Posts by Martin 47

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

......and just how is the drone or driverless truck going to post a letter through a letterbox?

Cos all those pitchforks you bought will go to waste

I don't think so

So the comets atmosphere is almost 4% oxygen? OK it's 4% of not a lot but bloody hell 'jaw dropping' is pretty apt.

Huawei has been largely frozen out of the US market, after the White House cited national security concerns.

Well that caused a spike in my irony meter.

Oooh look what I found http://www.timworstall.com/

As others have said its a shame that el reg can no longer afford him, must be all those ad blockers were using

Ooh look at the pretty smoke reflected in those mirrors

Would someone care to explain how the American senate improving (or removing) privacy rights for American citizens has any effect on non existent privacy rights for non Americans?

Honest cold call company's?

If somehow we could get rid of these companies whilst keeping the honest ones, the process would be much more accepted.

Well yes but only because there aren't any 'honest' cold call company's

Should you go watch it? Why not?

Because you will just encourage 'them' to keep making crappy films out of (possibly) good ideas