Posts by phil dude

Re: owner of 2 bricks, looking for windows...

I am complaining because I PAID for apps. As this is closed system and the company that SOLD the app and provides no method of recovering the app. So in effect they have stolen my money.

And to add to that, I have complained more than once, that Micro$oft push their CRAPPY software onto my phone without my permission, with NO way of removing it, on to the DEFAULT/root filesystem which is a precious space.

So in effect they made my functioning phone unusable without removing apps and reinstalling elsewhere.

Except you can't reinstall anything, because they closed the f*ing store.

That is theft, vandalism and crap software engineering all in one. And you want to me to buy software from Micro$oft?

I know symbian is dead. It wasn't however when I bought the phone. But this is vindictive software practices.

I stand by my comment and you can downvote this theft, if you think that is alright.

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Re: More to the point...

@localzuk

1. 500 million citizens, and 48(?) passports, how many languages? how many tax zones?

2. Try locating a business in Italy , France of Greece and tell me that. Or Manchester for that matter. The UK is the best business location in Europe and is still has massive bureaucracy. The rest of Europe loves red-tape even more than the UK does.

3. The interstate is in constant repair and a source of much pork - yet it works. I live 1 mile from I-40 and I-75 constantly changing. Surprisingly, TN has very good roads. Georgia, not so. Cars here are cheap so roads need to work. My last tank of petrol? $2.54/gal (that's $3 UK gallon or $0.66/litre ). What do you pay? AND you have great trains! But you don't. London does, however. The US has some mediocre trains but it is HUGE. All of Europe has trains and they are highly variable. In the UK they are expensive and you have expensive petrol. Almost like the government doesn't want you to travel...

4. My point is for all the bitching and moaning about jobs, the USA still makes an enormous amount of "stuff". Of all sorts. It educates a huge number of people - and all in English. It has a huge immigrant population but it also has huge amounts of land and resources to accommodate them.

My point is Europe is at most a single market, but it has a lot of internal inertia caused by linguistic and legal differences. These things make it difficult to be a small business that can grow rapidly.

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Re: only $5000

I got 3x31S1P at $120-140...

I have 2xgtx980 so this might have to be slot #3. I suspect it will be >$2000...:-(

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maps and..

Well my defunct devices N8 and N9 , still have functioning maps, probably due to their being a seperate limb.

If this device might get Sailfish on it, I would say it looks nice.

I really like the idea of Android being a normal user process on my system.

I don't like being a normal user in the Android system.

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Re: Dan 55

A good call there. Have an upvote for the main reason I want DRM to be stripped from HTML5 - use it to sign, not obscure.

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Re: Easy to criticise MCPs

I understand the need to have bits of paper saying you are qualified (I suspect mine say that I could hold my beer at 3 institutions over a decade...). I have never taken an MCP. I am sure that if I did take it I could pass it with sufficient study.

The only problem is then I would have to use Microsoft products, but I don't have that need in my life....

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Re: Awkward sod here.

chickpea flour?

used in middle eastern foods and some indian i believe...

Post-pub my recent choice, shish kebab in a naan bread with chili sauce (The Kebab Kid, Oxford)

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Re: Welcome to Walmart =D

Open carry laws are sort of obvious - TN makes it an offence if there are <2 occupants. You wouldn't want to spill your drink...?

Number of times I have been carded this year == 0.

Tip the bar staff...

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Re: Interesting to see Led Zeppelin mentioned

He specifically mentioned the limitations of analogue recording equipment too (in another interview). The proper music kit (>96kHz, 24 bit etc..) made a massive difference when it was introduced. If you don't believe me listen to music recorded before and after approx 1981/2. e.g. The Police (who were known for being at the cutting edge, apparently), recorded at Monseratt has a very different sound. It's why Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and all those bands have sounds that are so diverse - modern gear is really, really clean!!

I built some effects pedals when I was at school, and from experience making noise tuneful is complex. I have some of the new LZ and Beatles (FLAC) reissues ; they are very, very good.

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Re: Disappointing

Thank you for your comments, journo's like to use public comments as fodder.

In your professional capacity (as ex-NHS) do you think that the conversion to a "best practices" Open Source environment would help to maintain security?

As the systems would be full auditable, improvements could be accumulated over the years to have a really good system fit for purpose. We would probably save many , many GBP.

Am I just dreaming?

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Re: Internet taxes

although in TN they managed to pass a law singling out Amazon, who now DO force you to pay and collect it.

This is wrong on soooo many levels...

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Re: Nice

Thank you for your honesty. You may not realise it but you have reenforced the reasons why those of without guilded occupations are reliant upon FOSS computing.

It might be cheaper, but not everything is upfront cost. One of the reasons the state of Big Biz is so deplorable is they look for the cheapest way to do everything and employing people that know stuff is simply not in their interest.

A FOSS installation, once working, stays working. Vendor lock-in makes that impossible.

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Re: I wonder if Google would consider dropping the Mozilla deal?

It is strange but google actually has a vested interest in mozilla being nice and healthy and advancing the browser cause. Their business is getting people to browse, and so far they have been remarkably agnostic.

Let's hope Mozilla don't screw this up because of their dysfunction*...

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* All organizations have dysfunction, but no everyone cares...

Re: Vexatious Record Company ebarks on a legal fishing trip...

thanks for giving this article some wider context....The link however has no content - the blog post has been removed...

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yes but...

that was before they decided the laws didn't apply to anyone

a) in government

b) formerly in government

c) Media Stars

d) Professional Sports persons

e) who professes family relationship from a) to e), including anyone descended from the murdering, thieving bastards who call themselves royal.

In short if you are reading this, the laws are meant for you and you alone.

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once a year...

That's like a really slow filesystem poll!!

I had a free one, and it was full of wrong information - it will take me months to get it corrected.

In the meantime do I have to wait another 364 days to get another CR?

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Re: Wishful thinking, as always

Yes wishful thinking works both ways. The code driving most mobile devices today is linux - I'm not sure what the dominant browser is , but it is not IE.....

I have many Micro$oft licences that came with some hardware purchase, and I bet they count that as a customer.

The reality is that due to the monopoly position M$ found itself in, IE was bound to get some traction.

Google has driven chrome to be a pretty decent browser for their users, and the competition with Apple and Mozilla has been a good thing. Have you SEEN some of the things browsers can do now?

Right now, I just want firefox to get per-process tabs as standard, because this is one of the things that makes it more prone to unfriendly crashes....

And this made browsing so much nicer on my 2560x1600 screen.

I'm just glad to have some choice...

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Re: another reason as if we need one...

you see, I was thinking exactly as you were, but I was being polite.... And got the downvotes!!!

My next will be Sailfish, though not sure of the hardware...

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Re: CEO? Figures

a nice post, and I thought the same. Anything that has exposed copper on the ground is a problem.

Even in London, in case we forget...

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Re: Avoid btrfs like the plague

Hence my curiosity that it has made it into a distro.

My point about ZFS may have been missed. BTRFS is in the linux kernel, and can therefore be included in all the devices that linux supports. ZFS cannot.

Your phone, tablet, laptop could be come portions of your home volume - and deduping keeps a canonical set.

Think about that for a bit - it took a while to sink in...

The problem is the vision for BTRFS have been obscured by the arguments over systemd - mainly due to the hyper-productive LP... Yes, he included BTRFS in a vision for a unified linux distro system.

In summary, thanks for another success story I will give it a shot.

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Re: For once, Europe should be happy that Google exists

It is strange in this day and age that a blank box for words on a computer screen is essentially the cause of freedom and the established power base's worst fear.

Every day, I pause to think how amazing the internet is to exist.

Every day there are all the attempts to break it, using force, taxes or simple ignorance.

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Re: illicit viewers?

Kodi works fine.

There is a userscript patch that helps g*player but meta-information is not possible without a more invasive hack.

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