We've already had Windows RT (locked down, only apps from an app store). The public thought they were getting full Windows, not a deliberately crippled cut down one So return rates were high which meant shops didn't want them either. So it failed. Similar story for Windows 10S, locked down to only apps from the "Microsoft Store", only Edge and only Bing. Guess what, the public didn't want it and it failed.
So if Microsoft want to try again they need to call it something other than Windows. Because as soon as you put Windows in the name the public thinks it will be the same version of Windows they have on their PC and when they find it is deliberately crippled or cut down they don't want it and return it.
I remember a colleague that always launched programs from desktop icons (never from the start menu). So we did a simple prank of taking a screenshot, setting it as the wallpaper and then deleting all the icons. Result, lots of frustrated double clicking and wondering why applications wouldn't launch.
Unfortunately, since Alex Cruz took over the helm, British Airways have become a budget airline in every respect apart from the price. Checked bags no longer included. No food or drink included. Pay extra to select seats. Coupled with (in my experience) very frequent shcedule changes after booking and poor customer service. Coupled to that frequent IT problems, and some industrial relation issues. I only use them when no other airlines fly the route. The only thing that isn't like a budget airline is the price.
Are they really planning to pass a law that applies only to 4 named companies? Why not all companies? I can see that ending up in the courts as anti-competitive if they do. That or Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple will set up a new company with a different name to avoid the law. And what about other companies doing similar. Starbucks springs to mind?
I do find that airlines seem to like to keep announcements about delays quiet until the last minute. Certainly in the UK they are rarely displayed before checkin (only after security, when you can't go back), which of course keeps you stuck in the airport where I suspect they hope you'll spend money in the shops during your delay.
I find it can be useful to search for your flight on Flightradar or the like. They often have the registration of the aircraft booked to operate the flight (how they get this, I don't know), so it can be worth looking at the previous flight that aircraft is operating and see if that is late. If it is, it's likely you're flight will be too.
Good, it seems if you want to go to a concert these days you're forced to watch it through the screen of the phone belonging to whoever is standing in front of you. It's sad that so many people seem to want to spend most of their time at a concert showing off to their friends that they are there, rather than enjoying the experience. I sometimes wonder if they then watch the concert on their phone to see what it was actually like.
It's certainly a policy I support.
Will be for BMW headlights. They seem to like to fit blindingly bright headlights. Yes it's great if it helps the BMW driver see but not so good if the drivers coming the other way can't see anything.
Yes and I find their managment of Flickr baffling. For years I paid for a Pro account. That gave you additional disk space and meant all your photos were viewable (I think standard users they used to only display the most recent 250 or something). Then they decided to redisgn the site (which had been largely unchanged for many years, possible since launch) and gave all users (including free accounts) 1TB of storage and all photos displayed. The only thing I think you now get as a Pro user is no ads when you browse the site and better stats. Suddenly, it's not worth paying for so I stopped. Whilst their change in policy was good for me I can't imagine it was good for Yahoo.
However whilst the mistake the pilots made is serious it is just as serious in my view that the plane was permitted to fly in this condition in the first place. It seems the problem with this particular plane was well known and had been happening (at least) for a number of days since but had not been fixed.
I have big concerns with Windows 10 so have not updated to it yet. Those are primarily around the forced mandatory updates. We've all seen drivers and software stop working when you install a new version of Windows. With Windows 10 you are in effect installing a new version of Windows every time it updates. So you no longer have any certainty that the devices and software you require will keep on working. Now it seems Microsoft will automatically remove anything it thinks is incompatible without even offering the choice. Nice.
If I was the 3rd party software vendor I'd pretty miffed. I think it is only a matter of time before Microsoft is taking to court for this. It is not their job to decide what software someone can or cannot run on their own PC.
I use a bank that likes to push this software. Everytime I log into the online banking you get an annoying "pop over" suggesting you install it, which I have to close each time. I've never installed it, and reading this very glad I didn't, I'm always suspicious of websites trying to push software as must have, even if it's banks doing it. My concern is banks moving towards making software like this mandatory, before they will allow you to log onto online banking.
Go elswhere, well yes, for now, but if every bank insists on software like this? I've already heard banks can refuse to refund any fradulant transaction if they think you've not taken adequate protection. Would not installing the banks "recommended" software meen you haven't taken adequate protection? Yes I could go back to banking by phone (which is far less secure, of course) or in branches, but with more branches closing all the time, the latter probably won't be an option for much longer either.
I see from the status page the Regex support is still not complete, part of the C++11 standard. It would be nice if support for this standard could be completed before starting on C++14.
Yes and yet we seem to lavish praise on Google Docs etc for having fewer features than Word of 1990 (or Wordperfect) and requiring massively higher amounts of memory and cpu to run.
Yes but the problem is not so much keeping the software running it's if the software is still useful. A lot of users of the full Photoshop will want to open RAW files from their camera, because of the superior quality. I doubt CS6 will support the RAW format of the latest cameras in say 2 years time. So you buy a new camera you need the latest version of Photoshop to open the RAW files.
I'm fortunate to work 2 miles from home so most days I walk there and back. But in my previous job where I had to drive I used to go for a 15 minute walk before I left for work in the morning. I found it helps to wake me up to!
Time was when politicians in most Western countries would point at the Great Firewall of China as an example of a repressive regieme. Now they seek to emulate it.
The odd thing with Adobe is that in my opinion it produces some really excellent software and some really dreadful software and not much in between. Adobe Photoshop is the best image editor I've come accross and Photoshop Elements is certainly worth the money (for a home user I feel Photoshop is a bit too expensive, good though it is). But at the other end of the spectrum there is Adobe Reader. It seems to get slower each release so that opening a typical PDF still takes as long as it did 10 years ago even though modern PCs are much faster than those of 10 years ago. It probably has more features but the features I use are limited to just move around the page, zoom in, rotate all of which you have been able to do for years. I don't know how Adobe manage to make it get slower and have to update it so often. Likewise I won't be sorry to see Flash go, another program that seems to constantly want to update (and nag about it).
The added range would make an electric car a lot more useful, but there are still some problems to solve. With a petrol car if I get low on fuel I can fill up and be on my way again in 5 minutes. If my charge in an electric car runs out how long will it take to charge? Probably a lot more than 5 minutes. Also where can you charge it? Not everyone has off street parking or off-street parking with an electric supply (e.g. a garage in a block). You can hardly run a long extension lead down the road to where you car is parked to charge it. I think this will only work if the battery can be *easily* removed (so it can be charged in your house ready to put back in the car in the morning). It would also be good if petrol stations could swap a discharged battery for a charged one (for a fee, obviously) much like filling up with petrol today. Until these issues are resolved I don't see electirc cars being as popular as petrol/diesel.
I find this link does not render correctly for me in Firefox 3.5 : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bs2twtah.aspx
The "This page is specific too" bit comes up over the top of other text making it unreadable. I don't know whether it's a Firefox bug or just bad HTML.
And to add to that, attempts to track where you are going using road pricing (a black box in your car reporting on every journey) and smart cards for public transport tickets (already in place in London using Oyster, already a condition of many rail franchises that these are introduced).
Slashdot Mirror
We've already had Windows RT (locked down, only apps from an app store). The public thought they were getting full Windows, not a deliberately crippled cut down one So return rates were high which meant shops didn't want them either. So it failed. Similar story for Windows 10S, locked down to only apps from the "Microsoft Store", only Edge and only Bing. Guess what, the public didn't want it and it failed. So if Microsoft want to try again they need to call it something other than Windows. Because as soon as you put Windows in the name the public thinks it will be the same version of Windows they have on their PC and when they find it is deliberately crippled or cut down they don't want it and return it.
I remember a colleague that always launched programs from desktop icons (never from the start menu). So we did a simple prank of taking a screenshot, setting it as the wallpaper and then deleting all the icons. Result, lots of frustrated double clicking and wondering why applications wouldn't launch.
Unfortunately, since Alex Cruz took over the helm, British Airways have become a budget airline in every respect apart from the price. Checked bags no longer included. No food or drink included. Pay extra to select seats. Coupled with (in my experience) very frequent shcedule changes after booking and poor customer service. Coupled to that frequent IT problems, and some industrial relation issues. I only use them when no other airlines fly the route. The only thing that isn't like a budget airline is the price.
Drop it in the bath?
Are they really planning to pass a law that applies only to 4 named companies? Why not all companies? I can see that ending up in the courts as anti-competitive if they do. That or Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple will set up a new company with a different name to avoid the law. And what about other companies doing similar. Starbucks springs to mind?
I do find that airlines seem to like to keep announcements about delays quiet until the last minute. Certainly in the UK they are rarely displayed before checkin (only after security, when you can't go back), which of course keeps you stuck in the airport where I suspect they hope you'll spend money in the shops during your delay. I find it can be useful to search for your flight on Flightradar or the like. They often have the registration of the aircraft booked to operate the flight (how they get this, I don't know), so it can be worth looking at the previous flight that aircraft is operating and see if that is late. If it is, it's likely you're flight will be too.
Good, it seems if you want to go to a concert these days you're forced to watch it through the screen of the phone belonging to whoever is standing in front of you. It's sad that so many people seem to want to spend most of their time at a concert showing off to their friends that they are there, rather than enjoying the experience. I sometimes wonder if they then watch the concert on their phone to see what it was actually like. It's certainly a policy I support.
The best way of securing a Windows 10 device is not to switch it on.
Will be for BMW headlights. They seem to like to fit blindingly bright headlights. Yes it's great if it helps the BMW driver see but not so good if the drivers coming the other way can't see anything.
Have they fixed the morning after hangover?
Yes and I find their managment of Flickr baffling. For years I paid for a Pro account. That gave you additional disk space and meant all your photos were viewable (I think standard users they used to only display the most recent 250 or something). Then they decided to redisgn the site (which had been largely unchanged for many years, possible since launch) and gave all users (including free accounts) 1TB of storage and all photos displayed. The only thing I think you now get as a Pro user is no ads when you browse the site and better stats. Suddenly, it's not worth paying for so I stopped. Whilst their change in policy was good for me I can't imagine it was good for Yahoo.
It was more than just a squak. The article talks about a faulty rudder control.
However whilst the mistake the pilots made is serious it is just as serious in my view that the plane was permitted to fly in this condition in the first place. It seems the problem with this particular plane was well known and had been happening (at least) for a number of days since but had not been fixed.
I have big concerns with Windows 10 so have not updated to it yet. Those are primarily around the forced mandatory updates. We've all seen drivers and software stop working when you install a new version of Windows. With Windows 10 you are in effect installing a new version of Windows every time it updates. So you no longer have any certainty that the devices and software you require will keep on working. Now it seems Microsoft will automatically remove anything it thinks is incompatible without even offering the choice. Nice. If I was the 3rd party software vendor I'd pretty miffed. I think it is only a matter of time before Microsoft is taking to court for this. It is not their job to decide what software someone can or cannot run on their own PC.
I use a bank that likes to push this software. Everytime I log into the online banking you get an annoying "pop over" suggesting you install it, which I have to close each time. I've never installed it, and reading this very glad I didn't, I'm always suspicious of websites trying to push software as must have, even if it's banks doing it. My concern is banks moving towards making software like this mandatory, before they will allow you to log onto online banking. Go elswhere, well yes, for now, but if every bank insists on software like this? I've already heard banks can refuse to refund any fradulant transaction if they think you've not taken adequate protection. Would not installing the banks "recommended" software meen you haven't taken adequate protection? Yes I could go back to banking by phone (which is far less secure, of course) or in branches, but with more branches closing all the time, the latter probably won't be an option for much longer either.
I see from the status page the Regex support is still not complete, part of the C++11 standard. It would be nice if support for this standard could be completed before starting on C++14.
Yes and yet we seem to lavish praise on Google Docs etc for having fewer features than Word of 1990 (or Wordperfect) and requiring massively higher amounts of memory and cpu to run.
Yes but the problem is not so much keeping the software running it's if the software is still useful. A lot of users of the full Photoshop will want to open RAW files from their camera, because of the superior quality. I doubt CS6 will support the RAW format of the latest cameras in say 2 years time. So you buy a new camera you need the latest version of Photoshop to open the RAW files.
I'm fortunate to work 2 miles from home so most days I walk there and back. But in my previous job where I had to drive I used to go for a 15 minute walk before I left for work in the morning. I found it helps to wake me up to!
Time was when politicians in most Western countries would point at the Great Firewall of China as an example of a repressive regieme. Now they seek to emulate it.
They might have released 24 versions now but have you seen Word? That's up to version 2013.
The odd thing with Adobe is that in my opinion it produces some really excellent software and some really dreadful software and not much in between. Adobe Photoshop is the best image editor I've come accross and Photoshop Elements is certainly worth the money (for a home user I feel Photoshop is a bit too expensive, good though it is). But at the other end of the spectrum there is Adobe Reader. It seems to get slower each release so that opening a typical PDF still takes as long as it did 10 years ago even though modern PCs are much faster than those of 10 years ago. It probably has more features but the features I use are limited to just move around the page, zoom in, rotate all of which you have been able to do for years. I don't know how Adobe manage to make it get slower and have to update it so often. Likewise I won't be sorry to see Flash go, another program that seems to constantly want to update (and nag about it).
The added range would make an electric car a lot more useful, but there are still some problems to solve. With a petrol car if I get low on fuel I can fill up and be on my way again in 5 minutes. If my charge in an electric car runs out how long will it take to charge? Probably a lot more than 5 minutes. Also where can you charge it? Not everyone has off street parking or off-street parking with an electric supply (e.g. a garage in a block). You can hardly run a long extension lead down the road to where you car is parked to charge it. I think this will only work if the battery can be *easily* removed (so it can be charged in your house ready to put back in the car in the morning). It would also be good if petrol stations could swap a discharged battery for a charged one (for a fee, obviously) much like filling up with petrol today. Until these issues are resolved I don't see electirc cars being as popular as petrol/diesel.
I find this link does not render correctly for me in Firefox 3.5 : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bs2twtah.aspx The "This page is specific too" bit comes up over the top of other text making it unreadable. I don't know whether it's a Firefox bug or just bad HTML.
And to add to that, attempts to track where you are going using road pricing (a black box in your car reporting on every journey) and smart cards for public transport tickets (already in place in London using Oyster, already a condition of many rail franchises that these are introduced).