What good is a screen that shifts colour if you're editing photographs and video late into the night? In the morning you'll find all your work looks wrong.
Apple will do no fixes of anything until it learns its lesson with very bad iPhone 7 sales because of the removal of the 3.5mm audio jack. Apple are no longer trend setting, they are losing sales to Far East Android phones giving people mostly what they want in a phone shows.
Just imagine what Windows could be - a half decent Operating System, if Bill Gates spent some of that $78bn fixing Windows and stop being a whore for the media companies / feds.
As I type, the new British Prime Minister has applauded the deal of ARM being bought by foreigners. She doesn't have a maths degree, so it must be really difficult for her to understand all profits now will no longer boost UK GDP, but instead boost Japan's GDP. In UK, the man who setup ARM, some of the press / political commentators and economists attacking the deal, but the politicians know best.
At least the bosses of ARM get very rich from the deal.
It's sick how the politicians are using their usual excuse of "think of the children" to attack the free internet via porn, while they let paedophile (pedophile) gangs roam UK's treats for decades, even police and social services helping these gangs commit their crimes.
But just as bad, while politicians have a fetish over banning porn, they have no problem having 24/7 violence on TV. How many people are killed with sex, and how many people killed because TV gives impression to people that violence is ok?
It's all a smokescreen to control the internet, most people too stupid to see it, they are just fixated on the control porn argument.
TPP and TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) were written by the corporations and US government, so they've read the "trade deal". Meanwhile in Europe, hardly any politician has read TTIP, it's guarded like a top secret military document, no copies exist "on the outside". So how are most of Europe's politicians, ESPECIALLY the UK, in favour of signing TTIP?
Sounds to me like politicians are being blackmailed, given kickbacks, or both by the US government or corporations, either in money, or directorships in US company subsidiaries once the European politician leaves office.
Smells more like a PR story to gather sympathy for Microsoft after what they are doing to users by stealing their private information via the Trojan Windows 10.
Ban unbreakable encryption. Politicians proving once again they are dangerously uneducated. About time you stopped electing people with socially useless law and politics degrees.
Can we wipe Ubuntu off of it and put a real Linux distro on it? Still wouldn't want it, 10inch doesn't fit in the pocket, small 8inch tablet good enough when on the go.
Despite Ubuntu, we're still waiting for a proper Linux distro for a phone, and tablet. I'm getting really sick of Google/Android, it's increasingly becoming like Microsoft, taking control away from users.
I don't know why the Bank of England needs "cyber security", they just rob savers of £160bn with their seven years and counting, of 0.5% interest rates. They are the biggest robbers and market fixers in the UK, they are the ones who should be in prison.
Skype has a huge installation base despite it being insecure since Microsoft's purchase of Skype. I cannot get anyone in my social circle to dump Skype in favour of any already out there encrypted IM or video chat.
Apart from that, Skype is a load of bloated junk on Windows, and on Linux, it hasn't been updated in years.. maybe a good thing in some respects. It doesn't get proper integration with PulseAudio and KDE, and is still a 32 bit only install (for non-Deb installs). Skype is the only 32 bit application that I have to install a lot of 32 bit junk on a 64 bit machine.
Considering there were hundreds of expenses fraudsters in UK's Houses of Parliament, maybe the politicians should be added to this pre-crime "watch list".
Gadgets with Lithium batteries in the cabin instead of the hold. I'm okay with that. Anything that goes in the hold is likely to get stolen. Heathrow* didn't earn it's nickname Thiefrow for nothing!
My worst IT disaster was suffering from a hard drive failure, click of death. I had warning of a few days of it, and I deliberately kept the pc on 24/7 instead of normal switch on/off, to make sure the drive stayed alive until its replacement arrived.
Obviously I had to turn the pc off to change the drive, it was not hot-swapable. When I powerd the pc up, the old hard drive failed, didn't work at all. I was faced with losing all the data on it. I left the drive alone for months wondering what to do, reading different ideas online, some of them weird.
Eventually I decided to try the least distructive idea first. I put a sheet of paper on the failed drive to make sure the label doesn't come off, and heated up the clothes iron, then applied the iron directly onto the top of the hard drive. When the drive casing was wam enough (not so hot as to make it hard to carry), I took it to my pc, and powered up.
The failed hard drive came to life, and I managed to grab all the files on it onto the new hard drive, uncorrupted.
Out of interest, the failed drive failed about three months before I do forced drive change as a backup / failure prevention. I got lucky.
The Australians must have got the idea from the nutcase British Prime Minister who wants to make all encryption illegal.... so ban all paper and pens "for your safety".
Why won't the Europeans make it illegal to have region coding for DVD's and BluRay and computer games? This is just a PR stunt by the EU to pretend to people they are relevant to their lives
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What good is a screen that shifts colour if you're editing photographs and video late into the night? In the morning you'll find all your work looks wrong.
Apple will do no fixes of anything until it learns its lesson with very bad iPhone 7 sales because of the removal of the 3.5mm audio jack. Apple are no longer trend setting, they are losing sales to Far East Android phones giving people mostly what they want in a phone shows.
Just imagine what Windows could be - a half decent Operating System, if Bill Gates spent some of that $78bn fixing Windows and stop being a whore for the media companies / feds.
Javascript is a "programming language"? So when do we see an OS written in Javascript controlling all aspects of a pc's motherboard, processor etc?
I hope there's a list of serial numbers for cash, so we know how many brown envelopes the crooked politicians have accepted in bribes to pass EU laws.
As I type, the new British Prime Minister has applauded the deal of ARM being bought by foreigners. She doesn't have a maths degree, so it must be really difficult for her to understand all profits now will no longer boost UK GDP, but instead boost Japan's GDP. In UK, the man who setup ARM, some of the press / political commentators and economists attacking the deal, but the politicians know best. At least the bosses of ARM get very rich from the deal.
It's sick how the politicians are using their usual excuse of "think of the children" to attack the free internet via porn, while they let paedophile (pedophile) gangs roam UK's treats for decades, even police and social services helping these gangs commit their crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But just as bad, while politicians have a fetish over banning porn, they have no problem having 24/7 violence on TV. How many people are killed with sex, and how many people killed because TV gives impression to people that violence is ok?
It's all a smokescreen to control the internet, most people too stupid to see it, they are just fixated on the control porn argument.
TPP and TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) were written by the corporations and US government, so they've read the "trade deal". Meanwhile in Europe, hardly any politician has read TTIP, it's guarded like a top secret military document, no copies exist "on the outside". So how are most of Europe's politicians, ESPECIALLY the UK, in favour of signing TTIP?
Sounds to me like politicians are being blackmailed, given kickbacks, or both by the US government or corporations, either in money, or directorships in US company subsidiaries once the European politician leaves office.
After seeing what Microsoft has done to Skype for Windows, I'm quite happy with Skype the way it is - Linux Skype works properly in Pulseaudio.
I only have two demands, and that's to make Skype 64bit, as it is 32bit for most OS's not called Ubuntu. Would be nice to look good in KDE.
Smells more like a PR story to gather sympathy for Microsoft after what they are doing to users by stealing their private information via the Trojan Windows 10.
Ban unbreakable encryption. Politicians proving once again they are dangerously uneducated. About time you stopped electing people with socially useless law and politics degrees.
Can we wipe Ubuntu off of it and put a real Linux distro on it? Still wouldn't want it, 10inch doesn't fit in the pocket, small 8inch tablet good enough when on the go.
Despite Ubuntu, we're still waiting for a proper Linux distro for a phone, and tablet. I'm getting really sick of Google/Android, it's increasingly becoming like Microsoft, taking control away from users.
If Microsoft buys Yahoo, I'm closing my paid for Flickr account.
I don't know why the Bank of England needs "cyber security", they just rob savers of £160bn with their seven years and counting, of 0.5% interest rates. They are the biggest robbers and market fixers in the UK, they are the ones who should be in prison.
http://www.theguardian.com/mon...
Sneakernet.
Skype has a huge installation base despite it being insecure since Microsoft's purchase of Skype. I cannot get anyone in my social circle to dump Skype in favour of any already out there encrypted IM or video chat.
Apart from that, Skype is a load of bloated junk on Windows, and on Linux, it hasn't been updated in years.. maybe a good thing in some respects. It doesn't get proper integration with PulseAudio and KDE, and is still a 32 bit only install (for non-Deb installs). Skype is the only 32 bit application that I have to install a lot of 32 bit junk on a 64 bit machine.
Considering there were hundreds of expenses fraudsters in UK's Houses of Parliament, maybe the politicians should be added to this pre-crime "watch list".
No, Skype has been broken since Microsoft bought it and "improved" it.
Small mercies the Linux version of Skype hasn't been "fixed" the same way the PC, Mac, Andorid versions have.
Why is it even idea even patentable? It invents nothing.
Gadgets with Lithium batteries in the cabin instead of the hold. I'm okay with that. Anything that goes in the hold is likely to get stolen. Heathrow* didn't earn it's nickname Thiefrow for nothing!
* London Heathrow.
So for most of your list, you've pretty much described your wish list for Windows, to be like Linux is now. Switch to Linux then.
My worst IT disaster was suffering from a hard drive failure, click of death. I had warning of a few days of it, and I deliberately kept the pc on 24/7 instead of normal switch on/off, to make sure the drive stayed alive until its replacement arrived.
Obviously I had to turn the pc off to change the drive, it was not hot-swapable. When I powerd the pc up, the old hard drive failed, didn't work at all. I was faced with losing all the data on it. I left the drive alone for months wondering what to do, reading different ideas online, some of them weird.
Eventually I decided to try the least distructive idea first. I put a sheet of paper on the failed drive to make sure the label doesn't come off, and heated up the clothes iron, then applied the iron directly onto the top of the hard drive. When the drive casing was wam enough (not so hot as to make it hard to carry), I took it to my pc, and powered up.
The failed hard drive came to life, and I managed to grab all the files on it onto the new hard drive, uncorrupted.
Out of interest, the failed drive failed about three months before I do forced drive change as a backup / failure prevention. I got lucky.
Maybe it's the MPAA and RIAA latest attempt to stop people sharing copywritten material on the internet? Didn't they say they want to cut pirates off?
The Australians must have got the idea from the nutcase British Prime Minister who wants to make all encryption illegal.... so ban all paper and pens "for your safety".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why won't the Europeans make it illegal to have region coding for DVD's and BluRay and computer games? This is just a PR stunt by the EU to pretend to people they are relevant to their lives