Posts by Captain Save-a-ho

Metro, that ribbon, shared mailboxes: Has Microsoft lost the plot?

Re: As always,

Couldn't agree more. Upvote if you think Ballmer should have been fired long ago.

Early verdict on Intel Ultrabook™ push: FAIL

Re: Time to get real

Unless they're a Fanboi...just sayin.

Digg, deep in the hole, sells self for $500K

Re: Let that be a lesson, kids.

To me, this is what would have happened to Broadcast.com if they hadn't sold to Yahoo way back when (given that it basically happened after Yahoo bought them, but I digress). You have to strike while the iron is hot, as it were.

Christians get God-optimized 'Edifi' Android fondleslab

Re: I wonder

I wonder how quickly someone will blame this on Gordon Brown or Barack Obama, though Family Christian may already have done so, I suppose.

Study: Climate was hotter in Roman, medieval times than now

Re: The alarmist scientists know

"Take the financial controls/motivations out of the equation and see what 'science' comes out of it then."

Regardless of which side you choose on the AGW debate, this statement represents the real crux of the insanity of the debate. Ultimately, both sets of blood-suckers are in this for money, plain and simple. I doubt any significant fuss would be made if there wasn't a way to extract large sums of filthy lucre out of the masses.

I'll be off back under my bridge now.

Apple unveils tightened Mountain Lion requirements

Mountain Lion? Pass

I'll wait for the next two releases instead:

Sea Lion

Dandelion

'Amazon plans iPhone-killing Android mobe' – report

Re: Acquisition

That was my first thought too. The bonus is that Nokia would get the ass kick it needs to get into high gear and stop fucking around with idiotic ideas like Windows Phone.

Here's to hoping Jeff Bezos finds it cheaper to buy Nokia.

Apple 'fesses up: We broke App Store downloads

Re: I had a bet with myself...

Technically, you will always win and lose a bet with yourself, since every bet has a winner and loser. Unless of course you're betting on flipping coins and the coin lands on its edge. But I digress...

Analyst fears iPhone 5 power pack to prompt launch postponement

Re: Display

Or, more obviously, they'll just change the rules as it suits them and add a new resolution specific to just the iPhone5 that developers will have to account for.

Obama is best Pres 'to beat alien invasion'

Re: Nukes in space

Oh vay! Jews in space....

Viviane Reding says imitate US and form FEDERAL EUROPE

Re: I want to be like America...

It's a republic, not a democracy. Even if you're trying to joke (but failing), at least TRY not to mislead the idiots who continue to confuse the two.

How lucky for you, that the USA is pushing toward becoming more European. Universal coverage, here we come!

/vomit

For the icon to qualify, I suppose that I'll criticize your "deepfriedmeal" reference.

Microsoft buys Yammer in $1.2bn cash deal

Re: Alternate title

Shareholders will have to admit, sooner or later, that Ballmer has done little to help maintain the values of their shares, given the failures in mobile, tablets and the idiotic direction of desktop OSes.

Renewables good for 80 per cent of US demand by 2050

Re: Take your pick, tree-huggers -

The only real objection to nuclear concerns what to do with the waste product. Everything else makes it more affordable than any other green option being subsidized by governments today, and it has a low carbon footprint to boot. Is nuclear waste really such a bad problem that greenies should ignore the real benefit to be had?

All of which proves that environmentalist have no concern about the planet. It's all about money, as it always has been.

Storage company promises INFINITE IMMORTALITY

Re: I'm I the only one..

I had a moment of madness and wondered whether all those experiments into INFINITE IMPROBABILITY had finally paid off.

Surface: Because Microsoft does so well making hardware?

Introducing Windows 8!

From the people that brought you EDLIN!

Voyager ticks one box for interstellar arrival

Re: Good work V1 / V2

Challenge accepted.

1. The heliosphere that represents this mythical threshold isn't a giant sphere at all, but is really more of an ovoid.

2. There would be no booming voice, as sound cannot travel in a vacuum.

And, there's always the Chewbacca defense.

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

Apple, Samsung snatch smartphone biz booty

Re: Nokia is doomed...

No reason to assume malice when stupidity will do just fine.

Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach desktop, pound it flat

Re: Metro was designed by experts

I predict that shortly after introducing Windows 8, Microsoft will fire every last, lousy, so-called expert who convinced them to treat all devices like a small phone screen.

This isn't a new age of computing. It's fucking stupid.

Retina Display detachment

Re: Doesn't make it a bad product

Problem with the car analogy is that Ethernet isn't like passenger capacity. For the vast majority of users, its more like Apple producing a car without the wheels and charging extra to include them. WTF?

Apple silences mute kids' speech app in patent blowup

Re: What's wrong Apple?

"Are disabled kids not rich enough to buy your products?"

There, I fixed it.

Cisco vs TiVo DVR smackdown: Whose patent is it anyway?

Or more likely

Cisco is clearly big enough that the left hand simply doesn't know what the right hand is doing. There's plenty of instances where HP and Cisco still partner on deals, though almost all occur outside the US and Europe.

Study fingers humans for ocean heat rise

Re: memory

Tim, Grant, and Ian...please explain this:

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

Perhaps your memories are going quicker than you think? It's true that the press ran with it much farther than the scientific community did, but the National Science Board did issue a report in 1972 titled "Patterns and Perspectives in Environmental Science" which assumed that the earth was due for a cooling period. Regardless of which side of the AGW debate you may lean toward, there was definitely a "cooling" threat discussed and researched.

Of course, I suppose we never made it to the Moon either, but I wasn't there to be sure.

Windows 8: Not even Microsoft thinks businesses will use it

Conspiracy theory of the day

While the "skipping the business cycle" theory does make some sense, isn't it more likely that Microsoft execs continue to suffer from business myopia where their products are concerned? It's one thing to innovate in ways that help users (i.e. Win3x -> Win9x), but forcing the tablet GUI on non-tablet devices makes no business sense at all for Microsoft.

It sounds like they want to manage one client OS codebase for all devices, regardless of platform. That could make some sense, though I think it could be argued that it brings its own level of complexity that washes out any savings over multiple OSes. To take that leap one step further by defaulting to the tablet GUI and eliminating 15-year-old desktop conventions in the process is unthinkable. That's not innovation, that's just stupid.

Vint Cerf: 'COMMUNISTS want to seize the INTERNET'

Re: Neither the USA nor the UN should control the Internet

To quote Billy Madison:

"what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Samsung Galaxy Tab 'a harmful drug', says Apple in ban bid fail

Re: Well duh!

You're missing the part where the Communist state confiscates all property in the name of the state. Corporations really can't do anything more than sue for it, a la Apple.

Sean Parker launches Chatroulette killer: For why?

Re: Why has video not taken up it's mantle?

"If there was some way to start a video chat simply by dialling the telephone number and choosing voice or video - I think a whole bunch more people would go for it."

It's called SIP. It's been around for a long time and most VoIP installations are based on it. While the uptake has been slow, it's mainstream now than ever and it's only a matter of time (years) before mobile phones convert to SIP for signaling voice/video and everything rides over a mobile data stream.

I know Sprint has been planning this for a while, as part of their conversion to IPv6 and I suspect other carriers are considering the same. Once that happens, video will become more commonplace, albeit still not so useful after a bender or if you just like sitting around in your underwear.

White AMERICANS will have become MEKON brain-men by 3000AD

Re: Unlikely to be evolution

Indeed, the opposite is really true now, as we all know from the pending Idiocracy.

US reiterates resistance to ITU-Internet land grab

Re: If Internet is given to the UN / ITU to govern...

^ this.

Latest use case: look at the response from Russia and China over the atrocities in Syria. Obviously, the Internet won't kill loads of people, but there's no way I would support allowing nations like Russia and China to act as roadblocks to progress.

Windows 8 Release Preview open for download

Re: Wisdom....

Would generally agree, though Microsoft offers concrete proof that there's exceptions to every rule. Shouldn't they be smart enough now about Windows to not make egregious choices like making Metro the default start menu? Personally, I'm out. I have every intention of going straight Linux or BSD once they kill support for Win7.

Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence

No, but complaints can be filed with the Federal Trade Commission, who can file an antitrust lawsuit (which is a criminal, not civil case). I would expect that Microsoft will not be happy if they receive thousands of seperate lawsuits in a short timeframe. Likely to have some summary judgments if they don't employ enough lawyers.

All of this is really just US-specific, of course. Though, I would expect complaints in Europe to be handled similiarly by the EC.

GM snatchback of $10m Facebook ad cash = amateur move

Re: My question: how would GM possibly know?

They spend 25% of their advertising budget on witch doctors TV already and how has that worked out? They got more bang for their buck from the TARP bailout than they will ever get from TV.

Whitman said to be planning massive HP job cuts

Re: EDS = Extinct Dinosaur Services

This isn't entirely true. As a former EDSer (pre-merger) and now a former HPer, there are plenty of "social loafers" in the ranks that get by based on the accomplishments of the few. Too many low performers and too few high performers. In addition, HP ES has very poor allocation of responsibilities, which is a holdover from EDS' Brown Dick and Rittenmeyer eras. It's never a good sign to a customer when project calls end up having 3 PMs participating, but no one actually taking responsibility to make things happen in a timely and efficient manner.

Prediction: HP will eventually either spin off HP ES or will die on the vine. I would suspect the latter will be more likely, but perhaps someone will have a lick of common sense that one company can become TOO BIG.

Inside the Skynet ghost town built by bunker-based boffins

@ laird cummings

Oh really? You don't think the human traffickers responsible for much of the illegal border crossings wouldn't relish a police-free, people-free place to use as a base of operations? You should definitely keep to your bigotted, small-minded life and leave real crime to the big boys.

Sony outs 1080p skinny laptops

Re: Full HD 1920x1080 on a 13inch screen

I appreciate it and haven't seen the kit up close yet. It's not a matter of font or icon size. It's a matter of screen real estate, which is always in short supply. About bloody well time that someone start making 1920x1080 more common place on laptop screens, although it's regretable that the kit is stuck with a Sony label.

Facebook ups IPO shares to $38, edges towards $104bn value

Re: 800M active users

Better than the P/E ratio of almost 700 for LinkedIn. That's a bubble if I ever saw one.

Solving traffic jams with maths

Re: Just throw them all away

Huh? You want everyone to revert to Italian driving? No thanks.

Re: New or not?

Well, normally, I would just jack up the OSPF cost, but that doesn't work with the current automobile-traffic systems. No idea how the current lights would enforce that a path was unusable, so there would have to be other technology applied for that bit.

Sigh...as if taxes aren't high enough.

IEEE commits Wi-Fi refresh to standard

Re: Mobile carrier's nightmare in the making

Pretty doubtful, since the standard still only has 3 "real" channels available without bleed over.

Boy wrecks £22k worth of MacBooks by weeing on them

Re: Who'd have thought..

Ribbed for your iPleasure?

The truth about Apple's mind-boggling low tax rate

Re: On this occasion I am willing to accept the iPhanboi argument that.......

Apple is a leader in tax avoidance, based on their origination of schemes like Double Irish and treating distributors as commissionaires instead of retailers. Even with the values of the tax numbers being wildly inaccurate, there's no question that Apple is avoiding a lot of taxes from the State of California (8.84%) and the US government (whopping 35% corporate rate). I would certainly not be shocked that they effective rate on all profits is less than 10%, though not all profits were earned in the US as the author points out.

Swedish men ordered to present cervices in database flub

Pun aside, I personally preferred managed cervix. If I have to spend my dollars on a cervix, I preferred the managed kind to the married kind.

University of Florida drops plans to axe CompSci for sports

Re: Deficit?

Not $90M spent on football. They reported expenses for the 2010-2011 season of only $26,263,539, but pulled in revenues of $72,807,236. THAT's why they want to spend more money on football.

Validated from here: http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/GetOneInstitutionData.aspx

Iran cuts off oil plants hit by mystery data-destroying virus

Re: Looks like crack US black ops computer scientists are to blame.

Save your time and DON'T bother searching for "burka porn" or "hijab porn" on Google. You'll regret it.

Apple claims Aussie 3G is so good it's 4G

David, that's precisely the reason the Aussies should pursue this. It's truly despicable how companies will do anything they can to sell kit or service, but will flip that on its ear the moment another opportunity arises.

Marketing people should be at the bottom of the ocean right next to politicians, lawyers, and Stephanie Meyer.

Workers' comp covers sex-related injuries, judge rules

Australia?

You mean the idiocracy has carried over from the US to the remote reaches of the Outback? God help us all. Where's a terminator when you need one...

Behind Facebook's $1bn Instagram antitrust dodge

Re: >"In mobile we seem to have found plenty of ways to access the web without using a browser"

Exactly. Just because it's called an "app" doesn't mean it's not a web browser instance. Most apps are not really apps.

Even Paris thinks this is the dumbest thing written on El Reg this week.

Battlefield Earth ruled worst film EVER

Re: A request

And the Piano! Holly Hunter nudity not withstanding, of course

Re: WHat?!?!?!?!

No, but there is a really brilliant musical about them on Broadway. Should be coming to the West End soon, methinks.

Austrian village considers a F**king name change

Can't make this Fucking up

"After all, Fucking has existed for 800 years, probably when a Mr Fuck or the Fuck family moved into the area."

Aidez-moi!

Microsoft to bake Windows 8 in three flavours

Re: Still not getting it, are you Microsoft?

"Plus, Microsoft do their damnedest to prevent VNC working out of the box, meaning you often have to configure firewalls and/or piss about in the registry just to get it working properly. Again, not very "it just works", is it?"

Have you ever used VNC? I've never one time had to muck with the registry to get it working. As for firewalls, you really need to get the sand out of your vagina.