Posts by Mark 65

Although this guy should have faced prosecution over his abysmal (mis)use of the English language. Double negatives, tsk tsk, a fucking disgrace.

They've got plenty of people signed up but what about workplace health and safety. I remember reading a article a while back on El Reg whereby someone was mooting the prospect that as you are working for your employer they could then be responsible for any accident that happened in your "workplace" even if it were because you tripped over shit that you'd thrown on the floor. Is that still the case?

DRM is relevant to the point of "how are they going to stop me from using it". Well, how are they?

Exactly. It is not the job of the US Government to protect this stuff it is the job of the utilities to not connecting to the rest of the World so we can all have a crack at it. Seriously, these SCADA systems are connected to the internet through shear fucking laziness so these wankers don't need to get off of their fat arses in their comfy offices in order to tweak shit. Well that's a mighty high price to pay if you ask me.

You can compile outside of VS by using the command line exe if you want. The load time of VS2010 is particularly bad though I agree.

Also, I've learned from working at many an enterprise that there is more than one way of utterly borking an OS install so it runs like treacle. A lesser powered home PC with a standard install often outperforms.

@Metavisor

As stated in the previous article, they've calculated that the percentage of users that will bother doing so is low enough that profit still ensues.

Errr, no. Even if they have a search warrant they cannot come in. The police can, but FAST can f*ck off.

Really? They're shit are they? That'd be why the C programmer I worked with in a bank a few years ago was offered a job with Microsoft in one of their top teams after pointing out the errors in an test question widely used in industry to benchmark skills. Geez, he was just f*cking useless.

I was just taking the piss but it's amazing what passes over the downvoters' heads these days.

You think LPG won't get taxed more as it becomes more popular?

Ok, so you've issued them and they're backstopped (underwritten) by all the Euro states. Given you know a fair few can't balance their books and/or cannot be trusted with their finances they are effectively backstopped by Germany. How do you sort out who pays what of the coupons, or are they couponless, and you still need to work out who pays what of the final par? What is to stop them saying they have no money when the bill is due? Who pays what then? Unless of course they are backed by the ECB as the head of all these countries' central banks, which would in effect make them the lender of last resort. I don't understand how this works.

I think you'll find that, were you to do a bit of looking in the correct places, the author is quite knowledgeable in his area of focus (financial and quant). I believe he is pointing out the irony of people believing all recruiters to be buzzword searching monkeys and yet somehow assuming they can spot that skill X is a sub-set of area Y without explicitly saying so on their CV. I would certainly not object to this person giving my rap-sheet a critical review as I believe it'd end up much more marketable as a result.

But then they would need a taxation regime to cope with the increased medical costs and still need regulation (like alcohol does). It's an interesting debate, for sure, and I'm not sure how much ground you gain by legalisation or whether you merely shift the battleground into new areas like the regulation and taxation. After all, people smuggle booze and cigarettes.

Craigness you may wish to check out the changes in temperature across your CPU and GPU when you start running something in Flash before making statements about its usefulness (other than being the single largest attack vector for hackers on any platform) as this shows how inefficient and what totally bloated shite it is. Frankly I'd prefer anything to the crap that is Flash with its primary use for invasive advertising and long lasting cookies. It is one thing I totally agree with Jobs on.

But isn't that the point of the higher wage, so as to draw the useful worker towards the more profitable sector of the economy? Define for me "importance to society" outside of essential services? The tax dollars (or pounds) and incomes recirculated through the economy from high income financials have proved incredibly useful in providing the benefits (rightly or wrongly) to other parts of society. Manufacturing may be important, but someone has to buy the goods.

Chances are if you dropped this tablet it'd still be fucked. My money is on it landing screen side down or with suitable shearing force to split the panel.

Pork sword

@as2003

Would you mind quote where you can buy FLAC music from rather than just state it can i.e. photo or it didn't happen? I'd like to see how broad the offering is.

With an EVF you can offer focus peaking (like the NEX-5n) which should greatly aid focussing.

I'd have thought it quite important to go through how easy it is to sync and backup the device to your computer. Everyone knows (and either loves or hates) iTunes, but what do the others have?

Not a shock to me considering people were touting Jackman as a candidate.

"G'day, the naaaaaaames Bond, Jaaaaaames Bond"

Christ almighty.

An unlikely wishlist

Apple kit is there to sell more Apple kit and services i.e. you won't be getting tuners etc. They want you to buy from their media store and watch on your TV, that is the sole purpose of the box.

@AC

Isn't it the case that although IPv6 doesn't mandate or isn't designed for NAT there's nothing stopping a capable router sitting on the end of your IPv6 connection and hosting an internal IPv4 network?

Android may have stood on the shoulders of others, but that's only after Microsoft trampled on their heads.

But to be sensible feed-in tariffs should always be "net", although I guess the take up wouldn't be so great then.

An interesting point with regards glass. I've read articles from some landscape guys complaining that the cameras themselves are now so good that they struggle to get good enough glass to stick in front of them such that lenses like the 17-40L weren't good enough and the 16-35L II was required.

That low latency architecture that users rely on costs them money to run, as does sending cars around photographing the world. Asking people to pay shouldn't be an issue.

I continue to be astounded that they don't seem to understand that people use proxy registrations so they don't get spammed or abused at their home address or place of business. As for the idiocy of forcing an email address on the website - they mean the dumping ground and spam-fest that is admin@thewebsiteconcerned.com?

The idiocy of these people knows no bounds. Don't even get me started on law enforcement who seem to want people to just hand themselves in rather than have to do any traditional investigatory work. Man, the World has gone to shit over the last decade or two.

Re:Why

Can't happen. That, by definition, is not opt-in.