* Posts by Himalayaman

53 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2012

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Windows Fall Creators Update is here: What do you want first – bad news or good news?

Himalayaman

Start menu

Just install classic shell to have a real start menu again.

Oracle VP: 'We want the next decade to be Java first, Java always'

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Java is dead

Oracle just doesn't realize it yet.

NOKIA - Not FINNished yet! BEHOLD the somewhat DULL MYSTERY DEVICE!

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Seriously?

The best they could come up with was a (Chinese) landfill Android tablet? Gg Nokia.

Sony says year's losses will be four times deeper than thought

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Megaphone

No worries!

Everything is Awesome!

Yes, Google can afford to lose $9bn in Motorola sale. But did it really?

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Do we actually care if some evil (yes I know) big fat corporation lost a few billions???

Sinclair's ZX Spectrum to LIVE AGAIN!

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This is a scam... this is not a remake of a Speccy, just some stupid BlueTooth keyboard and apps running in emulation.

If this was a real Speccy remake with just an HDMI out, I would bite. Now? No thanx.

Sinclair’s 1984 big shot at business: The QL is 30 years old

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I loved my QL... one of the first things I wrote for it was a cross assembler to facilitate programming on my Speccy :)

Why 2014 might just be the year of the Google Chromebook

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They are selling better because Joe Average has no clue what it is and it is cheapo.

Ten classic electronic calculators from the 1970s and 1980s

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I still have an HP-28C... incredible machine.

Britain's costliest mistake? Lord Stern defends his climate maths

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"Will the “cure" hurt us more than the disease"

When the disease is slow death.... no.

Android, Chromebooks storm channel as Windows PC sales go flat

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I wonder how many people will be amazed that their brand new Chromebook is basically a paperweight, albeit a rather cheap one.

Munich signs off on Open Source project

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Just when the rest of the planet is moving to the Cloud for a better ROI.

Ten top tech toys to interface with a techie’s Christmas stocking

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Holmes

A Chromebook. Seriously? No techy would be caught dead with that.

Wrist SLAP: Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch hands-on

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Holmes

Ugly and low battery

Didn't Samsung get the nota? When you want to upgrade an existing product (a watch) you don't destroy its main features.

Think your smutty Snapchats can't be saved by dorks? Think again

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Holmes

Did people really expect Snapchat to work like that for very long? There is no way that transmitted bits/bytes cannot be intercepted and saved.

Smartwatch makers: You need apps to beat Apple

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Maybe they should think about hiring an actual designer. These monstrosities look like something from the 80s. If Apple ever brings out a watch, I bet people will buy it for the looks, not the apps/features.

You, Google. Get back here and bend over again - EU antitrust chief

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Windows

Well Google is still rigging the search results... time to pay up.

Firefox OS mobilises HTML5, without the added Steve Jobs

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Holmes

Just when everybody is moving to native apps again... ouch.

30 years on: Remembering the Memotech MTX 500

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Thumb Up

Wow... I forgot all about this one. Beautiful. You should bundle all these articles into a book.

Hey mobile firms: About that Android thing... Did Google add a lockout clause?

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Holmes

Re: So in other words

Yes and MS paid a lot of money in fines. Time for Google to pay up.

Sony sucker-punches Xbox on price, specs, DRM-free gaming

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Holmes

Sony running themselves into the ground

I guess that is what you get when a company like Sony starts to think forum posters are their customers. They have a business to run and, while their stance is brave, it will also be financial suicide. In the end the X1 will probably offer a more satisfactory way of managing your games to the iPad generation. Who the hell lends out disks or puts them on ebay anyway nowadays? The future is digital!

YES, Xbox One DOES need internet, DOES restrict game trading

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Re: Offline

You mean Steam? 4 weeks no internet... forget playing your PC Steam games.

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Holmes

Used games

How many of you even buy used games or bother putting games on eBay?

Galaxy Tab 3 10.1: Samsung plays Intel against ARM

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Flame

New OS

Nice... means I can install a real OS on it.

Google cyber-knight lances Microsoft for bug-hunter 'hostilities'

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Holmes

Maybe he should fix the zillions of Android bugs first?

Life on Mars means subsisting on grim diet of turd-garden spinach

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Alien

Insects?

What about adding some insects into the mix? Surely it must be easy to breed those. They must be tastier.

Android device? Ooohhhh, you mean a Samsung phone

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Holmes

Nokia was right

Seems like Nokia did the right thing. No money to be made with Android if you are not Samsung.

Google tells Microsoft to yank its new WinPhone YouTube app

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Holmes

You know there is something wrong with the world, when people are defending intrusive ads. Well done Google.

Monitor-makers ponder Android-powered touch screens

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Holmes

The nonsense continues...

And manufacturers keep on putting Android in any device in the hope they can make some money and become a bit more like Samsung.

" For about twice the price of a conventional monitor?"

Ha that explains things.... gg

Azure is Microsoft's billion-dollar baby – maybe

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Holmes

As user of both

It is just a matter of time before Azure overtakes Amazon. It just is a much better service.

Microsoft carves out 'niche' in tablets, says numbers chap

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Holmes

TBH... probably 70% of those Android tablets are 50 euro plastic devices made in Chinese sweatshops bought by people who think they need a tablet.

Bill Gates offends Koreans after sticking hand down trousers

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Holmes

TBH it is very easy to insult Koreans. Many small details you have to keep track of.

Linux in 2013: 'Freakishly awesome' – and who needs a fork?

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This also baffles me. Does that mean there was a lot of shit wrong that they need to change all the time? BSD has a much lower code churn.

Foxconn must pay Microsoft for EVERY Android thing it makes

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Holmes

The fanboys are out it seems. Not a surprise ...

Anyway... this looks more like a cross deal since Foxconn also owns quite a bit of patents.

The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME

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WTF?

PS3? Lol?

Microsoft leads charge against Google's Android in EU antitrust complaint

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Holmes

MS paid for this... Google should as well. Google's violation or everything Internet needs to stop (and yes this also applies to MS).

The Lynx effect: The story of Camputers' mighty micro

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I wonder if it would be possible to get your hands on one of these? I used most of the 1980 machines, but never a Lynx. Hmmm... maybe there is an emulator?

Ten ten-inch tablets

Himalayaman

Very impressed by that Lenovo tablet. Quality.

Look out! Peak wind is coming, warns top Harvard physicist

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Holmes

"that would seem to be the effective end for the dream of a renewables-powered future for humanity"

If true that would also be the end of humanity.

"The only zero carbon, scalable, power-efficient solution is Nuclear Power"

True... but ofc you know we can't power the earth for very long (we will run out of fuel rather quick) with that unless we get fusion going soonish.

Apple still top for slab-fondlers despite FLOOD of Xmas tablets

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Holmes

Cheap crap sells more? What a shocker.

Climate watch: 2012 figures confirm global warming still stalled

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Holmes

Wow... some amazing denial there. The things you can do with a clever headline.

Review: HP ENVY x2 Windows 8 convertible

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Wow I like this.

BTW 16:9 screen are great for tablets. I love the aspect ratio.

Google's Schmidt: I squeezed Norks to lift web blockade

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Big Brother

As if...

As if our use of the internet makes us FREE!

MORE ads please.

Sony PS3 extends lead over Microsoft's Xbox 360 by a cool million

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Holmes

Is this 2007?

IDC said this before... forecasts are funny.

Nvidia takes fight to Sony, Nintendo with Android handheld console

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FAIL

A joke?

Wow... they paid somebody to design this?

Global warming still stalled since 1998, WMO Doha figures show

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Holmes

Re: "Mother Earth is Angry and Punishing Wicked Mankind"

It is called an eco-system.It has build in systems to compensate... just not for very long if things get bad. Melting polar ice for example has been able to keep global warming in check for now.

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Holmes

Just planet Earth trying to compensate. It won't be able to do that forever.

Google to UN: Internet FREEDOM IS FREE, and must remain so

Himalayaman
FAIL

Google : "Internet FREEDOM IS fuelled by ads, and must remain so ."

Fixed that for you.

I think youtube anno 2012 is enough proof.

German city dumping OpenOffice for Microsoft

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Holmes

Free not really free?

What a shocker. Nobody saw that one coming.

Swollen SUPER-GIGANTO PLANET sighted in Andromeda

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Alien

Artificial

Clearly this is an artifical dyson-sphere like alien object. We are not alone!!!!

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