Posts by Bigg Phill

Re: Chocolate teapot

Teams personal is new. So new it's not on the desktop or web client yet.

If you look at them purely as chat / video tools then yes they're all the same but Teams personal brings much of the collaboration features that the work version has.

You can create a group (like other chat apps) but then you have shared resources such as calendar and tasks.

So if for example you have a large family and you're trying to organise day trips and other shared events, it makes life easier for you.

Also if you share a lot of media, it puts it in a single repository so you don't have to scroll through the messages to find that funny video you were sent 2 months ago (some phones allow you to do this in the gallery anyway)

It's more than just yet another chat app

DPA III

Yes, yes and thrice yes.

Been saying all year that most of the important stuff in GDPR was already in the DPA legislation. All they needed was to link the fines to turnover.

On the other hand I'm somewhat concerned that the much heralded portability rights will backfire.

Used to work for life assurance companies and your competitors could find out a lot about your products from the personal data you retain vs what you discard.

It'd probably result in you having to keep even more customer data to help mask the really useful stuff

They're completely against the same thing happening

... Unless it's in their favour

Re: Worst argument ever

Well done

Comparing an illegal cryptocurrency transaction with a legal cash one is indeed the "worst argument ever" so your title is correct.

Plus cash is pretty easy to trace to the criminal if it's in their possession when you arrest them or they leave their DNA on it. Have you seriously never heard of marked bills?

Re: Yet more contentless studies by academic hot air balloons?

"And it's a pretty well known fact that the way STEM subjects are generally taught from the earliest ages of childhood tend towards putting girls and women off."

If you mean that they contain STEM then yes, you're right.

Otherwise, please elaborate.

Oh and why does biology buck the trend?

Are the biology teachers less interested in putting off girls or do the girls (and I might be going way out on a limb here) tend to find the subject matter more interesting than other STEM subjects?

Re: Misinformation is Propaganda and Indicates Desperation

"What if cryptocurrencies are intelligently designed to work their magic marvellously outside of, and beyond the stifling command and control of established systems of mass population manipulation"

And what if they're a pyramid scheme designed to make their creator very rich?

The correct counter

"The correct counter for bad speech is more speech, not censorship"

Nailed it.

Permission to re-use this (a lot)?

And when you're getting started...

I was thinking the same thing, it's like nobody commenting here has ever been subject to a release process.

Plus you would imagine the first install would be a POC / prototype on a dev machine.

You'd want to be able to quickly write code that talks to it with as few obstacles as possible in order to evaluate it.

Having said that, a MongoDB project I was involved with went live before the infrastructure team knew how to maintain it - they were used to RDBMS. Hopefully the enthusiastic developers who wanted to use the new shiny things switched it all on for them...

Re: Also, the reverse would apply

"Norway has said it will veto us joining the EFTA"

Quite a lot of replies to this. What I was basically saying (with as few characters as possible) is it's looking like we're not going for the EFTA option.

One reason is the understandable concerns all the existing members would have about us dominating the group, most notably Norway.

However another reason is our own Chancellor of the Exchequer has ruled out single market membership (and therefore the EFTA).

Re: How is this a "thought crime unit"?

If you publish your phone number and home address on the internet then no, I suppose not...

... However most of us don't do that so when somebody receives a threat through the post it's deemed very serious as the person who made the threat knows where you live and so there's a reasonable chance they might follow up on the threat.

Re: Isn't the register meant to be about IT?!

I was wondering how many posts I would have to read before someone else asked this.

Brexit impact on the IT industry - valid

IT in the car industry - valid

Brexit impact on the car industry - do one

Re: Pointless

"Because how else are you going to get their entire contact book, phone imei number, currently installed apps, bank details and location info?"

Assuming that's a reply to my comment

I think you're confusing developer intent with consumer choice. Why do consumers prefer native apps if HTML 5 is so finger likkin good?

The answer's because it isn't obviously but so many developers and (more importantly) project stakeholders don't see this and keep wasting money on one size fits all solutions for applications aimed at a long term user base.

Nobody cares about UX for a price comparison site if it gives them a good deal after 10 minutes use in a year.

An enterprise application with a 1000+ users punching data 7 hours a day on the other hand...

Re: For the love of god you lot, never dispense relationship advice...

"At least we KNOW what the Status Quo looks like"

Absolutely, the EU has in no way changed in the last decade or so and will remain exactly as it is at present for eternity.

I'm utterly sick of people claiming that remaining in the EU is a static option

Re: The main reason I'm voting 'In'...

Which is why she's a vocal part of the leave campaign?

Oh, hang on..

Google Exchange/Outlook replacement

Genuine question:

What is it that Exchange/Outlook does (from an end user perspective) that you don't think Google's applications do? (Mail, Calendar etc.)

I interchange between the two for work/personal use and don't see much in the way of features that you can do with Microsoft's kit but not with Google's

But maybe there are features MS offers that Google doesn't that I'm unaware of?

... In fairness, I've never had a need to set up an out of office notification in GMail as I'm never in an office for that account

Yes, heaven forbid Apple might give the consumer some choice in this matter

Re: All fugly except the mac

In terms of style this isn't really a fair comparison as half of them are from publicity shots that favour a "look at me" diagonal view whereas the other half were snapped by the review head on.

I'd be interested to see how the Acer model (for example) would look with a like for like studio quality "pose"