Posts by Risky

Why?

Could someone explain why I would want to purchase a BitCoin. is there a purpose to it other than finding new ways to lose money.

First question they'll ask

"Ok so how do I print from this thing?"

BBC Basic

I had a BBC B but I had to wait a year or two for it as it was a lot of money for us. As I recall because the basic had proper REPEAT....UNTIL Loops, procedures and functions there was a culture of never using GOTOS at all so it did teach you some good habits. I also recall doing some stuff in Assembly language but then my taper recorder broke and wouldn't record so it was a good few months before I could save any code again and never got back to the hard code.

That said it when I was a college and had to write a little PASCAL it was a very eaesy convertion and I earning a living in VBA these days so the £400 was a pretty decent investment.

As for all this BS about "proper" programming languages, I'm a firm beliver that you can write bad or good code on any platform.

Coffee is a serious matter

I have a couple of home espress mahines, a LaPavoni and a Dualit and to be honest I'm beginning o think that it's not worth it until you go towards 4 figures and get cut-down commercial machine like http://www.myespresso.co.uk/product.php/26/isomac-millennium-two-semi-automatic-espresso-machine

But was it 'simulation'?

Lets just check and see what the benefit is.......

Check a random album recommended to me on Amazon:

So I can have a low quality rip delivered to me using my own bandwidth for.....exactly the same price as a CD. Great. Nope. Not sure why I'd fall for that one.

Price: £8.99 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and In stock.Items for dispatch to UK will be sold by Amazon's Preferred Merchant. (Why?)

45 new from £7.93

Buy the MP3 album for £8.99 at the Amazon MP3 Downloads store.

Limit too low

This sounds positive but the problem with limiting it to the VAT threashold is that there is yet another barrier to expansion. With our small seasonal business we would have been better stopping trading in when we hit the threshold in month 9 and not had to pay VAT out of the netx years turnover. They we get a second shop and they pull the small business rates relief.

There are serious disincentives to expanding a business in this country.

32-point simultaneous...

That's a lot of fondling.

I'll get my coat, and some car keys from that bowl.

Obvious explanation......

I'm sure his supporters will believe that the poor performance is sabotage by the CIA, the Federal Reserve, the Trilateral Commission etc etc

I had to wait a good year or more before we could afford a BBC B, but it was worth the wait and a great investment.

I vaguely remember various arguments at school but at the end of the day and the spectrum or Comodore were better gaming platforms, but having the Beeb was best if you wanted to program, having a decent BASIC with Functions and Procedures from which it was little effort to us e PASCAL or to move on to VB many years later. They also allowed you to use assembly language within basic as I recall.

Overestimating competence

I just don't see how anyone can believe that the governent can sucessfully cover-up and keep secret somethign that doesn't matter at all when it is clear that they didn't manage to keep secret much stuff that actually mattered.

Missed the obvious casting

Why notI wanted Julian Assange™ as the villian.

He'd look great in a leather chair stroking a cat.

the cheaper solution

Would be to harmonise the different import duties - if they had the same tax rate there wouldn't be a fraud to attempt.

Of coursethey wouldn't think of that.

2k?

I'd guess 2k guys are going to be stategic change management consultants or some other flavour of powerpoint pushers.

the banks could choose to have more developers on the staff but they'd need to pay them more to fill the roles. They won't and have to get contractors in to get the job done as a result..

RE USB Ports closed

Exactly. If you can't connect a keyboard then you can't log in and start copying data. Standard IT security approach - I remember I guy saying that he seriously belived that the more difficult it was to use a computer, the more secure it was..

This is not good

This "new feature on by default" is very unpleasant. Can I have a option for "No I don't want any new creapy features enabled ever"?

Touch is not the best interface for everything.

I just don't get it. Has the entire industry lost their minds here. Sure touch is a hand interface in certain specific instances, but to be honest surfing the web on a phone was easier with the old touchscreen & stylus setup. On an office desktop is ridiculous and exactly who wants to interact with their tv by getting thumbprints everywhere.

I really can't think of anything I do with my PC, squeezebox, laptop netbook that would be helped by interacting with my thumb. Hell I don't even rate it on the phone, you obscure half the screen with your thumb and half the time end up hitting the wrong thing. Perhaps it's viable if you dumb down the UI/webpage and have a girlie hands. Sure its handy when you're on the tube or walking somewhere and of course if great for a Epos system and so on but for doing anything more complex - such as writing this reply it is just a pain in the rear.

iWhy

Could storage is useful, sure but I don't like to give up control over what documents and data I have on which machine and so on. I have a WHS for backup and some of that is backed up to keepvault.

As for the phone, there's never anything on there that isn't available somewhere else. I did like MSs myphone backup when I was on WM6.5, but I'm on Android these days.

Yeah call in the BAs /rolleyes

Yeah get IT in to build a "stategic solution". Should be ready for testing mid 2012 and you better have the budget for a few dedicated oracle servers.

Thatt said excel dbs are a pretty bad thing as it's too easy for a user to missort or drag some data out of place and corrupt the db. For the sort of stuff they're doing Access would be fine. We not exactly talking about real-time data and hundreds of users here.

Forget Elite IV

Elite IV will probably arrive when he sells the name so some games publisher with some spare devs to bash out something and cash in on the name recogition. In the meantime Egosoft have a new X game out this year :)

For the record I played Eltie (BBC B - tape version) but never made Eite and can't recall how many "Right on, Commander!"s past deadly I got.

The device looks good, sure most kids are better offf learning excel basics but for those that have the ability and interest coding is a great skill even if they don't end up as professional devs. I did some self-taught 6502 coding back in the mists of time........

Colourful WikiLeaks supremo

Very funny.

topical but not that special

My favourite was the 419 with "Unless this money is claimed it will be used to recruit child soldiers" or similar.

Nukes

Has anyone checked the radiation levels, surely it is linked to Fukishima.

Question Remains

Still very pretty. Still don't what I'd need one for.

(Paris - I'm sure she's got one /rolleyes)

And all for only EUR120m

It seems that time little comittee costs a bit to run despite havign no other discenable effect on anything.

http://www.civitas.org.uk/eufacts/FSINST/CB1.htm

Spanners

I go through Gatwick Security every week and after a few months they managed to spot something in my wallet that I could have used to take over the plane: http://www.dremel-direct.com/acatalog/spanner.jpg. Yes a 3cm spanner for the Dremmel collet nut.