I don't use Windows. Don't have these problems.
Posts by Joey
251 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2007
'Windows 10 destroyed our data!' Microsoft hauled into US court
Microsoft deletes Windows 10 nagware from Windows 7 and 8
Shopping for PCs? This is what you'll be offered in 2016
Monday 15th February 2016 11:39 GMT
What I want
Is a compact all-in-one with a 27" high res screen, a 3Tb drive with a large SDD buffer, no problems with drivers. That can run all modern versions of Windows and LInux concurrently and even copy and paste between them should I so wish. I'd also like it to pay for itself in the first week and to be able to sell it for a high proportion of what I paid for it after three years or so. Oh wait, that's what I have. An iMac.
Boffins baffled by record-smashing supernova that shouldn't exist
BBC News website takes New Year's Eve break
Watch out, er, 'oven cleaners': ICO plans nuisance call crackdown in 2016
BAN the ROBOT WHORES, says robot whore expert: 'These AREN'T BARBIES'
YOU! DEGRASSE! It's time to make Pluto a proper planet again, says NASA boffin
Goodbye Vulcan: Blighty's nuclear bomber retires for the last time
This whopping 16-bit computer processor is being built by hand, transistor by transistor
Scientists love MacBooks (true) – but what about you?
ROBOTS in sinister public-relations push ahead of coming WAR ON HUMANS
What an eyeful: Apple's cut price 27in iMac with Retina Display
Wednesday 3rd June 2015 14:28 GMT
Re: Good idea
I doubt if you will find a washing machine that will last ten years - unless you spend a lot of money. Washing machines typically give 1 year per £100 spent. A 10-year Miele will cost £1000+
Also, if you are lucky enough to get five years out of a washing machine before it dies, you have to scrap it. An iMac has a decent residual value after five years.
Last flying Avro Vulcan, XH558, prepares for her swan song
IN YOUR FACE, Linux and Apple fans! Oculus is Windows-only for now
It’s Adobe’s Creative Cloud TITSUP birthday. Ease the pain with its RGB-wrangling rivals
Thursday 14th May 2015 13:37 GMT
Photoshop CS6
For quite some time, Adobe charged substantial upgrade prices for increasingly esoteric new features. Now they want to lock you into a subscription model. I was a heavy duty Photoshop user at one time and happily paid for the upgrade even though though they added little in terms of functionality. I am quite happy to stick with CS6 and don't find it deficient in any way.
'Rombertik' malware kills host computers if you attempt a cure
Oh Em Pee! Giant Android tinkles on Apple in Google Maps graffiti
Fed-up Colorado man takes 9mm PISTOL to vexing Dell PC
Wednesday 22nd April 2015 14:59 GMT
Dell!
My one and only Dell computer ever was nearly thrown out of the second floor window on a number of occasions, were it not for the safety of those below. After ten service calls where everything was replaced (but the case) without it being fixed, I took it to the local dump and then built my own PC from the ground up. Now, if I had had a gun at the time...
ALIENS ARE COMING: Chief NASA boffin in shock warning
Ding Dong, ALIENS CALLING
Tuesday 31st March 2015 15:35 GMT
On the wrong track completely...
Everyone knows that the big bang started in a parallel universe and burst into ours, where there was nothing to start with. There are an infinite number of parallel universes of different sizes, scales and shapes. To travel great distances in our universe is just a matter of popping over to another universe that has a different scale and temporal flow, travelling a short distance and them popping back into our universe st the distant destination. No near-light speed needed, no deflectors, no cryogenic chambers, no Bussard Scramjets, no wormholes. All you need is a sidestep! We don't have these yet but something else might!
Thought Apple was kidding about diversity? Here's 50 MEEELLION reasons you're wrong
Apple Watch: Wait a minute! This puny wrist-puter costs 17 GRAND?!
Don't touch me up there! Photoshop creator appeals for 'ethical' use
Big Brother in SPAACE: Mars One picks first 100 morons to suffocate, er, settle on Red Planet
Apple LIGHTSABERS to feature in The Force Awakens
Lost SPACECRAFT believed FOUND ON COMET
Apple Fanboi? Stand by to get Beats Music LIKE IT OR NOT
Snapper's decisions: Whatever happened to real photography?
Sunday 2nd November 2014 10:07 GMT
10 x 8
Back then, I shot food and still lives on a 10 x 8 Sinar. Because of the long bellows extension and small aperture (f64), there would be up to thirty flashes from different flash and tungsten heads placed around the subject - some with a stocking over the lens to give a halo. I would have to use 10 x 8 Polaroid film to balance the lights and then take bracket shots +- 1/3 stops. The film would be sent off to the lab but a couple of sheets held back to be pushed or pulled by the lab for the final tweak. Depending on the subject, we could do one or two shots in a day like this. I always considered this approach to be 'painting with light' rather than photography.
Doctor Who and the Dalek: 10-year-old tests BBC programming game
Apple's new 'iPad Air 2' sliced open, revealing (possible) A8X core
Doctor Who becomes an illogical, unscientific, silly soap opera in Kill The Moon
Driving with an Apple Watch could land you with a £100 FINE
Thursday 18th September 2014 14:01 GMT
Interesting...
...that it is only the Apple Watch that could cause problems. Why not a Casio Calculator Watch or a Rolex with a stopwatch function? A: Because putting 'Apple' in a headline makes people sit up and pay attention. What about using a sat-nav? My TomTom has a dreadful touchscreen and even worse GUI. It can talk to me but I can't talk to it, which I could if I had an Apple Watch.
4K-ing excellent TV is on its way ... in its own sweet time, natch
Fiat Panda Cross: 'Interesting-looking' Multipla spawn hits UK
Financial wizardess joins Apple board, air of coolness noticeably diminishes
Delaware pair nabbed for getting saucy atop Mexican eatery
FBI: We found US MILITARY AIRCRAFT INTEL during raid on alleged Chinese hacker
NASA finds first Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone around star
Report: Apple seeking to raise iPhone 6 price by a HUNDRED BUCKS
Monday 14th April 2014 20:49 GMT
A brilliant idea!
I can then wave my new iPhone 6 in the pub with even more self-satisfied smugness. Why not make it another £1000, then it would be even more 'exclusive'. In a recent visit to the small market town of Enniskillen, Co Femanagh, I found a shop in the high street where the cheapest watch was £4500. Now THAT is style!
Android engineer: We didn't copy Apple or follow Samsung's orders
WTF is … the multiverse?
Tuesday 18th March 2014 11:59 GMT
It is impossible for the human brain to comprehend infinity and a universe that goes on forever. Our experiences always are always bounded by something. Most humans even have trouble comprehending three dimensions as we are confined to the two (and a bit) dimensions of the surface of a planet. Throughout history, various theories have been proposed and then supplanted by newer ones as we have been able to better observe and understand our surroundings. No matter how much worms evolve in the future, they will never understand how a steam engine works. I think that we are all worms.
Nipper rolls up at nursery with 48 wraps of HEROIN
Apple Mac Pro: It's a death star, not a nappy bin, OK?
Saturday 15th February 2014 13:30 GMT
It is NOT expensive...
My first Mac 128 (in 1984) cost about the same price as a Mac Pro does now. A LaserWriter cost £4500, a 10Meg SCSI hard drive cost £1750. My first Philips CD burner cost £2500, the software (Topic) cost £2500 for the Mac version and £2500 for the PC version. Blank CDs were £20 each and half the writes failed.
A NuVista video card cost £2500 and the same again for a u-Matic control card.
If you scale those 1980's prices to today, you are talking serious money. Expensive as they were, these items paid for themselves over and over again and fetched a good resale price too.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
