Posts by TeeCee

Paintball

"...turn us all into violent warmongers or terrorists."

Oh, I dunno. I laughed like a drain when I shot a colleague clean in the happy sacks, reducing him to a squeaky-voiced heap on the floor.

Now I should, of course, have been the very soul of conciliatory sympathy laced with the milk of human kindness. I blame paintball.

In my defence all I have to say is that it was a bloody good shot at that range....

Oracle's purchase of Java is a side-show here.

IIRC, Sun were repeatedly asked and had plenty of time to open up the TCKs at the centre of this one. They didn't. Thus the risk of being found in violation of the Java Ts & Cs by going it alone with an uncertifiable "full fat" version on mobile existed prior to the Oracle buyout.

You also have to wonder if Sun were stalling on the TCK issue in the hope of making some cash this way too.....

"..... working on their logic 80% of joints have tobacco in them."

Which would be a problem in NL why exactly?

Er, no it isn't as the answer should invariably be "Yes", unless the patient's lying.

Are you absolutely *sure* that *none* of the people you saw on the way to work this morning was a psychiatrist? How about all the people you've seen so far this year?

I'd be ticking the "yes" box and I have the icon to prove it!

"Have you ever consulted a psychiatrist?" might be a valid question to ask.

Personally I just took the fact that they have said that the iPhone is Number Two as a snide comment......

And you're back with us?

You are Jesus and ICMFP!

I think it mentioned leading into battle, not running away from it........

The Imperial Guards uniform and the Nike running shoes please.

You'll have missed the other article showing that actually most targetted vulns are in Flash, PDF or Java these days then?

Once you take IE out of the equation Windows does quite well, especially given the rich rewards and vast selection of low-hanging fruit users on offer for pwning it.

At the end of the day, it's the altitude of the fruit on offer that is important. Pwning the machine of a savvy owner is a waste of time. They'll just spot something's up and fix it / get it fixed. Also snaffling their gmail password isn't anywhere near as likely to get you into their bank account....

"....MS patented technology like FAT filesystem...."

Oh dear, here we go again. FAT is free, it's the MS proprietary Long Filename extensions to FAT that are patented.

Stick with 8.3 naming and you owe MS nothing.

Some of the code I've reviewed recently would seem to contradict that.

Back in the day, the only godawful spelling and grammatical howlers were in the comments. Then they crept into the error messages and now they're in the bloody UI!

Also if you're trying to write code to calculate something, it helps to have a basic clue about how the calculation in question works. I've seen some serious FAIL there in the process of translating a spec into code....

Correct. It's an arm of the *previous* government......

Ok, I understand.

One question: What are you planning to do with an SUV in space?

That's terribly self-deprecating of you..........

@Tom 7

Too damned right.

Fairly recently here, in the comments section attached to an article on migrating to Se7en, some commentard chipped in with one of the most priceless comments of all time.

Their long gestating upgrade from XP project run by ${big_consultancy} had finally turned in its recommendation for the next strategic platform...........32 bit...........Vista!

Next week's white paper: "Glaciation and Continental Drift, the immediate threats to the IT change process.". A study by EDS, Capita, Accenture, etc ad nauseum.....

Yup, we're square there I reckon.

I'd hate to be on the receiving end of whatever Auntie's cooking up to get us even over Clive James though.....

The Epson Japan affiliate (avasys.jp) does Linux drivers for wireless printing and scanning.

Must be. That's shading 5" and as any fule kno, once you get to 5" you're officially a tablet (Dell Streak, Samsung Galaxy Note...).

Unless those are big phones of course, in which case this isn't the biggest after all. Hey, size actually *is* everything. Who knew?

Actually, I know this one....

Actually it is a perfectly legitimate approach in the EU to exempt such of VAT on grounds of cross-border billing and leave it to the purchaser to declare and pay VAT. Pretty much the same as the US systems if you substitute "country" for "state". I suspect this may only apply when the purchasing entity is VAT registered. Makes sense.

Also Amazon don't appear to be doing this at all. There is no "amazon.${ISOC}" where I am. If I buy from amazon.co.uk, I get charged UK VAT. If I buy from amazon.de, I get charged DE VAT. Thus I reckon they're just running seperate Billing and not handling multiple VAT rates at all. Most serious stuff (e.g. Kindle etc) they won't ship intra-EU but insist I go to amazon.com, at which point VAT and such gets levied by customs at import and it's Not Their Problem.

Finally, if you think that complying perfectly with EU central diktat as regards VAT is in any way a "get out of jail free" card with the individual countries' various weird and wonderful interpretations, you are living in lala land.

"...."research" underwrit by Big Pharma ..."

So those punting product plough a load of cash back into R&D to generate better product.

This is a bad thing how exactly? What did you have in mind? The pharmaceutical industry gets to keep all the cash and taxpayers (under)fund all research? Yeah....right.....

Big tax on pharmaceutical products spent on research^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwhatever's a vote-winner this week? Yeah......right again.....

Nice shiny hat. Suits you sir......

Hmm, 3 downvotes so far for the naked, unvarnished truth.

Maybe the "fanboi" derogative is aimed at the wrong crowd these days?

Hmm, been there.

I remember some years ago when a shiny, new passord policy came out, mandating a capital letter and a number.

I helpfully pointed out that we were a mixed environment in which many systems still only accepted 8 character passwords and that users are lazy SOBs who prefer to use just the one. Thus, what they'd effectively just mandated was a seven character dictionary word, with the first letter capitalised and a number tagged on the end. I also opined that said number would usually be zero or one.

The number of red faces around the table when I trotted that out was a joy to behold.

I thought that.

I've bought an absolute shitload of booze over the years, so someone should be headhunting me to run a major brewery soon then.

Mmm....a six-figure salary and FREE BEER!