Posts by mraak

Google+ lets in nicknames, slams door on plebs' pseudonyms

So

I can use Tony Blair as my name, but if people flag me, I will have to prove that I'm indeed Tony?

Rumoured 'GarageBand for e-books' to bulldoze textbook biz

HOW LUCKY INDEED!!

"All we know for sure is that the iPhone maker will hold an e-book-related media event on Thursday"

cough cough

iPad SURVIVES FALL FROM SPACE

Samsung

Oh, I'm sure some Samsung Android fondleslab can do even better. I think I read somewhere it survived 200k feet drop.

Yahoo! bags! CEO! from! PayPal!

LOL

I can't see anything but yet another flop, with few ten million dollar severance package.

US deploys 1.8 gigapixel helicopter surveillance drones to Afghanistan

$$$

Could make many dollars shooting marriage ceremonies from the sky.

Apple's TV killer 'on shelves by summer 2012'

Remote

I played with Apple TV a bit in Apple store and what I found positively surprising is the speed with which I could operate the TV with a very tiny and simplistic remote with a wheel and few buttons. I was searching, playing channels, being on YouTube, etc. This in itself is a good improvement over the current 4 remotes with 70 buttons each in my setup.

A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7

Clearly

It's time we dump this HTML5, it's unstable, crashes machines and is unsuitable for mighty Apple products. Maybe a secure, closed and proprietary multimedia runtime is in order.

Gone in a Flash: Adobe's long march to HTML5

@Look At GWT

Fancy graphics IS why Flash became so popular. That and interactive vector animations where you could do a game in under 10kB.

Flex killed it

Flex was neither a proper rich client tool nor a tool where you could do magic stuff like in Flash. It's over bloated and slow, and took a lot of Adobe's attention away from where it should be - i.e. improving the runtime performance, language, providing skinny yet efficient frameworks to build application interfaces. But somehow they wanted to create Java Swing out of Flash.

Ice Cream Sandwich WILL get Flash

Ice Cream Sandwich

Seems like a product code name developed by no other than El Reg itself.

Diaspora co-founder dies at 22

Wow

Just few weeks back I learnt of a friend of a friend jumping from Frisco bridge to death. Excellent coder and entrepreneurial person.

Eurozone crisis: We're all dooomed! Here's why

I so wish to be Greece

if debt > N:

debt = 0

Marantz NR1602 AV receiver with AirPlay

Is gadget

Adobe confirms mobile Flash Player's race is run

Open?

Open? Fools even charged $10 for every install for every device. They thought THAT would fly, let alone open sourcing it, lol. You're right, I had exactly the same prediction. Instead of giving it away for free and really push all the brains behind it to improve performance, they destroyed it. I bet if Macromedia was still behind it, Flash would be alive and kicking.

Best Buy to shutter all UK megastores

Yes,

If you want clueless, undereducated staff that can barely speak english, thinking that OS stands for Awesome, if you want to pay 5x of the Amazon prices, then yes, Best Buy will be a success in UK.

Fixing Android mobes costs telcos millions

Unless your PC is MacBook Pro, then all the games work fine. At least the ones I tried.

Use consulting companies

And pay 100x dev price than with small and smart internal team. I know how much Accenture, Deloitte and similar company price man days, how much middle management overhead they have and how unproductive they can be. If you pay 20k to replace an icon, then 2Bn doesn't sound like much.

'OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW'

@Sean

I almost agree with you 100%. Before iPhone, mobile users got to buy jpeg walpapers for their phones for £3 a piece and that was all the interaction phones offered. Often being spammed after first purchase with monthly subscriptions they weren't aware of. Plus the telcos were taking 50% of that for their stupid wap push technology, ads took another 30%, leaving 20% to content producer. Where's was Stallman then to complain about walled gardens?

Now for £3 I get 5 games, and the content producer gets to keep 70%, go figure...

Where I disagree with you is the fact that although Stallman is making an ignorant grumpy fool of himself, walled gardens aren't good.

Steve Jobs named most influential game guy – ever

How about?

How about some F**** Macromedia Flash?? Huh idiots? Wasn't it Flash who brought casual gaming to the masses and even influenced the large majority of games on iStuff??

Tesla pre-sells all 2012 Model S output

The only

The only good looking car designed in USA these days. Germans are de facto #1 for car design, although I much preferred the good ol' Americans until 1995 - ish.

Google Maps API now costs $4 per 1,000 requests

Don't be evil

I guess lurring people into using your FREE product, then start charging them is not considered evil. In some tribal cultures of the world that must be true.

Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real'

You really, seriously, honestly think that a world of population 1Bn and 0 cars, produced bigger havoc than 7bn with over 600.000.000 motor vehicles? Not to mention all the factories and rising China and India.

Humans

I see human beings from 1800 to 1840 caused some big oscillations in earth temperature. Much more than say humans in 1940 - 1970 in the height of population and car explosion. What did they do in the early 1800 to our poor mother to make her sweat so much?

Amazon Kindle 4

Really?

All you need to do is send it as attachment to [e-mail] and it gets converted and delivered to you. I think it's written somewhere on the fourth paragraph of manual. Same goes for PDF's also, not just epub.

'Occupy Wherever' movement goes transgalactic

FOO

Pythonistas would describe this as occupy_FOO

Silicon Valley's social tech formula doesn't add up

Meh

I'm not impressed with these 'social' companies at all. I think they're more like Tamagotchi or Macarena, not really a long term enterprise.

Google takes buzz saw to Buzz, other appendages

I keep it offline, and the entire hard drive backed up in the cloud. In addition to that, I have some stuff elsewhere, like code in various repos, pictures on Picassa, Flickr, etc. If any of these services or two of them fail, I will still be able to recover a lot of the most important stuff.

Fretting Googler retracts anti-Google+ rant

+1

Is his letter (post) indicating what G+ really is? Simple and honest WIP?

Down but not out: Flash in an HTML5 world

Mercedes?

So, Adobe went from advertising itself as Mercedes, to someone that's not even capable of producing a windshield, they had to acquire obscure* company that's producing a copy of Mercedes's windshield, to be able to cling to a market they want to operate in.

Mercedes in the above analogy would be cutting edge multimedia toolset, for robust and elegant driving in the wast and unknown territory.

* Obscure in size and tradition, not in talent obviously

Google hits the boozer with own brand of beer

Is good

Is good to have your company pay for your hobbies. Is good.

Old Napster guy’s fan letter to Spotify upstart

Spotify's gone for me

After 2 years of paying the, instead of fixing the bugs, and making an iPad player, they decide to do the idiotic thing of requiring FB account to use it. Idiots.

Quote of the Week: 'I shave my balls for this?'

I'll

shave my balls for opportunity to shave my balls

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56

RIP

One of the greatest minds, businessmen of the era, albeit controversial at times.

Google+ inertia sets in at Chocolate Factory

Oh, I forgot to add the analogy.

It's like going into a pub where all the friends hang out, and it's cosy and not to busy. Versus going into a place where you can't turn around and hear your own thoughts, and everybody's screaming LOOK AT MEEEEEeeeee.

Maybe it's OK

I like this distribution, maybe this is how a proper sharing service should work. The reason I signed off of FB is that everyone and its dog were using it to post 99% of BS and 1% of interesting stuff, creeping on each other, stalking and gossiping.

With G+ I get much less info, but 80% is interesting and relevant to me, and I have all my friends and circles publicly hidden and nobody can tag me in a photo.

Quality doesn't equate quantity.

iPhone 5 a no-show at Apple's 'Let's talk iPhone' event

Breaking NEWS!!

Microsoft to release revolutionary tablet in 2012

Don't bother with that degree, say IT pros

Education worked for me

Working in various areas of software like computer vision, AI, Data Mining, etc... with the best of the experts in the field in the world today, was amazing experience. I was fortunate enough to get my university education completely free off charge. I think the biggest flaw of bedroom coders is that they don't even know what they're missing.

Android's scariest nightmare: resurgently sexy Microsoft

Sexy MS product?

Not in this lifetime, not on this planet.

Spotify adds 'temporary' private listening mode after Facebook backlash

Same here :( I want to be able to turn off shuffle and sort by artist or album on iphone app. I could do that with desktop mp3 players in mid 90's but Spotiface hasn't got around to that yet. I feel my money is being wasted for stuff I despise, not for stuff a music app needs.

Spotycrap

They are another company that's working very hard to destroy them selves. All this social crap, while the iPhone app still has a bug where you can\t switch the shuffle off once you set it to on. You still can't sort your songs by anything on device version. You can't rearange the playlists so that downloaded ones would appear on top. Sometimes, downloaded playlists magically disappear, usually when you're travelling, so there's no way to listen to your music until next time you're on wifi. But what really kills you is when you see their iPad app, that's a David Brent of apps. You lose your breath for a moment and can't believe your eyes.

* They have a great streaming and subscription system and I'm a premium customer but I'm upset of how unsupported they're mobile apps are.

How the Yahoo! homepage predicts your clicks

!

I! Love! The! Exclamation! Marks! In! Yahoo! Headlines!

Yoof survey: 'Internet as vital as air'

Not air

But certainly electricity. In fact if electricity goes down, the worst part about it is the lack of internet. My laptop can still work on battery for three hours but I can hardly do anything useful without the internet.

Gears of War 3

Is it linear BS?

Is it linear kiddish runngun like COD? Or does it need at least some brains as in Flashpoint?

Fox turns LightSquared political

Dems

Dems are known to buy political influence with their hidden donor money </sarcasm>

Oracle offers commercial extensions to MySQL

Fork 'em

It's about time someone does a "Hardcore Forking Action" on Oracle...

Got a non-iPad tablet? Weirdo

Why are some people always, always, ALWAYS judging the needs of other people based on what they need for themselves. For example, I have no need to judge other's needs. Nor I find it reasonable, but I am accepting the fact that some people might want to do that. Why exactly?

Cloud startup's business model defies laws of physics

Lame

I signed up for beta and got the email

"Space is extremely limited and you are at the back of the queue. The more people you get to sign up, the sooner you get Bitcasa. Use the link below to share with friends or post to your social networks."

I think someone attended too many web 2.0 marketing seminars.

Yahoo! 'f**ked me over'! says! Carol! Bartz!

Completely failed?

Well maybe not.The way things were going at Yahoo!, they might have ended up as MySpace or similar crap if it wasn't for her.

Hackers penetrate website for Nokia developers

@Coward

RIM is a very good phone. I still use my BB Pearl from 2008 occasionally, it's responsive intuitive and very good at handling push mail. My primary phone is iPhone but I'm still impressed how much life the old BB has in it.

Nice observation

However I think middle managers aren't the ones. These people are a very scared bunch, all they do is backstabbing, gossip, politics, and fake smiling. You need to have some balls to steal them tables, and balls is what they don't have.