Posts by BGatez

Nothing's certain except death and patches – so that 'final' Windows 10 19H2 build isn't really

Enterprise LTSC usually available from Windows resellers. May be special order and 300 beans US but soooo-ooo worth it.

NO cortana, edge, xbox, store and the rest of the rubbish

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

Re: He who pays the fiddler...

Or, stand up with your fellows for what's right and change that stinking fish's head

The trump sensibility writ large- yay...

A spot of after-hours business email does you good, apparently

I'll take my chances.

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

Yep

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

subscription model = Beta testing

If you're fortunate it's Beta testing, sometimes not even. OTOH it's always an opportunity to suck up your cash,

Microsoft has made an Android phone. Repeat, Microsoft has made an Android phone. A dual-screen foldable mobe not due until late 2020

paging The Doctor

"You will be upgraded!"

This won't end well. Microsoft's AI boffins unleash a bot that can generate fake comments for news articles

"Although the idea of DeepCom is concerning, it’s probably not sophisticated enough yet to cause much harm. The comments it generates are short - on the order of tens of words - and aren’t complex enough to incite much reaction. "

About right for the US MAGA thought process

Computer says no: An expression-analysing AI has been picking out job candidates for Unilever

GIGO

Facial recognition at festivals, stupid shoplifting algorithms, Google shares data to kill off deepfakes

Minority Report

Windows 10 May 2019 Update inches toward the 50 per cent uptake as a new build drops

rubbish piled high

HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some

Re: Trustworthy?

Along that thinking let me tell you to check the Firefox plug in TrackMeNot

http://trackmenot.io/

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

How long ago?

Given the distance how long ago has this happened?

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

"calling Mom"

Perfect for food not suitable for humans

Lights, camera, camera, camera, action: iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip biz in new iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip shocker

Or, you could buy a decent phone AND a decent laptop or real camera

Re: Peak tech

- or , heavens, a easy user replaceable battery

The gig (economy) is up: New California law upgrades Lyft, Uber, other app serfs to staff

Re: OK

Try mass transit

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

Customers not calling isn't an indication of quality increase as MS claims, it's the knowledge that MS will do nothing and it's a waste of the time they could spend trying to roll back the latest "improvement" or re-loading their machine.

Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

Re: At the risk of making myself unpopular

mostly cheaper to make while less prone to repairs

Google Pixel 2 XL: Like paying Apple-tier prices then saying, hey, please help yourself to my data

Re: It's not for me then...

Maybe if a phone was actually used for communication, and not for entertaining those with short attention spans (who then whine about short battery life)

Apple will wring out $18bn by upselling NAND to fanbois – analyst

Re: Analyst attracts attention by mentioning Apple

My fav is HP selling their Z line of workstation laptops ALL with one stick of dual channel RAM in the two slots buried beneath the keyboard and not user accessible.

OK, let's try that again: Vulture rakes a talon on Samsung's fresh attempt at the Galaxy Fold 5G

Hilarious to see how many whiners fainting at the idea of having to carry an 8" tablet. Oh, the humanity!

ha!

China remains in pole position for electric vehicle uptake despite cuts to subsidies

China, very wisely, has looked at smog choked cities and 10 lane highways with 3 day traffic jams and made it much harder to get a car license. On the other hand electric bicycles, scooters and even three wheeled vehicles are EVERYWHERE and used by all ages and sexes for just about everything, from commuting, to taking the kids to and from school, to shopping and errands.

Acer and Asus unveil some of the world's heaviest laptops ... and some of its lightest

Not all artists and designers come with such deep pockets *sigh* (any benefactors out there?)

Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

fuck a bunch of microsoft

Business PC sales up as suits flee looming end of support for Windows 7

"Pro" for business? Hardly

In what way can Windows Pro 10 be described as business ready? Aside from the slew of trash game crap there is, as always, the unwanted "update" that cripples your machine (especially amusing on those business trips), and the unavoidable spying. When you're say, testing a new software and have had to sign an NDA forbidding even the mention of it's name, but your OS cheerfully uploads info about all your installations, could this be a problem? To say nothing about passwords, SS numbers, credit cards, banking info... exactly how much of your data is being uploaded? No way to know.

Cortana makes your PC's heart beat faster: Windows 10 update leaves some processors hot under the cooler

Cortana is beyond doubt, the worst POS spyware resource pig there is, and even more detestable than clippy.

If, unfortunately, your eyesight is so affected that you need to use it you'd still be better off with a talking dog.

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

*sigh*

Trump attacks and appeals 'fundamentally misconceived' Twitter block decision

Re: Nothing new, then

Now you have Boris, Gary Busey's more harmful brother

Can't bear to part with that well-worn copy of Windows 7? Microsoft might let you keep it updated an extra year

Re: "Install Windows 10 LTSC"

In US available through MS licensed retailers at about $300 for non subscription 10 year version

WeWork filed its IPO homework. So we had a look at its small print and... yowser. What has El Reg got itself into?

You could lose less - just open a restaurant

Microsoft's Cortana booted off yet another service while Google and AWS get a bit catty over licensing shakeup

Would someone come up with a way to root out this cortana vampire from my Win 10 "Pro" - please

Re: SpySpeakers

Yes for the less abled they can help but they still spy- doctor conversations perhaps, banking info/passwords, etc. etc. etc.

Let's see what the sweet, kind, new Microsoft that everyone loves is up to. Ah yes, forcing more Office home users into annual subscriptions

Re: I've been recommending it to people for years

That's because PowerPoint is such a wonderful drug free (and certainly non-addictive) sleep aid

Microsoft spreads the Cortana love to more Insiders with new Windows 10 preview

All I want is a stake through Cortana's heart prior to a proper beheading

OK, Google. We've got just the gesture for you: Hand-tracking Project Soli coming to Pixel 4

ugh, just ugh

And how exactly does it recognize YOUR hand?

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean Google isn't listening to everything you say

If you're lazy or stupid or indifferent enough to use a "smart" speaker or any of the dopey IOT spybot crap you get what you deserve.

Apple fakes intimacy in our dead-eyed digital world with software fix

Re: No they haven't

That you know of.

Re: Uptight and in the groove baby

uh huh. whose batteries last longer?

ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

f a bunch of MS

IVE HAD ENOUGH! iQuit. Jobs done. Jony cashes out at Apple to run his own design biz

Re: Box, slab, or cylinder; expensive, premium, or ultra elite

No one gave a fart about "bezel-less", another "need" created by marketeers (rhymes with racketeers).

overpriced AND badly engineeered

Certain Apple will continue it's policy of delivering overpriced crap that, even more insulting in this day, is so badly designed as to be virtually recycling proof.

It's a fullblown Crysis: Gamers press pause on PC purchases, shipments freeze

Spoken like a smug ass who sees a few cities / manufacturing centers (if you've ever been) where some are rich and some get by and many live like dogs. You don't see homeless because they're swept off to "camp". Meanwhile in Britain, a country of 8 million population, the UN estimates 870,000 children alone do not get enough food. Throughout the UK, some 4,700,000 people extremely food insecure, meaning often not eating for a day or more.

https://borgenproject.org/top-10-facts-about-hunger-in-the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland/

https://www.independent.co.uk/helpahungrychild/food-poverty-future-help-a-hungry-child-waste-stop-felix-project-food-insecurity-a8074366.html

Before we lose our minds over sentient AI, what about self-driving cars that can't detect kids crossing the road?

GIGO

Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer

Are you all climate change deiers too?

Fairly hilarious, both the article bias and what seems to be a near consensus of commenters, that people questioning 5G safety are just a bunch of nuts. How similar to climate change deniers who can't see or smell it and aren't dying straight away so it must be nonsense.

ho ho ....ho?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-studies-link-cell-phone-radiation-with-cancer/?redirect=1

From that whacko publication Scientific American -

"New Studies Link Cell Phone Radiation with Cancer

Researchers call for greater caution, but skeptics say the evidence from rat studies is not convincing"

Eggheads have found a positive link between the number of racist tweets and the number of racist hate crimes in US cities

Gambling? I'm shocked, shocked!

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

Windows 10 spyware, machine crippling OS