Posts by Dan 55

Re: The Emperor is clueless

For a moment I thought you were going to say the tiny-handed emperor has no clothes, which is a far worse mental image.

That is utter horseshit * 2.

Google have been caught sending your location back to the mothership against your location preferentes.

You can use an iPhone without an Apple ID perfectly well, you just hit "set up later" on start-up.

And please define how Apple slurp is worse than Google slurp. I'd like a laugh.

Re: Disagree....

Java is the antidote to C++ in the same way as a saw is an antidote to gangrene (remember you shot yourself in the foot with C++?). It's fiddly to develop for because it probably won't let you do what you want to do, the bits it will let you do are horribly bureaucratic, and if C++ is getting a bit fat, Java is in danger of collapsing under its own weight in libraries.

Re: Sun optical mice, circa 1985

Ah, who can forget the OpenWindows Help pages, which for some reason used pop-art cartoons and some women ended up dancing in Club Soda.

Re: He's late to market

But what can they do if Google's putting every new API into Play Services instead of AOSP and not documenting it and AOSP versions of apps are five-year old abandonware?

On the second point, if AOSP were truly open then it could be updated by developers outside Google, but it can't. So Google leaves them to rot and all work by other developers on improving AOSP apps is fragmented.

Kickstarter at least wants to see a working prototype before it lets start-ups or businesses use their platform. Indiegogo doesn't.

That is why Indiegogo has a much lower success rate than Kickstarter (9% vs 36%).

Re: Being sensible

Why is it the Government's place to dictate how you live your life?

Because in Switzerland it's a direct democracy?

Still, when your neighbours are all there watching their tellies in the garden and every goal is met with fireworks, airhorns, and vuvuzelas, I'm sure you'll be the first one to enjoy it.

Re: Too late...

Obviously he's left it too late because he's had too much cake.

Re: hmm

The welfare system is complicated because people's lives are complicated. UC ignores all the complications and people are getting pushed into poverty because of that. UC was never a good idea nor will it be.

The tax system is more complicated than it needs to be due to the political choices taken down the years.

Re: Today's story...

Then that's not like ripping out sh and replacing it with a link to another shell.

It was all about the economics and ability to do our own trade deals for me, and nothing to do with immigrants

The CBI thinks you've been had.

Paul Dreschler also said there was "zero evidence" that trade deals outside the EU would provide any economic benefit to Britain.

The government said it was "focused on delivering a Brexit that works for the whole of the UK".

But Mr Dreschler blamed a "tidal wave of ideology" for the government's Brexit approach.

"If we do not have a customs union, there are sectors of manufacturing society in the UK which risk becoming extinct," Mr Dreschler said.

"Be in no doubt, that is the reality."

Re: Icons are supposedly accessible?

Presumably they'll be proper toolbars with tooltips, however I'm prepared to be disappointed.

We arnt out of this galileo thing because we are leaving the EU , we are out of it because of a bunch of bureaucratic tit for tatting and point scoring

We are out of Galileo because it's an EU-funded project carried out by the ESA and the rules that the UK helped draw up state that the work only goes to EU countries and the PRS can only be used by EU countries.

Re: Our future is India!

Obviously people who know languages will choose to stay in the 17.5% free market paradise (see above) with a welfare state and a society to match.

Re: Who pays the piper

If you pay a lawyer or solicitor to say something for you it must be true.

They didn't work with the BSDs at the end of last year with the original Spectre/Meltdown, they didn't work with them just now, take a guess at what'll happen next time.

Re: Review it.

You can't really honestly review anything until you get the day one update with everyone else. This phone has show stoppers, but they will probably be fixed by the time everyone gets hold of it. If they publish now, they run the risk of publish an inaccurate review.

This, unfortunately, also enables the hype machine to work (see film, videogame embargos).

Re: Prototype for proving theory

Why is Google Maps suddenly allowing me to go inside my own and other people's houses?

Re: Pay more, get less

Or there might be something wrong with their development methodology.

Of course not. The difference is that the UK would like to negotiate a new mutually-beneficial, framework with EU members but the EU would prefer to pretend that the UK doesn't exist.

That framework already exists. It's called the ECJ. It's good enough for 27 other members. Forgive them if they're not chomping at the bit to renegotiate the same thing all over again because the UK is special.

Re: So for a while now...

Imagine it: Win10 accessing a mapped network drive like a *nix client and treating it like a native MS server share.

So exactly like Win 7 then, although hopefully with a few fewer bugs.

I was rather hoping they'd have managed to do the same with sftp by now in Win 10.

Re: LTSC

You've just restated what he summarised on his link text.

Parental control app? VPN to your home router?