Slashdot Mirror


User: alfielee

alfielee's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
30
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 30

  1. Re: Saudi Arabia, etc. on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 0

    What is to stop someone buying the product online through alternate suppliers? This argument doesn't hold...

  2. Re: Saudi Arabia, etc. on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 0

    Mind you, the potential of a multi-national like Apple, with products that are desired by a large populace, could make some wake-up & scream about not being able to get counter purchases. They could still buy them via the Internet so they wouldn't really lose that much market share. They'd lose initially because of religious grounds & rejection of products by a minority who believe they have no right to interfere but most countries outside US have a majority of Android phones anyway. The US is the only major country where iPhone leads sales. In most countries Samsung leads sales itself let alone Android phones across the board...

  3. Re: Saudi Arabia, etc. on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 0

    You may be correct about the global HQ but no-one believes Apple is anything but American. Silliest comment yet...

  4. Re:Android users are not Google's customers on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 0

    On the same hand, whilst Google's focus makes you the "product" as you call it, it's a blind product focus, or a grouping. You pick the group, Google places the advertisement unless you specifically garner a prime commodity that uses Google advertising. The advertisers only choose the select group, not an individual as such which basically makes your comment fallacious. The advertiser has no idea who you are. I doubt anyone at Google actually knows who "you" are. The software picks your preferences based upon the things you specifically choose for yourself & also on the pages you select, probably with ratings on how much you choose those pages. That said no-one within Google has access to your private information in the way that say Mark "Facebook" Zuckerberg has...

  5. Probably killed him in the end... on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 0

    ...In doing so it was a just reward. Unfortunately he didn't take Apple with him when he died...

  6. After the fact... on Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping · · Score: 0

    How does one patent something after the door was opened & everyone is already using it? What a load of tripe. The Patent office is patently full of fools...

  7. Apple, the st*r performer... on Apple To Beat Google On Cloud Music · · Score: 0

    We've done it first so it must be better & we must be better at this so here you go & something else that you really need that you never had before. Did that sound insincere? I apologise if it did. I meant it to sound completely sarcastic & this ridiculous cloud-based anything can go waft itself somewhere else. I just don't get trusting my data with any large corporation, especially not Apple definitely not Microsoft not even Google, even if they've shown themselves a little more reliable for that matter...

  8. Oracle, the good guys at last, such a warm glow... on OpenOffice.org To Be Given Back To the Community · · Score: 0

    Here, take this back. We know databases & can't understand why anyone would want to work on anything else, especially this complex. Of course you'll have to pay for your Java subscription but like all Oracle subscriptions it's the best value for money! Arseholes...

  9. Re:Hmmm.... on Are Google's Patents Too Weak To Protect Android? · · Score: 0

    Most troll attempts that go to court actually fail, from memory it's about 12% success rate. If it's fought & lost it would mean that any other company that may be paying for those patents will stop paying (precedent created) & then the suing company loses financial base & ends up looking like a bad investment. Let's hope this happens to Apple, Oracle & Microsoft...

  10. Re:Open office != MS Office on Why Microsoft Is So Scared of OpenOffice · · Score: 0

    That's a shot across M$s bow, they wouldn't like that

  11. Re:Extra Extra! on Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding · · Score: 0

    I think the number of failed lawsuits protecting non-developed patents is around 89% & with a few more of these tripe patents about what a thought thought, should result in a mire of horse-shit

  12. Re:You get what you pay for. on Microsoft To Charge Phone Makers a Licensing Fee · · Score: 0

    This sounds great but if you have the choice of using an OS for nothing on your phone & it has been proven to work versus one which is not guaranteed by the company (M$) & costs you money, then why would you join. M$, the mother of all useless things...

  13. Ballmer - typical on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 0

    What an unscrupulously, selfish, mongrel dog. True to monkey-boys idiocy, this a-hole continues to claw his way under the snake's belly into the scum-mire pits of diarrhoea & snot. What's more I don't like him either.

  14. Re:It's not rocket science. on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 0

    You mentioned chiropractors. As a worker within the normal medical world I have seen first hand the screw-ups performed on patients by "spinal surgeons". In general these doctors have little to no understanding of the damage they are doing to the back as a whole & I wouldn't trust them operating on a rat. I'd rather see a chiro who has more training & isn't about to put a hole in my spine. The reason I can walk is a chiro, not a surgeon.

  15. Re:Science moves, belief is static on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 0

    "Truth is absolute" only from a relative standpoint. What is truth to you within your current knowledge is not necessarily truth to another in theirs & you may find out that many laws of nature have no relevance in another time nor another universe.

  16. Re:You say there are two sides. That's the problem on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 0

    You have marked a boundary that truly separates reality into truth or falsity. That which appeals to desire to understand the truth & that that appeals to the laws subjugated by religiosity. Religious values by default whilst they claim truth belie the ignorance of truth by faith & ignore reality & real truth, or that that is to be discovered as opposed to that that is by faith alone. Whilst the truth may exist within that moment of faith in the longer endured path this faith will be at odds with truth.

  17. Re:Most people... on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 0

    People have their preferences, some in science, some in art & some in business. Some are in service provision, front-line, people-handling & many of these have no interest nor the capacity to want to understand scientific or mathematical paradigms. You can't really expect them to learn this if they're not interested. Try teaching computing to most women & men over 50 - they're generally just not interested. Your point whilst valid personally is upon general reflection not valid.

  18. Re:Most people... on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 0

    not completely untrue but loses something when one has to translate words - undeniable. Indicates you are talking about yourself & whilst that may be an indicator of many others as well it also undoes your point

  19. Re:Most people... on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 0

    I don't think people have that much problem with "Pluto is too small & use to be a moon of Neptune so is no longer a planet" at all.

  20. Thought the idea was to make money... on Bing Loses More Money As Microsoft Chases Google · · Score: 0

    Or is it merely to try to screw-up someone else & maintain a monopolist's position. Well, whatever, M$ is failing & good...

  21. Re: Yes, completely bogus on British Chiropractors Drop Case Against Simon Singh · · Score: 0

    Absolute tripe mate. For the vast majority of chiropractic users, manipulation makes their lives, albeit for a short time, markedly better. You obviously have no idea of whart you speak. Having fallen off a balcony at 7 I suffered a grade 2 spondylolithesis & if it were not for chiros I would not be able to walk. As for Western surgeons, & I am a Reg Nurse so I have some insight into this, they have absolutely no idea of the damage they cause by the stupid operations they do. Left without treatment all back injuries deteriorate. Given Western surgery it is usually made worse. Given chiro treatmentearly on, alignment creates well-being & life improves. I have had chiro treatment all my life & if you have ever had the burning, shooting pain called sciatica you would understand the debilitating effects this causes. No analgesia removes this pain unless you end up in a stupor. Most Western trweatment makes it worse if anything at all. Chiro is the only thing here that really works.

  22. Nice fellas over at Apple... on Google Gets Its iPhone Voice · · Score: 0

    Well done Google! Better programmers, better people, as for Apple, you belong in the toilet with Microsoft. You're turning into a little version of the same company. Scum!

  23. Re:no sound = no sound barrier on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 0

    ...hit a lot of atmos, burn up. ...hit the sound barrier, torn apart by the sound waves. ...release first canopy at 1100 ft per sec, rip his shoulders apart & perhaps destroy the canopy, second canopy release if he isn't unconscious from the first release rips his rib cage to pieces. ...suffocate remainder of the voyage Gets his name into Guiness & Darwin. ...who cares?

  24. Re:So only XP is out of luck? on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 0

    more likely Steve has his eye on dancing lessons for his next job. In the last job he danced & pranced about the stage woo-hooing like a trained seal on drugs & he's still reeling from the poor scores he got.

  25. Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 1

    Horrific OS. I dispute your call. It made usage difficult, made working with older hardware nigh on impossible in some situations. Vista was garbage. Overly bloated, disconnected wireless several times a day & was difficult to reconnect, often needing a reboot or rebuild of the network resources, overzealous controls with installations for home users, ridiculous controls on legal multimedia content even when owned, hard to install hardware, incredibly slow & a real setback for users.