Posts by J. R. Hartley

UK telcos didn't collude to put Phones 4u out of business – judge

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Yeah. But they did though.

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one

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The utter disdain that the fruity foxconn rebrander has for the general public is unbelievable.

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

Re: if you tolerate this then your chilled air will be next.

I!Miss!The!Old!Yahoo!Headlines!

Apple, Samsung, and Intel to invest in Arm IPO, and emerge with some control: report

Tory Britain

Still can't believe the government let ARM get sold off.

Oh, that's right, the tories have been in charge for 13 miserable years. Fucking scumbags.

Apple owes Brit iOS app devs millions from excessively high commission, lawsuit claims

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The day the fruity foxconn-rebrander replies to a request from Vulture Central will be the day this site dies on its arse. Or ass, since it's gone all yank of late.

Twitter name and blue bird logo to be 'blowtorched' off company branding

Re: Y oh Y

It's an X parrot.

Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!

Re: RISC OS always used three buttons

Actually the Amiga supported 3 buttons from day one. There weren't many about though. I had one.

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Don't be silly. The great British unwashed are far, far too racist and servile for that type of thing.

The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111

Re: Why the down vote?

The first rule of downvotes.

Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess

Hopefully Larry Ellison will be the next billionaire to snuff it.

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

"Found the useless middle-manager."

When an HR department reaches critical mass, it becomes self sufficient in terms of work generation.

Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it

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What a load of bollocks.

Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!

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"BT who managed to get one of my customers signed up to separate multi year ISDN line and call bundle packages with different expiry dates. Cancelling one could only be done by taking a hit on the early cancellation fee of the other."

Come on. That is genuinely impressive.

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

Perchance

Alien versus Predator? No, this Android spyware works together

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Lovely stuff.

Billionaire BT stalker Patrick Drahi increases stake to 24.5%

Uh-oh

We're in trouble.

Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more

Re: Still a lot of ancient industrial hardware that needs it

"And since MS doesn't update Win7 any more, it won't break randomly."

Shirley you don't let it ever see the internet?!

Telco giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 staff as part of its turnaround plan

Good.

Glad to see Vodafone suffering. This is what happens when your customer service is so poor. Well deserved and good riddance.

National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece

Re: For Worlds Leading Greater IntelAIgent Games Players ‽

You're old news.

Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra is a worthy heir to the Note

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It has no iris scanner, and face unlock is terrible. A month in, and it seems like a step back from my Note 9 so far.

AmigaOS 3.2.2 released for those feeling nostalgic

A4000

I still regret selling my A4000 about 5 years ago, but I needed to buy a house, and the A4k got me a few grand. Miss it so much.

Arm swans off to Nasdaq despite UK gov pleas to IPO in London

Re: Not even that

They are scum

BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere

Re: Possibly a sensible solution

RIP LOHAN :'(

Never forgotten.

Microsoft to move some Teams features to more costly 'Premium' edition

Hopefully they keep it up so my company removes its bloated arse from our work laptops. What a hateful bastard of a thing.

Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT

Re: "If it's old, it's obsolete; and if it's obsolete, it needs to die."

I still can't believe Commodore managed to kill the Amiga. Quite impressive. Can't have been easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory over and over again.

As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave

Re: Ocean warming

@Ashto5

In your enthusiasm, you've typed that too quick, haven't you.

In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity

Re: Nice to have.

The ST only had MIDI as an afterthought because its sound chip was so shite and Jack Tramiel just wanted the machine out ASAP.

And as for the ST being rock solid, that only happens because the software has to take over the entire machine, the Amigas timing was rock solid with OctaMED running over Workbench and anything else you had running.

Yes, proper Amiga fanboy here. Wish I'd never sold my A4000T but I wanted to buy a house :(

UK government will not step in over Altice’s growing stake in BT

Not surprising

Tory scumbaggery at its finest.

If they can let ARM go, then what chance does BT have?

RIP, we hardly knew ye.

Strike days should serve as 'wake-up call' to BT's top brass, says union

Re: Maths

Bollocks

Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing

Re: Red-line

The fruity foxconn-rebrander doesn't give a fuck about ANYTHING except the bottom line.

Windows 10 22H2 edges closer to the enterprise as OS hits Release Preview

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So it'll be rolled out to enterprise users in about 36 months.

I've been fired, says engineer who claimed Google chatbot was sentient

Re: Dave

Just what do you think you're doing, Dave.

Israel aims to build its own upgradable quantum computer

U ok hun?

Let the Hasbara flow through you, my anonymous coward apartheid supporting friends.

Disgrace

Companies shouldn't be working with apartheid regimes.

A racist quantum computer. I suppose it was only a matter of time.

Apple forgoes cooling systems in M2 MacBook Air

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The accelerometer is so the laptop can tell it's falling and park the... oh wait...

Hmm...

BT strikes to start this month, 40,000 workers to down tools

Re: "95.6 percent were in favor"

It has been noticed.

Re: IT'S GOOD TO WALK. There wil be more foodbanks than telephone exchanges at this rate.

Thatcher scuppered BT's fibre optic plans in the late 80s.

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784

CP/M's open-source status clarified after 21 years

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Never mind that. I'll take it off your hands ;)

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Oooh yet another reason to get a C128.

BT strike action is coming: Comms union to serve notice to company

Re: Register going Stateside?

Noticed that too, my steeplejack friend.

Re: Happy days are here again!

"What I'd really like to understand is why today, given that the tax take is a higher proportion of GDP than it's ever been, we can't afford to provide council houses, better benefits, uni. fees and grants, and all the other support that let me and my brother get out of benefits dependence."

Tories. That's why.

UK government extends review of BT stake owned by French tycoon Patrick Drahi

Re: Beware - Look no rurther than Suddenlink in the US -- Poor BT Customers...

Jesus that's grim.

At least he made himself a few million, that's all that matters.

/sarcasm

Roku adds HomeKit, AirPlay2 support as Apple loosens control-freak tendencies in the smart-home world

Rupert Murdoch

The above scumbag owns many shares in Roku. I, for one, believe that is why we never saw the Roku 4 in the UK. Just in case it stood on Sky's toes. Doubt this will work on my plethora of Roku 2s, but I don't have any Apple guff in my house anyway at the minute.

You can now pepper your Windows 10 desktop with Android apps... if you have a Samsung phone, that is

Workbench

I miss AmigaOS so fucking much.

Windows 10 October 2020 Update has arrived... and so have the fixes. Plus: Fancy a discount on a Surface Duo?

SHART

Perfectly named.

If you can read this, your Windows 10 2004 PC really is connected to the internet no matter what the OS claims

Re: Teething problems

"Microsoft In Buggy Update Shocker"

SoftBank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong-Arm some more money out of your customers?

Re: Meh

Why would I be ashamed? Everyone knows Tories are nonces.

Re: Meh

Who mentioned Labour you nonce?