Posts by Dan 55

Re: Internal Power Supply?

Presumably it's a power supply which solves the sudden power off problem, which would be nice. After all, would you like to reformat, rewrite, and swap 1000 SD cards?

Re: Symbian

Symbian wasn't supposed to offer an common app store or a common UI, that was up to the manufacturer - Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, or whoever.

Nokia took great pains to share their app store profits with the operator.

With Apple, the whole lot went to the manufacturer and none to the operator.

Until Android came along, there was no such thing as a common app store where the profits went to the OS developer and left both the manufacturer and the operator out.

Re: Optional

Maybe French Guiana have got a fast streamlined burocracy?

I'm sure at the very least they won't want you to open an explosives containment facility.

Re: No no no no no no and no

Imagine a Scottish ginger. It's outlandish.

Re: Wrong solution

If you get rid of public transport then you can have pod cars, but not everybody can have their pod car.

One will appear when you want it and take you where you want to go then disappear somewhere else to take someone else where they want to go.

If you want to solve transport and overcrowding problems then not everybody can have their personal pod car parked near where they are ready to leap into action. There just isn't enough room.

Re: The media exceiption

Right, so that's the paperwork for LOHAN sorted out. When's the launch?

Somewhat ironically I think it's never been safer to rely on HTTPS. Browsers don't let any old thing pass any more.

Favicons only appear in browser tabs now. If I saw a padlock in my browser tab or HTTP for a HTTPS site like gmail, I would close the tab.

If you want to check the certificate authority you just click on the HTTPS and you get the certificate authority. If it's Turktrust or something strange then something's obviously wrong.

Having a fake MITM on a company laptop is mitigated with Firefox which doesn't use the OS's certificate store.

Re: OTT TV

"And it sees the US as the only viable place to charge for an OTT subscription, because everyone else there is doing it."

Do other networks carry BBC content in the US apart from BBC America? If not, that's the reason why. The BBC live in fear of not offending local networks in case they decide not to buy any more BBC content, even if all they do with it is butcher it with dubbing, show it years later, and put it on at some silly time of night.

And in the case of Wonders of the Solar System, Spanish state TV managed to buy some cheap international version of it without Brian Cox in it.

Re: Artifical Intelligence..

"I'll believe a machine is intelligent when it starts to treat me like a c**t and refuses to do anything I ask of it because it's got better things to do with its time."

So that's any version of Windows, then. Especially ones running GWX.

Re: Null pointers

Ah. A C++ reference. Well why didn't they say?

Given that STT, machine translation, and TTS are all very easy to do badly individually, let alone together, the chances are that this will be more of a red herring than a babel fish.

They depend on adverts, I'm sure they've thought of that one. There'll be a minimum.

Re: What?

"Increasing regulation is actively discouraging competition."

That's a funny one. Do you think if it's decreased they'll suddenly have the freedom to stop copying tariffs?

I don't know how it's set up is in Canada, but separating network from provider is the usual way to encourage competition. That way they can't play with the wholesale price.

Re: Easy to guess the strategy

Replace HMD Global Oy with Microsoft and Nokia with HMD Global Oy and you'd be right.

Re: When electricity was first introduced....

Yet gastrointestinal problems have never been higher. So excuse me if I don't jump headfirst into a brave new bath of GM wheat with a spoon, there might be long term effects of tinkering with plant and animal genomes that we don't understand. Well, there will be, because it's a new science - we only started selling GM plants for food in the mid 90s and GM animals last year.

The argument that one party has a piece of data therefore it doesn't matter if all parties have it is still, thankfully, flawed.

Re: The answer is...

£1bn is apparently three weeks' EU funding so it wouldn't be too hard, but in light of the BBC and the NHS, I don't believe the Eton mafia will actually fund it though.

Re: I... Er... Um... Words fail me!

If they were at all interested in doing something useful for everyone and save bandwidth they would put out Win 7 SP2 after the GWX nonsense has finished without GWX (because it's over) and without telemetry (because it's optional, supposedly).

What they're doing here sounds like every bundle will contain everything and be marked as recommended. Like GWX adverts being crowbarred into IE11 security updates.

Re: And, of course, this being HP...

I wonder how many Gb the printer drivers will be.

Re: A medal blessed by the Pope?

For some reason I was reminded of the holy sellotape dispenser on Father Ted...

"You have launched three CubeSats, God bless you."

They're your statutory rights, you can't waiver them. They can throw money at you and make you sign something in the hope you don't use them, which is something different.