I'm no conspiracist but....

How do you know that the off switch really switches the phone off?

Not even that much

Shareholders demand a return - the only other question is the term they are willing to wait.

Yeah right

Cos 38 on Fortune 500 - thats the epitomy of getting nowhere.

Data mining could be deprioritised if there was bigger money to chase going after a large subscriber base. More likely is that it would become part of the deal with different subscription levels based on degrees of data access. There would likely even remain free de-featured entry level products - try before you buy stuff.

One thing is for sure - monetization of the click is going to increase somehow cos there's been a lot of money gone into the web and someone is going to start demanding a return soon. The problem is going to be that this has to take place against a general global recession (soon to be a depression maybe?).

What will be interesting to watch will be the way FB develops after its IPO and the accountants start to increase their sway at the expense of the idealists.

Not just Skype

But social networking, self-reinforcing cliques and wilfully ignorant fanbois. Brilliant book.

User fail

If your drive letters are moving around, you can't read the DVD name and your AV slows your system the problem isn't with the OS - you are doing something perverted to your PC.

AKA

Never argue with an idiot - he'll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience

QE is inevitable

Just as the crash of the Euro (and the dollar) was inevitable.

And it is not the banks you should be blaming but the politicians who built the system - all the banks did was operate the way they were encouraged to by successive generations of vote-buying politicians.

QE by the ECB shouldn't have been necessary - according to the theory. All the Euro countries were going to live within the strict parameters set down and take early measures to address any breaches of those parameters - there were even penalties to be imposed to force compliance. However, economic management theories produced by crats and accountants never survive long in the real world.

Unfortunately the whole show was being run by a bunch of people who were so tied to the Euro project being seen to succeed that they ignored all their own rules because they simply couldn't work - Greece (and almost certainly Ireland and Portugal) could never have complied with the original (or revised) rules for the Euro zone, Spain would always be borderline - a monkey with an abacus could have calculated that - the scaling made every day a toss of the coin for these small economies and their desperate need for growth gave them a vastly disproportionate exposure to bad debt.

The parameters for action over inflation, indebtedness etc became fuzzy targets and those very clever people in Euopean finance ministries forgot that economic trending amongst a bunch of countries with lots in common would multiply the effect of breaching those parameters - like everyone rushing to starboard at the same time - and the small fry would always fall first - Greece could have been as prudent as you like for the last hundred years and it wouldn't have made any difference at all - they'd still be bust today.

Being all smug about the pound isn't clever either - and all this talk about "european firewalls" and stopping the spread of contagion is childish nonsense designed to protect UK politicians butts. We are just as exposed as the rest of the Eurozone because the big debt is now on Europe and we don't have the ability (will?) to force our solution down everyone elses throats like the yanks do.

The failure of Bretton Woods to agree a proper balancing mechanism was the fault of wussy Brit and French pols not standing up to Uncle Sam. For many decades the third world paid that price. Now we are having to suffer a bit of the pain ourselves and it is again wussy euro politicians who are going to see us come out of this with a "solution" which sows the seeds of the next disaster - i.e. WorldBanking 2.0 - "get your Chinese credit cards here".

QE is going to happen when the europols realise that the IMF and World Bank will allow europe to do it just like it let the US do it. The UK should get the printing presses going right now. As for Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland - let em bail. The last time the world tried to get blood out of a european stone we got nazis and WWII.

I may be mistaken

But from my (somewhat hazy) recollection of my boozing days all the best publicans used to chuck out the phone crowd. I simply cannot imagine the Cheese plus phones and sans smokers.

Smoking icon of course

Yeah - I remember that

That naive distinction they made between dealers and pushers

If the Wolf was around today they'd be iTards

Are you on something?

From what I could get out of that ramble it looks like you need to f8-reinstall and stop doing bad things with your pc.

Another one for the list

Front wheel drive - another crime committed by the french against the automotive industry

Nothing like an easy target

Those unions eh - whats the latest list?

Coal mining industry

Steel industry

Railway industry

And lets not forget the "spanish practices" which destroyed our traditional newspaper industry.

All destroyed by a bunch of working class lads. You would have thought the revolution would have come by now with such an ability concentrated in the hands of a few thousand people.

Try reading beyond the Daily Mail headlines. Piss-poor political management, a lack of long term strategic thinking and operational practices determined by accountants - that's the enemy.

But you just keep on taking the easy shots and sleep soundly knowing that you have an enemy that you can put a face on.

Me - I'd put my trust in pure luck before I'd trust a purely programmatic approach to complex, dangerous operations.

Try again

Very few rootkits are kernel mode

And if you do have one of those this system would actually do you a favour by treating a kernel mode rootkit as a corrupted MBR and forcing you to replace it before you could run the OS.

I am fairly confident that the implementations will be able to fail properly after a corrupted MBR is detected - after all - corrupted or missing MBR isn't exactly new.

let me fix that

Customer starts pc the next day and it ignores the unsigned code.

Investigated by Ofcom?

In the words of Denis Healey

That's like being savaged by a dead sheep

Oh the ironing

Re windows training

Had terrible problems with my HTPC setup. Hardware conflicts, failure to resume, empty recordings. Tried all sorts of solutions. Various OSes and apps.

What worked?

Vista (with GBPVR)

Continuous up time now at about 9 months - never missed a beat.

So there is at least one useful installation of Vista in the world.

T/T2 not the point

The point is S which I am sure the reviewer would have mentioned no matter how bare boned a review.

And why do you assume that the products do a lot more than the reviewer has mentioned? Are you referring to the long list of things like "EPG, remote control, power on light etc" which manufacturers of shoddy crap like to include to distract us from the fact that it's shoddy crap? Or are you aware of some actual useful feature that the reviewer has failed to mention?