Posts by kjrunner

You're not fooling anyone on that vid-conference call: Walmart says shirt sales soaring, pants not pulled up

You missed the real question....

What were these people wearing on the top to work just prior to lock down that they needed new shirts?

Titans of tech: Why I'll never trust 'em

Re: Apple doesnt effect the landscape?

I down voted for this comment:Witness the latest young and trendy CEO, one Mark Zuckerburg - who has presided over an "interesting" IPO and impulse-driven splurge on Instagram, and who probably won't be CEO of Facebook for too much longer.

What about have 53% of the voting rights do people not understand. Even if you got every single other shareholder to vote to oust him you still lose 53-47.

Dish Networks locks horns with broadcasters over ad skipping

Re: Someone has to pay...

I think McCoatover hit the biggest issue for me, the volume of the adverts compared to the program is just ridiculous (although the show intros are ridiculous as well, but that's another rant). What I don't get is that if I'm only 1/2 paying attention to the show, by say reading el reg, when the commercial comes on it triggers me to skip if recorded or hit the mute button if live.

iPad 3 launch news pushes Apple shares to $500bn high

Re: Prefer a split

I don't get your reference. A split does not give shareholders anything additional. The own the same claim on the company as before.

In addition do think that those involved in high frequency trading do not have the capital to trade a stock worth what AAPL is. I venture to guess they can trade even AAPL by the 1000s of shares.

Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil

The facts matter because using the patent war to keep competing products off the market hurts all of us as consumers. Do you think ALL of the new features in iOS5 or the iPhone 4S would be present if it wasn't for competition. As repeatedly pointed out Apple didn't actually come up with everything first and those competitors have come up with new ideas and pushed the development that even those that choose to be in the walled garden benefit from.

Further one of the things that infurates me about Apple's business practices is their insistance that I cannot do what I want with a product I bought from them. Not that Apple is the only one guilty of this (glares at Sony). I believe once I buy a product it is mine to do with as I please, with the full understanding that if I break something it may not be covered under warranty etc. I believe this should be the way with licenses as well with the understandable constraint that I get one copy/use and cannot create additional copies and distribute, but as far as all the different restrictions on OEM licenses and the such I do believe it is worth using these types of facts to fight for the rights of consumers. Just because many don't care to exercise these rights themselves does not mean we should support or ignore those that would try and remove these rights. On this side of the pond many don't exercise their right to vote, but I do not think anyone that pursues removing those rights from them should be supported.

And to address the seemingly requisite automobile comparison. Yes, only a few people fret about not being able to tinker with their vehicle. But I don't see a major patent wars over things like push button starters, or hybrid gas/electric power trains, or insert many features commonly found across brands of vehicle. Should the first company that built a car that you just pushed a button to start be able to sue all those that have it now? Should they be able to get a patent on it? Those of us that don't think they should also think these facts are important concerning the mobile computing/phone industry.

Windows 8 ribbon entangles Microsoft

movable, dockable toolbars

Am I the only one that detests the ribbon (only used Office 2007) because I can't simply take a menu/ribbon item and move it into my workspace as a floating toolbar, or dock it elsewhere and always have it displayed? I use this primarily in powerpoint where (1st case) I need to use connector lines between objects: drag connector line menu out as floating toolbar in workspace, quickly pick connector lines and objects then close toolbar, or (2nd case) dock the align object toolbar and dock it out of the way (bottom or side, depending on monitor) so I can always quickly select objects and align them (and with a quick glance see if they will align to the slide or each other). I have found in no case an extremely convenient way to replicate this function. This is why I hate the ribbon, it took up a bunch of my screenspace and reduced the convenient ways to use the interface.