The "Anything Goes" thread

[Hayles66]

hi Hayley, how are you, I have been around but not posted lately, now on I will make effort to visit here more often :thumbs:

Yay. Missed you

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[KevinJS]

Morning Hayles.

The Brits are waking up. Must be time for sleep in this part of the world.

 

[scifan57]

hi Hayley, how are you, I have been around but not posted lately, now on I will make effort to visit here more often :thumbs:

Congratulations on reaching 1000 posts and becoming an official iPad Addict!

 

[Drew wal]

Was it me or did the I/O google conference have a momentary crash during one of their demos !

Lol lol

.... And HOW MUCH bloatware does Samsung s4 need ! I had a play with one in Carphone warehouse , like "where's the memory"??????

 

[scifan57]

Was it me or did the I/O google conference have a momentary crash during one of their demos !

Lol lol

.... And HOW MUCH bloatware does Samsung s4 need ! I had a play with one in Carphone warehouse , like "where's the memory"??????

If you want to talk about bloatware, I was at Best Buy recently, looking at the Surface Pro. Out of an advertised 64GB, only just over 21GB was available as storage for the user. The rest was taken up by the OS and included programs, etc..

 

[Drew wal]

21gb left out of 64 !!! Jeeeez , that's a joke , that's less than a third of total memory .

How do people not see this ?

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[Richard Brown]

Was it me or did the I/O google conference have a momentary crash during one of their demos !

Lol lol

.... And HOW MUCH bloatware does Samsung s4 need ! I had a play with one in Carphone warehouse , like "where's the memory"??????

If you want to talk about bloatware, I was at Best Buy recently, looking at the Surface Pro. Out of an advertised 64GB, only just over 21GB was available as storage for the user. The rest was taken up by the OS and included programs, etc..

On last night's BBC1 consumer help programme, Watchdog they were talking about the cheapest Galaxy 4. At least 50% of the memory is taken up by the fancy interface and OS. Then when users try to transfer their many apps from their old phone, nearly all available memory is used up, leaving about 2Gb spare for files!

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[scifan57]

21gb left out of 64 !!! Jeeeez , that's a joke , that's less than a third of total memory .

How do people not see this ?

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I've found some updated numbers. Apparently Microsoft states that there is 28GB free. That's still less than half of the total, though. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-ca/storage

 

[Drew wal]

So on the surface pro , at 128 gb , the operating system and others take up a massive 42gb! I'm speechless , sorry , but I'm just lost for words on that at the moment :-( !!!

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[nathan the ipad lover]

I am buying a vintage console TV before I head off to Port Macquarie which a friend is there

A Commodore 64 a day keeps the Apple II away!

 

[KevinJS]

I am buying a vintage console TV before I head off to Port Macquarie which a friend is there

A Commodore 64 a day keeps the Apple II away!

Hi Nathan. Wondered where you had disappeared to. Good to see you're still around.

 

[dianne137]

have fun with your friend Nathan. Does he like vintage electronica as well?

 

[Samana]

It's been 1 week since I joined and I'm already at 78 posts? Wow.

-Samana

 

[Richard Brown]

Here we all are rendered speechless by stories of bloatware ( I call it lazy programming amongst other things) and Nathan chips in with an update on old technology. You bring me back to earth Nathan. I love it

BTW, with expensive limited memory at their disposal, the programmers of old had to design very small apps to take up as Iittle space as possible.

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[nathan the ipad lover]

Yes my friend is into vintage electronics too

A Commodore 64 a day keeps the Apple II away!