Posts by Dan 55

Re: The whole point...

If you're a large corporation, it's more difficult to deliver the kool aid to everyone's house. It's easier if the employees come to you to drink it every day.

Re: One wonders ...

Unless their claim goes back to the -1st Century and they're gods, there's not much they can do is there?

If she had said that her parents had drowned I'd be the happiest man in the world!

Re: ;: [{ etc

Can't understand why you've been downvoted for this.

Switches and shine-through keycaps are "north facing" or "south facing" and both need to match otherwise the backlight won't shine through the keycap legend as strongly as it could.

Re: We have our own candidate ritght here on El Reg ...

I hope for Dabbs' sake his neighbours aren't Jonathan Harmsworth and Andrew Neil. Too much jambon fumé on the menu when invited round for a barbecue might cause indigestion.

Re: Universal Credit

Mandy Rice Davies Applies.

The 5 week wait until first payment was designed in from the start.

The EU safety regs didn't stop Grenfell

Because they don't exist, these are UK regulations.

The Paper Trail: the Failure of Building Regulations

The same kind of cladding was already banned in France for buildings over 50m tall.

Re: What part of "temporary" do you not understand?

Everything.

Re: The UI

But as TOS/GEM was single tasking and choc-full of modal dialogs it doesn't really count.

Tell her the self-assembling graphene 5G nanobots haven't done you any harm.

Re: Matt Hancock

"Please confirm to your knowledge that you are not a fully robotic being, were born an organic creature and do, in fact, possess what many cultures would call a soul."

"What? To my knowledge? Do a lot of people not know if they’re robots?"

Re: The light..

I don't know if Apple did 1 or 3 at one point, but it featured in the Simpsons.

Re: BT… Phone… Home…

One wonders why they didn't spam www.bt.com. Perhaps their website isn't reliable enough?

Re: Hmm could be another pi project…

If I could invent a replicator which replicates any 30-40 year-old computer case I'd be set up for life. The FGPA or Pi inside is easy to do, but you need the real case for the nostalgia, probably only the C64 Maxi is sold in enough numbers worldwide to make it viable.

For the OP's project, maybe it would be best to buy one which is sold as non-working but the case is intact and gut that.

Re: Why?

Those middle managers are at a loose end stuck at home. The people who do the work... not so much.

Re: Guru Meditation

OS 3.2 has just been released, maybe the sites went down while they were updating Workbench.

Re: Mother knows best

Now I'm wondering if place he bought it from was bringing in a little extra cash removing the normal remote from the box and selling it separate.

Re: Just Make it Physical

Apple would just change the rules so physical objects linked to a digital currency aren't allowed unless Apple's own card processing was used to buy it and companies would be stuck with a bunch of useless postcards.

State-owned railways on both sides paid up to 40% of the tunnel's operating costs in the first 12 years and continue to pay now. The British government still had stakes in Eurostar until 2015.

Some slight-of-hand going on there to make it politically acceptable in the UK.

Re: Yet it is actually pointless

And you can't just use the open source software that Amazon has appropriated, because it's also got the propriety AWS gubbins stuck in there too.

Re: Hack the Planet!

Sneakers had Robert Redford, social engineering, cryptography, and voice ID. Hackers had costumes and Angelina Jolie... but it wasn't enough to save it at the box office.

Any England/UK Hacker movies from the 90's? Doubt it.. :)

Does Goldeneye count?