Posts by asdf1256 posts • joined Saturday 7th April 2007 06:10 GMT
Still sore about being one of the sheep that paid $38 a share there huh fanboi?
There are enough useful apps in Cydia for me that I only upgrade once a version is jailbroken on my iPAD. The killer cydia apps that comes to mind right away is system wide ad blocker app which prevents apps from showing ads as well as the ip firewall you can use to keep your apps from phoning home.
Funny that wasn't the FUD that Oracle was spewing to all of Android handset makers and Google's other customers.
Good guys win!! No sorry, less evil company is some ways wins.
Is the HP way now heavy turnover in the CSuite followed by massive layoffs every new CEO? Tha'ts the kind of the thing you want to see in your mission critical systems vendor and their bottom of the barrel India support. How far the mighty has fallen.
> wtf was Sony thinking?
Praying this doesn't fail as hard as the Vita and most of their other recent products.
Can't start brainwashing the toddlers with corporate propaganda early enough I guess. Oh well a few generations ago I guess it was Joe Camel instead of Gromit.
Congrats to Opera! For once you can see a little bit of daylight in their usage rates and the %0 base line bar (not much granted). Still all the more reason to use it for certain things as malware writers probably won't target a group numbered in the few thousands instead of millions.
Have you noticed that only people the SEC seems to convict are people with non Western European last names? Granted many do tend to prefer to deal with their own ethnic group but I find it hard to believe they are the only ones. I guess it easiest for the SEC to start with the brown/yellow people first as they get less jury sympathy.
>When your hosting provider demands your root password, refuse
Wow no security expert that seems pretty obvious. Then again retards who use Office all day and think they contribute to anything probably gave it to them to reduce support costs.
Only because IBM of course is going to chose Cell over other options GPU/FPGAs etc and IBM build most of the top supercomputers. If it was so demanded by the market why has IBM decided to quit upgrading the platform.
Who cares Zuck already got paid. Granted he is losing money with stock he has left but he ain't hurting.
And of course some basic algorithms naturally do not lend themselves to being very parallel. Not to mention for many general purpose programs taking advantage of the massive parallelism requires a massive increase in programming effort and testing which does not always translate into much better real world performance. The ultimate example of this is the Cell BE in the PS3 vs the more standard multicore in the Xbox 360.
Nothing invented by man is as powerful an aphrodisiac as being the CEO of a $100+ billion IPO.
WV hasn't went to a Democrat since Slick Willy was running. I guess by 200 they finally got the memo that Dems had passed the Civil Rights bill and then they flipped like the rest of the right wing leaning states.
HP there is a name that takes you back. Remember long ago when they had an great company culture and actually innovated? Oops sorry showing my significant age.
FB 20,000 likes, Google plus 57 on said article. Who says scale matters (hate both for the record)?
I though red states were always responsible stewards of the tax payers money and would fight against taking handout grants from the federal government? Once again a Red State against government spending unless its for their state/city/district.
This was bad but at a total cost of $24 million it is a drop in the bucket compared to UK guv IT projects. Hell wouldn't the MPs spend that much on expensive junkets to FIJI to do discovery?
>You cannot protect a system if the bad guys wrote it.
Did anybody see that Ballmer was top of the Forbes list of the worst CEOs? What a douche nozzle he is. Obviously he didn't write it but he made sure the same business practices would continue.
Avast! free edition, never stops a virus until months after its in the wild.
There fixed it for you.
They do it on purpose. The patent office is one of the revenue streams for the government and there is a lot of pressure put on to accept the patents and let the courts decide the issue. That way lawyers get paid and lots of bureaucrats can justify their crap jobs.
Funny how that happens when most of the law makers are/were lawyers. Its all about billable hours baby. Who gives a shit about the public.
Only because its neighbors would roll it. NK would make Sadam look like a peaceful neighbor if they weren't so much less developed than their neighbors.
Wow ok it could have been far worse lol.
It always has been very dangerous for software companies to play around exclusively in Microsoft's ecosystem. If you get too wildly successful count on them burying you by spending a few billion to build a clone but extended so they can extinguish you. As well never count on their flavor of the month technology being around for the long haul (cough Silverlight).
Chomp Shock really? Those two words go together like a turd in a punchbowl.
Usually El Reg has some of the funniest by lines (sub titles or whatever they are called) on the web but not this article. A horrible tongue twister run on that makes no sense. Fail.
Wow I thought the dot com era ended a long time ago. I guess their are enough dumb young investors who have never heard of pets.com or webvan. Goldman's could sell ice to Eskimos.
But please I wouldn't want to ruin the pretty picture all these Anonymous Cowards are trying to paint about WP7. I guess its smart to post as an AC or else you might see they have 4 total posts all nut hugging on M$ gear.
"Earlier today we told you how Samsung had overtaken Nokia to become the biggest seller of handsets in the world, and in turn ending fourteen years of Nokia’s reign. Now it is being reported by AppleInsider that Nokia has earned more from licensing patents to Apple than selling its range of Lumia Windows Phone 7 devices.
The company actually lost money selling handsets during the last quarter that saw a $1.7 billion overall loss, which came despite the launch of the new Lumia models. The first quarter of last year saw Nokia shifting 108.5 million handsets, which compares to this year’s 82.7 million units that equates to a fall of 24 percent"
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/04/27/nokia-earns-more-from-apple-than-its-lumia-range/
>I don't think you understood. You get the same on WP7, just tap the screen. The reason for the fuller explanation is because you can do more than this
I am sorry but having to put your call on speaker phone to bring up the dial pad is beyond retarded. When Nokia finally figures out what Sendo realized too late, WP8 isn't going to have a lot of makers willing to muck with it even with the massive Microsoft bribery.
Wow I guess in the UK you really don't have to worry about road rage with guns. Doing the items above on LA freeways is an extreme sport or a quick way to collect life insurance.
Intel has done some dodgy things in the past but most of AMDs wounds are self inflicted. Buying ATI at the time when they needed to focus on competing against Intel immediately comes to mind. Where was all that synergy Hector (king of multi billion dollar goodwill writedowns)?
Yep congrats on almost catching up to me too meh Microsoft for the silver medal.
Great I am glad you enjoy your windows phone. After suffering with a Treo with WM5 or whatever was on there, I am once bitten. Like most Merkins I am not a big Nokia nut hugger in general and to be honest their new phones looks cheap and plastic like a kids toy to me. Oh well at least they didn't put buttons on the outside of it like all the hideous RIM phones.
>When talking you simply shake the phone a little (or touch the screen) and it'll come up. Put the phone into speaker mode (if you want to keep talking). Then simply press the Windows key (start button) and you'll be in the start screen with a bar at the top which tells you that you have a call in progress.
Wow you are really going to post that clusterf__k of directions and pass it off as being intuitive. LMAO Fail. On Android you press one button and your keyboard comes right up.
And FYI Sony I am not leasing my PS3 and jailbreaking is not illegal (in US). Piracy is rightfully illegal but guess what all you corporate whores there is an awful lot of high quality software humanity owns and can use free of charge (they call dirty commieware). GNU\Linux has proven the tragedy of the commons has been proven to be bullshit in the digital world.
There is a reason this site says Sony has a %50 chance of bankruptcy. Because media studios and hardware companies under the same corporate name have all the synergy of turd in a punch bowl. Apple is only so rich because Sony's media side gimped their hardware side from releasing the iWalkman before the iPod and Apple filled the niche of innovated disruptor like Sony used too.
http://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/SON1.DE--Probability_Of_Bankruptcy
>The media companies may not have the world's best brains in charge, but they DO have a perfectly valid right to be pissed.
But they do not have the right to put root kits on my computer or to get unconstitutional laws like the DMCA passed that serve only to prop up broken business models the market has rejected. The market is only mildly retarded though and eventually learns. Maybe that is why Sony has lost 6 billion in the last year and is now 1/5 the size it was in its heyday.
but Yang left the money on the table because Yahoo was worth more on its own. And to think people were saying he was a world class poker player. Epic Fail!
Stop Java fanbois and don't make me post all the critical vulnerabilities that have been found in Java the last few years. Java VM is darn useful for many things but most home desktop users are better off without it.
Honestly short of the java run time there is little supposedly "legitimate" software you could put on your computer to put it more at risk stability and security wise. If I had to run Adobe software I would probably be looking to sandbox or put it in a vm especially if I used the computer for banking etc.
If Nokia doesn't get phones in the top 5 in the next six months, WP will officially be DOA as will Nokia M$ partnership (is it a partnership if one party flat out bribes another to fail?). Who would buy a current WP7 phone when the upgrade path is very shaky at best?
>Marketing and bean-counters probably took control over engineers back then.
Nope the media executives from Sony Studios did.
"...the new phone chip really does come close to the TDP of comparable ARM designs and it has more oomph"
>How much of that is clever design (i.e specific to the x86 system)
If true than it really would be kudos to Intel as the x86 instruction set is a dog all around especially for sub watt chips. Definitely a case where Intel succeeded in spite of the instruction set and architecture not because of it.
Been out of the industry for awhile but it does look like the first 450mm fabs will be coming on line in several years. Need to keep up better. I miss the industry but alas manufacturing in the developed world is not the best of career choices.
As for 45cm Intel would love to move to them for new fabs if it could but the issue is all its 3rd party partners. The tool makers took a bath on moving to 300mm for many years (had to do massive R&D, new tool software necessary, etc). The industry largely needs to get the majority of the tool makers, wafer makers, FOUP supplier, etc to jump all at once which is like herd cats many of which are going broke.
Yep Intel's saving grace is their state of the art fabs. It allows them to charge the sick margins on the desktop and server that ARM only dreams of. Then again by going fabless ARM gets just about every other chip maker to do its dirty work against Intel (Samsung, AMD, TI, Freescale, IBM, etc).
