* Posts by Mage

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What did they do – twist his Arm? Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased

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Facepalm

Acorn 1990s?

Acorn Archimedes was released in June 1987 is 33 years ago

It had Risc OS and there was a Unix before 1990.

There may have been TEN models before 1990.

I welcome another option. Keep ARM on their toes. Just think, if it wasn't for AMD keeping Intel alert we'd be using Itanium laptops! Ugh!

Cisco’s 'intuitive security' tool can’t handle MAC address randomization out-of-the-box

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Re: Yet another elastoplast with unexpected consequences?

Only using Google Street view cars. Of COURSE it was an accident that Google captured all that local WiFi traffic. They've stopped now since they were caught?

Certainly a WiFi point knows, but not sites you connect to.

Who cares what Apple's about to announce? It owes us a macOS x86 virtual appliance for non-Mac computers

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Why is the article writer surprised

68K CPU

Power PC

Intel 32

x64 only

Also OS 9 and earlier are almost unrelated to OSX.

Apple's solution has always been for the faithful to buy a new Shiny and new programs. Though they have had compatibility tools in the past, maybe to run Power PC or OS9 stuff on x86-32 OSX, I forget.

It would be nice if I could run MacOSX x86 old 32 (which doesn't run on current OSX) and Mac OSX x64 on a VM on Linux, or any HW not supplied by Apple. But I'd be surprised.

I've an Android phone older than an iPhone 4s, it can USB load old apps and even install some from the Playstore. The iPhone 4s can only have music added by iTunes and nothing else. The previous owner hadn't added any apps, so it's useless compared to much older Android phones or tablets or PCs.

Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log

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Re: Though that one is easier to fix

Grey and Gray are both allowed in UK & Ireland. Only one is allowed in USA?

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Re: International Standards Organization

Just kill the stupid US date format.

I don't mind them keeping inches, Fahrenheit, the confusing pounds alone for body weight or their spelling. Or their own names for things.

Though I try to either write the month or use YYYY-MM-DD. I now use YYYY-MM-DD on all my spreadsheets etc.

Vinyl sales top CDs for the first time in decades in America, streaming rules

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Re: signal to noise

The frequency response only for a few playings.

No, the S/N of Vinyl is worse. Which is related to dynamic range. The surface polish, track pitch and dust limit Vinyl S/N and dynamic range. The large hub area is to limit the drop off of frequency response towards the centre.

There are formats supposed to be better than CD, but they never succeeded because in the real world they are not needed. So since CDs are still produced, they are the pinnacle of consumer physical audio quality.

Note commercial CDs are pressed and home recorded use a change in a dye, so are very much less durable. Some CDs and DVDs are not well sealed so the reflective aluminium can corrode. Keep in a cool, dry dark place!

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Re: You are all thieves

The 8 track (Lear Jet Audio) had high tape wear , no FF and no rewind because it was a an always slipping endless loop. Though 1/4" rather than 1/8" CC and twice the speed, it wasn't better quality than decent CC using home recorded tapes because of high speed duplication and the track width may have been slightly less than CC as the head is physically moved each time the metal foil is detected. Home recording gear did exist. Also the program had to be split in four.

Experimental wire recording existed maybe 1899. US and UK used Wire Recording till after WWII. The Germans started tape use in the 1940s. Ampex was one of the first post WWII copies.

1: RCA 1/4" tape cartridge 1958

2: Compact Cassette 1962. Originally for dictation.

3: Lear Jet 8 Track 1/4" endless loop demos in 1964. A refinement of earlier loop cartridges. Also called Stereo 8. Only widespread ever in USA and because of a deal with a car maker. Some small sales in UK 1968 to 1970, approximately. A dead format.

Radio studios/DJs used an endless loop cartridge that seems to have predated the consumer 8 track

4: Micro Cassette 1969. At half the speed of Compact Cassette and usually mono (someone mad MIGHT have done a stereo version) it was only ever for dictation. Now dead due to Flash memory.

5: Sony Elcaset 1976 1/4" tape, superior design to CC and RCA cartridge. Technically good, but too large for portable market (there was one portable that looks like a competitor to Uher or other reel to reel portable recorders used by journalists.) About 10 years too late, so a failure. Dead format.

6: CD. About 1982 to 1984 introduction. Still best solution for physical music

7: Sony Minidisc. A great idea killed by DRM, inability to copy off your own recordings digitally (journalists etc) 1992. Now a dead format. Also Sony was too late adopting MP3 as alternative to ATRAC.

7: MP3 Players using Flash, battery backed RAM or HDD: Available solid state and HDD from 1997, though prototypes using other codecs may have existed from 1982. MP3 as a codec only existed from 1984.

SACD / DVD Audio / HDCD Audio etc: Variously 1995 to 1999 introductions. All dead. Aimed at Audiophiles, a fickle market.

8: iPod. A very late MP3 entrant (2001) successful due to iTunes.

There was also a very large stereo / two track version of the Lear Jet cartridge also using 1/4" tape that was only rented to restaurants and hotels. Certainly in use in 1970s.

Cassette players and tapes are still made and sold.

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Re: You are all thieves

Motorola was so named because they brought out a record player for cars, before WWII!

This proves that some trends are only fashion driven. There is no point at all to Vinyl over CD.

"RIAA historical data suggests 1986 was the last time vinyl revenue topped CDs, however that year was early in the life of the CD as a format and a time when the Sony Walkman and its clones were still cool. 1986 therefore saw cassettes account for 55.9 per cent of sales."

CD came out in force about 1985, though they existed earlier, demoed in 1982.

While cassettes are totally inferior in quality to Vinyl, they do have some advantages over CD and other formats. However the CC resurgence is also fashion driven, and nostalgia.

Ironically the really cheap or early cassette players have survived but the belts in the high-end ones turn to goo.

Easier to get steel needles for old windups and Stylii for 1950s to 1990s record players than some of the new ones sold. Most of which claim to do 78, but none have the fatter stylus needed for the wider grooves. A microgroove stylus thus picks up noise from the bottom of the groove, I doubt any use the briefly lived dual profile stylus for both.

Nvidia to acquire Arm for $40bn, promises to keep its licensing business alive

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Re: Independence

That ship is gone forever since Softbank bought them. Just imagine if Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, Google or Apple had bought them this time?

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Softbank wasn't a good match as an owner?

It's a pity ARM was ever sold to anyone, but better that Nvidia has them than the Japanese Beancounters Softbank, who are clueless at tech and hardly more than speculators.

Though I can see why some ARM users would be unhappy. Still, better than the sell off of Inmos was.

But relistically, as ARM is going to be owned by someone, it's better a real tech company than a so called Fund Manager.

Unfortunately Philips is long gone as Electronics (Only lights and health care, semiconductors was spun off as NXP and sadly getting bought by Qualcomm who are almost just Patent Trolls). Who else other than Nvidia actually makes sense?

Texas Instruments, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Google, Samsung, LG would all be worse.

The power of Bill compels you: A server room possessed by a Microsoft-hating, Linux-loving Demon

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reminder to cloud refuseniks that on-premises email has its downsides

How?

The so called cloud ultimately is a real server in someone else's premises and with opaque information to you how it's managed. All the cloud vendors have had both fat finger, patch update and HW failure outages.

That's Turtles all the way Down thinking.

Microsoft to charge $200 for 32 GPU cores, sliver of CPU clockspeed, 6GB RAM, 512GB SSD... and a Blu-Ray player

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Re: The point ?

No, the games will really be developed for the cheaper model and won't be on physical discs anyway. The $200 extra is just for people prepared to pay more. You can develop one game and run it at different resolutions and frame rates. I just tried Civ 4 on PC at 1920 x1080 on a 4K TV via HDMI instead of usual 4:3 1024 x 768. Much higher spec PC obviously than when the game came out. It was fine. My Laptop can do 4K, but not that PC. However it runs Linux for work rather than gaming.

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BluRay

I have a BluRay drive to play video on the TV. Cost €29.

Are many new games going to be sold on physical media? The last PC physical game I bought was a con. The DVD (!) was simply a installer for Steam. It would have made no difference buying it online. It won't run without a broadband connection.

It's better DRM to only rent via the Internet.

So is the $200 extra worth it? No. Also you'd want about 72" screen less than 1.5m away to have much advantage for 4K over 1920 x 1080. I actually have a 4K screen. However I can't see any advantage over 1920 x 1080 decent HD sources. There are two shopping channels and two demo channels using 4K on Satellite. It's underwhelming.

Unless it's a multiplayer with the screen split a bigger than 19" screen can actually be awkward. Certainly the multiplayer in 4 windows of a 48" screen is worth while, though mostly the kids use that for Minecraft which looks like lego merged with a 14" VGA monitor expanded to fit the 48" screen. PS4.

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

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Re: All the things you've mentioned -

Didn't make money for the UK. GCHQ suppressed UK Commercial Computing in 1945. Lyons was the first serious commercial computer user in the UK.

UK computing, ICL?

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Re: corporation tax

Tax people's income. Like share dividends or director's bonuses. Corporation tax is only paid by smaller single nation companies and encourages off shoring,

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Re: What's the idea that the rest of the world...

Success is partly having the money to start, marketing, hard work and luck.

Not actually ideas.

Intel didn't invent x64, AMD did. Or Transistors. They got lucky with the 8080 because CP/M (Digital Research). They started as a RAM maker.

Apple didn't invent the MP3 player (iTunes & Marketing) or the Smart phone (Data plans & Marketing).

MS didn't invent BASIC (Dartmouth College) or DOS (Digital Research) or Windows (Xerox) or C# (based on Java).

Hovercraft, Concorde, Inmos Transputer, First electronic Computer. Also UK developed their own independent atomic weapons and space flight. The only country to develop either and give them up. US persuaded them to rent / buy from them.

Maxwell, Faraday.

The rot started actually before Thatcher, but she accelerated it. Being ONLY Services based and a Nation of Shopkeepers is not sustainable for a former Empire now a small island Nation. A lot of Empire wealth was asset stripping and exploitation. Ask Indians, Africans, Caribbean, China, Australia and Ireland.

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Not State Aid but Offshoring and Money Laundering

Tories don't do State Aid, not really. UK doing about 1/2 the EU average. Most unlikely they really want to do any aid that would exceed EU rules, except they already had refused to implement Banking & Tax and Offshoring stuff even Switzerland has added to law. Particularly relating to IOM, Channel Is, Gibraltar and the transatlantic tax havens that are British Colonies, though renamed to Overseas Territories.

Happy birthday to the Nokia 3310: 20 years ago, it seemed like almost everyone owned this legendary mobile

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Re: Survival.

But what about Bruce Schneier?

I had an Analogue Nokia Mobile. I had then some other Nokia for a while and then I got the N9110 in Jan 2000 and the N9210i some time in 2002, about the same time as my third laptop. Both were real smart phones, better than 1st Apple which was GSM only, I had a Nokia E65 when the first iPhone came out. I'm on my fourth laptop now, nearly 2 years. Old. I left the job that supplied the N9210i and had half a dozen rubbish phones before a Sony-Ericsson Xperia, maybe the last joint branded one. It still sort of goes, but I use a generic style 6" Alcatel/TCL now, not sure if it does 4G. I'll not bother upgrading especially for 5G.

Most of the so called Smart Meters in UK and Ireland and many burglar alarms are GSM only. So I wonder exactly what is happening?

SOGA says goods like a phone should work for 2 years. Yet local shops are still selling cheap GSM only phones. Some are dual sim and old Nokia styled but with SD card space inside, FM Radio and MP3 player as a well as the snake game and interchangeable battery.

Intel, Apple, Cisco, Google sue US Patent Office – Tech police, open up!

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Re: Long term: Elephant in Room

USPTO makes more money by granting patents than refusing and lower costs by not checking that they are not too broad, not easily thought up by someone versed in the Art, not considering Prior Art (especially if not in USA or decades ago) and not considering novelty.

They are about making money and protecting the larger USA based Corporates. Not about patents as originally envisaged. But this problem started in the Victorian era. Edison exploited the system. Then from the 1920s it was RCA.

In the frame with the Great MS Bakeoff: Microsoft sets out plans for Windows windows

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FAIL

Simple

Scrap UWP. It was designed for phones, or have a completely different GUI not called Windows. One GUI for all kinds and sizes of screens and systems doesn't work. Also calling DIFFERENT OS "Windows" since early 1990s (CE, win on Dos with Program Manager, Win9x/ME, Embedded WinX, NT, embedded NT etc).

Also have three distinct levels apart from HAL: The GUI (only called Windows on desktop/laptop WIMP), the OS excluding Kernel and the Kernel). Different names for different families. Only call the Desktop/Laptop WIMP version's GUI (only) "Windows".

My crow soft adds audio transcription to premium Word Online... Only joking. It's pretty good if a bit on the slow side

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Re: Local dictation

Local voice dictation to text is over 20 years old as purchased package. Available free for over 15 years.

The main reason to use the cloud is allegedly to train the recognition engine's database (there is no real AI, it's just pattern matching). The real reason why it's now promoted as something in the cloud?

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Added dictation

Available as free OS plug in to work with anything since XP and in MS Office since 2003? Without a corporate possibly storing it and no online connection needed.

Also on Mac and Linux for years.

Possibly also on iOS and Android, though the Android one seems to send everything to Google first.

What would you prefer: Satellite-streamed cat GIFs – or a decent early warning of an asteroid apocalypse?

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Poor Countries?

These satellites are not really for poor countries. They are getting or have mobile and fibre. The fact that many are mortgaging their resources and other infrastructure to China to get it is a separate problem.

The fact is that almost no-one actually needs these. The real use is a very niche market and the quantity isn't needed for cruise ships (which are stupid) or air travel (of which there is too much). Even with 10,000 the capacity is tiny for any given area because they are in LEO.

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Elephant in room

The economic and technical case for LEO internet is weak. It's better to increase rollout of fibre, coax (fibre to street) and more mobile masts.

Perhaps in 10 to 20 years these will be gone.

The capacity per 10 km is a tiny fraction of mobile which is a tiny fraction of fibre or fibre to the kerb solutions. They also have a poor operational life and the launches are environmentally poor.

Fusion boffins apply plasma know-how to building thrusters

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Re: finally having fusion that works

It's not fusion. It's a plasma drive. There is no fusion involved at all.

'My wife tried to order some clothes tonight. When she logged in, she was in someone else's account ... Now someone's charged her card'

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Fabletics?

Sounds like a title for a book about magical blood sucking insects?

Apart from the incompetent server mangelment why do they think it's a good name for selling fashion sportswear aka athleisure?

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

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Re: par for the course with *any* UI

Why is everyone using images of slide switches for a check box that's tapped? Also when is it on or off?

Why Flat?

It's not like we are running monochrome CGA or Hercules.

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Re: Giving it a whirl

It's very bad.

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Re: a preview for well over a year

Really?

In a basement with a sign saying beware of the leopard!

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Morons

See title

Completely gone Google/Microsoft.

I've been using Waterfox for ages on the desktop because Mozilla lost the plot ages ago. So not surprised.

What do I install instead of this abomination so as to have the equivalent of Umatrix, no accidental installing of stupid apps from sites and know that 3rd party cookies are blocked?

It's opaque as to what it blocks. Changes to GUI are poor too. Tablet got this stupidity last night.

Microsoft sides with Epic over Apple developer ban, supports motion for temporary restraining order

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Re: They can reject fortnight at review but not cancel Epic's developer account

Have they ever done that?

I thought they always also cancelled the dev account of anyone completely banned from the store.

However, I agree that's technically possible.

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Re: possible for Apple to allow updates

No, because Epic will not have access to iOS tools.

It's not like Android or Windows (and especially not like Linux), because on those you can build apps to latest API etc without any MS or Google support. You only need Google agreement for the Playstore distribution.

You can in theory develop for Android and let people download direct if they change the security setting on their phone or tablet.

So you can ALSO install old Android and Windows apps for products no longer on on the stores. With Apple your phone/tablet is doomed to NEVER have even an out of date VLC, epub reader or whatever UNLESS you installed it from the store while BOTH the phone/tablet was supported and the App was current.

So apart from the double dip of taking any ongoing income from an app as well as the sale, they totally control and eventually block the device you bought. In the name of "security", but it's ego and greed.

Physical locks are less hackable than digital locks, right? Maybe not: Boffins break in with a microphone

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Re: Smart doorbell

"Amazon Ring is an example" and is is a daft thing to fit.

There is no problem having a camera and intercom that is only feeding by wire inside the house. Anything "smart", i.e. connected to the Internet is a huge risk and also can be bricked by the supplier.

So called "smart" heating, security, locks, doorbells are products for the gullible or those unaware of the risks.

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Re: Door Locks....Bah!.....much easier ways of getting in.....

We had to change the lock, screw in a block of wood etc. Stupid combining letter slot and lock. The big lad was lifting up his small sister to open the door.

Also we fitted deadlocks front and back.

A common technique is to use the cheap one of 30 keys on back door, or break a rear window and simply carry everything out the front door to the large van. Neighbours just assume you are moving or redecorating.

A friend in Chubb once pointed out that extra bolts on the door doesn't help unless they go through the frame, or the frame has serious fixings into serious masonry. One decent swing with a ram or a big sledge and the entire frame falls in.

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Re: make duplicate keys using a photo

Done maybe 30 or 40 years ago in Belfast using a Victorian photo of a prison warden. He obtained an identical uniform button to scale the image of the keys. Amazingly the locks had never been changed.

Linux kernel maintainers tear Paragon a new one after firm submits read-write NTFS driver in 27,000 lines of code

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Re: Bit harsh

Beware of Geeks bearing Gifs

There might be a vulnerability in ImageMagick?

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Re: Bit harsh

Obligatory XKCD, this week!

Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch

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Re: Investment?

Per transaction per second the IBAN, Credit Card or PayPal is a tiny fraction of any Cryptocurrency system.

Also adding money costs almost nothing, unlike mining just Bit Coin, which is the same consumption as all of Switzerland.

It's an ecologically damaging scam. It's not even scaleable to 1% of the transactions of any one of IBAN, Credit Cards or PayPal!

How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China

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Re: maybe the US hasn't been a viable manufacturer for some time.

Didn't the mighty RCA close in 1986?

I can't think of anything I've bought in the last 30 years that was made in the USA. The USA Brands are just that, largely brands. Even a lot of the "innovation" for "Designed in the USA" is actually bought in by major companies.

The USA is a culture fuelled marketing Behemoth. Disney, Coca-cola, Macdonald's, Levi, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Starbucks, Budweiser. A lot of the big companies run franchises, or really sell adverts. Or even do development offshore. They bank their money offshore too, sucking it out of the world economy instead of spending it. Yet for all the lack of manufacturing, that 13% of the world's population uses about 75% each of food, energy and other resources.

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Re: slow down the environmentally damaging upgrade cycle

No, it wouldn't. It might even be deliberately shorter. There is nothing wrong with a 32 G byte iphone 4S except you can't even install the originally available apps, and it can only load MP3s via iTunes program unless a 3rd party player was ever loaded, if it was, you can copy via USB without any Apple software.

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If the U.S. government did this

They do. And have been. It rose to fame (infamy) with Echelon. GCHQ helps the US TLAs and vice versa.

The Chinese government is horrible. But from where I'm sitting the UK & USA are hypocrites. Also I doubt as a percentage, the Chinese State is as much interested in European and North American people, their beliefs and activities as GCHQ, the London Met and the USA TLAs.

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OTH, Apple?

Why do about x3 as many Americans as a percentage of population buy the 70% + margin walled garden early obsolete iPhones?

Their innovation consists of making them less useful and less compatible.

We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there

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Re: irritated customer base

Dressed as a tramp and not even bothering to thumb?

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Re: Why?

They did nice mice.

But $199 for earbuds that run flat and inherently have more distortion than decent $15 wired ear buds?

My entire 6" phone cost lest than that, and is pre-pay talk/data and unlocked for free after a year.

Madness.

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

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Crazy

I heard about this years ago:

First thing on a new install of LibreOffice: Disable Autocorrect except for smart quotes.Doesn't fix THIS problem.

I'm actually considering turning off that too as “” those are AltGr V and AltGr B on Linux. Shift for singles.

Though the auto format recognition is due to not setting cells to text, but having the default General. No idea how to change that default on Excel, Gnumeric or LO Calc.

General is an evil default as Indicative numbers may be in a text column and never ever should be treated as numbers, except maybe on some of them to check checksums (ISBN, IBAN, credit cards).

Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies

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Re: basic design hasn't changed since its initial invention?

There are four basic design stages of actual mouse, excluding non-mouse pointing such as touch pads or wobble sticks/nubs.

1) Two wheels at right angles.

2) make them shafts on the top of a ball.

3) optical using a special two colour grid on a mat

4) optical on any arbitrary surface unless it's totally featureless and smooth.

Also at some stage the middle button is a third axis roller to scroll or move on Z-axis.

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Re: Trackerball?

Of course the ball based mouse was somewhat later than the early version with just the wheels, and even without a tracker ball, it's an obvious next step. I remember turning different models of mouse upside down to see which worked best a tracker ball.

The history of why Logitech, originally distributing a compiler did mice is interesting and possibly the Microsoft mouse was one of MS's best products. I'm using an MS Basic Optical Mouse v2.0

I used to give 3 button mice to Apple users (OS 8 and OS9 days) and enjoy their joy at disposing of the single button unergonomic hockey puck.

I still prefer one with a tail. No pesky RF to get messed up or battery to go flat. In a fictional world I've written they call the computer mouse a pointing pebble, or pebble as it has no tail and they have no mice or rats.

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Trackerball?

I'd heard from someone that worked at Xerox Parc that the ball based mouse was derived from the tracker ball and that they really wanted a pen sized one to work on a desk. However a mouse is actually less tiring to hold than say a Wacom stylus, though the stylus allows easier writing and sketching. The mouse is indeed a selection device easier to control accurately than a finger on a touch screen. Writing with a mouse is like trying to write with a potato.

The mouse is still the best GUI selection device, though I don't miss the ball. Or cleaning the rollers for people mysteriously unable to do it. The first optical mouse I had used a special grid on a mat in the mid 1980s.

A pint for the dear departed.

Chinese tat bazaar Xiaomi to light a fire under Amazon's Kindle with new e-book reader

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Re: I have a kobo

Android's point is the GUI for OLED/LCD and the App Engine.

There is no point on using Android on a dedicated ereader, especially eink; that suggests lazy inept developers.

Also most apps won't work well with eink. A phone or tablet is cheaper and complementary to a decent ereader. I rarely use the Browser search on the Kindle or Kobo, it's nearly as fast to wake the tablet, connect it to Wifi and browse than just for the Wikipedia or Google to start loading on eink. Then actual browsing on eink is rubbish, though the older Kindle FW that paginated the web pages worked better than scrolling.

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Re: Barnes & Noble

Or you could look at a Kobo Libra. The Xaiomi needs to be cheaper than a Paperwhite 4 / 2018 without adverts, a Kobo Libra and have a decent GUI to succeed.