Re: Maybe not just SW...
Yes.. she had a couple of outstanding points I seem to recall....
Posts by IsJustabloke
881 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Dec 2010
GENUINE STARSHIP as used by PRINCESS LEIA sold for just $450k
Terror in the Chernobyl dead zone: Life - of a wild kind - burgeons
Nvidia's GTX 900 cards lock out open-source Linux devs yet again
Lies from VW: 'Our staff acted criminally but board didn't know'
Wednesday 30th September 2015 15:48 GMT
Re: Dieselgate
If I could upvote a 100 times I would.
I bloody hate the lazy jounolistic trick of sticking "..gate" on the end of everything. It was clever the very first time but after that its become a cliche and for me it makes me wonder just how lazy is the journo and can I trust the rest of what he/she/it has written.
India follows up Mars orbiter with successful space observatory launch
Vodafone left the lonely singleton as Liberty deal kiboshed
NASA announcement of MAJOR MARS DISCOVERY imminent: WHAT can it be?
Devious Davros, tricksy Missy and Dalek Clara delight in The Witch's Familiar
PETA monkey selfie lawsuit threatens wildlife photography, warns snapper at heart of row
Thursday 24th September 2015 10:57 GMT
Re: when will this madness stop?
You can see "merit" in PETA filing a lawsuit on behalf of a Monkey and claiming to be its "friend"? Next you'll be saying the monkey was commissioned by PETA to take the shot and was simply waiting for an unsuspecting photographer to drop his camera and that once he'd "taken" the shot he'd give PETA a call.
You need to get out more.
Things you should know about the hard work of home working
Tuesday 22nd September 2015 11:07 GMT 
"facilitate a culture that pollinates ideas through informal meetings and conversations around the office."
people saying shit like this is *why* I like to work from home!
I'm lucky enough to have the best of both worlds, I can WFH on an ad-hoc basis. generally once or twice a week at most. If I am WFH and I'm needed in the office I'm only 25 minutes away so everyone wins!
I agree with all the points raised about the self discipline required. The fact that you need a dedicated space and that it can be easy t get distracted.
Doctor Who storms back in fine form with Season 9 opener The Magician's Apprentice
Monday 21st September 2015 12:33 GMT
I'm glad you enjoyed it....
But it seems a number of people didn't. I certainly didn't. Sadly for you I and others are as entitled to say " I didn't like it" as you are to say " I did like it" and they're entitled to make that observation without having some fuckwit say "don't like it? don't watch it!"
EE: Yes, our broadband service is a total clusterf**k – but we promise to improve
Tuesday 15th September 2015 13:53 GMT
I know I'm swimming against the tide but....
I switched from Orange BB when I ditched their mobile service, truth is my BB had been rock solid and at the advertised speed for around 7 or 8 years (Or thereabouts)
I went to plus net and it was a complete nightmare, my service dropped at least once a week, the speed varied between 8 meg (should have been around 16) and 2 over the course any given day... plus net were a nightmare to get hold of and could only ever offer a "reset your modem" fix (Although tbf they did eventually send a BT engineer who found no problem to fix) I ditched them as soon as I could. I'm now on EE fibre and its rock solid.
I find it strange how things can be so variable given that all that generally changes is the name on the top of your bill.
The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined
Wileyfox smartphones: SD card, no bloatware, Cyanogen, big battery – yes to all!
Embracing the life-changing qualities of USB power packs and battery extenders
Friday 21st August 2015 14:04 GMT
Lollipop
Until the Lollipop upgrade I got great battery life out of my xperia z1 the lollipop upgrade has serioulsy degraded the battery performance, so much so that I'm planning on getting rid of it and going back to 4.4.4.
Also I think that little KVM thingy is very cool, gonna get me a slice of that action.
The Ashley Madison files – are people really this stupid?
Friday 21st August 2015 13:34 GMT
Re: Lets look at this
" Tony Blairs email addy in there? As much as I'd like to see the swarmy grinning war mongering bastard hung out to dry for this, I doubt its him.."
Really? have you taken a good look at Cherie "Betty Boop" Blair .. wouldn't surprise me in the slightest and there were tabloid stories about difficulties in their marriage last year ;)
Intel's Compute Sticks stick it to Windows To Go, Chromecast
ZTE Nubia Z9 Mini: The able Android smartie the company won't sell you
Tuesday 18th August 2015 10:30 GMT
I might have a look at one of these...
I dunno what happened with lollipop 5.02 but its borked my xperia z1 in all kinds of ways. I used to own a solid phone that never gave me any problems and had fabulous battery life... now I've got a phone that reboots if the battery gets 49%, can browse on wifi for about 15 minutes before rebooting, is constantly hanging and crashing what had previously been perfectly stable apps.
I want a spare phone handy for when I roll it back. This looks like it could be just the ticket!
Feeling a physical present: Ten summer games and gadgets
Microsoft replaces Windows 10 patch update, isn't saying why
Let's all binge on Blake’s 7 and help save the BBC ... from itself
Monster Scalextric Formula 1 circuit to go under the hammer
Carphone Warehouse coughs to MONSTER data breach – 2.4 MEELLION Brits at risk
Buffoon in 999 call: 'Cat ate my bacon and I want to press charges'
Paper driving licence death day: DVLA website is still TITSUP
Graphic designs: Six speedy 17-inch gaming laptops
UK.gov: We want Britannia's mobe-enabled cars to rule the roads
Facebook's phone KILLER: Messenger will replace TALKING, says Zuck
Friday 27th March 2015 16:50 GMT
Re: This sounds awful
Well I guess if you can't see a reason then they must be shit.
WhatsApp for instance.... is instantaneous, an SMS is not. You can send pictures instantly.., you can send videos... instantly. You can send voice messages... instantly. you can chat simultaneously with multiple people... if you're on Wi-Fi they're free, totally free.
I find it useful on occasion, I also find SMS equally useful on occasion... "chatting" by SMS is a pain in the arse. but they're great to organise a night out or a get together.
BBM... free.
Snapchat... just another way of flirting and having fun for some people.
Fanbois: We paid $2000 for full satisfaction but now we have SPREADING STAINS
Friday 20th March 2015 16:32 GMT
Re: Eventually...
"To date we have a few hundred people some who have owned their laptops for some time who may or may not have legitimate reasons to complain."
In which case Apple have nothing to lose in sorting their problems as a goodwill gesture and everything to gain. In the scheme of things it costs them pennies but leaves everyone with a sense of "So moneysupermarket" (to coin a phrase) but the truth is they actually have a reputation of sticking two fingers up at people, whether that is justified or not I don't know I can only judge by what I read.
Google Glass DIED from TOO MUCH ATTENTION, Captain Moonshot admits
Thursday 19th March 2015 15:21 GMT
Re: He missed the main problem...
Knowing / not knowing.. don't really care. I don't enjoy being filmed as I walk along my high street and I wouldn't enjoy being filmed by the person I'm talking to. Hiding the camera so that its not so easy to know the person I'm talking to is filming me doesn't make it ok; it makes it even more creepy.
The BBC wants to slap a TAX on EVERYONE in BLIGHTY
Tuesday 3rd March 2015 17:01 GMT
I'll probably be shouted down but...
I just don't see a problem with the licence fee. I prefer advertising free TV. I suppose I could pay sky an inordinate amount, have adverts and the BBC but I choose not to; no, in real terms the licence fee is great value for money.
People always bang on about TV but let's not forget the radio... isn't the ginger dick getting around 15/16 million listeners a day?
I do have a problem with what I perceive as bias and social engineering within the BBC, its staff and most of its "factual" output; But for every bias I see I'm sure someone else will see an opposite bias.
I do have a problem with iplayer being available to everyone /everywhere and I really don't understand why it isn't behind a pay wall that accepts your licence number as proof. I also have a problem with people being prosecuted for not being able to pay, if its a compulsory charge then there should be state help available for it.
If paying for the BBC via a licence means I don't have to put up with being reamed by Murdoch I'm happy to pay the 11 quid a month.
EE 'best' of the UK mobile network bunch, but how good is that?
Tuesday 10th February 2015 13:16 GMT 
Rootmetrics could have saved themselves a shitload of cash and simply asked me about Vodafone.... Vodafone don't give a shit if you're not in a LARGE metropolitan area. (ie at least several million)
I struggle to get data signals simply driving up and down the country... I regularly get no signal in my home, I can actually see their mast from my back bedroom window!... 4g in my hometown? forget it never gonna happen. Something they have confirmed tome several times over the phone, of course actually getting a CS rep on the 'phone is a mission in itself.. never less than 45 miutes and they *never* successfully sorted out anything I've ever contacted them about. I always end up doing it myself, where I can of course.
They are an appalling company.
4G Mobile data suck stiffens Vodafone revenues
Thursday 5th February 2015 16:11 GMT
What amusing fellows they are...
"users gradually moving to 4g"
Ho Ho Ho.... I *had* to have a contract that included 4g, I didn't want it then and I don't want it now but if they are charging me for it then they should damn well supply it.... what's that you say Vodafone? *never* coming to a cell near me you say? fair enough, I'll take a reduction then if you don't mind... oh I can't ? well that's handy for your revenues isn't it? charge me for something you have no intention of supplying... yeah no wonder your revenues look good.
Rest assured I'll be churning away just as soon as I can.
Fuckers.
Horrifying iPhone sales bring Apple $18bn profit A QUARTER
Jellybean upgrade too hard for Choc Factory, but not for YOU
2015: The year of MAD TV science, but who can keep up?
Pull up the Windows 10 duvet and pretend Win8 and Vista were BAD DREAMS
Thursday 22nd January 2015 14:08 GMT
Re: Hellooooo UBUNTU...
I've no complaints about the look and feel, its more about "Ok I'd like to do "x" how do I that? So I have to invest time digging about finding out what tool does "x"... if I don't have it.. where do I get? How do I install it? How do I invoke it? How do I use it?
None of this is particularly difficult or impossible, my point is that I;m at home, I *just* want to 'X', I don't want to teach myself new stuff.. i *just* want to do 'x' and then go and do something else.
At some point I'll have some spare time so I'll figure out how to do and that's great but now I want to do 'y' and teh whole shebang starts again.... Obviously there are points where both things touch but I think you can see my point.
Thursday 22nd January 2015 14:01 GMT
Re: Hellooooo UBUNTU... @Peter Gathercole
No argument from me about things needing to change but I can't see the vast majority of users ever finding a compelling reason to change. I imagine that most of them have invested the time to get to grips with whatever OS they're comfortable using and don't really want to invest the overhead in learning something else when they have a box that already does it perfectly well for them.
I do tinker with my lappy but only if I have the leisure to investigate how to do "x" otherwise I just want to do "x" so I use my PC
I'm a software engineer of nearly 20 years experience, I consider myself to be a bit of a techie.. if I find switching to Mint (or whatever) a pain in the arse, then what chance for people who just want to turn on a box, go clickity clicky and then walk away?
It may be that one day, people will be able to buy a Mint powered machine the way they currently buy a Windows pc from PC World.... pay for it, take it out of the box, plug it in.. choose a user name and away they go.
The fact is, and a good number of zealots *really* need to understand this, linux in whatever flavour, is a VERY long way from that stage. I make no judgement on the rightness or wrongness of this, simply offer it as is.
Tuesday 20th January 2015 17:07 GMT
Re: Hellooooo UBUNTU...
No, "most people" don't want choice. What *most people" want is to plop themselves down in front of a PC that looks feels and smells like the one they're used to. "Most people" get that experience at work using windows machines. "most people" see their PC's at home as just "a thing" that does "some stuff" and that's it. They have no interest in cutely named software that sort of does what the windows box does but only after they've waded through pages of "stuff" that might just as well be written in klingon, that they need to get onto their box, so that they can sorta do the things they are already doing with their windows box. "Most People" are not techies. I have a laptop that runs mint, the overhead in learning what bits do what things makes using it a pain in the arse.... feel free for lambast me for not wanting to take the time learn how to do it but frankly I spend my days fucking about with recalcitrant software, in the evening I just want stuff to work and whether you like it or not windows does that for the vast majority of people that use it.
Seriously, the users of this forum are mostly IT techie types but don't let that fool you into thinking you are the majority; you're not.
Hollywood vs hackers: Vulture cracks Tinseltown keyboard cornballs
Grand Theft Auto 1997: 'Sick, deluded and beneath contempt'
Frontier wipes credit of Elite: Dangerous 'billionaire' badboys
Marriott: The TRUTH about personal Wi-Fi hotel jam bid
Renault Captur: Nobody who knows about cars will buy this
Monday 5th January 2015 17:12 GMT
never gonna be an exciting car to drive
I agree with the consensus, in as much that for the people that car is aimed at it'll probably be just fine. I also agree with people that say an under powered car is as dangerous as an overpowered one.
For me though, the biggest crime is that this journo was driving this car while blind .... that can be the only explanation for describing this assault on the eyes as good looking.
Its fucking hideous!
TBF renault have previous in making "interesting" looking cars.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
