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  1. Re:NO M$, we're giving up on YOU. It's your fault. on Microsoft: We're Not Giving Up On Cortana (Even In Home Automation) (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes AC and the rest of you. I have 2 Windows phones, a Nokia 720 that ran Windows Phone 8 and a 640 XL that runs Windows Phone 10.
    I was in hospital recovering from a FREE triple bypass when my W8 phone would read out my SMS and wait for me to reply and send from across the room! It could also browse my LAN and play/view AV.
    Then MS decided to shoot themselves in the foot numerous times, and my hatred for Sataya Nadella is deep. Completely oblivious to the promises he made, MS ruined Nokia and destroyed the promised development of porting android apps across, the Continuum and many other features I TRUSTED MS to deliver within reasonable time. Nadella forgot about the consumers and focussed on the business/corporate world with their Surface and W10 faux linnux software.
    Consumer abandonment is a tragedy and I have lost faith in MS. I can't keep my hope up that they will support the consumer. I have to buy an android phone because I have to have compatibility that my Windows phone can't give me, even though it is a brilliant OS, easy to use etc, but won't/can't do the things I need anymore.
    PS I got Cortana to read my SMS out to me btw.

  2. Fake. No such thing.

  3. Re:I was going to write something informative, on Broadband Firms in UK Must Ditch 'Misleading' Speed Ads (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently it stands for Water Displacement Formula #40..

    Then why didn't the inventor call it WDF40?

  4. Re:I was going to write something informative, on Broadband Firms in UK Must Ditch 'Misleading' Speed Ads (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    WD40 stands for 'Water Dispersant #40'
    The first 39 didn't work that well.

  5. More hogwash. on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "Finance chiefs say the ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting in the 1980s"

    That's BS. Ever hear of Visicalc or MultiPlan?

  6. I was going to write something informative, on Broadband Firms in UK Must Ditch 'Misleading' Speed Ads (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but I changed my mind. Instead, a few months ago I hacked up a bit of old phlegm onto my screen and it has dried up occasionally occluding some text.
    I thought that you should know about that.

  7. Re: Do as we did in Sweden. on US Agency Revokes All State Discounts For Kaspersky Products (thebaltimorepost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah!? Well here in Oz, you can buy Nazi Goering noodles in almost any supermarket. That's about as Nazi as you can get.

  8. I never ever read Facebook for the news. When others quote FB news, I disregard it. Untrustworthy sources denies validity.

  9. You shouldn't need multicore processors to play a video file. That's why 265 sucks.

  10. Re:Encoding AV1 is computationally expensive on Hulu Joins Netflix and Amazon In Promoting Royalty-free Video Codec AV1 (fiercecable.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see you watch anything using HVEC (265) codec. It has to be the worst out there and I wish it would go away.

  11. Re:But why? The quality MUST suck... on Stream-ripping Is 'Fastest Growing' Music Piracy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn it! I just can't find the 'like' button anywhere!

  12. Sounds like using a toaster to electrocute yourself in a bathtub.
    You would think there would be a better application for that.

  13. Why so long? on World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected To Launch In 2018 (space.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    20 years? That's a long time for something that has been done before. Maybe they were extra careful as the website suggests but 20 years is a bit excessive.

  14. Re:me doesn't speak english on AVTECH Shuns Security Firm and Leaves All Products Vulnerable Without a Patch (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a Turkic 'bridge' where some words may have common origins. Tengir in Mongolian - 'wide blue sky' is similar to the Magyar Tenger meaning 'the blue sea'.
    Other borrowings through the Khazak/Tibetan tribal languages might be common as well.

  15. Re:me doesn't speak english on AVTECH Shuns Security Firm and Leaves All Products Vulnerable Without a Patch (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    It ain't English. It is Hungarian, a whore of a language at the best of times. Trying to get a Taiwanese to understand the Magyar tongue is a lesson in frustration.

  16. So it doesn't classify porn images, just works out if they are.
    Phrasing msmash!

  17. "Because the number of possible Go board positions exceeds the number of atoms in the universe, top players rely heavily on their intuition."

    Why are people so stupid?

  18. He's wrong on Obama: Government Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    He's wrong.

  19. Re:Even the 1 TB space is partially mythical on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh but there is more!
    A few months ago it was possible to stream AV to your Windows Phone 8 from your personal server/desktop/tablet/laptop as long as it was on your LAN. You used Device Hub which is just another name for Windows networking and pinned the server/machine as a tile on your screen. No problems and I could watch anything or listen to anything on my LAN.
    But now MS in their wisdom changed that. Device Hub shows the LAN, but cripples access, advising "Use App to connect". When you try to use their music/video player, there is only one choice and that is stream from One Drive!
    So MS's official solution is to upload music/video/to Onedrive and then you can stream them to your phone!?!!
    So I got about 10GB of music files and uploaded them to Onedrive. It did work, but was a bit clumsy.
    Now however, I will lose my 30GB storage and be stuck with an almost useless 5GB.
    All this because they won't allow me to play music from my LAN.

  20. Re: Using your advertised space != Abuse on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    It is an issue when you buy hardware with the sweetener of 15GB of cloud storage (as an example). So I have accrued 30GB of OneDrive storage. By this time next year, 25GB of that is gone. So yeah, MS have gone back on their word for the mug punters out there.

  21. My Twitter acc on Running a Town Over Twitter · · Score: 0

    I've had twitter for about 6 years now and I still don't know how to use it.
    Occasionally I get an email from them that Thomas Lennon posted something. When I open it, there is a single post by him which I don't really understand, followed by a bunch of other posts by randoms that don't make sense.
    Is that's what twitter is about?

  22. Re:No hardware or software fault? on Pluto Probe Back To Normal, Cause of Snafu Found · · Score: 1

    It's hard to determine the breed. Pluto does look a bit like a Rhodesian Ridgeback without the ridges. Otherwise a rather large Hungarian Vizsla except for the eyes.
    Hmmm.....

  23. Re:All possible languages? on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 1

    I'll counter that with Hungarian! Oh wait....

  24. Re: Drop the hammer on them. on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    Fuck the Benelux bankers. Hungary tossed out the IMF and paid off all debts. They have their own currency. German auto makers have invested heavily into new factories to take advantage of the cheaper labour. Same with Slovakia who build the VW based Skoda.
    Germany has never been a welcome ally. They stuffed up Hungary over the last 500 years and left it in ruins.

  25. Re:Drop the hammer on them. on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    Not just Belgium. Each country in the EU has the burden. Greece owes each Slovak 600 euros (ca. $660US at the current exchange rate).