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Comment: Interesting but... (Score 1) 348

by Going_Digital (#39170963) Attached to: UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money
An interesting idea but surely this is kind of backwards ? During busy times there are lots of vehicles on the road with their lights on so it is easy to see other road users and it is less likely that you will find unexpected obstacles in the road such as animals and people straying into the road. However during quiet times only your lights are illuminating the road and you are far more likely to encounter unseen obstacles.

Comment: Lego, Lego Lego !!! (Score 2, Informative) 186

by Going_Digital (#37803276) Attached to: DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones
Arrgh, what is it with slashdot posters, there is no such thing as Logo's, just like you don't say multiple USB's, you say multiple USB Ports. Lego is the brand name for the construction system and the components are called bricks or components, so the correct way to say this would be 'multiple Lego bricks' or 'multiple Lego components'.

Comment: Thought that was obvious. (Score 1) 556

by Going_Digital (#37725588) Attached to: Is Apple Pushing Away Professionals?
Apple have for a long time now been heading down the mass market road, professional tools where people use a computer for serious work with complex applications is not what Apple is interested in any more. Such markets require a lot of investment to provide features for a relatively small market, many of the features missing from final cut pro X for example are probably only really used by a few thousand serious professionals worldwide. Apple has clearly decided that selling to a wider audience is more profitable. The more mass market tools they can get on their platforms the more hardware they will sell. So if Final Cut X is seen as an almost professional video editing system for a cheap price they could sell a million more macs, where as the perfect pro suite might net them a few thousand top end systems. A million more consumer level mac sales are far more valuable to them as their economies of scale go up, they can push the component prices down and make higher profits on every mac sold. OSX Lion has been dumbing down with features like versions and local snapshots that can't be turned off, I have stayed with snow leopard because Lion spends to much time trying to force me to do something its way rather then letting me choose how I want to work. Finally Apple stumbled across the app store model after the release of the iPhone, consumers pushed to install their own apps on the device and Apple reluctantly created the walled garden that requires you to pay to play and takes a cut from every app sold. What use is selling 1000 copies of Autocad via the app store even with a $300 commission when you can push out 5 million copies of some silly game that will get forgotten about in 6 months time and the next craze comes along and sells another 5 million copies. Apple is all about increasing market share, get as much hardware out here as possible to fuel the app store model and get as many mass market titles in the app store as they can to further extend the captive market for even more apps from the app store.

Comment: Google is loosing all credibility. (Score 3, Insightful) 139

by Going_Digital (#37717578) Attached to: Google Buzz Buzzing Away
Apart from their core search Google are beginning to loose face, far to many projects started and thrown out. Who is going to invest time and effort using a google service when there is a good chance that it is going to be pulled? Unlike software installed on a computer you are forced to migrate when google decides to shut things down. It's not as though you can just carry on using the service until it no longer meets your needs. Not just a google problem but a wider problem for the whole software as a service concept.

Comment: Re:National Museum of Computing (Score 1) 71

by Going_Digital (#37610032) Attached to: Bletchley Park Gets £4.6 Million Restoration
No, they don't even get any commission from the Bletchley Trust when they run an event that brings in lots of PAYING visitors. The National Museum of Computing essentially just rents the space as a tenant, despite their efforts being responsible for increasing visitor numbers they get no special recognition from Betchley.

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