Posts by Steve Davies 3 7145 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
and frail and have a fall. Then lie in the cold for 24Hours and be unwilling to call 999 in case you get fined more than a months Pension.
Sure some 999 calls are totally stupid and the people making them should be put in the stocks for a week but when you get old or infirm then calling 999 is all there is between you and death.
The manufacturer who wanted to embiggen their products[1]
OR
The 3rd party testers who find the problems
Your choice but in the meantime you'd better keep those S7's dry.
[1] Are Samsung actually selling lots of these? Why else would you be able to get a free tablet with a phone on some US Cellular contracts?
Well Whooppeeeeee do.
What do youy want me to do about it eh?
Do you want me to run naked round my town in celbration?
honestly and seriously, who the hell cares.
Checking in code is done all the time. I commited a lot earlier today. Nothing to celbrate about at all.
Now if you released some software and said 'go break it, tell us about the problems and we'll fix them' I know a lot more people would be interested.
Just checking in code is so 'Meh'. Real devs do it all the time
Sheesh.
Machine Shop & Tea Breaks? That's wot the canteen was for.
In the 'Erection' Shop the only chairs to be found was where a fitter and an apprentice was working on a job. The fitter would sit while (under his instruction) the apprentice did the work. The only time the chair was vacant for more than the time it took to get a cuppa/have a pee was the days when the apprentice was off at the local Tech college doing their C&G's
I was one of the apprentices doing just that from '69 to '72. Then I left and became a Mech Eng Student.
Them was the days.
What watched/wearables are at most risk of being hacked like this?
Well, apart from the idiot user who seems to want to download all sorts of crap from all over the internet.
do the really claim to be able to differentiate between a single finger pin input and a multi finger one?
coz, I use three fingers to enter my pin. I also drag my fingers over other keys so as to not leave clear fingerprints behind.
So in a clean lab environment this might be possible but in the real world? would it be as successful?
Lets face it, life is a risk.
He probably knows that the GOP have a smoking gun that will kill (politically and legally) Hillary should she get elected at the Confirmation Hearings.
Then they can install DT and run for the hills like the Good Ole Boys they are.
If you think we are in a political mess here in the UK, this is just the warm up act for the Hillary vs Trump main event. The problem is that neither of them are IMHO suitble to become POTUS.
going full Subscription
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/06/30/226257/upgradesubscriptionexe-file-in-preview-build-hints-at-windows-10-subscriptions
This is what I was predicting a year ago. Stop paying and lose access to your data (One of many options)
The move in this direction was obvious then so this should not be a surprise.
The MS Shills be soon be out in force to downvote this.
All I say, is come back in another year and see what is the reality of the situation then.
There are plenty of totally free alternatives you know. Ones that come with no strings like this.
The UK Carrier don't have STEAM driven catapults. The US ones do because they are Nuclear powered. Our Carriers ar Diesel powered.
That's why the 'C' variant won't be used by the Navy/RAF.
When the Harriers (there is film evidence) made trial landings on Ark Royal the weather was at times pretty foul. Landing on a ship and hoping that the arrester hook catches was by all accounts[1] far hairier than a vertical landing where the beefed up undercart was able to withstand a 2-3ft drop thus countering the motion of a ship rolling about in rough seas.
[1] Intel gained from talking to one of the pilots who took part in the trials many years ago.
Can we have some of where this fool is obviously smoking. It must be real powerful stuff.
Sorry MS. Far too late.
I did try W10 but sorry, it is a POS Operating System even when 'fixed' as much as I can.
As a result, I will never use it.
I paid for a lot of older versions of Windows but from now on, my wallet stays firmly shut when it comes to buying anything from MS in the future. Your stupidity has lost me as a customer and I know from comments here that I am not alone.
One question comes to mind though. How many defectors will it take for MS to wakeup and see the errror of their ways.
1) Leave used coffee cups around
2) Leave crumbs (or worse) in your keyboard
3) Replace your photos of family/dog/cat with their own
4) Move the mouse from the Lefthand side of the KB to the right. (For us lefties)
etc
etc
Not sure that I'd want to really share though.
A lot easier now that MS has changed the meaning of the RED-X on the 'do you want to install this pile of steaming dog turd now or later?' box.
People who are not given the choice of saying No, not now or ever may well suffer some financial loss when the plague called W10 infects their system.
Personally, I hope they get hit with a few hundred thousand of these cases next week.
Windows 10 is a virus and needs to be stomped out without delay.
I know that there are people how post here that are MS fans/shills/trolls but just think carefully for a moment.
If W10 can screw up someone business like this then how many others are there out there eh?
Remember that this user is not a techie like most of us. They are more like the 'bog standard user'. This sort of thing really should not happen in this day and age.,
and how is that different from just about every other company?
Come on now, don't be bashful. Please tell us.
Peraps MS should kill the Surface Pro because it sells so few when compared to other devices on the market.
Besides these were never aimed at the mainstream in the first place. Not everything has to sell millions to be successful. We may never know how many of these Apple has sold.
As an aside, I use a 27in/4K Dell Monitor with my MBP. Got the colour gamut calibrated without issue.
and their changes when inside a DC with literally hundreds of other fans of all different shapes and sizes all going full tilt.
you can hardly hear yourself think at times.
I guess the test rig was setup inside an an ANECHOIC CHAMBER and not in the real world.
Still it makes employment for some don't it...
I was in a bar in Puerto Soller, Majorcia watching the final. Half the bar was German and half was English.
Not one German argued about the validity of the goal at the time.Mind you the 14in Black and White TV might have had something to do with it.
Got drunk for the first time that night along with the Germans and Brits. No trouble as eveyone agreed that it was a wonderbar match.
In my locale, they are less than 400yds apart. Once upon a time, Screwfix were cheaper than B&Q but not it seems the other way around.
The only advantage of going to Screwfix is that the car park is easier to get in and out of.
Then there is the thrust by B&Q to get the trade customers. So we see that the 'trade' (Cough-cough) price is less than use mere average punters have to pay.
Just show them pretty well any business card and you get the trade price.
Why can't they have one price for everyone?
prepare to kneel down before Emperor Boris.
Seriously,
We are far better off inside the EU than out of it. IT is more than just the economics of who benefits most and all that.
I don't trust the BREXITeers one bit and that includes my local MP.
Little Englanders the lot of them. The world they want has long gone if it ever existed in the first place.
Don't worry, I've already voted so nothing anyone can say here can make me change my mind.
And in the othetr El Reg post today on Fedora, it was explained that the patent on sub-pixel rendering is going to expire in 2018.
So he gets all the patentos on Blockchains. What then?
He either getas rich (paid for in Bitcoin) or the rest of the world invents another text that bypasses these patents.
Also as has been mentioned, a lot of Blockchain is already out in the open so unless his applications represent an improvement on them he won't get them granted.Does he have a big fund for his lawyers?
There was recent news that IBM and Intel have been working together on this stuff. Does he really want to take on them in a legal case?
Remember
The grass is not always greener on the other side
and
Better the Devil you know than the devil you don't know..
Wanna got to spain/italy/greece on your hols? Better get used to paying £100 per person for your visa in future. Not possible? don't put it past the French especially to put all sorts of hurdles in the way of people/goods going through or over France.
Sadly, I get the feeling that we will vote to leave. BJ will become PM and what then? Depression more like.
The queues of Remain supporters heading for France/Belguim/Holland/Germany/Denmark or Spain will be huge.
Then on Monday a vast raft of redundancies will be announced as firms relocate to Dublin/Frankfurt or justabout anywhere that is not in a 'We are gonna leave the EU, UK.'
Farage will be seen drinking a pint or three and gloating.
Boris will be asked to become the next PM.
You heard about a gig on the Radio and queued up outside the venue to get tickets.
Tickets mostly went on sale less than 2 months before the gig.
you paid for your seat at the box office and some venues didn't accept anything but hard cash.. 1st come 1st served.
Sometimes, I wish for those days back and yes, I am over 60 but still go to gigs and really have having to buy tickets 6-9 months (or longer) in advance.
on El Reg... wonders will never cease.
The review was good on detail and less of a press release. Can we keep on with articles like this please?
I own an iPad mini which does the job it was bought for. Isn't this the aim of just about any product we spash the cash for?
It might not be perfect for everything but for showing off my photos and reading e-Books is is better than anything I've used before and this includes Amazon Kindle-fire and a Samsung Tablet.
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