Posts by TeeCee

Memristor is dead - edged off the table by XPoint.

"Hmm, if HP ever get this Memristor stuff out, that ocean of cash we've hosed over XPoint will be wasted. Call HP and tell 'em they can go whistle for Itanium updates if this ain't killed now."

Get knotted.

We do real democracy in this country, not Eurodemocracy (tm).

We live with the result, we do not keep holding votes until the proles vote the "right" way, as defined by bien pensant soft-left arseholes.

I have to say that "We don't like the majority view, let's not only have another vote but also change the rules to ensure it goes our way" is a new low for Those Who Know Best.

The problem, though, is lack of third-party applications.

Hmm. In the corporate world, that could be considered a plus. Having your users unable to install "unapproved" applications, rather than continually stomping on the ways they've found of doing so, could save effort.

Next week....

......ultraconvergence will be the new black.

Then we've got a load of neologisms for superlatives to look forward to.

Rant?

Rant away about the "EUSSR".......

I'm not entirely convinced that's a rant. It's got a PolitburoCommission of appointed cronies surrounded by their toadies that wields all the real power and stamps on anyone or anything that threatens it. It has a DumaParliament that exists only to rubber-stamp its superiors' decisions while its members draw a "greedy banker" style salary and benefits package to ensure they STFU and toe the line.

It also has a secret police forcesomething called "Eurojust" to step on any journalists, auditors or anyone with a sense of decency who get close to the truth and destroy any vile bourgeois recidivist liesevidence while they're at it.

The resemblance is actually uncanny, to the extent that I reckon anyone who hasn't spotted that the EU is hell-bent on becoming a totalitarian oligarchy must be blind, stupid or both.

... was fined £300, ordered to pay £405.98 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

...and if the contacts weren't worth at least a grand to you, you wouldn't have bothered snaffling them in the first place.

Of course not.

Lizards have two dicks, so they're twice the wanker he is.

Clippy

I see you're trying to piss a fuckton of money up the wall. Would you like help with that?

Swings and Roundabouts.

Of course, were it not for the EU they'd be allowed to prominently stamp "Made in Cornwall" on the packaging of real Cornish pasties. Before anyone says anything here, stamping such on something that came from elsewhere would fall foul of a variety of legislation that's been around since forever.

The EU does not allow origin discrimination of that nature on goods, hence the need for the "protected origin" scheme and the roomfuls of bureaucrats to administer it.

Or in other words, this is a typical EU bureaucratic solution to a problem entirely caused by, er, EU bureaucracy.

Let me fix that:

....at the mercy of your manufacturer and phone carrier to approve and distribute these updates, which may take some timeis never going to happen.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. With the notable exception of the Nexus devices, you'll get one OS version upgrade. Two if you are very, very lucky. Security patches? Yeah......right........good luck with that.

Why the lawyers?

Surely it's cheaper to hire some no-questions-asked type to blow the useless, parasitic little shit's brains out?

I always think that if more people actually did this, these problems just wouldn't exist. At all.

Concern?

Reports that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts have been hacked should concern us all.

Well it made me laugh like a drain.......does that count?

So.

You can't change anything yourself.

There are no third-party apps for it.

It's makers handle all the updates, over which you have no control.

There are no games for it.

Surely the Windows Phone market is now so small it's not worth launching a competitor?