Posts by alwarming

Steve Jobs named most influential game guy – ever

Gaming industry vs Gaming itself.

The bean counters from the industry are probably talking about who allowed them to make most monies. Maybe we should read how the questions were presented to them ?

Its like asking music execs who is the most influential muscian ever... (Michael Jackson/Beatles vs Beethoven) ? If the question is framed in such a way that it seems to be asking about the influence on the music industry (not music itself), the music industry guy is probably going to say MJ or Beatles or whatever.

Paris, who is the most influential figure in enabling large media file internet downloads.

@My backside

Ignore the writard, man.

AT&T to offer first LTE phones this Sunday

I always wondered...

Isn't "rear facing" an oxymoron ?

Paris coz it's just another position for her.

Apple shifts Lossless Audio Codec to open source

Weird down-votes again!

What's with the weird down voting - even when 2 people are just trying to figure out some technical aspects ? fanbois (of both sides) turbo charged today ?

Another reason to jail-break your iPhone 4: You can get Siri

@Andy ORourke: Mystery of the downvotes.

(just pondering)

It could have come from either fanbois.

1) iFan - how can you even dare to claim that something is siri-like!! It's either siri or bust. You should go buy a real iphone 4S for the real Siri experience, el cheapo!!! And "Vilingo" ?? It already sounds shitty to me as it's not spelt s-i-r-i !!!!

2) fandroid - how can you presume that something as frivolous and as useless as siri, is something that would interest me or anyone else (since it, as you must've noticed, doesn't interest me) ???? (Er.. wait... you didn't say it was available in the android marketplace.).

Earlier I used to try and understand why I got downvoted but after fanboi wars broke out, it doesn't make any sense anymore. As someone else noted that maybe el reg has attracted some /. rejects who think they are fixing "karma".

Isn't it a bit like telling a junkie

to quit drugs in order to try out the new one on the market ?

Google+ opens up to enterprises and apps

@Ralph B

did you see the troll icon ?

Can't believe I am the first to post a comment!!!!!!!!!!

On such an exciting technology!!!!!!!

Amazon’s shares slashed as profits drop 73%

Seems like a temporary setback..

time to buy ?

ARM elbows through chip market with bumper profits

Awesome!

That's all.

IBM names Ginni Rometty prez and CEO

Great choice for IBM.

But for HP ? No way... she is the type who understands the internal IBM world very well... but wouldn't fit in any another company. Probably that should be the plan on how CEOs should be picked - especially when everything is running smoothly.

Going [OT]:

What if things are not running smoothly ?

Plan A: If staggering growth is your concern, find a charismatic, young exec internally who is known for vision & drive, even if that person is short on experience. Or an internal S.O.B bean counter for a brief period if managing costs is your concern (mark hurdesque but on a 1 year tenure).

Plan B: If company is in a rut, get a back an ex-employee who has seen the world on the outside but still understands the internal character of the company.

Plan C: If you truly want to re-invent your business - acquire a smart, forward looking company and direct funds to that business. Ensure the CEO of the smaller company is groomed to lead the larger business. You simply can't re-invent yourself just by hiring a big shot CEO who can cash out within an year.

And how not to pick a CEO ?

Ask HP & Nokia who seem to have a fetish for "outsiders" who push a unidimensional plan down the companies throat.....

1) Carly: I love making big deals.. its so sexy! so celebrity like! (PS: I don't like dealing with the aftermath... where is my tiara?).

2) Hurd: cut cost - it works in short run. (PS: my bonus is my shares.. which will go up in the short run. I win! I WIN!).

3) Leo: go software becoz thats all I know!!! (PS: I didn't hire myself.. much like Sarah Palin didn't nominate herself).

4) Elop: I love M$! (PS: suck this Nokia!!! Wait.. what you pay my bills ?? Hmm... so what! I still love M$.. always will!)

Could a snapshot plug your backup window?

Horses for courses.

There are 4 main types of data backups with different advantages:

1) Snapshots - its space-efficient (practically free) but suffers from a single point of failure. Works as a backup to an extent. Can also be used to create forks in the work flow.

2) Adjacent (or near line) data backup & archive. This is a "semi-cold" backup-cum-archive requiring physical copies of the entire dataset. Usually disk based. Typically in the same physical location as the "hot" data. This allows "hot" data to sit on a performance oriented system without high level of data redundancy. Recovery is nearly instantaneous.. though depending on the solution there could be a short period of unavailability. Example would be a mail server which can move mails older than a month completely to the cold system (and may or may not backup recent mails to the archive storage). Is it really a backup ? depends on how its configured.

3) tapes for disaster recovery:. Done really for peace of mind/compliance... but not designed to be recovered from - except as an exception. If they are ever needed for recovery, usually the intermittent period suffers from low availability.

4) High availability from disaster: a parallel system in a distant geography which is kept in close sync with the active system. This typically doesn't involve tapes but a fat internet based pipe to keep remote systems in sync. The switch over can be instantaneousness, even though the remote site may lag by a few minutes to hours.

So while Arconis arguments have some water its not the full picture.

Paris, coz her tape was better than her snapshots.

Anonymous shuts down hidden child abuse hub

I have no kids+not married+atheist+sexually&politically liberal. (And I don't know how the end game of hacker's action will look like in terms of catching & sentencing).

But I hear you. Well, said John - from where I stand there is no place for Paedos in this society... it's a choice & an acquired taste, they are not "wired" as some paedo apologists (closeted paedos?) seem to claim.

LOL! :) hopefully no overlaps!!

OT: I am betting RMS is split brain on this one.

Cisco, HP bury hatchet for server, switch hookup

Of course...!

HP has only 1 rear slot ... how can they take in both Oracle AND Cisco ?

(they are not Paris after all).

Cable employee admits replacing Superbowl feed with porn

Cock cocks Cox.

(just wanted to coax it out of my system).

Facebook comes out swinging

Oops.. wrong article...

I thought it was about Swingers coming out on Facebook.

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

@Tomato42

So if someone doesn't share your views, s/he must be a coolaid sipping fanboi, eh ?

Fact of life : some people do grow up and their world is not a simple black & white.

I wouldn't be so quick to trust the word of a biographer trying to make a quick buck on his next release.

UK has enough sheep shearers, needs more coders

BEAN COUNTERS are you listening ????

There is a shortage of coders! PAY MORE!!

Nokia still in the red in Q3 sales bloodbath

Why does it say 14 comments when I can see only 1 ?

How is Nokia doing Segment wise ?

Gulf of California terrorized by ONE-EYED MUTANT SHARK!

May I be the first one to say it ?

In another documentary, Paris eats the ONE EYED MONSTER between dinner and breakfast. Not available on NatGeo.

Apotheker right hand man Wohl exits HP

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GOD DON'T LET HIM RETIRE*

We want some more fire sales!!!! :-D

* pls consider a career @ apple, samsung, blackberry, sony... there is a sea of options.

HP fortifies VirtualSystem arsenal

Problem with the enterprise HP PR

They play to the gallery - gallery being the HP execs and not actual HP customers! So its so full of HP buzzwords that no SVP, VP or even a director feels cheated. In reality they should be breaking down the buzzwords from the customer's perspective and make it a more meaningful information dissemination. Probably PSG can teach them a lesson or 2 in the art of communication (yeah, the arm that might get lopped off, that one).

Paris, coz she knows a thing or 2 about PR.

Amazon fans order three Fires for every E Ink Kindle

They are missing "Johnny walker blue" in their portfolio

A "fake" higher spec'd version against which $199 looks cheaper.

Windows 7 overtakes XP - finally

Too optimistic.

Will CEO Meg spare HP's PC biz?

But isn't this what Meg would say if she *WAS* selling it ?

See: Leo devalued HP's PC business by making a premature anounciculation. If Meg wants to do some "damage control" before finding a buyer that's the first thing she would leak in media.

Pay Jobs due respect - by crushing the empire he created

You heard it here first.

Ubuntu is iOS of the Linux Distros.

Re: In reply to all the above comments

You missed a few.

So Ubuntu is a religion now ? (And apparently an intolerant, mutually exclusive one).

Waiting for some fanatical downvotes.

Hulu still flirting with suitors despite Yahoo! pull out

Another miss for yahoo

They has to pull their head from their asses to see that no one cares for them anymore... They are not part of the big 4 (FAAG). Their only hope is to latch onto a relevant technology and leverage their current user base to use it. BUT NO. They have to wait for the stars to aligned to get out of the mess.

PS: need suggestions on tech companies I shouldn't invest in ? (eg: HPQ, YAHOO, MSFT)

US rocketeer thunders to 121,000ft

Please Bring Back Sarah Bee.

That's all.

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56

>am heartily sick of Windows bashing when Apple uses a predefined hardware configuration

>and doesn't have the necessity to maintain backwards compatibility.

That's a strategy windows chose - to go after the mass market. The probably figured that they

can make more money that way and thereby afford more engineers to support a variety of configurations - first part of which is correct as well. And they have a lot of engineers as well.

If they are not able to do that, it's their fault. Their strategy to throw people at problems of software engineering failed. Its not Apple's fault that their greedy rival (in PC biz) can not deliver a high quality product due to their (poor?) strategic decisions. M$ owned (still does?) the personal computing platform for 2 decades. They could have done anything with it had they fired the tunnel visioned middle management and hired some fresh blood. They didn't. Their FAIL.

London gets first new Google Chromebookshop

BUY IT!!!!!

- Uses Atom processor, but priced like a real laptop!

- 16GB of HDD, but priced as if you can use it!!

- Not ultra slim!!!

- [I accept] on first boot would probably include giving up your fundamental rights!

- No software support as it has not software!

- No hardware support if you buy the ACER one!

- No HDMI... why watch netflix on TV ?

Wow, what's not to like ?

Crazy square barcodes can point your phone to MALWARE

Re: as a Winpho7 user, I haven't found a QR app that actually works

Or any other non-M$ app for that matter, eh ? ;-)

I guess the reason is M$ are pushing thier own QR equiv which had colors and common shapes like triangles etc. I think the problem was it didn't have good error correction, was costlier to print

(in color) and was harder to spot in colored posted with triangles and squares!

Microsoft takes the Android profit, the Wonkas take the pain

Re: Did Oracle invent Java?

Erm... yes, a division of Oracle formerly known as Sun Microsystems.

(PS: This is just a straight response to your presumably straight question and not an opinion).

Firefox devs mull dumping Java to stop BEAST attacks

Re: Baby? bathwater?

I guess we are forgetting who pays for electricity that powers the mozilla's computers.

Veggies tricked into dating meat-gobbling escorts

re: vaggiedates

I think Vagi-eaters disagree!

Microsoft delivers fatal blow to yet another botnet

In this case MS is really just cleaning up after itself. Just that the mess it left behind was so vast and had so many things growing off it, that it felt like "winning a war", even though it was just "spring clean".

Android outsells Apple 2:1

"They're both just phone OS's - Nobody's shat in your cornflakes, FFS."

You owe me a new keyboard, pal. LOL! :)

Microsoft: Mango arrives in two weeks

Re: Err...

Subtle difference: my comment is not on the product itself.. it's on the head-up-their-asses attitude of MS execs - which is always fair game for commenting.

What is arguable is though why I would read it in first place ? Beats me now.

Rumours ? What rumours ?

People spread rumours if something is atleast mildly interesting.

Apollo 17 Moon landing: Shock revelations

> 2) Al Gore faked the moon landings.

Minor correction: That would be Tipper Gore.

Christ appears in phone advert, secular authorities act

98 complaints vs 100 comments...

Looks like El Reg story trumped the phones4u ad! :)

My 101st.

IBM builds biggest-ever disk for secret customer

On paper probably IBM offered a deal too good for "them" to resist....

But "they" will have to wait till the charges for software AMC, parts AMC and the whole solution add up.

Google+ is an identity service, Schmidt says

Thinking about lack of identification since 1991 ?

Why, what happened ? I'd wager a bloke posing as a chick on IRC left him high and dry.