Posts by Greg J Preece

Re: looking for apps

Disagree - I use OSX, iOS, Win7, Android, OpenSUSE, Mint... Never use search on any of them. Like the OP, I know where things are. I've never got this fascination with searching for things that are exactly where I left them.

I use quick search on all of them, for simple speed reasons. Win key, type two or three letters, hit return. I don't even have to break flow and reach for the mouse.

Re: Why beta version of Firefox?

Because Google like to keep implying that Firefox is defective/behind in some fashion, when it isn't. I've seen them casually state similar things before. I, too, have been watching HTML5 video on YT through Firefox for a long time now, but hey.

Re: Their 2011 issues cost me money because

It's sat on my shelf, along with First Light, TLOU and Killzone, waiting for the PS4 to play them on. Yes, I know. Amazon did a ridiculous sale at one point over Christmas and I couldn't stop myself.

Re: What?

That fucking super-speed attack thing at the end where he literally makes the villain spin around so fast he drills into the ground like a fucking Looney Tunes cartoon... When the guy started singing "Who Wants to Live Forever" I wanted to reach through the screen and get me some quickening.

Re: YOU WILL LOVE ME!!!

Can we get "completely methods aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" as the QOTW?

Then move to BC and live in tri-cities. Barely any snow.

Re: Pixels? Easy...

Just ask Kryten:

Gah! Can we not post Back to Earth clips? Especially ones misidentified as CSI spoofs by idiots?

Re: If only..

I forgot to add that if we can't make better batteries, then the infrastructure becomes the biggest issue here. Hearing that a decent charge can be gotten in 15 minutes at the right charger is great - regular stops aren't massively uncommon - but arriving to find those chargers broken, or inadequate, or just not being able to find them at all, kneecaps the whole shebang.

Re: @AC,

I know that if the CIA or NSA or CGHQ did this... everyone here would be screaming bloody murder.

Too much effort. They'll just let Google do it and then demand a back-door. You know, to PREVENT THE TERRORISTS!

Re: Few systems propperly account for this

Don't GPS satellites move through time at a slightly different speed to ground-based fleshlings anyway? I seem to remember that being a bigger problem to solve than leap seconds.

Re: And the alternative is ?

Hibernate and just about every other database abstraction layer is unfit for purpose, and anybody using them is clearly demonstrating that they should be going to the institution that "taught" them programming and demand their tuition fees back.

This is an unfortunate consequence of living in a world where everybody who thinks they can write "Hello world!" in HTML considers themselves a "programmer".

AC got condescending fast. Abstraction/ORM layers aren't perfect (and Hibernate sure as shit isn't) but they're a useful tool for people looking to get stuff done and have that stuff be redeployable. It's a side effect of us not all achieving your god-given perfection. If no "real" programmers use them, you might want to chat about that to...well, pretty much every application I've coded against in the past ten years. A real programmer is aware of the limitations of the frameworks they utilise, rather than casting them all aside and reinventing the wheel with every project.

Or you could quit being such a snobbish twat, but I doubt that'll happen.

Re: Unconvincing hype

Carefully comparing known factors to presented evidence isn't science?

I've got science on the phone, they want a word.

Re: If this had happened in the US or Canada, at the border

No... they would not "take a copy". My own experience in this exact situation in border control in Ottawa was that they simply do basic searches on the "unlocked" computer for images and videos and then browse through them for illegal images (child porn and the like).

Happened to me several times after inadvertently ending up in the naughty queue at a Canadian airport. They ask you to log into the system and then they go rifling through it. Of course, they do that in another room where you can't see what they're doing, which I think is complete BS considering their willingness to go through phones in front of you. They didn't ask me to decrypt anything though, just log in.

Re: I'm feeling a bit ambivalent this morning...

Getting this week's FOTW out of the way early, aren't we?

Re: great, fine, congratulations

They need to improve their selection outside the US. Canada fares pretty well, but the selection is still inferior. The UK? Phhht, rubbish. However, if you're the savvy type and have an endpoint somewhere in the states, they will do bugger all to prevent you tunnelling.

Re: Not even close

While I agree with the sentiment, these days if you say "Sony" to someone the next word out of their mouth is likely "PlayStation".

Re: 'Well said' to that.

Also, Skipper looks better than Barbie, both are about 14

Errr, I know that line was glib, but I'm pretty sure that in most Barbie continuities Skipper is indeed 14. Down, boy.

Re: Why the delay?

If they had a release coming up they may have waited for that. Their release cycle is pretty short now. That said, I'd have expected them to break that for a critical patch like this one.

Re: Any chance of Sailfish running android apps like BBOS 10.3 does?

On the Android side, Google seem to bring out features around 12 months after Apple

Ummmm....if you mean several years before Apple, then maybe. They had tap-to-pay long before Apple, their NFC and Bluetooth are unrestricted, the notification tray, continuous input keyboard and so-on in iOS were taken directly from Android. Hell, go back far enough and ask which had multitasking first.

And it's as tiresome as ever.

Yes, yes, I am sure Sony will bother to install root kits on Sony consoles already running Sony software that talks to Sony servers. Do you have anything relevant to add?

Re: Figures

Haven't eaten at a UK McD's since I was a teen, because even back then I could easily conclude it was the worst possible food I could get for my money. After moving here, a friend convinced me that NA McD's is waaaaay better and I should try it out. It isn't. It's dreadful.

You want me to eat a fast food drive-through burger? Wendys or GTFO.