Really? Pull the other one. This is evil pure and simple. And to the people who sell on our data like it was seed corn, stop it unless we give explicit permission.
We are already generating more power than we need at times solely from renewable sources (Wind, Solar and Hydro) I have generated so far this month 1.05MWh of power from my own PV array. That has allowed me to charge my Car and drive 200+miles at zero cost AND Sell the excess power to the grid. When I get a 20KWh battery installed, I'll be able to go entiely off grid should I want to. All this from a house 51deg North i.e. at a lattitde further north than any of the lower 48 states in the USA.
It won't be easy to get rid of ICE engines but personally by 2030 I don't think that there will be a market for many ICE vehicles in the whole of Europe. We are not as influneced in our policy making as the USA is by the likes of the Koch Brothers. Clean Coal my ass.
AFAIK, if you fly from Dublin to the USA, you clear US Immigration and Customs before you get on the plane. I think that there are other airports where this happens as well.
Twenty-Twenty Cricket is far from boring. Baseball is definietly snooze fest material. I'd like them to try to do VR Rugby Union.... People would see what really goes on in a Scrum (and not that poncy IT version)
The Android fans will lambast you for being inside the apple Walled Garden. To many of them Apple is verging on pure evil.
But to be honest IOS needs Android to be strong just as much as Android needs IOS. If Google put their foot down and enforced at least 3 years of updates for ALL Android devices I think a lot of people would move back to Android. Updates are the millstone around its neck. Google could fix it but they for some reason won't.
I think you need to get some medical help and probably go on an Apple starvation diet. It will be the only way to get your sanity back and become a useful member of the human race.:):):)
Yes, you make some excellent points. But after 20+ years, I got tired and eventually gave up fighting Microsoft's 'we know best and you are going to do things our way' attitude. MS is clearly moving towards a subscription model. Their recent announcement of a combined Windows and Office 365 subscription points to the way they want to go. I don't want to be part of that. As I've now retired (wrote my first commercial program in 1972) the matter of W10 is moot. I use now use Linux and MacOS.
Decrying W10 is pure Heresy. Windows 10 is the best OS out there. Nothing comes even close to it in its user experience, security and flexibility.
{the above was written with my tongue in my cheek}
What you want me to be honest?
Ok, W10 is a pile of stinking dog poo. You'd have to pay me $1000/day to use it now and I spent much of the last 20years writing software for Windows systems. Edge is a joke even compared to IE. Sites that work with IE fail miserably with Edge. As for the stupid tiled interface... It works on a phone. I have a W8.1 phone but MS promised that it could be upgraded to W10 but the renaged. On a traditional desktop is it IMHO a pile of shite. I used to install an alternative shell but the final straw was an update to W10 that removed the other shell. Thankfully that was a matter of weeks before my job went to India and I retired.
For years I helped people with Wibdows problems. I don't touch anything past W7 these days. Windows 10 is a pile of stinking do poo.
It seems to be only in the USA that you have those stupid contracts. I on a SIM only deal and pay $15/month. The contract is a rolling one month, not two years and I can use any phone I want. I buy my phones from Pawn Brokers. They are nearly always unlocked but the carrier has to unlock it when asked.
I don't know anyone who still uses a 2yr carrier contract.
A good point. Sadly, to many in America mentioning something like 'Social Democracy' is like a red rag to a bull. They'll regard it as communist even though it is most certainly not. Far too few people in the USA have direct experience of anything other than their very warped two party system. As such they don't think that there is an alternative yet many other democracies work perfectly well with other systems. I politics, nothing is clear cut, simple or straightforward. That is probably why I could never become a Politician. Most of them are afraid of their own shadows in case it objects to their POV.
Higher Education has a long history of being rather left leaning. It is well known that most who are on the left when they are at University become less left wing as they grow older.
When I was at University in London in the mid 1970's we had many very left leaning factions. There were groups of Communists, Marxists, Marxist-Lennists, Maoists, Trotskyists, Broad Left and a few more. One of the Marxists is now a local politician for a right of centre party. That was something he would not have considered happening when he was in his early 20's. University is the first time for most people where they are free to develop their own opinions. Being different from their parents/family is a natural stance to take.
I would not worry about it. 99% of them will grow out of it. The French have a perfect way of describing it. 'Vive la Difference'.
Who knows if the sell them or just chuck them in a drawer somewhere... IMHO, for most people you get to a certain age and being cool is just not on your radar any longer. I ran a 2003 car until 2015 when the turbo blew up doing 120mph on the Autobahn. Yes I was foolish but it didn't owe me anything. Now I drive a very uncool PHEV but it does what it says on the tin and works for me which is the important thing. My iPhone 6 was purchased second hand and I see no reason to change it this year. My phone plan is $15/month which suits my usage profile.
Each to our own way of life. The more people who give 'coolness' the finger is not a bad thing in my eyes but hey, you should have seen me in '68, '69. I was where it was at and being cool. Come with getting old I think:)
Comcast, AT&T etc are far too embedded to let this happen. Aren't there places where competition is illegal (or just impossible due to the payoffs made to local government officials)?
I see the move by MS a good idea but they really need to join forces with Google, Apple etc. That way they will have the legal muscle to get in on the final mile. That's the bit that costs the most. Google has experience in this area.
But will they take this opportunity to give the incumbents a huge kicking? My guess is that they won't.
Don't you mean EDGE? That is their current browser of choice but your sentiments are correct.. Windows 10S is a glimpse of the future MS wants for everyone.
The fashionistas love parading their newest bit of bling iToys included. The discard perfectly good phones because they are not regarded as 'cool' any more. That means others can benefit from their fads. Try it yourself sometime. There are even a couple of Galaxy S8's available in one pawn shop I know of in London. Sadly then both need new screens but for £349 each they are a bargain.
I know that apple stuff is expensive but $150? According to www.apple.com Apple 12W iPhone charger costs $19.95. Perhaps you were confusing it with a MacBook charger?
I don't buy new anyway. I hope that lots of Fanbois dive in and shell out $1200 or more for their next iToy. Then I can get an iPhone 6s from a pawn shop at a decent price.
Or (like me) prefer to have the exact same OS on their Laptops as on their servers. Makes S/W development easy. The Stability is as you say a key point. 10 years of patches with CentOS and built from the same sources as RHEL. Great.
No facebook on my phone and it is not JB'd. But I know what you mean. My old HTC Android (and the Samsung for that Matter) had them always running and eating battery. Without rooting the phones there was no way to get rid of them. There are phones out there that give you the choice. Perhaps you should get one?
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Really? Pull the other one. This is evil pure and simple.
And to the people who sell on our data like it was seed corn, stop it unless we give explicit permission.
We are already generating more power than we need at times solely from renewable sources (Wind, Solar and Hydro)
I have generated so far this month 1.05MWh of power from my own PV array. That has allowed me to charge my Car and drive 200+miles at zero cost AND Sell the excess power to the grid. When I get a 20KWh battery installed, I'll be able to go entiely off grid should I want to.
All this from a house 51deg North i.e. at a lattitde further north than any of the lower 48 states in the USA.
It won't be easy to get rid of ICE engines but personally by 2030 I don't think that there will be a market for many ICE vehicles in the whole of Europe.
We are not as influneced in our policy making as the USA is by the likes of the Koch Brothers. Clean Coal my ass.
Quel Surprise! Not!
Use Amazon? Caveat Emptor.
AFAIK, if you fly from Dublin to the USA, you clear US Immigration and Customs before you get on the plane. I think that there are other airports where this happens as well.
Twenty-Twenty Cricket is far from boring. Baseball is definietly snooze fest material.
I'd like them to try to do VR Rugby Union.... People would see what really goes on in a Scrum (and not that poncy IT version)
The Android fans will lambast you for being inside the apple Walled Garden.
To many of them Apple is verging on pure evil.
But to be honest IOS needs Android to be strong just as much as Android needs IOS.
If Google put their foot down and enforced at least 3 years of updates for ALL Android devices I think a lot of people would move back to Android.
Updates are the millstone around its neck. Google could fix it but they for some reason won't.
I think you need to get some medical help and probably go on an Apple starvation diet. :) :) :)
It will be the only way to get your sanity back and become a useful member of the human race.
Sales of US based VPN's to people in the UK double in a matter of weeks.
Another politician who does not have a clue about the internet.
Yes, you make some excellent points. But after 20+ years, I got tired and eventually gave up fighting Microsoft's 'we know best and you are going to do things our way' attitude.
MS is clearly moving towards a subscription model. Their recent announcement of a combined Windows and Office 365 subscription points to the way they want to go.
I don't want to be part of that. As I've now retired (wrote my first commercial program in 1972) the matter of W10 is moot. I use now use Linux and MacOS.
Decrying W10 is pure Heresy. Windows 10 is the best OS out there. Nothing comes even close to it in its user experience, security and flexibility.
{the above was written with my tongue in my cheek}
What you want me to be honest?
Ok, W10 is a pile of stinking dog poo. You'd have to pay me $1000/day to use it now and I spent much of the last 20years writing software for Windows systems.
Edge is a joke even compared to IE. Sites that work with IE fail miserably with Edge.
As for the stupid tiled interface... It works on a phone. I have a W8.1 phone but MS promised that it could be upgraded to W10 but the renaged.
On a traditional desktop is it IMHO a pile of shite. I used to install an alternative shell but the final straw was an update to W10 that removed the other shell. Thankfully that was a matter of weeks before my job went to India and I retired.
For years I helped people with Wibdows problems. I don't touch anything past W7 these days.
Windows 10 is a pile of stinking do poo.
It seems to be only in the USA that you have those stupid contracts.
I on a SIM only deal and pay $15/month. The contract is a rolling one month, not two years and I can use any phone I want. I buy my phones from Pawn Brokers. They are nearly always unlocked but the carrier has to unlock it when asked.
I don't know anyone who still uses a 2yr carrier contract.
Tine to invest in VPN's then?
You know it makes sense...
A good point. Sadly, to many in America mentioning something like 'Social Democracy' is like a red rag to a bull. They'll regard it as communist even though it is most certainly not.
Far too few people in the USA have direct experience of anything other than their very warped two party system. As such they don't think that there is an alternative yet many other democracies work perfectly well with other systems. I politics, nothing is clear cut, simple or straightforward. That is probably why I could never become a Politician. Most of them are afraid of their own shadows in case it objects to their POV.
Higher Education has a long history of being rather left leaning. It is well known that most who are on the left when they are at University become less left wing as they grow older.
When I was at University in London in the mid 1970's we had many very left leaning factions. There were groups of Communists, Marxists, Marxist-Lennists, Maoists, Trotskyists, Broad Left and a few more. One of the Marxists is now a local politician for a right of centre party. That was something he would not have considered happening when he was in his early 20's.
University is the first time for most people where they are free to develop their own opinions. Being different from their parents/family is a natural stance to take.
I would not worry about it. 99% of them will grow out of it.
The French have a perfect way of describing it. 'Vive la Difference'.
Who knows if the sell them or just chuck them in a drawer somewhere...
IMHO, for most people you get to a certain age and being cool is just not on your radar any longer.
I ran a 2003 car until 2015 when the turbo blew up doing 120mph on the Autobahn. Yes I was foolish but it didn't owe me anything.
Now I drive a very uncool PHEV but it does what it says on the tin and works for me which is the important thing.
My iPhone 6 was purchased second hand and I see no reason to change it this year. My phone plan is $15/month which suits my usage profile.
Each to our own way of life. The more people who give 'coolness' the finger is not a bad thing in my eyes but hey, you should have seen me in '68, '69. I was where it was at and being cool. Come with getting old I think :)
Comcast, AT&T etc are far too embedded to let this happen. Aren't there places where competition is illegal (or just impossible due to the payoffs made to local government officials)?
I see the move by MS a good idea but they really need to join forces with Google, Apple etc. That way they will have the legal muscle to get in on the final mile. That's the bit that costs the most. Google has experience in this area.
But will they take this opportunity to give the incumbents a huge kicking? My guess is that they won't.
Don't you mean EDGE? That is their current browser of choice but your sentiments are correct.. Windows 10S is a glimpse of the future MS wants for everyone.
The fashionistas love parading their newest bit of bling iToys included.
The discard perfectly good phones because they are not regarded as 'cool' any more.
That means others can benefit from their fads.
Try it yourself sometime. There are even a couple of Galaxy S8's available in one pawn shop I know of in London. Sadly then both need new screens but for £349 each they are a bargain.
I know that apple stuff is expensive but $150?
According to www.apple.com
Apple 12W iPhone charger costs $19.95. Perhaps you were confusing it with a MacBook charger?
I don't buy new anyway.
I hope that lots of Fanbois dive in and shell out $1200 or more for their next iToy.
Then I can get an iPhone 6s from a pawn shop at a decent price.
See, every cloud does have a silver lining...
Or (like me) prefer to have the exact same OS on their Laptops as on their servers. Makes S/W development easy.
The Stability is as you say a key point. 10 years of patches with CentOS and built from the same sources as RHEL. Great.
Coming back in 3...2...1...0
Your Kidney is not 'open source' so the GNU diehards will reject it.
But money will talk and the Koch Brothers will 'own' another bit of the USA.
No facebook on my phone and it is not JB'd.
But I know what you mean. My old HTC Android (and the Samsung for that Matter) had them always running and eating battery. Without rooting the phones there was no way to get rid of them.
There are phones out there that give you the choice. Perhaps you should get one?