Re: Oh dear sir,
Does the US figure include the height of donald trump?
Posts by MJI
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Firemen free chap's todger from four-ring chokehold
This is why copy'n'paste should be banned from developers' IDEs
Wednesday 10th February 2016 16:45 GMT 
Re: Code Review
I once merged a lot of code into one set, replaced around 60 tab pages with ONE base version inheriting into 10 so specific ones.
Shrunk by a lot and so much easier for ME to maintain.
The original writer found it confusing, but I did have to add a new feature to every page, took about 40 minutes rather than hours
Microsoft quits giving us the silent treatment on Windows 10 updates
Silent Nork satellite tumbling in orbit
Fleet of 4.77MHz LCD laptops with 8088 CPUs still alive after 30 years
We're going to use your toothbrush to snoop on you, says US spy boss
Wednesday 10th February 2016 09:36 GMT
Funny really
But tech people are often like this. Often programmers get bored with PCs so find other things to play with. I used to be an early adopter, not so much now, only when it is something I really really want.
IoT will pass me by as I have no use for it. Smart TVs, well mine is just a bit thick rather than dumb, but network cable not plugged in.
I early adopt when it benefits ME.
Digital TV, more channels and anamorphic, so bought one.
DVD, no contest, if I wanted to watch films I needed one.
Blu Ray, wanted HDTV so a good place to start, also wanted newer gaming device.
Not so bothered
Smart phones, not bothered, waited until work bought them.
MP3 players. bypassed that totally.
Tried and gave up on pay TV twice, one was very cheap but went bump, it also worked on my TV via a CAM, the other I never used except for BBC downloading, but got a free (but now dead) PVR from my ISP.
Streaming, not impressed, worse than broadcast normally, but I will join Amazon prime for ONE show, (as well as delivery options)
IoT will join this as well.
Finally the amount of companies trying to stop me using the internet is getting ridiculous. Here are a few.
Mozilla - Australis.
Google - Chrome no menus, searching privacy warning needing logging in or cookie retention.
Paypal - dumbing down to telephone screens.
Ebay - also started the downgrade.
MS - ribbon menu, the mobilifaction of windows.
And that is just for starters
EU could force countries to allocate 700 MHz band to mobile by mid-2020
Monday 8th February 2016 15:10 GMT
Re: Stupid frequencies
Why should I?
Had broadcast TV on these frequencies for many years, millions of people use it, not everyone can get cable, not satellite, some prefer terrestrial to satellite (in the early days BBC looked better on Digital Terretrial than Digital Satellite).
On the satellite side, not everyone can have a dish, not everyone can afford a Humax PVR on top of their TV.
AdBlock Plus, websites draft peace deal so ads can bypass blockade
Tuesday 9th February 2016 10:43 GMT
How come some sites can manage aderts properly?
A few sites I use, I see ads, I click on them, I buy from them.
Why?
Because they are from companies directly applicable to that site, a forum for x has adverts from companies involved in x. And they are small banners.
eg a model railway forum has adverts from model shops, manufacturers, magazines, auction houses.
OK not the last but "ooh a nice new wagon kit I need that" gets a sale and my click through helps pay for the site.
If every site was like that ad blockers would not be needed.
Oh and I could not boycot the advertisers without getting a different hobby!
Mozilla: Five... Four... Three... Two... One... Thunderbirds are – gone
Did you know ... Stephen Fry has founded a tech startup?
BT broadband is down: Former state monopoly goes TITSUP UK-wide
Windows 10 will now automatically download and install on PCs
Tuesday 2nd February 2016 13:08 GMT
Re: I upgraded back in November, and Windows 10 is working great.
Multicore
I run XP on my quad home and 7 on quad work
BOTH multi task fine.
At home I can watch an MPEG encoder happily use 2 or more cores while burning software uses a little of another core.
Yes my PC is powerful enough to MPEG encode, and burn a DVD of a previous encode at the same time.
Only one I stuck to single process was capturing.
I was converting a large number of old tapes to DVD.
Tuesday 2nd February 2016 09:15 GMT
Re: It's like a fish taken out of the water...
My current home PC was built just before the release of 7 so of course was built with XP, it still runs well as I overspecced it when I built it.
Terabytes of HDD
Quad core
lots of RAM (all XP can use)
It runs really well and it is old.
Why should I replace it when it works well?
Land Rover Defender dies: Production finally halted by EU rules
Tuesday 2nd February 2016 09:28 GMT
Re: Safety?
Depends on the Discovery, the D1 is very similar to the original Range Rover and the 90/110, the D2 was the last new live axled design and I was surprised the axles did not end up on Defenders. (But the engine & manual gerabox did).
D2, D3 are very different, independant suspension, and a transmission unrelated to anything before.
The D1 and D2 are both about 100" WB so are between the 90 and 110 in size.
Friday 29th January 2016 14:44 GMT
Re: Just
Actually I don't like the more modern EU compliant engines, too much to go wrong.
Not against electronics as they can be reliable, but with the latest EU mode bringing in engine disabling for running out of pee, for EGR failure, various things which do not matter 1000s of miles from a dealer.
The Defender was best pre Transit engine, when it still had one of the the two Land Rover designed engine families in it. That being either the 2.5 direct injection based on series engine (300TDi) or the 5 pot lump to replace it (TD5).
With a Land Rover you want it to be repairable, you don't want to be stuck in Africa because the EGR failed. Even my 2003 100" estate can run fine with no EGR and only one working sensor if it had to.
Windows 10 overtakes Windows 8.1's market share
Why a detachable cabin probably won’t save your life in a plane crash
Pubs good for the soul: Official
Stop the music! Booby-trapped song carjacked vehicles – security prof
BT dismisses MPs' calls to snap off Openreach as 'wrong-headed'
'No safe level' booze guidelines? Nonsense, thunder stats profs
Boeing just about gives up on the 747
UK can finally 'legalise home taping' without bringing in daft new tax
Thursday 21st January 2016 11:43 GMT
Re: The government gave a specific reason when they created the exemption
Funny really, but the musicians I know, did it fot the love of music not the money.
Otherwise they would have been better off just doing their day jobs.
Anyway I am very unimpressed with record labels as the only deals they offered years agp were so bad that many bands stuck to self funded or touring only.
Microsoft herds biz users to Windows 10 by denying support for Win 7 and 8 on new CPUs
Wednesday 20th January 2016 11:19 GMT
Re: Moving away from Windows?
But if they kill WIN32 there is then no reason to use their OSes.
Force a complete rewrite (there is a .NET escape plan if we HAD to).
Kill WIN32 then we would HAVE to go something more generic.
And it took us about 10 years to fully rewrite into WIN32 and still adding new code all the time.
Trump's new thought bubble: Make Apple manufacture in the USA
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