Posts by agatum

We're all really excited about new smartphones, laptops, tablets – said no one ever

Re: When good enough is good enough, enough.

> turned me into an MS anti-marketer (telling friends and colleagues not to touch it with a bargepole)

Same here. Reporting for duty, sir.

Re: Did they fail marketing?

> Capitalism 101: Infinite growth at all cost.

Seems to me the only two things growing infinitely are greed and stupidity. Not markets.

iOS 9 kludged our iPhones, now give us money, claims new lawsuit

> This...this is the reality of a so-called premium product.

Sad and true. Years ago I was a bit smug about my choice of manufacturer. Most my friends had android devices and still do. My smugness has diminished somewhat since then. And diminishing as we speak.

There was no 'incessant update whining'.

On my iPhone (iOS 8.1.3) there is a little red circle with number '1' in it on the upper right corner of the 'Settings' icon as a constant and annoying reminder. We could argue if that counts as an 'incessant update whining'. In any case, I find it annoying.

1. Please ask once politely if I want to download an update system

2. If I do, ask once politely if I want to upgrade and make it clear my toy may turn to sludge if I do

So simple. I'd say even the biggest and brightest brains in the IT sky should be able to grasp an idea so profoundly simple. Have and upvote.

Re: Money market

> As far as I am concerned, people that buy Apple, Microsoft and the rest deserve it.

No I don't. I paid top euros for a 'high-end product' (as the manufacturer claimed) so what I deserve is a 'high-end product'. Apple, slurp et al deserve to get sued.

> No need for a court case at all.

Yes there is. See above.

Microsoft in 2016: Is there any point asking SatNad what's coming?

> Any point asking this SadNad what's coming?

No point. They have been told gazillion times what should be coming but they don't seem to deliver.

Windows 10: What's coming in 2016?

Re: Give it a rest

> Linux fanboys will count everything including router firmware to jack up Linux numbers.

And why not? Slurp is surely counting every 'win10 install failed, fall back to win7' as another 'happy win10 user somewhere'. Who knows, they may even count the fucking forced download of said crap as a 'win10 install'.

Re: Store apps

> Vulkan and gaming on Linux.

My wet dream. Luckily the number of developers providing an osx/linux version of their game seems to be increasing rapidly. So rapidly in fact that in 2016 the only reason I have to have a win (7) box is Fallout 4.

VMware, Xen issue urgent patches

> However, Java doesn't do the idiotic "write past the end of the buffer and keep going" thing that C does

C does no such thing. C _enables_ you to do such thing. Like, if you are an idiot, you can hit yourself with a hammer. Hammer is not to blame.

Big Brother is born. And we find out 15 years too late to stop him

Re: Curious

Indeed. Obvious solution: inject more needles.

Let's shut down the internet: Republicans vacate their mind bowels

Re: "Vacated their mind bowels" - a lovely phrase

> Imbecilic diarrhea. Altho they are all some of the most malevolent imbeciles I have ever seen. Let alone supposedly running for some high office.

And one of these tards will/may be ruler of the 'free world'. Chilling thought.

US government pushing again on encryption bypass

Re: The problem was that the data pile was ALREADY too big

> They aren't able to drink water fast enough to keep up with a garden hose, so their solution is to replace it with a fire hose.

Best damn analogy _ever_ concerning this matter. Can not stop laughing, so thank you! Have a pint.

New edition of Windows 10 turns security nightmares into reality

Re: There is another option

> And as long as people insist on "C"/"C++" and likewise impossible-to-get-it-right languages

Been doing c++ for two decades and always got it right, after a few iterations. So it may be impossible for you, not for me and countless others. Maybe attend some night courses?

Research: Microsoft the fastest growing maker of tablet OSs ... by 2019

Re: meaningless statistics

> The point is to provoke and attract clicks from all the angry people who want to tell us how much they hate Microsoft

Yes and it worked on me.

Volkswagen: 800,000 of our cars may have cheated in CO2 tests

Last week I got a letter telling me that my Audi A5 2.0TDI indeed has EA 189 engine with the cheatware. I am pissed. This is my third (been driving them for almost 20 years) and my last Audi. In the letter they tell me they are sorry. They fucking should be but the real problem for them is even though they are sorry (boo hoo) and they will fix my car for free I will never buy another one from them. As a consumer I allow any company to lie to me once, after that it's goodbye forever. I am pretty sure I am not alone with this kind of thought pattern.

Solution for me (as a man needs to drive a vehicle)? Wait a bit to see if other manufacturers cheated as well and move on. But Audi (VAG)? Never again.

Maybe I wait for Apple car. They don't cheat and if they do it's only because 'you tested it wrong'.

Next year's Windows 10 auto-upgrade is MSFT's worst idea since Vista

Re: If you're getting tired of the notifications, just disable them

"I don't care for the cloud, I feel no need to have data seamlessly available to my phone and laptop but I really do object in principle to handing a great deal of power to corporates."

I do need to have data seamlessly available to my phone and laptop (and desktop). And I have; some call it subversion. My source code and my business and my pictures (my life) have no place in cloud where it could be taken (stolen) by third parties at any time.