Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: ActiveX?!

The same goes for silverlight. Dead on Arrival.

Google :- Always ahead of the game (not)

Re: Once you send your data to the cloud

Could not have said it better myself.

One part of me wants MS to wipe the data. Then it will set a precident that I hope makes ALL CIO or whoever is responsible for the decisions to go to an external cloud provider think long and hard about that decisions.

Here today, gone tomorrow. That is what clouds do in real life. IT Clouds are really no different.

The other part wants MS to be forced to keep the data and the access to it until the Chapter 11/7 is resolved.

Re: F-35A

And the proposed F-35C version will be pure Crap

Microsoft Update process

Has been a cause of much pain and anguish to millions of people over the years and still does.

I hardly think that it is a benchmark for anyone to be proud of.

I watched a Server 2012 system sit there for 4 hours 'preparing to install updates' recently. Only 4 updates.

Halted the process, rebooted and did the same thing in two steps 2 updates then the other 2. Worked perfectly.

Android updates have a different problem. For many users both the handset maker and carrier need to work together and even then the user might not download and install the updates.

It seems that many handset makers don't give a toss about updates. There are countless posts on the internet where new phones stop receiving updates after only a few months yet those makers don't seem to suffer at the hands of the press or have their stock price drop. Yet if this was Apple we were talking about then it would be front page news. (even Apple bork things from time to time but their overall approach is light years ahead of Android)

Google is right to focus on this area. I expect that Google are frustrated by the inability of the updates they release from getting to the end users. As for rolling out new versions of Android to users????? Are you having a larf? Handset makers care even less about new versions than they do about patches.

Re: Typical Samsung

Agreed but they have to beat Apple at everything.

From the patents awarded to Apple today it could be that Apple have cracked the issue of getting a fingerpint reader under the screen so that they don't need to put it on the back.

Release in Haste, repent at Leisure

seems very apt at the moment.

Re: Excuseotron

I'd go with your list apart from one item.

Sadly/Happily Thatcher is dead so replace her with Trump and I think you are good to go.

More importantly

we need to know how much data slurping it will do and if the users choice of music will influence the adverts that it shows as you drive along.

No?

Well maybe not yet but that is what Google wants. No escape from targetted adverts even while driving.

It is not beyond the realms of fancy that the car will tell Google where it is and Google will direct video ads from the roadside at you. Even less chance of escaping the "Hey, Bill, you have not been to KFC this week. The next one if 2 miles ahead. Go now and get 5p off any order over £20".

Fancyful? Well the car is going to need some form of 3G/4G/5G connection so that you can use the google App store. Who is gonna pay for that eh? How will the car gets the Android updates for the first 28 days and then stop?

Being able to DL Apps means that the on-board android system can send data to the google Borg mothership.

Re: Nice work

Ah, the fingerprint sensor.

Samsung have nailed their colours to the mast and put it on the back.

Will Apple fail to put it on the front and copy Samsung?

Who will be copying whom then? Do Samsung have a patent on the Sensor on the Back?

Fun times ahead.

Re: Alternatives?

If you have spent Loadamoney on a bit of kit then it is your duty to make it as secure as possible.

You can't air-gap it but you can isolate it on its own physical subnet behind a carrier grade firewall. etc etc

Don't for christ sakes put expensive bits of kit on the main ethernet backbone.

If you do then you need to be put in the MRI scanner and left there to fry.

Only a few years ago, my local NHS trus had a lot of their data on a VMS system. Some high paid MS consultants came through and the VMS System was gone.

MS has a lot to answer for.

When with a country say to MS, get outa here. You and your insecure POS are not wanted here.

Will this event be the catalyst that makes this happen?

Re: And this tackles people who cycle or walk past ...

Brings a literal meaning to 'drug mules'.

mules/horses can carry a lot more than a human. Better still, a Camel Train winding its way into Scotland using bridleways.

Better start desiging a 21st Century Hadrian's Wall. Once Scotland becomes 'leavers' of the UK, the little englanders will want to stop them coming south.

Personally, I hope not but once the Express and Mail (And probably the Sun) start to whip up public opinion, there is no telling what is gonna happen.

Visual Studio for MAC

ain't a cheap option. AFAIK, it is $1499 per year for the bells and whistles version. An awful big difference to Xcode.

EEE for MacOs? I don't think so well, not at this price it ain't.

Re: Confidence

This stage of the Political cycle is hardly the time to bury bad news.

The Tory party must be confident that this bit of news is not going to give the job of PM to Jeremy C.

Re: Politicians do listen

Nah they don't.

How easy would it me to... say...

On the QT, engage an indian company to call on behalf of the opposition all those numbers on the TPS list especially in the key marginals?

I'd probably put a tenner on that swinging the votes.

Is it illegal?

IANAL and that's my cop-out.

If anyone found out, then [see icon]

The Daily Flail would have a field day especially if it was JC's 'momentum' team that did it.

Re: Why does Microsoft still try and integrate applications into core OS

because it is the Microsoft Way of doing things.

OR

Perhaps the rats nest of code is so bad, it would be impossible to separate them after all this time and they really don't want to try.

Who knows but whatever reason it is it seems Windows users (you lucky people) are stuck with it.

Re: Is The Register now The Onion?

You mean the Koch brothers are really Lizard people? Who'd a thought it?

On the R.H side of the pond, the name Koch does not mean much but apparently they are the new Rockafellas of the 21st Century. Fingers in all sorts of pies making sure that they control policy in not only the US Government but according to some US Commentators, they are T. May's puppet masters.

Re: Stop using your mobile 'phone

Banks phoning customers.

Yep an obvious ploy to get your details so give them the wrong ones and then make a call to the bank yourself.

Re: Coffee Shops?

Er? But...? Aren't coffee shops substitute homes/home offices?

Hand up, how many here have used a WiFi friendly coffee shop to do some work, work?

You know the situation when you are working from home and you run out of milk/bread/gin/etc so you pop down to the supermarket and your phone tells you that there is an email that needs answering right now.

Thankfully, you have your laptop in the car so you get a 'Grande Latte' and settle down and do the work.

time flie by and you suddenly find that several hours have passed.