Posts by dogged

Re: Java - banned. Can I ban Flash yet?

Where I work, the ITOps department in its undoubted wisdom has allowed the use of Flash but required admin permission to get the bloody auto-upgrade to run.

/facepalm

> When I can get a FitBit/Fuelband style tracker that is as rugged as my G-shock, has the world time zones, stopwatch and timer, is properly water and shock proof (so I can wear it swimming / surfing etc), and does all the pedometer, fitness style stuff (preferably with wireless charge so it can charge off a pad on my bedside table at night) then I'll definitely buy one, but at the moment there isn't a single "watch" device which does it all.

Actually, there is (or soon will be).

I don't much like the way it looks, sadly, but it is all you have asked for.

Re: Surprise!

You need to start dropping this little gem into some of the Snowden/NSA articles.

It has relevance.

> The Revenue try to close down loopholes, but the number of tax inspectors has been dramatically cut in the last few years leaving them helpless in the face of large numbers of rich accountancy firms that themselves exploit things like LLPs.

Bollocks. The Revenue don't give a shit if you're rich. They're too busy trying to extract more money from the poor because there are more poor people to tax and they can't afford lawyers and accountants.

Re: Hmmm

Oh come on, Trevor. You can see it all over the place.

Chromebooks rise to a 4% share of laptops sold in a quarter?

>CHROMEBOOKS RULE THE WORLD WINDOWS IS DEAD LOL

[Mobile handset manufacturer of choice] is failing?

>SHOULD HAVE GONE WITH ANDROID LOL

(This one amuses me especially because HTC did in fact go with Android. HTC get blame for not going "pure" Android and sullying its perfection with SenseUI because obviously, Android in its pure form must always be profitable).

About the only two Google products that don't get squirted with commentard jizz every time they're mentioned are Google+ and Glass.

And don't ever suggest that Google are datamining you, that their whole business model is datamining you and always has been. These people think Google are somehow "on their side".

I don't think any of the bastards are on my side and I refute your "lesser evil" argument. Google are the greatest evil right now. Google made all this NSA bullshit possible and still make money from it.

Re: Nice to see...

"How nice to see my monthly NI contributions being pissed away by the NHS's army of management imbeciles"

FTFY.

Re: Obvious?

Careful. That kind of logical thinking could get you barred from the fanboy gangs that roam the Reg's comment boards.

Re: Star Wars: Episode VII

Not really. You're now old enough to want more from a film than you did when you were seven is all.

It's not that the prequels weren't bad - they were terrible. But objectively, they're not any worse than the original trilogy. I made the mistake of watching that recently and discovered that Star Wars is the single most awesome thing in the world if you're seven and a predictable dreary bag of crap if you're not.

Re: MS long term plan

> Step 1 - Introduce an Android platform but use MS locked in instead of Google

Because MS lock-in is sooooooo much worse than Google lock-in.

Re: I'm all for this stuff...

> others just need Linux support adding

Oh, is that all? I'm sure they can do that a spare five minutes /s

Re: Microsoft beat them to it

Uses entirely unrelated story to post retarded Microsoft joke.

You have qualified as 33% Eadon.

Next all you need to do is claim absolute godlike security architecture genius while having a massively pwned website that looks like somebody puked five rolls of Spangles over Neil Gaiman and get banned.

I'm looking forward to the last bit.

Re: "In memory" database.

Not sure if serious...

Re: Here's more sensible analysis...

>the lizard people took it back to their masonic lodge to run transhumanist experiments. it's so obvious.

Dammit, I don't know of an image macro for that one.

Re: Who sued who?

>I'll just leave this here:

>http://friends.lego.com/en-us/

Bloody hellfire, AC! Is nothing sacred? Is nothing immune to dickwads from marketing and their obsession with pink?

Fine! Meccano, then!

Re: @Steve : Microsoft system requirements, really ?

> Please. Everybody knows that Microsoft system requirements are the minimum resources needed to BOOT a PC, not USE it.

As with so many things that "everyone knows", this is wrong.

I actually had an ExoPC tablet (eventually the cat knocked it off the table and the screen shattered but there you go) with a 32GB HDD, an Atom chip and 1GB of RAM. Basically a netbook with no keyboard.

It ran Win7 like molasses but Win8 ran really well on it.

Bloody cat.

Re: $135 for what?

> People are going to find it hard justifying the best part of a grand on an unproven product that will be out of date or abandoned within a year - that actually has no return of investment, and a potentially low re-sell price!

Yeah, but they say all of that about iPads except for the resale price. There are always more fanbois to sell to.

Re: What about Apple's rights?

I do not hold the views explained below.

I imagine that Apple would argue that their refusal to stock such a book leads to increased sales among prudes and morons and nobody ever lost money by overestimating the intelligence of the public. This kind of publicity for their decisions is therefore (to Apple) useful and very cheap marketing.

Re: He;s right - but MS etc won't give up the money from NSA

Where's the AC with his cut&paste Microsoft security troll when you need him?

You dullard.

Re: Charges for premium features?

Not really. The home user is unlikely to want to integrate OneNote with Sharepoint or Lync.

Re: Moderation

@Psyx

To quote my favourite character from A Game of Thrones - "there's no cure for being a cunt". But there is a cure for having to watch other people be cunts to some poor old bloke who just wants to be left alone.

And you know what? If he did invent Bitcoins, it'd be a "so what" situation anyway. He's broke. It's not like there's anything to be jealous of unless you think being skint and recovering from a stroke is like totally rad and awesome.

As far as I can see, an ordinary member of the public who hasn't bothered anyone is being insulted for absolutely no reason other than that some people are cunts.

Personally, I'd ban 'em all.

Re: Regarding shock invective beginning with "cu-"

"cunted"

Actually the name of a sort-of-cocktail invented by Jim.

Half a pint of dry cider, a double JD and a bottle of melon Bacardi Breezer.

The problem with it is, you only really order one when you're drunk enough to think it's a good idea. Afterwards you're too, well, cunted to remember what a bad idea it was.

Tastes nice, though.

@ MacGyver

This is not about whether you like the OS or about whether "the average consumer" would be able to do as I've described.

It's about whether the Met's admins can set up a Win8 profile that looks and behaves exactly like an XP profile.

And the truth is, yes. They can. It doesn't even take long. Rant about Win8 somewhere else if that's all you want to do; your dislikes are not relevant to this discussion.