meaty

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by meaty 14y ago
No I'm just well versed in business risk assessment and sound engineering decisions. If we were to deploy google apps and that happen we'd be down approximately £120,000 a day (we actually make money).
872.
by meaty 14y ago
You still need an administrator for google apps. Managing a file server, even if it's just a static workstation on a windows network is easy from security to backup - it's all guided configuration. Seriously - everything that google apps do
873.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes I do. All of them. I'd rather pay for something which is not ad supported.
874.
by meaty 14y ago
It still downloads the ads. I just checked with wireshark. It's a joke. I'm not letting it near my network.
875.
by meaty 14y ago
I did a before and after for Minesweeper. http://i.imgur.com/bv1NY.jpg If that's not crack smoking, what is?
876.
by meaty 14y ago
Well that's a new level of bloatware.
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by meaty 14y ago
I'm implying it downloads all the advertising content anyway.
878.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes I'm aware of that. Try running wireshark before you launch it....
879.
by meaty 14y ago
Spot on. Plus we already paid for the operating system. Taking ad revenue on top is just fucking greedy.
880.
by meaty 14y ago
However it pushes the store part in your face constantly even if you do not desire it, which is a shame as the DLNA stuff works well.
881.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes if you've seen Xbox music app, its a big advert which is annoying.
882.
by meaty 14y ago
Rdp into your windows file server and work there (I work over rdp for about 7 hours a day). The web is shitty for serious productivity apps from experience. Regarding open source, use openoffice instead. Alternatively use Windows' offline f
883.
by meaty 14y ago
Yeah buy a file server and office. Seriously.
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by meaty 14y ago
Good. The more this happens, the more people will realise that contracting out your critical services to a company with virtually no support and a false reputation isn't a good idea. It also undermines "the cloud" which is a good thing IMHO
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by meaty 14y ago
Thanks - appreciated :)
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by meaty 14y ago
Apple are planning: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec... Sony made the following literally YEARS ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasstron
887.
by meaty 14y ago
Oh good. Anyone know if that will work with EE in the UK?
888.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes this is true, but to be 100% honest, it wasn't finished. If you remember very early Android prototypes, they were in about the same place.
889.
by meaty 14y ago
Services can be exchanged without money and interchangeably between goods as well. I do this regularly. I rebuilt someone's Windows machine the other day in exchange for the fruit trees in my garden being pruned.
890.
by meaty 14y ago
Apart from mathematics, most of science, a little bit of philosophy and a fair bit of common sense...
891.
by meaty 14y ago
Actually most non-technical users live with their loss and quietly swear at the technology. Technical users are realistically far and few between.
892.
by meaty 14y ago
I think you overestimate the importance of the smartphone. A free smartphone is still tied to a non free network and to be honest, isn't required for humanity to function. It's an accessory, not a necessity. If they disappeared overnight, t
893.
by meaty 14y ago
To shuttering next Friday if the current trend on here is adhered to.
894.
by meaty 14y ago
I think you missed his point, and mine. His solution is simply that the real world is broken and needs fixing, which it sorely does. If you want that Star Trekky future, throw the corporations out who want to partition everyone into markets
895.
by meaty 14y ago
That's purely a matter of opinion.
896.
by meaty 14y ago
I suggest you think about it some more from a non-technical user's perspective: "How the shit do I get my stuff off this iPhone onto my Nexus?"
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by meaty 14y ago
There was one called java once. Oh wait...
898.
by meaty 14y ago
They want stuff that works yes, until it goes out of fashion or something that works better comes along. Then they learn th ecosystem lesson the hard way... That is the problem.
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by meaty 14y ago
The tech community is cleverer than this yes, but the consumers aren't and businesses still will use any tactic possible to milk their accumulated crop of consumers dry and protect them from other wolves. Better start listening to stallman
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by meaty 14y ago
It is finished. It just has no drivers and doesn't work :)

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