Posts by David 164

Re: "This week I learnt from youtube"

Youtube have by far the most free videos and tutorials, other sites have better content but often behind paywalls thinking Udemy here, some manufacturers also have excellent videos but often only specific to their product, these are more often than not hosted on Youtube anyway. Plus we are talking about Youtube here because this effort which is led by Google, using it Youtube platform.

Re: "This week I learnt from youtube"

Well unfortunately I don't know a plasterer, a electrician or a gardener or anyone who works with Unity3D, so before it would have require me to either pay someone or experiment or read a manual or run down to the library in the hope they got some book there that will clue me in, Youtube speed all of this up by a factor 10 and save me a infinite amount of money on top.

Tell that to firefly fans they still haven't got over it .

Re: Google

Google can't force other people to develope solutions to easily enable users to switch phones, not even Google is that powerful. It has built it own solution and suit its and majority of users needs. Various manufactures have provided their own solutions as well.

If you want a free open source way to do it, build your own, you could even use youtube as the beginning of the road to learn how to that.

So you did that instead of showing you children the tonnes of educational content that is on Youtube or showing them how they can use youtube to learn how to do new stuff.

This week I learnt from youtube, learnt how plaster a small wall, rewire a plug and one the video show what I was doing wrong when I was trying to animate some things in Unity 3D and I be looking at some recipes for the christmas bake off we are having at my workplace and not to long ago how move a rose bush (I think I did something wrong because my rose bush look like it dying! ). I know my brother law learnt to use to replace a mobile screens, use to see how to repair cars, my niece to apply makeup, my nephew use it to learn maths because his maths teach is rubbish according to him and he started to use to learn about how to fix his own PCs and replace parts in it.

It not Youtube that the problem, it that you didn't teach your kids to seek out this knowledge instead of watching pewdiepie and other stuff on Youtube. I will admit entertainment pay the bills at Youtube but it the educational content that give Youtube it useful purpose in the world.

Re: The favourite weapon of the 21st century

If the EU can justify the law then they should justify the law , they can't because they know this law is written to further enrich already very rich corporations and individuals and deny the rights of there own citizens to use that content in parodies or to share videos of events on the web such as wedding, birthday parties, street parties.

Which is the real reason they don't like the campaign Google and co are launching against them because it expose who they are really working for in this case an it not the people who pay their wages. An why they spend their time attacking Google instead of spending their time explaining the law to their own citizens and how the new law actually change things. As far as most citizens are concerns new laws should improve things for them, this law clearly doesn't. Even hated laws are accepted eventually if they lead to real improvements for normal citizen.

So come on EU explain how this law improves things for normal, no copyright holding individuals, exactly what benefits do we gain from it.

Of cause not, more likely they block your son from the site and restrict EU residence from using it, you are going to have fun then!

Re: Google

Actually it doesn't, google was found not guilty.

Re: "Google is a corporation, but that doesn't mean their priorities"

More freedoms, no but we do get to keep the ones we have today.

Because IT industry just likes what works and Android works brilliantly, so why waste time reinventing the wheel when the real money is in creating games such as candy crush.

Re: say again, how are they dodging 30% apple tax?

You do realise the The Register is one of the biggest haters of Google on the web for reasons unknown to me.

Re: Apples and Oranges

But what kind of intervention?

Forcing both Apple and Google to allow multiple stores on their phone? s/ Of cause I'm sure the competition watchdog will be fair to both google and Apple on this issue /s

Re: But we're taking about games here

well Google can justify the costs by stating it got to fund the development of Android operating system and it doesn't have much of a hardware to do it.

What does apple do to justify the cost of it store?

considering they are effectively a bank, not sure if they are registered as such in all jurisdictions, they should act as a bank. Therefore a death certificate, probate and a letter setting everything out is all one should need to access a person paypal account after they have died.

Re: Apple

to stop the fragmentation of the Android brand. If manufactures don't want to use android they should go and do what google did and build their own OS.

Re: Choice on Apple?

So google could just say they will stop updating android, lock down the code, encrypt it and no longer issue any new updates to non google made phones.

That the nuclear option for google and a pretty frightening one for all of the smaller OEMs, it would likely reduce competition down to just Apple, Google, and well Samsung, once they played catch up building their own OS or work on learning how to continually evolve a fork version of Android on their own without google support and infrastructure.

A whole host of mobile phone manufacturers would likely go bankrupt within months or withdraw from the mobile market.

So instead of increasing competition the EU would have decimated!

Anyway I think the commission completely ignoring apple in the market will be shown as illegal in a court of law and the commission will have to go back and redo all of it work taking Apple into account.

Re: Meh ...

The commission have lost a lot of antitrust court cases over the last few years.

Google argument here will be simply that the commission didn't look at the whole market and actively ignore iOS and Apple, I suspect they have a very good case of getting this overturn.

Re: They'd still be using...

Even the most expenses implant, some device they stick in the heart, cost about 30,000 ground, only need to keep the patient in their own home for about 2 years for it to pay for it self, just 2 years.

Knee, hip and other artificial joints that keep the elderly in their own home are no doubt even more cost efficient. Some of them only cost a thousand pounds each. This is why we have NICE to actually work through all these costs and see what is cost beneficial and what isn't.

Re: Not the only Guvmint dept to use fax

Yes, well I have had about half a dozen companies in the last year ask for a photocopy or picture of my passport.

Re: @ wolfetone

It only needs more until we can actually find cures for conditions which really weigh down the NHS finances, a easily administered cure for type 2 diabetes on it own would save the NHS 10% of it entire budget, about 12 billion pounds. That for one single disease. cystic fibrosis patient, they cost about 500 million a year. Dementia that something like 4 billion a year in costs alone could saved if we found a cure, plus billions more on the social care side of things.

There are other areas such as spinal cord damage which if we could repair them would no doubt save a large amount of money in both health and social care cost. Same with brain damage from strokes, luckily at least for one type of stroke brain damage from them should be extremely rare events in the 10 years or so.

This is where the real savings in the NHS and all health services can be made, of cause we have no clue when cures might arrive. Hemophilia for example it look like both A and B form will be curable in the next 5 years if current success of trials continues.

Re: "could possibly pass the test of necessity and proportionality,""

Can you prove it isn't?

Re: I'm sure Joseph Cannataci had a nice expensive lunch in Cheltenham.....

An do the general public even want that? A lot of these discussions are being led by people with agendas more complex than just providing the public with privacy.

Re: "Wasn't too hard, was it? UK has made 'significant progress' in spy control"

Nah of cause not, they just have to palm some more work out to the NSA, ASD, CSE, NZSIS. An of cause congress pass some laws restricting NSA, so GCHQ been doing the job NSA no longer allowed to do, whilst NSA being doing the work GCHQ is no longer allow to. An if either of those agencies can't do the job they ask the other three to see if they can.