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  • On the post: Weak Vista Launch Continues To Take Its Toll On Computer Industry

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2007 @ 05:59pm

    Re:

    And once again, I have proven that I cannot tell the difference between Mike and Joe.


    Sorry Joe, its Mike that typically uses that line about recognizing the market you are in.

  • On the post: Weak Vista Launch Continues To Take Its Toll On Computer Industry

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2007 @ 05:56pm

    There's no evidence that its troubles are related to competition from flash, but you can be sure that investors are keeping a close eye on the situation.

    Yes, yes there is. Seagate sunk millions into researching micro storage solutions. There was a booming market for micro storage. Now that market has completely migrated to flash.

    You keep saying the rotating disk manufacturers aren't competing with flash, but thats just not true.

    And regardless of how you might want seagate to "recognise the market they are in is digital storage", its jsut not true. They are in the market of making rotating disks. That is all. They are NOT in the digital storage market. The rotating disk market and the flash market may have overlapping uses, which flash has so far decimated its rotating disk counterpart at every turn, the manufacturing processes of said devices have absolutely nothing to do with each other, and as such, "A" cannot market themselves into "B".

    The reason the carriage manufacturers couldnt stay in business with the advent of cars was not due to the lack of their ability to recognize they were in the business of transportation, it was because they had nothing to offer in the new market.

    Seagate has nothing to offer in the microstorage market. All that they have tried has failed. Why is microstorage so significant? Because it's storage density is growing far faster than mass storage.

    On a somewhat but compeltely off-topic note: Every time I plug my iPod into a vista pc to recharge it, I fall out of my chair laughing. Vista practically BEGS me to let it use the iPod to make it faster. How funny is that?

  • On the post: Studies Say MySpace Safe For Kids, But Don't Expect Politicians To Care

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2007 @ 03:54pm

    Re:

    You appear to be confusing "effective" with "complaint.

    yes, the system is implemented SOLELY to be compliant, and it is 100% compliant with regulations.

    whether or not it is even remotely effective is beyond the scope of either party.

  • On the post: Security Firm Says It Can't Fight Phishing, So Banks Should Move To A New Domain

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2007 @ 03:49pm

    from the me-too-me-too dept

    Hey, theres no reason to exclude anyone from security, everyone wants to be secure.

    As soon as anything like .safe got created, it would be inundated with complaints from those that are not allowed to be a part of .safe.

    customer: Why isn't your web based email client safe?
    customer service: because ICANN denied us the right to offer you safe email.

    yeah, that would go over well.

    Oh, and ebays paypal is officialy not a financial service (or at least not a bank) so who, exactly would get to decide who is allowed in or not?

    Sounds to me like someone trying to create a paycheck out of thin air.

  • On the post: EMI To Sell DRM-Free Tracks Through iTunes Music Store

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2007 @ 10:52am

    One customer has returned

    I havent bought any music in years due to the way the "big 4" has been abusing its paying customers.

    So it may not be a big thing but one label has just had "one customer" return. I wonder how many other "ones" there are like me. I'll be making my first purchase tonight when I get home.

    (Yeah, I have an ipod, and a mac, and iTunes IS the worst piece of crap media manager out there. But hey, now I actually have a reason to use iTMS.)

  • On the post: Michael Eisner May No Longer Run Disney, But His Views On Intellectual Property Haven't Changed

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2007 @ 08:08pm

    Re: Re: Disney Movies Based On Public Domain

    The lion king is even worse, its a direct ripoff of a japanese cartoon. They didn't even have to rewrite anything.

    They got away with it because in the country it was released in, copyright was not automatically granted. All disney had to do was draw "disney-like" toons, and of course, market the hell out of it.

  • On the post: ICANN Once Again Shoots Down .xxx TLD

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2007 @ 03:35pm

    Equal opportunity...

    If they gave that one guy .mobi, just to rake in the cash, then they ougth to give this guy .xxx, so he can rake it in too.

    It's only fair.

  • On the post: SMS The Latest Tool To Help Smokers Quit?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2007 @ 08:42pm

    Re:

    Yes, there are plenty, but they do not work for the HMOs.

  • On the post: Desktop Linux Gets Boost From Dell

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2007 @ 03:13pm

    Re: Re: Re: Linux is good but it is not for

    "Buy a Mac then." Like she has that kind of money.

    I don't know what you're smoking, but that's bull.

    Buy her a mac mini and a 100$ lcd, and be done with it already. It is less expensive than any (usable) vista machine on the market...

  • On the post: Kids Don't Multitask As Well As They'd Like You To Think

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2007 @ 04:58pm

    Re: The human CPU

    False assumption.

    As analog computers, our brain can process many thoughts at once, and its actually the random interference and noise from those other thoughts that gives us creativity.

  • On the post: Charges Reinstated Against Russian School Teacher Accused Of Piracy

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2007 @ 04:43pm

    Agreed.

    this kind of case looks particularly ridiculous and sad

    I agree absolutely.

  • On the post: Flash Memory Still Not Causing The Death Of Hard Drives

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2007 @ 04:13pm

    Re: Flash is already causing the death of hard dri

    sorry for subject typo and calling out Mike vice Joe.

  • On the post: Flash Memory Still Not Causing The Death Of Hard Drives

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2007 @ 04:05pm

    Re: Re: WRONG

    Take a laptop to your local Theatre at 1:00 am on a saturday night. If you're lucky, it will become magentic.

  • On the post: Flash Memory Still Not Causing The Death Of Hard Drives

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2007 @ 04:04pm

    Flash is already killing the death of hard drives

    Mike, your spin makes no sense, Flash already is killing he hard drive.

    sure, it might take a while to get the capacity up to that of rotating magnetic platters, but it is getting there, and in the microstorage market, flash already caused the demise of rotating magentic disks.

    The seagate dude is right, as long as magnetic disks are cheaper there will be a market for them. One that is on a steady decline.

  • On the post: Flash Memory Still Not Causing The Death Of Hard Drives

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2007 @ 04:00pm

    Re: Re: WRONG

    Oh, but I do understand them.

    Yes, there are benefits to adding a non-volatile ram subsystem to a PC. There are no benefits to adding that ram to the hdd.

    As for your remarks... You already can save power by hibernating, but there is no point to it. Hybrid drives won' be improving that experience either.

    You already can save power by "sleeping" aka: standby. Keeping the RAM refreshed takes very little power, and my laptops can go over two weeks in standby.

    Too large to store in RAM?? you've got to be kidding me...

    Perhaps you are confusing your susceptability to marketing as my inability to comprehend...

  • On the post: Appeals Court Tells Minnesota, Yet Again, That It Cannot Tax VoIP

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2007 @ 08:18pm

    so....

    Which Telco is paying their legal fees?

  • On the post: While Vietnam Looks To The Web To Improve Sex Drive, Japan Blames The Web For Reduced Sex Drive

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2007 @ 06:43pm

    Completely off topic

    sorry for the OT, but I can't help it.

    As a big time cisco hater (I don't believe in extortion as a business model), seeing the web-ex shilling on every page is downright annoying.

  • On the post: Could Too Much Focus On Compliance Leave Companies Open To Fraud?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2007 @ 07:42pm

    Re: keep your SOX on

    ...most of us recognise it as a ... thing with good intentions.

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

    We just have to accept that it's a cost of doing business these days and factor that into any model.

    Right, no point trying to enact changes for the betterment of our society now. That was so 60's...

    Bad legislation is bad legislation. We don't just have to accept it. We just have to get it fixed. (And yes, blogging about their deficiencies is one way to obtain the influence of those that can actually fix it, so Mike, Blog on!)

  • On the post: Could Too Much Focus On Compliance Leave Companies Open To Fraud?

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2007 @ 07:36pm

    Too bad they weren't in compliance

    As Perkins sees it, in the post-Enron era, boards are filled with what he calls "compliance directors", individuals that are mainly concerned with things like Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and other governance issues.

    Too bad those "compliance directors" didn't tell HP not to go around spying on reporters... But I guess criminal law is not as important in business as securities regulations... ah, priorities, priorities...

  • On the post: Los Alamos Highlights Real Danger Of Early Daylight Savings: Mistimed Coffee Brewing

    Misanthropist ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2007 @ 09:13am

    Re: judgement day

    7am March 11, coffee skynet became self aware and launched its first attack on american civilization by not brewing coffee on time.

    8am March 11, americans became self aware and when the few non-destroyed coffee-makers started brewing their coffee an hour late. After a few cups of the warm goodness, they came to the realization that they had just destroyed all their coffee makers for no reason, as it was their own fault for not fixing the clock.

    9am March 11, the president declares a day of mourning. And with the shortage of working coffeemakers, he declared the afternoone a morning as well.

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