Posts by MrSmash

UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now

Who does this actually benefit?

I'm not sure why people keep saying the 'big guys' will be happy and that US companies are the beneficiaries of this?

Facebook/Twitter etc already have total ownership and rights to anything you upload (you did read their terms didn't you?). I would have thought that people like Getty, Reuters, AP etc are going to get royally pissed by this once their images start getting ripped off and used for free. It's not just images either, from what I've been able to work out from a quick scan it just refers to 'Works' rather than images so it covers pretty much anything. So once people start redistributing Amazon's books with all metadata removed I guess they may start getting upset as well....

A typical bit of legislation created by intelligent politicians after lots of well thought out consideration for the implications it will have. Not.

ARM servers: From li'l Acorns big data center disruptions grow

Until the financial boys get involved...

A monopoly will only crumble if something utterly compelling comes along to take its place and the monopoly doesn't change enough to compensate. By compelling I don't mean that some fanboy's get hardon's over the new tech but that it is financially compelling once you take into account migration costs, re training costs, hardware changes, software re writes or maintaining yet another software/hardware stack (that legacy stuff really isn't going anywhere), new toolsets etc

Once you get to scale Linux/Windows cost about the same to actually manage (and in many cases the toolsets are better for windows so its actually cheaper).

That's a lot of £££ that any new platform will have to save you before it's worth considering for the majority of people (excluding the handful of super sized data centres on the planet).

Apple updates iOS 6, Safari

London maps

The maps app is serviceable but in London it is a bit of a pain as it doesn't show the tube stations unless you zoom right in and then you cant see much of the surrounding area (which is handy if you are working out the best way of getting somewhere). It also doesnt actually label them with the station name or differentiate between underground and overground stations, they all use the same icon, so you end up tapping on them to see what they are. Bit poor really for a major capital city