Was nostalgia better in the old days?
https://www.theregister.com/2012/04/27/something_for_the_weekend_computer_nostalgia_is_bollocks/
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My old Huawei handsets did this: just hold a printed photo in front of them and face-recognition would let anyone in. It was an after-dinner party trick, with the added James Bond-like thrills of knowing that each time you did it, your photo would be sent to the Chair of the Chinese Communist Party.
Perhaps not rock but one of Rupert's colleagues of the 1990s, PC Direct magazine's reviews editor Adrian Sutton, went on to write the original stage score for 'Warhorse' and 'Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' - a couple of crowd-pleasers that some readers might have heard of.
The online shop for CH's subscriptions was run by a third party. It was this third party that got hacked, not CH's servers or its social media or its modest website.
Still, it's quite exciting to know that I am now on Iranian nutters' hitlists. It certainly explains why I receive 10 unsolicited phone calls a day from people with Arabic accents trying to sell me shit.
The Evernote forums are full of hissy-fitters like this. Rather than ask for help, they type furious posts about how terrible Evernote has become and that they are leaving for Notepad or some other shite.
I try to respond with "Thanks for letting us know" every time but I can't catch them all.
This ^^^
I've experienced this as an app developer. People are so inundated with shitty little marketing messages and ads masquerading as notification prompts, not least when they land on mobile web pages, that users are accustomed to dimissing them without reading them. So when you send out a notification that actually means something, it gets lost among the slurry spray of all the rest.
In France, the government changes the speed limits regularly on a whim. Obviously it is not practical or affordable to change all the road signs every time the speed limit is changed. So they change some of them and leave the rest where they are and you just have to know what the legal speed limit currently is - by catching it on the news, for example.
Not so long ago, the national road speed limit was lowered to 80km/h, so whenever you see a signpost marked 90 you are supposed to drive at 80. Just recently, the government relaxed the restriction, allowing a number of regional governments to allow the speed limit to return to 90km/h.
Some did, some didn't.
So now if you drive around France, the national road speed limit is either 80 or 90km/h depending upon which département you are in at the time. You may see a sign marked 80 but the limit is 90, and vice versa. Just possibly, if you're a really lucky, the speed limit marked on the road will actually be the real speed limit.
>> can i claim money for every storage medium sold as well as it might be used to store a copy of my software?
You could do unless...
1. You were employed when you wrote the code, in which case your employer owns the copyright.
2.You invoiced under a 'work for hire' arrangement, accepting a fixed fee that precludes any royalties.
Ah no, hang on, I get what the question is now. Can you be declared dead and then go on to commit a crime with impunity?
I wonder if Paul McCartney did anything naughty after Abbey Road came out? "It wasn't me, luv, I was barefoot in Heaven at the time."
The Queen has been erroneously declared dead so often, she could have offed hundreds by now.
Sir Percy Blakeney, like Bertie Wooster, is a literary fictional character. I understand how Americans wouldn't have heard of the "Jeeves and Wooster" books but I thought the Scarlet Pimpernel was generally well-known. Theakston's Old Pec is dark beer that tastes as if someone put half a kilo of sugar in it.
A kilo is a unit of measurement.
>> bookings of meeting rooms has been a problem ever since there were meetings rooms to book
I was contracting at a national newspaper once when we turned up to our booked meeting room to find that someone else had double-booked it. Instead of provoking an argument, the office manager simply upgraded us to the 6th floor corporate meeting room used by the chief executives.
We spent the meeting lounging around on the sofas, feet up on the vast mahogany desk, helping ourselves to the soft drinks fridge and fiddling with a remote control that magically 'frosted' and 'unfrosted' the glass walls.
Talk about being upgraded to First Class...
>> The 'daylight' would otherwise fall on the surfaces that the PV panels cover up, warming them, and even causing plants to grow.
If the solar panels on my roof prevent plants from growing on it, all the better.
Then you will want to watch this.
As I think I mentioned in my column. But only a posho or someone showing off on LinkedIn would use "effect" as a verb these days, and there is no real-world use for it in a UI Just imagine a word processor with a Search/Replace dialog that instead of having a REPLACE button had one that read EFFECT THE REPLACEMENT. Like I said, Lord effing Grantham.
The best cover version of that Twisted Sister song - arguably even better than the original - was this one by Spongebob Squarepants.
If your MacBook is jumbling the locations of your open windows between attached displays when awaking from sleep, there is something wrong with the displays or there is a corrupted file in macOS. My M1 MacBook doesn't give me this problem, nor did my previous Intel one, so I doubt it's intrinsic to macOS or Apple hardware.
In my original draft of this week's column, I had all the Mikes stopping what they were doing, turning to face me and saying "Mr Andersonnnnnnnn" but I decided I couldn't be arsed to come up with a funny reposte and, besides, I'd already made that metaverse-Matrix connection last week.
I attended an NFT panel discussion at the Angoulême Festival at which a multimedia artist explained that the value in the NFTs she sold lay in their exclusivity. So if I sold a decade of SFTW as an NFT, I'd have to delete every single trace of the originals from the internet.
In fact, I think this may end up the theme of next week's column, as the panel discussion turned out quite odd. One of the speakers, an academic who'd been invited to talk about the benefits of blockchain, ended up berating the others over the utter uselessness and environmental vandalism of craptos and NFTs.
I've yet to try Poutine, and admittedly only first heard of it last year. The joke, in case anyone didn't get it, is that Putin is spelt (as well as pronounced) 'Poutine' in French.
Poutine House claims to serve a vegetarian option but I don't trust them. We were once served a 'vegetarian paella' which turned out to be regular paella but the server picking out the prawns and chicken from our plates.