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Uncharted 3 Review
Uncharted 3 is a fantastic cinematic experience that plays well and is entertaining from start to finish. That being said, there are some significant potholes along the way that, while they don't derail this fantastic experience, certainly cause it to slow down. Uncharted 3 picks up a while after Uncharted 2 with Drake and his longtime companion Sully searching for a new treasure while following in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia and Sir Francis Drake. They and their friends, both old and new, contend with a group of evil British people led by Marlowe. The story is far less humorous and silly then we have come to expect from Uncharted, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. Drake and Sully have fantastic interactions that shed new light not only on their history, but also into who they are as characters. Nolan North continues to impress as Drake and is still able to convey a mix of toughness and humor. Marlowe and her Henchmen Talbot are fantastic villains, and are a nice change of pace from the generic crazy mercenary. While the story is still good, it is not as much simple fun as Uncharted 2's, and personally I do not come to the Uncharted series for serious character study. This is a very different type of Nathan Drake story, which is refreshing in an otherwise very iterative game, but ultimately not as satisfying as the other games in the series.
Uncharted 3 is at its core a third-person action game featuring the shooting, climbing, puzzles, globetrotting, and swashbuckling adventure that has become a mainstay of the series. The controls are tight, and while you will probably die a lot, it is never due to unresponsiveness or Drake not doing what you want him to. The ability to throw grenades back at your enemies is a great new ability, and it makes the game much more playable. The set pieces are both technical masterpieces and fun to play, although many are trying to imitate the more famous portions of Uncharted 2. You will flee through a burning chateau and fight thugs on airplanes to name just a few. When the action is nonstop and the platforming smooth and flowing Uncharted is a joy to play. Occasionally poor or murky design can slow you down significantly. There are several combat encounters, most specifically an entire level pitting you against pirates, that result in death after death thanks to the AI's almost perfect aim and aggressiveness. Sometimes I was also unable to understand the direction that the designers wanted me to move during platforming or chase sequences. Being forced to repeat these actions over and over makes them lose their appeal and it can get boring fast. This happens just a little too often to be ignored, but it is certainly not game breaking. The puzzles do not suffer from this problem as they are designed to make you stop and think for a while. They are clever and really cool just to look a. I never found myself frustrated with them and I never spent too long in one room. As great as this all is, it is still the gameplay that we expect from Uncharted, so if you did not like the previous games there is no reason to try again with this one.
Graphically Uncharted is a very good looking game. The shadows and textures perfectly convey the feelings of the scene, whether it is beneath London or in the middle of a blistering hot desert. The camera angles are cinematic and the transition from cut scene, to quicktime event, to regular gameplay is smooth and continuous. Art design continues to impress, with awesome temples and ruins that are as much fun to look at as they are to climb. It is in the visual department that Uncharted suffers one of its more nit-picky flaws, but a flaw nonetheless. There really is no more simple way to say it then pretty much all of your enemies are bald. It won't bother you at first, but once you start fighting all manners of different villains it starts standing out pretty starkly. To go along with this, the big bruiser character that you fight several times throughout the game is the exact same character model with different clothes, as though they were trying to hide it. While it doesn't break the game, it is just stupid and lazy and we expect more from Naughty Dog.
Once you finish the main Uncharted story, you can go on to multiplayer. There are both competitive and corporative modes. The competitive multiplayer is quite fun and enjoyable, but the weapons are not balanced at all with a very noticeable difference between he two tiers of long guns. This doesn't break the game, but it makes it significantly less fun for lower level characters while they spend the 5 hours or so necessary to unlock the weapons. Co-op takes the form of 8 standalone missions as well as a wave based survival mode.
Uncharted 3 is undoubtedly a great game. The basic gameplay is fun, the setpieces are breathtaking, and it is easy to lose yourself in the multiplayer. There are some problems with the game though largely pertaining to poor combat encounters and some immersion breaking enemy models. It's not perfect, but Uncharted 3 is one of the most entertaining experiences of the year.


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Kenya - Non Media update on the ground
For those of you interested in the current situation in Kenya -
This is a non-media update from a man on the ground - not me.
Take from it what you will, but its good to hear from a source other than the media!!
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...............Am am currently living and working in Kenya so here comes a status/security
update based on my experiences. Of course this is my experience and cannot be taken as gospel,.................
Fuel is available throughout although the price is up to a US Dollar per litre for diesel. In
the main centres of Nairobi and Mombasa live has returned to normal mostly.
Folks are in the shops and driking coffe in the cafes,a nd heading to the
bars in the evening.
Don't let this bubble of normalcy deceive you however. Out of town or
"up-country" as we call it here, life is very bad for the locals. The
violence is not byt and large directed to foreigners, but you shouldn't take
the chance.
So some rules:
DO NOT drive at night anywhere unless you are in the suburbs of Nairobi
DO NOT travel to western Kenya, especially eldoret and kisumu
HAVE CAUTION when dirivng to Naivasha and Nakuru, Narok and the Maasai Mara
DO NOT enter any slum or low cost living areas
AVOID passing through Likoni, Mtwapa and Ukunda when in the Mombasa area at
Tsavo should be good though..... I think somebody suggested going there.
The Kenya coast is very quite now with no tourists coming in so some good
hotel deals can be had. The beaches are lovely and quiet, but do bear in
mind that the locals who normally benefit from tourism by way of sex trade
or curios or selling stuff and guiding are going to have to compete with
each other for your business, and that can get quite nasty......
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It's no surprise that most enterprises are now taking big data more seriously. But what might raise an eyebrow is how many organizations say they rely on real-time processing of big data to fuel their business, as well as the number of companies who say they're thinking about taking their big data to the cloud.
These findings come from a recent survey conducted by GigaSpaces, which asked 243 IT executives in various industries about their big data perceptions and plans. GigaSpaces, a provider of end-to-end scaling solutions for distributed application environments and an open platform-as-a-service (PaaS) stack for cloud deployment, conducted the survey online during the fall of 2012.
The first finding shows that enterprises are moving beyond collecting and storing big data and delving deeper.
Among the survey findings:
- Some 80 percent of respondents said that big-data processing is a mission-critical function
- More than 70 percent said their business requires processing of big data in fast -- in real time -- either in large volumes, at high velocity, or both
- Only 20 percent of respondents said they have no plans to move their big data to the cloud, indicating a widespread readiness to consider the option
The first finding shows that enterprises are moving beyond collecting and storing big data and delving deeper. Their businesses require that they process this data in real time as events occur, be they trades on a stock exchange, alerts from security monitors, or location changes from GPS devices.
The second finding demonstrates the need for low latency and high performance in processing big data streams, as these functions are becoming mission critical and delays or dropped data can't be tolerated.
Real-time tools
GigaSpaces, which sponsored the survey, also asked survey respondents what tools they're using to process big data in real time, and here's where a gap is revealed: only 12 percent have adopted real-time event processing tools. According to GigaSpaces, this suggests that most enterprises still have not found the right solution that offers the ability to handle massive data while also providing the required speed.
"Most enterprises haven't yet adopted these real-time event processing tools, they're managing instead with a combination of a NoSQL data store with a Hadoop processing platform," says Tsipi Erann, marketing communications manager at GigaSpaces. "It's clear that enterprises haven't yet found the right solution that's dedicated to real-time processing and also fits into their architecture."
As for moving big data to the cloud, survey respondents seem eager to reap the cost-savings and improved agility offered by this model. Only 20 percent of them said they have no plans to move big data applications to the cloud, while 44 percent have concrete plans or have already started this migration.
Among the 34 percent who said they were unsure about cloud deployments, primary concerns cited were scalability and security.
It's clear that enterprises haven't yet found the right solution that's dedicated to real-time processing and also fits into their architecture.
GigaSpaces cross-referenced answers to the question of big data's business importance with answers to the cloud question and came up with this statement: 80 percent of respondents who define their big data applications as mission critical to the business are planning or considering a move to the cloud. The company said it will use findings from this survey to help shape the direction of its offerings.
"We understand the importance of giving customers the right features and will use the input in the creation of such a solution, whether it's integration with Hadoop or processing or transactional management," says Yaron Parasol, product manager at GigaSpaces.
(BriefingsDirect contributor Cara Garretson provided editorial assistance and research on this post. She can be reached on LinkedIn.)
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A Limiter is a compressor with a very high compression ratio and a very fast attack time, so it's able to catch the fast peaks of an audio signal. In order to understand how a Limiter works in mastering, we have to understand the composition of a typical music program first. In general, the highest peak of the source program, a song in this case, determines the maximum level that can be achieved in a digital signal. Because many of these upper peaks are very short duration, they can usually be reduced in level by several dB with minimal audible side effects.
By controlling these peaks the entire level of the program can be raised several dB resulting in a higher average signal level, that's what we use a Limiter for. Most digital Limiters used in mastering or brick wall limiters, this means that no matter what happens the signal will not exceed a certain predetermined level, and there'll be no digital overs. A brick wall limiter is usually set anywhere from -1 dB to as high as -0.1 dB, and once set the level will never go beyond. There are many popular mastering limiters that are commonly used from the waves L1 and L2 to the Universal Audio Precision Limiter to the T-racks brick wall Limiter to ones by Isotope, Massey, and many others.
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In 2005, the Chicago Bears used the fourth overall pick of the draft to select running back Cedric Benson. Some fans, sports writers, radio talk show hosts and armchair quarterbacks believe that was the biggest draft bust in Bears' history.
Benson never lived up to his potential, and on June 9, 2008, following his second alcohol-related arrest in five weeks, the Bears released him. Since then, he has been a member of the Cincinnati Bengals.
It looks as though Benson has reverted back to his old ways. Last Sunday, July 17, Benson was arrested again. This time, he was in Texas. He was charged with assault causing bodily injury to a family member, according to multiple media reports. The offense is a Class A misdemeanor.
Benson's attorney, Sam Bassett, said in a statement, published by the Associated Press, that the arrest followed "a conflict" between Benson and a male former roommate. Wade said Benson posted a $10,000 bond and was released just before 2 p.m.
Benson, 28, is also facing an assault trial Aug. 29 after being accused of punching a bar employee in Austin, Texas. Sunday's arrest marks Benson's sixth arrest, and his fourth since 2008 alone. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who did not discipline Benson for the last arrest, has said players can still be disciplined under the personal conduct policy for potential violations during the lockout.
Benson becomes the third Bengals player arrested in just over a week.
Last Thursday, July 14, safety Marvin White was taken into custody after an incident at a day care center in Louisiana. He faces simple assault and disturbing the peace charges.
Cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones was arrested July 10 after an alleged confrontation with police at a Cincinnati bar. Jones is charged with disorderly conduct while intoxicated and resisting arrest.
I've written it before and I'm sure I'll have to again, what is up with these guys? Just because you're overpaid and overprivileged athletes doesn't give you a pass to act like idiots. It's time to man up, grow up and stop getting drunk and disorderly and trying to beat the snot out of everyone who looks sideways at you or even in your direction.
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Aliens From Steven Spielberg's Ill-Fated 'Night Skies' Project Finally Revealed!
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In the 1970s, director Steven Spielberg started pre-production on a follow-up to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind called Night Skies. He hired legendary special effects artist Rick Baker to create a prototype of the film's menacing alien, and by all accounts, it was going to be spectacular.


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Garrett Temple next target of Heat?Nick Borges
The Miami Heat on Monday, Day 7 of free agency, finally made some news with reports that they've come to terms with forwards Josh McRoberts and Danny Granger. Could a guard be on the way, maybe? From Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press: "Garrett ...Blog | July 08, 2014
Chad Ford's final 2014 mockChad Ford
Our draft expert lines up two rounds of picks in his final NBA mock draft.Power Ranking | Conversation | June 26, 2014
2014 NBA Finals - 10 NBA Finals stats you need to knowTom Haberstroh
Tom Haberstroh takes a look at 10 standout statistics heading into the 2014 NBA Finals.Story | Conversation | June 05, 2014
Gobert's offseason prioritiesJoe Kaiser
In his first season in the NBA, Utah's 7-foot-1 center Rudy Gobert showed flashes of the type of player he may one day become. But the 21-year-old Frenchman also played in only 45 games as a rookie, and has a long ways to go offensively to become a k...Blog | May 20, 2014
Jamal Crawford's setbackNick Borges
The Los Angeles Clippers were hoping to have Jamal Crawford (strained left calf) back in the lineup, but that's been pushed back for potentially another 5-7 days. "I don't know when he's coming back," Clippers coach Doc Rivers told ESPNLosAngeles....Blog | March 11, 2014
Patrick Patterson's elbow injuryNick Borges
Patrick Patterson tweaked his elbow (right ulnar collateral sprain) on Friday and Sunday Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey announced the backup forward will be out 7-10 days. "Only thing is rest that's going to heal it and that's unfortunate ...Blog | March 10, 2014
Nick Young out; Shawne Williams inNick Borges
The Los Angeles Lakers need some help in the frontcourt, so on Thursday they brought back Shawne Williams via a 10-day contract, according to ESPNLosAngeles.com. Williams started the season with the Lakers and was waived Jan. 7 to prevent his contrac...Blog | February 07, 2014
NBA: Remaining non-guaranteed dealsNick Borges
Ahead of the Feb. 7 deadline, the following players were released this past weekend: Solomon Jones (Orlando), Maalik Wayns (LA Clippers) and Seth Curry (Memphis). Tuesday is the final day to waive a player and not have his salary guaranteed for th...Blog | January 06, 2014
Is the Biyombo experiment over?Joe Kaiser
It's been two-and-a-half years since Bismack Biyombo, the No. 7 overall pick of the 2011 NBA draft, was acquired in a draft-day trade by Charlotte. And recently, Bobcats coach Steve Clifford replaced the 21-year-old with journeyman forward Jeff Adrie...Blog | December 05, 2013
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LeBron James is chasing a title in his sixth season. Michael Jordan didn't win one until Year 7. So who was better at this point in their respective careers?Story | Conversation | May 18, 2009
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Posted by Dale Buss on January 22, 2013 05:05 PM
Super Bowl XLVII may be unique in that one of the biggest potential branding opportunities has suddenly materialized less than two weeks before the Big Game. And the opportunity is called the Brothers Harbaugh.
It seems unlikely that even the biggest brands would be able to land a deal with Jim or John Harbaugh, or both, this close to the Super Bowl, given that each is now consumed with how to beat the other's team -- and that, for the winner at least, there should be plenty of endorsement opportunities after the game.
But some marketers may be able to figure out how to tie themselves tangentially at least, maybe even convincingly, to what already has become the most intriguing Super Bowl story line perhaps in decades: the mutual success and striving of two accomplished opposing coaches, less than two years apart in age, who happen to be siblings. They're also young for their profession, telegenic, well-spoken and smart.
So we await news on Brother International or some other less obvious brand figuring out how to tap into all of that. In the meantime, there are plenty of other brands gearing up for a Super Bowl lift ahead of Game Day, including Mercedes-Benz.Continue reading...
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Posted by Dale Buss on January 11, 2013 04:31 PM
Scrambling to get their teams on the field as kickoff nears, the drum beat from brands getting ready for the upcoming Super Bowl continues:
MilkPEP is going long with its plans to run its first ever TV commercial—a 30-second spot for its "Got Milk?" campaign—during the Big Game on February 3. Consumption of fluid milk in the U.S. continues to drop even as Americans keep eating more cheese and yogurt, so MilkPEP, the Milk Processor Education Program funded by the nation's dairy companies, is producing a spot featuring Dwayne Johnson, known as the Rock. He goes a long way to get his kids to have milk for their breakfast cereal.
This group has some branding chops, including the long-running campaign that adds milk mustaches to the upper lips of celebrities in print ads and includes its iconic slogan. But as the New York Times notes, until now, its Super Bowl marketing participation has been confined to running newspaper ads before or after the game.
It's also partnering with the National Dairy Council and the NFL, including New York Giants star receiver Victor Cruz, to get kids to eat better and be more active, under the league's Fuel Up to Play 60 campaign.
In addition to joining forces with Pepsi for a bigger Super Bowl retail push, Budweiser has unveiled more of its plans for its six Super Bowl ads. In addition to debuting a new Budweiser Black Crown brand — a higher-alcohol, more upscale version of Bud aimed at evening consumption — AB InBev will be plugging new beer brand Beck's Sapphire. It also will bring back the venerable Clydesdales, the iconic giant horses that have been associated with Bud for decades.Continue reading...
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Posted by Dale Buss on December 5, 2012 09:05 AM
Disney and Netflix sign landmark agreement for the web streaming service.
GlaxoSmithKline begins assembling new global branding effort on its impact around the world.
Tesco bails out of Fresh & Easy venture in U.S.
AOL's Advertising.com group acquires Buysight.
Apple upgrades iTunes, secures USPTO patent for "retina."
Beer tax dispute heats up in Europe.
Blu Dot tests Twitter game of musical chairs.
BMW has US luxury auto sales crown in its sights.
Campbell Soup Company donates $500K to Salvation Army.
Citigroup announces 11,000 job cuts and $1B charge.Continue reading...
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Posted by Shirley Brady on October 21, 2012 05:12 PM
Early look at new Windows 8 design baffles some users, but not three-year-old Julian, above, as Best Buy starts taking pre-orders for Windows 8 phones and gets ready to launch Surface tablet — and manage expectations ahead of growing thirst for tablets, and Oct. 23rd reveal of Apple's iPad Mini.
Lance Armstrong urges cancer supporters and celeb pals to stand by LiveStrong, as the New York Times and other media detail alleged doping cover-up.
Abercrombie & Fitch CEO sued by former private airline pilot over dismissal and eyebrow-raising requirements.
Apple sued over deal locking iPhone to AT&T network.
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile will launch Isis mobile wallet on Monday.
Audi may help Mercedes-Benz overtake BMW in US.
Banana Boat recalls sunscreen due to flammability threat.
BBC roiled by "worst crisis in 50 years" and internal strife as its Jimmy Savile sex scandal handling goes public in broadcaster's own Panorama expose.Continue reading...
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Posted by Dale Buss on October 12, 2012 09:02 AM
AMC stages World Zombie Day to lobby Dish Network.
Audi contemplates minivan.
Best Buy plans to match online prices.
Bugatti goes social with its super-car brand.
Burger King seeks the next new big marketing idea.
Cadillac considers sports car.
Carrefour lifts recovery hopes.
Coca-Cola Hellenic, Greece's biggest company, quits the country.
Fila pursues Adidas market share.Continue reading...
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When one thinks of Target, it's certainly fitting to imagine the retailer as an outlet for the teenage girls that form the bulk of The Hunger Games' most dedicated fan base. What may not be so fitting to the Target brand and clientele are the terms like "14-carat gold replicas" and "$999 each." Yet, this is what Target is dangling as one of the marquee features of its exclusive Hunger Games DVD release event.Continue reading...
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AMC tries to enlist consumers in standoff with Dish Network.
Amazon expands use of delivery lockers and expands into social gaming.
American Airlines faces record $162 million in penalties.
Apple plans to pull YouTube app from iPhone and iPad in growing rift with Google as it grills the head of strategy for Samsung in court.
Best Buy founder moves on estranged company.
Chuck E. Cheese starts new campaign aimed at moms.
Coca-Cola deals with kick-out threats from Bolivia.Continue reading...
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that's entertainment
Posted by Sheila Shayon on July 12, 2012 02:05 PM
The annual San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) kicks off today, and as ever, it's a massive promotional platform for brands.
Founded as the "Golden State Comic Book Convention" in 1970 by a group of San Diegan comic book fans, the annual fanfest has evolved to include video games, toys and other forms of genre entertainment. That's why Hollywood beats a path south to the show every year — to generate buzz among the estimated 250,000 comic book, sci-fi, fantasy, anime, and video game fans hitting town for the four day pop-culture fix.
One of the biggest movies being touted this year: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, which marks the cast's last appearance as Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner hyping the Nov. 16th final bow with a 1pm ET (above) panel. Also red-hot: Iron Man 3, with Robert Downey Jr. and co-stars on hand to promote the movie scheduled for May 3rd of next year.Continue reading...
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Occasionally facility managers complain that their waterless urinal systems are causing odor problems in their restrooms. Often, a waterless urinal is actually more odor free than conventional systems because the interior of the unit stays dry. Bacteria, which usually is the cause of restroom odors, needs moisture in order to thrive.
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The Micromax Canvas Doodle 3 will feature a 6-inch display, a dual-core processor and a 5MP camera.Micromax recently started teasing its upcoming s...
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4.7-inch Apple iPhone 6 allegedly confirmed by the manufacturing mould
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As a Vietnam veteran and a resident of Liberty County, where so many trees have been planted in recent years in memory of fallen warriors from Fort Stewart, I took a special interest and satisfaction in the recent success of our U.S. military taking down enemy No. 1 in the war on terrorism, Osama bin Laden.
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Sheila the Family Wonder Dog is one proud pooch today.
Dear Editor: I very much enjoyed reading Jameson Cunningham's thought-provoking column in last Saturday's Bryan County News regarding retired Navy captain and Sen. John McCain, and I want to thank you for publishing his comments. I concur with Jameson's opinion that the senator certainly should be considered a true American hero for what he personally endured while serving his country in Southeast Asia.
There's nothing nuanced about Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens' understanding of the state's "open meetings" law - and that's a good thing.
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Normally, an uptick in the unemployment rate would not be considered good news. But it is a peculiarity of the economic recovery that April's increase in the unemployment rate from 8.8 percent, a two-year low, to 9 percent is actually cause for optimism.
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Amazon reports rare profit and is punished by Wall Street
mystic megs got their crystal balls in a twist so the. brain dead and the greedy brokers reacted in the predictable fashion.
Lenovo and IBM's System x biz: It'll be just like 2005's PC buyout
Re: Ok, that one made me spit Sprite Zero....
Thank you kindly!
"Successes? Oh, we've had a few...........
...........But then again, too few to mention"*
*Sorry Frank.
Ditch IE7 and we'll give you a FREE COMPUTER, says incautious US firm
@ AMBxx I agree. Whilst I still use Firefox........
..........as my preferred browser (habit I guess, although not solely that) I am obliged to admit that with IE10 I began to review my automatic hostility to Redmond's offerings in that area. I have been trialling IE11 for some little while now and am obliged to admit that it is a world away from anything they produced in the past. Pity it took them so long to get genuinely serious about good browser design.
Big tech firms holding wages down? Marx was right all along, I tell ya!
I am absolutely delighted to find that..........
...............a word like "monopsonist" exists.
Apple's Tim Cook: Fear not, worried investors, new product salvation is 'absolutely' on the way
@Doug S Re:"....until they sold 7 billion iPhones every year?" A good point, however,.......
...........the problem is that the markets (and the analysts in this instance) are driven by fear and greed rather than by intelligence, genuine analysis and a sense of proportion. Cupertino is not going to enjoy stratospheric capital gains forever? "Oh woe is us, the end of the world is nigh - sell, sell, sell I tell you, the sky is falling in."
Apple is highly unlikely to stop making serious money (although they will be getting any of mine any time soon :P) but that is not enough for the stripey-shirted-brigade and the rest of their fellow sharks. Irrationallity and the aforementioned fear and greed - Masters of the Universe?
Vile Twitter trolls thrown in the cooler for rape abuse tweet spree
@Cliff Re: Reg, don't join in with 'troll', you're better than that
Agree entirely Cliff - see icon.
Community service?
Whilst of course we have all seen cases where violence has not been adequately punished the scenario you describe is unlikely. Normally speaking being convicted of malicious wounding or occasioning grievous bodily harm will get you a custodial sentence unless there are very special circumstances and you have a very fast talking lawyer.
Hey, G20. Please knock it off with the whole tax loophole thing - we're good guys, really
@Don Jefe. Splendid post.
See icon.
Nokia Lumia update spreads Black death
@Big_Boomer. Re: "The grass is no greener anywhere else"
Indeed. However, you have to understand that the gold card members of the Anti Microsoft Choral Howling Society have to get their dibs in whether it is justified or not.
Take off, nuke 'em from orbit: Kill patent trolls NOW, says FTC bigwig
As far as I am concerned the lady is well named.
Absolutely Brill.
Haters of lurid supershow CES: The consumer tech market is still SHRINKING
Yes indeed toad warrior.
"You can't screw your employees on wages and expect consumer spending to climb."
However, this not new. The "Managerati" have been wilfully blind to that contradiction since the early days of mass production and the modern mass markets that it created.
Two guilty over 'menacing' tweets to feminist campaigner
Splendid, I am delighted to hear it.
Unless of course anybody feels that "freedom of speech" is served by threatening someone with rape - hmm?
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@Kristian Walsh Regarding Apple's business model in the US.
".... the rest of the US carriers follow T-Mobile's lead, it's good for Samsung and Nokia/Microsoft, who have a range of mid-price and budget phones, but it's a disaster for Apple."
I think that if this continues and the Telcos' stranglehold on the retail mobile phone market itself is broken then you may well be right. Apple's focus on one price segment in the US (the very core of their business) would not have been the huge success for them that it has been without operator lock-in, the close to cartel conditions in the services market and the near monopoly hold over the retail phone market that the carriers have. It is an observable fact that the pricing and subsidy models used by the US carriers require that the deals available for the high end flagship phones (all such, not just Apple's) in fact are not subsidised by the carriers but by the rest of their poor benighted customers. If this new dawn is indeed breaking then any producer without the full range of price points in their portfolio will indeed, as you point out, have a problem.
Drug dealer demands jail to escape 'unbearable' missus after NYE row
Well, you never know.
He might have said to the judge that it was his decision but 'er indoors may have gotten so pissed off with him being around 24/7 that she gave him very little choice in the matter.
Apple wants sales ban on Samsung smartphones nobody is selling
@frank ly "It's a patent that is........"
Indeed, if you go into iOS under "tools and utilities" you'll find the app for it there along with the telephone number of their legal advisors "Sue, Grabbit and Run, Attorneys At Law".
GCHQ spooks told: Break Huawei's grip on 'The Cell'
The Cell?
This sounds like the next in the Resident Evil series - er, hang on a minute there appear to be choppers circling the house for some reas.............
NSA alleges 'BIOS plot to destroy PCs'
@Trevor_Pott Re "I'm not a US person...."
Neither am I, although I have to admit that even if it were MI5 saying this I would not believe them either. As far as I am concerned I would not accept that fisherman's tale from the Almighty Himself without independent evidence let alone any country's intelligence service. What they are saying is that we are (excuse me, it's very hard to type and cry with laughter at one and the same time) just going to have to trust them (Oh God my sides are splitting).
Google tells EFF: Android 4.3's privacy tool was a MISTAKE, we've yanked it
Re: "I don't block ads, not deliberately."
Actually, what you describe is pretty what I do myself. One problem however in this context is those devs who refuse to do a paid version of their app with no more permissions than are necessary for the app to function. I have on several occasions had to reject an app because of this problem. One gets the impression that a fair number of devs are utterly uninterested unless they get to own your phone's arse.
I think that there is a problem here.
Many apps that are downloaded are so called "free apps" where the deal is that ads are the "payment" - what about them?
Apple fanbois warned: No, Cupertino HASN'T built a Bitcoin mining function into Macs
"....If you follow tech guidelines from.....then you're an......."
Well, if they buy their tech from..... oh, alright I won't go there, but it is incredibly tempting.
Apple's spamtastic iBeacon retail alerts launch with Frisco FAIL
Re: "iTout".
Hilarious, I love it.
"Comfortable with that?" Er, well now that you mention it, no.
I cannot stand stores where you are pursued by bonus hunting sales staff at the best of times and if the shop itself were to start spamming me I would be out of there so fast that the only residual trace of my presence would a small local increase in temperature due to displaced air rushing back in.
Apple's legal bill for Samsung patent fight tops $60m
"substantial discounts" Hm..yes.
Cupertino do after all by their legal services in bulk.
Submerged Navy submarine successfully launches drone from missile tubes
"Das Dröne"
A definite thumbs up for that reference.
Brit-boy Bates is Silicon Valley's pick for Microsoft's CEO
Hi guys! Can we please have a little more.....
..........reportage and a lot less "Hello!" magazine?
Apple snubs discounts, sprays Black Friday zombies with gift cards
Pride goeth before destruction and.........
............a haughty spirit before a fall. I suggest that Apple's senior management contemplate this wisdom before it bites them in the arse.
Asus Transformer Book T100: Xbox One? PS4? Nah, get a cute convertible for Christmas
@Jack Faust meets Mephistopheles Re 2 gb contra 4 GB.
"It;'s expected Q1-2 2014 so the first 64bit 4gb tabs should start coming out around then."
A very useful heads-up. I shall wait a few months more before dusting off my wallet.
Swollen Reg reader recounts FALSE WIDOW spider HORROR
If the victim is male and the spider the genuine "Widow"................
...........it would not have been just the foot that exhibited swelling. Sufferers experience an extremely painful degree of priapism for which the only real treatment is bed-rest and repeated applications of ice -packs.
Microsoft Surface slabs borked by heat-induced DIM SCREEN OF DEATH
One question.
Does El Reg have any idea about what percentage of customers are experiecing these problems. It would seem to me that such information would be of interest.....hm...?
Dropbox joins Linux patent protection hit squad
A patent cooperative?
Sounds dangerously communistic to me. What would "BigCorp" say?
Beijing hits back at US: Don't you DARE blame China for collapse of duty-free IT talks
@AC Well old chap as it so happens.......
"Any chance you remember what you Brits did to China, Massive Opium Addictions come to mind? "
.............. I have never, repeat never, heard a fellow countryman of mine defend for one moment the Opium Wars. I suggest that you review you own history in a slightly more objective light. Particularly in light of the way that, historically, the US utterly ignored the intellectual property rights of all other nations until (think the lead in to the Edison period) they had intellectual property of their own worth protecting.
NSA installed '50,000 malware sleeper cells' in world computer networks
I am not indulging in a mendacious out-of-context quotation here.
"But given that the U.S. government was unaware"
I am simply trying to underline the point that I think you were making. The US authorities were either very well aware what was going on or they chose to be wilfully blind.
Fairly ironic given recent complaints.........
............ about what the Chinese are allegedly up to, hmm? "Don't do what I do, do what I tell you to do"- and all that.
You can't have that many! China scuppers US, EU tech tariff talks
I find very strange that this report is.......
........... pretty much entirely based on what the Western negotiators say is going on. I do not know whether the Chinese have a case, a bit of a case or no case at all - and I certainly would not gain any insight into that by virtue of reading something that could just as well have been drafted by the Foreign Office.
Sony patents LASER-FIRING Wi-Fi SMARTWIG with sideburn buttons
"Are Sony just trolling the patent office?"
No, they appear to doing something that, in the current climate, is seriously radical - supporting a patent application with a working prototype. Unheard of!
Lumia 1520: Our man screams into ENORMO new Nokia phondleslab
@The Prof "What is it?"
Personally I call them FEMPS. F***ing Enormous Mobile Phones. "Phablets" or Phondle-whatever just does not cut it for me.
Don't PANIC, but these SMARTWATCH-stuffed boxes are going NOWHERE
The problem is I fear that they are fugly as well as expensive.
The first Android tablets did not do so well (it's different now of course) and they weren't ugly, just expensive.
'I'm BIG, I'm BALD and I'm LOUD!' Blubbering Ballmer admits HE was Microsoft's problem
@raving angry loony ".............in my opinion, more going for them than what I thought."
I agree. Furthermore I think that he himself has woken up to his biggest mistake. The stack-ranking shite. We can argue and debate until the cows come home over this or that aspect of Redmond's strategy in this or that area of their business but any and all mistakes/misteps/misfocusing (bla, bla, bla) arise fundamentally from a company's culture. That that culture proved to be peculiarly resistant to change is, IMHO, directly due to their continuing with that downright pernicious, not to say evil, system of evaluation. Yes, the good news is that they have at last got rid of it. The bad news is that it is something that they should have done a decade ago.
Android mobes outsell iPhones, but Apple gets MORE PROFIT THAN ALL
What on earth is this?
Apple sells pretty much exclusively in the high-end segment - see icon for my opinion of this "analysis".
Apple, for one, welcomes its ROBOT factory OVERLORDS
@jai ".... They made a big thing...."
I suspect that the big thing in this case is Apple wanting political cover for their desire to repatriate profits while paying as close to zero tax in their "home country" as they possibly can - just like every other "patriotic" American company.
Microsoft's EAT-your-OWN-YOUNG management system AXED
Well, well well. Truly it is written that........
.... "there is more joy in heaven at one sinner that repenteth than in nine and ninety just men".
On a somewhat more serious note it has been my experience that this vile practice much beloved of The Managerati has poisoned work place relations for over a generation. A thoroughly inhuman system that brought out the worst in people and never achieved what it said on the tin - not even from the point of view of the managerial daleks that implemented it.
Microsoft CEO shortlist claim: It's just Elop, Bates, Mulally, Nadella and...
I don't think that Elop will get it.............
......... He has to prove first that he can run, successfully, MS' new devices division. The guy from Ford with a track record in managing change on the large scale would seem logical - but what do I know? Redland are not likely to ask my advice!
Reding: NSA, friends don't spy on friends. Europe, let's team up for our own SPOOK CLUB
How could this go wrong?
Very easily. The first time one of the American poodles here in Europe decided that licking Uncle Sam's arse was more important than being "communautaire" *
*Yes HMG, I am looking at you. What was it that the "traitor" said to our hero at the end of Smiley's People? "We've been America's streetwalker for....."
SR-71 Blackbird follow-up: A new TERRIFYING Mach 6 spy-drone bomber
Those who have pointed out that the U2's height was thought of as......
.... its best defence are of course quite right and I stand corrected. The incident still (as I am sure you would agree) stands as an example of the fact that no tech (military or otherwise) is truly future proof and it is wise to assume that your potential enemies will, sooner rather than later, develop effective counter-measures.
@OrsonX Re: "too fast for missile"
Military laser tech may well threaten this bird but I would also keep an eye on missile development. After all "too fast to shoot down" was what the CIA thought about the U2 until Soviet air defence shoved a SAM up Gary Powers when the plane was (for the time) at very high speed and altitude.
Dead PC market? In the UK? NEVER
You have be careful old chap..........
........... anything that suggests that Win 8 has not sent the entire PC-market down the toilet will get you absolutely hosed.
FIERY DEATH awaits all who stroke mobes mid-flight? Nope, says FAA
Hmm.... I am sure that I am not the only one who is highly relieved........
........ that making actual calls will still be banned. Can you imagine it? Trapped on the "Red-Eye" to NY next to some arse howling "I'm on the plane, no not the train - the plane" for the entire flight? We definitely need a "Thank insert-your-choice-of-Deity-here-icon".
DEAD STEVE JOBS chap becomes ENGINEER ... at Lenovo
@Don Jefe Re: "Sorry for the rant...."
Not at all - I in fact largely agree with your post. I was just feeling somewhat jaded and sour at him getting "credit" for an engineer status he did not earn. I do not in reality scorn him for dropping out but I am not impressed with him making use of it in this way.
Now be fair. After all........
"I can't wait to dig in and help Lenovo develop future mobile computing products, starting with the Yoga Tablet. Lenovo is all about innovation and strong leadership. Entrepreneurship is part of their DNA*, and I couldn't ask for a better fit."
.......... He's got the managerati bollox-speak off pat already. Oh, by the way, "he dropped out of college" means he failed.
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