Posts by Tony Paulazzo

Re: Microsoft Surface Studio

John Lewis is...

Not only price match, two year warranty as standard, they also have the best customer service I've ever found. If they say they'll ring you back - they do! Take that Curries / PCWorld. They don't try and hard sell you extended warranties and are happy to discuss what a customer needs as opposed to what gets the best commission.

I don't work for John Lewis (honest), but I'll happily point customers their way looking for new PCs.

I'm kind'a surprised at the lack of Chinese knockoffs for VR headsets yet. I remember the 1 hour battery life tablet knockoffs coming out within months of the first ipad release.

Come on China, get your finger out - altho' please don't use child labour as we're not really comfortable with it; except, their little fingers are probably perfect for all those tiny little circuit boards...

VR isn't going to hit mainstream until the whole kit & caboodle cost about £500 (sterling), killer app is already here, vrporn.

And that's for the poxy 32GB model. With no expandable storage and VR (+ music etc) storage demands you're gonna need the 128 GB version for £700 (or £819 for the 5.5 phone).

Google can get bent!

I guess they've just become another corporation now - profit being the be all and end all...

I was going to get one last weekend, but seeing the news I might hold off for a while...

Wait for the fire sale - this phone is dead in the water, should be able to pick up a refurb (replaced battery) for peanuts when this is all over.

Mind you, am shocked they didn't send a message to every Note7 urging them to get a replacement immediately, wouldn't this open them up to lawsuits (esp. in the litigious US) - just heard about a child being burned, this is a PR disaster..

Re: Numbers which have been collected without their holders' approval

If someone who has your number uses it, they've already sucked your number...

Number, name, address, email, business and any notes they've written in their contact information - which facebook now also has.

Re: Well at least

Maybe they'll come out with a USB-C health warning on the packaging - This may cause your device to explode! (not covered by warranty).

Do you feel lucky punk... well, do you?

SNAFU!

Re: Samsung v Xiaomi

My Note 4, not rooted / cyanogised has recently updated itself to Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) - so pretty up to date...

Re: Ah yes,

And how much to buy that Timberland chap for a couple of songs?

I've only got 4 devices (and don't change passwords that often), so cables work fine for me.

Personally can't wait for biometrics to finally take off properly - got a fingerprint reader on the ipad, Surface Pro and phone yet none are properly integrated into the browser, or any password apps (that I'm aware of).

Re: Hey Microsoft

part of the deal was 30gb of camera roll space on OneDrive

Probably too late now but you could apply to keep a certain amount of space that was being reclaimed (can't recall the details), but I'm keeping 25GBs plus photo roll (I think). Maybe look into it.

As for a 'few bad apples', absolute tosh, don't offer unlimited storage space, it's obvious some people are going to abuse the offer, it's fucking human nature! 15GB free storage space is astoundingly generous anyway and I doubt anyone would complain if that was bundled with O365.

You don't "own" it, you merely have a licence to use it.

And yet the record labels never sent me new albums when mine got scratched, they expected me to 'buy' another copy, or are you saying the license ends when the physical product ends, like tapes were worse than albums were worse than CDs. Buying the digital copy now means the license exists in perpetuity, was this not always the case? cause I don't recall any albums stating the license to use it was only temporary.

In fact all I can recall is that home taping is killing music which turned out to be a big fat lie.

Re: it's a backdoor, not a bug

Lenovo installed freeware on their machine that sent telemetry back to the mothership. If the user deleted the free software it would be reinstalled by the BIOS at every bootup. They were called out on it, released a BIOS upgrade to remove it then were found to be doing something similar again a few months later.

Google Superfish Lenovo.

Re: How about fixing the iPhone keyboard ?

nonsense about emojis

Just come back to the Apple fold (getting more customers coming in 'cause ios is no longer the 'just works' it used to be), time to relearn the eco system.

Was pleased to see you could finally dl a swype style keyboard (along with dire warnings about the devs being able to see everything you type on it), but its usage is spotty at best - the apple keyboard will pop up for certain passwords, no microphone on the new keyboard, I'd forgotten how constraining Apple products are.

Everything seems to be bloating too, bought a 16GB, but exchanged it for a 64GB version as you started off with 11GB, not many apps, some music and vids and poof, gone! (John Lewis FTW - allowing me to upgrade) - and now 10 sounds even worse for the bloat (and notice how many devices are not getting the upgrade).

I do love the fingerprint sensor though, and the quality of the screen...

I'd never install that Facebook shite on my phone, either - but if other people's phones have it, and if it does listen in, then it's still listening to conversations that involve me. Even if it doesn't know specifically who I am

Hey, that's my Intellectual Property you're stealing Facebook, is that even legal? I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't taken a hit out on Zuck (judging by the amount of people who don't put their phone in aeroplane mode whilst in the cinema).

Re: Sale of Goods Act 1979

Consumer Rights Act 2015 (UK)

Even if you bought the product more than 30 days ago, you are still entitled to a repair or a replacement. The retailer has one chance to make the repair. If you are still unhappy, you have a right to a refund.

This right extends to 6 months after the purchase.

Re: Workaround

some kind of dongle

It's already been cracked, dongle not required. However, the new crack now allows for pirated versions of the game to run, not the hackers original intention but the only way he could break the lock.

So, with this entire debacle Facebook have pissed off the entire VR community (I'm thinking they don't care, they have a long term plan and it doesn't involve gamers), and it's been broken already. Cue the lawyers!

Re: @kryptonaut RE: "...you won't get content..."

just as copying an MP3 removes an income stream from an artist.

This is empirically wrong.

Buying an MP3 creates an income stream for the composer - which is right and good.

Breaking into his house and stealing the original creation removes an income stream from the creator (and is both wrong and illegal).

Copying an MP3 maybe morally wrong, but doesn't that mean listening to a radio equates to the same wrongness, the creator still gets nothing and you hear a song for nothing.

Oh, and fuck advertisers!

Juniper Research has stared into its crystal ball and predicted that digital publishers stand to lose over $27bn (£18bn) by 2020 due to ad-blocking.

Juniper Research has stared up its own arsehole and pulled a completely random number (more randon than a computers random number generator), out, predicting that digital publishers stand to lose over $27bn (£18bn) by 2020 due to ad-blocking.

Re: 122GB ? Pah. Windows 10 OneDrive client ate over 200GB of my files!

3rd party OneDrive sync client

Onedrive in 8.1 was nigh on perfect but MS seemed to have fucked over their Onedrive in 10, to the point where I daren't allow the OS to sync because I don't trust it. Just curious what 3rd party app you use.

Also, Itunes has been deleting files of peoples PCs forever (plugging in an ipod where music has been mistakenly deleted would delete those songs from the itunes library).

First thing I always do is untick autosync in the options, then you control what goes where.

Re: Publishers could simply

I used to be a publisher (with a safe ads policy)

Dude, I was so with you until that last paragraph. If you don't like how the internet works (hint: it's a two way street not a passive selling medium), then you fuck off. Yes, you can open a dialogue with me as a potential customer, but don't try force feeding me your agenda. Go back to TV where people channel flick thru the ads or make coffee or surf their tablet / phone (which now Apple are happy with adblocking means advertisers are truly fucked), maybe they should try opening a dialogue because they're losing friends right, left & centre.

NOTE: Didn't downvote you, and will happily whitelist sites I frequent.

Re: The real reason

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/myst/id311941991?mt=8

http://store.steampowered.com/app/63600/ (realtime movement but with classic Myst included)

Re: Of course the movie studios/theatre chains ignore the obvious fixes...

BUILD THEATRES WITH LARGE SCREENS AGAIN

Amen to this. Luckily I live quite close to an imax (Bradford, which seems to be studio non gratis - not showing Jungle Book, doesn't always get the latest releases), but watching Interstellar there in imax format took me back to my childhood cinema days, utterly mindblowing.

The Odeon is closer but only has one (fairly) large screen (with nice sound) and that's showing the 2D version, the 3D one is in one of the smaller screens which I won't pay for, they're barely better than a decent home cinema.

Millennials are quite a large percentage of the audience, and whilst they will play with their phones up to film start, it's rare anyone will continue after the film starts, and the few that do get so much abuse from people behind them they soon turn it off...

Re: Non-cloudy thinking

I love having my precious collection all on a single point of failure

What, like paper? Fahrenheit 451 - just saying...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

just tried this from the UK

Are you on the MS UK site? Mine's been dispatched, no problem with needing to input a state.

It's kind'a nice actually, means I can keep the 'good' one in a bag and the dodgy one in the office (only ever plugged in when I'm there and the cable has always been stretched out), the bloody things cost £60!

Re: It's their own fault

The real reason sales are slowing is that there's been no great "must have" innovation in the last few years.

Bingo. Bought my Nexus5 at release, Oct '13, and, apart from fingerprint reader (which I'm sorry, but not paying £500 for just that), there's been little of interest. Maybe a wearable comms badge (ala Star Trek - no separate phone tho, just a tiny bluetooth headset and foldable plastic pocket screen <TM>) would generate some interest, but my Nexus5 is still fast enough, with good battery life and a gorgeous screen.

Gadget lust wise tho', it's alive and well, watching with interest the VR stuff coming down the line.

Re: The future in now, the future is PAYG

Just reinstall Windows 7 and Office 2007 (or, you know, Ubuntu, for the ultimate in security), tho for the ultra paranoid there's...

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 (the one I use), &

http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/donotspy10_the_first_ever_anti_spy_tool_for_windows_10.html

https://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/pin/1004/security-software/Antispy-for-Windows-10