Posts by Steve Davies 3

Statistics, Statistics and...

well, you know the rest.

IMHO, these sites will do anything to 'embiggen' their page hits and thus their income.

Re: Oh dear

"you stupid boy!" (to paraphrase Capt Mainwearing)

It is Microsoft you are talking about. Just look at the nice long list of product failures starting with the 'Kin'.

They seem to be more and more Marketing driven instead of product driven these days. Probably far too many MBA's who are PHB's work inside fortress Redmond.

At least they seem to be sticking with the phone this time but sadly, they are far too late with something that might (eventually) turn out to be half decent (As a phone but not on the desktop).Android and iOS have the market almost to themselves.

The lack of apps is going to hinder if not stop the growth of Windows phones.

Re: Americans get all dazed and confused

Nothing new there then.

Move along there please..

Re: "huge profit for Amazon.co.CaymanIslands"

Except for the Transatlantic Cables that come ashore in the Emerald Isle. Ideal for sending all that lovely data to Virginia (not Water)

Re: There's literally zero evidence so far of any tampering.

Two words

Hanging Chads

It is the south. Just accept that the 'good ole boys' will make any ballot go the way the money wants.

I seem to remember days not that long ago when black voters were not allowed to vote because their registrations had somehoe not been accepted.

You Democracy dollars at work.

Re: A bit of a Dickey move

Larry E has a bigger set of lawyers to fight it than AMD. Less chance of success so any good General (Lawyer) would go for the enemy weak points.

This case should get tossed though.

What makes you think that there is a difference?

Re: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I've been using CentOS for a long time. Migrated to is from Mandrake. Currently V7 with Cinamon

Does what it says on the tin. No Canonical software in sight.

and I don't rant on systemd. Never had a problem with it.

Re: Jump on the sinking ship now!

Are you sure that Class Actions don't exist in the UK?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34402483

Came in on 1st October. Just in time for T-T to get hacked.

IMHO this would be a great 'trial' case.

sounds like an MBA was involved

MBA ==== Management Bullshite Again

Or words to that effect

Are you trying to infer....

that the commentards here don't like T-T?

I guess that is because many of us have experienced their <redacted> at first hand.

And would not wish to have that reaped on anyone else... ever.

Re: There is no good news regarding the CLR. Ever.

was this 'it just works' or 'it works... just'?

Judging by the tone of your post it might be that you are thinking that it will go from the first to the last.

Time to sell my RH shares? Possibly.

Re: I hate to say it

and for that is it little wonder that 30% of the converts to iPhone came from Apple.I wonder what percentage of those were former Samsung owners?

IMGO, (and has been said already), it is time that google insisted that anyone branding their phone Android signs up to provide patches for at least 3 years. Androd is a google trademark and they should be protecting it. Sooner or later it could be dragged down to near zero in the eyes of the public by the inactions of the likes of Samsung, HTC etc.

Think about how much that lovely shiny new (June 2015) VW sitting outside your home is worth now? The VW brand has been Ratnered IMHO.

Even the most rabid fanboi wants decent competition to keep Apple on their toes. At the moment there is a lot of footgun going on in the Android world.

Re: Windows tablets are toast

iPads selling very well?

with a double digit year on year percentage decline in Sales?

If that is selling well then the devices that have tanked must be paying consumers to take them away by now...

Re: Puleeaase

So Channel 5's website is five Trannies? (five.tv)

Trannies also mean (for us old farts) Transistor Radios.

Ain't the English Language was wot is spoke wonderful eh?

Re: Always has to be third party..

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And fixing them may thus need new exploits to be introduced.

Spot on A/C. We have plenty of evidence of that with the seemingly endless IE patches that path patches that patch ... etc.c

The code must be a nightmare of spaghetti. no wonder they re-wrote it (EDGE) but .... how vunerable will that browser be once people start targetting it?

the latest OSX release had an awful lot of Safari patches as evidenced by the list of CVE's fixed.

The bloatware shouldn't be there in the first place

Oracle, I'm looking at you and that dammed ASK toolbar

Then there are the seemingly endless 'Do you want to change your default search engine/browser/suppository supplier/Crack dealer/etc' requests.

Be gone with them I say.

Re: It is still a drone

You have to remember that these things are designed to work ONLY in US Suburbia.

Nic

e wide roads, wide sidewalks, perfectly maintained road surfaces and NO SNOW , deep fried haggis wrappers,

i.e. Southern California.

Now, I'd like to see them try to deliver up some of the cobbles streets in Old Town Edinburgh on a wet November morning. They wouldn't get 50 yards before they get destroyed/blown up/knocked off.

Re: WWF

Too late. I have my small herd of breeding Gloucester Old Spots nicely hidden away in Devon.

State sponsored back doors

If these do exist in iOS then why would the Feds need to force Apple to decrypt a suspects iDevice?

Can we have some evidence please? I'd like to go slap tim cook around the head with it if it is true.

But all the evidence seems to point to their being no back doors in iOS.

come on now, prove us all wrong and then we can rejoice in the fact that iOS is as crappy as Android.

But...

Does it annoy the users more than the Data Slurping (all in the best possible taste you know) that is this thing they call Windows 10?

On the Anniversary of the release of Bohemian Rhapsody these words come to mind

Is this the real thing?

Is this just Fantasy?

etc

We can only hope that it is.

Re: If you log browsing history...

The use of bt.ly etc and the fact that you have no idea where the link is going to take you is one reason why I never click on them.

Who knows, it might be a sting operation and those fine upstanding people at GCHQ might have tricked you into accessing some [redacted] porn site. The boys in blue standing outside your front door will make a quick entry and that's the last we'll see of you for a long-long time.

Re: Winter is Here!

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Prediction is that Apple will struggle a bit next year.

Apple is Doomed. Seems to be trotted out every quarter but this time I think that they will be as quoted 'starting to struggle' this time next year. Perhaps their iCar (will it Fly?) might save the day.

Looking at it objectively, if Apple are going to struggle then what about the rest of the market?

Time to examine your share portfolio perhaps?

Don't worry

He'll be whisked away to the USA, or rather Cuba in the shape of Gitmo by an unmarked Lear Jet before anyone can stop then. As such this parliament ruling is not worth the fine velum it may by chance be written on in the blood of Moles.