Posts by tonysmith

Re: I've been to Kashmir

A hell hole? It's been described as paradise on earth before the dispute.

The reason they fight over it is because most of the major rivers in both Pakistan and India have their water source in Kashmir. Whosoever controls Kashmir controls the water supply.

For Pakistan it also includes access to a land route to China.

As for the glacier - the Pakistanis started that fight because they knew it would cost the Indians more to defend it than it would Pakistan - which it does.

Re: Evolution at work

But the mouse must have had other things to eat too? If it didn't then what are the chances of this mutation occurring before the mouse species is wiped out by the stings?

If the odds of this occurrence is high over a large number of years then why haven't other animals also evolved to eat this scorpion?

lol, complaining about protectionism? From a country that simply tried to take over the world and force everyone in the empire to buy British? Surely not!

Re: Rest of World to USA

*your

Re: Another

What is it with the software world that they seem to have a need to access the 2nd hard market for their products. You don't see car manufactures trying to get a cut when you sell your car (yet) do you?

Seems quite greedy and prevents people getting on and using their software via the "cheap" way by buying a product that is a few years old...

imo it will just mean less newbies will end up using it and most probably mean more customers for disc based competitors in the long run...which could be a good thing I guess.

Re: pledging to set up its own Arabic,..

Iranians are Persians, not Arabs. The two groups don't like each other - at least on a political level. So saying that they'll set up an Arabic version of xyz may cause issues.

Re: No good deed shall escape unpunished

I think you're mum is just finding an excuse to call you - you moved 1000kms away after all.

That's one thing you can say about Apple. They to generally provide better quality products. It doesn't really matter that the iPhone 5 was an incremental upgrade and that the iPads are not really "magical" - what they are is decent quality and built with a bit of thought for the end user (HCI).

PC manufactures seem content with just cramming everything on it without thought of how it would be used by the end user (full keyboards with number pads squished on 15" laptops being one of my gripes).

Re: The terrorists need new cash flow.

This would require too much smarts for those guys.

Simpler approach would be (is being used) is to either use drug money or smuggling (or if your in somalia why not try piracy - like the "on a boat in the sea" type)...or if your in Afghanistan set up a "transport mafia" and have the Americans pay you millions to protect their trucks from...well, yourself!

Re: AC says:

Only if the west loses it's science/engineering base...if that happens and the east keeps going in those terms which it could as it's cheaper for them then yes.

Re: "This is the first really big attack on Macs,"

No, that happened over at Burger Kings twitter feed.

Re: Full marks for effort

I saw a demo of the nexus 4? version and how it connected to a monitor and turned into the full OS. This is what win8 should have been like. They would have got a lot more publicity just being MS and kudos for well a engineered "One OS for all form factors" solution.

Re: the Indian rape case involved a death

It was international news before she died and in terms what actually happened in each case the US version is a bit more disturbing considering the cover-up in a country were you'd expect better.

Re: "It was not immediately clear, however...

Now, I don't agree with the Israeli occupation of Palestine or anything else it does but hoping that 8 million people (not to mention another 4 million from the Palestinian territories) go out in a burst of Persian glory is a bit much.

Re: as it almost always is

@Jonski

Most killing in history are not done due to religion - but most in fighting. See my other post for details. I was just making a point that we can pin killings by person X on their beliefs easily - so we can pin Stalin killings on this Atheist beliefs.

The crusades was most probably the biggest killer (in particular of civilians) which was based on religion (though the political reasoning of the instigators back in Europe was slightly different) - that killed around 3m at most. Now compare that to the 40-70m killed in ww2 alone. I think it's a bit much blaming religion for all the problems - especially as I don't think Christian beliefs allowed for those killings even if it was Christians doing the killings .

And as for the loony bombers - well I don't they would even register on the scales** - flu most probably kills more people each year - not to mention that suicide is actually against Islam so that kind of shows how compatible that particular "struggle" is with the teachings of that religion (and if you look into islamic teachings you'll notice how far these people are from those teachings the claim to represent - under Islamic theology they are defined as "the worst of people to be killed on the earth" and the "dogs of the hellfire") .

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharijites

**not to say it's not bad, but it's small relatively speaking to other wars etc

Re: Not surprising.

I have to agree. Leave win7 for enterprise and win8 with its "App Store" thing to tap the new app buying consumer market. If that was their strategy then I think they are playing to their strengths while trying something new.

Also I hope they do well in the consumer market. Win8 needs some refinement but if it does well it will force everyone to up their game. That can only be a good thing.

Re: Suppress natural instincts

You might want to research that a bit rather than just copy and paste stuff from BNP esque websites. Historical accuracy of his wife's age is disputed even among Muslims. It ranges between one source saying 9 years with others indicating 16 years all the way up to around 21 years of age.

Of course if you're Nick Griffen then 9 is the most accurate.

The fact that it seems our elite are riddled with the pedo tendency I think we're best sorting our house first.

Re: Internet freedom funded by Arabs

If the Americans can fund 'democracy' in Iraq why can't the Arabs fund 'freedom' in NZ?

Re: Three lousy choices

Former colonies that are "enemies"?

The real "threat" to the west comes from Russia and China. In terms economic/military threat, places like Iran are quite down the list.

It's TheReg. Most people are IT folk here and they are going to be upset because it's not a straightforward OS for business use. They've stuck a pretty plinky plonky interface and generally will give headache to IT support in any company that adopts it as their desktop system...

On the consumer side I'm gonna guess most people will simply get use to it and I think regular, non "techies", will actually like it. It's not often most regular users need to delve in to core features or administrator tasks on an OS.

Re: "drastically...

That's actually an interesting way that Microsoft could starve Google of it's revenues.

Just put adBlocker or noScript in IE by default.

Oh dear

I think I just went to one of those "hiring interviews" you speak of

They asked me questions like 'how would you maintain the "stateful environment" within a web application' .

I answer and I'm not sure if he scribbled it down or not.

I agree with all the other points you made. With point 3 some recuritment agents, I'm sure, simply put out ads to collect candidate details...and usually offer you a job other than the one you applied for...which is usually not in tune with what you wanted.