Posts by Dan 55

Does Printix require a third-party printer driver?

Better complain to the EU about MS forcing people to use Universal Print and locking out competition if so.

Here's an example of a civil servant with a bee in his bonnet about something over something which happened about 15 years previously.

... until civil servants start pushing the same thing yet again about a year into a Labour government.

"We had a plan for Building Schools for the Future Programme that would have re-built or significantly refurbished every single secondary school in England.

Which of course means it would have only fixed 19 schools?

The EU kicked Britain out of Horizon ( despite Israel being members ).

No, the UK could not be a full member of Horizon any more as it was not a member state any more and there was no legal basis for it to continue to be a full member of Horizon. The terms of the UK's associate status were agreed in the TCA.

Rejoining Horizon was negotiated a few years ago but the EU decided to hold it up.

There was no timeframe specified in the TCA over Horizon. However the UK did not implement many areas in the WA and TCA concerning Northern Ireland. So you're complaining about the EU taking its sweet time to do something at the same time as the UK was guilty of not keeping its side of the bargain. Oddly enough now the UK has finally promised to keep its side of the bargain the EU has stopped dragging its feet. Funny that.

The government decided to do the right thing and close the schools affected so nobody would die from this.

I suppose it also did the right thing in 2010 as well when the slithy Gove decided to stop renovating the school estate in good time (aka Building Schools for the Future) meaning nobody would have been in danger, no schools would have had to be closed at all, and nobody's education would have had to have been interrupted.

Re: "it wanted to pursue a domestic fusion energy strategy"

Or as the EU put it:

The UK has decided not to pursue its association to Euratom and Fusion4Energy/ITER [the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor]. This decision is guided by the UK’s assessment that its industry’s long absence from Euratom and F4E/ITER programmes cannot be reversed.

Meaning... the UK's nuclear industry has fell behind so much it can't catch up? Or it just means that uk.gov doesn't want to spend any money, for a change?

Re: "Bose products are shuffling info off to the Meta social media"

Un-uninstallable?

Probably.

Re: NATS crashed.

But in the end NATS won't pay for the downtime, the airlines will, so it's all good. Beancounters win again.

Re: Great job!

Agencies are milking the tax payer dry and only answer is to raise taxes further.

Well, there is another answer - stop using agencies if they were set up to fleece the taxpayer.

Re: test data ?!

The chances of their readers working out the same flight plan didn't crash French ATC or Eurocontrol is low (if it really was a flight plan from a French airline). The chances of the British press making that point clear in their articles is non-existent.

Re: How about unicode?

Flight plans are in capital letters only according to this.

So it can't be choking over a character which is not capital, or numeric, or one of a few symbols since this is so simple to validate.

Re: Expertise

activating what can only be described as an extreme fail-safe strategy (i.e. shut down all automated processing until the problem has been rectified).

Also known as SIGSEGV.

The economy of streaming platforms is nonsense anyway.

Actors weren't paid residuals on streaming platforms because contracts didn't specify that they must, hence a load of old series like Sopranos and Six-Foot Under stay on HBO Max but new series like Westworld which had residuals specified in the contract were unceremoniously pushed to other platforms with advertising because once the "all you can eat for a flat rate per month" model comes up against modern contracts which specify residuals per customer view it all falls apart.

Secondly if your theory about writers' jobs were true then streamers wouldn't be against the WGA's demands, however it seems they do wish to fire writers and get ChatGPT to come up with even worse dreck than the likes of Netflix have been producing recently on the cheap.

Do you remember how long it took to get from Westworld to Tron, from Tron to Terminator 2, and from Terminator 2 to The Matrix? About 26 years.

It's taken about 2.6 months for ChatGPT to take over writers' jobs, so the Luddites have a point.

Re: QEII revenge

Er, shouldn't these things run on IATA airport codes instead of tripping up over a spelling mistake?

In any case the IATA name for LTQ is "Le Touquet-Paris-Plage".

Re: No shipping

So it was launched in the UK in 1978 for £169.95 or £200 depending on where you look in this thread. Either price is quite pricey for 1978. It apparently sold 125,000 units in 1980.

Then the ZX80, 81, and Spectrum were released.

Then if you click here, search for "Numbers of units sold by Atari in 1984" for European sales figures, it's become a rounding error all over Europe compared to home computers.

Re: No shipping

I don't remember the Atari VCS doing well in Rightpondia, home computers were cheaper, did more, and the software was cheaper too.

It was just this thing that was advertised but nobody you know had one, like the Intellivision and Colecovision.

Re: so blocking just blocks them from seeing you?

Block means they can't reply to your threads and you don't see their posts, mute means they can reply to your threads but you don't see the posts.

The difference is RWNJs still get to stomp all over your threads and insult you if they want and your followers get to see that even though you don't.