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I travel on a train for a medium length journey 2-4 times a week. In the last 12 months I've noticed that the transition from never seeing a Surface (Pro) to seeing 5-10% of tablet…

> I'm well aware that Skype did not change for the better after MS took over While I'm acutely aware of the negative impact various changes had on privacy, cf the leaked documents …

I only use Windows 10 in a VM for browser testing but I just disable the Windows Update service. I have a PowerShell script which can enable it, hang around and disable it again la…

> The real and politically-incorrect reason for the higher prices is that the cost of doing business is higher in Australia. For example, the minimum wage is very high and consumer…

I'm hoping that Android gets a lot better on the battery usage before that happens in earnest though. I've read they've focused on this recently but I haven't had time to drill int…

In Belgium BASE, which is owned by KPN, do a reasonable deal compared to the others with BASE 0. Its technically a monthly invoiced plan but works as a pay as you go card - you onl…

"It's evident from watching these that he is almost without exception the smartest person in every room he's in." Careful...your "idealogical function [is] leaking through"...

Perhaps re: HN, and if so I apologise for confusion, but for Ninite it's CouldFront (d3doxs0mwx271h.cloudfront.net). I spent a short while investigating if there was an easy way to…

Please don't go to Cloudfront, it's truly horrendous (wearing my end user hat) to see so many sites have problems and timeouts because of them. For example Ninite.com moved to them…

Wouldn't it be ironic if both the established newspaper brand and the Q&A site both used Google advertising...

Don't you think Win9x would _scream_ on your GS3 though? ;-)

QNX?

In The Netherlands a lot have migrated to Nokia Windows Phones. KPN have been doing some very good deals which make the phones free and the contract prices very competitive with a …

The right tool for the job. I wouldn't try to cut a piece of wood to length by using a hammer. Declarative languages tend to lend themselves to being used at a much higher level, f…

I'm impressed by your ability to ignore good advice and common sense. I presume you haven't been in an organisation where all the hot new things come in and screw things up with th…

Google has always done this, if really always felt like they're so smug they know better than you. I've been complaining about it for well over a decade, and the reason is I travel…

> The fact they're using Google's attempt to bid for the patents originally against them is even worse That's just lawyering 101...it's a very common thing to do to try and add "we…

Microsoft consumer product support is indeed utter crap, but I've found their developer support amazingly good. We had a weird issue with something on Azure, raised the issue and g…

Yeah I had the same, I figured out it was more the acceleration that was the problem rather than the cursor movement itself...moving slower than usual meant I could use it without …

I did exactly the same! The Moving Truck icon is inspired...Photoshop could learn a few things ;-)

I thought one of the changes in later versions of PowerShell was there is now an internal version of wget? I know when I use the gnu one I have use specify "wget.exe" instead of "w…

Maybe he's thinking of the Daily Mail? [1] [1] http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=stree...

Any idea how you're going to release it? (productise/monetize or open source) I hacked up in the past a temporary solution using PowerPoint running on stripped down older laptops i…

Really? I would have thought the group of people taking this rather capitalist route would not be reading a left leaning newspaper like The Guardian. For example its obvious you do…