Very few, but lots of people are running Windows 8 PCs that have been upgraded to Windows 7. A couple of them might be laptops with touch screens.
Posts by jonathanb
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Final preview of IE11 for Windows 7 uncanned
One year to go: Can Scotland really declare gov IT independence?
Re: The way I see it...
The Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
A bit later, the Kingdom of Great Britain merged with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The "U" refers to the union between the Kingdom of Great Britain and what is left of the Kingdom of Ireland - Northern Ireland. If Scotland were to leave the Union, which it won't, then we would have the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland. Probably they would add Wales to the name to keep them happy. Great Britain would go, but the United Kingdom would not.
Official crackdown on Apple fanboi 'shanty town' ahead of London iPhone launch
Re: Trin Tragula......
Other shops sell iDevices on launch day, and they don't have queues of fanbois waiting in line. They could go to one of them if they really can't wait. Carphone Warehouse for example is just round the corner in Oxford Street.
There are companies with names such as "rent a crowd" that supply people to queue for events such as this. There is however no evidence that Apple has engaged the services of one of these companies.
'British Bill Gates' Lynch laments HP's Autonomy 'botch-up'
Re: >Lynch reckons there’s much that his Autonomy expats can offer young British startups
Fraud or no fraud, HP did overpay for Autonomy. The number that Autonomy published did not justify the valuation HP paid for it. Many people said so at the time, including some of the journalists in this esteemed organ.
City of Munich throws Ubuntu lifeline to Windows XP holdouts
Outlook.com adds IMAP, OAuth
Re: At last!
Use the stock Android email client. Configure it as an Exchange account using the server m.hotmail.com
Username is your email address, password is the same as your password for logging into the website, domain you leave blank.
ActiveSync is better than IMAP for email on a phone, mainly because it uses less battery and bandwidth.
Microsoft announces iPad amnesty for fanbois
You thought NFC tags were Not For Consumers? Well, they're in Maplin's
One use I've found for NFC
I've set up my phone so that if I tap my Oyster card on it, it loads up an app that tells me how much money is left in it. Probably it would be quicker to just tap the icon on screen though.
What I would really like to do is to be able to load my Oyster card onto the phone, and tap my phone on the gate to get in and out of the station. Apparently that will be possible at some point in the future.
Apple ships new iPods in 'SPAAAAACE ... Gray'
Fancy a new iPhone 5C or 5S? READ THIS or you may not get 4G data
It does do that within for example the 800MHz band to find the various signals for the 4 mobile operators in the UK, however you need different chippery to receive the signals owned by the 3 operators that have signals in the 2.6Ghz band.
SDR means you it can find both 2G and 3G signals in the 900MHz band and both 2G and 4G signals in the 1.8GHz band with two sets of chippery rather than 4, but for different frequency bands a long distance apart, you still need separate chippery to receive the signals.
New iPhones: C certainly DOESN'T stand for 'Cheap'
Re: Affordability my arse
You have a faster CPU and a slightly better camera, which you get any time you get a new phone. Nothing particularly amazing there. I've never heard anyone complain that their existing iPhone 5 is too slow. The iPhone 5 camera is pretty decent, but it isn't the best, so Apple are playing catch-up here.
So you have a fingerprint sensor to replace the lock screen pin and iCloud password. Maybe it is better than some of the fingerprint sensors I've seen in the past that didn't really work. We will see, but it isn't really a compelling reason to buy a new phone.
Boris Johnson floats idea of 'London visa' to attract tech talent
Should Nominet ban .uk domains that use paedo and crim-friendly words?
More specifically, the lack of a domain name with a single TLD ending which is .uk, and a descriptive name to the left of the .uk
childporn.com for example is a valid domain name with an A record, but the website doesn't appear to be working at the moment. If there is a valid website there, I'm guessing it is more likely to be owned by some organisation who helps victims of paedos or campaigns against them rather than someone who offers the stuff for sale.
400 million Chinese people can't speak Chinese: Official
BAN THIS SICK FILCH: Which? demands end to £1.50-per-min 'help' lines
Re: So misinformed it has to be trolling from Which
Why do you think phone operators bundle minutes on calls to 01, 02 and 03 numbers but not 0845 and 0870 numbers? It is because the termination payments are higher on the latter.
0845 numbers are not local rate numbers and 0870 numbers are not national rate numbers. It is illegal to describe them as such, as well as being just pain wrong.
Re: So misinformed it has to be trolling from Which
Sorry, but you are completely wrong. That was the case about 20 years ago when those numbers were first introduced, but not now.
Geographical numbers cost you the same no matter where you call from within the UK. Most people have bundled minutes as part of their contract, so the marginal cost of calling a geographical number is zero. There is no such thing as local rates or national rates now.
0845 and 0870 numbers cost more to call than geographic numbers, and are called special rate numbers. They are very rarely included in bundled minutes, so it costs quite a bit to call them. Companies receive typically about 7p per minute when someone calls an 0870 number. The amount they receive for calling an 0845 number is quite a bit less, and is usually in the form of a reduction in phone charges rather than actual cash.
Re: Rare though it be...
0345 numbers offer exactly the same features in terms of routing and so on, and are included in your bundled minutes. Anyone who has an 0845 number is entitled to the corresponding 0345 number so that only the second digit in their number changes. There is no reason, apart from the termination payments they receive when people call them, why they shouldn't change to an 0345 number.
Amazon DENIES launch of iPhone-killing freebie smartphone
Want the latest Android version? Good luck with that
Now we know why UK spooks simply shrugged at SSL encryption
Re: The code-ring on the golf course
Lets translate what they are doing into plain English.
Suppose you are sending emails at https://www.gmail.com
The NSA knows there is traffic between your computer and GMail. Because it is encrypted, they don't know what the contents of that traffic are.
Assuming that SSL is unbreakable for all practical purposes, there are two ways they can find out what you were doing on GMail.
1. They can ask you
2. They can ask Google
Sometimes they will get the rubber hose out and ask you what you were doing, but they would rather not do that because if they do, then you know that they asked you.
However, they can ask Google, and Google will tell them, and Google won't tell you that they told them, and it is almost as easy to get the information off them as it is to get it from an unencrypted browsing session at http://www.gmail.com/
Amazon to offer FREE smartphone?
Re: If this does happen I think that both the..........
If I go to the Carphone Warehouse website and look for phones with a cost of £0, I find there are 69 of them. However the cost per month of the cheapest phone contract to go with it varies from £7 per month for the Nokia Asha 300 to £42 per month for the Sony Xperia Z1, so it isn't really free, it is just a way of paying for the phone in instalments.
Most of the people I know have a SIM only contract and buy their phones separately. It works out cheaper that way, though you do need more cash up-front.
UK investor throws £14.8m at firm that makes UNFORGEABLE 2-cent labels
Re: Impossible to forge? @Phil O'Sophical
You can check back to a central database with a bog standard serial number, and people do have things like that, for stuff like memory chips, hard drives, mobile phones, software and so on. There nothing to stop people copying that serial number, except that they need to make sure that people don't end up with two articles with the same serial number on them, and it is no different if you have a more fancy label with a complicated method of reading the serial number.
Chrome turns five, gains new 'desktop apps'
HDMI 2.0 spec arrives ... 1.0 years late
Re: I cant wait to see the price of a Monster HDMI 2.0 cable
I got a £15 HDMI cable from Apple for my laptop bag for that reason, and also because the connectors are much smaller than other cables, and the cable a bit thinner, so it takes a little less room in my bag.
However, for desktop PC to monitor, you very rarely move the cables, so it doesn't really matter.
Re: Cat 2 Cables
£40? Pah. You need a Monster ISR(R) 2000HD Hyper Speed HDMI cable. An absolute bargain at only £159.99. A £40 cable will give you washed out colours and poor contrast.
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-dvd-blu-ray/tv-accessories/cables-accessories/monster-isf-2000hd-hyper-speed-hdmi-cable-3-6m-21417584-pdt.html
At least that's what the PFY in Currys | PC World told me.
I got the £4.49 Currys essentials cable
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-dvd-blu-ray/tv-accessories/cables-accessories/essentials-coo3mhd13-hdmi-cable-3m-21359620-pdt.html
Seems to work absolutely fine. Yes I probably could have got something cheaper on-line, but I CBA to wait in for it to be delivered for a very small potential saving.
Universal Credit CRUNCHED: Dole handouts IT system to be rebuilt
Re: Re:
That is what Universal Credit aims to do. You can still claim some benefits while working, but it gets tapered off as you earn more. You file your accounts online with HMRC every month, and they use that to calculate your benefits.
Unfortunately, they can't also use that to calculate your tax bill, because profits for benefits purposes are calculated using different rules to profits calculated for tax purposes.
There were more jobs created between 1997 and 2007 than there were unemployed people in 1997 who could have taken those jobs. Back then, if you didn't have a job, there was something wrong with you. There were, nevertheless, people who didn't have a job back then, because there was something wrong with them.
New jobs are being created very slowly, but there is no point in doing that if you have to bring people in from other countries to do the jobs, because the natives are either too lazy, or won't take them because they end up with less money or much the same money as they do for staying in bed.
UK fraud office hauls Olympus into court over accounting scandal
Three used cheap deal to lure me into buying expensive slab, chap tells ASA
Microsoft - do you really think you can take on Google with Nokia?
Re: Microsoft will never be able to challenge Google.
Many people said the same thing about DOS and Windows back in the early days. And thy were right.
It doesn't matter. Android has critical mass, Windows Phone does not. It doesn't matter how good Windows Phone, Blackberry OS for that matter is, they are not going anywhere.