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how Googlelot about delayedIssue the release439 that of Microsoft Windows has 10. I wish invades our they had also delayed the release of priva y y, avoids paying tax and wantwantss to WindowWindowss 8, preferpreferablyably by about 47 years. be above British law. No doubt we’ll Tat ww yy, I wouldn’t have been tempted soon discover that it is planning to to upgrade from an operating systsystemem I enrich uranium in order to build its betbetwweeneen thithissvversersionion and WWindindowowss8.1,8.1, loved (Windows 7) to one that I find as own nuclear arsenal. whwhichich IIwwououldld neneveverrbubuyy..EvEvenen the hard to operate as an octopus would But I’m prepared to forgive Google babackckgrgrououndsnds arareethethe sasameme..WhWhatat isismissinsingg mis buttbuttoningoning a duffel coat. all its naughtiness if it manages to kill off isis ananyyfoformrm ofof insinstrutructictionon litlitererataturureefrfromom DaDavidvidLee the hated Captchas (News, Issue 439). MicrMicrosofosoft ot outliutliningning ororsellingng selli the advadvanceancess Every time I see one my heart sinks. My madmadeesinsincece WiWindondowsws 7.7. Let G HQread my emails– eyesight is failing now, which makes the I use my PC for serious work and am I’ve nothing tohide task of identifying the letters and not interested in an app store full of Does Nathan Brazil have numbers even harder. I find the letter B games and gimmicks. Neither do I want something to hide? Having read impossible to distinguish from the gaudily coloured start screens or even a his Star Letter in Issue 439, it certainly number 8. Te same applies to the letter S touchscreen. I have all of that on my seems that ww yy. Otherwise, why would and the number 5. I think ancient Greek smartphone. Microsoft should learn he be so concerned about GCHQ being would be easier to decipher. Please, from Apple and have two separate able to monitor his emails? Google, hurry up with your Captcha operating systems - one for computers, I’m perfectly relaxed about the replacement. one for mobile devices. prospect of the James Bonds and Miss BillBill MichMichaelsaels I am sure that Microsoft want to lure MoneypennMoneypennysys at GCHQ reading my users of Windows 7 and indeed XP into emails because I’ve never planned to an hands-free callswhile buying the latest version. In that case, behead a British soldier, nor arranged to drivingtoo they should be busy buying advertising travel halfway across the world to wage I wholly endorse the points by space in magazines such as yours, selling jihad jihad.. If they intercerceptint epteded my emailsemails thetheyy Arthur Marshall in his Star Letter the differences that an investmentinvestment in would read me moaning about my in Issue 438 (‘Name and shame people WindowWindowss 10 would bring. Right now they footbafootballll team to my brother; moaning who use phone while driving’). But I am are not convincing many people about my job to my wife; moaning about wondering if many people would endorse ToTonynySteele my dodgy knee to my physiotheraphysiotherapist;pist; my wish to see the law taken even furtherer. I quote from an article which appeared in, I think, an AA magazine of yesteryyesteryear:ear: “It is all very fine having your hands on the wheel, but it is of no positiLet’s hveeathor mughore ts use if your brain is not connected to your hands”. about tech I defy anybody to fully concentrate on driving if, for example, they are How refreshing it was to read discussing a difficult business matter. Jane HoskynHoskyn’s’s ppositivityositivity in Issue So I would like to see even hands-free 439 (Te Final Hurrah, ‘St‘Stopop moaning ransomware, the net effect is still calls being made illegal while a vehicle about tech’). While I do enjoy Stuart positive. How quicklywe become is moving. Built-in phones could be Andrews’s grumpiness, his anti- complacent. We are using devices now disabled when the engine is running everything attitude can feel a little that, just 10 years ago, would have felt apart from registering an incoming call, overoverwhelming.whelming. Not everything is as bad like sci-fi. Fast forward 10 years, and I’m to which the driver could respond as he makes out. If he really hates tech sure today’s tech will seem prehistoric. when safely at rest. that much, he could try living in a cave, I would like to read more from Jane Roger Castle-Smith rubbing sticks togethertogether for warmwarmth.th. on the benefits of technology. Maybe Jane’s words remind us that while she and Stuart Andrews could have a Notconvinced that I need tech sometimes fails, or drives us mad, ‘for and against’ tug of war every issue? Windows 10 overall we still benefit from its presence. Tey could pick a subject, then tackle it LikLikeemanmanyyothothersers IIhahavveeinsinstatallelledd In other words, despite crashing PCs, from opposite ends of the spectrum. MicrMicrosofosoft’st’sWindow Windowss1010 TTechnicechnicalal poor Wi-Fi signals and nasty Catherine MadeleMadeleyy PrPrevevieieww..IIcancannonottseesee ananyydiffdiffererencencee

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discussedReferendum UK was topic the on most FaceFacebookbook (News, Issue 439) and moaning about Windows 8 to because my friends on the site Computeractive . ey would take one seemed more obsessed with long at my emails and conclude that I am mindless pap like CoComeme DinDine e a moany old git. And they would be right. WiWithth Me , what they had for twits because it is planning a ey would also conclude that I pose no breakfast (mostl(mostlyy Shreddies) and ‘drunk photo filter’ to stop people threat to anyone. earth-shatearth-shatteringtering observationsobservations about posting them. According to the Mr Brazil says that he’ll happily show the weather (“I can’t believe it’s BBC’s story (www.snipca.com/14719), GCHQ his emails if they show him theirs. raining outside”). How I wish my Facebook will deter people posting I have another proposition for GCHQ. I’ll friends possessed the political drunk photos by asking: “Are you show them my emails if they promise to awawarenessareness to say something articulate sure you want your boss and your keep me, and brave members of our and pertinent about Alex Salmond’s mother to see this?” I wish armed forces, safe from terrorist attacks. mutinous plans. Facebook would also introduce a James Barclay When my friends aren’t talking ‘tedious holiday photo’ filt r, that rubbish, they’re posting daft photos of would ask the question: “Do you Scammed bymy wife! themselves. Some of these are just really want to bore your friends to Here is an idea that your lady boring holiday photos. Having to look sleep with another snap of yourself readers may find interesting. It was at all these is the modern equivalent of on the beach?” inveninventedted by my wife. I have named it being forced to endure a neighbour’s It’s clear that two options face me. ‘Free Bay’ and ‘Free Pal’. It works like slideshow of their recent trip (“and here One, to find a new set of Facebook this: my wife finds something she wants is the restaurant we went to every friends, preferably some that don’t on eBay then saysayss to me, “I want that, but night”- so what, I don’t care!). require a dictionary when using words I’m not an eBay memb rr, so I’m not sure To give my friends some credit, not of more than one syllable; and two, to about this bidding procedure and I don’t many of these photos capture them abandon Facebook and look in the havhavee a PaPayPalyPal account. Could you do it for drunk. However, I’m clearly in a ‘real’ world for like-minded souls. me?” It’s obvious what happens next: I minority. Facebook obviously thinks Which should I choose? bid, I win, I pay and she gets the goods. there are too many photos of tipsy DougDouglaslas GrGrahah What a great scam! PetPeterer BricBricee The Star Letter writer wins a Computeractive mug!

Stop nagging me tobuy oya l ail staf‘need to e Royal Mail’s biggest things I don’t want work much harder’ problem is that the staff ne toto Stuart Andrews’s rant against Instead of complaining about the work much harder than they do now. recommendarecommendationstions being showeredshowered competition, why doesn’t Royal ey need to operate seven days a week on you, before you have even had the Mail compete better (Question of the and make their services easier to use. chance to read or view your latest FortnighFortnight,t, Issue 438438)?)? With vans, mostly Nowadays even sending a letter involves purchase, really rang my bell (e Final half emptyempty,, callicallingng at addresses weighing each item and then measuring Straw, Issue 438). I am constantly nagged everywhere in the UK, they have a huge all the dimensions, even the thickness of for reviews of purchases I havehave bought advantage over other companies. a lett rr, to find out what has to be paid. (and even reviews of packaging!). en I But what a lot of courier companies have Parcels, letters, packets and registered am pestered to declare myself a student realised is that they can offer doorstep mail should all be handled by one so as to obtain discounts because I collection quite cheaply, just as they offer delivery drivedriverr and not two or even three previously bought certain volumes the delivery of reasonably sized packages, as they are currently. e same postman, normally only used for study, such as Te based on weightweight rather than complex already calling at homes, could just as CommunisCommunisttManifesManifestoto and books by John size calculations. It is totallytotally unfair to say easily collect parcels at the same time. Maynard Keynes and Jeremy Bentham. that YYodelodel and similar companies cream e problem is that they would no doubt My tastes are varied and I should like to off urban work – I live in a expect to be paid more for be left in peace to indulge them when I rural area and I have not yet doing it. Royal Mail could, and cacannaffaffororddtoto,,nonotthaharrrriedied ananddhahasslssleded inintoto found a courier compancompanyy that should, be the cheapest, fastest whatwhateverever channels the online merchants refuses to deliver or collect and most reliable service, so have chosen for me. from me at the same price the question is, why isn’t it? SusaSusannPlatPlatterter as if I lived in a ci .. ClivCliveeRichardsRichards

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What you need: Print ConConductor;ductor; WinWindowdowss ,,VVisistata,,7,8,7,8,or8.1

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What you need: FasFasttDeskDesktoptopRecorder; Recorder;Window Windowss ,,VVisistata,,7,87,8or8.1

Time required: 1515minss min

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What you need: ABCABC-Up-Updatdate;e; WWindoindowsws VVistaista,,7,7, 88oror 8.18.1 Time required: 1515 minminss

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