Posts by Martin Lyne 577 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2007
I've never heard of CSC, and now my impression is that they are stupid enough to pay millions for tat and that the people they paid just took partial Battlestar Galactica paper and wrote "CSC" on it. Yeah. Genius.
It took longer to write the associated bullshit than to make the actual thing.
Maybe I'm just sore that someone won't sort me out for life by paying me silly money to "rebrand" them (and take my own sweet time to do it)
With a bit of commitment we could be seeing the EV9+ by now. But no, Hummers are what we have.
Painfully, we'll probably use petroleum until it's all gone, then infrastructure will fail without it and we won't be able to make the things we do need in the amounts we need it. Apocalypse!
Every time I see a Hummer filling a whole lane I think "wanker", it's not just their money they're burning, usually my lungs (should get a mask for cycling). Fashion victims to the extreme. Couldn't they make them out of plastic, hybridise them and well.. anything. Let people have stupidly large vehicles, as long as they have a lower safety rating (evolution removing the ego-trippers) or some revolutionary engine that won't burn the rainforests, eat our babies and extinguish the sun.
but "connexion"? Skynet?
Can we not wait until we can colonise other planets (so I can escape) before we let computers run the world?
Or just run it on vista then it will stymie itself with "SkyNetHumanOppressionSystem would like to access the StrategyMap, Allow?" -> "Are you sure you want to commit these forces?" -> "SNHOS is trying to access the internet, allow?" etc.
Then it'll auto-update (destroy) itself.
I thought "Nuke!".. But no, the missus is still on webcam and mobiles are working.. so meteorite or earthquake then?
Cue some net searching (and finding no obviously placed links on the BGS website, mostly just refreshing BBC news to find out what it was in RIchters)
Got me excited because of armageddenous possibilities, but.. yeah, wasn't that bad here in Cov.
..we get some basics sorted first.
I'd suite like something to keep my ear cool during prolonged conversations, maybe some sort of clip at teh top of teh phone so instead of haivng a sperate device I can just hook the bugger to my head (or stick it under headphones as I do at the minute)
Then there's basics of GUIs. Anyone who's used a Sony Ericsson and mistyped a word knows how annoying the "OH dear, I couldn't find the word you were looking for, so instead of just doing nothing or just printing rubbish I will display an annoying popup for a few seconds". And the fact I can;t save (or even sort) text messages by WHO sent them has annoyed me since.. well since phone were able to hold more than 6 messages.
Can I even back the texts up on my computer? No. Can I at least get a big text dump of them? Not easily I shoudln't imagine.
Instead people get paid to say "Look. IT'S BENDY! (*in 7-15 years)". Pfht.
Proper nanite-based stuff is far more "flexible" than that anyway, I shoudl be able to download a new schematic for a phone layout and have my phone organise itself into that, not just some pre-programmed settings. Having a phone I could just bend around my wrist would be cool though. Don't wear a watch when I have phone.
/rant
Why can't you just install a windows patch server locally, which manages all the crappy patches and what-not, then set all your computers to access that (or search for it, failing that, use MSes servers)? Make it open source so companies don't need yet another expense to make things run sensibly. All the server needs to know is what the client has and what the client can use, then IT can send a command to the server and say "allow X-Z computers to install 1, 3, 5, 7" etc.
Not only does this stop Automatic Updates punishing MSes servers, but it also stops the same thing happening to your business's connection. At the cost of one 5 year old computer with a bit of extra RAM installed.
Or did I get the right end of the wrong stick?
P2P and "worms" are all a bit "let's do something new for the sake of our inflated salaries". Common sense > Fluff
I'm a vegetarian for many, many reasons. Not many people can think of true reasons for their omniverosity other than they were raised that way.
My hair is lustrous (what remains of it) and my eyes are sparkling and fresh (my contact lens vendor said my eyes were the moistest he had seen). This sort of propaganda would not have been seen in the Soviet days! Oh wait..
Also: I see a far higher percentage of unhealthy omnivores than sickly vegetarians. Prety funny when you see omnivores/anti-veggies refusing to eat something because it says "Meat-free" on the front, like they ONLY eat meat..
..Can't they just write something that bypasses rights management and detects if you are using some dusty old version of non-compliant garbage and then install a stands compliant browser instead?
Do they think that seeing "Microsoft™" at the top the page works like advertising (doesn't) and makes us all want to spend money on them? It has the opposite effect, we see "Microsoft™" we see an ill-rendered page and we alt-tab to Firefox™ for instance, and see it looking fine. Then we hate Microsoft™ just that little bit more.
As toen of the early posters said, surely coding a new standards(un)compliant web browser will just be a waste of time/money/ball-ache on El Reg? WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER ONE. JUST MAKE THE NEXT SERVICE PATCHES INSTALL FIREFOX INSTEAD!
If any "business" has an intranet that only allows IE use then.. erm. So? Their coders continue writing bad code for the sake of a bad browser, they prevent IE updates so the status quo is continued. If they want to improve security then they should have moved to something better a long time ago. The fact their employees won't be able to view external webpages properly is a minor aside. You made your bed, you lie in it. Removing IE-broken code and then starting to write correct code from then on will pay for itself after a while.
Plus with HTML 5 soon it's just going to be another raft of "IE doesn't support this, so we can only tentatively use it for now". Pretty fucking infuriating.
..find it a little sad when you have to temper an idea that is "good" in the altruistic sense by adding "oh, it'll help us save money too". A good thing too, but killing poor buggers in foreign countries (or your own) should weigh a little heavier than a dented budget and mildly less-enthused shareholders.
A conscience, who'd have it, eh?
If games ran smoothly with no need for extra things to be done to a basic install then I think more gamers would turn to Linux. Or if Microsoft improved their piracy protection. Or if you could actually buy machines with it installed that had a noticeably lower price, possibly bundled with a Win/Lin translation guide. Get the seeds planted at least.
Don't use busses that will in some small way try to save the world, in case the terrorists, who have been SO ACTIVE of late (so much so we require new legislation every week), decide to shoot them. Do you think the tanks are tin-foil? Is it a great deal harder than making an IED and sitting on said bus?
Stop being inflammatory (ha!) and consider the fact that this token gesture might help others follow suit, helping the hydrogen economy, hopefully causing clean electricity-production necessity to rise. Or carry on using your cars with one driver and no passengers and making traffic and pollution rife :)
I think I was at that FES ('92 or '94 maybe?), I went because they had fancy new consoles such as the Atari Jaguar (and it's bitmapped-monster Alien Vs. Predator)
Eye glisteningly futuristic.
As for the iBone, the sensor is presumably by the earpiece, which if held upside down and away from the chin would not recognise such proximity, thusly not disabling the display. Or perhaps disablable?
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