Posts by IndianaJ

Nothing like a bit of foresight

"new reporting client built using Microsoft's Silverlight"

Is this a joke?

Hmmm

Was getting all excited about carving up some 6502 assembler again when I noticed the 'no programming experience' bit.....

MySpace is to social networking

as <blink> is to HTML.

Most of those custom CSS pages were very reminiscent of Geotrocities of the 90s.

Taxpayer

So the taxpayer coughs up a load more money for the failings of some jumped up CEO from the city..... sounds familiar.

I would love to see a welding mouse.

Though I suspect you really meant 'wielding'.

It used to be

a 'best fit' methodology apparently. Look at the data for this year, map it to the best set of previous years' data and base your prediction on that. Maybe they don't use this method anymore, but I wouldn't be surprised and this would explain why they get it wrong for long range forecasts. In fact, I doubt they really get many right, it's just that we've had the best snow in 30 years, so the media pick up on it more.

City?

Umm... did we get city status? Where's the Uni / Cathedral / Other stuff that qualifies this place as anything other than urban sprawl?

Sounds good to me

Anything that 'invisibly' extends HTTP for the better can only be a good thing. How old is HTTP 1.1 now? Is there a HTTP 2.0 on the horizon? No. So good on Google for taking this forward at last.

Haven't these people

seen Event Horizon? That'd make 'em think twice.

Don't they know?

This

"The app is based on version six of desktop IE"

is bad. Even a bit retarded.

Dynamic overclocking?

Sounds freaking dangerous to me. Can I opt out of having a heart monitor running this? Ta.

How can this be?

"... they seem more aware of how much they don't know than their American counterparts ... "

Surely this implies the American counterparts are single cell organisms.

I can confirm

My Hero is holding out for the update, despite HTC thinking my S/N isn't suitable. I tried waving the thing at the website and shouting, but still no go.

Mmmmm

Maggie Philbin. Always though I'd marry her. Damn you Cheggers.

Sounds like

one of those InstallFests that I nearly attended once. Luckily I met up with the LUG beforehand and decided not to go.

Nothing to gain really

If you're using C# proficiently, then Objective C isn't that big a leap of faith.

Hmm

I don't agree with empty apologies. But if that's what the family needs (did they sign the petition?), then good for them. If he had apologised of his own volition though, I think that would have meant more.

Hmmm

"And according to Nikolaos Rangos, the hacker who released the exploit, IIS6 is also vulnerable.."

This is obviously more interesting... but is it backed up with some proof? Or is the chap trying to big it up somewhat?

@Yorkshirepudding

And the joy of trying to move on? Having to deal with those 'recruitment consultants'. As bad, if not worse than, estate agents.

OT though, agreed with tech managers being failed techies. Surprised they haven't gone into teaching really.

Where was the proof?

What is this proof he speaks of? The man is a good drummer and should stick to what he knows. He is also good at spouting utter bollocks by the looks of it.

Let's be fair to Grease Monkey

We've all made that mistake once. It was 12 years ago for me and still bear the scars from a Java devver.

Back on topic, doesn't work in FF 3.011 either. *click* *click* *click* NS_DOM_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED.

Amazed at Ubuntu killing of random processes though.

AJAX ain't all that

Until JavaScript supports multiple threads, AJAX isn't going to solve some of the fundamental issues with web based apps at the moment. The number of failures I get in Mafia Wars is staggering. Maybe it's badly written, but heavy reliance on AJAX, in my experience, doesn't work well.

The good news being that the Chrome browser does at least have a seperate thread for JavaScript per tab. Maybe this could pave the way to multi threaded JavaScript? If so, count me in. I'm along for the ride.

Cyber?

Are they incapable of making sensible references to the internet instead of borrowing from science fiction? FFS. They really do think we're all children.

Errmm....

I'm with Virgin Media and was upgraded from a 4Mb connection to 10Mb for free last year.