Posts by alwarming

Google whacks link farms

@James Hughes 1 & @sandman

My guess is James was being sarcastic. And the irony is that James got downvoted and sandman, who didn't get the sarchasm, was upvoted! :-)

Godson: China shuns US silicon with faux x86 superchip

Godson....

They are still 3-4 years behind. But if they catch up, the world would be a Chinese curse.. (interesting times and all that).

IBM's knockout single file system benchmark

You talking of LHC ?

can't think of any other place which need a PB just for the logs...

London man gets 5 years for YouTube terror videos

Need more specific definitions.

If the state is going to outlaw specific acts, the least it should to is be crystal clear in defining such acts objectively.

Thunderbolt: A new way to hack Macs

So I read the whole article based on a speculation ?

come back when you are sure.

Acer launches server biz in the US

Re: support

This article is on the acer's server arm not PC/laptop, but you still have a point.

acer sucks.. but it's cheap.

And nowadays cheap + unreliable beats reliable due to s/w enhancements. Plus, x86 h/w gets outdated much faster than big iron.. so it just means that you'll have a replace more servers every year. If that inconvenience is fine with you, acer is your guy.

WikiLeaks' Assange 'very likely' to lose extradition fight

Your lawyer is as good as the defence he puts.

I suspect Assanage has hired losers to defend himself. US couldn't extradite Polansky and Sweden can ?

This will probably not affect wikileaks much though. If mainstream media did not sell as cheap as it does nowadays, probably there wouldn't have been a wikileaks. But the Gvts and corps decided to milk the media to the extent that alternative media is alive and kicking!

Windows Phone 7 gets 'goodie' update

Update for update ?

Something I should've done with my dating career - a date for the real date.

Sheep as smart as humans: Official

first deep blue...

now "deep sheep"... ?

Intel boss searches planet for post-Nokia MeeGo spouse

go meegooo!!!!!

We don't want strategic Google products controlling the world.

Grief and disbelief greet Elop's Nokia revolution

Re: No need

>He doesn't need to - he is the 7th biggest individual investor in Microsoft,

Conflict of interest doesn't apply here or what ?

Paris, coz I would like a conflict with her.

This guy sounds too much like later day Carly Fiorina+Mark Hurd!

Post merger, Carly wanted to get rid of R&D and focus on "efficiency" - which her successor was able to implement more ruthlessly in history on IT than anyone can recall. I think this guy will do the same to Nokia. Not that Nokia didn't have it coming, but I really, really question his choice as a CEO coming from a b/g where he has never done any turnarounds of this order; Or in this domain.

Microsoft says exec took secret 'trove' to Salesforce

600MB ?

That should be about 6 marketing PPTs, innit ?

Paris, coz her stolen tape was about the same.

IBM euthanizes Power6 and Power6+ systems

@We moved all purchases to power7 last summer

Based on your older posts, and gusto in those posts, it's pretty clear that you work for IBM - probably server marketing.

So why is IBM buying from IBM ?

Paris, for the question mark sign.

Photo loss blogger to Flickr: You're f*cking kidding

Morons are idiots who comment without reading the post/blog.

Wondering why you've been downvoted by everyone, eh ?

What if..

... flickr has some way to restore data - maybe only for paid accounts. The L3 support guy handling the case probably doesn't know or has no access to do that. He doesn't want to escalate it to higher level as it would expose his fault (he didn't count on blogger publishing his mail and el reg). He wants/wanted to get away with an apology.

Paris, coz her tapes were backed up.

Apple pressed to show succession plan

Apple pressed to show succession plan

Pressed apple gives cider.

SGI swings to a profit on sales jump

It's a surprise indeed.

Probably I wasn't watching them closely in past few hears. Overall it's a great news. SGI has been a technical pioneer in their niche for sometime and the investors deserved some RoI (hopefully that'll follow).

Verizon: 'We're not throttling bandwidth except when we are'

"Guaranteed to work until it fails."

Actual User Warning in sample code distributed by students in college.

Paris, coz she throttles.

Google's Chrome browser market share hits 10% mark

@opera fondling AC..

Aren't you, like, one of the first commenturds in every browser market share article ? What's up with that ? Did you recently join opera dev and proving your loyalty ?

Instead of blanket rants - which just irritate - there are better ways to promote your product. Paris, coz she knows a thing about self promotion.

Oracle uncloaks 5TB tape

A winner without price and availability dates ???????!!

Isn't it like saying "the best sex I ever had" after looking at a picture of Paris Hilton [/substitute hottie].

Apple iOS app hunger swells

Point of the article ?

Let me summarize it for ya:

"We are reporting flaky assumptions derived from bad data because the subject of the data is really [un]popular with commeturds. But.. beware.. it's bad data."

Google's Schmidt perplexed by Facebook blather, still fears MS

"Things are going great for google"

hmm. now that he mentions it...

Israelis seize woman packing 44 iPhones

Remember she was an old lady.

So no one wanted to look at her images while boarding!

Now Paris, her scans are perhaps not unwatchable.

Microsoft Windows guru turns to cybercrime (fiction)

over reliance on windows surely ?

And is that how we get hacked down to stone age ?

Paris, coz she is no hack, she is thorough.

Lame Stuxnet worm 'full of errors', says security consultant

If I looked hard enough...

... I can probably find 5 continuity errors/gaffs in "The Godfather".

Does that make me "unimpressed" and "superior" to Coppola ?

Paris, coz she believes in doing.

Dubai assassins used email trojan to track Hamas victim

Why ?

>"Especially since Hamas has continued engaging in terrorist activities after September 11, 2001"

Is it because before 9/11, terrorism was somebody else's problem ?

Swedish Pirate Party leader quits due to boredom

Re: Nothing left to learn

I see your point. And perhaps he has other reasons which he doesn't want to mention in public.. but it's also possible, that he is not a details person.. more of a high level leadership guy - so perhaps he is speaking from a different perspective. (I guess if you replace "subtle variations" with "details", you'll see what I mean).

Microsoft says no to Kinect sex game

I don't own one but...

I believe they try to trace all the "bones" in the body.

Paris, coz we may want our bones in her body.

Intel claims 35 Atom tablets about to hit the market

Re: Intel/Arm

"simply whether they had a physical keyboard or not..."

- Because that is NOT the only difference between a tablet and a netbook!

Nokia sues Apple in European courts

strategy...

Most of you must've seen that diagram which shows everybody is suing everybody else in the smartphone world. Very soon, they are going to some some sort of patent cartel by cross-licensing agreement (like x86 world) and all the court cases will be retracted. This will keep any new players out.

However - what is still an open question for these phone-peddlers is how much cross licensing fee they will pay/charge each other - that will depend on the quality and quantity of patents.. that's what nokia is trying to show apple/other vendors.

Apple, the most successful player (by profit), has maximum to lose. And that's why pretty much everyone will try to corner them. Patents cost a lot and anybody with half the talent can write one - which is generic enough to hold up in court for a hearing at least. That's the business dynamics of the IP law - and to be frank I don't think it's gonna change anytime soon. or ever. (even if they succeed in weeding out software patents).

Paris, coz she keeps hers in vibrate mode.

Gmail's daddy predicts Chrome OS assassination

Javascript is not son of Java.

"Java" in "javascript" is just a marketing gimmick.

Don't believe me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History

Just like Paris is not french.

Oracle demands another $211.6m from SAP

Recovering Sun acquisition costs!

That's what Oracle is doing here! :-)

IBM Power Systems deals get stingier

IBM loves being a high margin company...

They'ld rather let the product strangulate to death than run a low margin business. If I was an existing customer - I would be evaluating my exit strategy coz IBM is not gonna slash the prices, ever. If they appear to be doing it, they are gonna hike the support and service, coz the services arm paid the premium on customer's behalf and now they wanna recover it (all the while maintaining their margins).

Power7 might be a marvel of engineering - I would readily agree to that.. but buying IBM is penny wise pound foolish. It's not even Apple of the enterprise world. IBM is simply IBM and it will behave like IBM. (pardon the overzealous verbosity).

Paris, coz, well she is high maintenance.

Facebook boydroid to hand over theoretical riches to charity

I am surely going to get downvoted for this...

.. but many guys here (+ author) have NO CLUE how "big" money works.

Of course, I am not talking about getting a paycheck and managing a budget. I am talking about hi-risk investments where the value is on the potential not current income/assets. There are very few people in the tech world who doubt facebook's ability monetize the customer base in a big way. That's why companies sell to facebook, investors put money in facebook and Zuck can expect to donate his billions.

But can these investors be wrong ? Of course, there is a significant chance that facebook will not "work out". There is an inherent risk/reward in any investment. There is _always_ a chance that a particular investment will not "work out". Say, there is a risk in putting money in gold or euros or stocks.. surely less than facebook. But your returns are also going to be lower.

How can facebook make money ? As an example: It can be a platform where other apps will make money.. facebook will get a commission.

Paris, coz she know more about money than most commentards here.

Google delays Chrome OS, punts brandless beta netbook

Sarah Bee et al - please 2 enlighten!

I believe there is one real amanfrommars (with the long, nonsensical, yet entertaining ramblings) and since el reg allowed multiple people to use the same name earlier - there were clones.

Once el reg forced unique poster names schema, we tarted seeing multple amanfrommarsNNN.

And around the same time amanfrommars also kinda matrued/started staying low/etc.

So under the new schema - which one is the "real" amanfrommars ?

waiting by my spaceship,

a nerd from earth.

google likes doing this, don't they ?

throw in opera, firefox and chrome. They all eat away from the IE share.

throw in android, chromeos and see if it eats from the windows share...

all in all, they see these technologies as enablers to their ultimate business goal- make it easier for people to get on the web.

So what's my point ? I don't think google really believes in any of these products per se. They are just eanblers to an end game. And hence I feel they listen a little less to customers than, say, a vendor whose livelihood depended on it.

customary paris.

Police appeal for missing Taser

"But what does being bald have to do with anything?"

That's where he likes his taser.

Flatscreen makers fined €649m for price fixing

I for one,

wouldn't touch an LCD TV (monitors are unavoidable) as long as there is a plasma maker out there. Inferior product for higher price, why ?

Paris, coz it's all show and tell...

Groupon shuns Google's $6bn takeover bonanza

This is a game of chess...

.. groupon wants 6 billion and they are spreading the rumour about it...

Google may want to pay something in the ballpark of 2. Since the middle ground is too far from both sides,

as of now there is no, err, middle ground.

Paris, coz she doesn't negotiate.

Unreleased Lady Gaga songs nabbed in audacious hack

Being better is not enough.

You need to love your self, LG.

Paris, coz sham sung her way to billboard.

Ellison: Sparc T4 due next year

90s called..

They want their RISCs back.

Seagate DeLorean: World's priciest hard drive?

Like they say...

Some real estate is costly!

Paris, coz Hilton's own some expensive bling.

Inventor only entitled to share of employer's actual patent earnings

made = revenue or profit ?

And is the inventor willing to share the loss, if there was one ? See, no risk, no reward.

Paris, she risques.

Novell keeps Unix copyrights from Microsoft

Someone please correct me...

but isn't it like saying that Texas is not part of the United states ?

Paris, coz she Mates the Attaché.

Acer replaces laptop keyboard with multi-touch LCD

I swear...

All I did was touch her book.

She freaked out as if I double clicked something.

Paris, coz she likes things which can go both ways.