Posts by Hans 1215 posts • joined Tuesday 11th August 2009 06:36 GMT
Windows Phone 8 supposedly supports native code which will remove this barrier. Until then, I can't see many games companies writing cross platform games for Windows Phone.
There is no market. Ok, so Ballmer paid these guyz to port it, but he won't be able to pay everyone all the time ... and I think a lot if not all the others will start crying to get some Microsoft cash. Also, everybody, even those lame blondes in the H&M store know that Windows Phone is for the sillier, whoever that may be.
For files between 2MB and 10MB in size, it recorded an average read speed of 265.8MBps and an average write speed of 257.4MBps.
By comparison, the built-in SSD in my MacBook Air achieved 217.2MBps and 204.8MBps, respectively.
Real-life speeds will depend on the data you’re transferring. Compressed data, such as MP3s and JPEGs, will copy more slowly relative to uncompressed data because the drive's on-board controller uses hardware compression to squeeze data which hasn’t already been compressed.
1. The speed looks good, but then again, what model of SSD is in there? If it is not an identical model to the one in the Mac BookPro what is the point comparing them ? BTW, which MacBook Air model are we talking about, AFAIK, Apple has shipped several SSD models with their Airy laptops.
2. As for the "uncompressed" files transfering faster, I suspect you did not base your results on the transfer of compressed data. So, how about comparing the lemon & "Apple" SSD's tranfering a zip file ? I am pretty sure the "Apple" SSD will be faster ...
I must say, though, that 200+ MB/s for external devices is great, would it be even faster with a better SSD ? I'm pretty certain it could be ...
As for the n00bs whining about cable prices, I suppose you buy your cables at BestBuy or something, right ? Order them on ebay from some bloke in HongKong, I'm sure you'll get em for less than 10 quid - 5 if you're lucky. As for chips in cables ... so what, what is the price of the particular chip, not by the 1000's, I mean one single chip? About 2 pence - ouch, that must have hurt ...
You could do the same with subversion ... but you would not have the cool UI you get with tm ...
CCC, SuperDuper, rsync ... all fine and good, but leave you with one instant backup, no versioning ...
Server hosts are also handy for pxe booting your work laptop into something usable at home without getting into trouble.
You work for the wrong company!
Your work laptop is useless ?
Why not get a CD to reset local admin password, and take the box off the domain. Create local username with same password as your domain account - change password when required with outlook webmail.
If you really want a productive laptop:
Install Ubuntu on it, there, done ...
I just whopped a 512Gb SSD into my work laptop with GNU/Linux ... for some reason, Windows 7 did not want to boot from it because of some BS drive signing or something, tough, Linux it will be ... always wanted to get rid of WinSlows 7 anyway.
The US have hefty oversees bank accounts full for those who "obey", acting pro-actively doubles your reward.
"dropping the phone in the toilet is no. 4 on the insurance claim list for mobile damage in Ireland- and no. 5 in Germany"
Must be Windows Phone mobiles, as that is where they belong!
Finding a purpose for his anti-virus software, he is, that is all ...
've never had antivirus software on a mac, you don't really need it ... and I worked for Symantec training staff in removing viri, amongst other things.
Symantec software is crap - I should and do know.
Hyper-V is based on VirtualPC, a very mediocre product for tasks other than emulating legacy NT4 AD controllers back in 2006.
AD and NT4? Think again ...
But you are right on one thing: VirtualPC and HyperV are crap.
From wikipedia:
"The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is a high end smartphone in the Xperia series designed by Sony Ericsson. It is the first Sony Ericsson smartphone to utilize the Android operating system. The phone was shipped with Android 1.6, but an upgrade to 2.1 was made available starting October 31, 2010, with a gradual international rollout. Originally, Sony Ericsson stated that the X10 would not receive an upgrade to Android 2.2 (Froyo) or beyond [...]"
This is where they got it all wrong, taking the piss of their customers, they committed HaraKiri !
"[... ] the phone has since received an upgrade to 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) starting July 29, 2011. [...]"
Too late ... the rest is history ....
You really think the coders at the chocolate factory would stop 30% of internet users from using their service? I think they would have done so already, if they thought it would be good practice .... remember all the Microsoft -only shops out there, I know, their sys admins are idiots, but still, they would not even be allowed to install Chrome ...
This is like having an electronic lock on the door to your house which, when you enter only letters, opens the door because it expects digits and letters.
So Google are evil, we knew that .... Apple and Microsoft are evil, too, though and for them to point at Google for being evil is ridiculous ... Let's not forget, repeat after me:
Google, Apple and Microsoft are evil
Google, Apple and Microsoft are evil
Google, Apple and Microsoft are evil
Google, Apple and Microsoft are evil
Advertising tactics that poke fun at the fanbois. For examples of Apple doing this to their competition go to you tube and search for Apple advertisements. Apple has been poking fun at and attempting to tarnish their competition in a similar manner for YEARS! Suck it up!
Yes, but they never built grey boxes that looked exactly like Compaq's, Dell's or HP's ...
Sorry!
So, lets take this whole smartphone business back a few years ...
We have been waiting and waiting for iPhone killers, every new smartphone that came out at the time got dismissed by the press and users.
Now, they have all copied iphone to the pixel, I can no longer tell which is which from a plain photo, if I blacken out the brand. Remember, back then, smartphones all looked like Blackberries, now, they all look like iphones.
You can argue all you want, this is Apple vs soviets, Tu-144 style.
And don't get me started on tabs, they have been around in different form factors for over 10 years, yet, only Apple's design made a dent in PC sales, and see the same fate. The competitor's devices all look the same.
Apple present a crappy defense, have a whack of invalid patents, have merged several known technologies into new technologies and patented the result, lock users in (although iTunes songs play on any device, now), have more lawyers than developers, agreed, but still, their innovations have been used by everyone.
I'll get an Android phone, because it is just like an iphone, and lets me chose my own music (I play and record my music) for my alarm.
Ask a woman what car she drives, she will almost always answer: "I don't know, it's ${color}". I needed to get a new company car, all my other half wanted to have a say on was the color ... Women like fashion, appearance ... look at the time they take to buy a new handbag ...
Pink, however, is a bit childish in color, methinks ... that white radio looks good, but I might get my other half a smartphone ...
A DVR by Microsoft? DRM Hell, I say ...
http://web.archive.org/web/20080415122032/http://www.solicitorsfromhell.co.uk/component/listing,/option,com_directory/page,viewListing/lid,131/Itemid,0/
As for Peter2, I doubt what you are saying is true, else that would have been mentioned in the court case! Heck, these pieces of scum would have had the guy "hanged" for that, if it had been true. The site would have been taken down real quick. So please, no lies.
I see several issues with the site: no logon, so anybody could write anything about anybody without any sort of control. Some comments seem quite real, whereas others just insult the lawyers/solicitors in question. The "personal data" was just the address of the offices as well as the names of the law professionals - hardly "personal data".
I have had an issue with a lawyer myself, the bitch overcharged me. My parents had an issue with a solicitor, who modified the conveyance after it was signed - unfortunately, due to a burglary, the copies we had were destroyed - the solicitor in question had already deceased when the other party started complaining. The falsification was very badly done, as a different typewriter was used to add the line, it was not in line with the rest of the document and did not make any sense as to what belonged to whom.
Why don't lawyers sunbave on the beach? They keep getting buried by cats.
I don't know what it is the syssies like about group policy ... sure, it is fun to reset a guy's desktop background image on every logon for about 5 minutes .... and then?
Group Policy? Probably the main reason I never join a domain .... same local username and password = hardly any trouble !
People who enforce group policies are dictators and should be fired on the spot.
Definitely a revolutionary phone ... especially when you think of that country full of canon fodder and little oil.
Ahh, you mean that pile of crap that considered the internet at wide as the local intranet ? That bug was fixed YEARS after SP2 came out ...
Classic photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68043681@N04
Steve Jobs: Apple had a monopoly on the graphical user interface for almost 10 years. That’s a long time. And how are monopolies lost? Think about it. Some very good product people invent some very good products, and the company achieves a monopoly. But after that, the product people aren’t the ones that drive the company forward anymore. It’s the marketing guys or the ones who expand the business into Latin America or whatever. Because what’s the point of focusing on making the product even better when the only company you can take business from is yourself? So a different group of people start to move up. And who usually ends up running the show? The sales guy… Then one day, the monopoly expires for whatever reason. But by then the best product people have left, or they’re no longer listened to. And so the company goes through this tumultuous time, and it either survives or it doesn’t.
BusinessWeek: Is this common in the industry?
Steve Jobs: Look at Microsoft — who’s running Microsoft?
BusinessWeek: Steve Ballmer.
Steve Jobs: Right, the sales guy. Case closed.
LibreOffice
W2k was the first and last good OS that came out of Redmond. Especially because you would use *nux file, print and DNS servers instead of cheating on the licenses.
It is true that the move from w2k to wxp was proof of deep stupidity. Apart from USB2, XP had absolutely NO advantage over 2k, only disadvantages - just plain proof that WIndows admin = cretin! USB2 has absolutely nothing to do on a work desktop ...
I have yet to come across a Windows Admin with any sense whatsoever, counting out *nix admins with too small balls to convince management and forced to administer wincrap.
Once you take the *nix pill, you are outside the matrix ... free as a bird. I understand, though, that for n00bs, it's scary to leave the matrix.
MS created a browser with broken proprietary features, got everybody to write software for it, and the worst is, most companies did and have been stuck for a decade. Why anyone would want to make business with a company like that again, I don't know ... masochist n00bs!
Here comes the guy who is co-responsible for the mess and tells you he will gladly tie you in for another decade ... bet most companies will open their arms and let the fellow in ...
He who has not switched to Linux by now is an idiot and should leave the profession immediately, no "ifs", "buts" or "maybes" ... Do your job correctly ... I keep hearing mere idiots bringing invalid arguments like .... eehhh we have 6000 desks to migrate blahblahblah ... The transition MS Office 2003 to OpenOffice or whatever is WAY cheaper than the transition MS O 2003 to 2007 or 2010, same goes for Windows ... XP to Vista or 7 is just as hard as XP -> Linux.
Please, can you guyz stop with this crap.
There is no ounce of charity in Bill Gates, it is alll bullshit and you are buying it. Check what he is doing in Africa, go ahead. Anonymous have blown the whistle, too ....
He is placing American companies to impose patents and all that shit on the third world ... which I consider a crime against humanity.
I doubt you have seen a Galaxy phone as they look "exactly" like iPhones. Samsung deserve everything they get for copying the design with a lot of attention to detail ... I cannot speak for the Galaxy tab, never seen one ....
Samsung, come up with your own design or feel the full force of the law.
Samsung will be waving basic phone patents that most likely everybody is using without paying anyway.
Check nuclear fusion and we can make helium, if we need to!
HP bought up some of the best technologies and ended up canning them each time in favor of less potent technologies ... what do you want, some never learn from past mistakes ... ;-)
Where is Matt Bryant when you need him?
Electrical heaters are for idiots ! Just imagine what happens:
powerplant produces heat > boils water > steam drives trubine > generates electircity
This electricity is then transported to your home, with a 60% loss on average, to create heat again?
The regex implementation is a crime in PowerShell ... they merged regex with GLOB ....
breaindead !
Normal Regex:
a* matches "a", "aa" and "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
PowerShell Regex:
a* matches "a", "aa" and "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" which is nice, but it also matches "abc" as well as "a123458784dsfdfgsewrtwi5u345qef"
I would never ever work for a company that forces me to use a piece of software that I do not want to use.
As far as IE is concerned: We develop a big web app and we develop it for Forefox, then port it to ie, nobody in our dev dep uses ie so we really need to test on ie. IE is a severe head ache for us and we are tempted to just not support that pile of crap. However, some companies have brainless IT directors that want to stick to IE - most likely those that filled out this survey and who are now pressing charge.
If you are using ie your opinion does not count!
This is most likely a false positive funny nobody realised it as it is not the first time this happens to Medion/Aldi. The other more interesting question is, why does malware protection software write to the MBR!!!!
[ from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_%28computer_virus%29 ]
In 2007, a batch of Medion laptops sold through Aldi chain were found to have the Stoned.Angelina virus already present on the preinstalled Windows Vista operating system.[8]
Medion disseminated a press release explaining that Angelina virus was not really present in the laptops but the problem was about a pre-installed malware protection software (Bullguard) having a bug that gives an alert reporting the presence of the virus. The bug can be corrected via a patch released by Medion itself.
Problem is that I, like many others here, do not use their products, yet we get thousands of emails a week that we do not want and have to maintain complex spam filters to keep those 99% of emails out of our company networks because a bunch of retarded idiots use windows and get infected by Russian, Chinese, Indian or whatever crackware and are part of botnets. Blame Microsoft for their idiotic security, the windows lusers or whoever - fact is, the combination idiot + windows is doing a lot of harm.
As for Windows 7 being secure ... helll yeah - I need root priv's to use the program ping.exe, yet, it still got compromised by shortcut icons, ROFL. Windows 7 still has the svchost.exe crap; fsck -F /dev/head, anybody claiming that is anything near "secure" needs his brains checked - ok, I can get the sysinternals bullshit to check which exe or dll is behind it, but WTF?
I was at a German customer as a consultant. They were upgrading an aging IBM AIX system and testing Windows Server on IBM hw and AIX on Power for the upgrade. The head of IT received a little packet, a USB thumb drive ... Microsoft-branded ... to help make the right decision? Who falls for that? The AIX system performed so well for them under heavy load that Microsoft was kicked out, so the USB thumb drive was futile. You don't really want to run Oracle DB on Windows, except on laptops for demos ... ;-). No, I wonder, what did IBM send?
The Dutch are incredibly computer-literate. The problem here is the laws, that are outdated. According to the law, hacking a router is not illegal, because they do not have a law that covers routers. This will likely change pretty soon, fact is, in Holland, they apply the law - compare that to US, UK or France where when a law does not cover this or that aspect, they just condem and try to find a way to "interpret" the article in a way that would allow them to condem ... the obvious caveat is that the laws end up being interpreted in hundreds of different ways, which means that nobody knows what is and is not covered by the article, in the end.
This whole article is one big lie, there are so many incorrect things in it that I could not be bothered to debunk it. Suffice to say:
700 people (soldiers) have been dispatched to the plant to cool it down, those 700 are medically doomed, working in groups of 70 directing seawater to cool the site down. Where does the contaminated seawater go?
You should gather independent radioactivity stats, or even check Bavarian stats (thousands of miles away), they detect the exact same increase in levels as those reported by Japanese authorities for Tokyo - so, or there is another nuclear disaster going on somewhere we do not know about OR Japan is full of bs, you are free to chose!
Japan is just one big lie when it comes admitting facts about nuclear disasters and it is criminal to believe what they have to say.
Learn German and read/listen to German news, you will get a completely different picture.
Ever since the BBC news started mentioning "War on Terror" I knew they had lost grip. BBC used to be trustworthy ... used to.
If it ain't broke don't fix it DOES NOT APPLY TO SOFTWARE, there are bugs in code that allow exploits. You should keep your software up-to-date for that matter.
Of the many OS's I have used in time, I can say the following:
Windows NT4: seen BSOD after SP4 and SP6 installations.
Windows 2000: seen BSOD with SP3 and SP4, iirc.
Windows XP, to this day, I have witnessed BSOD's after installing every SP (SP1, SP2 and SP3), not on the same machine but on multiple machines, with various configs, ... I used to work in technical support.
Linux (user since 2001: Suse 7.0-9.0, then Ubuntu dapper drake, now Debian) update issues mostly with Ubuntu, I switched to Ubuntu when automatic updates in Suse changed my glibc without updating my shells := screwed. With Ubuntu, I have had "many" issues upgrading, the worst being the idiotic switch to ash from bash so I switched to Debian, happy ever since.
Mac OS (user since 2001: two kernel panics with 10.2 caused by Norton, experienced in the lab - I was working for Norton, none since)
Solaris: One thing about Solaris is, you would spend more time finding the update on sun.com than anything else ... never had issues after installing the updates, once I found em that is ... ;-).
FreeBSD: never experienced any issues updating.
Better analogy: You buy a car and are not allowed to replace the lousy radio/cd player inside!
The music industry is dead, because it is looking for one hit wonders, not great artists. I have figured that local bands are much better ... I mostly buy old stuff on CD's and LP's a little on iTunes (when I only like this or that track on an album or the album is out of print and/or hard to find) ... and I support local artists (buy their CD's).
When I look for music on youtube, I often read comments like: "Nobody makes music like this anymore ..." or "I would have loved to be around then, that music is great" when they pay no attention to local bands at all. You can basically find local bands that play any kind of music ... they are trying hard to make a living out of their work and need your support!
The music industry is not looking for new talent, they are looking for quick and easy cash, so all we get now is commercial crap.
Listen to your local independent radio stations (also on the internet), look around for posters of bands that will play in your neighborhood and attend the gigs! From experience I can tell you there is plenty of talent out there waiting for you!
Invite people from the automation industry, like Redwood Software, IBM, Tidal etc ... they know what their customers are doing ... I have seen Redwood Software reduce yearly closing periods from 3 weeks to under one, for example (this is a big business).
Invite Microsoft? You mean because of the "at" scheduler? LOL
cf title
Sybase, Novell (twice), and now Nokia ... when will they learn?
"Worse -- that administrator account was also on their servers, so we could simply log into their domain controllers using that account and take control of the entire enterprise."
I have been to many companies over the course of my career, yet only two Microsoft-only shops.
The first found it very smart to choose the former company name as an admin password across the board (local admin, enterprise amin ... name it) and tell it to me - I never ask for passwords and look away ostensibly when client types them.
The second, different country, the lady saw that I was turning my back on her while she was typing the password ... yet sticky fingers made her make many typos (I am irresistible) ... not only did she say the password aloud, she also whispered that they had "sync'ed" all passwords across all systems to this word, which was the name of their lead product (it contained numbers and letters, but still).
If you are in a Microsoft-only shop, ask yourself some questions ... ;-)
PS: Both shops were in so called "latin" countries ... I would never see this in Germany, The Netherlands or UK ;-)
By default, true - you can change that though (force guy to enter root password).
You can also reset the root password with any Mac OS X DVD ...
But Windows is not that much harder with a livecd ...
Then again, physical access means your doomed anyway - unless you have good encryption.
There was one Google exec imprisoned, Ok, but that was about it ...
Let's be stupid and believe the conspiracy theory: it was Google, Google has the power to topple dictators and Russia brought it out to the world .. great ... which dictatorship will be next to go tits up? Krml
So we will soon see if it was all google ....
It all started with Vista ... they saw they had made a big mistake, but it was apparently too late.
I had a hard time using Windows 7 the first time ... couldn't find anything in the start menu, my shortcuts didn't work anymore: appwiz.cpl, for example. I did figure out that I could search for apps, cool. After lots of other shit, I fell into the date bug, where windows 7 thinks all dates are USian (regardless of regional settings), when the date I entered was civilized, as in dd/mm/yyyy. Anyway ... the app in question works fine on XP, Vista etc ... I do not need a shiny desktop, I just need a thing that works.
Windows 7? designed for my dustbin.
Have you ever made business with Asian companies? The contract can be all hippy etc, but as soon as you turn your back, they do it their way. As said above, all computer vendors often use these same facilities as well and have, apparently, never complained ...
As said above many times, again, the objective is good, who cares about the reasons behind it and why would you criticize a company for providing what its customer's want, like more environmentally friendly products? Especially when most other players, if not all, do not care about the environment - remember HP's boxes?
Arial is a poor imitation of Helvetica. The latter was designed in Switzerland back in the days when Grotesque fonts were … in. I would not say that Helvetica is anything to go by, it is a Grotesque font … Arial? A pale copy of a Grotesque font.
Anyway, real æsthetes use Helvetica over Arial anytime … as for Comic SanS? I used to like it when I was in my early teens ... use of it is a sign of immaturity.
>This might be successful in the short-term but even the Apple shareholders are questioning Jobs practices.
How is 11 years and still counting short term, especially seeing the company is among the top 5 by market cap and third computer seller in the world (by number of units shipped) ? Or what do you mean? Taken your pills today?
>And they would like a share of the riches, too, after all it is there money that put Apple where it is today.
Shareholders & dividends? WTF, read my many posts on that subject - dividends are source of all evil.
>A closed environment might be a a profitable one for Jobs, ever noted the disproportionate costs of Apple connectors, but how many ATM's run on any Apple software whereas the MS Blue Screen of Death appears all over the place. How many embedded controllers run Jobs software?
Now you are gonna say that Windows is open?
Who other than open source wants the embedded controllers, ever heard of "low margin"?
Apple does not want OS X/iOS to run on ATM's, embedded devices or other such crap. They design and sell luxury computers.
Take your pills and go to bed, the doctor's on his way.
The Netherlands gave them independence ... now the last thing Indonesians want to hear is Dutch. Speaking Dutch in a bar in Indonesia can be life threatening - unless you have a non-Dutch passport handy they'll slay you!
Now, what exactly do you want Den Haag (The Hague) to do?
