Re: What Don't People Get?

Like many people I've not seen the point of the chromebook, or perhaps more honestly I've just not liked the idea of it. However if instead I think of it as kind of a wireless x-terminal equivalent then around a corporation it could make a lot of sense, especially if it spent most of it's time connected to company servers.

Certainly useful as mentioned above, when the 'data-protection-rules-don't-apply-to-me' CEO leaves it on the train...

Re: Adobe Reader

As far as I can tell FoxIt is rapidly turning into a bloated mess also :-( The last straw was upgrading to the latest version recently to discover that they've removed the ability to stop PDFs opening in a browser. [I have to use a mix of IE and other browsers]. Irrationally or otherwise I truly hate opening PDFs in the browser and always use a separate app.. Also I was getting fed up of re-turning off Javascript etc every time I updated it. As mentioned above - it's just frikkin PDF display software that I want - display, zoom, print. That's It. Oh, and not be a 30+Mb download and a monster memory hog too.. Too much to ask it seems.

Bye Bye FoxIt, it's been fun ;-(

Re: HOW DARE YOU!

R Tape loading error, 0:1

Re: 15 million more androids

Well I thought it was funny (and I'm one of the '300' ;-)

Re: Penetrator

Penetrator was awesome and I wasted many hours on that as a spotty yoof. Now I'm happily watching a youtube vid and remembering all the sound effects and startup music :-)

Re: Returning for a full refund I could imagine...

Quite. My first thought was "well why didn't he just take / send it back then?

Oh, greed that's why.

Re: Was the vulture logo created by a jiffics artist on jiff paper?

CICS was definitely pronounced 'kicks' when I went for a job at Hursley in the 90's. Although, as I sat waiting for my interview, I witnessed a large high-level meeting where they were trying to decide whether to put 'cubes' or 'rings' in the urinals... so I'm quite glad I didn't get the job ;-). Nice house tho.

Oh, and for the record I have only ever heard/used the hard G GIF pronunciation.

Hmm, time for a google map to work out the patterns methinks :-)

Re: In the meantime...

Awsome, thanks :-) I will now use the mobile site in preference to the main site on my desktop PC. The main site, like most most modern websites has been designed by someone who only uses their browser full screen on their 27" iMac and assumes everyone else will do the same. I've just checked the mobile site and that DOES reformat text as you make the window smaller, rather than just sticking scroll bars on the edges like wot the main site does.

Don't make me think, dammit!!! ;-)

Re: The Repuglican was...

More likely worried about them discovering it when they recover data from the disks ;-)

"internet sharing" was introduced in the recent update on my 710.

Just tested it out and it seems to work fine. Allows up to 5 devices to be connected at once.

Re: Physical buttons rule!

Indeed. I''m glad I have the 710 - I see none of the lag the article complains about, and have no issues with unintended button pressing. The main gripe for me is locked down contact management - no I don't want to see _all_ my fb/linkedin contact's birthdays on my calendar thanks. Plus, max 20 contacts in a group!?! WTF? And Zune on the PC blows goats of course.

Re: Fond memories!

I have memories of SunTools on SunOS, from the early 90's. I think that pre-dated CDE? It certainly looks more like what I remember DEC ULTRIX workstations of the same era using. Ohhh. now I want a circular mouse with those offset wheels underneath :-D

Cheers,

Re: "Can the robot arm do ctrl-alt-delete?"

Is it just me that immediately got an image of the scutters from Red Dwarf at this point? Yes, oh well never mind then ;-)

Re: PC sales decline is based on longivity of hardware.

Hit the nail on the head there. Unless you're gaming or performing some computationally intensive tasks, there's usually no need to constantly renew hardware. My old P4 still does sterling service as a general use PC with upgraded RAM and disk (it's not quite Triggers Broom - yet ;-). I'll buy a new one only when needed.

That's not to say I don't *want* the latest whizzy hardware of course - just that until it blows up or my needs change, the old stuff does perfectly well :-)

Re: Valuable stuff?

10 Million for 225 Kg is not cheap by any means, it's a rip-off!

Yeah, even Easy Jet don't charge THAT much!

;-)

Re: Nokia

Anyone who buys a Windows phone in the next 9 months or so will either be in a dead end, or early adopters trap,

Only if you care about having the latest shiny shiny. The lumias are pretty good phones - I'm happy enough with my 710. I had my previous PalmOS phone for 4 years and that was obsolete when I got it. So what? It did what I needed at the time.

I'm not bothered that the 710 won't get the latest whizz-bang features. It has niggles, sure. But then so did every iPhone/Blackberry/Android/etc device I ever looked at. *shrugs*

Although..... Zune. That blows goats for sure. I think Microsoft saw early versions of iTunes for Windows and thought: "aha! We can do *far* worse than that!" ;-)

There I fixed it for you

Clueless managers have been spewing massive, wasted print jobs for decades.

Re: Metro is awful for touch

I have a Lumia 710 (much cheaper than the 800 for the loss of nothing that I care about)

<AOL> Hummed and haa'd over the 800, played with both in CPW, decided to go for the 710 and haven't regretted it.

And as !Spartacus said, the cursor placement isn't a problem once you understand how it works.

Re: Curious

It does according to the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 country codes that the UKBA require to be used when we're telling them about overseas students... (It's XXT if you're interested - sounds a bit made-up-at-the-last-minute to me.).

Then again, the UKBA only recognise the FCO's approved list of 200ish 'passport issuing' countries. Maybe they all use iThings there ;-)

Re: @OzBob

Linus only wrote the kernel, mind you, and it takes a lot more than just a kernel to have a working OS. The whole GNU stack, for example.

Then there's the small matter of Andrew Tanenbaum and Minix of course... I still have that book :)

Re: Emacs?

Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.

Oh, happy days. ELIZA, where are you now? ;-)

Re: While we are on the subject...

I gave up and adblocked the notification message instead...

What filter did you use? I am sick of the thing coming up every_fucking_page of the site despite me clearing out cookies and allowing them for el reg. I'm sick of the damn thing. A plague of boils 'pon your web monkey's wotsits, Reg!!!