Posts by Dan 55

Re: No explanation?

The idea is you don't set your state to appear as if you're offline because if you do you won't be able to see other people's states.

This is trust and openness. Apparently getting some peace and quiet so you can concentrate is a bad thing.

Re: Just kill it already...

Wrong Skype.

What a masterpiece of marketing from MS that was.

Re: Ha Ha!

Well if you give them between 10-400 milligrams per kilogram when humans would get 0.67 to 2 milligrams per kilogram, that's probably abusive.

Re: Majority of trade already outside of EU

What in the world about Brexit will stop the Border Control from checking lorries? Is that some kind of WTO thing? No, didn't think so.

Time will stop customs from checking lorries. It has been calculated that a 2 minute delay on the French side will lead to 37 mile tailbacks. However judging from yesterday the French government don't seem particularly willing to waive the rules because UK exceptionalism.

Re: Majority of trade already outside of EU

what's the problem with zero tarrifs on imports? Then let the sniffer dogs do their work.

I assume you would British businesses to survive against competition which has employees which earn the same in a year as people in the UK do in a month?

And sniffer dogs must be mighty clever these days if they can find more than drug... in fact in an impoverished UK, legalisation of currently illegal drugs will probably happen as TWAD is costly to maintain.

Re: Majority of trade already outside of EU

What the EU does have is customs facilitation agreements with a great many countries which means the UK does spot check customs inspections with a lot of the rest of the world because there is a trace back to origin. And that's going to stop because they won't be exporting to the EU any more.

And the only way around the queues on the UK side would be to throw open the borders to the rest of the world in a non-discriminatory way.

If that happens, prepare to eat shit, buy lead-painted toys held together with thin metal death spikes for presents, and watch out for house fires brought about by dodgy cheap consumer electronic tat.

Re: What's that sound ? Brexiteers expoding.

EU immigration is lower than extra-EU immigration and I'd already under the UK's control so it's pretty much open already.

Re: Despite coding in it ...

Update: Microsoft stakes future on .Net strategy:

Jun 23, 2000 1:00 AM PT

The company said .Net will work on Windows and other operating systems, although it didn't specify which ones or when they would be supported.

You're right, and it's only taken us about two decades to get here, if you're happy with a subset (Core).

Re: Hmm

So, no idea then.

We never got that, you did, and clearly you got it wrong because you were made to vote again until you gave the right answer.

Read A second Brexit referendum could be for the best: look at Ireland and Lisbon and notice how the description of the first vote and the campaign leading up to it is a practically a copy of the UK's referendum and what changes were made before the second vote.

Re: Hmm

I am not quite sure how to explain this better but the result was to no longer be in the EU aka leave.

Well done. You voted leave. You voted to no longer be in the EU. Now tell us your plan for undoing 40 years of treaties with the rest of the EU, disentangling the UK's economy from the rest of the EU's, not upending the lives of EU citizens in the UK and British citizens in the EU, and not rebooting the Troubles.

Nobody else has been able to, least of all Vote Leave, the ERG, or Boris Johnson.

Re: Plugins/extensions

I think Google just sit around thinking up shit that other browser makers don't come up with due to budgetry constraints, an understandable lack of specialised staff in that area, and finally a vague sense of knowing where to stop.

Google just plough ahead anyway so they can claim their browser has all the standards, hopefully enough devs will use the shiny APIs, and then they'll get end users and their precious data that way.

Re: BBC Autoplay ?

You're not going to get autoplay stopped on Chrome, which is a program designed to funnel adverts into your eyeballs. Other browsers which do stop autoplay are available.

The referendum was spelled out very clearly before you voted - one and done, no re-runs; the same as the Scots IndyRef. There's no do-overs.

Legally there are. Or the government can completely ignore it. It was an advisory referendum.

You can’t blame the remain vote for the complete lack of Brexit plan by the people who proposed it.

Cameron, if he had enough of a brain to dig himself out of the hole he himself created, should have said, "Vote Leave have a month to come Downing Street with a document at least as detailed and as heavy as the indyref document published by the SNP before their referendum. This document will then be independently reviewed over a period of one year. If the plan is viable then the article 50 notice will be given."

And Vote Leave would have had a month to come up with something which isn't unicorns and rainbows, and as we know know, would have been impossible.

But instead he said, "We'll have a new Prime Minister on Wednesday, do-dooo do-do, right, good" and buggered off.

In the event of no deal or a hard Brexit, please do come back after March and tell us how you, personally, are winning.

Tell those on the NI border that...

I took a look at it when it was opt-in. The comments in the discussion were overwhelmingly against. IIRC they even said it made the mobile version worse so there goes the main reason for the change. But no, someone ?marketing, decides to go ahead anyway.

Come the Third Glorious UI Revolution where years of commentards calls for OS and website design which follow early 2000 design guides will finally heard and the sins of the Second Unholy UI Revolution (consolidated desktop and mobile versions) will be declared wicked and banished forever, this website will be weighed in the balance and found wanting unless it can find The One True Register Style in archive.org. But I digress.

Re: My eyes are bleeding!!!

Also my OCD keeps telling me it looks wrong because adverts don't fit exactly one or two story columns.

Re: Music...

Of course it could. Stuff disappears off my Spotify playlists all the time. I didn't pay for it though, so that's just mildly annoying.

All of this is an effort to gauge how much the frog complains about being boiled.

If the frog complains too much that piece of code will be backed out otherwise it'll stay.

It's not as if it hasn't happened before on Windows 10...