Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Copyright's a good idea *if* it's easily enforcable by individuals

For them it's all about the rat.

When was the last time Disney released a new work featuring said dead rat?

When was it eh? 20+ years ago?

cue tumbleweed blowing across DisneyLands the world over.

No matter, I never saw the point of MM. Now Tom and Jerry were a different matter entirely.

Re: Again...

but why aren't businesses and individuals not sueing the bejesus off of Microsoft?

If this was any other company there would be a stream of lawsuits filling the courts. Just think of the sheer number of cases against Apple as an example.

Their {insert negative adjective of choice here} attitude will drive customers away.

The longer this goes on, the more people will leave their platform.

Is this all part of SatNat's grand plan to drive ordinary people (and SME's) away because they are not big revenue earners or what I really don't know.

Re: iPhone to use Windows OS next?

Didn't you get the iMessage? Windows on Phones is very DOA.

Re: SMEs in other EU countries have the same problem

Indeed.

Look out for a lot of things to carry words like...

"Not For Sale or Use in the UK"

Another fine mess we have gotten ourselves into...

Where's Farage in all this? Sunning himeself on some tropical island (using his MEP salary perhaps)?

It was all going to be so easy wasn't it?

Re: Windows 10 can't save the PC market

To quote

Micro-shaft even DARED to admit their YUGE mistakes with 8 and 10

Sadly that is something they will never ever do.

Windows 10 is IMHO a solution for a problem that does only exists in the minds of the MS Drones in Redmond.

Re: Must say it..

Apart from posting here that is...???

Re: Looking for the MS Phone replacement.

Don't forget the 2nd oldest profession (a.k.a. Pawn Brokers)

They are a great source of used iPhones. Makes them just about affordable to the masses.

Re: That's actually quite insane

Spending all of that money just to get a legacy operating system to somehow work seems like a total waste to me.

That is very true...

But you have to accept that your suggestion requires a whole load of people to think outside the beltway(box) for more than half a nanosecond.

MS would never propose it in the first place. That would just be too radical and NIH for the Redmond Hipsters.

Besides once the DevOps and [insert current buzzword here] people got involved the small team of 20-30 would be 20-30,000. /s /s

Re: Steep drop in prices for SSD

Yep.

The 1TB SSD for around £150 seems to be a sweet spot at the moment.

Go above 1TB and you'd better have a deep, deep wallet.

Until a 4TB SSD is around £300 I'll stick with my 2TB sized bits of rotating rust.

My photo archive is over 2TB and I've already added 3GB this month.

Re: MS Design and Tiles

IMHO, you can take all those tiles from Windows 10 and use them to tile the "Le Pissior" as that is about all they are fit for...

Re: xfer

I know how you feel.

You take copies of 'stuff' and over the years you have a whole stack of HDD's full of mostly junk but some hidden gems.

I spent 10 days before Crimble sorting my data out while I was housebound with a severely sprained ankle.

I started with almost 40TB of data. That is now 6TB including 2.3TB of Photographs[1]. There were backups of projects that I worked on in the early 1990's... Oh the memories...

Still some way to go but I now have a pile of empty HDD's. Half of them will go to recycling once I've done a security wipe. That will make it a lot less tempting.

[1] The new Camera that 'her indoors' gave me for Crimble/Birthday will really eat up storage as it has a 48M Pixel sensor... Perhaps I should think again about donating those HDD's?

Re: It'll never happen...

This is the same old RyanAir. Their first answer is always NO. As is the second, NO. Eventually they might say ...'well we can change it but it will cost you...' with a cost that is probably more than what you paid for the flight in the first place.

I agree that the ICO should give them a huge fine just to make an example of them.

Re: No gumption

Crawley is indeed next to LGW BUT there is at the present time a decent gap between the houses and the airport perimiter. I grew up next to the airport in Povey Cross which is just to the north of the Airport.

At the SW end of the runway there are fields and scattered houses plus a small factory (Roband Electronics)

There is plenty of space IMHO to shoot not only the drone but to do it without endangering human life or property unless it is one or two cars at the off airport car park that is near the far end of the runway.

IMHO, this is just a dry run for bigger drone events close to specific targets. I'm sure that it won't be long before waves of drones carrying explosives are sent over prime targets. HMG needs to get tough with these people. Throw the book at them.

Re: Don't they do risk management any more?

There probably is a risk assesment in place but for just one isolated incident. This seems to be a whole lot worse.

It will also be putting ideas into people who will be getting Drones for Crimble.

We've had drones hovering outside of people's bedroom windows where I live. One was downed with a BB gun. The owner never bothered to claim the wreckage. It was burnt on a local bonfire last November (the battery was removed first).

Surprisingly, there have been no more incidents.

Re: Enterprise...

There is no such thing as a free lunch in the MS dictionary. Beware the Ides of Redmond.

re: You could have finder

There are alternatives to Finder such as 'Commander One' but Windows Explorer is so embedded into the whole OS replacing it is next to impossible.

Besides if this was easy I'm sure that MS would go out of its way to make it impossible or at least very difficult to do. (just my opinion though)

There is a solution... well several actually

You could nuke windows update and only let it loose at certain times of the week.

Or you could nuke windows itself.

Microsoft do seem to have lost what little OS design and development skills they once had since SatNad took control and 'let go' a whole raft of people.

downloading a file should not screw up an i5 based system if the OS can do basic pre-emptive multi-tasking. That is pretty basic OS design. It is almost as if they have reverted back to the sort of Multi-Tasking that was in use circa 1985 when things like the VAX 11/780 (11/782) got a second CPU but the OS could not take full advantage of it until major upgrade of the OS came out.