Re: What about a fixed version of 8?

Hehe, calm down penguinistas, Secure Boot is a good idea.

Re: What about a fixed version of 8?

Erm, Refresh and Reset? Secure Boot? Windows-To-Go? ELAM?

I never mentioned compatibility, but that's always a problem with a refresh cycle :)

But carry on ranting...

Re: What about a fixed version of 8?

While I agree with you on the subject of needing to install additional software to provide a similar GUI experience to Windows 7, Windows 8 IS NOT Windows 7 and there are some real benefits to the Windows 8 operating system over Windows 7.

Re: Its nice (in a borat voice), but 99.9% ...

Not sure about the office you work in, but most offices I work in experience at least 4 hours downtime every Friday.

'These are well-paid gigs. Contrast this with the lot of the creator, who makes the stuff that Justified Bloke downloads for free. 80 per cent of musicians in the UK earn less than £10,000 a year, while 95 per cent of songwriters and composers earn less than £15,000 in royalty income.'

Except that ABC1 bloke isn't taking bread off the tables of the aforementioned artists, he's taking bread off the table of the multi-millon dollar music executives and spoilt, air-theiving, prima donnas.

Re: Aww poor Lehmans

Well if people will gamble their money...

Some of us can't put enough food on the table.

Re: Was there a Demo version?

Indeed, worked extremely well for iD software.

The demo for Q2, allowed you to play online too.

How ironic then, that that software house (iD), is one of the most successful and one of the first to embrace user generated content and open-sourcing.

Most true gamers, will always buy their games, because they understand the work that went in to making the game and feel genuine pleasure playing the game.

Pirates do it just because they can and more than likely stop playing their pirated game 3 days after installing it, so it's really not a lost sale (unless your business model is based on people only playing your game for 3 days).

Re: No

If speed = 0 AND occupancy = 0, disallow ignition until update complete.

Re: Still no good with custom firmware and locked bootloaders

Sorry, but that's Sony's fault for cripling the handset on purpose by providing NotQuiteEnough™ memory, or yours for not evaluating the options (though that's harsh and I prefer to blame Sony)

Re: Gold is mined out of the ground.

Both of which pale into insignificance when compared to ASICs.

It's an arms race based on GH/KWH and therefore, those that have the money to buy custom-built ASIC farms, have the very real advantage. Perhaps the only chance as an independent prospector is to group buy ASIC or join a pool.

As sad as it is, the money goes to the money and therefore Bitcoin investment is no different to any other, however, unregulated currency distribution is novel and exciting, if only to see how the established institutions deal with it.

Re: @Gordon

How ironic then, that you just did :)

Re: The speed.

You were doing it wrong!

I could complete World 1 1-4 holding B permanently. and it was far from pedestrian.

Sonic was slick and fun too, especially if you finished with 100 rings.

Re: Haters gonna hate

That would do some flashing, brightening and colouring, yes, but I was going for no scroll prompt :)

Re: Haters gonna hate

20 POKE 23692,255

30 GOTO 10

Yes I agree, 'cos that would hasten their demise!

Keep the downvotes coming, I'm going for a record, c'mon, please?

If I say I hate BT with a passion, will you downvote me?

Re: "I'll be dancing on the grave of optical drives"

You misunderstand, I grew up with consoles that used far more reliable ROM than shitty plastic discs that like to delaminate and suffer from many other issues if not treated with kid gloves. I am not pro cloud.

We have large capacity flash memory cards and I personally have had a decent RAID6 card for the last 5 years at home.

So for me, the optical disc thing, particularly with game consoles was a huge step backwards.

One example, my son's Force Unleashed delaminated within 2 months and Microsoft wanted £20 to replace it.

So...give me back solid state ROM, please! I still have ROM cartridges from 'consoles' as far back as my ZX Spectrum that are in perfect working order! Where's my choice to have that?

Re: I'm still using Office 2000

So many fail arguments and analogies, how old is your car? and therefore the software in your car?

How old is your phone? Your set top box? Your operating system? Your TV?

You can argue it around all you like, but buying Microsoft Office once or twice a decade is really no big deal when you examine it honestly!

Money goes around, deal with it lol, we're all money movers. Microsoft employ people and when we buy stuff from them, they pay people and then those people buy things from Tesco, who pay their people, it's a blindingly simple concept.

I've just realised I'm starting to understand the word freetard lol

Re: Tablets - Google, Android partners and Apple clean up. MS and Nokia lose.

You may be partly right, but I still want a Surface Pro!

I have resisted tablets for one simple reason, it's a coffee tabletop device and until very recently has been wildly overpriced. The Surface Pro, however is an Intel Core device with a seriously hefty kick (HD4000) and runs a grown up OS which will let me do more than consume media.

The only thing that has the potential to compete with Surface Pro IMO is services like OnLive Desktop, however, even that isn't going to let me play Battlefield 3 on a train.

You are the one that tried to bring comparisons between the Nexus 7 and Surface Pro, remember! Totally different markets, similar form factors.

Re: I'm still using Office 2000

Well, considering you two tightwads are still using a version from 13 years ago, what choice do Microsoft have?

What would you like them do do? Keep patching Office 2000 ad infinitum and have no money for research and development?

I expect downvotes for this, but seriously, they gave you a decent Office product 13 years ago, it wouldn't hurt to buy a new copy would it?

Thank fuck I'm not in the software business.

Re: More R+D in China

Not sure I know anyone who thinks like that. I just hope the Chinese become the next superpower using economy, rather than war. Presumably this research is for their own protection in case the USA won't go down without a fight.

For the record, I'm a global citizen with interstellar potential, so have no allegiance to any particular form of governance.

Re: A few questions

On demand TV, cloud hosted media libraries, remote working. clustered computing projects like SETI and Folding, bandwidth for the ever increasing number of devices in the home or office that use it, lower latency, less reliability issues......

It's obvious to me, that replacing ancient cabling, in some places aluminium, with glass is the way forward.

Hell, Japan, most of Scandinavia and a large part of Europe already have this. Some of them have had for ages.

Thanks for following up, a bit late to say so now maybe, but thanks anyway.

Re: A few questions

1 640K is more memory than anyone will ever need

2 It scales, doesn't it, when you upgrade infrastructure, you do the whole lot.

3 see 1

Re: Brand new PC?

Or just go here?

UK link for Windows 8

Maybe that's been 'overlooked' :)

All I can say to that, is man up!

I spent 18 months pulling cable at T5, sometimes in the snow, on an airfield, and you know what, that kind of work is good for the soul sometimes.

If we're going to compete with the chinese, we're going to have to re-evaluate your kind of attitude!

Openreach should have become a public instrument when BT were forced to fracture. Then the cost/benefit calculations would be ours and not in the hands of parasitic profit seekers.

Re: It's not all good though

You feeling lucky? :)