Posts by Alan Bourke

Re: Autononmous cars

"The world is full of people who cannot drive, for any number of reasons - the young, the old, the blind, the drunk"

The young can learn to drive. As for the old, blind and drunk, see point about funding public transport or subsidising taxis.

"Most cars spend 95% or more of their time parked up, doing nothing."

See point about public transport and home working.

Re: Wait a minute ...

Seems to work perfectly fine for hundreds of millions of people. And by 'cognizant' I assume you mean 'Linux snobs'.

works.in.every.other.country

works.in.every.other.country

Re: Manual page numbering

Word processors not meant for large books.

Re: S. Sharwood in 2018

Dry your eyes. Atom open source. It's not going anywhere. Also you forgot to put a '$' instead of the 's' in Microsoft like it's 2002.

Re: I'm surprised that it's not appeared on more ordinary people's machines

Do they ? How do they do that?

Re: I would get it fired for inventing Powershell

There hasn't been a DOS prompt in Windows since Windows ME. There is CMD.EXE, which supports DOS commands.

Re: Beginners'

People still snooty about BASIC after all this time. Dear oh dear

Re: There is an official update available from Apple

This is like those gobshites who stay on Windows XP because their brain hurts or something.

Er what?

"The damage it does to a regular installation of Windows is too much and is unfixable without wiping the OS and starting again from scratch. "

Nonsense. What damage does it do?

Re: would this be...

Would far rather use VBScript than poxy Javascript

Re: Situation Normal, All Eff'ed Up

Is Micros~1 the new 'Micro$oft' ?

Very clever.

Odd how the company that utterly dominates the business computing space can't apparently 'write proper SOLID code' whatever that is.

Re: More megajoules

TNT is old hat. Not very energetic.

Re: Most microsoft advice ever

"at one time" i.e. a very, very long time ago

Re: As ever, fully autonomous cars

I suspect proper education, enforcement and homeworking would do much more than this daft pursuit. It's the American way though - throw surgery and diet pills at the obesity problem rather than addressing the root cause.

Easter eggs in operating systems

are not a good look when it comes to today's security landscape.

Re: Cryptocurrencies are a scam?

Yes let's ditch the petrodollar for energy gargling Ponzi nonsense favoured by ransomware groups.

Re: root cause

Oh is it 'email is dead' time again? Can't be five years since the last round surely. Where does the time go ...

Re: "Windows' registry doesn't need cleaning"

9 years old and\or one of these people who thinks Windows is still like Windows 95 in all respects.

And their plugs are crap

And their plugs are crap

Re: On the other hand

Really? Fantastic! I'll just load up all the software that I need to run my real business in the real world (and sneak Call Of Duty and Far Cry on too wink wink) ...

Oh.

Re: Maybe there wouldn't be a shortage of kids going into coding

"Maybe if they encouraged the kids who are interested in the subject and stopped trying to force it on all and sundry?"

100% agree - kids with an aptitude should be identified and streamed early on, with good apprenticeship-style positions in companies later on to entice them. This 'everyone must be a coder' thing is as much nonsense as 'everyone must be a car mechanic capable of stripping and rebuilding an engine'.