Posts by dogged

What's Android Silver? Samsung preps Tizen mobes 'for Russia, India'

Re: I can't imagine Tizen being successful

They do have a problem, though.

Without a good email service, a bloody good Search service, a good mapping service (preferably offline) and excellent media sales and streaming, how smart is the phone anyway? Probably mapping is the most difficult of these to supply.

They of course have the option to use Google services and rivals are available such as Microsoft and Nokia's HERE stuff, which does not belong to MS. But using those would surely create revenue streams for Nokia and/or MS which is simply swapping one potentially brutal dictator for another.

It's a tough one.

The wildcard is probably China, as always. Baidu search, HERE maps, Weibo messaging might create a decent set of services without becoming too beholden to any one in particular.

I guess we shall see.

Mae Microsoft yn addysgu Swyddfa, Bing, siarad Cymraeg^*

Re: Microsoft Access

Or they left it out as it's cruel and unusual punishment of data.

Microsoft hints at smaller Surface

Re: As long as it's proper Windows

> That's great and you could do exactly the same with any number of Android tablets or iOS.

Not with AD security and saving to the internal Sharepoint server, I couldn't.

Well, I probably could but to do so would be orders of magnitude more complex that it is with the Asus.

Whoop de doo, I could use Android for it is the saviour and healer of all ills hooray! Or I could do it the sensible way because, y'know, not a fucking idiot.

Re: As long as it's proper Windows

> If they push out another shitty RT device then it will die on the spot

I disagree. Right next to me I have an Asus Vivotab Note 8 which I use extensively with OneNote MX (the RT version) to take notes in meetings and to scribble systems diagrams that I can save and share with the rest of the team instantly.

The only thing I ever use the desktop for is file management and (specifically) selecting media at home on my personal server to run over the network.

Provide a decent file manager and Office RT and I'd probably never use the desktop again on that tablet. It's a colossal pain in the arse on an 8" screen anyway, even with the stylus.

The extra battery life RT offers would also be handy.

Bill Gates: Sell off Bing? Nah. Xbox? Maybe...

Re: I'll just leave this here...

> AC for good reason

AC because you're Bob Vistakin peddling the same old lies again?

Re: Oh dear..

> Exactly, once open source and other 'free' software is the norm, you aren't going to have anything LIKE the profit you can get from hardware.

Oh, is it the Year of Linux on the Desktop again? Already?

Or is that next year? What, next year as well? How optimistic of you.

PEAK APPLE: Mystery upstart to hurl iLord from its throne 'by 2020'

Re: "one that we have never heard of"?

One that Fred Wilson's never heard of is probably Microsoft.

Reg man says '拜拜' to Honkers, ponders Asia's future role in tech world

Si si mi

for the illuminating glimpse of the Asian markets.

Good luck in your future endeavours, Phil.

French software developers are all beautiful women

Re: I worked in France

One takes the occasional break. Health & Safety at work regulations demand it, as does my sanity.

You, though?

You sound like the kind of manager who does nothing but wander around all day yelling for other people to be productive.

I worked in France

Programming for BNP Paribas.

Nobody could stand the sight of anybody else in the programming team. Uniformly male and not exactly comely, partly due the permanent expressions of anger and hatred induced by working with Siebel.

The project office manager was pretty fine though, despite the constant miasma of earwax-melting perfume that surrounded her.

Microsoft's Azure cloud goes a bit wobbly in West Europe

In before

the inevitable Bob Vistakin claim that nobody else ever has downtime.

Twitter's got a new UK public policy wonk... 'You are the product' Big Brother Watch bloke!

According to the Big Brother Watch website, he is not related to Eric Pickles in any way.

Google in NOT EVIL shocker: Bins student email ad scanning

Re: What a load of hogwash

Google pledges to stop beating wife at weekends.

Go ahead and un-install .Net, but you'll CRIPPLE Windows Server 2012

Re: .NET is evil

Downvote but no response because you can't name one.

Lame.

Re: In other news...

It is a software framework, yes. And MS use it themselves to build all the software that runs on their software platform.

I don't see why this notion is hard for you.

Re: .NET is evil

Name one .NET attack vector. Just one. I'll wait.

Re: Ah yes....

At the enterprise level, if you don't pay for support for your open source software you're a damn fool who deserves everything he gets.

The "it costs money" argument is only valid at the home user/enthusiast level.

Please leave it at home.

Re: Yeah no kidding...

If you have no GUI and no command line (ie, powershell) what have you got except a very expensive fan heater?

It doesn't. It does use HDD though and to be fair, there's very little in Server 2012 that doesn't use it to some extent.

Really though, all this is just the usual cretins saying "I SHOULD BE ABLE TO UNINSTALL THE PROGRAM AND IT STILL WORKS AS IF IT WAS INSTALLED WAH WAH WAH".

Yeah. Try uninstalling Excel and then running an Excel spreadsheet in Excel. That's what you're asking for.

Re: .NET is evil

What's wrong with it being there, supplying the platform for things to run on?

Don't want it? Don't go Windows. Don't understand how this huge THING that does THINGS is there IN YOUR MACHINE DOING STUFF... well, it's a set of APIs and you're a moron.

Quid-a-day Reg nosh posse chap faces starvation diet

Re: I often

You can still bulk-buy dried goods like rice and pasta and non-perishables like oil.

I make regular use of Costco for this purpose.

Chinese iWatchers: Apple's WRISTPUTERS ALREADY in production

Re: iYouHaveNoIdeaWhatItIsYet

A really good implementation of a wrist-borne interface might be the only thing that would convince me to Apple products, assuming they integrated nicely.

And didn't need the foul malware that is iTunes.

Google forges a Silver bullet for Android, aims it at Samsung's heart

Re: Well, it was only a matter of time......

Or maybe they could find somebody else to do the forking and host the appstore for them. Microsoft are (hilariously) in a position where they have both of these available.

Re: The time for Tizen has come, then.

A Blackphone looks more and more tempting every day.

Re: Well, it was only a matter of time......

> On a side note, if The Demon Spawn of Redmond, AKA M$ or Windoze (or whatever tired and unimaginative insults you can come up with) had announced plans to do this to their OEMs (or if they were to do so in future), what do you imagine would have been/will be posted on a thread like this one....hmm?

Disclaimer - I own and very much like a Lumia 920 running WP8.1

However.. MS already do this. They (now) own Nokia. WP is not open and cannot be forked. The WP "experience" is pretty much the same on every WP device. In the pc/tablet space, they have the Signature program which sells machines with stock installs and no crapware.

Google are late to this party.

EU antitrust bods: Motorola, Samsung too dominant to take on poor little Apple

Re: Whenever I see..

Are you suggesting that Motorola are some sort of shiny new upstart?

*mindboggle*

UK.gov data sell-off row: HMRC denies claims it'll flog YOUR private info

Re: Welcome to our country

Pointing out that nobody voted for a coalition is crying now?

Personally I'd favour the German system where coalitions are arranged and declared before the elections, so you know what you're voting for.

What we got is a peculiar bastard hybrid government that never stood for election.

Re: Welcome to our country

> As an electorate we voted for this and not just this coalition.

We did not.

Nobody voted for this coalition. Some people voted Tory. Some people voted Labour. 34 people and a hamster voted LibDem. Nobody voted for a coalition. This one has no mandate and is illegitimate in every practical sense.

Stephen Elop: I was RIGHT to BURN the PLATFORMS

I find the degree of reality-denial is equally high on both sides of the pond.

Re: Regret? Pah!

> Yes I know these three in particular will be addressed by WP8.1 but how long after WP8's release will that arrive?

You can install it right now? I know this because I did. Last week.

Re: What was the point of getting Lumia out in record time?

> Nope, you're going to get down votes for liking WP8.

In this one sentence you have explained exactly how the majority of commentards are actually fucktards.

Downvoted for liking something.

I won't mock you with the latin (you won't understand it and are clearly too blinkered to look it up) but this kind of bullshit is a stain on our industry.

I am ashamed of you.

Google's self-driving car breakthrough: Stop sign no longer a problem

Re: Bugger

> Still, pretty sure Jake already had a self driving car in the 90's

He calls it a car. I call it a horse.

Top tip, power users – upgrading Ubuntu may knacker your Linux PC

Upgrading anything may knacker anything but don't worry your pretty little head, Gavin - we don't expect you to know that. You're the software correspondent.

Really? Sigh. Really? Apple's lawsuit against Google is REVIVED

Re: Except that Apple keeps winning

> Most people would argue that the ability to tap a phone number in an email and have your phone dial that number is a pretty useful feature.

Except that Skype could do it in 2006 via browser plug-in. The USPTO might not realize this but if you copy somebody else's software and put it on a different device, you still copied it. You certainly didn't "invent" it.

> Lucy Koh has said that additional arguments related to Apple's "data-tapping" patent (5,946,647) can be presented

I usually just laugh at these cases but seriously, if anyone's got a patent on data-tapping it has to be either Google or the NSA.

Selfies are so 2013. Get ready for DRONIES – the next hipster-cam-gasm

Re: Naming suggestion

> Sounds like a lovely bit of the world you live in. Afghanistan? Chad? Somalia? Texas?

Tunbridge Wells?

Re: nowt new apart from the phrase.

That's nice. Really nice. Well flown, sir.

Also, Amazon are flogging these for £39.

That's right, MICROSOFT is an ANDROID vendor after Nokia gobble

Re: Microsoft FAIL

Thanks for your balanced and careful analysis.

Google+ maker Vic Gundotra: My work on this 'NETWORK THINGY' is DONE

Re: Bingo

Let me ask you a question, AC.

If G+ is so popular and such a big winner on absolutely every front and is the future - I regret it, but I read the hilarious puff-piece article you linked. Does she also recommend buying Blackberry shares? - then how come all these reporters who are getting it wrong aren't already using it all the time? How come it's not their major source of cat videos?

How come nobody except about 83 nerds gives a flying fuck about Google+?

Google+ fans

rarer than Chromebooks.

El Reg posse prepares for quid-a-day nosh challenge

Re: I still need to investigate how I can get some protein on the cheap.

The cheapest source of protein is probably milk, especially if you can manage to buy it at farm gate prices. Tesco want 89p for two pints whereas my uncle the dairy farmer gets 19p per litre.

Ask nicely and I'm sure he could give you 5 litres for a quid. Already pasteurised, too.

Your cheapest carbs are almost certainly potatoes. Veg probably goes with a big-ass bag of frozen peas.

Dell charges £5 to switch on power-saving for new PCs (it takes 5 clicks)

Re: Install Linux and get those power saving options for free.

Out of interest, why did you install OpenSSL on a Windows box?

Re: Shoddy components

> Install Linux and get those power saving options for free

Or install Windows and get those power saving options for equally free.

This machine comes with Win8.1 so...

Right-click Start button -> Select Power Options -> Pick a power option from a list.

Good luck with doing it your way, AC, which is (assuming Ubuntu)

install a Linux -> right-click on the right-hand side of the screen (assuming Gnome or Unity) -> Control Center(sic) -> Hardware -> Power Management -> Alter individual settings, no profiles

So much easier for the end user, right? Right?

OnePlus One equals 'killer' new mobe running CyanogenMod

Re: Lack of SD + KitKat 4.4 == good idea...?

> Given Google's lockdown of the SD card (finally) and the way it can make apps which don't play well with the new handling strategy not work too well... perhaps Android should generally face up to getting rid of removable SD cards.

It's pretty clear from the Nexus line that Google don't like the idea of SC Card storage.

Cisco: Hey, IT depts. You're all malware hosts

Re: Abridged version

(DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT WORK FOR CISCO OR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES)

To be fair, Cisco stuff is pretty bloody good at what it does.

So, just how do you say 'the mutt's nuts' in French?

Re: French

> Yes, "couilles" is feminine.

In the grand tradition of latinate languages, as per "mentula".

Oh no, Joe: WinPhone users already griping over 8.1 mega-update

Re: It seems Microsoft still doesn't 'get' it..

> Then WP8 came out and it became obvious straight away that the current batch of devices wouldn't be able to keep up due to hardware restraints.

You do talk some utter crap. The L520 is probably the lowest hardware smartphone out there and a) it keeps up just fine and b) it keeps up well enough to get the 8.1 update.

The fact that you're too cheap to pay 50 euros for a new phone off-contract and you're terrified of any change at all is nobody's problem but yours.

Och aye! It's the Loch Ness Monster – but only Apple fanbois can see it

People use Apple Maps? Do they enjoy magical mystery tours?

Microsoft signs Motorola to Android patent pact – no, not THAT Motorola

Re: Microsoft's Android patents ..

> The reason the manufacturers are paying is likely that it is cheaper and simpler to pay a couple of dollars to Microsoft for licensing unknown patents, than to try and fight them in court, which takes a lot of time and money, for a result that is uncertain.

How many Samsung phones are activated every day? Did you say "a couple of dollars"?