Posts by John 104

Too Late

Not going to change my mind.Thanks for trying, though.

What Evernote has done is reveal the arrogance and moral bankruptcy of a Silicon Valley, a culture that neither respects humans, nor the things we create. It's all “data” for their machines, and they're driven by a higher purpose: intelligent machines.

Yup. The arrogance there is staggering actually.

Oh, and I'll be closing out my evernote as well. Idiots.

Sad truth is, most of their user base will blindly continue using it because, hey, this is neat. And free!

Sigh

Given the Trump administration's willingness to go beyond what has been normally regarded as any red line, it is not inconceivable that anyone who purchases, say, a copy of the Koran could be placed on a watchlist.

As stated above, there is no Trump administration to date. So what exactly are you basing this statement on?

Seriously, the amount of fear mongering since the election is staggering. He is a loudmouth spaz, and probably a misogynistic bigot, true enough. Comparing him to Hitler or Stalin, as has been done, is naive to the highest degree.

People of the world: Take a deep breath, review some history and then educate yourself on how US law works (checks and balances anyone?). I think you'll find that things aren't and won't be as bad as you are making them out to be.

Screw You Epson

Sorry for you users out there that may have this trouble. Time to grow up and buy a laser printer and be done with this whole consumable printer scam.

I had a brilliant Epson color print/scan/copy printer years ago. Printed amazing photos. It really did. Then the starter ink got low. OK, I thought to myself, I'll just buy the regular cartridges and shouldn't have this issue too much. $120 later, I had a full set of color and black. 2 months later, the colors were dry. OK, I thought, I can still print documents, right? Wrong. No printing if any cartridge is "dry". As an added bonus, EVERYTHING on the printer stopped working. Need to scan? Oh, well, until you buy ink, that feature is disabled. I was so pissed. I ended up buying a color HP laser printer. Cost a little bit more, but the price per page is vastly lower. No, it doesn't print color as well, but who cares?

Caption

OW My Ass!

Dumb?

Most phishing emails need to be highly customised to work, Orru says, unless the target is "dumb"

I'd say anyone who passes any credentials via email qualify as Dumb. I don't care what your position is, if you are handing out creds using this format, you are a idiot.

Surprise!

Smartwatch shipments crashed 51.6 per cent in the most recent quarter, IDC disclosed last month.

Not really a surprise, is it?

Thanks

"We also learnt that if you're open and honest with your customers everything works out alright," she said.

Thanks for clearing that up. Couldn't tell if it was a man or woman...

Joke Alert?

"We always saw Windows as the vulnerable platform but now old Linux devices are seen as the real vulnerability."

Linux has always been vulnerable. Just not as exploited. What an idiotic thing to say.

I fight for the users!

Not Likely

@Streaky

I want to live in the world you live in. Rose colored glasses a fairy dust. ;)

Microsoft works very closely with hardware suppliers to optimize a given platform to work with their OS. Remember, they are pretty much giving Win10 away to vendors for free just to get bodies looking at their screens.

Take the HP Stream or any of the other plethora of 2-300 laptops. Do you think MS is making a cent off of any of these things for the OS? No. They give it away in hopes of luring consumers to their app store, which does quite well surprisingly.

With that in mind, I'm sure there is a lot of unwritten encouragement to make it difficult for these machines, or any other for that matter, to be able to boot an alternative OS.

Speedy and Reliable

We use it here at work and it is awesome.

Engerish?

Its writers appear to be faking their lack of English writing skills with one linguist pointing to inconsistent and seemingly deliberate spelling and grammatical errors suggesting it is a false flag operation

Or maybe its the NSA wanting some extra cash?

Fact Check?

Stone the crows! Rather than copying the early market leaders - as it has traditionally done - the modern era Microsoft is showing signs of calling trends correctly well in advance.

Funny, I remember using a Samsung BlackJack with Microsoft mobile OS on it far before the iPhone came out. It had a GPS, apps, and all sorts of useful features.

Also, didn't MS come up with the tablet design years before Apple?

Drama much?

Is this bad for a company? yes. Will it bankrupt them? Hardly. They are too diversified.

A smart move would be to throw out the Note brand name and come up with something different. Take the parts from existing phones, use them as spares and release something mid year to beat the typical Fall release cycle.

Same Netflix?

Are we talking about the same Netflix? Their streaming content pretty much blows unless you are into watching TV shows. They have a few original titles that are decent (Supernatural comes to mind), but when it comes to new movies, you either get the DVD from their alternate arm if you're lucky, or rent it on Amazon Prime.

Stat much?

So, one sample of numbers isn't quite right. Lets look at an even smaller sample and base our conclusions on that instead. Nice maths.

Funy

It's a curious combination of product rigidity and seemingly bizarre default values

Try working with SCCM if you think AD is slow...

Idiot

What a dumb fuck solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Spread wi-fi to ultra remote areas for people with no computers to use. I'm sure adoption will be amazing.

Better?

I interviewed with the Windows Update team many years ago. The interviewers were so clueless and unorganized that I led the interview with questions and prompts to help them along. They offered me the job later that same day. I politely declined.

One can only hope things have gotten better since then but I highly doubt it...

"We will continue to use security features to protect the quality of our customer experience, maintain the integrity of our printing systems, and protect our IP including authentication methods that may prevent some third-party supplies from working," Flaxman argues

And as consumers, we will continue to use our brains to buy other products that aren't going to stuff us in the ass on a whim.

I've been a HP printer user for decades. It was reliably the one thing they did right. I gave up on ink a long time ago, and strictly use laser. However, I was quite displeased the other day when my printer out of the blue printed a page telling me it now had an email address and I could web print. WHAT THE FUCK? I didn't ask for it but I think it pushed as part of my laptop driver when connected to my internal network. No idea how to clean this mess up. Quite pissed about the whole thing too.

IT Angle?

Love TG, Clarkson and crew, but WTF is this doing here?

Tony Stark?

Is that Tony Stark on the left or hamster?

Wrong

Having outsourced almost everything, the next logical step for BlackBerry would be to grant a full time “BlackBerry” license to a third party

The next step will be selling off the IP and closing the doors. This company is so irrelevant any more why do they even bother? A qwerty phone? really? Who uses this stuff?

You want your product teams spending 90 per cent plus of their time on product.

yes, because sustained engineering isn't necessary.