Posts by Platelet

Re: Reality is starting to bite...

Okay Boris

Re: Re "putting the phone down is almost always the right thing to do."

"My wife regards this as an excellent sport, and she will happily spend 20 minutes playing along"

I'd recommend listening to replyall episodes 102 & 103. It's Olympic standard "playing along"

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/103-long-distance-part-ii

Re: Really?

"The (very few) aircraft that have had cabin ejection systems, rather than ejection seats, were designed for operation at sustained supersonic speeds and had them for that supersonic ejection case. Nobody would (or does) bother with such a heavy, expensive and relatively low performance system otherwise."

Didn't Jean-Luc Picard perform emergency saucer separation at a warp speed of 9.5?

Re: PVR vs catch-up

I abandoned iplayer when the last set of "improvements" removed the ability to series link recordings.

Now use get_iplayer & web pvr manager along with task scheduler to download the programs and play with the viewer of your choice (vlc etc)

so you can get images in FF & RWD along with a time line.

it doesn't crash whenever its paused.

it doesn't leave you watching the spinny thing for 5mins whenever you try to do anything with it.

Re: Marching on Westminter

I new they'd never really walk 500 miles

My personal bugbear are those that won't even tell you why they're rejecting your password, so you keep having to shorten and simplify it till you get one that works.

In respect to "It's apparently a chargeable upgrade with an up to one year evaluation period. After that you presumably must pay...."

I'm still sceptical but It doesn't sound like that from this from Terry Myerson:

"This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device"

Re: Osgood and Missy are not entirely "dead"

Osgood is dead - Moffat said so. he wanted to show Missy boiling the bunny.

Missing was left open in the same way that they always kill off the master, it simply doesn't matter

"Hydra was one of the sites I've used in the past for some herbal ... items ;-)"

If they cut off one head, two more shall take it's place... Hail Hydra

Re: FFS

"Taking people that have no history of computer use, who grew up 100s of miles from the nearest PC, and whose entire family line were small holding farmers, and putting them in charge of your global IT infrastructure cannot end well."

That's a very harsh description of the Scottish population

Re: Decision time?

"Disabling the radio in a phone moving over 30kph would prevent the phone from being used on the bus/train/etc."

Perfect

Re: Wait....Github?

"Aren't they a cesspool of female exploitation or something? I'm sure I read that recently."

They discriminate against those that are differently abled, specifically those lacking the ability to use a hula hoop

Re: Won't uninstall, help...

"In addition my ram is turning mauve."

I'd try penicillin for that

Re: Last week I chose between an Android phone and a Q5

Why not get a "nothing at all"?

It has all the features of a Q5 without any of the drawbacks, and as a bonus zero chance of infection

Re: Pardon the pedantry...

Nope just

Doctors

Re: A witch! A witch!

In the interests of historical accuracy - how many of the witnesses would they drown, and was it everyone who had seen the witches or only those who gave evidence?

Re: My first hard drive..

Right.

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, I had to back my data up with parchment and a quill

Re: Bloody luxury.

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Re: That title is VERY misleading...

or

Worst Korea

Re: If I were Judge Koh?

I'd just ban the sale of all Apple & Samsung products in the US until they grow up / settle out of court

Re: "Richard Branson"

Indeed, and how do we register the "public offence" this inclusion causes?

Re: Best get those scientists out there to do their research

Dolphin is much tastier

Re: Criminal Charges?

Civil at the moment. the TL:DR version ends with:

It follows from my findings in relation to Mr Freeman, Mr Sullivan, Mr Marrow and Mr Steele that the papers in this case should be referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions with a view to any criminal proceedings against one or more of those persons that he might feel are appropriate