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Posts by Nigel 11
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BOFH: Hasta la Vista... luser
Re: We've all been there haven't we!
I'm afraid the best answer is to give the luser a USB memory stick and tell him to copy everything he needs to keep onto that, because the only way to cure a computer that badly infested with malware is to re-format the disk and start again(*). If s/he demurs, refer him to the shop s/he bought the thing from or to the manufacturer's warranty page. After a few round trips, s/he will beg you to wipe it!
(*) Only a slight lie ... it's certainly the best, the most reliable, and the fastest. Apart from a big hammer or creative use of an ITIL manual, that is.
New flexible lens works like the one in your eye - and could replace it
Re: Something wrong here
My knowledge of cataract implants and how the eye works was out of date. Nothing Google / Wikipaedia couldn't fix. Yes, implants used to be rigid, which was less than ideal. Today, they are flexible. This seems pretty obvious - if one can make a biocompatible material with all the desirable physical properties of a natural eye lens, then one should. And today, they do. So, something slightly fancy needed, and available.
Re: @Scott
re Varifocals. I tried. I walked around for a month feeling that I'd wandered into a nightmare with invisible horrors haunting my peripheral vision. (I exaggerate slightly, but I did keep getting startled by nothings). I didn't get used to it, so I threw the expensive experiment away. Apparently I'm more conscious of my peripheral vision than most other people. I immensely dislike those trendy tiny-lens spectacles for the same reason, and wear the "classic aviator" sort.
Something wrong here
Applications of the new lens include lens implants for people with defective or diseased lens
We've had those for decades. Nothing fancy is needed to replace a diseased lens (typically a cataract), just a moulded acrylic lens implant with the same optical parameters as the natural lens. Nature focusses the eye with muscles around the eye stretching or squeezing the eyeball, thereby moving the lens in or out a bit.
Someone I know with such an implant swears that it's better than what nature gave him in the first place, so it seems unlikely to me that any further improvement is either necessary or possible.
Before implants, they just removed the clouded natural lens and gave the patient cataract spectacles, which he could focus by moving them to and fro along his nose.
Equinix's new Sydney bit barn built to survive TOXIC FLOOD
Re: Couldn't they just put it on the 5th floor?
My thought also. Or choose a location reasonably uphill of sea level and any nearby rivers.
ROGUE PLANET WITHOUT A SUN spotted in interstellar space
Re: H2G2
Not quite as remote, but Iain M Banks' "Against a Dark Background" is set (to very good effect) on a solar system that's been ejected from its galaxy.
Re: Planet?
It's just a matter of definitions. It might avoid a lot of arguments if it were done by mass, with a planet being a body more massive than an asteroid and less massive than a brown dwarf star, and with precise numbers setting the boundaries.
Note, any object gravitationally bound to our galaxy is orbiting at least one star. If it's wandering in interstellar space, it may be orbiting many tens or even hundreds of millions of them.
Re: Very strange stuff
There's also a grey zone between a wandering gas giant planet and a brown dwarf star. Jupiter emits more energy than it receives from Sol, because something (probably a very small amount of hydrogen fusion) is going on in its core.
"Torn loose by gravitational interactions" implies some sort of catastrophic interaction such as another star passing close to a solar system. That's not necessary. Any solar system with more than two bodies is stable only in a statistical sense. A 3,4, ... N body gravitationally bound system is chaotic, and it is always possible that what appears to be a stable orbit will in fact end up with one of the planets ceasing to be gravitationally bound to its sun.
You'll be unsurprised to know that the future of the solar system has been carefully modelled. Earth is safe for the next 200M years or so. Beyond that, we can't say. The observations aren't good enough to distinguish longer-term stability from its opposite. Such is the nature of a chaotic system. An unmeasurably small difference today may be the difference between earth remaining in orbit or not, 300M years hence. "Past performance may not be a reliable guide to future performance"!
Back to mini brown dwarfs or large wandering planets, it's possible that these might be the last habitable places after all the universe's stars have burned themselves out. Has anyone ever written a far-future SF story set on or within one?
Sinofsky OFFSKI: Is Windows 9 now codenamed 'Defenestrate'?
Re: Perhaps we need a "Jobsian" second coming of Gates?
How could anyone at Microsoft take a look at Windows ME and say that it was OK and ready to be shipped? Going back a bit ... but Bates was in charge back then.
No, MS needs a completely new board, followed by a lot of sacking of people at or near the top. That's if it's possible to rescue the company at all. The rot may be too deep by now.
Re: @Urs
Yellow, with purple text
Black, with black text
Black, with smoke (permanent)
Windows boss Steve Sinofsky exits Microsoft
Re: you seee
Bringing NOTRO and Windows 7 UIs together would have been very easy. A start menu item "switch to NOTRO mode" and a tile in that mode "Switch to Windows 7 mode". Maybe they could still do that, depending on how badly they've smashed up the underlying code.
I'd have expected desktop NOTRO to have attracted less than 1% of desktop users, and could have been unceremoniously dumped from Windows 9. Unfortunately, certain people's egos were too big to allow a billion users to choose for themselves ... and now the recriminations have started. Good luck, chaps, you'll need it.
I'd say Microsoft has about two years to return to the Windows 7 interface on the desktop and send NOTRO to Vista-land. If they haven't fixed it by then, MS is doomed. (Might last another decade, but still doomed).
Re: Microsoft Bob Cloud Enterprise 1.0 (Professional)
... with 42 users.
A bitter spill to swallow, or 'how to smeg up your keyboard'
Re: Simpler soloution
Just a mixture?
Not exactly. You can't completely separate Ethanol from Water by distillation or other physical means. Distillation gets you to "cask strength" (from memory, about 58% Ethanol). To get beyond that to 100% Ethanol you have to resort to chemical means. Be warned, 100% Ethanol is very highly toxic. Very much more so than twice the amount of cask strength spirit. It also tends to contain benzene (carcinogen) as an impurity.
At least that's only one person's germs. The buttons in the lift, that's everyone's, refreshed daily.
Train yourself to press lift buttons with your knuckle. Seriously!
Getting sugar out
Sugar isn't a problem if you're willing to take the slow route. Remove batteries (if any) and imerse in water. Leave several hours. Rinse. Repeat. Towel dry. Leave in airing cupboard for several days.
Cola, though ... kiss of death. Doesn't that make you wonder what it does to *your* innards?
Re: Simple solution
Another simple solution: cheap Logitech keyboards.
They're actually rather good. They'll put up with quite a bit of abuse. They're cheap enough so that when a luser tips a can of cola into his, you just put it in the nearest bin and give him another used one.
(Not a new one. That would boost sales of cola! )
But they aren't shiny and they don't have keys that well-known patented shape.
What they are thinking?
What they are thinking, is how can we make sure that it craps out as soon as possible after the warranty expires? Or even better, during the warranty, but in such a way that it's obviously the luser's fault and so not covered by warranty. And of course, it helps enormously if it can't be replaced except by buying it from us, with a mark-up of 400% on monopoly spare parts.
This is what you pay for "cool".
Where I work, we refuse to buy any PC that isn't constructed entirely from components that we can go out and buy for ourselves in a competitive market. mATX or ATX motherboards and cases. Standard PSUs. Quite apart from meaning I can almost always fix a broken PC in-house in minutes and within hours, it's also a legal way to keep the door firmly closed on Dell crap and HP crap.
Apple, though ... sigh. They've installed a virus in the lusers' brains. No other possible explanation. Shiny! Must be shiny! And rectangular with rounded corners!
US condom rules 'will cause nasty RED RINGS on porn stars' todgers'
One size fits all?
Never was a good idea, but it never stopped them. They tried to make pi 3-sized, once. Next, they'll decide that since the average size bust is a C cup, all other sizes of brassiere are banned.
BOFH: Can't you just ... NO, I JUST CAN'T
The first one broke
On what?
Password complexity
Unfortunately in the real world, if they can't use "123456" or something short and crude, they write it down on a post-it pad and attach it to their monitor.
Habitable HEAVY GRAVITY WORLD found just 42 light-years away
Water worlds
There's no reason you can't have liquid water in a high-G or high-pressure environment. It doesn't squash into a solid phase at all easily. Indeed, for everyday ice rather than one of the other high-pressure forms, squashing it converts ice to water rather than vice versa).
It's even possible to concieve of liquid planets - ones made of H2O all the way through. (At high pressure just about anything has high solubility in water, so that's where any small rocky or iron core would disappear to).
Maybe even a beer planet? (Microbial life in liquid suspension? Check. Excreting ethyl alcohol? Check.)
SF life in a REALLY high-G environment
On the surface of a neutron star. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
Re: Wrong end
We need to suss out what makes us what we are, and implant that in a body that has fewer stringent requirements for survival and doesn't age, something that can use anything as fuel, has a long sleep/hibernation mode.
Silicon chips optimised for energy efficiency, clocked very slowly during the long boring bit in interstellar space? Can't beat the speed of light, but can crank up subjective speed by any desired factor just as long as the hardware in the real world lasts the voyage.
Uploading a human being into a virtual reality is the hard part of the problem we haven't addressed yet. Indeed, we don't yet know for sure whether consciousness is a wholly classical phenomenon. If it's quantum in nature, a personality (soul?) is not uploadable to any conventional computer, and is not uploadable at all without destruction of its original. This is where physics meets theology via IT.
Re: EE 'Doc' Smith? Larry Niven?
An elephant is about the largest land animal (mammoths and dinosaurs were somewhat bigger). But that's on Earth, at 1G.
Consider stumbling and falling. Impact kinetic energy after a fall of any stated distance at 2G is the same as that for a fall of twice the distance at 1G. For a human, a pratfall at 2G would be like falling over the edge of a drop of his own height at 1G. A twelve-foot fall won't always kill you, but it will sooner or later. Big terrestrial animals (horses or larger) often die if they fall while running, but 4-leg stability means such falls are rare enough for the species to survive. Surviving a broken leg is also difficult to impossible for a large animal, and at 2G the load on the legs is doubled for any particular body weight.
Now consider 5G rather than 2G. 5G means the impact from falling over is the same as falling five times your own height on Earth. And consider that with a multiplied G force, you'd have to react many times faster to correct a postural instability before it becomes uncorrectable and results in a fall.
The elephant in the room on a 2G planet will be at most the size of a small pony. Which is good, not least because the maximum possible unsupported roof span will be a lot smaller than on Earth.
Re: EE 'Doc' Smith? Larry Niven?
Same thing. OK, EE was before genetic engineering was on the horizon, so no new body plan. But if you were picking human colonists for a high-G world, you'd select the shortest and most heavily muscled humans you could find. I confidently predict that if the colony survived, the fifth-generation children would be shorter still, more heavily muscled, with denser bone structure, and bigger feet for stability. Think Hobbit weightlifters in this case.
Re: So....
Unless we ever manage to tune in to their TV broadcasts.
Re: EE 'Doc' Smith? Larry Niven?
The Valerian colonists were huge and powerful ...
Showing an inability to understand basic physics (and Darwinian evolution). The larger a structure, the less able it is to resist gravity. A flea can survive hundreds (thousands? ) of self-inflicted gravities every time it jumps. A mouse can fall off a cliff and run away at the bottom, unharmed. A human being over seven foot tall is freakish, and at a clear evolutionary disadvantage. (Much more likely to break bones when he falls over, for starters).
Inhabitants of high-G worlds will be small by Earth standards. Rugged and powerfully muscled for their size, certainly, but above all sufficiently small as to be able to resist gravity.
Also unlikely to be bipedal, unless their nerves and reactions are much faster than ours. The consequences of falling over in high-G are greater, and the time available to avoid doing so is much less. Think small thick-set centaurs or wallabies.
AMD shutters German Linux lab, gives devs the axe
Out of interest ...
Out of interest, what is it in the Linux kernel that needs to be so different for an AMD CPU compared to an Intel CPU that a specialist team from the manufacturer is needed to help write it?
Psst: Heard the one about the National Pupil Database? Thought not
The data could be anonymized. Names, addresses, day of birth and second halves of postcodes blanked out. For doing genuine statistical research, this would matter not one iota.
If it's not anonymized, what we have is a catalogue for paedophiles to choose their victims from.
Apple to ditch Intel – report
Re: Different corcumstances
A while ago when AMD was causing Intel serious pain, ISTR Intel sued AMD for various IP infringements. I don't recall the resolution. Did it fizzle or get settled out of court, once Intel competed its way beyond AMD in the server arena?
My theory is that Intel needs AMD, to avoid being treated in law as a monopoly, and to keep itself at the sharp edge. AMD is now weak, and maybe Intel is cutting it some considerable slack with respect to other possible lawsuits? Not least to make it undesirable as a takeover target?
I'm speculating. However, I really don't think Intel would like to see AMD either go bust or taken over.
Torvalds: I want to be nice, and curse less, but it's just not in me
Re: So the new paradign for successful project management is the same as motor racing.
If you want to win, hire a Finn.
Just remember to hde the booze.
Or relocate your Finn well South of the Arctic circle. (Which Linus has done for himself).
Re: using his product ...
He doesn't have the power Jobs had, either. If a majority of the Linux community felt that Linus was a hinderance rather than a help, there would be nothing to stop them breaking away.
There's a lesson there for the wider world. Dictators are bad because they can issue orders and punish those who disobey. A "benevolent dictator for life" in open-source software can only issue suggestions and justifications. Anyone and everyone is free to ignore him. In general they don't until the dictator ceases to be benevolent, because it's much harder going on the outside of the fold.
Open-source projects are probably the closest thing to a working system of anarchy that we'll ever see.
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Be platform-independant
Surprised no real mention of platform-independent coding. I'd have thought Python, Qt or WxWidgets for GUI, other platform-independant libraries deserve a mention. Even Java, if Oracle don't (accidentally?) kill it by getting it banned from every business PC as a security nightmare.
BOFH: Tenacious B and the Printer of Destiny
Files of type .pdf cannot be printed
Some cruel joker once created a file printme.pdf.txt containing the above title as text and e-mailed it as an attachment to a particularly clueless person ....
Not all printer problems are printer problems. I'm stlll wondering why it is that we frequently have users complaining that they can't print random.pdf (created using Adobe software) from within Adobe Acrobat reader. The same files print without any problem using Foxit, Evince, or any other pdf-capable program that wasn't written by Adobe.
Re: I hate printer "User Interface Engineers"
If you feel you have to break a perfectly good GUI just to justify your existence then spend your time doing something really useful like jumping off tall buildings or shooting yourself in the head with a .44 magnum.
What, no flame icon?
ISTR that Linus thinks that people who fail as printer UI designers, write BIOSes.
Re: Speaking as a printer engineer....
I thought that species was extinct (or mutated into big photocopier/ printer/ stapler/ puncher/ folder/ scanner/ shredder/ firestarter/ Allin1-and-a-bit engineer).
It must mean that there are places which still have one huge expensive printer for an entire building, which sooner (or occasionally later) will be unfixably broken and in need of replacement costing a five-figure sum because the breakage was caused by a luser sticking part of his anatomy in a place it shouldn't have gone. (The more highly paid an employee, the bigger the luser -- just as per the story).
Think what replaced the dinosaurs. Proto-rats. Try lots of expendable printers. Not really cheap ones, their engineering is crap and the ink or toner is ultra-expensive. Really cheap printers are Xmas gifts for people you hate. But cheap enough that there's plenty of them on the network around the workplace, and no need for crisis management or expensive service contracts when one of them expires. Just heave it into the skip and buy another out of the toner and paper budget, when your friendly non-BOFH can't fix it by staring at its innards and employing a few more brain cells than the average luser.
Nationwide to perform IT equivalent of 'replacing jet engine mid-flight'
Re: Just one little thing...
But to me it looks like it's Nationwide's top managers that are laughing all the way to the, er, bank.
Zopa is a great idea but you are playing on a field tilted against you. Put your money in a bank, and the government guarantees you'll get it all back, even if the UK economy tanks and many people that the bank has lent your money to default on their loans. Also the bank is too big to fail, so it makes reckless loans and drives loan rates down, knowing it cannot go bust. Bankers! Lend your money through Zopa, and you are on your own. Yes, you get more interest, but personally I don't believe you get enough to compensate for the risk to your capital, especially after it's taxed.
Silly question of the day: if the government takes 40% of your interest in tax, shouldn't it reimburse 40% of your losses if things later turn sour? :-(
Batch processing
Batch processing has considerable advantages. You have large-scale commit rather than small-scale commit. The batch is either processed in its entirety, or not at all. (Or at least, if it's being done right, that's how it should be).
That ought to make disaster-recovery easier, which is why the RBS fiasco was so shocking. Not only was there a loss of service for some considerable number of days, but it became clear there was also a loss of data integrity in the case of some customers' accounts.
Singapore gov think tank plots SSD takedown
Re: A: drive
Nicely ironic name if you ask me. It's about the same size as a floppy disk, but stores about six hundred thousand times more about ten thousand times faster. I can think of worse adverts.
Best of both worlds?
If you never use more than 32Gb this drive will behave like an SSD, because everything you store will be cached in the solid-state part. The difference is that you won't run out should you want to store more. The stuff that you store and subsequently don't refer to for a long time will "disappear" into the magnetic disk. The stuff that is active will be solid-state cached.
Should be the best of both worlds.
Especially if it can tolerate complete failure of the flash cache, and revert to being a magnetic-only disk. Anyone know? The failure mode of solid-state memory is reportedly often to stop working in a flash (sorry). Magnetic disks can also fail like that, but more often degrade progressively and gracefully giving plenty of time to copy your data elsewhere.
Nobody knows what to call Microsoft's ex-Metro UI
Re: Duplo is very much a trademark
Window pains, surely?
Big cell towers now outnumbered by briefcase-sized jobs
Re: So they will be paying you then?
Ever heard of the common good?
It might be a good idea for the mobile company to offer you a femtocell in exchange for a refundable deposit. On the other hand if it costs £50, I'd happily pay that for my convenience, and extend the convenience to anyone else with a phone in or very close to my premises. Administering a refundable £50 deposit might actually cost more.
Doing so for phone calls and texts has effectively zero cost. A phone call is 24 kbit/sec before compression, compared to 2 Mbit/sec on the poxiest of broadbands. A data throttle on "my" cell would be appreciated, so my internet doesn't get flooded by people downloading movies to their smartphones.
Re: Get one at home?
Actually the fact that you are registering the phones does create some degree of legal liability for you, if only for the act of registering them.
If the box just DHCP'ed, connected back to the mobile operator via a preconfigured encrypted VPN, and then accepted any phone in range, then you'd be acting as a carrier (for encrypted traffic that you can't even read) and all liability would be back with the mobile operator who could remote-control "your" (their!) femtocell.
I don't know if one can get a plug-in-and-forget box such as I've described above. I can think of a few basements where a cheap box of this nature would be very welcome!
Petition for Alan Turing on £10 note breaks 20,000 signatures
Re: Surely
Early computers tended to work in decimal (or rather, BCD). It was often more efficient o make hardware that crunched pseudo-decimal than to convert long strings of 32 or more bits into decimal digits after the computations were done.
Australian volcano starts to blow
Re: "...it's in the middle of nowhere"
I thought that the official middle of nowhere was more or less the corresponding location in the South Pacific, marked by a lack of islands and any other reason to be there. It's also not even on the way to anywhere much.
Rumour has it that the middle of nowhere is the default target for the major nuclear powers' missiles, so that should one ever get armed and launched by mistake, as little harm as possible is done. (Unless you are a blue whale, of course. )
Re: If the volcano explodes and no one is there...
Might be Heard, not seen.
Ballmer has plans for more Microsoft own-brand hardware
Re: Perhaps it's time for other hardware manufacturers to seek another O/S.
Android IS Linux under its skin.
As for why Google might ever do "Desktop Android for Business" ... certainly not to give the penguin a helping hand. It would be because they thought businesses were looking for something that could replace MS Windows and MS Office, and they thought that they could make a profit out of supplying it. Odds: 3:1?
IBM is the other giant with the means to take on the MS desktop stranglehold. Whether they have a motivation is quite another matter. They don't sell desktop hardware (having sold the Thinkpad business to Lenovo). However, if the business really is like an elephant, they won't have forgotten being shafted by Microsoft over OS/2, and revenge is a dish best eaten cold .... Odds: 12:1?
Re: MS Hardware
I never had much joy with MS keyboards. They felt "wrong", and that's before they started going glitchy after a couple of years (non-entries and double-entries). Low-end Logitech keyboards, on the other hand, are the best you can buy for little money. I actually prefer the cheap ones to some of their expensive ones that I've tried, and they seem to last very well.
I agree, MS mice are as good as Logitech ones, and both beat the rest hands-down. The choice mostly boils down to whether you like your mice fat (MS) or thin (Logitech).
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This looks like a nice design that should rpove to be very appealing to data centers, IMO. It's a logical modular design that allows customers to get exactly what they desire without paying for stuff they don't want. This is another nice program from AMD.
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Earlier today reports coming from the Nikkei were suggesting that BlackBerry had decided to stop selling handsets in Japan in part due to declining sales and costs associated with making the necessary language modifications to the OS. It's not overly surprising this would be the case because if there is no money to be made then there is no reason to cater to that market. To help further clear things up over at Engadget they've received further clarification on the matter, which you can read below:
We are in the process of launching BlackBerry 10 globally in key markets and we are seeing positive demand for the BlackBerry Z10 in countries where it has already launched. Japan is not a major market for BlackBerry and we have no plans to launch BlackBerry 10 devices there at this time. However, we will continue to support BlackBerry customers in Japan.
So there you have it. If you want a BlackBerry 10 device in Japan, you'll have to look toward importing one. But if you're an already existing BlackBerry OS user and in Japan your device will continue to be supported. The sales issues is more at hand here and not the supporting of the Japanese language. BlackBerry 10 supports 33 different languages in total including Japanese.
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Very true. Would be a selling point for me.
Do Japanese people buy anything other than Japanese products? Their loss I guess...
BlackBerry has only 0.3% marketshare there - I would go the same as they do and focus on key-markets first.
Would be stupid to serve antarctica before luxemburg just because someone asked for it - it always depends on research and the situation ;)
BlackBerry is doing it the right way - trust them.
Who wants to have a z10 will get it - no matter where they are located
just randomly - I think people overvalue this statement. . .
If BB has 0.3% right now - maybe they can get it up to 1%
but at what cost?
The main thing with new products is to go to markets where you have a high demand and push it even further.
going from 13% to 15% or even if it is only 5% up to 7% if it is a market of 100 million - awesome
the antartica comes in because it might go up from 10% to 20% but assume that there are only 100 people - the numbers in total would be 10 devices. . . compared to 2mio devices in my first example
Anyways I would skip markets where they don't have a great reputation for now and see how the demand is as soon as all keymarkets got served
9 out of 10 Japs use Samsung so BlackBerry knows better than wasting their effort in that non exsistant market
I'd rather be a Black Sheep than an iSheep any day.
Samsung is Korean, I think they do better just about anywhere else than Japan. Samsung has huge market share globally but only a tiny one in Japan. It's hard to do business there since they're so selective with what they import. I'm pretty sure they have a trade surplus with just about every country they do business with.
I'm afraid the japanese nuke their purchased BB10... And throw their radioactive odds into the sea... Again and again... And later we get sushi in europe and USA with radiant BlackBerry-inwards... What would be the selling-name of the Z10 in Japan? Fu*k-o-machina? :-D
Okay, I find this interesting, let's expand our thoughts and play with this for a moment. BB is entertaining patnerships and potential licensing of their OS, what if they have something in the works with an Japanese or asian based company that wants this market to itself as part of the deal?
Possible or not, Thoughts?
that defiitely could be the case but I definitely don't see it at least for another year or two. All hardware specifically smartphones will be blackberry made unless of course they sell badly (but from all accounts from the UK, BlackBerry's smartphones are selling out!)
I think it'll be a mis-step if they plan on abandoning the market but I don't see that happening. Of course key markets will be tailored to first, areas where growth will be strongest or in the case of North America, taking back loss growth.
I'd love to see Blackberry partner with Sony if it is indeed hard to break into. Sony have a great eco-system that could easily appeal to a broad user group. Would sony be interested... maybe but for now they do seem heavily invested in the android system though it's not the winner they'd like to see it be.
I definitely see new agreements using QNX/BB10 in other areas in the next year or two and seeing new relationship in other industries.
Well, let's see... BlackBerry could have said there were no plans to launch BB10 devices at this time. Instead they said "WE have no plans to launch BlackBerry 10 devices there at this time." So I guess that could mean someone else (i.e. a strategic partner) may have plans to launch BB10 in Japan. But who could that strategic partner be? Hmmm.
Wouldn't it be crazy if around the same time as this press release regarding Japan there was another press release announcing a new addition to BlackBerry's board of directors who happened to be the former chairman of a very large and well known Japanese electronic company's mobile division? If such a coincidence were to occur then, why yes! I would say it is very possible BlackBerry is considering a licensing deal with a trusted, respected and established Japanese brand as a means of breaking into the that market.
I would go so far as to say that a partnership with a Japanese company is the smartest way for BlackBerry to go after the Japanese market, particularly if that partner could help them access a big catalogue of music and movie content as well as help get BB10 onto other consumer electronic devices that are outside of BlackBerry's core expertise; devices like TVs, computers, laptops, gaming consoles, cameras (who knows, maybe even some medical-related cameras)...
This is exactly what I was afraid BlackBerry would do.
And I guess "we will continue to support BlackBerry customers in Japan" means OS6 and OS7.
This means no Japanese support will ever come to OS10.
Got PB on Day 1 and still waiting for Japanese support but with no avail.
It is fine that since the market is so small in Japan, they are not going to open up there.
However, there are Japanese people around the world who use BB for work and pleasure.
Japanese people in the U.S., Canada, and Europe are not getting the love at all.
I work for a Japanese company in the U.S.
This means I cannot implement BB solution for our BYOD scenario.
That is just too bad.
Again, marketing is one thing.
Not support the language?
I believe that's a no no.
Windows, Mac, all support 50+ languages and that's been a pretty much standard for almost 20 years?
Why limit support? Why kill the faithful users?
Well, this means my almost 7 years love with BB is coming to the end.
I even timed my contract to expire to get BB10 but hey!
Moving from 9780 to.. I don't know.
Just too bad.
The plot thickens...
The BlackBerry Z10 uses a virtual keyboard (graphical character set) therefore why is BlackBerry, the company, not able to provide Japanese input on the BlackBerry Z10? I can understand for physical keyboard smartphones when the number of keys is much less than the number of characters in the language, but this is a virtual keyboard. BlackBerry never leaves me a day without needing to shake my head.
Uh... because the Japanese language doesn't use an alphabet... So they'll have to have a virtual keyboard with like 100,000+ keys, one for each word... In order to make Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or many of the Asian languages to work, they need to have a character recognition system where you draw the character on the screen and the phone will recognize it as a known character and record it. Apparently they've done this for Chinese since it's confirmed they will get the device, but they did not feel it will be worth the investment to do this for Japanese.
It's not like English, Spanish, Dutch, German, etc. where you put characters together to make words, so you only need 26 or so keys, Asian languages typically are where every word have their own character or symbol. So there's no way to just make a keyboard with all of the characters needed for the language. You can put common words on there though, but that's it...
"This means no Japanese support will ever come to OS10."
Oh such drama, such sweeping statements ....
Yes, they've already clarified that Japanese language support will be coming to BB10. So, if it can already display in Japanese, the "will be coming" must refer to character input. Which, for Japanese at least, doesn't actually require handwriting recognition -- input could be made from a kana layout or typing romanized syllables.
Displaying language vs. inputting language are two different stories.
Many BB faithfuls in Japan blame the carrier RIM signed up with, DOCOMO, for killing the phones as soon as they released them; pushing Android for quick profits while their subscriber numbers dwindled. Most shops never had a model available for demoing; at those that did, no one knew anything about them. Asking to see one and being told, 'You'll have to wait while we charge it,' then being handed it and the salesperson admitting they had no idea how to do anything except power it on, spoke volumes about the carrier's attitude.
For the average Japanese user, some of the reasons why it never caught on may have been: resistance to using a QWERTY keyboard for input, when Android and iOS use the 10-key based system that most dumb and feature phones there have used for the past 10-15 years (I admit I find this faster when limited to thumbs for Japanese input); lack of all of the "cool" iPhone and Android apps that are being pushed by the domestic media; a UI that at first glance seems much more complex than Android and iOS, which are touted by carriers as "easy to use."
Japanese love foreign products (iPhone and Galaxy series sell like hotcakes over there), and I think if BB would have done more research and teamed with a different carrier, there may have been the user base present to warrant continued support.
Very unfortunate, as I was looking forward to the new BB10 experience, and the ability to stay away from Apple and Android.
It wasn't much different here in the USA either. They never make too much of a deal when a new Blackberry phone comes out, when you walk in they will spend all of their time showing you how "cool" the Androids and iPhones are... You even try to bring up productivity and they will change the topic to how cool it is to watch movies and play games on a big touchscreen...
Ok, how do I put this without generalising....
When I was in south-east Asia, what I saw were a lot of people with very plastic handsets... the more (seemingly) complicated the better, the bigger the screen, the better.
New technology reigns, but that doesn't necessarily mean better.
BlackBerry could go ahead and throw BB10 into the mix, but at 0.3% market share, I can understand why they are waiting....
what i know is that the BB service in Japan through DOCOMO is nowhere near as full featured as it is in North America or Western Europe.
i was going to say that RIM/BB don't have a good understanding of the Japanese consumer mindset, but by the same token Android based platforms (especially those from Japanese manufacturers .. have you seen the Xperia? phenomenal build quality) have been wildly successful. Again, i believe in this day and age it comes down to consumer pull. Softbank ( was a distant 3rd player) got the franchise on the iPhone and have made major inroads, forcing DOCOMO and KDDI to re-think their staid/conservative device approach.
A few years ago most Japanese consumers still had sleek flip phones; in a very short span of time they have made the leap to all touch. i am not sure but have been told that the most modern device offered by DOCOMO in Japan is a 9000, but don't take my word for it.
If BB10 is successful, and of course it will be... and i agree with comments about RIM spending its marketing dollars in markets where they can bring the greatest top and bottom line impact... BB may make the investment to improve its Japanese market approach.
I would love to see them license it to a company like Sony. Nothing beats Japanese build quality and endurance/reliabiity.
DoCoMo is selling 9900 but like someone said, it is not featuring it in their seasonal lineup. It's all about Android.
If and when Blackberry decides to re-enter the Japanese market, it should remember how DCM screwed them over and go with a smaller and more agile carrier like Softbank.
Next in the exit strategy - S. Korea.
This is a good move for BBRY. Focus on areas where BlackBerrys actually sell, then expand to other markets once the platform is established. No sense putting resources where there won't be a high return on investment. If they said it is coming eventually then 'analysts' will write about 'another delay'. Saying 'no plans' was the right move
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SONY RULES JAPAN. MAKES CENTS TO ME. If I wanted to run a second phone it would be a XPERIA.
There's a huge gray market in the UK for home market only Japanese cars, maybe the tables will turn with BlackBerrys.
There's a huge gray market in the UK for home market only Japanese cars, maybe the tables will turn with BlackBerrys?
What I find ironic is that RIM has taken the stance that essentially there's not enough customer base to merit supporting Japan. That sounds a lot like the developers saying essentially that there's not enough of a userbase to merit developing for RIM.
Not that this is a 1:1 comparison, I just think it is ironic and a bit funny.
If Blackberry's carrier partner is not being a true partner, there's nothing BB can do. BB's been in Japan for many number of years but DCM has basically abandoned them. I think it's time to exit, regroup and strategize how to re-enter when the timing is right. Number one thing to do when that time comes is to ditch DCM.
I want to use Blackberry 10 in Japan.
I will continue to use Blackberry Bold 9000 until I get docomo Blackberry 10 ^^
As I understanding, for the market size of Chinese, Japan and Korea, It might be RIM had decided give up on Japanise and Korean market AT THIS TIME. For me who want the BlackBerry product will survive on Korean market, I'm Korean, BlackBerry please do not give up the far-east asia market. on Technically, I know that the input language method of two-byte character is not easy development. However, BlackBerry will go ahead and support and development and sales BlackBerry product with their language to survive and kepp BlackBerry brand.
Please make the plan of support Korean input language not display language.
Don't know how some guys here becomes expert than BlackBerry's Marketing guys... they knew their markets... they knew their risks... and they knew how they will handle them...
And not to mention, BlackBerry's investors are paying them to do their jobs...
opening the door for a license deal in Japan, not sure whether anybody will ever use the opportunity, but no doubt we will find out in due time
Not really surprising. With many manufacturers in Japan (i.e. Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, etc.) that come out with new phones every week, BlackBerries wouldn't be able to compete.
However, it is likely that people who work abroad still might use phones in Japan.
I understand business point but still sad. I have been waiting for playbook Japanese support. I guess I have to rely on some app to use Japanese input now or keep using Bold 9900 which is great for typing Japanese. I don't use PC anymore for emailing in Japanese. Hopefully some developer will make app for it soon.
I think Japan doesn't need BlackBerry - like security, they prefer the Infidelity's phone security. http://tiny.cc/t8f6rw
I have several friend in Japan that only use Blackberry and waiting to hear about the Japan launch. I can't believe they will just give the market up to Android and Apple without a fight. There are Billions of Asians There are only Millions of everything else. I thought Blackberry was making a come back. you cannot lead anything if you don't lead. Blackberry knows how to shoot themselves in the foot.
When they were asked about the US launch instead of saying it was an opportunity they chose the word disappointing. What a damper. Many of my friends in the US, most don't know anything about Blackberry's new phones, name change, New Operating System BB10 so this March launch is a blessing. Time they could use to advertise.
I have decided to relocate to Japan and have been holding on to my old torch with all its limitations. I just can't believe it all the waiting and praising RIMM now Blackberry. I want and need a device I can use around the world. What a let down. With my torch I installed the Asian language pack for Japanese input. hmmm.
Blackberry was once the device that everyone wanted they need to take that position and again
and run away with it. No market should be to small or big.
of course there is always the Ebay solution......and yes some markets are too small and yes don't rule out a Sony license, then you would get
a BB10WP(WalkmanPhone), that be something...
You're pretty sad, if that's what you believe.
The fact that BlackBerry doesn't plan to launch any BB10 devices in Japan at this time means just that, no BB10 devices for Japan at this time. It doesn't mean no BB10 presence in Japan at all. Thorsen Heins has made it clear that the licensing of BB10 is an option on the table, it's simply a matter of finding the most compatible company with whom to partner. Sony appears to be the most logical choice at this time. They already have a hugh and highly diverse ecosystem in place as well as an expansive global market and, like BlackBerry, they are in the process of reinventing themselves after losing their dominance in the consumer electronics market. BlackBerry just launched a new secure, stable mobile computing platform with an intuitive, fluid user interface that allows for seamless integration between QNX based electronic components. Plus BlackBerry just appointed former CEO of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Bert Nordberg to the Board of Directors. Given that each company has what the other needs in order to be successful a partnership between BlackBerry and Sony, if properly executed, could prove to be mutually beneficial.
Great decision.
Put your eggs in WINNING baskets.
p.s. Japan is turning into a country of old codgers anyway. I'm not sure how popular BB is among the 75+ crowd....it's certainly a distant #3 behind Metamucil and Geritol there.
Been loving BB since around 2007 but I need and want Japanese input on my phones and tablets. I can overlook all of the other things as there are enough positive features to make up for them, but no Japanese input is going to be a deal breaker and it makes me sad. I can't see carrying two different devices just becuase I love BB's so much.
I don't know how you are still such the BlackBerry fan Kevin. :) At least I can sit back and ignore this stuff from time to time.
My interest in BlackBerry is really starting to wane. The best news was the Z10 Q10, but nothing but bad news since the event. More major fumbles by a once great company.
Ok, call me crazy - but how low does the market share have to be to give up. For example: Japan is at 0.3% and Australia isn't far behind with 0.5%
See the all market shares report from Kantar:
So, you start ignoring these countries... countries that global companies have presences in, and you instantly create a rift in those companies device platform selections. Now you're forcing them into adopting android, iOS and Win8 Phones in countries. Of course, my countries company division president talks to your countries division president and meet, "hey.. you have android.. hey... you have BB10" and here we are again, deep in the BYOD.
If blackberry wants to play global corporate they need to suck it up and offer a phone in every market no matter what the share, or they'll continue to rift us global IT guys.
Hii! who can get hold of information when it is releasing in Pakistan? Someonee? Anyone.........
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Does anybody here actually live in Japan ??? Ive been here for 15 years and I was very interested in getting a BBQ10.
I read through all of the comments and 99% are just false and laughable.
The comment about Docomo is correct - They do not promote BB in anyway. In most stores, the phone that they have is at the bottom of the rack and just a mock up.Seriously, Ive only met 1 non business person in 15 years who has a BB here. Thats the point - most people who buy smartphones arent business people, its the kids and students. BB is targeted at business people.while alot of phones especially from Docomo are aimed at the younger crowd. Amazon are doing well selling the kindle here as its in the stores and Amazon took the time to built up their brand name.
I have a playbook and love it but really, its BBs fault that they let this market go. Nokia did as well ! Apple have done very well here and the Same with Samsung because of promotion.
BB just made a big mistake - promote it here and hopefully the market share will increase. Give it to Au and softbank as well as Docomo. The top 3 carriers and actually get them to promote it.
I'm in Japan and you're right, lot of ignorant ppl here. I'll probably go iPhone now with AU. Docomo screwed up BB, they were pushing flip phones all the way until Samsung android and then they said smart phone for the first time. Lesson here for BB, choose your partners carefully. Goodbye BB, good luck.
Being a Japanese, I do see some comments wrong, some right, some with ignorant hostility, and whatever.
I have been loving the Playbook for a quite while. Like some people say, it can display Japanese texts, but has no feature to input on the OS level. I was really hoping that Z10 with BB10 will solve this problem, but unfortunately, the answer seems to be NO at the current moment.
It sucks, really.
But I do have to admit that BB's move is pretty much correct. As someone mentioned, BB has no presence here in Japan especially in the non-biz market. The physical QWERTY keyboard was not enough compelling against the past feature phones or current smartphones. Being in the IT industry myself, I can easily imagine how difficult it is to develop a Japanese input function. Especially I estimate that BB doesn't have too many Japanese software engineers :-(
It doesn't mean I follow their decision, so I truly hope that BB10 itself will get enough momentum in the market and BB will reconsider their strategies.


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It's a new IP and they clearly have a wide range of attacks. I think Nintendo would be crazy NOT to include Inklings in the next Smash Bros.
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No word on it yet, but I've had the exact same thought. The potential for getting around the environment using paint splatters is huge.
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Not a snowballs chance in hell. If they wanted to promote new IPs in Smash we would have gotten Wonder Red.
@darthorange: Except Splatoon still has a shot at being a valuable IP.
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Speculation is that this would be post launch DLC - if anything.
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Could possibly be an assist trophy.
Speculation is that this would be post launch DLC - if anything.
Does Nintendo even have a track record of DLC?
Smash has a pretty bad track record of putting in characters from games that are just coming out. Like, Melee didn't include Pikmin or Olimar in any way even though Pikmin came out around the same time as Melee. Also not much acknowledgement of Luigi's Mansion (Luigi's Mansion did eventually get a stage in Brawl). Melee did, however, include Roy, whose Fire Emblem hadn't quite come out yet, I think? However, other than that, it's hard to say, because a lot of the Brawl characters were just random stuff from series that had already been around for a while.
I really doubt anything from Splatoon, or Project S.T.E.A.M. or whatever will make its way into the new Smash Bros. I doubt it will be an assist trophy either. At best, maybe there will be a static, regular-ass trophy related to those games.
It would be kinda hilarious if they got some more Capcom stuff, like a Monster Hunter inclusion of some sort or something. I actually find that more likely, though they probably would've announced that by now if it were happening.
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Not a snowballs chance in hell. If they wanted to promote new IPs in Smash we would have gotten Wonder Red.
Put him in coach he's ready.
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If we have another Smash Bros after this one, then the Splatoon girl will be playable. No way she becomes playable in this iteration, she'd be an assist trophy at best.
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Speculation is that this would be post launch DLC - if anything.
Does Nintendo even have a track record of DLC?
They've started building one.
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This would make too happy to ever happen. A trophy would still be nice, though.
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I heard somewhere that all the characters that would be in the game were decided on at the start of the project. I don't think that Splatoon could have been far along enough at that point where they would have decided on the look of the characters, or maybe it didn't even exist on a conceptual level yet.


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Potholes filled in record time for Sir C.V. Raman Hospital inauguration
All these days, it has been an excruciating commute for regulars between Ulsoor and Byappanahalli on Old Madras Road, thanks to horrendous potholes. So, when the stretch saw workers going on an overdrive filling and smoothing over the craters on Tuesday, commuters sent up a silent thank you even though they endured a massive traffic jam.
Hospital inauguration
So, has a newfound consciousness of road safety gripped the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)? Alas, no. This new pothole-free stretch between Ulsoor Main Road via C.M.H. Road, Indiranagar and Byappanahalli is all thanks to Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar who is inaugurating the Sir C.V. Raman General Hospital on 80 Ft. Road, Indiranagar, on Wednesday. As soon as Mr. Shettar's programme was scheduled, the traffic police reportedly wrote to the BBMP to immediately swing into action and repair the stretch. Early Tuesday, BBMP officials fired up their engines, working double time to fill all potholes, jamming traffic on this arterial road.
Motorists commuting to work said it took them anything between an extra 30 to 45 minutes to reach their destination as there is no avenue to take an alternative route. However, business was good for vendors of hands-free sets, toys and guavas as bored or hungry motorists inched their way forward.
During peak hour
When contacted, Indiranagar (Traffic) Inspector M.C. Kavitha said that personnel from the Ulsoor, Indiranagar, Byappanahalli and K.R. Puram Traffic Police Stations had been posted to monitor vehicles. She conceded it was a tough task with the repair being taken up during peak hours.
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Senior BBMP officials conceded that the Major Roads Department had been tasked with the repair ahead of Mr. Shettar's visit. "But this will also help thousands of commuters," he said defensively. "With the new cold mix technology, there is no need for the road to be closed. Once the pothole is filled, traffic can be permitted immediately." However, as a jaded commuter who has seen any number of repairs on the stretch pointed out, it remains to be seen how long this one will last.
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If you were anywhere near a TV set on Jan. 28, 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, chances are you learned the news of the tragedy from NBC News correspondent John Palmer. With NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw temporarily unavailable that afternoon, it was Palmer, the newsreader for Today, who broke in with a special report and stayed with the story for hours as it unfolded.
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Michael Gmoser, prosecuting attorney of Butler County, Ohio, seems to be both cold and bored. Hence the indictment he filed to sentence everyone's favorite weather-predicting rodent to death, according to the Washington Post:
On or about February 02, 2013, at Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that Spring would come early.
SPECIFICATION: The people further find and specify that due to the aggravating circumstances and misrepresentation to the people that the death penalty be implemented to the defendant, Punxsutawney Phil. [Washington Post]
Does Punxsutawney Phil really deserve to die? Let's take a look at the evidence.
The prosecution
Exhibit A: It is cold. As Don Hughes, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, told the AP, "Winter has been dragging on in the Buckeye State and surrounding areas, with daily high temperatures this week hovering in the mid-30s and no end in sight for about 10 days."
Spring, typically, is warm. So you can understand why people feel like this:
The defense
Bill Deely, president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, told ABCNews.com "that he's to blame for Phil's incorrect prediction because he misinterpreted what the groundhog told him." Phil could not corroborate Deely's account of what happened, because he is a groundhog.
Phil's handler, John Griffiths, outlined his steel-clad defense to CNN affiliate WXIX: "If you remember two weeks ago on a Sunday, it was probably 60, 65 degrees. So, I mean, that basically counts as an early spring."
Did Phil mislead the public "purposely, and with prior calculation and design"? Chances are that he did not, because, again, he is a groundhog. CNN notes that "extraditing him from Pennsylvania to Ohio to stand trial is unlikely, since transporting wild animals across state lines can be illegal," making Punxsutawney Phil the Julian Assange of the marmot family.
Gmoser eventually told the Washington Post that "he was just having 'a little fun'" with the indictment and that he hopes "everyone understands it's tongue-in-cheek."
This jury thus finds Gmoser guilty of wasting everybody's valuable time.
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