Still like
This:
http://www.wally.com/jumpch.asp?idChannel=44&idUser=0&attivo=2-7 (OK it's a bit smaller, but it looks so cool)
or this:
http://www.why-yachts.com/
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.......instead of acting like a frikking malware punter; pushing marketing popups and foisting bloody Yahoo/Bing parastieware on all and sundry , they might have just caught that one.
I'm sick to the back teeth with AVG, its popups and it's parasiteware as it is, so the comments about MS SE are very welcome. I'll be giving it a try.
Just checked out the Tracking map and the corresponding location on Google Maps, where the baloon transmitter says it is.
Look at: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=40%C2%B019.89'+N+4%C2%B019.80'+W&ie=UTF8&ll=40.331497,-4.329987&spn=0.0194,0.031457&t=h&z=15
That's not the frikkin' baloon imaged there, slightly southeast, is it?
Conspiracy theory ignition in 5 .......4........3.........2.........<whup whup whup>
Go on, admit it: You left the sodding lights on and the battery is flat!
Reminds me of a conversation I witnessed some time back, between a potential BOFH candidate and a somwehat trendy management processes presenter (or something like that - you get the idea)
Candidate looks out of window towards carpark
Trendy: What's up? Is there a problem?
Candidate: No; just checking I'd not left my lights on
Trendy: Oh. (smugly) doesn't your car tell you when you've left your lights on?
Candidate: Yes. It doesn't start when I get back to it.
If your definition of malware embraces unwanted and irrelevant applicaitons which piggyback on legitimate software with installation selected by default.
This would include things like the Yahoo / Bing toolbars (Sure as hell not relevant to Sun/Oracle Java, but ibncluded nevertheless) Yahoo Toolbar, default search to Yahoo (AV bloody G)
If this crapware was actually any good, surely people would want it on its merits and there would be no driver to hide it in irrelevant applications.
Bloody AVG also acts like malware, with popup adverts for its products.
that, along with AVG's insistence on punting the Yahoo toolbar malware means I'm on the verge of removing it and switching to something else.
I thought these products were supposed to STOP antics like that, not fscking imitate the scum!!!!
"Since when was the MaCrappee product any good?", he types, sitting at a PC which slows to a crawl at frequent intervals and at which time Task Manager reports huge gobbets of processor time dedicated to aforesaid MaCrappee.
It's at such times I need El Reg and the BOFH (assuming there's enough horsepower left to run IE, that is). I reckon a decent gobful of coffee, liberally sprayed over the processor box, would cause several pounds worth of improvement and force a replacement.
So: WTF^2
My last smartfone from Orange had just the same non-removable crudware: unwanted but non-deletable bookmarks and the like.
Fortunately I managed to upgrade the firmware to the original unbranded version and get rid of their preconceived ideas about what I was interested in.
Then I found out about Orange's commitment to professional customer service and, purely on the strength of that, left them.