Posts by roselan

Microsoft Surface Pro sales CANNIBALIZING Surface RT

Re: This is a Microsoft employee blogging phenomenon

But at least the Chinese army seems to be out of MS payroll for now.

and meanwhile, I mourn minimsft blog death.

Seattle drinking den bans Google Glass geeks

Re: Or... more likely ...

I had to double check that you ain't Eadon...

"one privacy-conscious tippler wrote... on Facebook. "

just epic.

Dear Facebook: I heard the news today, oh boy

Re: Funny

For me it's exactly like windows (I use linux). I should be too old to enjoy these punny ranting, yet their pathetic struggles bring smile to my cranky face. It's my secret sin.

I have no real grip with facebook, I had an account I visited once per year, which is now deleted. No big deal there. I guess I don't like it because it propels a bad side out of people, their vacuity and vanity.

Re: Ponzi...

and downvote here if you have one :))

Strategic SIEGE ROBOTS defeated by 'heavily intoxicated' man, 62

Re: Sense of déjà vu for a déjà vu

never gets old, or new, or whaever...

http://xkcd.com/419/

Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth

I love this kind artcile

thank you.

And I can't help to draw parallels with today situation.

In my youth. I thought token ring was better, because it was more organized and fair (to the clients). And that coax thing. Oh boy!

Facebook shoves biz pal Microsoft aside, unzips new Graph Search

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

don't worry, the future looks bleak for the past ten thousands years...

Oh, those crazy Frenchies: Facebook faces family photo tax in France

Re: @ Tom 35

so, at the end, the tax is paid by the customer.

It means that this tax subsidize other sectors. By example, traditional media, up 1-2b, very close to the government.

More than distorting fair competition or at best helping local industries, this shows off, once more, the deep and weaved level of corruption in the french government.

EU-wide mega-Leveson 'needed' to silence Press, bloggers

Welcome to Soviet Europe!

Web is turning us into kid-ults with no 'private identities' - report

paradox

I can't help but wonder why software engineers, who build these social systems, are among the less likely to use them.

EU antitrust chief growls at Google, hopes to avoid sanctions

Re: Search results

do you know guys you are google cookies?

try searching in "incognito mode" or after cleaning your browser, and you will get different results...

Mint Linux gifts Unity haters with 'Nadia' ... plus her Mate

Re: Have to agree

as I did the switch recently too. My most troubles was to understand "linux update", the little shield in the bottom right, and "programs" (synaptic). the frontier between the two is blurry. Apart that I seldom lost time with mint, the occasional "where's that setting? how do I do that'?"

As it's new and fresh, you will want to play with it and install strange stuff. But beware, it's not because it's linux it's unbreakable, personally I got some funny version of "Kinnamon" after trying to install the kde file manager.

For me the best update from nadia is the ability to thin the panel bar. Nothing can beat even more empty space on your desktop.

British boffin builds cool maser after argument with wife

Re: Applications?

pop corn gun !!!

Apple, Microsoft reveal their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

official now

Lots of people did suspect this sort of deal existed.

The real question is why trade commissions/authorities didn't investigate this possible breach of competition and antitrust laws until now.

Microsoft: It's not Metro, it's Windows 8

I will continue to use metro like, I guess, most of us.

I won't say they dropped the only thing about metro that was cool, but how ironical and sweet that only MS can't use it now. metro metro METROOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

As I want to be constructive tonight, I propose the name "Clear Rectangular Application Pad" ^^

don't bother, I'm out ;)

‘Cash for comment’ journos, bloggers under spotlight in Oracle-v-Google

Re: Hahahahaha..

you meant windows 8, right?

oh wait...

noob judge

Bloggers are paid through layers of advertisement companies.

They can just say "i paid for ads".

France's biggest Apple reseller shuts up shop

a bit sad

These were the true apple fans that kept shop open 10 years ago, when apple was in real dire streets. Their success inspired apple shops.

I remember these shops, they tried to make it cozy with colorful lounges, and were quite friendly and passionate. I never was an apple customer (until the first iPhone), but I was thinking these guys were as crazy as courageous to stick with apple back then. They were seeing light where no one was. (I don't speak about this company in particular, but all little apple re-sellers around Europe).

Business is no charity, but I think apple was quite ruthless there.

Valve: Games run FASTER on Linux than Windows

I don't know if gabe claim is true (opengl 15% than d3d), but I won't be surprised. (opengl is more advanced than d3d, but more complex).

But, knowing Microsoft, I won't be surprised if opengl is slower on windows only because MS does "unoptimize" opengl on their OS. They did it to twart competition that way several times over history. (to win the words/spreadsheets market, the browser market, mails, etc).

Opera updated following unexplained Outlook.com lockout

couldn't attach file on chrome either.

MS being playful, it's kinda cute actually.

Microsoft promises Metro developers 'fame and fortune'

astroturfing land or not?

I have to admit I can't read a pro 8 comment without wondering "astroturfing or not?". Here the phenomenon is quite contained, but on other tech news sites it's quite impressive.

As independent developer, I meet several CTI, IT specialists, Sysadmins, they are unanimous against win 8. Lot's of IT people dislike MS for years, but they could live with it. 8 seems to cristalyze their resentment. However, that doesn't explain everything.

When I (remotely) showed win 8 to some "normal" users, the experience wasn't far from "joe" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU&feature=related), except my guinea pigs got angry and frustrated real fast. None of them lasted this torture more than a minute. (they were traders, accountants, secretary, pr people, clerks, and even a CEO).

Now, every article linked to win 8 turns into a flames war. Even Vista didn't not generate such resentment to what I recall. That's why I can't help but wonder manically about the win 8 pro comments. Are they genuine windows defenders (pun intended), or corrupted.

I know pro blogging is hard these days, and that any extra revenue is a nice to have. But it's all suspicion, there no *proof*. A well made professional inquiry on that would be nice. Tech sites won't complain about it, it generates page view and so revenues. So I guess we will have to keep guessing...

Nokia: There will be NO smartphone division selloff to Microsoft

will be quite fun if another company (who said google) jumps in and grab the falling fruit before m$.

I mean Ellop might be CEO, but he is no owner or board. I guess the board, if they have more than one brain cell collectively, should feel quite fworded by m$/Ellop.

No Xbox Live hack say insiders

liars!

Nearly 2 years my xbox is well, in a box. Tag name, address, and password are unique to the xbox. I mean, I did forget about it.

So I was quite surprised when my phone bipped in excitement 7 time in a row. I was Like what the hell is this is address? It doesn't belong to me! So the next two seconds I imagined It was my phone mail app that had been hacked, or aliens, a super IA (puppet master like) pranking me, etc... But when the messages said I bought something on the live thing, I got quite suspicious. I mean the messages themselves were surely phishing attempts, right?

That was Saturday night, so I called Visa. They confirmed the transactions and blocked my credit card. Next day I contacted xbox call center, and (after 40 minutes of waiting), they confirmed the hacking of the live account, and blocked it.

I don't know if I can access it since the xbox still in it's box.

Phishing scam? right! I use a scam bucket address since 96, before phishing really existed, and that was actually my very first "online" email address (yeah I'm that paranoiac) .

I mean how can it be phishing when the xbox live email account received exactly *zero* email (before the ones confirming the transactions) ?

World's stealthiest rootkit gets a makeover

I never was able to imagine hell... till your post!

Sixty-seven WIMPs spotted in the wild, maybe

nope

at best it's transparent, so transparent that it can go through entire planets, like neutrinos.

Dark matter can be mapped through it's gravitational influence on visible matter, and itself.

basically, anti matter are organised in bubbles around galaxies.