Posts by Hans 1

Re: Dunno about warming

Go read up on the no-man's land around the compound. If it is as safe as you say, you can get free milk delivered to your doorstep from the place, yes, they will even pay the transport of said milk from Fukushima prefecture, Japan, to anywhere on the planet, for you, if you wanna drink it. You should drink it, the world will then become a better place, no, I think all nuclear power backers should drink that shit.

The WHO/IAEA duo will sponsor it, you might even get a free t-shirt.

Fond memories of Erin Brockovich, the movie.

Re: Win

Calendar works better than on JesusPhone, no event that is 4 weeks past its date when you reschedule. The iPhone seems to get lost when you re-schedule an event which has a repetition ... the iPhone simply sets the "last modification date" as the date for the event ... at least, my manager has that problem with his iPhone - he might be doing something wrong, I dunno - he is a senior dev, though so I doubt it is human error on his part.

>When Bristol, AVRO, De Havilland, and all the others were literally lighting the skies ablaze with new, ever faster designs.

Until the square windows caused cracks ...

Re: Thank You

Yes, you can!™

Just do it!™

>As it is, my son has a debt of $90,000 for his degree, but it is not MY debt.

Excellent start in life, well done, daddy! I guess it depends, just because you leave your offspring in the cold does not mean everybody else does. Who knows what the pm did, not sure what the age is at which you are no longer allowed to declare you support a child.

Besides, you probably know that 90k is the price of a house in some places, don't you ?

I know it is customary in my home country (UK) to let your kids work it out by themselves as soon as they reach the magical age of 18. I will support my offspring until they have finished their studies. No, they will not attend unis that cost 10 000 quid a year and that fail to produce knowledgeable "English Professors" when it comes to English grammar. I know, I had one at my uni, could not answer a pretty simple grammar question I had ... and simply replied: "I do not know ... you know, we no longer teach English grammar in the UK."

French unis cost a 50th of that (I think registration fees amount to 200euro/y), and ye kids learn a new language in the process ...

Smells like MSCD, in full swing ... The last time I had the joy of working with one he would print out the code on dozens of pages, tape it to the wall so he could get a better overview ... when I walked past, I noticed he had never heard of sub's or functions ... ;-) I could probably have it all fit on one page.

>myobject, myObject, MyObject, m_myObject, m_MyObject all referring to different variables, some member variables, some method arguments, some globals.

Now, whoever wrote that should be taken out and shot. Seriously, I would just start again from scratch - that most likely is the most visible part of the dev's skills, or lack of ... the code is most certainly full of bugs and general bad practice - longer to fix than rewrite, if you ask me.

@ doowles - why I down-voted you:

> Don't touch OCZ with a bargepole.

>Some of their drives had a 50%+ failure rate.

Maybe ... ok, fair enough, if you say so.

> Stick with intel.

WTF ???

Re: Not sure how to feel about this new attack.

>But on the other hand the attackers shouldn't have leaked personal information of employees etc.

How else is your HR department gonna blacklist cretins ?

Re: 0% efficiency...

Go over and see the battery tech used in Teslas ... slightly better watt/cm3 than aa accus, if you ask me. Note, however, that that is beside the point. Having an alternative to nuke power is always good, especially if it allows distributed energy production.

I assume they did not implement the recent findings of the Dutch team, otherwise that would mean another tenfold increase in efficiency is to be had - I assume they did not, since they were using commercial grade kit, and kit using the Dutch team's findings has yet to be mass-produced.

I told you, there is a lot of room of improvement in this tech, sad, really, that there is no proper R&D funding.

Mate of mine pays no leccy, the panels he put up 2 years ago have "paid for themselves" already, he has hectares of land, wants to build an industrial-sized photo-leccy plant, however, the local powergrid cannot stand that - I told him to start small, then expand.

Re: Future with Nadella

>>" MS Embedded anything has never managed to win anyones hearts"

>Apart from in most ATMs, many medical devices, cash registers, POS systems, etc. etc.

Define "embedded", cause all your examples are PC's hooked up to specialized devices ... bulky, expensive, overkill, security/update nightmare ...

You should have said that Nadella meant "ms apps", such as skype, minecraft ... all the stuff they purchased for more than 10 000 times the actual value.

As for Suse/RedHat support, if you consider the apps that ship with it, which of course are also supported, it is way cheaper than an Office license alone, without counting the Windows OS, CALS, Server licenses.

Then you have Ubuntu support, which is cheaper than windows support and has all the apps included as well ...

Seriously, though, nobody really needs "Linux support" because it is open source software - you need a patch? Get it! Not released yet ? Download the latest sources, compile, enjoy.

Who in their right mind stores more than a page of text in a .docx file ?

dissertation-length ?

You can take the mickey all you want ... fingers crossed the dissertation will open in the next MS Office version, with formatting intact.

Re: thowing out the baby with the bathwater

>systemd was supposed to replace SVR4-style init scripts, because of all the well-known problems with SVR4-style init scripts.

<humble>

Care to elaborate ?

</humble>

Note that I did use google to search, the only issues I could find is it is slow and does not integrate with dbus so well. I think that a boot under 30 seconds is acceptable on Linux, my system boots in 7. As for dbus intergration ... not sure I need/understand that.

Re: Does this include ...

Ohhh, I forgot ... I often hear Brits claim that the commission is not elected ... and I think it is very silly of them to complain, since they have the house of Lords^H^H^H^H^HScum.... and a monarch.

God shave the Queen.

Re: Linux + VirtualBox Windows VM (except if you're into games)

>I realize Windows has a checkpoint function, but it is lengthy and does not really work if you are installing drivers or other system level components.

Such as rootkits, for example.

Re: The glaring philosophical issues of time travel

Well, I believe we can travel into the future, it's what we do on a daily basis, but we cannot travel back into the past - the main reason being universal uniqueness of matter. The first thing somebody with a time machine that could go back and forth would do, would be to get all gold/diamond/whatever from the future. Imagine, you get your car from tomorrow at noon, you would now have two same cars, made of exactly the same matter - what happens when you reach noon the next day. Are both gone ?

Time travel into the past makes absolutely no sense, in physics, it violates the First Postulate of the principle of relativity (You can only be in one spot in a four dimensional world "space/time", at any given time). I thought we had a lot of physics experts on here, where are they when you need them.