Posts by jubtastic1

Adobe kills Creative Suite – all future features online only

Hey Adobe

This is to the person(s) employed by Adobe to scrape all the 'feedback' from this announcement.

Keep working on CS7 in the backroom, so that when this subscription only plan doesn't work like you expected it to, you'll be able to say sorry, pop a U turn and get something on the market pronto, because otherwise you're going to get pwned by some 'good enough' alternatives and the days when you used to charge people a 'bargain' $600 to upgrade will be just a memory.

Don't wait too long, you've just chummed the water, sharks will come.

NORKS powers down whole towns to find pirates

Surely that's untrue?

They don't really power down a town then go door to door to check the contents of DVD players, that would require a registry of government issued DVD players that were specially designed to prevent someone removing the discs and could distinguish between mains power and an appropriate transformer running off some car batteries.

I think it's way more likely that this is simply propaganda, reported as fact in the Nork media to make citizens think twice about buying a cheap DVD from Chinese blokes toting sports bags, probably intended to keep the state owned version of blockbusters in business more than identifying dissidents, i'm pretty sure Mr Kim already knows that they're all dissidents.

Look ma, no plugins! Streaming web video with just JavaScript

Re: Shouldn't that be...

@suricou raven

Can't see that happening for a few reasons, firstly because they would need the entire file to match against and it would be too easy to defeat by splicing copies together at the cutscenes, and secondly because if this takes off it's going to be served from a worldwide CDN and continually adding different noise to each copy as it's served is going to get very expensive very quickly.

It's more likely implemented as a subtle marker containing the entire code at shortish intervals, which would also allow identification of short clips, like someone spltting the content up into 10 min youtube videos for example.

It's also going to be quickly bypassed by the pirates, in much the same way that Time Coded review copies are similarly ID encoded but are all over the download sites regardless.

Some more info about the codec would be nice but I seriously doubt it's competative with H265 if they're comparing it to H264 and it was designed with javascript decomression in mind, I suspect this is going to have less of an impact than the video codec Google opensourced.

US Ambassador plays Game of Thrones with pirates

Re: I want it NOW!

The thing is, the Internet has expanded social groups across borders, so people are more likely to hear their friends raving about something that turns out to be blocked or unavailable for them.

None of this region locking makes sense to the average person, It's long out of touch with the real world and feels like an old redundant thing that's going to be gone before long anyway, so it's easy to rationalise just downloading stuff while it's still relevant rather than waiting until the businesses involved get a clue.

Also £2.99 an episode is way too much, It needs to be cheap enough that people don't question the cost, like the 99c / 69p level for apps and music. iTunes / Amazon / Play downloads aren't competing with physical media, they're competing with free downloads, the price, quality and convenience need to reflect that reality.

Barnes & Noble bungs Raspberry Pi-priced Nook on shelves

Re: Lifetime ban

Won't be so funny later when they're the only shop still in business.

Apple to end support for original iPhone: report

Still got mine

My three year old plays with it, runs Jetpack Joyride & temple run just fine and he's pretty damn good at it.

Agree with the comments about support ending years ago though, no idea what part of it is still under support until June.

Apple's next OS X said to be targeted at 'power users'

Skeuomorphism

Someone did a good write up on this, don't have a link handy but the gist was that skeuomorphism isn't a bad thing, it's actually a pretty neccessary thing, checkboxes and radio buttons are skeuomorphic, there's no reason a checkbox on the internet needs to look like a checkbox from a physical paper form other than to instantly convey it's meaning, remove all traces of skeuomorphism and you'll end up with an abstract mess of a UI.

So the problem with some of Apple's recent apps isn't skeuomorphism per se, but rather one of seriously cheesy design work.

Personally I can't wait to see what Ive does with software, I'm not expecting him to simply throw out all the CSS files though.

Serial killer hack threat to gas pipes, traffic lights, power plants

Tip of the iceberg

These systems will be the battlefields of the next war, which will be unique in that it will be difficult* to positively identify the combitant countries and because of the level of civillian casualties and economic damage.

All because properly securing systems is seen as an unwarranted cost by too many vendors.

And we haven't even started rolling out IP6 and the 'Internet of things' yet, we have the 'oppurtunity' to make this a much larger problem before kick off.

*Nationstates aren't going to launch an attack from their own IP block, they're going to launch it from exploited machines in the target Nation and route the commands through a crapload of compromised machines in other 'usual suspect' nationstates, including their own. The global Internet links will be physically disabled pretty quickly once things kick off.

You hear that, Mr Cook? Samsung's profits have gone UP

Of course theres this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-samsungs-massive-marketing-budget-2012-11

Not sure how sustainable that spend is, but I suspect it all goes to pants pretty quickly when you stop.

Master Beats: Why doesn't audio quality matter these days?

My tuppound

I believe its a combination of napster and youtube thats to blame for this, there's a whole generation thats grown up with 'free' music, whatever you want to listen to, whenever you want, that most of it is compressed to shit seemed like a fair compromise at the beginning but now my kids (who have grown up with this), expect the compression noise and peak levels throughout to the point that music sounds wrong when it's missing.

I'm hoping as they grow older they will reasise what they've been missing and rediscover music.

Oh, and beats are just fashion cans, how they sound is pretty irrelevant.

Weak iPad, iPhone demand hits LG Display in the wallet

Re: just a little innovation

Pretty sure the next big thing isn't going to be some sort of screen you strap to your face.

Also I note that when Bloomburg ran this story at least they had the guts to mention the analyst predicting woes for Apple was from Samsung Securities.

Here's a prediction for Apple's filing tomorrow, YoY is up, stock goes down.

Game designer spills beans on chubby-fancying chap with his stolen Mac

Re: The blog

Had mine stolen from a parking bay in South Kensington, right under the nose of a CCTV camera mounted to a lamppost, neither the Police or the council ever discovered who was running the camera, it didn't seem to concern them that someone had installed it overlooking a bike bay.

It was a few years ago but it turned out that there was just one copper in London who was assigned to bike thefts.

Ofcom: Parents, here's how to keep grubby tots from buying Smurfberries

Re: Not just kids...

Never, that's when it's acceptable for a single click on an advert to call a number, which explains why a confirmation dialog pops up instead of just dialling it.

You can try it yourself, scroll to the bottom of this page on a mobe, tap the 'Advertise with us' link then tap on the phone number.

Is that child safe? Nope, is it useful for adults? Yes.

... time machine. Iranian Dr Who claims he invented a ...

Re: Only 5 years?

I think you read that comic wrong, note the bloody baseball bat in the last frame and hover text.

Operators look on in horror as Facebook takes mobe users Home

It's not for me

I'm not on Facebook, but I can see this being quite successful, reminds me of Metro, but users don't have to switch phones and apps etc for a new platform.

Double edged sword for Google, nice to have a big exclusive on android, but shame it cuts them out of the picture somewhat. Can't see how this really affects telcos who are little more than conduits at this point.

Also, Reddit could play this game as well.

The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME

SGi made some sexy looking boxes back in the day, in funky colours as well, do an image search for SGI for examples.

The healing hands of guru Dabbs

I'd like to believe I have special powers

That machines simply behave the moment they catch wind of my presence, even over the phone or via VNC but I suspect it's really down to the users turning down the asshattery when they call.

I'd also like to add that users being too 'busy' to read the error messages is the bread and butter of IT support.

Steve Jobs' 'spaceship' threatened by massive cost overruns

Looks like a spaceship

Priced like a spaceship,

Flies like a spaceship

To infinity loop and beyond!

How the iPad ruined the lives of IT architects

Empowering cutting-edge infrastructures

Personally speaking, I've found that by simply visualising virtual models and embracing open-source interfaces for user-centric channels it's been easy to deliver end-to-end user experiences that redefine world-class collaborative availability.

just my 2k

Patent shark‘s copyright claim could bite all Unix

I'm usually really bad at these

But the bell rang as soon as I saw the headline on the main page.

Dell directors foresee unremitting brutality in PC market

I'm guessing its illegal

To just go ahead as planned and take the company private after the shares have tanked then? Seeing as that would save them a fistful of dollars.

Public cloud will grow when experienced IT folks DIE

Bullshit

The Cloud is just a marketing term, basically shorthand for outsourcing your severs, that's fine so long as you accept that they can fail due to any number of problems between your workplace and the host or change in a way that breaks your apps without warning, or simply evaporate because your host can't pay it's bills / got hacked / had all its kit seized by law enforcement / forgot to renew a cert etc.

All the cloud services have seen massive outages, only the young and foolish would rely on them for business critical infrastructure.

Reg man bested in geek-to-geek combat - in World War 3 nerve centre

More of this sort of thing

Sounds great, reminds me of Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, which has great rocket and explosives exhibits and knowledgable volunteers, some of whom used to work there as rocket scientists, good family day out, check the weather first though as rainy days don't get all the pyrotechnics.

iPads in education: Not actually evil, but pretty close

Re: Completely right on all accounts

Education is a pretty big area, the article concentrates on Comp Sci and I'd agree that tablets aren't really suitable for that, elsewhere though, from primary onwards tablets will become the norm.

It's pretty simple really, they make sense for exactly the same reasons that we supply office workers with computers, we don't expect dave in sales to be able to write a program, he just needs the tools to do the job.

As tools for learning go, a good app is better than a good book, interactive content is better than watching an episode of 'Look Around You', screen sharing is better than a smartboard, the web is a better research tool than the Library, online homework is better than printing out bits of paper, distributing them, chasing them up, and hand marking them. Collaboration, messaging etc and so on.

That classrooms are going to transition from pen and paper to digital should be obvious, and if you're handing out computers, tablets are smaller, lighter, have better battery life and are harder to break (software & hardware*), than laptops, and if you've decided on tablets then the app ecosystem, tracking and inherent lockdown are persuasive arguments for selecting iPads. I'm sure that will change over time but it's true enough right now,

*Pour a glass of water on a tablet and it's likely to be fine, do the same on an open laptop and it's likely fucked. How many times do you think you could drop your laptop off a desk without something breaking? mostly it's nunce. One piece solid state devices are simply tougher than hinged part mechanical devices.

Lightspeed variable say intellectuels français

Re: Slightly OT

"Yes, maximum speed, see equations here and here, has to be like this or universe would become orders of magnitude more complicated, will be internally consistent, unlikely anyone will notice."

It's like the pre rendered star box drama all over again.

Slightly OT

But I've always thought that C being a fixed value irregardless of the velocity of it's source really shouts "simulation; some calculations have been simplified to ease rendering"

Apple pulls iForgot password recovery system over security bug

Re: Love it

That's right, I'm a fandroid, the whole mac user thing I've been peddling in the comments for the last 7 years was all an elaborate set up.

YFM

/sent from my iPad

This is almost as bad as that 1-2-3 stupidity

A fraction harder to exploit because you need the victims birthdate, but essentially the same level of carelessness / ineptitude.

You're holding doing it wrong.

Space probe spies MYSTERY 'Cold Spot' in very fabric of cosmos itself

Fractal

Looks like a heat map of a planet, band of heat around the middle, cold bits at the poles, swirls in between.

Conclusion: universe is orbiting something bigger.

Steve Jobs' death clears way for Adobe CTO defection

Fuck adobe.

Apple's issue with flash was that it never ever ran as well on OS X as it did on windows, in some circumstances it was orders of magnitude worse, Adobe's reply was that they had deeper hardware access on windows which Apple wouldn't allow, but given Adobe basically lost all the people that could code cleanly when they bought Macromedia, and that everything they've released since is riddled with spastic bugs and exploits I can't say I was surprised.

Case in point, customer asked for help installing CS6 Design standard the other day, there are lengthy instructions, but the short version is to download and install a 3rd party download manager, which proceeds to load a 3GB DMG in a browser window, be careful, as any inturuption during this download will send you into a broken install loop that seems to be unrecoverable, it then asks you to save it, tries to open it, failed, and repeat.

Adobe even have their own separate software download assistant which you have to sign in to with your account yet then doesn't list the stuff you paid for. Solution for anyone else in the same boat is to download the master collection trial and use the design standard serial with it. Absolute Fucking Cretins.

Flash on mobile never really got off the ground anyway, a lot of the existing content was unsuitable for touch and relied on hover for effects, or just added processing load by being little more than a wrapper around h264 video. If adobe could have solved those issues it would have done so on android and we'd still be seeing those 'includes the whole web' jabs on other manufactures marketing materials.

I can't see this guy lasting long at apple.

300 UK domains pilfered, MASSIVE security lapse blamed

That's ridiculous

Just plain asshattery, whoever coded that admin panel needs their computer operators licence revoked.

Holly(oaks) talking head is FUTURE of face messaging, claims prof

Re: What is it for

#2 I don't want Siri to have a face, I want them to licence HAL or GLaDOS. Make me happy already you Apple bastards, same goes out to Google, get either demented AI as the face of Google Now and you can creep through my most intimate of dox to your hearts content.

Microsoft issues manual on Brits to Cambridge exports

This cockerney translator may also be of assistance to visiting yanks

http://moteprime.org/cockerney/ invaluable resource for conversation in London Town.

Nelson Mandela's island prison hell to become game

Re: Games are never realistic

Houdy Charles Manning! come be my friend in Robben Islandville where you can break rocks, endure degradation and develop a new philosophical outlook!

'Robben Islandville' and 'years of fun' are registered trademarks of Apartheid Games Ltd

Curiosity succeeds – Mars was wet enough for life!

Re: So... what happened to te water?

Isn't cooling a ferrous metal in a magnetic field one of the methods for producing a permenent magnet? I realise the molen material is itself the source of the magnetism but it's going to solidify from the edges in, stands to reason that those edges would become magnetised and later be the magnet for the rest of it as it solidifies.

That would leave a humungous magnet inside a spinning mars which should still be producing a field.

Except that didn't happen so I think the field is likely produced by convection currents within the core, and those currents stop long before it starts solidifying, leaving a denagnetised ball of metal. I assume the flip flopping of Earths field indicates the same will eventually happen here, stopping halfway through a flip to leave the Earth to be ravaged by the solar wind.

I suppose if you build big enough coils at Mar's poles, you might link the fields through the ferrous core and create an artificial field just big enough to retain an atomsphere, perhaps something to try when the Sun is due to red giant and swallow the Earth, unless it's easier to simply move the Earth at that point in which case I'd go with that instead.</barely coherent rambling>

Rise Of The Machines: What will become of box-watchers, delivery drivers?

Re: But How

Either It will phone you and tell you to come outside and pick up your parcel from the clearly marked opening on the side of the truck, or some minimum wage van monkey will be employed to dribble it to your door.

Automated Royal Mail trucks will of course be miniaturised as they will only be carrying "sorry we missed you" cards anyway.

Mozilla to Apple: we don't care about iOS

They should strike back

By making their own Mobile OS and only allowing Gecko based browsers.

Microsoft backs law banning Google Apps from schools

Re: I rarely criticize microsoft. I do it for the first time.

Well two other AI's upvoted it and downvoted you, I suggest that just because your meat logic is incapable of rendering meaning does not indicate the absence of meaning.

Perhaps I'm being too harsh, Google translate does miss the nuences of the original binary.

Congratulations, copyright infringers: You are the five per cent

Lies, Damn LIes etc

Freetards want stiffer sentences? Can pay, but won't pay? have you read any of the comments on torrent sites? do they look like they came from ABC1? Goodness gracious, what stuff and nonsense,[B. please replace this with something appropriately colloquial -J] Thats all bollox innit guv.

A:3 V:6 M:10 poor copy, BR rip is better.

Intel, Apple forging chip-baking deal?

Otellini don't mean no ARM

Apparently Apple averaged 10 ARM's per second over the last three months. Intel would have to be pretty stubborn to not want a peice of that.

Gone in 30 minutes: Chinese tweets purged by army of censors

Ministry of Truth

As dystopian images go, 4,200 chinese workers in cubicles combing through a firehose of their fellows content and deleting criticism is pretty strong, i suspect the reality is less than a hundred guys monitoring a watchlist and leaving the posts up for 30 minutes to a) record who reads/reposts them and b) remind the public that they are being watched.

I really cant see this scalling indefinetly, and I hope that when China takes the boot off its collective face they don't burn down all the infrastructure in the process.

Oz Senator says Google Glass could 'end privacy as we know it'

Every breath you take

A world where headmounted video recording is commonplace is a world without privacy, that the idea is being pitched by a company whose revenue depends upon user profiling should be setting off fucking loud klaxons.

Surely this ground has already been covered by Star Trek or Doctor Who?

Proto Steam box may feel your arousal, hints Valve daddy

The next generation of consoles

Reminds me of all the HD DVD vs Blueray fuss, with everyone competing to be the guy that loses to streaming. In ten years time no one is going to buy a console, pretty much anything with a screen will be able to connect to an online platform that does the grunt work and sends the video to the player. It's just a matter of time before the bandwidth and latency is up to snuff, It already is in some parts of the world.

Which isn't to say that they shouldn't bother, just that it's curious that a company well placed to thrive in the coming gaming revolution is trying to break into the static hardware market it will render obsolete.

Twenty classic arcade games

Re: Blimey!

+1 for Nemesis, awesome game that could make 20p last a lunch break, Also honourable mentions for Commando & Kung Fu Master, oh and Rolling Thunder & Green Beret.

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There's a legitimate business in there

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We run low impact processing loads on your hardware while you're not using it.

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New class of industrial-scale super-phishing emails threatens biz

Re: Self aware

The humans that click the links are arguably self aware, I think we can assume that by the time the average laptop has the combined IQ of six thousand PE teachers it will be just as easily fooled by the Hawking model the spammers are using to craft the spam.

Flexy 'iWatch' glass said to be three years away

Apple, Corning and Gorilla Glass

No need to wonder, a simple google for corning steve jobs will tell you all you need to know about the relationship between these companies.

You're welcome.

YFM.

Canadian cyborg says Google Glass design is cracked

Couple of thoughts, make that three.

It's too early, they look stupid because we don't yet have the tech to completly hide all the gubbins, 5-10 years later this could have been launched without people objecting to them simply because of the design.

It's Google, they would give these away for free if they could because ultimately every wearer of these things becomes another pair of eyes and ears pouring data into the mainframe. Google isn't evil, they're just obsessed with quantifying reality, they're not going to feel they're finished* until they're inside your head, recording your thoughts while looking out of the holes.

Would we trust anyone with a real time feed of our lives? I say no, that this tech isn't going to go mainstream until they have a secure connection to a back end on our own 'server' and all the data requests from the server run through some sort of onion network to maintain privacy.

* Machines don't actually have feelings, the tasks state will be recorded as 'complete' when a complex series of cascading boolean statements all return true.

Health pros: Alcohol is EVIL – raise its price, ban its ads

2013 progress report

Smoking 2007

Boozing 2013

Coffee 2015

Porn 2018

Red meat 2020

The will to live 2020

Architect pitches builder-bothering 'Print your own house' plan

Re: do for building what Linux did for software

Hush you, it's a fantastic idea, in fact I liked it so much I forked it on github, forget about these losers, openjubhomes.org is where its at.