Posts by Mike 29

Re: But...

Yeah, what?

The business is apparently built on "you can't trust anyone else in the play store, but you can trust us" and there's no evidence as to why and plenty of unusual permissions that I would suspect indicate malware from anyone.

e.g. Phone calls

directly call phone numbers

reroute outgoing calls

read phone status and identity

I maybe get reading the IMEI for your billing requirements, but calling phone numbers and routing calls have nothing to do with the headline of "stopping those naughty apps with their dodgy permissions".

Neither does the nanny crap with "stopping texting while driving" which is what? Some kind of parental setting for people who have children that are somehow old enough to drive, but not old enough to take responsibility for their own phone, and that requires the GPS to be on all the time?

Maybe you should have invested less millions in development and done one thing well, with a minimum permission set so you could explain why you need each one. Instead you're an example of why the permission model on android is ridiculous.

Re: Clenches jaw, takes deep breath . . .

Comparing Steam DRM to (say) EA DRM is a bit like comparing a breath test to multiple enemas and a endoscopy procedure. http://americablog.com/2013/11/cops-anal-search-colonoscopy-3-enemas-man-rolling-stop-clenched-buttocks.html

Re: expected revenue from tax levied at has already been accounted for

That would be taxes to pay for the related benefits to zero out the one against the other. The whole thing was likely slightly revenue negative as they never seemed to cost anything properly, but you know, rant away, conspiracy theorists are fun.

Re: If Only

It would ask if you want to install Metro and install desktop either way.

Whine much?

Re: In the immortal words of Monica Dickens,

Oovie is $3:50 a night and has all kinds of freebies and discounts on top of that, and I can still barely be bothered to commit to turning up 2 days running to the supermarket.

That would make $4 a good price for "just out of the theater" streaming, then I might watch more than 2 newest release movies a year. And yeah, I don't pirate them either.

Re: Ah Pandora.

No catch-up for me. No Facebook, hence no spotify. Besides, Pandora is way cheaper.

Re: Really?

AC does not recall correctly. Australia has no taxation on non residents.

Re: Games

What problem? They love the fake accounts.

Their inflated valuation is based on a ridiculous monetary worth per account. I bet their efforts at rooting out duplicate accounts are as vigorous as casinos efforts to help problem gamblers kick the habbit.

Agreed. Then there wouldn't be a printer driver available, hence no need for passwords.

Nice grouping, but he probably missed the hdd.

I call shenanigans

You could pee, make a coffee and change the oil in the family car in the time it took ff7 to animate the summons in one round.

I agree for the most part, but the comment on Linux manuals says more about you than the subject at hand.

1.5tb easily

I've known USAdians that download more than that a month in porn alone..

The point. You are missing it.

So you believe they invented the rounded rectangle? I have an iBridge to sell you.

I think you're rather missing the point. They aren't suing because of the decision but rather prospective shareholders not being told earlier.

Case hasn't got a hope in hell and I look forward to his next effort at suing for not being told information that would enable insider trading.

No chance, I see more than one USB port

*facepalm*

Wonderful, you can download 200Gb of pr0n and moviez at 500kbs for cheaper than NBN pricing. Similarly I could commute the 20 minutes to work on a motorbike for cheaper too, and it would only cost me 20 minutes extra at either end in changing clothes. If I wanted to take an hour to bicycle in it would be cheaper again! Cheaper is better, on your bike!

Next you compare dedicated wired bandwidth with a highly contested wireless connection. I regularly use both Telstra and Three 3G connections and even though the average bandwidth used on these services is tiny, you rapidly see the effect of bandwidth connection if a few people are trying to do a sustained download.

The NBN does not close the market, if someone wants to build a competing technology there is nothing to stop them doing so. However, most advocates of competition forget that stops at the outskirts of Sydney and Melbourne and no private telco would build coverage for 96% of Australia at even bandwidth regardless of the technology used. If you can get 90% of the income for 10% of the expenditure that's exactly what you do. You only have to look at the competing telco's mobile coverage to see how that works.

As for SME's, they're dying for a decent network at a reasonable price. The article mentioned TransACT and how hard it is to get numbers on business connections in general, here's a recent TransACT quote for comparison with NBN prices:

- 50Mbit connection

- 24 month contract

Installation charge: $10,000

Monthly charge: $1650

Download Supplied: zero

That's right, bandwidth goes on top of that. And the same company will do a 100/20Mbit connection for consumers for $149.95/month + bandwidth costs.

Maths is hard

Perhaps it's SATA II because 3Gb/s > 250MB/s

Unless you're talking one of the 500MB/s drives there's no point in putting a SATA III interface on a drive that isn't capable of filling a SATA II bus. Except that middle management types might be willing to pay more for the same performance...