Posts by TRT 9611 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2009
I know this article is about the Windows client, but as a Mac user I've also suffered the UX pain of Teams. The fact that chat notifications cover the leave meeting button... and the fact that human behaviour is to scrawl "Bye!" and "Thanks!" and "Really useful!!!" in the chat as they leave. In a meeting with a few hundred users it can take 5 to 10 minutes before I'm actually able to leave the meeting gracefully using the leave button rather than force-quitting Teams.
what about geographical distribution? I mean, the libraries purchase the books and depending on where about they are in the world they do so with or without certain licenses and contractual agreements.
So if the IA allows access to a work more times or to a wider area or for a longer period of time (as governed by physical wear and tear of the material itself) than may have reasonably been expected at the time of grant of the original license, then the publishers may have an argument. Many of the Public Lending Rights countries have a "get out clause" which allows specific individual contracts of sale to exclude these otherwise intrinsic rights.
BUT in most of the world, there's no need for a public library to obtain such permission. In the UK this is covered by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, particularly section 40A and particularly subsection 2 of section 40A - "Copyright in a work is not infringed by the lending of copies of the work by a library or archive (other than a public library) which is not conducted for profit."
You might as well come down like a tonne of books on charity shops which, in my experience, are usually lined wall to floor with second hand books, donated to them by good willed individuals (who no doubt want their shelf space back). Or why not the RNIB, which has run a Talking Books service for years? You now don't even have to return the CDs to them when you've finished.
This is a bit of a popcorn moment, I think.
You can generally make the stem cells turn into a few different things. It's very hard to get the stem cells in the same dish to turn into multiple different things at the same time. So whilst you can make little blobs of neurones, you can't make little blobs of neurones with all the plumbing like glial cells, astrocytes and capillaries required to keep them alive and happy enough to do anything particularly interesting or complex.
Ha ha ha. I'd forgotten that little quip. See? They even knew about it back then!
Did they take something for the ladies? Couple of bottles of sherry?
It will be known as NHS Dingland.
Nine applying competitors, doomed to die.
Seven qualifying competitors, writ in stone.
Three for the final selection panel, and their blue sky thinking.
But there can be only one.
One competitor to rule them all, one competitor to bind them, one competitor to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.
I had a smart TV to install for someone that refused to work unless it had a terrestrial TV aerial connected. It was intended for use only via HDMI, as a screen to a Sky Box located in the basement den, but as it had a FreeView app built in, it wanted to know its region and for some reason the only "proof" it saw as acceptable was a DTV signal. Try as I might with portable aerials and extension leads, it just wasn't having it. I thought if I could just get it past the initial installation phase it might then work as expected without an aerial (it didn't, after hauling it to the upstairs bedroom and finally getting a dribble of a signal via a set-top aerial). It wouldn't accept geo-ip, for example, or a DSTV input (no satellite tuner). That's sloppy coding, I thought, but it turns out it was an interpretation of the licensing rights from the terrestrial digital TV consortium.
It went back to the shop with a very, very stern message about not being dicks, making a TV that could ONLY be connected to an aerial.
aka "The bottom half of the internet" is a place of endless amusement.
Two examples:
On the recent rail strikes...
"The unions have to realise we are not living in the 1970s anymore. Their working practices are outdated. The railways need to be dragged into the 20th Century NOW!"
and on one of their "The Internet is perplexed by these maths questions" pieces...
"This is easy for those of us with double-digit IQs".
Not something one does very often, as I said, so no point scripting it. And the help for w32tm.exe is labyrinthine. Plus it seems like different flavours of Windows 10 / 11 have subtly different ways to wake up the old style control panels.
As always the pain made me think I ought to learn the "tecchy" other way, so I looked it up, but I'll forget about it when I next need to do it probably in 12 months time. I spent a hundred and fifty times longer looking up how to do on the internet it one one would with a nice, simple GUI like there was in Windows 7, where simply a click on the clock in the menu bar caused the appropriate controls appeared. Far less hassle for something incredibly important but that you very rarely have to do. OK, the old control panel way of doing it was a little clunky, but at least it was there, it was familiar, it was clustered with all the other relevant settings and labelled mostly rationally. The "new" way for all these things... Jesus wept. Network devices / Internet settings are spread across umpteen different pages and the links between them are labelled in riddles.
To set the time like a pro...
In an elevated command prompt you use (for example):
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:192.168.1.150
Then restart the windows time service:-
net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time
w32tm /resync
Or use services.msc to locate and restart the service...
BUT... they emerge as far better employees, far more knowledgable, far more aware. After all, it's the very reason all the cadets on the command rank / officer stream have to do the Kobayashi Maru. You learn a lot from about both avoidance and mitigation from unmitigated disasters.
Please. The difficult made impossible.
For example, I had to change the NTP reference server on a Windows 10 Enterprise machine a few days ago. Not something you do often... so not something I'd developed any muscle memory for. It was trial and error banging away through setting after setting until the old date/time control panel decided to swim up from the murky depths after about 15 minutes or so to see what all the noise was about.
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