Posts by MJI

Re: I read the title and sub-head...

Another non believer.

Clipper was a fantastic tool, a geat way of making DOS database applications, which were fast to use, fast to write, reliable and flexible.

As to clone, no, just the natural progression of XBase.

Clipper (or CA-Clipper) was XBase, tons of tools, some excellent replacable database drivers, and still many programs in use.

All those great addons, Blinker, Funky (sp), Novlib, Advantage XBase Server, things like this made for some pretty powerful applications.

We were using serial comms libraries, Netware task libraries, client server libraries, lots of links to C as well, with our own C code.

Clipper was the pinnacle of Xbase not just a clone

Re: This adds in my driving to the shop to buy the disc?

My daughter hates those sorts of films, she still likes animated though, and super hero films.

Teen angst gets her ratty.

Re: Good luck

MS have been feature removing from anything after XP.

A few older but used technologies have gone

Re: Support must end at some point

My last 1999 Sony TV picked up Freeview fine, sold because I went HD 4 years ago.

Re: Need they an app to stop wheels exploding

Not my fault, but it was bloody scary and I now have anxiety attacks if a BMW drives too close. The front wheel on the BWM literally exploded, then there was the head on in front of me, then I was the sad owner of a slightly bananad Omega.

Re: Alien Resurrection. 3 was not too bad(Gordon 10)

Those deaths were jarring but it was still much better than no 4

My favourite is Alien as Aliens is a bit American

I also prefer The Terminator to any of its sequels, short fast, to the point, good characters, good story.

Re: Correct

For more info.the BMW hit an oncoming car head on both were totalled, one of them spun into my car bananaing it, It took 5 months for my shoulder to recover.

My car was the only one which drove home.

Quoted £2500 to repair, so they wrote it off!

Re: Agriculture

We only buy outdoor reared pork.

My farming relative does cattle.

Not much can grow on hill farms apart from grass and animals are good at turning grass into human edible food.

Re: Peckham Spring

Didn't Coca Cola try selling it?

Re: Meh.

When ND and GG got the performance out PS3 was definately more powerful, just was a pain for the developers coming from single core and the last generation

Re: Delicately put

Speaker cable

I bought cable which was thick and meaty, not expensive, and you know what, it sounded better than the thin stuff I took off.

Those speakers were too big for the thin wire I had lying around.

Directional cable - as above 1 to left 1 to right, 1 to centre and a few to back

Wiring wrong way round, erk just don't left to left right to right and do not cross them over.

Script

Pretty sure that was Dan O'Bannon, father of the producer of Farscape

Re: Pay TV is a pain

Hates

1) You have to go through Murdoch in the UK

2) You still get adverts.

3) You have to go through Murdoch in the UK

4) I can get logo free HDTV free to air with good programmes.

Re: FF at home has gone nearly unuusable

Thanks will try tonight, just been round at work disabling dwongrades on the Firefox using PCs.

I am on 28.0 at work and it works!

Re: I hope they use thicker plastic...

Those are hopeless so we reuse older stronger ones

Re: Perhaps I'm a simpleton..

OK think of this

1) Would PSN be as good as it is now without XBL?

2) Would PS4 be as easy to use without X360?

3) Would XBL be as good without PSN?

4) Would X360 have been as well looked after without PS3?