Posts by TonySomerset

Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?

Window11 is several steps far too far. MS increasingly want to funnel and control your access and usage of what it offers to you. Plus hoovering up behind the scenes all of your traffic, connections and contents to exploit and monetise.

NO THANK YOU.

Win10 is already too far down that road. When they, MS, pulls the plug I will be going OpenSource -Zorus calls.

AI in the enterprise: AI may as well stand for automatic idiot – but that doesn't mean all machine learning is bad

Teacher also Judge

Fallible humans set the teaching tasks and fallible humans decide whether a 'good' outcome should be rewarded. So it is just humans training for human responses albeit a couple paces removed. Except no group of humans can simulate the real world interactions of the whole world of humans.

Microsoft Windows 10 October update giving HP users BSOD

Windows Update failure again

Just had a Windows auto update and after login faced with blackscreen and message device not found, yet again, Outlook hanging. Same procedure, switch off router, reboot then power off, switch router on, then reboot again. Simple. So our thanks to MS for making our lives so exciting, stressful and saving us from having to do real work.

Bloke sues Microsoft: Give me $600m – or my copy of Windows 7 back

Our David

Bravo, we all wish you well and I am ashamed we didn't have your guts.

I too am totally indignant at Software Houses just arbitrarily taking away purchased programmes and forcing me onto an upgrade or worse a subscription service I didn't seek, need or want.

It's nuts but 'shared' is still shorthand for 'worthless'

Invigorating

Just very occasionally you come across words that resonate. This peel is still ringing around my head. Yes, shared outcomes can be far, far greater than any ones input. My only nagging worry is that the naysayers will drown that precious idea before it gets legs.

National Grid's new designer pylon is 'too white and boring' – Pylon Appreciation Society

Not Hidden by Design

First off, all power lines should be buried.

Second this is an awful bad design. It looks heavy and is very static. Compare it to the narrow V design, at least that had a degree of grace. This is going to impose on the landscape, no matter what colour chosen to 'blend in'. Has anyone with any design skills looked at this!

At least the old pylons were by design airy, light and insubstantial within the landscape.