Posts by Bilgepipe 850 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jul 2009
>>> Add Microsoft Windows Phone 7 to the list of mobile operating systems that silently transmit the precise physical location of the device back to a central database.
Where's the evidence of each OS provider doing this? So far it appears only Microsoft are (predictably enough, for them) including a unique device ID - presumably you've seen some proof of Apple and Android also storing the device/owner ID in their database?
>>> There is a date, time and location. If you don't call that tracking, what the hell do you call that?!?!?
A list of dates, times and locations. Without knowledge of who the data relates to - and what they were doing at each point - it's not an awful lot of use. Unless you lose the phone or it's stolen of course, in which case a list of locations is the least of your worries.
I love how Tesco knows what brand of toilet paper I buy and no-one bats an eyelid, but the fact that Apple or any Android implementer might be able to work out approximately where some of their customers may have been standing the other day is suddenly a big deal.
>>> "People who buy iPhones have more money than sense and will buy anything with an i in front of it". Rich pickings for developers.
Do you Apple trolls search for "iOS" so you can make these boring posts? Are you incapable of any kind of reasoned argument based on facts and knowledge rather than insults?
Don't answer that, your pathetic post speaks for you.
Forcing the likes of Unity and GNOME3 onto people is going to cost customers. Desktop and touch UIs are too different to merge into one - Apple proved this with iOS and it's why they won't release a touch Mac. A touch-optimised UI operated with a mouse is a kludge.
Here's hoping someone forks GNOME2.
>>> COM automation in the browser tying Silverlight further into Windows
Saw that coming. Oh no, wait, because Silverlight is available for other platforms.
>> Silverlight 5 didn't get the biggest overall applause of the event, however. That honor went to Microsoft's decision to give every single MIX attendee a free Kinect hands-free controller for Xbox.
Heh, it's still selling well, then...
>>> Good for you. Many companies don't get any pennies from me either - does that mean I should post on every article about them, saying "Too little, too late...."?
Calm down, calm down, the man's entitled to his opinion - just like the one you posted. Except yours is wrong - Nokia phones are shit.
>>> The whole point of Linux, if you want a GUI rather than relying on the power of the command line, is that you just select one that meets your needs...
Yes, I did - I chose Ubuntu and Gnome. Now Shuttleworths ego is forcing Unity on me. What am I supposed to do, wipe my machine, install a new distro and reinstall all my apps? Great, thanks.
Even Microsoft is only just as bad as that.
>>> Also if you had been reading you may note that the whole point of Gnome3 is usability via improved work flow and reduced clutter; not looks.
You hit the point right there - the trolls don't actually read the articles they post on or learn about the subjects they troll about.
>>> The company has closely analyzed people's search behavior to determine what would best differentiate the Bing experience from Google.
These are the people which closely analysed people's word processing behaviour and came up with Clippy, about the fourth most retarded thing Microsoft has ever produced. I don't think Google has much to worry about.
If I were cynical, I might call this a desperate attempt to remain relevant after the lukewarm response to getting into bed with Microsoft.
"Hey, we're becoming irrelevant - raid the concept cupboard! A few hastily-rendered CG images of impossible products should do the trick!"
If I were cynical.
Same thing we do with Neil Armstrong et al - revere them as heroes in the same way. Regardless of how long he lived, or how he dies, Gagarin is a major symbol of space exploration, despite US efforts to "claim" space exploration as their own. His statue will be on Mars one day, along with Armstrong, Shepard, etc.
Doesn't matter how much you know or don't know about Microsoft, their products are still big fat steaming piles of farm-fresh manure.
Personally at this point I don't give them the benefit of any doubt, because they can't release anything that doesn't suck in one way or another, be it through reliability, stability or just plain stupid design (Windows "Virtual Store" folders - designed by a moron(tm)).
>>> YOU stop forcing OEMs to sell PCs with MS Windows and then we'll look at this search thing. However, it is much easier to switch from Google to Bing to whatever than it is to find a vendor who isn't forced to bundle your OS.
Indeed. It's amazing that MS has the sheer brass balls to even consider doing this.
Almost as amazing as someone being either blinkered or stupid enough to downvote your post.
>>> Google for "Fukushima Explosion" and you can watch the explosion that Andrew says can never happen.
Was that the explosion caused by a build up of pressure from deliberately released hydrogen? The one where the flimsy shell of the building exploded outwards as it was designed to do?
Hyperbole works both ways, you know.
I pretty much gave up with FF when the biggest New Feature they could tack on was the useless Themes option. One word - WHY?
It's become steadily more bloated and unstable, and the bug which clears edit fields while you're typing - which affects Ubuntu and Mac versions - makes it effectively unusable.
Chrome all the way for me, until Mozilla do some serious bug fixes and plug some memory leaks.
>> I fail to see the improvement.
There isn't one. The browser will only run as fast as your connection anyway, the fact that it can draw your pr0n 0.00038 milliseconds faster than another browser because it's using DirectX is meaningless.
In fact this whole press release smells of desperation on the part of MS, who don't have any really compelling reasons for people to use IE over any other higher-quality browser; they even describe dumping nearly 50% of their user base as a selling point.
"it seemingly suggests that the company doesn't have faith in running its existing Windows 7 operating system on the increasingly popular touchscreen devices."
Neither does anyone else with more than one neuron to rub together.
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