Posts by Irongut 1692 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jan 2012
"This also has mounting holes. Sadly missing from the Pi making casing it a bit tricky."
You sir need to buy new glasses! The Pi clearly has mounting holes in the picture published earlier today by this very organ. I can see at least 4 holes and another may be hidden by the ethernet socket.
"I’d assume that the providers would institute some pay-per-use scheme where consumers are micro-charged for every game minute - or millisecond, if they can. I’d argue that this would encourage people to try new games and new types of games"
I'd argue that will encourage most gamers to never go near them. Have a look at the MMO market these days, most of them are free to play. Yes they have micro transaction stores but they have found that in most cases people do not want to pay a monthly fee to play and I think a per second fee would be even less attractive.
Good luck with that. OSX viruses do exist and they're getting more prevelant.
The only time I had a virus infection on Windows it was the Chernobyl virus. The year was 1999 and a mate gave me a CD of software and MP3s he'd got from another mate. We had no AV so unfortunately the entire flat network caught it before we found out and we had to fix the master boot record on 5 machines. I still have a copy of it on a floppy somewhere.
Since then I've always used AV. If you choose a decent solution (not Norton or McAfee) you don't get slow downs, incompatibilities or the other FUD you're spreading. The VB100 list is a good place to start making that choice.
Once your data is in one cloud you move to another by downloading it directly to the new cloud from the old. Thus using the providers' bandwidth leaving your own out of the equation. Of course it will still cost you a fortune and be somewhat time consuming to download all that data.
This morning analytics cookies were getting a free pass but this afternoon you must ask "users' consent for any cookies the websites are using to track their behaviour". I do think the later is correct but would be nice if I could trust what they're saying.
Either way sounds like all we have to do is show we've thought about the issue and done a cookie audit to escape prosecution. With my webmaster hat on that's great but with my user's hat on that's complete nonsense from a toothless body that should be closed.
No your thumbs downs would be because this is a story about Apple manipulating the results in Siri but you go off on an unrelated anti-Nokia rant.
You wouldn't be an Apple marketting shill by any chance? After all you won't tell us your handle.
Some of these little ARM comupters are hella expensive. I built an Atom based media center recently with a dual core chip, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD, BlueRay, Win7, WiFi, TV Recording, remote control, wireless keyboard & mouse and a much nicer case than that ARMini all for under £300. So why pay double that for something with much lower capabilities?
This version looks better but it's still not right and why is the menu shouting at me now?
Adding 4 blue pixels to a grey icon doesn't really make it coloured but it's better than nothing.
I still miss the gradients, etc that denoted different areas of the main window, VS11 seems to blur together into a faceless grey mass. I'd rather have them back than the extra line of code gained by removing them (the other two lines come from removing a toolbar).
I do like the idea of the coloured status bar.
Important point that.
Sure wireless charging looks cool but when my Galaxy S battery dies unexpectedly in the office I like being able to ask who has a charger with them and use anyone's despite their phones being from Samsung, HTC, Blackberry or Apple. Ok almost anyone's charger, I can't use the iDevice ones.
"had Microsoft delivered a cloud devs could easily program for and which was genuinely different or provided something better than Amazon, then the platform would have spoken for itself"
What exactly is difficult about programming for Azure? MS have made it about as simple as you can get using Visual Studio, unlike Amazon and their impenetrable documentation.
Canonical have a contributor agreement they make you sign before they will use any of your code in one of their projects. In the current version of the agreement you licence your copyright to them but prior to July 2011 they asked you to sign over all copyright.
So yes, GPL projects can include copyrighted code.
"why not use your industry weight... at a better price than the opposition"
B&N can't sell at a better price because Apple won't let them. Yup Apple threw their practically non-existent weight in the book world around and the publishers agreed to screw over all other book sellers.
As some others have said it's not that they hate you for being an Apple fanboi, they just hate you. But don't worry they hate me too.
Although I've not been able to access Drive from Windows I did upgrade my Docs app on Android which supposedly turned it into Drive. So far I can't see what's changed other than the name.
I tried this last week but wasn't very impressed. I don't really read traditional newspapers any more (except when travelling by plane) and if I did I'd buy the dead tree version. The Google Currents versions of everything seemed to be lacking in articles and the articles that were there were short. I didn't try the translate feature but if it uses Google Translate then it's more of a negative than a plus point.
Don't know what planet you're on but here on planet earth I know plenty of people who have upgraded to Win7 which is actually a major improvement over XP and Vista. I've upgraded several old, slow Vista laptops for friends and given them back much faster, easier to use mahines. Anyone who has seen them has asked me to do the same for them. And I upgraded my old Win2k desktop with no compatibility issues for my old hardware.
I think you've been drinking too much Apple/Linux FUD-juice.
That said Win8 is an abortion and I will be skipping it.
"While it made a great office desktop, it wasn't for general use as it lacked the back-compatibility with the consumer stream which materialised in XP"
That was so much bull.
I ran Win2k on my home machine for about 10 years before finally deciding Win7 was worth an upgrade. I never had any problems with hardware compatibility and during that time I went through at least 3 motherboards, 2 processors, several video cards and I don't know how many printers. Also I didn't have problems with any games working on it until the last couple of years when new titles became XP/Vista only. I used XP at work because it was the corporate standard but at no time did I feel the need to move my home machine to the Fischer Price OS.
So what were the consumer issues with Win2k?
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