to keep it and especially if that means you can come back and download it again as many times as you want.

MS and other companies can easily fudge their numbers because they generally don't sel directly. Where as most of Apple's sales probably are directly to consumers. So it's going to be harder to fudge numbers anyway by giving numbers sold to shops rather than consumers.

It's no surprise Google takes longer to pay out than to collect but the thing that draws my attention is it seems that under no circumstance does Google ever offer some sort of real support.

Maybe I've not tried hard enough but I don't ever recall be able to contact Google support directly either through a phone number or even email address.

It's also through their shitty suport forums where you can submit your question to be ignored by them or for some idiot to reply to with something of no value.

I do seriously wonder why anyone would want to invest their time into a company's products when that company appears to flat out refuse to support you in any meaningful way.

iirc, for android development too they point you to stack overflow for help too. Yeah I'm sure that's fine most of the time but actually I rather pay for a developer licence and get real support from people within the company like Apple.

Google+ is a technically superior product to Facebook, imo, but no one uses it. That's the problem it has. It's also a harder problem to solve. You can't just throw the smartest programmers at it and hope for the best.

no thanks

Kinect games generally are awful but clearly this one is going to suck hard if they feel they need to bribe star wars geeks with princess leia dancing. It'll be cheaper to just get out my old action figures and fonder myself with them. It'll probably be more dignified too.

apple haters make no sense

There is nothing apple does that the other companies don't do as well and at least in some apple is just protecting their work unlike microsoft who is just out to profit off of android.

That doesn't mean everything apple does is good or acceptable but the hate specifically for them is a unnecessary. It strikes me that a lot of it comes from people too "hip" to use popular products and therefore must hate on the company making them.

somone's afraid of being made redundant

Sounds like all the DBAs are commenting early to hate on NoSQL.

Yes, there is truth to the fact a traditional database work fine in many / most cases but that is no reason not to try something new if you can afford the risk. I'm sure standard DBs will go away. It's not a question of if but when. If more companies try something else then we're more likely to see an improvement in those other things.

good but no thanks

It's always good to have yet another solution to add to the competition but I'll stick with rsync.net for real back-ups and dropbox for sharing non sensitive documents.

it's the british way

Anyone who has ever looked at the BBC's website (especially when they had the old have your say area) can see there are a lot of angry people using the internet to rip on anyone in hope (I assume) to make themselves feel better.

Anyone with a serious concern with their surgery should bring it up then and there and I suspect in most cases it'll be taken care of.

Instead they act like nothing is wrong, probably say thank you numerous times, and then when they get home rage on the NHS site.

The doctor shouldn't have lost his job. He was completely right in his response.

What great minds?

What great minds have Microsoft attracted? They have very few first party development houses and what they do have either left (Bungie) or have become a shell of their former selves (Rare).

Piracy is wrong

I know there are a lot of tight asses out there that want to promote the idea that piracy is ok but it's not. Sure piracy up until now hasn't really been a problem but if everyone takes a "piracy is awesome" attitude then where is the incentive to pay? Once the majoirty of your user base pirates then you're fucked.

Piracy is only ok when most people pay which you won't get if you just consider it aacceptable to pirate. Otherwise the shareware model wouldn't have died.

Piracy can help some but like anything else there is no one size fits all model so just because it worked for AB doesn't mean squat for others.

why not be private by default?

I have no problem giving the domain company my info. I do have an issue with any spaz-tard on the net looking up my info to do something stupid so why not hide the info and only show it to people with a valid reason to see it?

chromeOS is a joke

I expect it to die. It's just not cheap enough for something so limited. Even android would have been a better choice.

android lacks quality

With all the people crying about the cost of developing iphone apps it's no wonder the android market is chock full of samey me-too bullshit that looks like it was developed on a $200 PC by some stackoverflow copy pasta monkey.

I suspect the only quality android apps are the malware.

Also, 100 developers is not a survey.