Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
So up until 2009, Sammy tried hard to compete:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_%28original%29
then
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_i5700
But cheap looking crap does not sell, so what does in 2010 ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S
Why ? iPhone clone.
Case closed, Sammy cough up, thanks!
I really could do with some down votes, guyz ;-)
Why would anybody want to pay to go this event, organized by company with absolutely no f'ing clue when it comes to OS'.
Ever tried to re-install Mavericks from the recovery partition ? No, well, not only does it ask you for an Apple Id (which MUST have previously been used to "buy" Mavericks - remember, it is free upgrade) and downloads the whole crap again. 4 hours later, of course, still has not finished installing on an SSD ... compare that to the 30 minutes it took to install Mountain Lion on an SSD.
These guyz need to be shot, along with the Redmond numpties.
Oh, and the tramp icon can now be used for Apple as well.
Hotmail has always been for idiots ... netscape.net (later integrated into AIM/AOL) offered 5Mb storage in 1997 + IMAP and 250Mb way before gmail came around. I could send a 3Mb email message with my netscape.net account in 1997 ... arguably just one (until I removed it from "sent items"), but hey, three times more than hotmail ...
I remember back in ~2000, pruning CV's ... hotmail email address? := trashcan
.... sorry for whoever got binned like that, but we had too many applicants for the various positions and had to start somewhere, besides, if you cannot count to 5 you are no good for a business.
> ... and the patent was filed on 24th of June 2011 (and worse, granted).
>
>http://www.google.com/patents/CN102364433B?cl=en
Click on the "Find prior art" and you have a link to:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?26233-Wine-1-3-4-Adds-New-Features-Supports-ARM
So this patent is invalid, period.
Time for a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft ... when you buy an Android device, you finance the corrupt Redmond empire.
Up until now, I thought only Asian companies were affected by this and everybody knows that an Asian company has absolutely no chance in the US courts fighting a US company ... but US citizens ?
Come on, there must be some hungry lawyer in the US who could pull this one off ....
Never take a loan to buy a computer, ever. Computers are the things that lose value the quickest, especially Windows boxen ...
I remember buying a MacBook in early 2008 (shop display model - had just been replaced by a new model - 700 euro iso ~900) and selling it 1.5 years later (end of 2009) for the exact same price ... the mate got a superfast WindowsVista laptop he paid ~50% more for (~1000euro) and sold early 2010 for ~1/4 of the price. He gets MacBook pro's since ... ;-)
No, seriously, never take out a loan for a computer, unless it is less than 6 months - it is not worth it ... by the time you have paid your computer the thing is worthless ... especially windows boxen.
So, if I get this right, they boycott Mozilla because the CEO has a deprecated mentality, fair enough, it is their right to do so. They can choose which platform to develop software for, nobody can force them. Imagine they said "we will not develop software for Ubuntu mobile because we do not like Mark Shuttleworth's attire" -- would have been funny at least.
Don't get me wrong, I do not really care and will continue to use Mozilla products.
To those that do not understand what is at stake, here ... this is about civil rights and equality, it is written all over our bills/laws/constitutions and apparently, in most states and countries, some are more equal than others when it comes to civil rights. Gays have had to fight quite a battle in many countries to get equal rights, in most they are still discriminated against ... call it revenge, whatever ... end of the day, they are free to choose the platforms they support, who are we to judge ...
Now, you guyz know I bash Windows/Microsoft ... now, I am thankful Microsoft saved us from this bunch of back orifices (even using their monopoly strategy I so despise) - seriously, RealPlayer sucks, always has. I guess I can still bash MS, though, because with their $700m, they kept these swines in business.
They bundle google toolbar by default ? So a trojan horse it is ... I am sick an tired of having to remove all these fsck'ing toolbars off of the mate's systems because they are too n00b to untick that fsck'ing box. So I usually uninstall the shit that brought the "trojan" as well ... only exception to this rule: Java ...
RealPlayer is dead, so is Microsoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWindows^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMicrosoft Media Player, btw, long live VideoLanClient.
MisterHappy
5) Cut the crap - he means how much does it cost to update to w7 ? Else sell it and get alternative hw/software and NEVER buy from that supplier again.
6) In fact, you have two solutions:
1) company that designed it exists, kick their ass to get you a w7 version, if they don't want, same as 5, show em your middle finger goto 2) they will be out of business soon
2) get an alternative
3) company that designed it does not exist anymore, reverse engineer it
Oh, and, when you buy medical appliances, make sure the API's are open or don't buy.
Why would the NHS top brass care, they have managed to keep the IT spending low for upgrades, got a lovely bonus, might get some shit next year, and worst case a goodbye with bonus^2 ... that and I am sure they are paying more than 200/xp pc, waaay more - they don't care, as it is not their cash, it is yours guyz.
As an example, how many XP boxen have died a miserable death (motherboard, CPU) and replaced by new hw at your company since Vista launched ?
Dr Dre
Sad, hurry up or you might end up reaching W7 EOL before you managed to upgrade the last box ... this shit takes a considerable amount of time to do right, especially if a million PC's are involved.
Have fun training staff to w7 ui ...
Keep in mind that, had you guyz had ANY CLUE or least listened, you would have gone the web standards route, like many of us freetards TOLD YOU as early as 2000 - but no, IE5/IE6 is standard, fingers in ears and lalalalalala - if you were a private business, I would not care, but you are spending taxpayers cash there, thank you very much !
If you had had Linux boxen, they would all be running latest kernel and patches on same hardware, same ui, same everything ... and you would wait for the hw to die ....
@ James12345
Read/lockup "jewish voice for peace" and I think you will understand what is going on. Your gibberish is completely baseless, biased, and, worse, untrue. JVP are Israeli PALESTINIANS (who have NOT been kicked out) and JEWS (among many others) who want Israel and Palestine to live side-by-side peacefully.
Again, there are quite a few Jews (a majority, in fact) in this group and they clearly claim that Israel is bombing hospitals, poising water supplies etc etc ... Now, they live over there, so I guess they know what they are saying/seeing ...
>The blogger implicated in the case reportedly admits blogging about the information he received as well as selling Windows Server activation keys on eBay.
Selling activation keys on ebay ? ouch^10^10
>Access to the software development kit could help a hacker trying to reverse-engineer the code used to protect against software piracy and thereby circumvent these controls, according to the charging papers.
As if there were not enough keygen's for Microsoft software ...
>So Windows Server could match Linux for performance 6 years ago as well as a decade ago. Your point is?
Ok, I did not even read that when I saw the date apparently, you did not either ... ;-)
As much as I hate "benchmarks", because in theory they are the same as in practice and in practice they ain't, even this benchmark gives Suse/Oracle faster than MS SQL Server, pretty close, though.
The second is an old version of MaxDB vs MS SQL Server (where SQL Server wins, tada - you found a benchmark, impressed) and seeing how SAP has improved performance of that DB over the last years, I doubt you would see the same results. You will note that the Database Request time is 6 times better on Linux/MaxDB than Windows/MS SQL Server - so clearly optimization was needed in MaxDB.
Why am I claiming Linux beats Windows all the time ? Because in Windows you have a bunch of unused subsystems and other crap like ui's running, in Linux, you have exactly what you need running. So, there is absolutely no way Windows can outperform Linux - MS have now realized this and you get a headless Windows server now, but, looking at the HD footprint (arguably not very reliable metric), they have only removed ui, not the unused subsystems - I have not tested this, but I am pretty confident. In the other SAP benchmarks, UNIX wins because of the HW, that is why I said on same hw. I could not see UNIX/Windows/Linux performance results with identical hw - might need to export to csv and have a closer look.
Listen, I work on a piece of software that is pretty database intensive and we support a wide array of db flavors and I can tell you, I see the high load tests we run nightly every morning, and they do not look good for MS SQL Server. MaxDB now performs much better, which was not the case some years ago, you are correct ... that is why I am appalled that so many shops run MS SQL Server instead of more capable OS/db combinations ... especially considering the price.
I will stop arguing here because it is in vain, window cleaners have no clue and think they know better - fine, so be it.
As for the other bloke with his 300 quid, lol, you really mean I can choose the sql ? This article says which queries I can choose to prevent you from using in-mem database and you think you can still beat my in-memory Sybase/SLES, seriously ? 300? My rate for two hours work ...
> Sybase ASE is a dying niche product, and don't seem to have released a major update for the last 8 years!
They just managed to add in-memory support years before MS ... ok, they did not hike the version number that much ...but did not seem to need to - they are not Mozilla.org.
SAP bought Sybase for SAP Hana, if that does not tell you anything, fine ... they WERE a niche product, they almost died, then John Chen came along and saved their asses, now SAP is pushing them strong ... watch this little baby, I tell ya!
With all due respect, did you even read your references ? Because, yeah, I am a bit patronizing sometimes and I tend to rant ... but I am sure you have not even read the links ... and the few drones who upvoted you probably need to return to primary school as well ....
hannes.kuehnemund's blog is from .... 2008 ... 6 years old!
As for SAP benchmarks ... the first link gives DB2 the upper hand (point taken), the second Oracle on Solaris (where is Matt Bryant when you need him).
http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd3tier.epx
http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx
There is indeed no Sybase, not sure why, but in-memory Sybase beats older MS SQL Server pants down - it has to, it is massively unfair technology-wise and no FUD can change that fact. Now, the interesting thing is how does MS SQL Server in-memory compare to Sybase ... we have not tested that yet.
The funny thing is, look at the date the tests were performed .... Windows/SQL Server has been trying to beat an AIX/DB2 combo since 2005 (currently #2, been beaten last year by another AIX/DB2 combo) ... LOL
Listen, when it comes to performance, real performance, you can forget Windows ... again, MS SQL Server / Windows Datacenter Edition cannot beat AIX 5.3 (!) with DB2 8.22 despite trying for 9 years.
Crawl back into your caves guyz.
>Right and every one is busy porting their SQL databases to HANA. Oh, wait. They are not.
Indeed, they are not, guess why ? Why would you not switch to an in-memory database ? Why would you not switch to an in-memory database that uses the same language (TSQL) as your current database ? because you are an idiot! You already are if you run MS SQL Server, so that was easy.
You know, even Postgres and mysql^H^H^H^H^HMariaDb beat SQL server ... and run on an OS that costs a fraction of Windows Server - as we have already demonstrated ad nauseam ...
>Just LOL. Sybase is a dying dinosaur. No one uses it for green field sites these days.
I think quite a "few" SAP customers and finance shops tend to disagree ... ;-)
>Only if they need RAC server (and can afford the $100K per socket!).
Come on, under heavy load Oracle beats a tuned SQL server easily, even untuned on identical hardware. It is unfair, cause Oracle runs on Linux, but so is life! Of course, RAC vs MS SQL server? Not the same league, man ... SQL server replication ? LOL, even Sybase replication server hands that the empty glass of water after the finish line....
DISCLAIMER: No, I do not work for and have never worked for Sybase/SAP/Oracle ... I just happen to be very familiar with a piece of software that runs on a variety of db's, including the above as well as DB2 and a few others ... I see the heavy load stats every morning ...
@ Nick Ryan
I agree, the MS SQL administration software is a nightmare, that is why I use osql - the tool made for real men - know your code or do not touch it. It is the same with everything IT:
You know what you are doing and use the command line
You do not and should not touch it
If you administer enterprise software from a ui it means you should never have been allowed to get close to it. If enterprise software does not have a cli, you should not buy/use it.
InMemory database ? Sybase has had that for several years now, proven enterprise-worthy with SAP HANA. You know what? Too late, Microsoft.
Why do I say Sybase ? Because it is easy to port applications from MS SQL to Sybase - after all, Sybase are database specialists unlike Microsoft, who have PR/FUD specialists.
No, I have no shares in Sybase, have never worked for Sybase ... I am just saying.
Real men use Oracle.
Something is fishy, it should not change with the ice melting. Maybe alcohol is evaporating ? I would not have the patience and drink some while it was fresh ;-)
Take a measuring beaker from the miss .... put four icecubes in it and pour water until the WATER-level is a pint, leave for an hour or so result: the same volume of water, no ice cubes.
Now, what scientists claim is this:
Fill the beaker up to 1 pint, put 4 icecubes in it - there, you have the sea level rise already. They are talking about ice from mainland/islands falling into the sea, like Greenland ice, here.
Others claim that the heat will evaporate more sea water, so sea water will stay the same, we simply have more frequent/stronger rains .... probably what happened in Brittany earlier this year, I do not know ...
I do not know what is causing GW or CC (whatever we call it this week) but I do know that half the cities and quite a few villages in Brittany had 3 to 6 feet water in their gardens/houses for over two months during the December/January/February months ... I also know that Atlantic beaches in south western France have lost a whopping 200 yards of beach in that same time frame (e.g. Lacanau).
Not sure what is happening because there seem to be two teams competing for attention around the South Pole and a few others around Greenland with contradicting claims and conclusions.
The only facts I have is that Lacanau beach is no more (sort of); new stairs will have to be built before the tourists come this summer and Arcachon has also been hit hard. Brittany is drying up. These events have never happened to this extent before - they have had floods, but never even half that long.
I guess we will see in the coming years ...
They would need GNU/Linux to have an acceptable amount of printer drivers ... remember all those printers that they desupported with Vista, idem 7, idem 8, eventually, that adds up, man!
BTW, does Windows RT also have all those browser toolbars available or have they not yet been ported ?
>Serious industrial spies will have no trouble getting hold of a binary blob to analyze
Exactly
To the others that downvoted me and reply with utter FUD (You seriously believe that, no, really ? Wow!):
Claiming blobs secure your patents/features from competing firms is simply silly. Imagine all the drivers that exist for GNU/Linux where no blobs are needed - are the businesses that create those devices all gone bust ? Guess what, no.
Besides, OSS code is MUCH cheaper than proprietary code, because you have volunteers.
So I stand by my initial claim, blobs are evil and need to go - so much 20th century practice. Welcome to the new world of free and open firmwares.
Wanna install OpenVPN on your DSL router, you can do so now with open firmware ...
Not sure what the best approach is as I do not work in embedded system design, but proprietary firmware blobs are definitely the worst possible solution. Trojans are one problem, the other being their reluctance to allow third parties to redistribute their blobs, which of course is their way of controlling their blobs.
@Charles Manning
Great, you give him an F because his solution is too complex to implement yet you cannot come up with a better one ...
Beastie Boyz are cool kids, I like their some of their music ... I have all their albums (I paid for them).
I usually side with the perpetrators of copyright "theft", but here, I side with Beastie. I hate it when ads use music without asking permission, worse, when they use a cover - covers in ads usually suck.
Besides, ads convey an image - that image is then reflected on the band.
LOL, guyz, take it easy when you comment.
This years academy awards for operating system software:
Productivity: nominated all - winner: GNU/Linux
Malware Support: nominated Windows - winner: Windows
Ease of use: nominated all - winner: Mac OS X
Software: nominated all - winner: GNU/Linux
Games: nominated Windows, OS X - winner: Windows
Drivers: nominated Windows, GNU/Linux - winner: GNU/Linux
TCO: nominated OS X, GNU/Linux - winner: GNU/Linux
User interface esthetics: nominated OS X - winner: OS X
User Interface ease-of-use: nominated OS X, GNU/Linux - winner: GNU/Linux
Command line: nominated OS X, GNU/Linux - winner: GNU/Linux
Now, if you are into overpriced software, I guess you could say Software: OS X or Software: Windows ...
During a job interview, I was asked to decipher one of those "fake screensaver" bluescreens, happened to be a faked cdrom drive issue in that particular case - of course, the guy was laughing when I tried to touch the power button ... I got the job but refused it, the position was not technically demanding enough for me ...
> This is sad, because IE is no longer the most compatible browser by any stretch of the imagination.
Where do you come from ? WTF? You dare put ie and compatible in a sentence .... even IE 6 was not backwards compatible with ie 5 or 5.5, now, when you take ie6 as a base, 7 supports a couple of features, ie 8 canned ie6 compatibility altogether and I will not go on with 9, 10, and 11 ... each version has its own cul-de-sac feature list.
You probably mean website support ? The above is reason enough for web devs to run from that nightmare platform as far and fast as possible and most already have.
I remember with delight when I complained here and there that websites were shit because they only supported ie6 properly ... I still have some of the replies in my mailbox and, coming to think of it, I should probably forward them back with the message: "Thank you for growing balls!"
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