Posts by Nuno

British government ignores MS browser fears

their own fault

It is Microsoft's own fault that people are stuck with IE6. They did intentionally build a non standard browser and companies that relied on it for their own applications have gotten stuck with it.

LG publishes bendy 19in e-newspaper

whats the point?

I can really see no use for such a device. Give me a smaller screen, if not foldable, at least rollable, and I will be happy with it.

Microsoft sees its chance in Googlephone

that depends

If I were on google's shoes, I would sell a different handset for each new major version of the OS but, for each new device, I would make the partnership with a different manufacturer (only the most reliable ones). This way they would make everyone happy and spice up the competition. I think that, apart from them owning the OS, they are doing the same that Vodafone does, when they order a Vodafone branded phone from the likes of Sharp, Nokia, etc.

Oracle fails to convince MySQL doubters

RE: Huh?

They can't really prevent the deal, but they can prevent the resulting company from operating in the EU...

HTML 5 is no Flash or Silverlight killer — yet

browser update

your theory on the adoption of post ie8 browser is just wrong. The reason that ie6 is still around is it's lack of standards conformity. Developers have built a lot of critical applications that were targeted for ie6 specifications and cannot change browser until they are rebuilt. But I can bet my kingdom that, this time, they will be targeting standards and not specific browsers... With standards based apps, you can update your browser (standards compliant), without fear of loosing your application.

Boffins render full HD million-point animated hologram

@Tony Smith

"There's nothing in holography that dictates that just because you *can* recreate all of an object in order to view it from any angle, that you have to see all of the object at once."

That is true, but if I am looking at the front and you are looking at the back, I should see all the front and you should see all the back...

CentOS back from brink of death

@Jason Fossen

Your comment doesn't make any sense. CentOs is a server OS, you compare it's use with desktop OSs, How many admins do you think ditched a server version of linux to install OSX server?

World+Dog will buy 33m netbooks in '09, says analyst

Linux

We don't need more cpu power every year. And we must thanks linux for that! Otherwise, we would all be running Vista, where cpu is never enought, and windows 7 would go the same way, demanding more cpu power to cope with more "features".

NASA fires up the 'interplanetary internet'

one big problem

This transmit once, fire and forget, is very nice, except if, for example, the outpost gets destroyed by a meteor and nobody will receive the transmissions they had stored for relay...

Underwear obligatory for Florida city workers

they should have been more explicit...

because, there are ways, you know...

http://www.interknickers.com/naughty_but_nice.php

Bing passes Yahoo! in Google runner-up stakes

only temporary

I, for one, can assure that I tried it, and althougt not completly disapointed, I'm not going to be a regular customer.

Apple raises retail stakes against Microsoft

xbox

I am sure that those stores will be filled with xbox consoles and games...

Microsoft: have it your way on IE 8

IE

I think ie7 will die quicker than ie6. ie6 exists mainly on enterprise computers, running applications written for it, and they will not upgrade anytime soon. ie7 users will probably be much more willing to go into the upgrade path...

Swoopo - eBay's (more) evil twin

not really a con...

This is a site for the owners to make money, we all realize that, but the winner get the items for the bids he did, for example, 10 bids = 7.5€ (or whatever currency we are talking about). It's very much like national lottery, everyone puts some for one person to take, and the one that puts it all together is the one that makes most of it... clever scheme.

Attack of the quarter-ton, 'fridge-sized' killer jellyfish

this is not a joke

I don't understand the tone of your article, making fun in every line you wrote. I saw a documentary 2 years ago, on the jellyfish at the Sea of Japan, and this is very serious business. It's a shame that you couldn't refrain yourself from mocking it...

Firm touts anti-radiation chip for phones

hummmm

If those are thermal images taken during a call, where is the phone and the hand that is holding it? Just asking...

Asus: $200 netbooks next year

OLPC price

Does this mean that OLPC is making a profit, instead of helping 3rd world children?

The Apple Armada - Still worthy of the Jolly Roger?

pirates

so, you started the article proposing to find out if Apple was still "pirate" worthy...

and you conclude they aren't, because they could be more green and give money to charity? Both things that pirates are known for...

As for the lack of using new available technologies, will have to wait and see if those technologies will succeed, and if some other manufacture will use them first!

Ballmer's bid to swerve 'Vista Capable' row comes unstuck

XP

those computer are better off with XP, anyway...

India draws up own Google Earth plan

@Robert Lazzurs

"I imagine they have just as many people living in poverty"

You must be joking, right? India have more people living in poverty than probably all the population of America (and I mean North, Central and South America!)

HTC Touch HD Windows Mobile smartphone

more intuitive

"Pressing this reveals a slider you can use to adjust the pages to your heart’s content. Not quite as neat as the iPhone's pinch-and-pull zooming, but more intuitive."

the greatness of iPhone's pinch-and-pull zooming it's not because it's neat, but because it's incredibly intuitive!

Ex-IBMer and new iPod boss ordered to stop work

clever arguing

So he will not be able to join electrolux, because they make microwave ovens, which use a microprocessor to control the cooking programs...

Apple opens Macbook front in iPhone jailbreak war

itunes?

When you say that an error appears at MACBOOK, you mean while using itunes, right?

Why not use another program to stuff the phone/ipod?

Rocketing iPhone sales drive Apple into phone vendor top ten

smartphones

It would be a better meter to compare Apple to Apples, right?

Company without a name unveils mainframe Solaris

Re: Confidentiality?

"Why wont you tell us their name? Isn't this taking confidentiality too far?"

What do you mean, they don't tell you their name?

http://www.sinenomine.net/

what more do you need?

Next Windows name unveiled: Windows 7

You are all wrong!!

The new version number of Windows is all about memory usage. Windows 7 will need 7GB of RAM to be used. This gives us another hint: it will be a 64 bit OS...

Finally something good came from Windows naming!

Sun's solar wind hits 50-year low

all the same

So they say that the particles from our sun are now less intense, so we might get more particles from other stars... what is the difference?

Intel feeds Portuguese 500,000 Classmate laptops

OLPC failure

The problem here is not Intel, it's the OLPC failure to provide what they promised: $100 laptop for children. They delivered a laptop almost double priced, well in reach from Intel's more capable offering. And then they slammed windows on it, as if it would help...

As for the Portuguese contract, they key driver was the local production of the machine. With lagging economics, the Portuguese government just couldn't resist a PR stunt like this one. But it is only fair to say this e-school program was already active, for older students and teachers, with full featured laptops.

AMD loses $1.19bn and CEO Ruiz

AMD vs Intel

I've been an AMD fan for long, and I think that even Intel fans have to thank them, for the pressure they putted on Intel when they released Athlon processors.

Right now Intel has superior designs, but to be fair, if there were no monopolistic practices when AMD had the tech lead, they would have made much more money and allowed them to hire more and better engineers... Intel has a very favorable situation: when their products are better, they sell more to the buyers, when their products are worse, they bribe the buyers into buying their inferior products...

Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on face

Firefox Claims

"its browser is better than all the others cos it's open source, faster, fluffier, more secure and now ready to graduate into the big league".

Well, you are forgetting the most important claim: standards compliance!

Windows XP given additional resuscitation

what a shame!

It really is a shame that a company trashes an operating system just for sake of selling a new one. Even a worse and lessen fit one. If Vista was any better that XP, why would not people willingly choose to buy it? We could even accept that MS didn't want to support both operating systems, but it doesn't apply anymore, since they will need to support it until 2010... Shame on you MS!!!

Google Translate speaks in (more) tongues

how it works

Google translator do not "guess" a translation for a certain word. It tries to match a whole phrase against another whole phrase, based on known translated documents, like documents from the United Nations and from the European Union. The quality of the translation relates very closely to the quality of the original texts, and whether the phrases exist on those documents. That quality will improve as more of such documents exist.

Vodafone sews up iPhone distribution

not all 2G

I don't know about Italy and the others but, from that pack, at least Portugal have nation wide 3G coverage.

Sergey Brin: 'Microhoo! makes me nervous'

different kind of monopoly

The MS monopoly is based on an OS being forced on users computers, either because they already use the same OS at work, or because they can't buy the computer they want without it. The google domination is based on users preference and technical merit. If only we could have a MS domination based on that...

Missing: 80GB PS3. Last seen: Sony's website

XBOX 360

Since the death of HD DVD, no one has written about how this affect MS and the XBOX. As far as I see it, MS have a big problem to solve: nobody is going to by the external HD DVD drive, hence, they are limited to 4,7 GB on their content. Unless they ship an external BluRay drive... What a slap in the face!

Peter Jackson to lord over 'Rings' prequels

@Lotaresco

"How can The Hobbit be a prequel? It was published in 1937, the LoTR didn't get published until 1954"

Do you know what a prequel is? Like in the opposite of a sequel...

As for 2 films, if they include Bilbo's adventures, they can make 3 movies...

Google phone, Google phone OS, Google apps – or just Google Ads

around 1981-1984 ?!?

"That’s about where we are on the development curve, where the PC was in around 1981 through 1984 with the popularization and stabilization of Microsoft Windows"

Considering that the 1.0 version of windows was launched in November 1985, those dates are hardly accurate. Maybe you wanted to say 1991 through 1994, with windows 3.0 and windows 3.1