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And this differs from HP's usual support strategy how exactly?
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HP warns consumers: Don't downgrade Win8 PCs to Win7
AMD shutters German Linux lab, gives devs the axe
Widow lost savings in Facebook stock, sues all concerned for $1.9m
Adobe Reader 0-day exploit surfaces on underground bazaars
Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset review
Thursday 8th November 2012 14:54 GMT 
Re: Oh
That Stallone film you alluded to produced one of the wittiest responses to an interview question I ever heard. Genuinely amazing, as it was Stallone being interviewed:
"Mr Stallone, did you do any of your own stunts?"
"Hell no! I've been terrified of heights ever since my first marriage."
Android printing - a fail
Thursday 8th November 2012 12:50 GMT
Re: Android printing - a fail
Further to that last, it seems to be the proprietary boys taking the lead here.
I just took possesion of a shiny, new Acer Iconia Tab A510. One of the things that came with it[1] is "Acer print", which also happily tied itself to my wireless printer.
That one seems to be generic. It may be worth seeing if you can track it down and run it on a non-Acer device too.......
[1] Odd thing about this beastie, much of the bundled Acer-specific stuff is actually useful. Top marks to Acer for providing useful enhancements with their toys rather than the usual pointless cruft.
Gaping hole in Google service exposes thousands to ID theft
Thursday 8th November 2012 11:59 GMT
Re: Blimey...
That's why Ford phased out the Cosworth.
It was well known that for many, the annual insurance premium exceeded the cost of the car.
A collegue told me of a wealthy friend with more money than sense, who bought one as a 21st birthday present for his son. Purchase price was twenty-something grand, cost of insuring it for said son was twenty-something-rather-larger grand. It sat on the drive while this conundrum was pondered.
During said pondering and while it was sat, uninsured, on said drive it was stolen, thus neatly illustrating one of the reasons why the insurance on them was so pricey.
Orc Assassin Rogue wins Senate seat
BBC in secret trial to see if you care about thing you plainly don't
Thursday 8th November 2012 10:06 GMT
Re: Got DAB in my car
"... if i like the track it even tells me who is playing."
That information comes up on the dash display of my antiquated Opel Zafira from its crappy old FM unit. Many of the stations round these parts alternate the track info and station ident while they're playing music.
If you want to cheerlead for DAB, at least pick something that cannot be done with FM rather than something that's perfectly possible but just isn't done due to local implementation.
FBI cuffs 14 over $1m 'Gone in 60 Seconds' casino scam
Wednesday 31st October 2012 15:35 GMT
Re: Race conditions?
No, it's just that the whole process is asynchronous.
The machine itself can authorise up to X, so if it cannot get a connection to the bank, it'll still dispense up to that (I used to exploit that one in my student days, find one that cannot give a balance and hit it). Above X, it has to check the balance online. Once the cash is dispensed, a message goes back to update the balance, a process that takes a while (a long while in the case of an offline auth).
Thus given a balance of 1000 quid and twenty people with cloned cards going "3.....2......1......GO" at seperate machines, you can get 20,000 quid. All the machines check the balance online and OK it, the problem only comes to light when the subsequent balance updates take the account 19,000 into the red.
You have to remember that the mechanisms behind these things were designed for the days of dialup connections and packet switched networks, so realtime interaction and locking wasn't on the cards.
Wednesday 31st October 2012 15:25 GMT
Re: So smart and yet so stupid.
Almost definately.
ATMs are often loaded with new, sequentially numbered, bills. In such cases the number range of the bills dispensed would be known and any subsequent attempt to use large numbers of them would be spotted immediately.
Withdrawing them in a casino and immediately chasing them for chips is quite a cunning method of ensuring that there's no chance of the ranges being alerted before the ill gotten gains are someone else's problem.
Hitachi buys Horizon to save UK's nuclear future
Tuesday 30th October 2012 15:32 GMT
Re: Re While some will no doubt point to Fukushima as a sign
Actually that should be: "..because some prat put the diesel generators in the basement, next to the sea and in a country that invented the ruddy word 'tsunami'.".
Nothing wrong with gennies in the basement, as long as you can be 100% certain that it isn't going to get filled with water.
Tuesday 30th October 2012 15:15 GMT
Re: building projects in the UK. will it be this simple?
More likely just taxpayers hacked off with seeing their hard-earned pissed up the wall by the usual mob of itinerant rebels without a clue.
They serve no purpose other than to make these large infrastructure projects take longer and cost more, due to the interminable and expensive processes involved in getting rid of them so construction can proceed.
Hurricane Sandy blows away Gizmodo, HuffPo, various other blogs
Bond's Walther PPK goes digital: A civilized gun updated
Tuesday 30th October 2012 13:53 GMT
Re: Long barrelled revolver.
Yes it is. Getting the rounds in on an speedloader improves matters, but the automatic has a huge advantage. When empty, the slide and hammer stay back. Flick catch and mag drops out, bang in new mag and you are good to go. You don't need to fully prime the first round after reloading on an auto, just thumbing the slide release chambers the next round. In a firefight (i.e. the only time this really matters), you wouldn't bother stashing the empty mag. If you win, you get to pick it up later.
Another consideration is that automatics recock after each round is fired. Revolvers have to be manually cocked or you suffer the inaccuracy caused by the long trigger pull against the cocking mechanism.
Somebody who has practised a lot may well get up to auto speeds reloading a revolver using speedloads, but any idiot can reload an auto very rapidly after a mere few moments of practice. Also you still have to factor in having to reload after every six (or so) shots rather than every 10, 15 or whatever.
Monday 29th October 2012 12:02 GMT
Long barrelled revolver.
Er, last time I looked, .45 ACP was an automatic round (Automatic Colt Pistol).
A long barrelled revolver would more likely be .45 magnum, .357 magnum or .38 special[1]. The major advantage of a revolver[2] is that, having the round in the revolving magazine rather than in the grip, the length of the round is not limited by the size of the grip. Thus a longer casing for more powder and more power is possible without making the thing impossible to hold[3]. The greater effective ranges possible with the larger rounds are aided in accuracy by lengthening the barrel. There would be little reason in having a long-barreled weapon with a short load cartridge.
[1] Of the latter two, in a long-barrelled weapon where size is not a factor, almost invariably the former. The latter round may be freely used as a substitute, as the two are identical in all but the length.
[2] The disadvantage being that, outside of the movies, you have to reload more frequently and reloading takes longer.
[3] .45 ACP is pretty much the limit and those with smaller hands often have a problem with such. Glock produced the .45 GAP round, which is shorter and uses "hotter" powder to compensate, for this very reason.
Forstall ousted from Apple after refusing to apologise for Maps
Israeli cops penetrated by army of fake generals with trojans
Your mouse may actually be a RAT in disguise
Tuesday 30th October 2012 12:01 GMT
You are correct of course and installing it will almost certainly require admin privilege.
The problem is that we have largely moved away from the "running as admin" and "unauthorised privilege escalation" problems only to find a bit of a showstopper, the; "yes, of course I'll allow that Faceberk widget to install" and "of course I want a FREE!!11!!! antivirus scanner" ones.
Unfortunately, fixing those involves either killing users or going to an "install from the heavily policed app store only" model and fucking over the not-as-dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers types as a side-effect.
The weakest link in any security system is the human aspect and some people are just irredeemably thick. I've yet to see an answer to this one that I like the look of.
AMD to partner with ARM for server CPUs by 2014
France again threatens Google with link tax
Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid car review
Monday 29th October 2012 16:04 GMT
Re: Pointless
It does drive the car directly. It also runs the engine at the most efficient revolutions required to move the vehicle as requested, squirreling excess power away in the battery or topping up with electric as appropriate.
It also scavenges energy on the overrun that your conventional vehicle chucks away as frictional losses in the engine.
That's why. Less fuel to do the same job.
Electrics and PHEVs have another trick up their sleeves. Your power station is an order of magnitude more efficient than your car's engine at turning fossil fuels into electricity. Even with all the losses thereafter getting it to your wheels, it still wins.
Monday 29th October 2012 15:58 GMT
Re: VW Golf Twin Drive
Intermittant usage of a diesel engine with mandatory DPF?
Good luck with that. I wouldn't spend my money, the motoring forums are already drowning in tales of expensive DPF issues. Good idea if you're commuting on a motorway, a right bloody disaster for stop/start urban use.
Monday 29th October 2012 15:51 GMT
Re: Ampera
"Pretty cheap, that's why CVT boxes were developed in the first place."
Even better in fact, as the Prius does not have a CVT in the conventional sense. It uses an epicyclic transmission, effectively a differential, with fixed gearing between the components. Variation of engine to wheel speed is accomplished by biasing power from the engine, via the planet gear carrier, to the annulus (final drive) or sun gear (generator). This is achieved by varying the torque (or countertorque) applied at the sun gear.
A total of 26 moving parts IIRC, of which the only ones even remotely likely to fail are the two motor/generators and the parking pawl system, the remainder being large helical gears and various bearings, which outlast the car in most applications. Where you would be really stuffed would be were the electronics to pack it in. Then again, that holds true of any modern vehicle.
As for fixing it, take a look at one. It's without a doubt the simplest automotive transmission ever made. The fact that it's electronically controlled may scare people, but mechanically it's a doddle.
Incidently, see what happens to your modern diesel when the ECU controlling the HP pump gives up. Or the one running the fuel injectors. Or the one running the emission control system. Or the one handling the instrumentation and diagnostics (special mention to Ford for their legendary dash ECU failure woes here)........
Monday 29th October 2012 15:29 GMT
Re: Elephant in the room
"Injection cars are easier the electrical systems piggyback..."
Bit drilling the manifold for the LPG injectors is a bitch. Unless you're talking about putting a single-mixer system on a modern, fuel injected, vehicle. A heinous, inefficient abortion of an approach that should be banned and which no reputable installer would countenance.
Microsoft aims to herd 70% of enterprise onto Windows 7 by mid-2013
Monday 29th October 2012 15:13 GMT
Re: Hmm.
Well, as everyone I know working in Enterprise class industries is at some stage of a W7 migration at the moment, I actually think they probably will hit it.
You also need to factor in that corporate desktop migrations tend to happen fairly rapidly once they kick into the rollout phase[1]. You don't want to be "mix 'n match" for any longer than is absolutely necessary as that really adds cost on the run/support side and adversely impacts other deployments.
[1] It's the approval, planning, testing and certification bits that are glacially slow, which is why we are where we are.
Monday 29th October 2012 15:07 GMT
Re: "apps dependent on the Windows XP browsers"
Er, no. If they were "awesome" there would almost certainly be a more recent version that works with other stuff.
This is all the crufty old crap knocked together by world + dog over time that gets accumulated. The problem is invariably that there's shitloads of it, it's antiquated and often poorly documented too.
Petition for Alan Turing on £10 note breaks 20,000 signatures
Premature balloon burst thwarts US paper spaceplane attempt
Paintballs proposed as defense against ASTEROID ATTACK
Yahoo! will! ignore! 'Do! Not! Track!' from! IE10!
Monday 29th October 2012 08:48 GMT 
Oh Yeah?
"Recently, Microsoft unilaterally decided to turn on DNT in Internet Explorer 10 by default...."
From previous statements made around these parts, I believe that this is what's known as a "lie"[1].
IIRC, MS provide a screen at first use prompting the user to set the defaults. The suggested setting for DNT is "yes", but what it actually gets set to is entirely up to the user. I think the real problem here is that they know that they haven't a snowball's chance in hell of selling 'please set this to "no"...' to users.
Time for the EU to fuck 'em and fuck 'em hard. While they're at it, they could also haul Mozilla over the coals for taking the advertisers' shilling and burying the setting (defaulted to an ad-friendly "off") in the dark recesses of the configuration, rather than prompting for it on first use and allowing the user to make an informed choice.
[1] Advertisers lie, bears shit in the woods, sun comes up every morning, etc.....
N00bs vs Windows 8: We lock six people in a room with new OS
Friday 26th October 2012 15:19 GMT
Re: Next time
Presumably this is the reason for the flurry of product development announcements from MS recently, all to do with some variation on a device to recognise gestures from a user sitting in front of it.
The endgame is touchscreens you don't actually touch. From a "screen covered in fingerprints" perspective, a rather good idea.
GooPad's eight-incher gives Apple fans cheap relief
Friday 26th October 2012 15:00 GMT
Samsung's lawyers should buy a few.
Then, next time Apple pull 'em up in court they can enter them as evidence with the pointed comment; "Remind me again, why are you sueing us?".
Sueing the big company that makes something a bit similar to your product, while quietly ignoring the small one that makes something exactly like your product, looks suspiciously like just going after the cash rather than defending the design.
Wales: Let's ban Gibraltar-crazy Wikipedians for 5 years
Consumer group urges Aussies to spoof IP addresses
Friday 26th October 2012 07:48 GMT
Hmm, I'm not convinced that's it anyway. There's been a lot said about poor Xbox solder connections and the X-clamps, but mainly by those selling snake-oil X-clamp upgrades or trolls trying to get fools to brick their machines by putting towels around them.
All I know is that the one in our house used to RROD repeatedly. The thing that fixed it, permanently, was to clean the PSU plug and socket thoroughly with a cotton bud soaked in alcohol and apply a squirt of WD40 to the holes in the plug afterwards. Now two years without a hint of an RROD from a box that used to do it on a daily basis.
Facebook's stock rally may be shortlived: Small advertisers enraged
Microsoft's 'official' Windows 8 Survival Guide leaks
Thursday 25th October 2012 14:30 GMT
Re: Piss off
Back in the real world we hit Ctrl+p and get the option of which network printer to use.
Which sort of misses the whole point of having a GUI O/S in the first place.
Soounds like another Heisenfeature: "Windows 8's UI is designed to be touchscreen friendly, apart from the bits that require you to use a keyboard to navigate it."
Carphone Warehouse outs LG-made Google Nexus 4 smartphone
Thursday 25th October 2012 12:44 GMT
Probably because Android goes up and down like the bloody Assyrian Empire with heavy use of its native App2SD functionality. A known "feature" of ICS.
Deleting the SD card as a solution does smack of chucking the baby out with the bathwater though, fixing App2SD so the ruddy OS doesn't tend to go titsup.com when an event triggers the use of an app on the SD card is the right approach. Failing that, disabling it for devices with ample internal storage would be better.
Judge GIVES APPLE THE FINGER in multitouch iDevice patent case
Thursday 25th October 2012 10:40 GMT
Re: PATENTS MUST BE INVENTIVE and NON OBVIOUS!!!!
Er, because the capacitive touchscreens required for multitouch input became available at around the time the iPhone was designed and nobody else was doing a major product redesign at the same time?
Capacitive touchscreen, innovative. Using a capactive touchscreen to capture multiple inputs, which is what it was bloody designed to do, not innovative.
Boeing recipe turns cooking oil into jet fuel
Microsoft has no plans for a second Windows 7 Service Pack
Wednesday 24th October 2012 12:13 GMT
...you can certainly run a company using nothing but Linux desktops.
Chalk and cheese. There's a world of difference between the corporate world of a fixed, known desktop application set with everything configured by skilled staff and the user world of anything and everything looked after by the clueless.
You could run a company's PCs very reliably using Win2K on the desktop, which was of absolutely sod-all use for private purposes, being horribly prone to cruft and having terrible compatibility issues.
You must also be talking small company here. When you get into the tens of thousands of seats, the costs of migrating, redefining the app base, recompiling / recertifying existing code, porting all those Access databases / Excel macros and so on piss all over the potential savings.
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