Posts by Dan 55 15447 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
... be banned for getting the console too early.
... be banned for playing a game too early.
... be banned for setting off the swear-o-matic in games while using text or voice chat.
... be banned for uploading setting off the swear-o-matic in videos.
... be banned for setting off the swear-o-matic in Skype while using text or voice chat.
... be banned for trying to update offline.
... be banned for being disconnected from the Internet for too long.
If you want the same user experience without the expense why not just not buy one?
Symbian Belle was on a par with Android 4 in terms of usability and its replacement Meego was done (insofar as updatable software is done) and shipped in a working product but both were shitcanned by Flop. Windows Phone 7.0 was barely finished yet was made Nokia's exclusive platform. Later events also lend weight to the Trojan horse theory.
I didn't know it. TIFKAM looks and acts completely differently to the classic desktop, why would I (or most people) expect classic desktop shortcuts to work?
For a start there are no windows in TIFKAM, what Alt-F4 does in TIFKAM is close the program, which is different.
For the same reason you need one to run Windows 8.1.
Actually if you don't want to open an MS account then you will find the option buried at the bottom of the create account page, obscure enough to make most people stick in their Hotmail address to carry on installing. I imagine the option to not use an MS account will disappear by Windows 8.2.
The new UI bloke has got rid of the status bar, most of the options on the content tab, and CRL management, and is just about to break a load of extensions by dumbing down the UI. His answer to any perceived problem is either 'get rid of it' or 'make it look more like Chrome' (or both, which is often the case).
I've got five extensions now which are only there to bring back stuff that's been disappeared, but I imagine that eventually the authors of those extensions might get bored of having to maintain them either for personal reasons or because they're tired of constantly chasing moving goalposts.
There's no particular reason why my desktop browser has to look like my mobile browser. When I'm using my mobile I might want simple but that doesn't mean that I want a desktop browser that's been dumbed down to useless. In short, is there nobody better? Can't the old timers at Mozilla put this idiot back in his box? I take it they understand their userbase better than someone who spends their day snorting latte and pretending they work at Apple.
Rant over.
Originally MeeGo was due to be put on the N8 and E7 (with a keyboard), but things dragged on too long and Symbian got put on them instead. Then Flop came along and launched his contractually obliged phone in the least important markets he could find. The N9 form factor went on to be used in a dozen different Lumias.
Because there were too many timey-wimey things happening at at that point in time in NY and even sending a telegram there to change history after they found out the date of their death by looking at the gravestones thus making it a fixed event in the present could push the universe over the edge.
No, I didn't believe it either.
Microsoft warned that large numbers of branches could find themselves unable to serve their customers, especially in rural and semi-rural areas.
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"The move to a modern OS like Windows 8.1 will not only alleviate the risks for users and businesses but will also open up opportunities posed by modern technology, like the cloud"
If you wanted to not be able to serve your customers in rural and semi-rural areas in India, I could think of nothing more up to the job than a cloud-based solution. That's if you ever manage to download the 3.5Gb update to Windows 8.1 in the first place.
UDF is a filesystem which should work on every OS released from XP onwards (OS X and Linux included), possibly even RT too. It's just a case of a big-enough company getting behind it. I think Google could push it if they wanted to, they made people download Android File Transfer for OS X for MTP.
ExFAT is patented so as to be impossible to implement if you don't pay the tax. FAT32 is only patented if the device understands Win 95-style long file names (and some argue read OR write LFNs but not both). Symbian 3 devices display LFNs in lower case which may also be a way around it. The solution is not to implement support for Win 95-style LFNs or if you've got good lawyers limited support for them.
Microsoft is pleased to announce that for their* convenience and comfort customers will find upon updating to IE 11 that their IE 10 desktop favourites are migrated to IE 11 TIFKAM favourites. To access them customers simply update from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 at a modest price.
* = Microsoft's.
"As in other countries, Google has long ago pulled the WiFi slurping software from its StreetView vehicles, and told the court the data wasn't used in its products or services."
They forgot to mention that it's Android Location Services which slurps WiFi now and the data slurped with that is used in their products and services instead...
You'd think, but Hangouts now does Hangouts and SMS. If you disable Hangouts you disable SMS. It doesn't come with AOSP's Messaging app as you're supposed to use Hangouts. So much for being open...
Just a quick note that someone's prepping a fork of the (looks to be abandoned) Mozilla Sync app for OwnCloud which works with Firefox Android, they appear to be in the final stages of releasing it. If you take a look at the Mozilla Sync thread on OwnCloud's website and the links from that thread to github then you'll find more info.
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