The last four-five-six paragraphs there? Just, ... wow. So utterly dead on the mark, and so well written. I get the need for the lead-in, but that ending needs setting in a showcase where more people will see it somehow.
Posts by Jim Hill
8 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2007
114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call
Missouri governor demands prosecution of reporter for 'decoding HTML source code' and reporting a data breach
'Build us a Death Star, President Obama' demand thousands
Google spikes old MS file formats
Verizon dubs sec researchers 'narcissistic vulnerability pimps'
Saturday 24th April 2010 02:59 GMT
Fully pathetic
So, if we strip out the hurled epithets and the gratuitous characterizations, the several missing entries in his list (how about the people who get sick of being stalled by some pompous corporate drone with a blog and a criminally-irresponsible product leaking people's secrets all over the net, who publish its weaknesses because they've tried everything else and none of it has met anything but the inimitable symptoms of mediocrities fully aware of their inadequacy desperately trying to bury yet further evidence -- what shall we call those people?), what's left?
Nothing.
Drones speak their own language. "Problem-makers" indeed. Guess whose problem got made? These guys have quite plainly been embarrassed, and given the fear implicit in their language I'll go for "humiliated", by an actually competent outsider who has no respect for their, uhhh, position. "Putting yourself in the position of managing the time"? Oh, NOES! "Arbitrarily" releasing info? It's "arbitrary", now, when about half the machines on the planet are wide gaping open and the people responsible refuse to fix it? On and on about "owners" and these "owners"' responsibilities to the people who own them, never mind the poor schmucks stuck using their product whose bank accounts are consequently wide open to anyone with the right nickels to rub together. These guys have blown right past drone. They're fully-converted corpodroids.
"If you too are tired of seeing criminals elevated to a podium of legitimacy and bestowed the same job title you possess" ... does _anyone_ doubt that the real crime involved here is making them look bad to their tribe?
Why the Advocate General got Google AdWords wrong
Thursday 8th October 2009 02:22 GMT
How is AdWords not comparative advertising?
A Google search for a registered trademark will without doubt produce the trademark owner's site as the top hit, and it won't be an ad, it'll be a search result.
From the article:
"There are many circumstances where it is right and proper that third parties can use the registered trade mark of another, for example, in comparative advertising. These circumstances are set out in the Directive and elsewhere."
Since the trademark owners' data will always appear first and centrally, as the result of the search, alongside the AdWords ads that are segregated from and plainly not the search result, how are those ads not plainly offered to facilitate comparison?
A link to the source material -- the actual Directive -- would have been appreciated.
World goes mad as Bill and Jerry eat churros
Monday 8th September 2008 08:56 GMT
Mojave, Seinfeld appeal to ignorance
These allow people to do nothing more than look at the pretty face (and I really do like the frosted-glass effect) and kick the tires. The product interviews very well.
But the considered verdict on Vista is in: the market, at best, doesn't really care. Many of those who have spent the time on a real examination, far from just not particularly wanting it, have flatly rejected it.
Seems what's behind that frosted glass isn't so appealing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
