Posts by BGatez

Bollocks or brutal truth: Do smart-mobes make us grow skull horns? We take a closer look at boffins' startling claims

widespread

I have been troubled by phone zombie bone heads of all ages.

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

Does it tell you phone down, work out?

PowerPoint to start telling you that your presentation is bad and you should feel bad

Perfect addition would be auto-delete when you hit "save"

Bad news. Asteroid 1999 KW4 flew by, did not hit Earth killing us all. Good news: Another one, Didymos, is on the way

ouch

A one ton (US 2000 lbs) object traveling 44,000 mph has an energy of 4.1944e-5 megatons of TNT (according to calculator at http://www.1728.org/energy.htm )

Still sniggering at that $999 monitor stand? Apple just got serious about the enterprise

ugh

apple, ugh!

microsoft, ugh!

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

Re: "Cupertino idiot tax"

Updateable RAM and drive? Mac = 0

Everything about Apple screams :Hackintosh" for the Mac OS desperate (at what? 1/10 the price? 1/20?

One man went to mow a meadow, hoping Trump would spot giant grass snake under flightpath

Got the wrong end to describe donald

It's the curious case of the vanishing iPhone sales as Huawei grabs second place off Apple in smartmobe stakes

Price? Nothing to se here.

Maybe a decent phone that cost less than three decent laptops?

Let's make laptops from radium. How's that for planned obsolescence?

How about just make the things serviceable

Maybe a few more screws instead of glue in construction and less excuses as to why the battery must require a complete tear down to access.

Apple reckons mystery new material will debug butterfly keyboard woes in latest MacBook Pros

Apple continues to be a bad world citizen

Apple leading the "thin and bee-yoo-tiful" BS charge continues it's march to maximize early obsolescence for maximum profits. Facing the imminent failure of the BT Airpod v1 batteries, they released v2. The improvement? Same battery with a serviceability rating of 0, zippo, zed, nada, out of 10. So cheaply made of glued together bits that most recyclers won't accept them because it's so difficult just to get the battery out (which MUST be done due to fire hazard while recycling). Way to go you great big multi- billion $ pal.

Microsoft Windows 10 'Burger King' build 1903: Have it your way... and it may still leave a nasty taste in your mouth

It's suppposed to be an OS, not a fulll time job

Waaaa-aaay too much effort devoted to just not allowing MS to f*** your day

Want a good Android smartphone without the $1,000+ price tag? Then buy Google's Pixel 3a

Near 500 beans still buys a decent laptop, an indication to what suckers we are thinking this is a bargain for a phone.

Upgrade refuseniks, beware: Adobe snips away legacy versions of its Creative Cloud apps

Let me just say, f*** a bunch of Adobe

Baltimore hit with more ransomware, ChinaMobile gets the boot in the US, and another (mild) Systemd system-d'oh!

You mean the price dumping by (allegedly) American companies manufacturing in China?

Water big surprise: H₂O found in samples of 'dry' asteroid brought to Earth over millions of miles by plucky probe

They sent a probe out there, hit the mark and returned with a sample. Now that's doing the math! Science wins!

Tech giants get antsy in Northern Virginia: Give us renewable power, there's a planet to save... and PR to harvest

Re: Money Talks

And, of course, you could store that reactor waste in your yard, right?

Timely Trump tariffs tax tech totally: 25 per cent levy on modems, fiber optics, networking gear, semiconductors…

Emabarrassed American

SUCH a schmuck

The difference between October and May? About 16GB, says Microsoft: Windows 10 1903 will need 32GB of space

Enterprise LTSB

Enterprise LTSB can be had for 300 US from MS resellers and is SO worth the price. All OS, zero crap, no toy break your machine updates.

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

Cheap "fix" that's a proven failure

High prices have never deterred substance abuse in the past but of course is MUCH less expensive to implement than actually fixing the cause of abuse.

Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

Do we really need ANOTHER reason for f**kwits to bash into you while bumbling down the street?

We know you all want to shove AI where the sun doesn't shine. And that's exactly where it's going – detecting prostate cancer

At about 1 in 5 wrong if it were truly intelligent it would pull it's plug. At least we know why that finger was so cold.

Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?

Working on a phone? Only if you REALLY enjoy reading postcards

iOS 13 leaks suggest Apple is finally about to unleash the iPad as a computer for grownups

Priced for a King, fit for a tot

Bling for people with the stuff in sackfuls, now slightly less crappy

Only one Huawei? We pitted the P30 Pro against Samsung and Apple's best – and this is what we found

And how was the call quality - asking for a friend.

VP Mike Pence: I want Americans back on the Moon by 2024 (or before the Chinese get there)

Re: Lead the way

He got his $ from his daddy, then lied, cheated, and stole his way leaving others holding the bag behind his numerous bankruptcies. Many investors, but many more little guy suppliers and those blatently cheated by his so-called "university" were impoverished by association with donald.

Re: Lead the way

As a matter of fact immigration into the US has been steadily declining for years.

https://www.pewhispanic.org/2018/11/27/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-total-dips-to-lowest-level-in-a-decade/

And yes, he is an idiot, liar, and grifter.

Windows Defender ATP is dead. Long live Microsoft Defender ATP

no, just no

Sorry, Linux. We know you want to be popular, but cyber-crooks are all about Microsoft for now

Perhaps if MS hadn't done everything in their power to go from a broad, irritating target to one that's actively despised...?

They're BAAACK: Windows 10 nagware team loads trebuchet with annoying reminders to GTFO Windows 7

nope

At the time I must switch to Windows 10 because of new hardware and the software I need for work, it will be Enterprise LTSB - IMHO well worth the 300 beans US for the lack of trash and security of knowing it will likely keep working through a security update.

On the eve of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft confirms Windows 10 can automatically remove borked updates

Amazingly fast transition from 7 pretty good, to 8 ugh why, to 10 WTF

Insane homeowners association tries to fine resident for dick-shaped outline car left in snow

Eye of the beholder (and maybe a bit if wishful thinking)

Samsung pulls sheets off costly phone-cum-fondleslab Galaxy Fold – and a hefty 5G monster

Re: Only five cameras?

I just glue on a bee with a good memory

Another "must have" toy for people dedicated to ignoring their surroundings and oblivious to others while blocking sidewalks and stumbling into as many as possible.

LG folds at prospect of launching bendy phone while Samsung flaunts its upcoming kit on telly

Even more opportunity for rapt sidewalk idiots to either dawdle in your way, bash into you, or stroll into/under a moving vehicle.

Surface Studio 2: The Vulture rakes a talon over Microsoft's latest box of desktop delight

Considering that for this kind of cash you can have a top flight and update-able computer AND a top screen tablet to plug into it I'm not feeling the MS love.

Samsung Galaxy's flagship leaks ... don't matter much. Here's why

Just give me some decent hardware and a rom to load so I can dump the crap and spyware

One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

Will this include quasi and queasy nazis like seb gorka and the ever darling nigel farage?

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

Re: If you think this is shit

IMHO there is NO product MS has bought that they didn't successfully tank in jig time

I just don't have enjough f**k-yous for microsoft

Sure, you can keep Grandpa Windows 7 snug in the old code home – for a price

There is the hope ReactOS will move along (any billionaire angels out there?)

Win 10- no thanks

If I must I will get Enterprise LTSB (about $300 US from MS resellers. No Cortana, No games, No xbox, No ads, No forced machine killing updates, No store, NO BS and 10 years of security patches.

You got a smart speaker but you're worried about privacy. First off, why'd you buy one? Secondly, check out Project Alias

Re: you could simply not put the creepy things in your home

No lifetime subscription fees in that

Re: Why not just

Not from the bottom of my girlfriend's hand bag

Re: Why not just

It's that plug thingy jacked into the electric socket

Should the super-rich pay 70% tax rate above $10m? Here's Michael Dell's hot take for Davos

Re: Rich Tax Paradox

Tax cuts stimulated US economy? Ummm, nope. Stimulated stock buy backs which (temporarily) stimulated the stock market, benefiting wealthy shareholders and corporate officers paid in stock.

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

Another reason to avoid google

tor

AT&T (sucks) upgrades folks to 5G (Evolution) that isn't actually 5G

Re: Not sure about the US

In the US they seem to do as they like (barring occasional wrist slap)

Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10

Since I need software that only runs under Windows (currrently Ver 7), when I do need a new machine I will buy the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB version as it seems well worth it to dodge the crap storm.

My 2019 resolution? Not to buy any of THIS rubbish

Re: You missed one...

Try my knees before you say that