Posts by a_milan

Did anyone say *when* these will be available in consumer products?

Please stop talking vaporware as if it is actually available in quantity in actual products... (as opposite of AMD)

Windows 10 from 2004.... sounds about right given its quality and stability!

What about the costs off transport, smelting, waste disposal?

*coin cost is all-inclusive - perhaps a full cost calculation, from raw ore thru refined metal is more relevant for comparison.

Did they also build potholes?

Manholes with stolen covers? Occasionally with a tree branch inserted to highlight it?

Bus stop grooves? Speed bumps? Really vicious near-square ones?

How long is a googlemobile suspension expected to last anyway? Or do they intend to make it go soooo slooow so as not to make any difference?

Banks (and Apple) must be accountable for fraud

As nicely pointed out by Bruce Schneier a while ago (https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2005/0415.html#2), until the financial institutions are held accountable for fraud, there won't be an incentive for them to build proper user data protection and identity verification.

In this case Apple should take some share of responsibility but it seems their mechanism is reasonably safe, and far above what banks are doing.

Finally

... a scientific proof that XIV is the right idea.

This nicely encapsulates all of Apple support.

Spent two hours on the phone trying to have my account details changed, with several escalations, and the whole outcome? Retards blocked the account. Lost all the settings and high scores.

Thankfully I didn't buy anything from the store, and with this experience most probably never will.

Important is that every time time they f**ck something up they say "Are you happy for me to ...." No I'm not happy, unless you solve my problem. But latter is not part of the script.

Aren't most movies cpu-driven nowadays anyway?

It should be noted...

...a part from HTC, no other vendor actually improved on stock Android.

Add operator pressure, awful software bundles, and typically no updates within phone's lifetime, and Silver starts looking like a real good deal.

Apart from HTC, again, but it didn't pay off to them...

+1 for LTO

Grab a LTO4 or 5 drive, and change to every other generation.

The real question is how much data you want to back up, what backup/restore granularity you need and what software you will use to index it all

HDD's are simply too big to be practical, difficult to remove with a consistent backup set and a total lottery if they will spin up when you need the data afterwards.

In this respect, MO is probably the best, but too expensive per GB and availability of a working drive 15 years hence is probably zero.

So LTO remains the "sweet spot" - reasonable capacity per-tape, tapes can be removed and stored elsewhere, cheap and quick. Question is, can Drobo feed a LTO drive?

It's hard for me to see the purpose of stuff like this - if you want/need performance, you go with HPC stuff, whatever is flavour of the day there.

If you need cheap web and DB servers, buy only a few and virtualize.

In either case, the combination of slow(ish) CPU and limited memory makes little sense.

Am I missing something?

Just to recap - out of five technical areas, Amazon is judged slightly better at 3, really better at 1 (but a "demo" should not really count for much) and IBM is slightly better at 1.

Justifying 50% higher price on such evaluation would not hold water with any semi-competent procurement department. Or the tech guys are unable to write a proper RFQ, just know which toy they want?

Nice phone, pity about the UI

....just what I've felt with Lumia (granted, 820).

Upgraded to 4-year-old HTC with Android after a month or so with Lumia. Great hardware, lovely camera, bright screen.... but everything software is backwards:

- can't get a good free ebook reader

- no file browser

- you must use skydrive to store your stuff

- if yiou get multiple apps for the same thing, each app downloads a separate copy of the file (if it manages to be compatible with it in the first place)

So it's back to Android and Aldiko, thankyouverymuch

If only

... the iPhone had a tiny hole for a screwdriver to "tune" the tape head....

Forgot Microsoft?

Microsoft deserves a (dis)honourable mention in this article - just try to work out what you owe them, especially if you try to run any kind of application on Windows server in VMware...

As many posters agreed, all of these licensing schemes are designed only to maximize profit and wrangling space and try to make tie-ins look more palpable.

For example, to a CFO or just about anyone outside IT it would seem that MSFT and ORCL offer competitive virtualization platform, whereas in reality they're simply not worth the asking price.

Microsoft nominally gives Hyper-V for 0, however you must license Windows Server Data center edition, plus SCVMM if you want to actually use it, plus maybe you need SPLA (maybe not), maybe you need External Connector (maybe not)... . the list is effectively infinite and changes every 6 months or so, yet the value delivered is far less than VMware Enterprise+.

It's hard to remember which came first - crappy Apple players or crappy music production values...

I do remember being astonished that my friend's then-shiny-new iPod sounded like a normal cassette vs. CD when compared with Sony Walkman phone. And that with same headphones and same tune.

Ten years later, all music is produced to iStuff quality standards, and there we are.

Although being totally honest, Beats are decent headphones - I got a pair and although they can't replace Shure's that I broke, they aren't half bad either.