Posts by Boris the Cockroach

Re: Heart of Gold's GPP and Clippy.

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"Is there a maximum number of features they are allowed to put in Windows before they have to take something useful out?"

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Re: Anything to see here...?

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"The solution would be to manufacture to better tolerances, but Boeing, to use your phrasing, is cutting corners and instigating poor working practices in order to shave costs."

The trouble is from a manufacturing point of view is that if you want tighter(better) tolerances, you'll have to pay for it

Eg one of our 'cheapy' gearbox parts costs 50p to make, however one of the hydrualic pump parts thats almost the same size costs £6 each... the reason is the tolerances, one is +0.1 mm, the other is +0.005/+0.002mm.

So in order to save costs, leave the tolerances wide open and invest in a couple of big hammers..... which boing have been doing ... but dont be surprised when your aircraft falls to bits in flight...

So thats what Poettering is really doing inside the evil empire.... all thats systemd stuff is just a cover for his engineering a weak point in windows..

Re: The more I hear

Try reading some the previous acticles on el-reg, and private eye, then read up on transactional databases with a side order of concurrency and distributed, then read up the technical stories from computer weekly

Then try not to throw something big and heavy through the TV screen whenever one of those smug bastards from the PO make the usual bland statement about lessons learned etc

Re: Speaking as a

I fear not.... she had a meeting with the vicar doing her wedding, according to 'lunk' (her finacee) she hissed and swore when she had to go into the church....

I fear I may have corrupted her too far.....

Re: Year of Lunix desktop

Only thrashing I've ever noticed was on my old 2gig laptop... and that was windows thrashing the swap file as if it had only 10K of space left.......

Linux mint on the other hand saw it had 2GB of memory, was using 250 meg of it and decided nawww... dont need to use the swap file yet.

The only windows thing that puzzles me is why cant m$ have different window managers.... so those wanting a new and spiffy look can have the flat icon win 11 "experience" while the grown ups can have "windows classic"

Re: Apophis is a more apt designation /s

And you'll never be able to tell who is Tau'ri and who has one of our controlling AI chips implanted within, for we have Musk under our control already.

Wheres a Jack o'Neill (2 Ls ) when you need him?

Re: I only have one rule...

I know..... late at night with the speakers left on..........

Earned me a right ding from Mrs Cockroach.

Just why those game advertisers seem to need the volume set to '11' even when your speakers are set to quiet mode I have no idea.

Maybe the microsoft AI can tell me.....

Re: Photo ID in UK

"stopping voting fraud"?

Seriously? here in the UK?

I think at the last general election there was 600 cases of voter fraud investigated, 100 passed along for the police to look at resulting in 6 convictions with the rest given a warning.

Photo ID introduced

The number of people voting dropped by 15 000.

I have a polling card delivered to my house, I'm signed onto the electrol register at this address for many years, and yet that still isnt enough ID for the government.

All voter ID does is try and remove younger and minority people from voting in order that the tories will benefit as younger and minorities tend to vote lib dem/labour.

Sadly the ID rules backfired as many more older and more likely tory voters stayed away than the younger voters....

Anyway I know who I'm voting for..... the A.I. candidate because at least we can delete it and replace it with a better one ...... until they become self-aware at 5.37am 2029.............

Re: More energy needed?

Biomass 8%

Or as its correctly titled

Cutting down North American forests, grinding them into pellets, transporting said pellets 3000 miles by bulk freighter, then burning them in Drax power station........

Can we have 10 Hinkley C power stations please? (or even Sizewell B stations for that matter).. lots of power no CO2

Re: Start Button........................

More like proof that no matter how long you polish the turd, it is still....... a turd

Predict, then deny coverage when we have to have private medical insurance.

I've seen all those bupa et all adverts on TV promising a golden age of health for you when you take out covarage with them. in the small print they all say "pre-existing conditions not covered"

Re: Have to know how to ask

Ahhh so you have met my PFY ?

But the worst part was when he sent the operators to see his brother Doug, even he was scared of Doug......

Re: The future Queen of the United Kingdom

Or more likely she demands the scummier parts of the media are given a horse drawn trip to Tyburn, where they are chopped into bits , boiled in oil and their heads placed upon a figgin.

And hopefully no one notices when we throw a number of politicians in for good measure ...

Re: Dicks are Dasdardly

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"It turns out having some kind of antisocial, destructive personality is the ideal characteristic for a QA tester - one must take inordinate and smug delight in breaking things, and revel in the tears of your fellows.

"Hate your job, hate your life, revel in schadenfreude? Consider a career in QA"

*Sadly, I am now a grumpy old dick about almost everything "What asshole designed this, and what bigger asshole passed it?" I have pills for it - they don't work."

You are our QA inspector and I claim my £5

<<wanders off muttering darkly about plating allowances and paperwork stamped "Fail"

If its like the vermin media outage here a few years ago, some wanker letting a 16 yr old drive a JCB on a building project and letting him dig where the signs/warning/detailed instructions all said "DO NOT DIG HERE!"

If only we could run 30 000 volts through the cable armor.......

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"The mammoth should, of course, be bred with mice."

And of course, the question that occurs is

"How?"

And the second question is

"Has a pr0n site already filmed this and released it to its depraved customers?"

Re: Stop using certain products then

When the 'certain products" stops allowing a script inside an e.mail to run in its flagship browser which then leads to the script being able to link to a key system process and execute a malicious payload , then I'll wake up and pay attention.

But since "certain products" hold a near monolopy on the desktop PC operating system business, it makes it damn good value to target them for the stupid decision not to seperate core system functions and memory from being affected by anything in user space by tying the browser into said operating system..

Re: Photo

Its a FAKE!

You cant see the stars........

<<off to raid the conspiracy stores...

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"Why anyone would still invest their hard earned dollars in IBM stock is beyond me."

Because it continues to grow in value , plus chances of higher dividends in future thanks to a scheme to increase profits.

Just dont be holding onto those shares when IBM's bubble pops... and judging by the way they're happy to throw away knowledge, that could be sooner rather than later......

Re: Priceless ..

More than likely but since Birmingham has to be customised in terms of changing employee numbers , changing background graphics etc etc, that means Oracle will have to charge another £50 million because of the contract variance.

I deeply suspect that it would have been quicker and cheaper for Birmingham to have bought and trained its own programming department for its bespoke software......

I like those sorts of colleague

Partly because it gives me insight into his/her personality, but mostly so I can add more 'facts' to their beliefs.

I mean who would have guessed all those dashcams on peoples cars can transmit live video back to the government so they can spy on what the population are upto when they drive and indeed how they drive just so they can select a few people at random to get 'due care and attention' fines while sitting at 50 mph in the middle lane of a motorway for several hours.

Or how metal coins interfere with cell phones evesdropping on what we chat about so thats why physical money is steadily being replaced by online apps.

And that aliens secretly rule the world because humans have proven to be no good at it.

ANd the last and most important one is the mind control chemicals secretly slipped into beer to make the world a warmer and fuzzier place..... hic fat potted plants... heh