Posts by Adrian 4 2289 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2009
"The most frustrating part of this was that even though most of the resources required to process this bulllshit was funded by my budget I didn't even get the £1000 per year that was collected."
Should have raised an internal invoice to the person that did, for the cost of £1.17 per invoice.
Collected income £1,000
Collection costs £23,400-
Net £22,400-
All too many penny-pinchers only do half of the cost/benefit analysis.
"It's just Microsoft can't make a plan and stick to it."
To their credit, they do stop flogging a dead horse eventually.
But how do they manage to get it so wrong, so often ? And waste their and so many developer's efforts trying to keep it wrong before they give up ?
I'm so glad I don't develop for Windows.
Works fine for cards that are punched in a specified order. Not so much when they just contain data from arbitrary sources, with extra cards inserted to group them.
In retrospect, not a great design. It may not deserve the blame for going wrong but it certainly deserves it for creating the opportunity.
Why do you feel the need for constant spec updates ?
Other presentation systems don't do this. If some feature isn't provided, you implement it from the existing features. If those aren't flexible enough you look at the core features and redesign on a sensible schedule
Adding to the basic spec and expecting it to be available on every one of billions of browsers worldwide is just insanity.
Fairly unlikely : if you're already on Brave, it's probably for good reason.
For me, Brave is far, far faster than firefox or chrome. Not because it's a fater browser, but because it loads less crap and spends less time waiting for slow ad servers that then resize the window.
My experience of the web if I'm temporarily without an adblocking browser is so appalling that I get off that as soon as possible, and I find Brave a very convenient way to do that.
I usually start in the search bar (using duckduckgo on my current Brave installation) and if that doesn't get me the result I want, I use google's explicit page.
Google generally gets the better result for more sepcific queries and its default of looking for local (ie UK rather than global) is often what I want.
But the majority of the time, the default search bar result is good enough.
It's also quite convenient to use wget from the command line to download a file instead of firing up megabytes of browser. Not everything HAS to be in the browser.
And it doesn't try to secondguess your URL and convert a reference to a local machine's filestore into some global link (which, of course, fails).
I find Zoom just as crap as all the rest, likely to take a sudden dislike to my camera or drop the sound.
They're all immature applications built from a mess of support systems held together, as is the way with modern apps, with sticking plaster and bodgy scripting languages. The more they try to integrate with other systems (as Teams does), the worse they are.
I wouldn't trust one of them on anything important without plenty of time to waste and a fallback or two.
They're good enough for casual natter and little more.
A plague on all their houses. I'll be dropping every one of them as soon as I possibly can.
> Right, so when Microsoft automatically installs it (which they will) - what then?
They might want to, but given the requirements that are the subject of this article, they'll struggle.
Of course, that probably won't stop them forcing an update which always fails.
In an interview with CRN, Weston said that "if you make things optional, people don't turn them on … what we put into 11 is [that] we are going to secure you by default."
Isn't forcing security features why Vista was so despised ?
When will they learn to work with people instead of against them ?
Why is that bad ?
It's a route-updating protocol. If it could only update routes some of the time it wouldn't be fit for purpose.
Do you want the utter crap that browsers exhibit, where complaints of faults are met by such admissions of failure as 'have you flushed your cache ?' ?
Protocols should have well-defined outcomes, not unknowable black holes of semi-reasoning.
Tory supporters have whined for years that the BBC are leftish. There was some truth in that for their entertainment output though no evidence in their reporting.
Under recent governments the BBC have become utterly cowed by the government's control of their finances and have lost the independence for which they were once rightly lauded.
" .. by billing for their services through personal service companies, which are taxed at lower corporate rates."
So why not make the corporate rates the same as personal rates ?
End of problem.,
Or could it be that the corporates don't like that idea, and the conservatives roll over and play dead?
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