Posts by Anonymous Custard

Re: Sorry if it's an obvious question, but...

Sounds very much like the "document management" system that our HR hive foisted on we humble minions a couple of years back. That said we kinda got our own back, as it seems that the HR drones are the only ones who know how to work the damn thing (they were the only ones in the office long enough to seemingly be worth training on it, the rest of us being too busy actually working and earning the company income) and can find anything. So if we lesser beings want something we now always just ring or email them and ask them to get it for us (and if it's something actually useful we of course then store it locally for easy re-use, thus defeating the whole point of the original system).

It's always fun to hear their wailing and gnashing of teeth when they moan about having to do it, even when we point out to them that it's the most time-efficient way of tackling the damn system by a factor of about 10x. But of course actually getting a system that works (and can intuitively be worked without similar rune-chanting to the article one) seems to be beyond them.

Re: Speaking as a parent....

Just remember, these are the people who may end up choosing your nursing home later on...

Re: How many new cars don't have airbags in Europe?

I must admit I'm struggling to think of any make/model of brand new car today which doesn't have at least a drivers air bag of some sort as standard.

Can anybody shed light on such a vehicle on-sale in Europe today? Apparently they're only recommended in Europe (link) but are mandatory in the USA

Re: Euler angles.

Which direction is the 1 Direction anyway? Does anybody know? Does anybody care?

With that lot and music, definitely backwards...

Re: Non-cooking bacon?

Ah, what those of us who spend more time in France than we would like would call Lardons?

Anyway good luck with the challenge, the pudding sounds quite enticing :)

Re: Yum!

Well I did say it may be sailing too close to one ;)

In a similar style you also have French dish of Tartiflette, except it's with Reblochon cheese rather than egg to hold everything together, and that one does include bacon (well lardons anyway). Always goes down a treat with a pint or few when I'm down in Grenoble (it's a Savoie regional dish).

Re: landing barge "Just Read the Instructions"

The next one is going to be called "Of Course I Still Love You", so looks like they're fairly confident of many loving returns after a firey departure...

Re: It's important...

Well the landing barge is named "Just Read The Instructions" and the next one is to be named "Of Course I Still Love You".

Both in honour of Iain M Banks of course, but it does show that someone there has a sense of humour (and good taste in reading material).

Plus if I remember correctly the Falcon rockets were named after the Millenium Falcon, and the Dragons after Puff the Magic Dragon. The latter would certainly count as humorous.

Re: half-full-glass possibility: I used to work with Dabsy

Unfortunately yes it's the second one. Or else Dabbsy probably has most of the el Reg readership (and indeed most of the tech world) as former colleagues.

The aquarium reference also made me smile, we have a meeting room in our Dresden office which the locals have christened with that name (with good reason). Who says Germans don't have a sense of humour...

Re: Why mega/gigabytes of code for kilobytes of functionality?

Maybe we just need a re-application (or teaching to the marketting droids) of the two principal rules of engineering.

If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should.

Re: I honestly don't see the point of this,

Kodi already has a working iPlayer add-on. Runs fine on my overclocked Pi1.

At least it's working at the moment, until the next time the BBC change their streaming format to try and break it and other non-BBC apps like Get_iPlayer.

But I do entirely agree with your sentiment of having an "official" add-on for such things from a larger user-base, for all such stream sources (also things like Sky Go and 4OD). Especially in this day and age of things like YouView and other similar platforms.

Re: Christometer-

Or maybe just Christwatch, with the i pronounciation softened similar to wristwatch?

Wish you hadn't mentioned holy toast though, now I feel hungry!

Re: You can sideload Androids already

Yes, it's still there in Lollipop 5.0.3, along with the warning pop-up of the risks involved if you enable it.

Walk through most airports en-route from check-in to the plane and see how many PCs you pass which are running XP - I did it yesterday and my count was 4 (at least 2 of which were sat beside dot-matrix printers, which probably also says something about "if it ain't broke don't fix it").

I travel most weeks, and the count at most airports is usually about the same, which when you consider how many gates most airports have these days quickly tots up to a lot of XP installs...

Re: technology dominated the early 20th century, it was wireless

As he (Rex Garrod that is) more than amply proved in Robot Wars over several seasons...

But I certainly love Hunkin's cartoons on the subject - it's a nice sneaky way of getting kids drawn into the subject, plus on occasions some adults too.

Re: Yes, I have

Or if you want to go Superhero, try Spawn, possibly paired with Daredevil (although the latter is arguably tolerable, and does have Jennifer Garner in it as a redeeming feature so maybe shouldn't be included in this company).

Re: Using this App called AdAway...

Or ADB and a PC, for that matter...