Re: All these unnecessary limitations
There's upstairs and there's downstairs!
Posts by AMBxx
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100GB doesn't always cut it in these remote-working times so Microsoft has upped OneDrive file size upload limit to 250GB
Wednesday 13th January 2021 17:07 GMT 
Re: All these unnecessary limitations
So much depends upon how you work. I'm connected to a clients network. I can't copy files and copy/paste in general is iffy. I can save files to OneDrive on the client PC and a few seconds later, they're available for me to use in my office. Similarly with OneNote, I can work in 2 places at once.
If I fire up my laptop, all the files are ready for me. It's a lot easier than the old days of network shares and trying to keep files synched between machines and locations.
I can imagine if you just work from one location on one network then OneDrive is more trouble than it's worth. Just not in my situation.
That said, I have a VM that automatically downloads everything and is backed up nightly!
The CIA's 'entire' collection of UFO records has been made available for you to sigh at
UK network Three hikes pay-as-you-go rates by 400% to push punters to buy 'bundles'
Wednesday 13th January 2021 11:34 GMT
Re: Time for a complaint to Ofcom
Inflation is just the weighted average price change of 'everything'. No particular reason anything should be linked to it other than income/benefits.
Leads to the next question - why should mobile prices be increasing at all?
Main problem is lack of competition. That said, GiffGaff is just £6 per month for unlimited calls. There are other minor networks offering a load of data for £8 per month. Just need to look around.
Study: AI designed to detect diabetic eye disease blinks in the real world, makes more work for doctors
Tuesday 12th January 2021 11:12 GMT
Type of camera
You'll see fewer cameras in your local optician now. They're mostly moving to the expensive OCT. Still a camera of sorts but provides far more information.
There are also problems with comparing results between different manufacturers.
the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Better battery, LTE and a removable SSD in Microsoft's Surface Pro 7+
Unauthorised RAC staffer harvested customer details then sold them to accident claims management company
Linux Mint sticks by Snap decision – meaning store is still disabled by default in 20.1
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Amazon turns Victorian industrialist with $2bn building project to house workers near new headquarters
Thursday 7th January 2021 08:37 GMT
Re: Quite in Favour
The developments in England are still great places to live. Not just Bournville, there's Port Sunlight (soap) and much of North York (more chocolate).
Terry's of York also paid more for their cocoa to help development overseas.
I'm not convinced that Amazon are being benevolent though.
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Scotland waves £15m around to tempt low-code partner to help with social security overhaul as technical debt mounts
Explained: The thinking behind the 32GB Windows Format limit on FAT32
And now for something completely different: A lightweight, fast browser that won't slurp your data
Cyberpunk 2077: There's a great game within screaming to get out, but sadly it was released 57 years too early
Why make games for Linux if they don't sell? Because the nerds are just grateful to get something that works
Sunday 27th December 2020 09:18 GMT
Re: Re Stadia
Amazon own Twitch but that's just a spectator thing (I never understood the attraction).
If Amazon went streaming, it would be through their Fire tablets. Given how poor the Amazon app store is, I doubt it will be any time soon. I just have the google store on a Fire with a replacement shell to avoid all the Amazon stuff.
Elon Musk says he tried to sell Tesla to Apple, which didn’t bite and wouldn't even meet
Red Hat defends its CentOS decision, claims Stream version can cover '95% of current user workloads'
'Following the science' rhetoric led to delay to UK COVID-19 lockdown, face mask rules
As UK breaks away from Europe, Facebook tells Brits: You'll all be Californians soon
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Up yours, Europe! Our 100% prime British broadband is cheaper than yours... but also slower and a bit of a rip-off
UK comms regulator: Could we interest sir in a bespoke broadband speed estimate?
Larry Ellison says he's not following Oracle to Texas, prefers his private Hawaii pad
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Breaking up big tech can make smartphones interesting again
Monday 14th December 2020 08:32 GMT
Done their work well?
Do you mean they've stopped innovating? There's very little new in phone technology right now. The whole segment is ready for a new disruptor to 'do something new'.
I needed a 2nd phone last week as a separate device for 2FA. Fired up my old Blackberry Priv. It's running Android 6 which is barely distinguishable from my more recent phone running Android 9. I'd expect the same if I compared an old iPhone with something more recent. This constant focus on thinner but bigger disguises the near total stagnation of the market.
Back to the Fuchsia, part IV: Google's in-development OS now open to community contributions
Cisco challenges the tyranny of Outlook with short, self-terminating Webex meetings
Wednesday 9th December 2020 08:07 GMT
Ugh - webex
I seem to have used every meeting/screen sharing software ever created over the last few years. Bottom of the heap is WebEx. Sharing my screen yesterday stopped me selecting emails in Outlook. To get the information I needed, I had to stop the sharing, open the email, then start sharing again.
Uni revealed it killed off its PhD-applicant screening AI – just as its inventors gave a lecture about the tech
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Salesforce's Dreamforce shindig hits new levels of nauseating online as... Oh god. Is that James Corden?
Oracle upgrades MySQL with an analytics speed boost albeit only in the Big Red cloud
LibreOffice 7.1 beta boasts impressive range of features let down by a lack of polish and poor mobile efforts
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Bare-metal Macs-as-a-service come to AWS. Intel for now, M1 silicon in 2021
European Space Agency will launch giant claw that drags space junk to its doom
Privacy campaigner flags concerns about Microsoft's creepy Productivity Score
Thursday 26th November 2020 11:38 GMT
Re: evaluating "productivity" data can shift power from employees to organisations
Given how poor the other automated metrics coming out of Office 365 are, this will soon be destined for the bin. I've been getting wellbeing one for a bit - very silly, now disabled.
Anyway, it's in the power of all you Office 365 admins out there to turn this off before it's unleashed!
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