Posts by Tom 35 3040 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
They are not going to play ball any more then they do with phones. As long as almost every one else uses the new standard it's worth having.
The only problem I see is the range of power required between a 11" ultrabook, and a 17" gaming laptop. The ultrabook buyer is not going to want a jumbo 90 watt supply.
More likely to come out with Windows 365.
Buy a new computer and get a one year subscription free. Don't renew on time and your computer will only go to the MS website where you can give them more money.
No more rush to release a new version just to get upgrade money.
"a formal ‘prevention and deterrent’ process began to encourage infringing websites to engage with the police, to correct their behaviour and to begin to operate legitimately. "
So how did that go then?
Since most of the type of site they talk about work because they offer content to the world, and stuff that is not available at all from the Hollywood types...
Sounds unsafe to me.
The washroom where I work has a couple of LED lights that stay on (also have battery backup) when the main lights go off, only 2-3 watts. Not enough to read by but enough to see what you are doing.
Having all the lights go out sounds like something the BOFH would think up.
People will buy 8.1 because it came with the computer, much like the box* that came with it. It's not because they picked Win8 (or liked the colour of the box). If they had a choice I expect a large number would buy it with windows 7.
"IDC report showing Windows Phone is outselling the iPhone" I smell fudge cooking...
* If you have a cat, the box may have more value.
There is your problem right there a lot of the time.
Oh look your stock is under valued, I made a leveraged buy now you should strip the assets and give me the cash so I can piss off and find another company to rape.
This shareholders thing is a load of crap, what happened to investors?
"but they'd need to install your app"
It should not be hard to read someones ID code, say an over priced coffee shop.
Then setup your own beacon outside with "get a free drink, just show this code..."
Then you can annoy the phone user and the coffee shop. Kind of like the people who posted fake McDonald's coupons online a few years back.
"Plain packaging legislation is reckoned to have lost the Australian Treasury A$1bn ($946m, £578m) in tax revenue in its first six months, according to a report commissioned by cigarette-makers by KPMG (PDF), as smokers turn to fake, untaxed brands."
So how is this about plain packaging and not about people buying untaxed cheaper cigarettes?
If they still had the fancy gold foil packages people would still buy the taxed ones?
"a report commissioned by cigarette-makers oh, never mind that explains it.
" it will do all the tasks of a portable laptop perfectly for 1/2 the price."
I think you have that backwards. For the price of a Surface, the keyboard, the SD card... you could buy a Very Nice laptop. If you want a small underpowered thing with a crappy keyboard you can get one for a lot less.
A Surface (original) and a Nexus 7.
I use the Surface to watch Netflix or to check my work email. I have used the office apps a few times but my Netbook blows it away. The surface with crappy keyboard is too top heavy and floppy to use well in a lap, you need a desk, then you only get one angle, and the keyboard is still crap.
As a tablet it's too big and heavy and there are next to nothing in the app store. On the go the Nexus 7 kicks it's ass.
So the surface ends up as a crappy laptop substitute, and OK Netflix screen, and a crappy tablet.
There are two text message scams in Canada. One shot where you text some number to vote for a fake TV show contest, or donate money to something, or subscriptions where you get suckered into signing up for something that repeats, like Fido used to run some like Joke of the Day where they would text you some lame joke every day and charge you 25 cents for each one.
Marketing think you only need to change what you call something to make it ok.
An email blast is not spam, it's an email blast. And it's totally unfair when they put us on a black list for spamming because it was not spam, it was an email blast. (a real conversation with the head of marketing where I used to work).
We had a Westinghouse... it was crap.
I also seem to remember Sony having lots of Patents for TVs.
- Make crap TVs
- Ship production to Japan
- Sit on hands while Japan decides they don't need a middle man to take all the profit and improves their own brands.
- Act surprised when your sales go down the tube
- Sell brand to Chinese company.
Apple (designed in California ) is about three steps down that path. No one wants a small tablet, or a big phone for example. Sony and Samsung have smart watches (not that they are very useful) Apple has patents (most of them "slide to unlock" quality)..
Why isn't what is "good enough" for Microsoft, good enough for Google?
Not valid.
When your buy a computer you Get IE (and Bing) you have to make a choice to pick something else, the Ballot makes it easy. Once you pick Firefox you have Firefox (and IE) and don't keep getting the others popping up asking if you want them now.
1. With this you have already made an active choice to switch to Google. It's not Bing that came with the computer.
2. They don't want a one time choice (add our bogus price search results to google). They want to be added, all of them, all the time, at the top. No Choice.
If Google was going to give me a choice I'd like a "never show me results from this domain again" feature.
I might actually think about logging on to Google if I could make sites like www.shopbot.ca, www.mysmartprice.com, and all the fake review sites go away.
"sponsoring legislation that would make tampering with phones so they didn't show up on the database an offense."
Oh dear, I just beat someone up and took their $600 phone and it's all for nothing... I can't tamper with the phone or I'll get in trouble.
Why don't they make not turning your self in to the police after committing a crime an offence too.
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