Posts by Tom 35

Re: Acer

That's why my Nexus is in the bag sitting next to me, and my Surface (original RT) is sitting at home being useless.

Re: Stuff it can't hope to deal with

"Car Jackers; it will politely stop and open the doors, its the safest option"

Great you have jacked a google car. Now what? Tell it where you want to go, or just wait for it to drop you off at the cop shop?

Re: it was a court, and a pretty comprehensive trashing it was, too.

If Amazon was doing something illegal go after them for it.

If they are just doing something you don't like, too bad.

In both cases that is not an excuse to setup an illegal price fixing scam because Amazon is evil.

Who do they think they are? Batman?

Re: Personally I think

You need to think some more.

All your examples are for new features, not safety fixes.

If you want a valid non-software example look at recalls. I had my 11 year old cars airbag and some wiring replaced for free do to a recall. That's FAR past the warranty. They can't just say, your cars is old, go buy a new one.

Re: forgot to encrypt messages stored on Android SD cards

Maybe not the NSA. Might be handy for cops who pull you over for looking funny.

Re: Software ought to be goods

Lots of the stuff in EULA has no legal backing, they just hope you will not take them to court.

Re: Can we apply this to printed bollocks as well as electronic bollocks?

Different company, same story here. Used to call them and say I want to sign up for the super deluxe with extra bells service. When they finally get to checking and say it's not available in my area I'd tell them I wanted to be compensated for them wasting my time by sending me offers for stuff they can't deliver. That go them to take my name/address off the spam list.

Re: Pitchfork time.

The reason independents exist is because the big labels have been screwing people with take it or leave it contracts for as long as published music existed. Now they are in effect signing up to a big label and are surprised that they are getting offered contracts they don't like.

If they can survive not signing with a big label, they should survive not signing with youtube.

If the big labels don't have to give people contracts they like why should the world be different for Youtube?

Re: So where are the Whiteknighting MicroSoft Shister-Team

"That they cannot do this is precisely my point: Google's current all or nothing licencing for Android apps prohibits OEMs from competing with Google."

Not true at all.

A friend has a Samsung phone from Bell Canada. For a lot of functions they have one Google app, one Samsung app, and a Bell app. They all do the same thing, you can't uninstall any of them without root. So OEMs and ISPs can compete. Most of that stuff is crap, it's why I bought a Nexus 4.

Unless you mean to say can't remove the google app and install some crap app that no one would use given a choice, but it gives the OEM a kickback.

Those days are long gone.

You can't just cut the wire on the sensor as it's needed for the black box to manage the engine moment to moment. The problem is the black box recording and transmitting info that is no longer needed by the car to be used as spy data.

Right now you can plug a box into your car so the insurance company can spy on you for a discount. How long before car companies build it in and charge the insurance companies a fee to access the data?

Cut the link? The data connection will be required for warranty, and be used for other stuff like live traffic data for the built in GPS, as well as things like map updates.

Root the back box?

How many people root their phones, almost no one will root there car, if it costs car companies money it will be banned.

Zuckerbergs loudly professed anti govt snooping stance either.

He doesn't like competition. That's his job!

So am I

I am one of the lucky people who get to test stuff on Windows 8.1, what ever they call the current version.

Once I kill as much of not-Metro as possible, it's not bad. But if they took not-Metro out back and put a bullet in it's head it would only be better.

One of the problems with Windows has always been the way settings seem to be scattered at random, Win8 made that twice as bad.

Don't much want IE, and now I have two of them.

Re: who are those companies?

against, you forgot the lawyers...

Enterprise functionallity

No, you need the Xbox and music stuff!

It will now be easier* for a WinPhone end user to setup exchange email then Android users.

* As long as you upgrade to the latest version of Exchange server running on Windows 2012R2 or switch to Office 365.

Bull crap.

"the only vendor with a unified strategy across server, desktop, tablet and mobile,"

Yes, just what a want on my server, the interface for a 5" phone screen.

"and the only vendor to support the future of touch and gesture across all of those platforms."

The servers are locked away, I only touch them maybe once a week, and they don't even have a monitor connected to them unless I wheel over the terminal cart. WTF would I want with touch and gesture shit?

Adobi DRM

If it's anything like their ebook DRM it will be a steaming pile of crap, even when the cloud is working.

Re: data transmission devices?

It was a box with blinking lights connected between his computer and a phone jack. They took his toaster too, just in case.

Re: "And they all lived unhappily ever after..."

" if I take a clip from a film"

That's copying the performance. Something not possible in a book, or program.

If you have a different actor say "I'll be back" in a different film, even if they say it in a fake Arnold voice? Don't think so.

Or...

"so given its in their best pockets to negotiate the best deal they've probably already reached that point and suspect the court would award a lower amount."

Or, they can grab a pile of cash now, without too much work, and on to the next case. Why wait years and do lots of work?

Re: When it's rush hour in the rain...

"rush hour in the rain... "

So you can get a regular taxi then?

Re: Perfect match

Now they just need to buy Monster cable.

I expect they could save a lot by combining the legal teams.

Re: New IP?

Maybe bouncing a ball against a wall of bricks. They can trade mark the word brick too.

Re: I like the irony

Better they have to buy you out, then just choke you to death.

Re: Sulk?

I'm confused, think I'll go take a nap.

Re: Bubble

"No nothing bad happened. Your money is safe with us!"

for certain values of "your".

Re: Far too creepy Tesco

No Tesco, in Canada but we have been swapping Shoppers cards a work for fun.

Re: Hagens Berman works for Microsoft

So this is Scroogled part II.

Re: Boo. Hoo..

If you are at the US boarder, you are not IN the US and have no rights at all. They can already require you to unlock any device so they can snoop for any reason, or just because they don't like you, or think your hat is funny.

Re: Dear Mr. Katzenberg

"My smart phone has a Micro-HDMI port"

The DRM will require that this be turned off.

There will be a different player for each of the studios that go for it. Each will only work with a different set of 5 devices. Like 'Plays for Sure" it will be killed after a couple years and anyone dumb enough to buy anything will be SOL.

They come up with crap like this, UltraViolet, digital copy... remember the DIVX DVD phone home player? The self destructing DVD? From the same people who think putting the "you wouldn't steal a car" ad on a DVD (unskippable) that someone just bought is a good idea.

And they moan when we tell them to pull the other one and mock their great ideas.

Tell them we want DRM free, just like music and they act like we ask them to do something impossible.

Re: What is Windows Phone market?

I don't believe Microsoft want to help protect your privacy for a second. They are just not as good as google when it comes to collecting and selling your info, yet.

I used to use Bing to find official support sites as you didn't get as much crap as Google. No more, now it's even worse when you try a simple search for a make and model of something.