Posts by Anonymous Custard

Re: no honour in the top knobs club

@TeeCee - I strongly hope what you say about contractual rules is right, although the WSJ reported that he could be on for a 60m Euro pay-off. Presumably this is why he's been playing so dumb about it all, although given how closely that software is normally held in-house and how important it is to the business it's almost unfeasible that he did have no knowledge.

Will have to keep an eye on that one, along with the investigation into him that the Germans are doing as mentioned at the end of the article.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/former-volkswagen-chief-martin-winterkorn-could-receive-60m-payoff-1443103501

Re: uBlock Origin

For home, I added PiHole to my little Pi1 home server, and route the DNS through that. Works a treat and covers all of the devices on my home network without having to mess directly with any of them, and if I so desire I can white (and black) list particular sites if I like them or ad-blocking on them screws things up (which thus far I've yet to find a site where it does).

And as most of the time when I'm out and about I use a VPN back to the home network anyway (OpenVPN also running on said home server) it covers me there as well.

Re: Simple fact of life

Personally I take one to include the other.

But then I'm an engineer and not a manager, so probably a fair point to make...

Re: Ambivalence

Which is an engineering challenge in itself, and something very non-trivial in all speed record attempts (just ask Donald Campbell).

As are the other little tasks like ensuring the wheels are strong enough that they basically don't just shred themselves given the velocities and forces involved with rotating at such high speeds. And also being able to brake the thing, given that there are various systems needed depending on the speed when they are applied.

It's been interesting to read the ongoing coverage of the project on the various BBC website updates, covering all these little tasks and to hear Andy Green's view on them given he's going to be the one along for the ride.

I thought that was a revolution?

Re: Reversible

Yup, just what I came here to say, speaking as a man who at least 75% of the time has to invert his phone after taking it out and finding it's being held upside down.

But then again I usually take (at least) two attempts to get a USB plug in on my laptop or phone as well, so perhaps I'm just confused that way (or a reincarnated Australian).

BoFH, Dabbs, Worstall, Bong...

Hell there's enough inspiration here for a good few Friday afternoons and beyond...

Yes, it was indeed nice both to see the Special Weapons Dalek again, and also to not see the new abominations that got foisted on us a while back (the ones that look like they're made of melted plastic).

Re: Terminator: Librarians Rising

Oook?

Re: Ironic?

@Dabsie,

I think given the choice of going from Sennheisers to Beats compared to going from Sennheisers to silence, I'd pick the latter. It's less of a drop in audio quality and sonic satisfaction.

The "Marmite OS" sums it up quite nicely.

For those who want a phone to actually be a phone (a communications device for calls, plus SMS and email) then WinPhone is great. Nicely focussed (the rose-tinted positive spin of restricted app availability) but more to the point rock solid and reliable, it just gets on with what it should be doing.

But of course for those who want it as a tablet/laptop replacement then it of course fails, due to the self-same lack of apps etc. In that arena it's never going to replace and iOS or Android device.

So yet again MS are suffering from producing a product and then trying to market it as something else (or it being seen as such by the market) in the same way they did with Surface being a laptop-replacement vs being an iPad or other tablet replacement/competitor. And now with WinPh10 they seem to be trying to change their target and be a jack-of-all-trades across both, and like Surface end up mastering none.

Speaking as a WinPh8.1 user (on my company HTC 8X) I can say I'm quite happy with it as a phone, which I will miss if WinPh10 screws things up like it looks like it will. And for tablet stuff, there's my Nexus7 also fairly happily filling that role (albeit with some signs of showing its age now).