Microsoft’s mobile ginger stepchild – one of several as it happens – is the Windows RT mobile operating system. This is usually confused with desktop Windows and that discombobulation has contributed to its disastrous sales. Microsoft are rumoured to be sending it to Switzerland for some suicide tourism. This means that those rare suckers that
Author: James Eadon
Eadon: Console Wars, Chess Wars
Rolling back the mists of Old Father Time Megahertz, we peer back into the digital medieval times (the 1980’s and 1990’s). Games Consoles were fantastic in the truest fantasy meaning of the word back then. The beginning of the end of the magic was the coming first Sony Playstation, when games consoles, whilst still immense
Eadon: Social Net Zombies, Macabre Irony and Chess World Champ Drama
Twitter went IPO and it was no turkey. The micro-blogging site is blighted by fake accounts, which are, needless to say, created by marketers and often feature scantily clad ladies. These zombie accounts are not manned and usually do not post. It turns out that forty percent of genuine Twitter accounts do not post whilst
Eadon on Chess Rage, Nokia Rage and Drugs
Dark Web news. The aftermath of the druggy Silk Road site smack down (pun intended) is, of course, the appearance of a cornucopia of replacements. Some of these are run by scammers who take the (Bitcoin) money and run. Others are likely to be FBI “honey pot” traps operated by law enforcement agencies. “Silk Road”
Eadon: Mobile Wars
Forget what the self-aggrandising “Analysts” say. They are paid by corporations to feed lies (reports) to the gullible presstitutes to publish. Here are the figures of mobile traffic to Wikipedia, a much more disinterested source (of course, there is no perfect source, smoke and mirrors are everywhere). Apple iPhones and iPads: 61.78%, Android: 28.62, Other:
Eadon on Tech: The Waitrose For Narcotics Silk Road Bust Bruhaha
To understand the spectacular annihilation of the Silk Road online trading site, I’ll explain briefly outline two wonders of our age: virtual money called Bitcoin and a secret network called Tor. You can skip those bits to the juicy stuff. Bitcoin Let’s make some “virtual” money (money that is not physical)! Take a photograph of
Ex-Microsoft Privacy Gaffer Warns, “Don’t Trust Microsoft”
Eadon here. This week, geeky news items The French national police sensibly switched 37,000 desktop PCs to Linux. Linux is an alternative operating system to Windows and Mac operating systems. Why Linux? It is free and open (open source). Linux is more secure and can be verified, via source code inspection, to be free of
Texas Hold’Em Poker for beginners: The greatest newbie FAIL
Players, Eadon here, welcome to lesson 2 (lesson 1 here). Scenario: You’ve got twenty bets and you can bet on, say, one hundred horse races, one after the other. You are told which horse you can bet on in each race, chosen at random, just before that race. But for each race you can choose
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