Posts by Zippy's Sausage Factory

Are the rats deserting the sinking ship, then?

I read this as...

"We still exist. We're doing shiny, too - look. Windows Phone, that's just about still a thing you can buy. And Active Directory - we know you hate it, it's still not as good as NDS used to be, but who else is there any more? Oh and our expression recognition is just about sort of usable - no worse than anyone else's."

Shouldn't T-Mobile sue Experian over this?

You know - recover all their costs, damages to reputation, etc.

Just a thought...

There's already an opt out

It says something like "recognise me in other people's photos". I'm a bit hazy what it actually says because it's a few months since I went poking around in privacy but there's a setting that means FB will never use face recognition to tag you in someone else's photo.

At least, there used to be...

Laws? Courts?

"Yeah, right. Local laws. Who cares about local laws? We don't! Look at some cat pictures and stop thinking, sheeple"

- a quote from the imaginary Facebook person in my head*.

Who is clearly a hyperbolic parody, in case any of FB's lawyers are reading.

Now I want to dig out my old OS/2 discs and create a VM... :)

Suggests their much-delayed global download store *might* just about be ready to launch.

I won't hold my breath though.

Oh dear

Who ever thought there would be a Microsoft conference where Microsoft software was the elephant in the room everybody was studiously trying to ignore?

For all that the Surface Book might be a game changer, and the Lumias might be the greatest phones ever made, all I can smell from here is the slow, creeping spread of decay.

I'm on Hungary's side here

Not that it will make much difference. Most companies think of their "customers" as sheep to be fleeced, nothing more. If they could get away with planting malware on the computer and harvesting our bank accounts, I can't think of many international companies that wouldn't do it.

I can imagine several foreign governments being annoyed with this.

Mainly Germany. But possibly a few others as well.

Becasue they wanted to?

Or because they were told they wanted to?

I'm betting (b)

Just a thought, but...

If MS are releasing Office for iPad, and the new keyboard and stylus look a lot like the Surface one and MS aren't suing them for copying THEIR rounded rectangles...

Is it me or are MS hoping to just quietly kill the Surface and hope nobody notices?

BACS will not be happy

I once reported my mortgage provider to BACS for cocking up my direct debit and writing it to my credit record as a default when it was their fault. What was suspicious was that they started sending the wrong details to the bank just as we had started the remortgage process in place. After a flat refusal to change the credit record, two days after I reported it to BACS they changed it and sent us a letter of apology.

I also did that to the Council when they screwed up my Council Tax (nothing fishy, just incompetence). I was told - through a contact who worked there - that they had to grovel to BACS and agree to being audited by them in order to keep their ability to collect Direct Debits.

So if BACS is working normally, I expect there will be quite a lot of shouting going on right now...

"Installing iOS 9 beta 3? How? Oh come on... I just wanted to play Candy Crush.

"I bet it doesn't work with 9 anyway, none of the good games do..."

Given the massive drop in stocks worldwide lately, I'm guessing there's a big financial crisis coming (and I don't think I'm alone in saying that.)

I think ti's likely any company making losses or thin profits now is probably already in danger of closing by the end of next year.

So I might as well delete Visual Studio then...

Might as well just target Android now then, if it runs on Windows as well. Bye bye MSDN subscription I suppose...

Silverlight ain't ever gonna be supported

They've been trying to kill it for years.