Posts by Martin 47

Frankly I'm surprised that anyone is surprised that a Chinese owned or controlled company would do this.

Just the same as I would be surprised if anyone would be surprised if an USA owned or controlled company was doing the same.

It is feared any extra import charges on electronics coming into the US from China will be passed on to customers

Well doh! No shit Sherlock

Of course the end consumer pays for the tariffs, wonder if the EU will figure that out before the Donald?

Just a thought, but.......

What’s it expanding into?

Money Saving Expert

Anyone know what’s going on over there at MSE?

Seems to be some sort of problem with passwords needing resetting in the last couple of weeks, and of course the reset page is insecure and sends in plain text.

More here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5791325&page=7#topofpage

Is it a cockup or have they ‘lost’ some data perhaps?

Where’s the ‘Dorito’s are not crisps?’ option?

It has to be Turkey, there must be Yorkshire puddings and there must be Brussel sprouts.

Oh and pigs in blankets, made with proper bacon and sausages mind, non of that supermarket watery crap.

If it doesn’t have them it’s just soft southern crap.

It’s a bit cold here in the northern hemisphere on earth at the moment, I wonder what the weather is like on whatever planet the people who come up with these ‘great’ ideas live on?

I’m not a fanboi, my £150 moto phone stands testament to that, but I would like to ask the naysayers on here......

‘When was the last time someone got rich betting against Apple?’

‘Autonomous vehicles hold great promise in saving lives, expanding mobility and reducing congestion’

Well they ‘might’ save lives but the rest is just hogwash.

The interesting thing is that to make money out of very poor people you have to enable them to make money.

Of course if it's your competitor trying to do it then, fuck 'em the poor can wait.

Since operating systems aren’t an end in themselves, but merely a means to an end, a means of running something that alleviates your grunt work (like dBase or Lotus 1-2-3 at the time), the advantages of OS/2 were pretty elusive.

Think someone needs to mention that to Microsoft

Unfortunately the only way to disable the promo blaster is as follows:

Trust me there are other ways.......

Spending $350 on a doorbell has demonstrated your a sucker, all they are doing is having another dip in the suckers pockets, pretty standard practice really.

No point in looking for suckers unless your going to milk 'em dry.

Yes but, without DRM would people pay the inflated prices the media industry charge?

Exactly, think of all the poor media execs etc that would suffer.

I've said it before (and now I'm going to say it again)

If any business relies on paying people less than minimum wage then it's a crap business

Bloody kids, think they know/invent everything.

Back when I were a youth the approved method of fixing vertical hold problems on a TV was to give the blooming thing a thump on the side.

It was an excellent feature on the windows phone however, how much of that was because it was on a phone? Quite a lot I suspect.

When will Microsoft realise that people use different tools for different jobs?

For most users a phone is for keeping in touch with people a PC is for work.

If your single and/or home alone or have your own office then talking to a bot to get info might make sense.

For the rest of the world what bloody use are they?

Anyone care to guess how long it will be before an 'update' (shouldn't that be 'downdate'?) reinstalls the nagware albeit in a slightly different form?

I'm going with before the end of the month

How many of us, when visiting someone whose place has some of these buttons, could resist pressing one, or more, of them a few times?

I would like to think I could but unfortunately suspect the truth may be different.

Of course the seats had bags and coats on them, how else were Corbyn and his team going to find somewhere to sit when they had finished filming?

If your business, any business, relies on people earning less than minimum wage then it's a pretty crap business,

just saying

Dear Windows

Fuck Off

Please

Thanks

What's wrong with using a shotgun, especially as most airports already have a bloke driving around with one in his truck