Posts by Steve Davies 3 7145 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
for mentioning the 'Farage Garage' aka Kent.
too bad he's over in the USA glad handing Donald 'Four more years' Trump and complaining about all the shops, hotels and offices that have been boarded up in preparation for the election result.
For the rest of us, the 1st Jan 2021 will become known as Footgun day. The day when our collective [redacted] comes home to roost and almost all trade with the EU stops dead in a mountain of paperwork and totally incompatible IT Systems.
Back in the day.. it is Microsoft and IE6 that defined the standards.
Not the standard is whatever Google decides that they would be...
This is clearly wrong but that's life and us plebs have to accept it.
An the browser designers just have to lump it. Google + Chrome controls the internet even if many of us would rather wash our mouths out with soap than use Google for anything.
Certainly time for google to be broken up. I'd go for a million tiny pieces.
It should be said that Apple phones are not the most expensive ones out there. Samsung makes at least one that costs more then the Apple flagship.
The annual upgrade process is a godsend for many of us. The churn allows many of us to buy slightly used iPhone at well under RSP.
We shall have to wait until next quarter to start to understand the effect 5G is going to have on sales. Until then, the jury is out.
funny that. The few ads that I see are ALL for things I was looking for. I had one from Amazon today that was trying to sell me a travel guide for somewhere I visited in 2014 and given the current situation, it will be highly unlikely that I'll be even thinking of going back before 2024.
Anyway, who wants the 2014 version of a travel guide?
the Apple 'lock-in'. This move by Faecaebook takes the whole concept to new levels of scumbaggery. This will be the new baseline.
I can't wait for someone to reverse engineer the Oculus H/W and provide a new service without the Facebook Big Brother Overlord watching your every move.
Stop using Zuckbook now. Vote with your feet. Give them the finger.
Google is in business to track your every move 24/7. How else can they sling ads at you?
Apple is a bit of a mystery and for the moment, we'll have to believe what they say in that they don't sell your details and I've yet to see them slinging ads at me.
Time for you 'IGotOut' to get out of your bedroom and see what is happening in the real world.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and many, many more are all trying their dammdest to build a picture of you that makes the scene that Orwell painted in 1984 look like a 3yr old's kindergarden art scribbles.
Back on topic....
FU Redmond.
I'd like to be able to charge the company that they are [cough][cough] supposed to come from for the call ando for the time out of my life that I'm not going to get back.
Then... just perhaps
The likes of
Amazon (I get more of these than the rest put together)
Microsoft
BT (WTF? It is their network that the calls are coming over.)
Mastercard/Visa
HMRC
Might {ok, who am I kidding eh) just perhaps make efforts to stop the spammers from dirtying their name. OR perhaps they simply don't give a damm?
Isn't the motto of this site 'Biting the hand that feeds it'?
That's what makes this site different.
Amazon could do the right thing and told the world that 'we basically stole this from xxxx. We did that because it was good shit and the licence allowed us to'. Everyone would have known clear and upfront and they'd be getting a lot less flak here for that.
Instead, they did the minimum. I guess the word 'magnamous' has been erased from thw Amazon list of permitted words and behaviours.
Please read the comments about HP printers. Many, many perfectly good printers were sent to recycling because makers would not supply a W10 driver. FU Priter makers and FU Microsoft.
How many other perfectly good devices failed to work on W10? Is there some conspiracy to make you spend money you don't have on new fevices? YES, YES and thrice YES.
Microsoft does not support my ancient brother printer yet MacOS does without having to find the driver, download it and then install it. On MacOS, it just happens which is the way it should be.
what percentage of Phone users (both Android and IOS) actually these [redacted] things?
I only have siri enabled so that car play will work. Other than that I find that they are a POS.
Google and Apple are spending a huge amount of dosh improving (sic) their things but how many are actually using these 'featues'?
I bet he sings 'I rule the world' (note the missing 'when') in the shower every day.
We just need to make sure that there is a revolution that deposes him ASAP
The question is... will his criticism censorship 'bot' force the take down my El Reg account?
If that happens then he really does rule the world.
and I fully expect that adoption of US Copyright Law and acceptance that US Copyrights prevail will become a key part of trade deals in the future.
Frankly, I hope neither side win. It is a case of deciding who is the lesser of two very evil companies.
We'll see restrictions on code that makes it inoperable where US Copyright law prevails. Another brick in the wall of america's self isolationism. 4th world here thet come.
All it needs is for some large corps to decided that they are going to boycott US Markets and Companies and stating that doing business with them is just too expensive from a litigation POV.
As Cpl Jones would say, 'they don't like it up em'.
The top people in Bejing will be rubbing their hands with glee. Here is their commercial enemy self-destructing right before their very eyes.
Alibaba and the rest will be ready to pounce.
{and on the QT, another big wedge of Yuan will be transferred to a certain account in the Caymans along with the message 'well done comrade Donald'}
Exactly. You beat me to it. Trumpistan (aka USA) is only interested in international laws when they benefit them.
Exactly. You beat me to it. The EU is only interested in international laws when they benefit them.
Exactly. You beat me to it. The UK is only interested in international laws when they benefit them.
There fixed it for you.
for mentioning RT-11 and RSX-11M. Back in the day, I spent many an hour/day writing device drivers for both those OS's.
The new model seems to be 'security through obscurity' has morphed into 'security through complexity' and the downside is that so many developers really don't grok writing safe, secure and unbloated code.
'Hello World' is not a 5Mb (or more) executable.
When this Larry's gang get invited to the party?
I'm sure that it is Microsoft but it does not matter.
Both are as bad a the other one.
I see MS's problem as that are trying to do doo much with limited resources. Spread too thinly.
The result is everything is in a perpetual 'Beta' state. The Marketing people are in my mind to blame.
Microsoft Marketing... The depatment of thousands of ideas that are all doomed to fail but at least they tried them all...
Thanks. The FoxSat ones (from a decade ago) saved to USB and the files were playable on other devices. Brilliant.
I'm glad that I have a spare FoxSat box. I just bought a couple of genuine remotes from EBay. I should be ok for a while.
I'm hoping for a R-Pi DVB-S solution ASAP.
That is always assuming that you have not ditched (or never had) in the first place anything to do with Facebook.
If you have a Pi-Hat you can easily block all FacaeBook connections.
My 50in Sony tv has never been connected to the internet and will never be if I have anything to do with it. IT gets is signals from FreeSat or from my Humax FreeSat PVR. Neither are connected to my home network.
Hey SatNad is that you?
If Linux is such a POS then why is MS embracing it like there is no tomorrow?
If Linux is such a POS then why is it running everywhere? How many devices do you have that run some version of Linux in the background?
Linux isn't perfect. not by a long shot but it has been a lot better and more stable than Windows has especially since that monstrosity called Windows 10 came out.
As a long time computer user/developer/geek, I said enough is enough with W10. I now no longer use any Windows systems. (hurrah!). These days, it is all Linux or BSD or MacOS and good riddance to the Microsoft Way.
(do it our way or not at all)
Eat that Redmond [see Icon]
It was black. with those numberplates that are supposed to fool speed cameras, blacked out front passenger window. I caught up with it at the Traffic Lights on the A33. It took off with a Range Rover Sport (white) in pursuit.
I find that the drivers of Black German made cars are a different league of numpty to those in white ones.
It takes a special sort of numpty to drive into the back of a stationary Motorcycle in broad daylight (at a set of traffic lights). That happened to me in 2016. The female numpty was driving a black Audi RS8. The bike was a right off.
Whistleblowers do need to be aware of the 'Snowden Laws'. If you take on someone of sufficient size, then there is always the risk of you not coming out the other end in good shape.
Snowden took on Uncle Sam and they didn't like being told that their systems were a POS security wise.
Try doing that to shall we say a more unscrupulous organisation and... you fill in the blanks.
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