Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: re Directing taxi drivers

Or 'Where all the Pubs once were in another age' as at least 80% of them around here have closed and are now either so called Convienence Supermarkets or blocks of flats.

You must be new here

or didn't you know that Lawyers only care about the rate/hour that they can screw out of, sorry charge their clients.

Exactly

so the outer layer is the Gov mandated Encryption with the backdoors.

Then inside that are two or three layers more of non backdoored encryption.

with message that when eventually decoded says simply 'UpYoursNSA'.

Meanwhile, the world will have moved on to other forms of encrypted communication.

Blame De-Judge

for getting his instructions to the Jury wrong.

That alone is a clear case for an appeal so a little bit of Kudos is due to the Judge for pre-empting that.

Re: I would like to point out

Whilst many of your points are vaild, what pisses me off is that there is what seems a reducing period between Flash updates. This means that almost as soon as you have applied one update, another is waiting for you.

If it wasn't so bug ridden this would not be needed.

This endless patching is a PITA.

Like IE6, Flash should be consigned to the scrapheap ASAP.

Re: So...

The AC who posted did qualify their requirement with the 'Ultra Geek' mode.

I am sure a good many of the readers here would like to have that feature.

Switch off all that 'useful' stuff that MS puts in for the BSU (Bog standard User) and let us nerds/geeks get on with doing what we want to.

I can't imagine anything worse than an open plan office with Cortana reminding everyone that the Daily Project Standup is scheduled for 10 minutes time with the voice slightly out of phase on every PC.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Where the dinosaur Icon when it is needed?

Re: Too young?

I think you might be right about their usefulness to the target age group.

I have been thinking about how young people are spending their time these days. With almost 100% of them addicted to Social Media of one form of another what time will they have to be created, have original ideas? It is all follow me, look how cool I am (or be bullied), me ,me, me, me.

Where are the likes of the next mega entrepenurs going to come from?

If this project can inspire at least one kid to put down Facetwat and be creative then it will be a success.

Re: Did they think that continual bloat would help the issue?

Join the queue...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33379575

There are people in China already taking legal steps to sort it out.

clearly a case of 'never mind the quality feel the width' (old quote from a TV Series)

Re: CEO...

IMHO, this is not that uncommon.

You get sent to god knows where on the planet to fix the mess that has somehow happend and you get 'summoned' to the local head honcho's office for a briefing as to why it is so important that you get the site operational ASAP whch is just what you would rather be doing than sitting in his office (it is usually a man who needs to satisfy his self importance...) drinking frankly awful tea/coffee.

Yep. Been there done that. Thank god for modern network connectivity. Saves the visit to the CEO's office.

Re: Upgrades

Or for making just about any flight taken for personal reason more bearable.

Any flight of more than 4 hours and for holidays etc then I travel at the front of the plane. I spend more than enough time at the back in a year to want to even consider doing it for a holiday.

Re: "The Register did not receive an answer when it rang the company,..."

SOP then.... Not news, move along there, (and to quote /.) Film at 11.

Re: WHO is paying for fiber investment?

So your locaity has had 'cable' for years.

Now that you have FTTC then there is er.. um... competition. Isn't that what Sky/Talk-talk etc want?

Perhaps some of the residents in your area are fed up with VM?

Now they can move to another broadband supplier AND get some decent speeds.

That's exactly what has happened up my street. 9-% were on VM but the internet in the evenings was unusable because VM wouldn't replace the 20+ yr old Coax with nice new fibre. So when FTTC came along those of us savvy enough moved from VM to another provider.

So BT (or whoever) is laying Fibre near you.... You should be cheering instead of griping. Don't forget that you don't have to give BT a penny directly.

Re: Rolls royce got

It wasn't the Trent series of Jet Engines that got RR into deep shite. It was the RB211 series. Speciticaly those for the Lockheed Tristar if my memory is correct.

Otherwise your sentiments are spot on.

Re: ME! Oh ME! MeohmeohmeohMEEEE!

Add :-

32Gb Ram at least

2TB of SSD or at least make it easy to remove CD/DVD drive and put in a second SSD OR

have at least 4 M-Sata slots size for size these are smaller than SATA SSD's so you can have more storage in the same space

17in Matte Screen

Long life Battery option as per old Thinkpads

Do all this and HP (currently using an Elitebook 8770W) go kiss my ass.

Re: Don't believe it

In deepest Nebraska recently, a bridge was washed out on a short but vital link road. IF I was in my EV and needed the charging station that was located on the other side of the washed out bridge I'd be well and truly stuffed. The diversion was a cool 118 miles. The road closed was 12 miles long.

So how does your grand plan work then?

Imagine that I'm on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. 50 miles away is the South Rim where my nearest charging point it. Does my leccy car suddenly sprout wings?

Go on, tell us. I'm sure you can become an overnight trillionaire with your grand plan for leccy chargers everywhere (I think not)

Re: There is a problem though!

SAP - A weapon that can be made out of a soft leather pouch filled with lead shot.

SAP - Some German Software that beats the living daylights out of anyone trying to install and/or use it.

not a lot of difference really.

And when it goes wrong it spews loads of technical German at you just to make sure that you know who's boss.

Re: Which as we all know is the only way to be sure

Is that because of the lack of a magnifying glass or a lack of Sun?

I'm sure the readers would like to know which one you think it is?

Re: Yeah but we've got Charlotte Church and Russel Brand

And they could even claim Gift Aid on it.....

That would take even more money away from Georgie.

But will they put their money where their mouth is? Any bets?

Re: Wangaratta *snigger*

But mandatory pre-loaded Windows on a PC disappeared over 15 years ago

Eh? Perhaps for business users maybe but there are still retailers who insist that it is illegal to sell a PC without Windows pre-loaded.

Can you (as a non business user) got to say... Dell or HP and buy a new laptop without Windows? Are you even given a choice?

Sorry, nothing (IMHO) has changed over the years. MS still has the leverage over the suppliers.

Can you go into PC-World (shudder) and buy a PC without Windows?

I very much doubt it.