Posts by Steve Davies 3 7147 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Strange times these... are they not?
Note that even Fox News has come out and told people NOT to take the same anti-malarial drug as Trump as it could kill you.
For those two things to happen really does show that the world has indeed turned upside down. All we need is a 3rd miracle and the disaster will be over... (sic)
Wot! Has Trumpo sold off Hawaii and Alaska and didn't tell anyone? Was that money going to be use to buy Greenland?
Fox News demands to know!
Seriously, I really do hope he explodes before November. But there again, the GOP might just keep him president after all dead people can still vote in many US States.
You don't have to go back that far.
Going out for the Milk (in a large white enammeled jug) and the bread (only edible if covered in Mllk)
was part of the daily ritual when working in parts of the former USSR in the mid 1990's. The Milk tanker would arrive and sound it's horn. People would emerge from the 'projects' and form an orderly queue (err... don't we have to do that today???) to get the milk. Hand over a few roubles/tenge/sum and your container was filled with milk that was still warm.
History does repeat itself...
BT could be preparing to make OpenRetch a totally separate company (As Sky, VM and Talk-Talk want) if OFCOM says jump.
Then the issue of ownership would have to be sorted. It might even need an act of parliament given the strategic nature/national security impact of the OpenRetch network.
The extension of the 3rd rail network from Bournemouth to Weymouth was done on the cheap and used Auiminium 3rd rail. It has been wonderful in its unreliability especially in summer.
It isn't the panacea that many people think it might be. Jointing will be an issue.
Then there are the pirates operating out of Somalia. A slow moving cable layer will be a huge target for them will it not?
I wonder if FB has factored in the cost of paying the ransom's for the crew?
one of a few occasions where the product feels dated
given some of the websites that have recently gone all 'ribbony' which can take up 1/3rd of the screen then feeling dated is no bad thing.
the real questions should be...
- Does it work?
- Am I productive with it? (or does it get in the way of me doing my job?)
"The Donald' will make sure that we continue to pay through the nose for anything that supposedly comes from the wonderful, magical, brilliant... USA MAGA and all that.
Along with the Hormone laden Beef, Chlorinated Chicken and GM Maize, we will be [redacted] and [redacted].
Yes, I'm being cynical but there is a possibilty that as the US has us over a barell when it comes to the trade negociations we might end up being a really, really big loser. Just so we can export some Scotch to the Yanks. Doh!
With all this uncertainty about, the only certain thing to come from this will be a huge share sell off.
The BT share price will drop and soon will become a penny stock. Thankfully (or possibly not) the Gubbermint has a veto if as is very likely a foreign company comes in and tried to buy it for peanuts.
We'd need a screen oh... about half the depth of the main one for that (sic).
At least it would be better than trying to use Office (with ribbon) on a laptop with a 1440x768 screen. It seemed that about 1/3rd of the screen disappeared behind the god awful thing. Not good for productivity.
Can you be 100000000% sure that said printer will actually obey that setting?
No, you can't.
Pulling the plug or at least stopping the things from phoning home with appropriate firewall rules is the way forward.
The HP of today is a poor imitation of its former self. It it time they stopped insulting its founders and change its name to something like "RipOff Computers and Printers" or "FAKE" (Fail And Kill Everything)
then I really hope that they can slow down the inevitable headlong rush to open up again ASAP.
There will be lots of PHB's out there chomping at the bit to open their businesses again so that they can re-assert their PHB rules on their unsuspeting staff.
All I can hope is that the ones that get it in the 2nd wave are the PHB's that are pressuring for their business to open tomorrow rather than waiting a bit longer.
Delay, delay and prevarocate.
The longer a case takes means more money for them. Take SCO vs IBM as an example. Started in 2003 and still not finally resolved. The [cough][cough] court appointed trustee (a lawyer) is still racking up costs.
Is it any wonder that the legal pro(fession) is almost universally loathed. Come the revolution right up there at the front of the line for dealing with are the lawyers.
A lot of us would rather [see icon] than be friends with any of those scumbags.
The blue screens will be a signal for all those indoctrinated into the MS Borg (especially Sharepoint users) to rise up and roam the world looking for people using Linux or Android or any bit of Apple 'tat'. They'll destroy the non conforming items and make the offenders join the MS Borg.
"Windows is the World" they'll chant as yet another update is rammed down their throats. Those borg members who fail to survive the endless reboots will be Ctrl-Alt-Del'd into the fiery furnaces of hell.
All hail our masters from Redmond. Bow down and pledge what remains of your life to the great god Satnad.
[the above is a joke ok and not a plot line for a future Dr Who episode ok!]
Your hardworking Register hacks, of course, remain immaculately turned out at all times and are not at all unhinged.\
Photos please or is this just more fake news?
As for me, I'm wearing a summer off the shoulder dress (with accessories naturally). The only way to check that will be to hack my system and turn on the camera. Oh wait, there is that bit of black tape over it. [see icon]
'costing an arm and a leg' for business use is SOP for companies like MS.
They are really only interested in BIG BIG and BIGGER companies. The small guy is just not impotrtant to them hence the pricing.
I like the idea of a small business license. Remember back to the good old day when they had this thing called 'Small Business Server'... Did pretty well what it was intended to do and was at an almost bearable cost. Then they got rid of it.
Intel has failed to deliver most of what they have promised in the last 5 years.
As the article stated, they have lots of ARM design experience and seem to think that they can take the overall performance of a MacBook to levels that Intel can't deliver.
It remains to be seen if they can make it happen. Intel should have seen this coming a mile off.
alongside IPv6 for the ISP's to ignore.
How many ISP's support IPv6 with their cheapo crap routers that we get to use?
What incentive, apart from a huge increase in monthly charges will there for them to give us WiFi 6?
TBH, I'd rather have a decent configurable firewall in their router before WiFi 6.
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