Posts by Levente Szileszky

UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange'

Re: @Levente Szileszky

Another coward PoS AC...

FYI you are waaay off.

Assange DID do an interview at the Swedish Police, he was not allowed to leave first, he stayed.

Later he was told the CASE WAS DROPPED and he can leave. He left for the UK.

Then suddenly, couple of weeks later they have reopened the case, one might say interestingly enough right around when Wikileaks published the now-infamous Iraqi War Logs and all hell broke loose, FauxNews had hourly competition of people calling for the ASSASSINATION of Assange...

...within days Sweden issued a Red Notice-priority arrest warrant - something not even Gadhafi was worthy of but this reopening of a supposed "coercion" case with deposit from Assange DID...

...you make your mind up about this "coincidence", ahem.

I don't really like the guy's attitude or character either, his actions are also confusing - Ecuador? The country that's about to extradite a journalist (google Barankov) to the moustachioed idiot dictator of Belarus? - but after all this BS going on claiming he should just go there and offer himself up is downright ridiculous, an obvious BS, you are either not aware of the facts or you just ignore them.

Ahh and please, let's just STFU about UK and the rule of law - RIAA/MPAA can literally *BUY* sentences in your courts now, let alone UK's defense of Augusto Pinochet, the mass-murderer and torturer ex-dictator... UK and rule of law, my @ss, sorry - rule of the highest bidder, that is.

See the Aussie ABC documentary for exact details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2EaE80TiiQ

Re: So if some tinpot country decided

No, we are the ones who are invoking THE FACT THAT the UK was PROTECTING AUGUSTO PINOCHET, a documented DICTATOR, wanted for TRIAL for EN MASSE MURDER, TORTURE et cetera...

...y'know, a lot more serious offenses than supposed "coercion".

Your turn, shill.

Re: erm

"First they didn't let Assange walk out of the country. His lawyer attempted to dodge contact w the prosecutor's office as Assange left. Once Assange obtained counsel, all communication goes through counsel. Note that his counsel faced an investigation over his actions after he admitted in British court that he received text messages and that he misrepresented the facts that the Prosector had been trying to contact him to bring Assange in."

First, please stop the BS - you obviously either have no clue about the facts and just parroting the BS or you are indeed full of shite, Sir.

In short here is your answer, starting from the relevant part of the Australian ABC documentary on the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2EaE80TiiQ&hd=1&t=18m4s

The transcript of the important part, in detail:

"Sitting outdoors with the world's coolest, smartest people! It's amazing!", Anna Ardin tweeted, as she sat at a barbecue she had arranged for Assange. Yet according to the allegations she would later bring against him he had recently sexually abused her. "You wouldn't send such messages if you had been raped by someone the night before", argues Assange's lawyer. Both Assange and his supporters believe the attempt to force his return to Sweden is simply the first step in a plan to see him extradited to the United States and that the case against him is a set up.

It's clear that when Assange arrived in Sweden Anna Ardin & Sofia Wilen were both enthralled by the Wikileaks phenomena and he slept with both women over a period of weeks. The charges originated with a misunderstanding in a Stockholm police station that "some sort of sex crime had been committed". Wilen refused to sign what had been taken down. Assange was interviewed but not charged with any offence. But 12 days after being given permission to leave the country, the case was re-opened and the Swedes issued a warrant for his arrest.

At this point Assange was at the height of his powers and three weeks later he delivered a massive hit against America: the Iraq War Logs. An outraged US labelled him a "traitor" and were overcome with calls to "shoot the son-of-a-bitch". Shortly afterwards Sweden issued an Interpol Red Notice for his arrest; a highly unusual move. "Red Notices are normally the preserve of terrorists and dictators. Even Gaddafi was not subject to a Red Notice."

After 500 days of fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden, Assange made his dramatic dash to the Ecuadorian embassy. In an interview from inside, Assange claims he had sensed the net tightening around him when, "the Swedish government publicly announced that it would detain me without charge in severe conditions. On the same evening security contractors turned up unannounced at 10:30pm and insisted on fitting another manacle to my leg".

So let me repeat it, IMG: he DID appear, the Swedish police DID interview him, they had asked him to stay then they DID drop the case and Swedish authorities DID ALLOW him to leave Sweden - only to *suddenly* reopen the case and immediately issue an unprecedented Interpol Red Notice two weeks later.

Ahh and you are full of it, as I said.

"Have you no sense of decency, Sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

... - what a lowlife this little twat is (Hague), along with the entire, utterly incompetent UK government, of course.

Allow me to repeat myself from a few days ago...

...is it the same UK that protected Augusto Pinochet from extradition to face charges for torture and murder that is going so out of the way now to extradite Assange for "coercion" (not rape, not torture, not murder nor anything similar*) they are REGULARLY threaten to ignore the embassy status and raid the building with force?

And I just recently read the article how a Brit was sent to prison by Hollywood's parasites *in the UK*, by a UK court, see details here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/private-justice-how-hollywood-money-put-a-brit-behind-bars/

Dear Jesus, government, laws, police, courts sentence - is there anything left you cannot *BUY* in the UK?

FWIW I'm still undecided about Assange or his actions but boy, what an incompetent, disgusting, lowlife government you Brits have, it's just breathtaking... I feel for you. From the other side of the pond it really seems like the worst in the past 30 years (yes, I really said that, Major included.)

* keep in mind that while Assange's coercion is still in question, the forceful coercion committed by the Swedish Police definitely *DID* happen when the second girl wanted to leave and revoke her statement/deposition/whatever it's called - and this is just beside the more than eyebrow-raising fact that the first, supposedly "coerced" woman was living and partying with Assange for *SEVERAL* *MORE* *DAYS* *AFTER* her supposed coercion took place, see the details in the unparalleled documentary of the Australian ABC about Assange's story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2EaE80TiiQ&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1

Pathetic Swedish police, that is.

Windows Phone 8: Microsoft quite literally can't lose

Re: Nokia is out on a limb, with its bridges burned...

Everything goes according to plan: that utterly clueless beancounter Elop was parachuted to Nokia from MS, he then proceeded to

1. destroy over ~40% of Nokia's value over a 3 day period by

2. announcing 18-months too early that they are killing off everything and switching to

3. MS' then-yet-to-be-surfaced new mobile OS version

4. then released new phones with limited success which

5. was killed very quickly by MS stating Nokia's new phones won't be able to run WP $VERSION_NEXT_NOW_REALLY_BLOCKBUSTER

6. so even current Nokia phone sales were quickly killed off...

7. and the meantime MS persuaded HTC, Samsung and others to join the fray and compete with Nokia

...I expect to see Nokia burned down to the ground in ~12-18 months, Elop getting a HUGE bonus/goodbye check and MS quickly picking up Nokia's excellent hardware division and distribution channel, for little or no money at all.

In short: Elop is either an utterly stupid, incompetent fool or a truly spineless, unscrupulous disgusting Ballmerian life form.

Mellanox rips covers off virt-SAN beast, claims Fibre Channel vanquish

"5GB/sec bandwidth per storage target"

If it's indeed based on a single Fusion-IO card then Mellanox is full of it unless they suggest striping them which would be the most idiotic idea ever.

Either way it makes little sense.

Google engineer finds British spyware on PCs and smartphones

Re: Still developed by the Germans

You are clearly one stupid AC - it is a *British* company, period.

If they use people/resource in India, Germany, Hungary or Bangladesh or even on the Moon, it's STILL A BRITISH PRODUCT due to the company.

Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April

Re: Oracle's behaviour is disgusting.

"The current sense of entitlement in IT is shocking."

Ehh? Anonymous corporate shills like you are a lot more shocking, stupid troll.

Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is good for you, your kids and tech

Re: Bent but not broken

"You have to quantify the damage ("cost to society") and then demonstrate that this is greater than the innovation the IP system produces, and the value it unlocks. "

Excuse me but we DID show repeatedly how this utter PoS patent system we have now stifles innovation, essentially limits competition and blocks new inventors from joining the fray - it's your turn to show otherwise, dear, not us to keep explaining you the same thing over and over again, let alone the utterly ridiculous req ...

"I am keen to hear alternatives that fulfill those criteria - but I'm sorry, but all I hear is whining."

I am willing to listen if you can make ONE SINGLE meaningful argument but all I hear is the same empty cliches, laughable nonsense that Apple et al love to throw out when competition endangers their profit margins.

Re: No innovation without patents? Seriously?

"If you read the history of it you'll find that innovation greatly accelerated after patents were introduced, as people finally found justification to put in the time and work."

Complete rubbish, only existed in Ayn Rand's la-la-land and her hopelessly confused, lunatic head.

"Invention then became a race, and as history has shown time and time over, nothing like a race to get minds and resources moving quickly towards a goal."

Someone desperately needs to finish at least a high school so he can avoid further public embarrassment of using the cheesisest-dumbest cliches...

Oh noes...

...our man O is back in his bubble where patents are a must, failing jury system is better than not having them, everybody is a freetard etc. Too bad, I started to like his sane posts recently.

Meanwhile here, in the real world, I have yet to met a single person who does not think the verdict is downright ridiculous and the real sign of a broken system where Apple, the biggest Chinese goods-relabeling company of the world, can openly use a classic chauvinistic 'American invention' BS after openly ripped of plenty of existing design and gets a billion dollar verdict against a Korean relabeling discount outlet who already had the same Galaxy tablet design in the works more than a year before the first iPad was launched...

...a parody of a justice system with completely clueless idiots in the jury, that is.

Dell expects slow Windows 8 demand in enterprise

Re: @AC

Except it would be very easy to you to understand that Core is *NOT* the default install option as there is no such thing so AC was dead wrong, along with you while he was correct, 2012's default GUI is a retarded tablet UI, period.

TIFKAM is an *ABOMINATION*, the shining example of the infinite, surrealistic Ballmerian stupidity, fortified by Sinofsky's clueless yet uber-arrogant, 'customers-do-as-I-say-or-screw-them' approach... one idiot can always boost another's ego, I guess.

In short: MS is saving money on your skin when they decided to force you to use a junk tablet UI on every Windows device.

Dell speeds EqualLogic arrays: Stuff spindles, let's add some flash

Why only 2TB disks?

1. They are listing 3TB as available for PS6510E (under specs tab): http://www.equallogic.com/products/default.aspx?id=8981

"7,200 RPM NL-SAS drives available in 3TB"

"144TB using forty-eight (48) 3TB NL-SAS disk drives"

So what's the reason not offering the hybrid model with 3TB drives, resulting in 123TB + 2.8TB SSD, combining the best of both worlds...?

2. No upgrade offered for current PS6510E owners? That's pretty awful, it sure as hell will sour plenty of upcoming upgrades...

WikiLeaks haters launch DDoS assault on Russia Today

Re: @Levente Szileszky

"it's a **democratically elected government**"

Which means jackshit when it comes to GOVERNING - in other words it has nothing to with my point, namely it's actively suppressing dissent, free speech & press etc and, as I pointed out above, is in the process of extraditing Barankov to Belarus, the last dictatorship in Europe*.

*: ruled by a stupid-looking, hilarious idiot with a gay bar-worthy mustache - not sure why but Lukashenko always strikes me as a classic closeted, aging gay man (+ his quick separation from his family right after he became a dictator does not help his image.)

Re: How odd

...yeah, how odd when the same UK that protected Augusto Pinochet from extradition to face charges for torture and murder now is going so out of the way to extradite Assange for "coercion" (not rape, not torture, not murder nor anything similar) that they even threatened to ignore the embassy status and raid the building?

And I just read the article how a Brit was sent to prison by Hollywood's parasites *in the UK*...

...Jesus, is there anything you cannot *BUY* in the UK?

I'm still undecided on Assange but boy, what an incompetent scumbag government you Brits have, it's just breathtaking... from, the other side of the pond it really seems like the worst in the past 30 years (yes, I really said that, Major included.)

Re: How odd

PS: just to make it clear, I totally *AGREE* with you on the hypocrisy regarding Barankov's extradiction, moreover I do NOT trust Ecuador and their motives in this case for a second - it's NOT a democratic regime, regardless of their grandstanding here.

EA kills Medal of Honour arms deal

Re: Political Correctness Run Amok

"A company teams up with other companies to sell legally purchasable goods in order to send the proceeds to a charity, and this is shot down (pun intended) because libs and the media have a prejudice against said legally purchasable product?"

Priceless idiocy, perfect example of a stupid, true gun-tard.

Re: Political Correctness Run Amok

FYI your irony will be lost on him - guntards are completely incapable to register any irony as they will never recognize their utterly lunatic way of thinking...

...guntards, nuff said.

One word: EA...

...they are like Romney, they would do ANYTHING for money - "what, you like our Mom, how dare you... wait, how much do you have?:

Zynga COO quits: Game over for John Schappert

It's Pincus' copycat operation with limited lifetime from the beginning...

It's Pincus' copycat operation with limited lifetime from the beginning...

...anyone can see just by looking at their games - all are blatant and unabashed ripoffs of existing games ever since Zynga's first appearance on the market...

Mafia Wars: http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/13/zynga-settles-mob-wars-litigation-as-it-settles-in-to-playdom-war/

Cafe World: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/12/cloning-or-theft-ars-explores-game-design-with-jenova-chen/

FarmVille: http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-09-08/news/farmvillains/

Dream Heights: http://toucharcade.com/2012/01/24/zynga-shamelessly-rips-off-tiny-tower-with-canadian-release-of-dream-heights/

Bingo: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-57368167-2/another-day-another-accusation-that-zynga-is-copying-competitors/

The key behind their modus operandi is this CEO/Parasite-in-Chief Pincus and his completely broken moral compass:

>>"I don't &^%ing want innovation," the ex-employee recalls Pincus saying. "You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."<<

Besides being a free-riding parasite Pincus also exemplifies an utterly disgusting executive style: giving out shares when you are small and you desperately need talent and hard work and when money starts flowing in you simply force these small shareholder-employees to give it up right before your IPO? It's called *&^%bag in my dictionary:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904577018373223480802.html

I hardly ever root for EA but in this case I cannot wait to see them to grab and crush this parasite.

Pixar open sources production animation code, patents

Re: Without Jobs there would be no Pixar

But that's just you, more precisely your apparent inability to follow the flow of comments eg reading my post without reading the comment I was replying to...

Re: Without Jobs there would be no Pixar

"Jobs recognised there is more to life than money "

Ah yes, that's why he first even denied to contact his daughter from his first marriage (he completely abandoned her) then, after his second wife finally managed to straighten him out and the girl moved in, he refused to pay her tuition fees (she ended up borrowing money from one of Jobs' founding colleagues at Apple.)

Jobs NEVER gave a SINGLE CENT to CHARITY, money was EVERYTHING to him as far as the world goes - he clearly stated many times they (Apple) are in this business only to make money, nothing else, he does not care about artist tools or anything that's not about making a profit.

Re: Without Jobs there would be no Pixar

"In fact - Jobs maintained his commitment to Pixar even after he returned to Apple - and it is thought that the stress caused by his time at the helm of both Apple and Pixar lead directly to the illnesses from which he died."

oO.....=O

"I'm no Jobs apologist - basically he couldn't bear fools - but it sounds like if you knew your stuff and had the guts to tell him so then he respected that."

Nope, you rather sound like a really clueless Jobs-lover who is willing to spread such utterly lunatic crap like Pixar-related stress caused his neuroendocrine tumor...

...pleahhhse - stop with the Jobsian BS, for once.

FYI to put it bluntly Jobs died because he was a stupid, arrogant idiot, plain and simple, who - instead of listening to the best medical advice one can get on this planet - decided he will 'study this tumor thing' and know it better than anyone, pissing away the critical first 8-9 months drinking carrot juice while the tumor was still isolated and removable but slowly growing and metastasizing.

In short he committed the classic stupid mistake of a self-taught, arrogant egomaniac CEO who believes medical science is just another hard problem to tackle... the rest is history.

WTF because WTF?

Still...

...as attoman summarized it very well above Jobs had NOTHING to do either with technology (thanks God) or artistic direction (how about boring flat, shiny-boxy unified-looking characters? :D) at Pixar, he was merely a management figurehead (mainly to fight off Disney's utterly clueless idiots) and keep the money flowing.

RIM: We can't flog phones, would you like our nuke plant OS instead?

Re: Sadly it's nonsense

PS: that being said I *hope* RIM can turn around - there's a lot of potential in QNX and its new BB OS, it's just they had two horribly clueless old farts pissing away their critical transition period & money instead of quickly narrowing down on the new OS and issues and beating the development process into shape 2-3 years ago...

Sadly it's nonsense

"Actually, if properly set up BES works pretty well."

Actually if properly set up only email works pretty well and that's 2002 or 2006, not 2012, sorry.

Multiple calendars, browser, syncing accounts etc are all horrible on Blackberry, a total joke compared to Android's simplicity.

" People are resentful (is that even a word) because in most people's eyes a 'company-provided smartphone for e-mail' == an iPhone. The simple fact is that the BB just isn't as 'cool' as an iPhone and people resent that."

No offense but this is as clueless as someone can get about phones :)

FYI donning an iPhone nowadays is as cool as riding a bicycle in the Summer (=utterly common)... it might be 'cool' among fifty-something bankers or 12-y old schoolgirls but nowhere between.

Empirical but still true: almost all iPhone users around me converted to Android in the past year or so and we are talking about tech people, developers, digital artists, the prime target of Apple - the only iPhone owners now are business people around 50... :P

Emulex hopes 16Gbps Fibre Channel will give it the kiss of life

I wouldn't bet on it beyond short term...

...unless he meant picking over incumbent FC installation carcass is their new way of life. :P

I think most SMEs are either already happy with 10GbE and when they need more the new Windows Server 2012 (out in 3 weeks) offers very granular, built-in scalability (teaming, active-active clustering etc) or just considering stepping up to 10GbE and iSCSI, leaving their FC4 gear behind...

Data centers and enterprise storage systems might just stick with FC (FCoE is nowhere to be seen so far) but OTOH if we are talking about the bandwidth-driven segment (eg HPC) IB is a *LOT* faster without added complexity and is very affordable now: a 36-port FDR (56Gb per port, all line-rate) switch is around $8k, HBAs cost the same as FC ones etc.

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

Ballmerian world of utter incompetence...

...is finally hitting everybody on the forehead - how long until the clueless yet arrogant bald fatty with anger issues is finally out for good?

NASA’s new lander CRASHES AND BURNS

Re: Armadillo?

Yeah, that explains a lot - maybe it was running on a Doom 3-derived, outdated-at-launch Carmack-style engine...

...it would certainly explain such an awful launch. ;)

Nokia straps Qt into ejector seat and hits the shiny red button

The ex-MS-beancounter Trojan Horse is doing its hitjob...

...and driving Nokia into the ground, only to provide Microsoft a state-of-the-art hardware division and global distribution channel for next to nothing by 2014 (coincidentally also killing off the last chance for a competitive non-US mobile platform - no, BBX will never succeed, unfortunately.)

Ironically the 'ejection' of Qt is actually *great* news: they are not tied to this self-immolating, self-destructing giant anymore - anything is better than certain death....

...stupid, stupid, Nokia board - they will go down in history as one of the most clueless one (right next to HP's lawyer-board, of course.)

Microsoft Surface slate: Acer, resellers predict a riot

Re: Clam down people

He's talking about this junk UI called Metro* that everyone hates so far...

*or whatever its name right now - seeing the horrible reception of this broken crap no wonder Microsoft is trying to change the name...

Re: "we may sell a few million, I don't know how many"

Become a politician - and no, I really don't want to see that.

Bill Gates, Harry Evans and the smearing of a computer legend

Errr...

...just a quick look at his page - that scrolling catchy title about Oracle vs Google, yay! - should tell you everything about Zeidman and his struggle for survival: http://www.zeidmanconsulting.com/

Rackspace profits from cloudy transitions

No, it's their...

...support: the fact that I have my own team/I can get someone *very knowledgeable* on the phone every time when I call in under a minute and get things changed/fixed/added/etc immediately keeps me there since 2005 (+ the quality of service, of course.)

HP and Dell to 'unveil Windows RT slabs in October'

Yawn... oh, this part is actually funny...

...I think:

"HTC has already been locked out of the development process as it was deemed not to have enough experience producing tablets, according to a report."

Just priceless.

FAIL, as in F-A-I-L as in B-A-L-L-M-E-R.

Microsoft opens app store for Office 2013

Do other than sales and marketing types use Office?

Seriously, word + dog around me switched to email + Google Apps....I still have an Office suite installed but I probably launch it like once a month now that Google Drive is syncing everything among my machines thus I can open everything in a browser anywhere, without Office (Google Docs.)

TBH after seeing the uber-arrogant, pigheaded (non-)response to the public outcry about this piece of junk called Metro/W8 I started thinking about getting MS booted from everywhere it's possible - first up is Office, I can already see the end of the line...

Zynga managers fingered in insider trading lawsuit

Well, Pincus shafted plenty of other people...

...as most of Zynga's games are nothing but copycats - as far as I know they never had a single original idea + they were always very well aware of their coming demise with the inevitable fall of FB gaming (already started.)

Licensed to kill: Amazon revamps Cloud Player to take on iTunes

The big issue here is now Cloud Player and Cloud Drive are separate services...

...so as opposed to few days ago, when I uploaded my new CD through Cloud Player and it ended up in Cloud Drive with unlimited MP3 space (it's not counted against my storage), now it would end up in either, depending on my upload choice but not both (unless you upload it twice.)

This would also mean instead of the usual $20 per year (Cloud Drive 20GB upgrade) it will add another $25/year (Cloud Player) and instead of being literally unlimited for music now it comes with a 250k songs "limit" (yeah, not much of a limit right now but if I get to live another 40 years it'll get tight. :))

Since I won't double-pay and even less double-upload I will just remove all my backups and cancel my Cloud Drive and keep Cloud Player as a music backup for $25 per year and that's it.

Stupid, stupid Amazon. It's not so much about the price but by severing the link between the two services and forcing me to either choose or double upload and double pay they just forced me to drop Cloud Drive entirely so they lost all my future upgrades - I was counting on as my main cloud-based backup space, paying more and more due to continuous upgrades...

Music labels, studios etc all need to and definitely will die...

...due to their own greed and arrogance, this is the good news. The only remaining question is how soon they will die?

More on this in the obligatory comics: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/music_industry

Russia slashes space station ship trip to just six hours

So it's not only faster but...

...must be also a lot cheaper, da?

Russian cargoship fluffs Space Station docking test

Space dimensions are awesome...

"The cargoship was 161km from the station when the glitch occurred and has now backed up to 484km, Russian space agency Roscosmos and Russian Mission Control said in a joint statement."

...aren't they? :) Docking was already under way from HUNDRED AND SIXTY KILOMETERS AWAY...? And it's backed up to almost FIVE HUNDRED kilometers just to try again?

It makes a difference when there's not much traffic around you, I guess.

Pentax K-01 16Mp APS-C hybrid camera review

Maybe it's just me but the main reason behind getting a mirrorless is...

...gone here: Pentax' (awful looking) chassis does not look like something I could carry around in my coat pocket or next to my laptop in a bag, and the lens are downright big, thanks to using APS-C instead of MFT sensors, adding more to the overall size (and weight too.)

Maybe it's just me... when I had enough of my old Canon(s) (=realized I never use DSLR anymore because they are heavy and big and I cannot lug around another bag day in day out) I started looking for a smaller system with at least comparable IQ...

...which took me YEARS of waiting for 'The One' but finally recently Olympus released the OM-D, their high-end, weatherproof MFT camera: it's built on Sony's latest-greatest (custom?) sensor tech, sporting ~13 stops DR, one of the fastest AF on the world, excellent high-ISO (think of D800/5DIII territory, shots at 6400 & above!) and the world's first Steadycam-quality 5-way in-body (works with any lens) stabilization... even its electronic viewfinder is top-notch.

Now I realize that's a $999/$1299 body/kit camera vs this cheaper Pentax but at least the OM-D is a DSLR replacement while APS-C mirrorless cams are usually (NEX-7 is being an exception) a compromise desperately trying to avoid hurting the mothership's DSLR sales (stupid idea), simply attempting to lure up previous P&S compact users (another stupid idea, smartphones are eating up that market segment alive, period.)

Again, I don't see why anyone other than their current DSLR users would opt for it over other choices... MFT is a mature system with plenty of sharp lenses, if the OM-D is too expensive then there are plenty of Panasonic choices for less money while still giving you better ergonomics.

Canon debuts EOS M compact system camera

Re: Why not Sony or Oly?

"You'd pick this over the Olympus (or any m4/3 body) because the sensor is physically bigger (and therefore better)"

The self-confidence of utterly ignorant people never ceases to amaze me...

...you have no clue about sensors, do you?

Microsoft picks October 26 for Windows 8 launch

Beginning of the end...

...of this big, impotent behemoth as we know it today ie the rule of clueless, half-idiotic, pigheaded, arrogant old farts like Ballmer and his ilks (Sinofski, Belfiore etc) is surely coming to an end in a couple of years, thanks God.

W8 will a *bigger* flop than Vista was, it's quite obvious - all one has to do is go online and read the hatred this tacky-broken utter junk called Metro provoked.

Time to disappear, you clueless bald, fat, angry troll and take your shills with you; it's time for the young and smart to take over and get this obese, slow-moving, impotent behemoth up to speed again.

Sony: Walkman, meet Android

Apple is FAR more despicable than anyone else on the market...

...so I hope you didn't buy any iJunk for years nor planning to buy one for several years to come.

Re: How is it crippled?

If something is infected that's that utter PoS iCrap - impossible to use without that outdated, luaghable bugfest called iTunes...

...talk about stupid, dumb, arrogant (late) C-levels.

Early verdict on Intel Ultrabook™ push: FAIL

Apple is pretty far from being more than a single-digit number in...

...worldwide sales so let's stop with the crazy Kool-Aid comparos - Macbook sales arenot really a concern for Intel, that's for sure.

Re: Time to get real

"I carry my MBA around all day - half the weight / size and being rugged is well worth the extra cost over the 3+ years I will have it."

And pretty much that's all you can do with that pathetically underpowered yet ridiculously overpriced toy, nothing else - Macbook Air: a fancy netbook for 3-4x the price, that is.

Re: Why pay 900 quid...

"Face it, Apple invented the prototypical smartphone form factor that everybody is using (copying) these days, i.e., a big flat slab dominated by a touchscreen that you operate with your fingers and a minimal number of physical keys."

You mean for clueless, absolutely ignorant Mac users, right?

Because for the rest of us such smartphones - and yes, even application stores - were existing devices long before any Apple shill came even close to discover them, forget making these stupid-hilarious claims about Apple's 'invention' (sic!)...

Typical ignorant Apple BS...

...as if Macbook Pros weren't bulky and overpriced crap laptops with mediocre hardware at that weight or MB Airs weren't fancy netbooks sold at hilarious price.

But hey, you are just probably too clueless to ever hear about VAIO S series with its ~$1k price tag and Macbook-beating specs at 3.6lbs (fiber casing) or the uber-portable Z series that mops the floor with MBAs but I could bring up some other brands too...