hairlessupportmonkey
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330MB is a blink on modern internet connections.
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dilettante
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True but it doesn't install in a blink, any more than the 330MB of .Net security patches we've seen on so many Patch Tuesdays.
It would be interesting to know what the 330Mb actually consists of. That is a lot of code or just a few videos. It certainly isn't something useful like actual user instructions.
For my 2p's worth.
Not bothered about the start menu being reinstated but could we please have a means of deleting the Metro Screen totally?
I don't use it, don't want it and it sometimes gets in the way, even though I boot to desktop.
Keith
For my 2p's worth.
Not bothered about the start menu being reinstated but could we please have a means of deleting the Metro Screen totally?
I don't use it, don't want it and it sometimes gets in the way, even though I boot to desktop.
Keith
dilettante
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We can't all live in a city in South Korea. ![[wink]](/data/assets/smilies/wink.gif "[wink] [wink]")
We are not really getting anywhere by increasing baud rates as it just makes programmers lazy.
Keith
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hairlessupportmonkey
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I live in a small town in the UK in the country side in East Hampshire. I get 80 down and 20 up on FTTC..... Lucky perhaps...
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>Lucky perhaps...
Yeps, and I get about the same. But the UK is not as well served as you might think, and our speeds are frankly not representative. Recent figures from Ofcom suggest the average is only 18Mbps, and that whilst 73% of households have access to superfast broadband services the reality is that take up is a mere 19%; i.e 81% of UK broadband users are NOT on a superfast service (Ofcom defines superfast as any service those delivering download speeds greater than 30Mbps)
For example my parents live a mere 10 miles from the centre of a UK cathedral city, and yet the fastest broadband available to them is (theoretically) an 8Mbps service. In reality it delivers less than 1Mbps download speed. And they are not alone.
And there are plenty of other countries with worse broadband services than the UK.
Yeps, and I get about the same. But the UK is not as well served as you might think, and our speeds are frankly not representative. Recent figures from Ofcom suggest the average is only 18Mbps, and that whilst 73% of households have access to superfast broadband services the reality is that take up is a mere 19%; i.e 81% of UK broadband users are NOT on a superfast service (Ofcom defines superfast as any service those delivering download speeds greater than 30Mbps)
For example my parents live a mere 10 miles from the centre of a UK cathedral city, and yet the fastest broadband available to them is (theoretically) an 8Mbps service. In reality it delivers less than 1Mbps download speed. And they are not alone.
And there are plenty of other countries with worse broadband services than the UK.
We live North West UK and supposedly enjoy 8Mbps down and just less than 1Mbps up.
When I do a speed test our ISP tell me that this could be better and suggest I donate £50 to their technicians who will come round and sort it out for me.
I can get much better speed if I turn off the router firewall but I don't think that I would be wise to do that really.
Keith
When I do a speed test our ISP tell me that this could be better and suggest I donate £50 to their technicians who will come round and sort it out for me.
I can get much better speed if I turn off the router firewall but I don't think that I would be wise to do that really.
Keith
johnherman
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The 330mb and 770mb upgrades that "do nothing" seems to be evidence that the Wintel conspiracy remains. Windows adds bloat to each patch, sucking up disk and slowing down the operating system so that you'll eventually need to buy another (presumably) Intel machine to handle the ever-expanding OS and all its add-ons.
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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was - Steven Wright
Or increasing hard drive space, CPU capacity, memory...I know it's always controversial when I bring it up, but why is it that programmers could manage a full Windows office app suite with a decent number of features on two floppy diskettes (remember those?) when I started with computers and now it takes 100's of MB?
It is not possible for anyone to acknowledge truth when their salary depends on them not doing it.
Nostalgia aside, the programs of old were intuitive and contained actual instructions in the form of a text driven help file rather than enormous instructional videos narrated by Captain Boring with a monotone American accent.
I still use some very old programs, not because I cannot adapt to change but because the modern offerings simply don't compare.
One example is an FTP program from 1995 - you may know the one - It uploads and downloads what I want, when I want it without the need for endless prompts asking me if I am sure I know what I am doing - yes Filezilla, it is to you which I refer.
All this is going on while trying to make sense of my shiny new box of tricks which has WIN8 as it's OS - What plonker thought that was an advancement on what has gone before?
Keith
I still use some very old programs, not because I cannot adapt to change but because the modern offerings simply don't compare.
One example is an FTP program from 1995 - you may know the one - It uploads and downloads what I want, when I want it without the need for endless prompts asking me if I am sure I know what I am doing - yes Filezilla, it is to you which I refer.
All this is going on while trying to make sense of my shiny new box of tricks which has WIN8 as it's OS - What plonker thought that was an advancement on what has gone before?
Keith
No, I am running the modern up to date version of Filezilla with more prompts than you can shake a stick at.
Keith
Keith
Actually I wouldn't. I'm on OpenOffice now (if you want a reference point). I notice a lot of features I just don't use, and more I have to go ten rounds to get out of my way so I can actually get my work done (mainly "autocorrect" type features that just mess me up). One thing they realized more back in the day is simply this: Most end-users just want to get their work done as quickly and as easily as possible with as few complications as possible. Of course I don't know if that old package would still work on Windows 8.1 because I had to ditch it for everyone else wanting Word files. But that package far exceeded OpenOffice in simply letting me get my work done right out of the box.
It is not possible for anyone to acknowledge truth when their salary depends on them not doing it.
I still prefer the old fashioned drop down text menus in Word, Excel etc. They were far more intuitive than the mixture of words and graphics which take up half the screen and are time consuming to use. Most of the time is spent hovering over controls to read the tool tip.
Keith
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