Posts by kevin biswas
144 posts • joined Wednesday 11th June 2008 04:40 GMT
Opera's share seems have gone negative...
And what happened to poor old Firefox ? My best guess is that everyone got sick of a new version breaking all their plugins every 3 weeks.
Re: I am surprised by how LOW the rate of co-operation is.
I dislike much or perhaps even most of what government and police do and stand for. But hate it or loathe it, it is an undisputable fact that if you defy them they will go out of their way to ***k you up, and they have the full resources of the state behind them to do that with. That is a realpolitik fact which people and organizations have no choice but to deal with. Given that context, it seems to me reassuring that the VAST MAJORITY of requests for users data etc are rejected. Does anyone really expect microsoft to give the man the finger like the pirate party, lulz sec or anonymous might do ? So clearly they have to strike a balance. And the fact that the balance is vastly in favour of their users is , to my mind, a good thing. I am certain that in china the scales would be tipped far over the other way.
I am surprised by how LOW the rate of co-operation is.
So 87% to 99% of data requests from law enforcement agencies are DENIED. I cant decide if it reassuring to know they try so hard to protect their users, or alarming that they give so little help to the plods. Or is it conceivable that they might actually be getting the balance right ? nah, thought not.........
Re: @AC 13:24 Bad Firmware!
That might be an unfortunate but valid notion in tablets and smartphones but standard PC's are supposed to be just that. Standard, and capable of running any PC OS.
Re: The netbook wasn't all that new an idea.
True. But the innovation was to make it half the cost of a full-size notebook instead of triple the cost. I bought the first 7" eeeeepc the moment it became available as I had been lusting for a libretto for years beforehand but couldn't afford one.
Putting the CON back into CONtract
What sort of contract is it where one party can change the terms at will and the other has to suck it up ?
More sense in Bangladesh
Bangladesh also has a fairly strongly enforced VOIP ban to protect the govt telco but the ban applies only to people providing unlicensed commercial call termination facilities and similar. There is no restriction on use of normal end-user products like skype.
weeping lawyers
Won't someone think of the poor musicians ! wont someone think of the poor sound engineers ! All conveniently forgetting to mention that the artists only get a pittance and the suits and their lawyers get to keep the lions share,
It's so clearly a turd
that they couldnt even be bothered to TRY polishing it :-(
Same sides of the same coin
It is easier for me to imagine a world where copyright is harshly enforced by content cartels bristling with lawyers etc but your privacy is non existent and everything you do is snooped on by advertisers, governemnt censors and software spooks. The content cartels are doing their best to cozy up with government anyway so they can push their agenda with the powers of the state (AND at taxpayers expense).Seems to me the 2 issues are the same side of the same coin, and it is heads down in the mud getting the boot on the tail.
Hmm
But if I have advertising plastered all over my tee shirt far from being paid I still have to pay for the tee shirt. No fair.
Re: "even a full reset might not lose much data"
Yeah. System Restore and System Recovery and that thing with the Recovery Partition all sound much the same, dont they.
Re: When will Intel announce
Meh. Someone will come up with a 10 meg bit of freeware which sorts it out if MS insist on not giving a 'classic' UI option.
Re: Everyother one
Nah, that doesnt quite work as ME was *not* NT based. ME was a kind of Win 98 third edition, the last dying gasp of the DOS based Old Technology. XP was an enhancement (if you will) from win 2000 and the older NT-based systems.
As I see it, In the Old Technology lineup
3.11: Fair for its time. I suppose.
95: Remarkably good considering how revolutionaty and bleeding edge it was.
98 1st edition: Bloody Awful. Second worst windows ever.
98: 2nd edition: Fair, tending towards pretty good but not *quite* getting there.
ME: Fair, tending towards poor.
No DOS based OS was ever that good (Including DOS itself) so i can't quite call even 98SE good. And yup, I never actually *hated* ME like I hated 981E and Vista SP0.
So in the New Technology Lineup
NT3: Never even seen it.
NT4: Never actually used it in earnest.
Win 2K Very Good (I dont recall the granular differences between the SP versions).
XP SP0 Good
XP SP1 Good
XP SP2 Good
XP SP3 Very Good
Vista SP0 Appaling beyong measure.
Vista SP1 Poor
Vista SP2 Fair (barely)
Windows 7 SP1 Excellent
Windows 7 SP2 Excellent
Windows 8 Consumer Preview (on a tablet) Good
Windows 8 Consumer Preview (on a desktop) LOL, wut ?
Posted in Official: Sony and Ericsson are divorced
Re: :-(
Yeah, I dont really like the smartphone form factor. Too big, power hungry and fragile to be a good phone or mucic player. Too small and fiddly to be a good computer. Generally second rate as a camera. Smartphones are the jack of all trades but master of none.
Yeah, I kind of agree.
But then again I wonder how many Gmail users keep an offline copy of their emails ? And if the answer is 'not many', then what is the difference between trusting megaupload with your photos and trusting google with your emails ?
Why is android an utter fail ?
I dont get it.
Always hated it anyway
I hate WPS for another reason. Half my users think their operating system is Microsoft 2007. To give them a fine distinction between a 'WPS pin' and a 'WPA password' to deal with (and a whole different lot of associated dialogue boxes to navigate) is just asking for trouble. Aren't they confused enough (and aren't I busy enough) already ?
Posted in Ex-Microsofties' IE6 kill squad hits UK
Two-thirds of business PCs still run Windows XP.
Microsoft's chief operating officer Kevin Turner called Windows XP and IE6 "dead".
Hmmm. I am getting a mixed picture here.
What, just like they gave everyone who bought Win98 free u/g to win98SE ??
Oh yeah, they didn't do that either.
Whilst I appreciate your point
I picked up a core2 duo desktop pc and a bit of extra ram from 'bay for my mum to run windows 7 on for about £60. That is hardly a deal breaker, is it ? But if I did not have a spare 7 licence from work to use then the cost of a retail Win 7 probably *would* have been a deal breaker.
Posted in Is Facebook worth more than Google?
I will believe it when.......
I suddenly have to start paying $5/user/month if my office has over 10 users like I do for google apps nowadays.
Posted in Booze for wrinklies: Good or bad?
My mate
Is an ancient, wierd and wonderful hippy artist chap who reckons a bottle of wine over an evening counts as a night off the serious boozing. His bus-pass means he can discreetly sell dope to selected clients with zero transport costs and he has no aversion to the occasional nasal application of white powders when the opportunity presents. He is a damn sight more cheerful than most other 65 year olds I meet.
If humans stop hunting unicorns...
how can we harvest their blood to make printer ink ???
HM Govt in 'bunch of lying bastards' shock.
Whod'a thunk it, eh ?
The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it......
Might need a wikiDNS or somthing soon
This makes no sense.
*Outside* the rule of law perhaps this kind of situation would usually be handled by an extraordinary rendition or an unfortunate 'accident' of some kind, but because Assange is a high profile white guy that option may be closed.
But *under* the rule of law this grand jury and whatnot is just silly because it kind of implies that any government has jurestiction anywhere in the world for any supposed crime comitted anywhere in the world. That would set a precident which should worry the hell out of Bush, Cheyney, Union Carbide, Halliburton, Blackwater, BAE Systems and a hundred thousand other individuals and corporations all over the world. Maybe they think they can strongarm the Swedes and the Brits to play along this once but it seems equally likely this grand jury are just huffing and puffing and making a lot of noise and hot air for their own satisfaction.
Which AV do you recommend, then
? I do agree that AVG is crap nowadays.
Posted in UK.gov plans net censor service
Easy.
Everything except .gov sites are banned. Any questions or problems ? Didnt think so. Next !!!!!
I do not think I will ever need Chinese in my lifetime...
Dunno. They are a pretty ambitious bunch.
Followed by...
...Papal catholicism at 10.
Why have a web enabled toaster..
When you can buy toast online from Boyds Toast !!! http://boydstoast.com/
Dont make me choose !
Greedy corporate b***ards vs batshit crazy "augmented humanity" enthusiasts ? Might be time to p-p-pick up a penguin.
Posted in How do you copy 60m files?
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
Is great too.
http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29
Posted in Intel trials downloadable CPU upgrades
As the proud owner of a Reliant Robin
I take umbrage at your post
Mobile telcos are all scumbags
And there is no way I would ever give any of them my bank details or a signiture on a contract. PAYG all the way for me.
Anything that got me out of bed at 5am
Would be an "If you have to ask the price, then you probably can't afford it" deal
Posted in Bye-bye to bizarro bye-laws, says UK.gov
As soon as I saw the story in the UK media I thought
HA ! it's *clearly* a a charter for busybodies and control freaks to regulate the minutiae of our everyday lives. Anyone who knows anything about most local government types knows they are generally petty tyrants who make the late and unlamented Jaqui Smith look reasonable and sane.
And amazingly enough
It will still work out as a bad deal.
stuff that....
PAYG all the way for me. Would I give those kind of f**kers my signature and my bank details ? No way not never.
Maybe they could flog their hardware as
"licenced, but not sold".
As an aside, I can't imagine what anyone sees in their overpriced, low-quality, non-repairable products. It seems pretty clear to me they are a bunch of evil corporate jerks.
Well, at least they didnt buy...
Norton/Symantec
Sounds like someone forgot...
..to take their haloperidol this morning.
Posted in Council staff breach DWP database
Tip of the iceberg.
Dont they mean 124 council employees *known* to have illicitly viewed personal data ? Surely the ones who get caught will be the merest tip of the iceberg.
Posted in ASA: You can't say 'f**k'
unsolicited bulk mail...
Of ANY kind more or less DEFINES 'serious or widespread offence' as far as I am concerned, irrespesctive of whether they ****ing well ***k or not.
Everyone knows that a radiation from a phone could never damage health
Unless the antenna were designed by a complete bumbling amauter. And of course, Apple are known worldwide for their exceptional antenna design, yes ?
dubs Windows Phone 7 *what* ???
Not on my watch........
