Posts by Steve Davies 3 7147 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
that are better resolution than the 1366x768 that you usually find on budget laptops then?
This seems to have a decent screen for once.
Shame about it running an OS that slurps data to the Chocolate Factory. At least that is better then slurping data ro Redmond but not by much though.
As has been remarked on already, if a non Ubuntu Linux was available for this then there would be a market for quite a few amongst those who comment here. Debian or Mint, I don't mind really.
MOD ==== More Operational Disasters
or worse.
MOD-PE (or whatever they are called now) are just a bunch of useless PHB's who certainly could not organise their way out of a paper bag unless it had BAE on the inside.
The constant changes in spec really hurt our ability to defend ourelves.
I was watching the documentary on the birth of the SAS the other night. Faced with having a base that consisted of a tent, a table, two chairs and a sign, they went out an nicked all they needed. Go the job done with the minimum of fuss. That sort of improvisation would just not be alloed these days. I guess it won't be long before every platoon will have an MOD lawyer attached to say, 'sorry chaps, you can't do that. We might get sued'.
Numpties the lot of them.
If the states are so very much behind the TWIC then why did the case for overturning the Decree get files by a number of State Attourney Generals?
You may say that they are 'blue'/lefty states.
If the president had drafted the order differently then all this could have been avoided but no he didn't.
He did it in haste and now he may very well have to repent.
The USSC could even say 'we are not going to consider it'. What then eh Big John?
The whole thing is a veritable clusterfuck.
He has only himself to blame. Well that and the cronie/sycophants that he has around him.
And it all could have been avoided with a bit more consulation and the willingness to take advice from others.
Calm down Trevor. Perhaps you should go and sit in a darkend room for a while?
Trump can't be elected for more than two terms. That is the law and even a GOP controlled congress would want to repeal that given their antipathy of the current TWIC (Tweeter in Chief).
There is still lots of things he can do to in his words 'shake up America'. Other people will see it as destroying the american way of life. I know that many of my american friends are looking at leaving.
If the TWIC does not like the ruling then he can as he said, see them in court. That is due process but I do get the feeling that he'll lose the case as it currently stands. There are many organistations ready to take him on in a legal battle.
As the americans say, 'Popcorn time'.
No LGBT, especailly the 'T' and you'd better have your birth certificate with you to prove what gender you were born to.
There is a reason that people like Springsteen (and many others) won't play there.
(The same goes for OK)
My guess is that under the new Tweeter in the White House more southern states will pass similar laws.
What does it do that W7 can't do?
easy
Drives the users bonkers when they accidentally find themselves in Metro.
Drives the user mad when it updates and reboots while you have gone to lunch thus ensuring that all the work you did in the morning has gone to the great bitbucket that is not the Recycle bin.
The GDPR is all well and good but you can bet your bottom dollar that all the usual suspect will be lined up read yo meet the various Gubbermint Ministers ASAP after the BREXIT deal is done to ensure that none of it gets implimented here. All that lovely data just going to waste and all those lovely snooping IoT devices that will get sold to an unsuspecting public. The ad men etc will be drooling with anticipation.
I'm also sure that a few directorships may well be heading in directions you can guess only too easily.
Or you keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
I expect there is a lot of gritted teeth amongst a fair number of US CEO's at the moment.
They know that they will have to go along with the 'great dictator' otherwise they'll feel his wrath on Twitter and that won't do their stock price any good at all.
will be the Patent Lawyers.
There are lots of patents out there that describe compressing a video signal to reduce the bandwidth during transmission with the all important "with a Computer" and "Over a network"
These owners/troll will want their cut of the money.
Why do I say this?
Even Google is having a hard time with getting VP9 accepted and there have been reports of patent suits filed against Google despite their claims that their thing is patent free.
The ITU might want this but the lawyers will have a big say in stopping/delaying/encumbering any new codecs etc.
That is the sad state of play as I see it.
As they don't release sales figures for the Watch it is hard to justify either that they are claiming or anything else. They are saying that sales are good but if the plan was to sell 1,000 and they sold 2,000 then yes, sales are good.
Other people (Apple Watchers(sic)) are claiming that the Apple Watch is taking up to 80% of the market. Again, there really is little evidence to support these claims one way or the other.
I'd even go futher and say that I've never seen anyone wearing a 'smart watch'. I saw plenty of FitBits in San Francisco last year but that's it.
I have no inclination to even try a smart watch.
Now if there was a Half Hunter (or proper Fob) version then I might think about it.
I suspect that I am not alone in going 'Meh' to the whole smart watch thingy.
I suspect that Google knows this and this is the Android Wear swansong. Get one (if you are interested) while stocks last.
Or have sales been so bad that like many Google products and services launched with a wave of publicity that are later quietly axed when sales/users don't meet their loft internal targets?
We deserve to be told the fate of this latest iPhone killer device.
If there are no patches then it seems that it is destined to go the way of the Kin and Zune, oblivion.
This
"Unity 8 delivers a unified set of experiences across all the kinds of personal computers,"
could have just as easily been
"Windows 10 delivers a unified set of experiences across all the kinds of personal computers,"
How many Ubuntu users will actually use (or want to use) a touch interface?
I guess he wants the Ubuntu Phone/Table to sweep all before it.
Desktops with a touch interface are still very much in the minority and many of them will never run Ubuntu if MS has their way (i.e. running anything but Windows on a Surface)
We had a conversation about this at a LUG not that long ago. Many expressed the opinion that expecially on the desktop touch is a PITA.
I will be pleased though if I am proved wrong. Canonical has put a lot of effort into all this.
or is MS getting more and more restricting and evil almost every day?
MS seems intent on transforming itself into Big Brother and the day when W10/Cortana says
"I'm sorry Dave I can't let you do that"
are getting closer and closer.
As has been said, use vlc or any of the other far better media players to view your content.
Will the last one out of HPE please read the Leccy Meter and send the bill to Meg.
How many are going to be left after this round of bloodletting?
Not many who are any good that's for sure.
No matter Meg and her cronies will never have to work (as if they ever did any) again.
but around these parts you won't find much Windows 10 love.
There are good number of users who have you use your crappiness every day and do so with gritted teeth.
Some people love it. Can't for the life of me figure out why but they are entitled to their opinions.
As has been said, people will go back to Window 7 just to escape your silliness.
Now that you have basically abandonded the mobile space the surface (an a few copycats) are the last vestiges of your one size fits all stratedgy.
As for still taking on Apple well you may have a point. AFAIK, the iPad is still selling lots more (by volume) than the surface but in my opinion, Chromebooks are a bigger threat.
no mention of the adoption of the Intel Baseband Chip in certain iPhone 7 models.
Without this they (IMHO) probably would have not filed suit against Quallcomm. They would need a second source of BB chips for their precious gold plated iDevices.(sic)
So, is this a case of apple taketh and apple gieveth
or is it someone who does not like particularly apple penning an article?
It would help to know the authors POV in this
Don't you mean Billion?
Sales in the region of $30M is a mere drop in the ocean.
Then, I have to ask what chips Apple sells to others. Apple does not posess a foundry so everything it makes has to be made by others. So Samsung and others are used to make them for Apple but I really struggle to think of what chips they sell on the open market.
Samsung on the otherhand makes chips for many people including Apple. Do these count in the sales figure? Many companies use Samsum Ram in their products. I find it hard to think that Someone the size of Samsung has only sold just over $30M worth of chips in the past year.
It would be really nice to know the real metrics for the calculation of these figures.
It'll be OK. There'll be a thriving cottage industry doing up old, dumb kit to run another 20 years and reselling it.
Until the makers of new kit buy a few politicians and laws are passed to make it illegal to fix anything you own. At least one state in the USA is trying to pass a law allowing you to repiar your own stuff rather than forcing you to use a dealer repair centre.
Companies like John Deere will take legal action under the DMCA if you tinker with your JD tractor.
I did write that with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek.
However I rented a Jeep in the USA in 2016 and it needed a service every 6K miles. The same model here has a service interval of 12K miles. I wonder why? Perhaps for the same reason that several states won't let Tesla sell cars directly. Big Money talks big in the US Auto Industry.
Have always been run by idiots. Nothing new there.
the MOD should get the Gubbermint to cancel the F-35 and startup building Harriers again. At least we'd have something to put into the air and use those two carriers.
I'm sure that a Harrier won't cost £100M each. Oh wait we need BAE to build them so perhaps they wiil.
You obviously didn't look very hard did you.
there are many available at very reasonable prices on Amazon and other sites. They'd be a lot cheaper than buying from Apple anyway.
Anyway, like others I have no reason to upgrade my iPhone 6 bought secondhand from a Pawnshop.
At the risk of getting slapped hard, most phones these days are fine for most users. It does no matter if it runs Android or iOS, the functions avaible in the basic device or with a few apps are more than enough for 99% of users.
But security is possibly another issue altogether.
just before Apple releases its results (31st Jan) tells me that the people who make a living from shorting APPL stock may well be out in force. The stock is currently at $121.91. I think they'll be betting that it goes below $110 in Feb 1st as (IIRC) Apple release their results after the market has closed.
Remember that this is Italy we are talking about.
If a certain philandering PM can escape jail then why bother going after this lot?
Just making their names public might be enough to make it hard for them to find another job well, at least in a properly managed company that is.
The Italian Justice system is also an issue. There is no certainty of jail time even with an guilty plea.
We are watching someone who's obviously read 1984 and watched Dr Strangelove work out their fantasies on the unsuspecting citizens of the USA.
Newspeak is the order of the day in his world.
America is at war with Eurasia (The Moslem part) and he'll invade Mexico just so that they'll pay for the wall.
What's not to like eh?
Now where is that ad for a Nuclear Bunker that was for sale??????
Developers say, 'can't be bovvered with Windows any more' and stick a finger (or two) up in the general direction of Redmond?
Next it will be that W10-2018 edition will only let apps be installed via their App store and devs are expected to pay lots of £££ to get their app into the store. Oh, and MS will take no responsibility if apps loaded this way contain Malware etc.
MS obviously needs the money.
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