Posts by Ramazan

Google Chromecast: Here's why it's the most important smart TV tech ever

no reason for hype

even if it was developed by Google. BTW, Android wasn't developed by Google, it was just bought by them, plain and simple. Clarifying it for ya: Google TV was, is and will be a failure, end of a hroad.

Microsoft Surface sales numbers revealed as SHOCKINGLY HIDEOUS

amounted to "just' $853m

and this is called bad?

Apple crushes all competition in US Brand of the Year survey

* HTC before Gnusmas in smartphones list

* no mention of Amazon in online retailers list

* HP and Dell before Sony? OK, but Apple Computers was built after Sony after all

Only 1 in 5 Americans believe in pure evolution – and that's an upswing

Many of the animals believed him. Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious;

Apple MacBook Air 13-inch 2013: Windows struggles in Boot Camp

Re: Then the likes of sony start to use the lighter

_Then_? Are you sure on that point? I have Sony X505ZP (approx.900g) and UX280P (about 500g), they both came out long before Macbook Air brand was even born.

"bragged about the weight of the Air" - what weight are you talking about? I have 2nd generation of Air (the one after the original Air), and it weighs about 1.36kg! It is definitely bulky and at the same time LCD/hinges feel flimsy and yes they are -- one of the hinges broke after 3yrs and Apple refused to fix it -- I did it myself. No such issues with any of my Sonys.

Microsoft: 'Google's secret government meetings let it avoid import ban' - Report

Google, just pull your finger out of your arse and start paying royalties.

But no, looks like stealing is Google's way of life forever... Here they lie about MIcrosoft preventing Americans from something, but how about paying taxes in Your Own Country for the Benefit of the said Americans?

Re: patent claims to block Americans from using ... calendar functions

Patent claims do not prevent people from using something, they are to prevent Google from stealing something

US public hate Snowden - but sexpot spy Anna Chapman LOVES him

Re: a lot of Russians back in the day ... hated political dissidents

They didn't even know or cared about a word "dissident", equally they didn't care about having enough money for sending their children to college, university, doctorship or having surgery or cancer therapy unlike people in "democratic countries" did.

And Russia can still intercept incoming ballistic missiles unlike The USA BTW.

Re: Snowden is still hiding out in a Moscow airport

The same kind of truth like The G.W.Bush's Weapons of Mass Destruction That Saddam Had.

Apache devs: 'We'll ship no OpenOffice before its time'

Re: performance of Apache Openoffice 3.41 is much better than that of Libreoffice 4.x

[weasel words][citation needed] :)

P.S. I've got .doc file today which Apple's pages couldn't open, so I installed OpenOffice on OSX. I wouldn't even bother with something called LibreOffice, VibroOffice, HyperOffice etc

Windows NT grandaddy OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard

Re: had systems up 400+ days

I had 400+ days on crappy UX280P hardware (using Debian) too

Re: its real-time logic was far better than anything I saw in Unix

And MS-DOS real-time logic was far better than VMS' yet.

P.S. RSX11M should be comparable to MS-DOS though while slightly slower to respond.

Re: Eventually VHS won

UNIX is technically superior system, of course. I can't even imagine what should you do with your brain to come to the opposite decision?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Actual_DEC_UNIX_License_Plate_DSC_0317.jpg

Re: HP killed the wrong OS (Tru64 instead of that horrible HP-UX).

IMNSHO both Tru64 and HP-UX are awful, but still better than AIX. Modern Unices are all about Linux and Solaris though.

Microsoft offers free keyboard covers for Surface RT

Re: The better solution would have been

Still better solution would be to do hardware-assisted emulation of x86 on ARM-based device, like MS did with Z80 SoftCard. They could design simple x86 coprocessor to share the same die with ARM cores and turn x86 coprocessor when it's not actively used.

Is the next-gen console war already One?

Re: Different cards support the API in different ways

Both of the "Different cards", fixed that for you.

World's richest hobo (Apple) has worked 'tax-free' in Ireland since '80s

The ex-Cupertino veep spoke out

Pavlik Morozoff

Hey, Teflon Ballmer. Look, isn't it time? You know, time to quit?

Re: qualifies Microsoft as a special kind of stupid

That, to me, qualifies Sinofsky as a special king of stupid.

guys like Sinofsky

Guys like Sinofsky never give a shit whether the software works for users or not. The ones clearing the mess after Sinofskys are Ballmers and Gates'

Things that cost the same as coffee with Tim Cook - and are way more fun

SU-100 tanks

SU-100 is not a tank, it's self-propelled artillery

Dark blue side of the Force used to quell Star Wars nerd clash

http://dragonpress.tumbolian.org/Captain%20Huggies2.html

"The Avatar looks over his shoulder and sees several Babylon 5 fans dressed up as Narn, Centauri, and members of Psi Corps"

"Before them, a massive battle is raging. Narn, Human, and Minbari, fight the Centauri as if they were fighting for the future of the universe. They all swarm about one store, refusing to give even an inch of ground up"

Google formally recognises Palestine: Puts it on the virtual map

"controversial" decision

as told by the "news website" The Register

Russian geologist claims finding chunks of Tunguska Event invader

Re: why it took over 20 years

25 years to be precise. Maybe some sort of NDA or patent has expired?

Is the IT industry short on Cobolers? This could be your lucky day

COBOL outsourcing

There are outsourced COBOL jobs, but COBOL programmers in e.g. Russia are still mostly men after 45 (think vodka, cirrhosis, heart problems, strokes, road accidents etc), so the skills shortage is inevitable...

Apple to end support for original iPhone: report

Motorola ends support for RAZR2 immediately after launch

No firmware updates, no apps for ya

Huawei: 'We're not interested in US market'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes

IBM selling x86 server business to Lenovo?

Re: IBM is a big organization

No, Apple is a mere company while IBM is a country

Parking ticket firm 'exposed private info' - ICO making enquiries

Fw: from Eric Schmidt

Don't like your car photographed at parking? Don't park.

Don't like your car photographed? Don't own a car.

Ten Windows tablets

Who is Asus? Who is HP? Who is Dell? Who is Acer?

Why do your include that crap into the comparison? I'm not even sure that Samsung is qualified to be reviewed here at all. The only real contenders in MS market are MS and Sony (and Apple via BootCamp). Going further, Sony Win8 notebooks are crap (only once did they a good job -- with X505VP), but MS Surface is apparently OK (http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/02/25/the-ms-surface-pro).

Firefox 'death sentence' threat to TeliaSonera over gov spy claims

Articles like that should always provide step-by-step instructions about how to turn off the CA's certs. For example:

in Mac OSX Mountain Lion: Launchpad->Other->Keychain Access->Keychains->System Roots:

* Sonera Class1 CA -> Trust -> Never Trust

* Sonera Class2 CA -> Trust -> Never Trust

// Hope I've found all TeliaSonera's certs. Please note that it's called Sonera in OSX keychain, not TeliaSonera. And it's from Finland (didn't see this mentioned in the article too).

Foxconn's revenue down on slowing iPad, iPhone sales

nano-SIM

Time to stop this idiocy and return to mini-SIMs (not micro- mind you). I hope falling profits will trigger some understanding and willingness to listen to customer needs on Apple's part

The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME

Re: Wot no SGI?

You seem to forget that sex is something almost everybody can have, even being as ugly as ... SGI doesn't count as sexy toy therefore.

Review: Intel Next Unit of Computing barebones desktop PC

Yet the NUC’s CPU is actively cooled

I stopped reading at that point.

Sprint, Softbank to swear off Huawei kit as condition of merger

Chinese equipment

In Russia they have a plant manufacturing SPARC-like CPUs for use in military and space equipment, so everything is possible for The Mightiest State Of All -- The Holiest US of fscking A.

FBI on trial for warrantless Stingray mobile spying

The mentioned "Stingray" system still needs to connect to GSM/CDMA operators' backbones in one way or another, so this case should blame operators too, not FBI only.

P.S. In Chechnya they used to kill federal agents first, BTW

Microsoft says WinPhone outselling iPhone, BlackBerry

iPhones in Ukraine

As I've been told, until 2013 there were _no official sales_ of iPhones in Ukraine at all (only gray market - iPhones smuggled in from UK and Russia), but there are official iPads, iPods etc nevertheless. It's impossible to find an iPhone officially designated to be sold in Ukraine (with EU style charger at least), so actual official sales must be exactly zero.

At the same time, 5 out of 10 smartphone owners in Kiev own an iPhone, and from my 100+ acquaintances I know only one person to have a /Lumia/.

Microsoft responds to Chinese software contract bribery claims

Re: able to land a government contract without a bribe, anywhere in the world.

especially in the America, The Land of Free [Bribes/Brides/whatever] :)

Re: against US law to extend a bribe anywhere, but especially in foreign countries

Kurt Vonnegut would be proud of you if he was still alive, dude! // That made my day :)

Build a BONKERS gaming PC

where are two PSUs and quad-SLI?

Don't buy a Google car: They might stop it while you're driving

all over again

"amazon lifts 1984 from citizen's kindle" - at least Google doesn't remotely destroy your car due to licensing reasons while you're driving

Drunk driving: No more dangerous than talking on handsfree mobe

often

"is often no more dangerous" - how often is their Australian often then?

Torvalds asks 'Why do PC manufacturers even bother any more?'

Re: big fat monitor in front of you

Rather pair of big fat GTX680 videocards