Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Ample is as good as a feast

I was thinking more of taking them to Badwater, Death Valley and leaving them alone in the middle of the salt pan with no water and no hat or shoes.

Can the downvoters please

explain why they downvoted a very simple and straightforward post?

Perhaps they have been infected by the zika-cloud virus and are scared of going anywhere outside their little cloud bubble?

I really don't know but the thought of trusting MS with their new T's & C's with anything is just wierd.

given them all your contacts yet? Have those contacts been send spam advertising? go on, I'm sure we'd like to know.

Re: Pay is still way too cheap to do Microsoft's job for them

and in other news we see Apple doing just that.

I think your thoughts about MS being cheapskates is not far from the truth.

Re: Fingerprint Snesor ? WTF!!!!

Well if you have something to hide, don't go to the USA the the USSC ruling will not apply now will it.

Oh Wait! The UK Plod can send you to pokey for not unlocking your phone regardless of the device's capability to use fingerprints

Re: Now That Bernie is Out....

Good luck getting Congress to stop DT after he has the inevitable Dr Strangelove moment.

Personally, DT is a total liability and should never be elected to anying including dog catcher.

It looks like it could actually be the year of 'None of the Above'.

Re: This is why Windows is no longer viable.

good luck with that class action in the USA. The EULA that you agreed to (you did read it all didn't you) specifically prohibits you from filing suit against MS for any losses caused by their software.

Go on, read the US EULA and then speak to a lawyer.

Re: Au

Pb perhaps? sinking like a Lead Baloon (please)

Re: Am I the only one

Yes

Next Question?

Re: Niche scenario - but annoying regardless

Strange that the paper that includes paper store bags that I put into the trench for my runner beans degrades very nicely thank you very much. Well, by the time I dig the ground over in the Autumn, there is no paper left to see.

Perhaps you were thinking of those fashion stores that use paper bags covered in some form of plastic?

Re: So, let's add it all up then.

Add these to the list.

- An EULA that says that you can't sue then for anything no matter if it was caused by their perpetual beta software

- The 'mommy knows best' attitude they have towards their curtomers

Re: Look on the bright side

don't speak too soon.

Be careful what you wish for

etc

etc

no spying?

2) No spying

What do you call all that Telemetary that MS sends back to the mothership then? Yes you have to be connected to the internet but using the host file does not stop it.

Plus you can't turn it off so that SPYING in my book.

Please carry on living in your MS Idil.

The rest of us will get on with life in the real world.

Re: Business oriented Android tablets

but

but

but

Aren't businesses supposed to be putting everything into the (sigh) Cloud?

Won't that negate the need for 'specialised apps' to run directly on the device?

Isn't eveything supposed to be used via your browser?

Or have the travelling snake-oil vendors been playing the shell game again?

Re: You realise this makes you a terrorist, Reg

If by some chance he gets elected, the only wall he'll build will be the one around the White House.

Gotta keep the CIC Safe haven't they?

After yet another foopah (about the dead Muslim Captain) IMHO, no Serving or Former member of the US Military should vote for him. All he cares about is how much money being President can make him.

Re: quite ominous results eventually

Exactly my thoughts.

Then all your internet HTTP/HTTPS traffic will be injected with Adverts by the ISP. These will subvert and replace the Ads that currently appear on the website UNLESS the operators of the websites PAY the ISP to block the Ads they will inject.

Who pays the piper the most wins.

Then the ISP will notice that you are using an Ad-blocker. That will lose them revenue so they will add a fee 'Ad-blocker permission' to every bill. $9.99/month seems to be the going rate for just about everything in the US at the moment. They'll to the same to let you use a VPN, FTP etc etc

There are some sites in the USA that are already impossible to use because of the overpowering adverts. This will only get worse.

Left hand down a bit

I always thought that the Navy Lark was better.

Jon Pertwee was brilliant.

The 'whitespace' edict

must have come down from on high because it is everywhere in MS products these days.

I'd like to meet the people responsible for this. Then I'd [redacted] and [redacted] and finally put their heads on a [redacted].

Actually, I'd make them spend a year working on a laptop that has only 1366x768 resolution. No mega attached screens.

Then they might start to feel the pain that we suffer.

Sadly, it is not only MS that seem infatuated with vertical whitespace. More and more web forms need lots and lots of scrolling to complete when older versions were far more real estate efficient.

Nope, I'm back in the 'Nuke the lot of them and hand their heads on the railings outside Parliament' crowd.

Re: Last Chance To See

Same here flying out of Miami the day the Dolphins played in the superbowl. More crew that PAX on that flight. Well, it was PAN-AM so that was to be expected.

As for Air France. They are able to make even the best aircraft fell shitty even when brand spanking new.

Even Air Madagascar was better than them when flying to Tana.

Re: Also a name change-

Well done. your Mother can enjoy the MS Spyware and MS Control over her life (via updates when she want to do something important)

The poster you were replying to did not want Windows 10. You did so it is clearly a different case.

An good number of posters to this site want nothing to do with Windows 10 at all, myself included.

We do not want the spyware, the updated that we can't turn off, the mess with video drivers and ... well everything. We are not prepared to cede total control of our hardware to Microsoft.

My last Windows 7 system have just been moved to Server 2012 in a VM. When Server 2012 that goes EOL, that is it as far as me and Microsoft is concerned.

Everything else now runs Linux (CentOS) or is a Mac or is antique hardware (eg DEC microVax, Sun E-450)

Re: No Kidding

3) applies to me. Just not buying anything at the moment.

Well, apart from my car insurance. For some reason it has gone up by more than 25%. No claims, no convictions. Time to find a new insurer.

Apart from my Broadband

Apart from my Mobile

etc

etc

Well there goes my disposable income for the next three months.

Re: Microsoft is now in total control

Now let me see

1) Notepad

2) Paint

3) access to regedit/gpedit etc

4) Ability to install apps from anything but from the App Store. Bang goes any Office alternative, text editors and start menu replacements.

5) access to non MS Clouds. Gotta stop them pirates.

6) command Line - everything must be done in powershell or bash.

7) access to 'net' command from anything

8) stops working if not connected to the mothership once a week for license validation (and mass telemetary data uploads)

etc

etc

etc

Re: Given current economic conditions

and the suicide rate for people forced to sit through PP torture will rise to new levels.

Experts 'presented' to Police Chiefs their findings. The fact that only two deaths happened during the presentation was regarded as a positive move.

Re: Quality

Remember the Alfa-sud?

now that was a rustbucket.

It would be a huge mistake to buy Fiat/Chrysler unless they were to kill all their current products and sack the workforce (and I mean almost 100% of it) and just use the plants for manufacturing.

The only people I'd keep on would be those who worked in the supply chain. Those are the people that apple would need when building their car. We all know how important the supply chain is to Tim Cook.

Re: Buy stock in bullshit makers Now!

Ok, trying to be serious for a monent (yes I know it hurts some around here)

1) Every house has PV cells on the roof. Especially new builds and all housing Assoc properties. Quite why new builds don't have them already is beyond me.

2) Every house has storage batteries (think cheap Tesla Power Wall).

3) Where appropriate Ground source heat pumps can be used to heat/cool the house.

Then the batteries can charge during the daytime either from the PV or the mains. Then when it is dark the house can be powered off the battery. so if there are 'Brown Outs' homes can continue watching Corrie/EastEnders. That will keep the masses happy.

It can be done using current tech if you have the will. Yes it costs a lot at the moment but look at the size of the battery factory that Elon Musk is building near Reno, Nevada. That alone in its current form will produce 50GW of storage a year. Not all of that will go in Tesla's.

If you go to Brazil, even very poor homes in the shanty towns have PV cells on the roof. Yes they are small but they allow the family to have light at night. all it takes is the will.

I fully expect this to attract a fistful of downvotes. If you do please take the trouble to explain why. Then perhaps we can learn from your great wisdom.

Re: How intrusive!

Click is broadcast on World Service. AFAIK, you don't need a license for that coz the UK Gov pays for most of it out of the Foreign Office budget (or some other namelss dept).

Youcan get it outside of the UK no problem so why not inside?

Marissa, the new Meg?

Seems to be following the same pattern. Decimate the company and get rich.

Nice work if you can get it?