Re: Windows licences, after all, represent a not-insignificant chunk of any PC's retail price.
Dodgy vendors sell OEM windows licenses on their own for under $30 and I expect they are doubling their money at least.
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It's the year of Linux on the... ThinkPad as Lenovo extends out-of-the-box Ubuntu support to nearly 30 machines
Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'
England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data
Thursday 24th September 2020 08:09 GMT 
In the UK the vast majority people wear masks in shops and indoor public places, hand sanitizer is available on entry and exit of most shops, all the big chains. Most are distancing, but wearing masks outdoors when moving is less popular and probably less useful. So I don’t know which part of Blighty your friends went back to but “nobody” is a big lie,
She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off
Wednesday 23rd September 2020 08:14 GMT
Re: BTDT.
I can’t wait for the day I don’t need these donkeys anymore and I take myself and all my experience out of their shambles.
I worked with two, maybe three good managers in my life. One standout one that really was so talented quit to go into teaching. The other couple of hundred bosses I’ve encountered were absolutely charlatans and riding the support of the people they were supposed to look after.
Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 18:13 GMT
Re: Need a rubber hammer
The old dry solder joint. Or for older stuff, a valve needs reseating in a socket.
Or the scan coil round the neck of the tube, where it connects to the vertical scan with a push on connector, the contact surface oxidises.
In the old days we fixed tellies with tools. Then it became sub assembly swap, now it’s complete unit swap.
Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs
Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity
Amazon Lex can now speak British English... or simply 'English' if you're British
Friday 18th September 2020 07:37 GMT
Re: American English is English
One person in England can sound very different from another, so they don’t broadly sound like much.
If you read written text from pre-empire days, it seems that people understood the phonetic sound represented by the combinations of letters and put together a word however they wanted. There was no consistency or standards for spelling until the world trading with so many different tongues started to require an interface.
Elecrow CrowPi2: Neat way to get your boffins-to-be hooked on Linux from an early age and tinkering in no time
Friday 18th September 2020 15:45 GMT
Re: "The kiddiwonks won't even know they're learning"
My daughter had no fear of spiders, would pick them up and allow them to walk on her hands. Then she went to primary school and saw other kids showing fear of spiders, she started being afraid of them.
Now she has grown out of the fear and is friend with them again.
Alibaba wants to get you off the PC upgrade treadmill and into its cloud
Safety driver at the wheel of self-driving Uber car that killed a pedestrian is charged with negligent homicide
Thursday 17th September 2020 08:10 GMT
Re: You had one job...
“I've driven a car with adaptive cruise control, lane following, emergency braking, etc. In theory on the motorway you could just take your hands off everything and let the car do it's stuff, at least until you wanted to overtake.
My car does this. If I take my hands off the wheel it stops doing it. It’s such a good thing to have on quiet roads, but in heavy traffic l can’t bring myself to trust it. I often switch it off and drive when there is high speed traffic moving close together, not that it can’t cope with it, but I like to find safer spots in the traffic to give myself more out-options if things start going wrong.
For instance, when you have slow heavy trucks overtaking each other and blocking multi lanes, I hang back from the bunch of idiots that queue up behind them, and wait until the problem clears. The self drive doesn’t do that, it just gets itself into the queue.
Surprise! Apple launches iOS 14 today, and developers were given just 24 hours' notice
The Battle of Britain couldn't have been won without UK's homegrown tech innovations
That long-awaited, super-hyped Apple launch: Watches, iPads... and one more thing. Oh, actually that's it
Nvidia to acquire Arm for $40bn, promises to keep its licensing business alive
Desperately seeking regolith: NASA seeks proposals for collecting Moon dirt
Microsoft to charge $200 for 32 GPU cores, sliver of CPU clockspeed, 6GB RAM, 512GB SSD... and a Blu-Ray player
Friday 11th September 2020 16:25 GMT
Re: IBM mainframe
Soldered a 6800 cpu to a 6116 ram chip and a 2716 eprom plus some TTL logic and latch chips on Vero stripboard to play games on a row of 8 green 5mm LEDs and a toggle switch. Had to code the games in assembler, manually convert it to hex and type the codes into the prom programmer one at a time.
What a time to be alive: Floating Apple store bobs up in Singapore
The National Museum of Computing flings opens its non-virtual doors
No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too
AI in the enterprise: Prepare to be disappointed – oversold but under appreciated, it can help... just not too much
AI in the enterprise: AI may as well stand for automatic idiot – but that doesn't mean all machine learning is bad
Digital pregnancy testing sticks turn out to have very analogue internals when it comes to getting results
Microsoft: We're getting rid of Flash by the end of the year - except you can still use it
Google Chrome 85 to block ads that hog power, CPUs, network: Web ads giant will black-hole 0.3% of web ads
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