Posts by Santa from Exeter

YT content

Whilst I don't dispute that there's a lot of rubbish on You Tube, there's also more than enough good stuff to keep me entertaind for hours, from Sci-Fi shorts to Historical lecrtures and channels covering my other interests (keep it clean at the back please :-) )

Re: changes to things like police and military uniforms, and signage on official buildings

Quote - just imagine how hard it must be to live in countries that don't have to replace every single postbox, government form, uniform and banknote every time the head of state changes!

If you are in the UK, you do. My nearest postbox sill has GR on it (George for those who don't know postbox put up between 1910-1936)

The 'old' banknotes and coins will only be withdrawn when they become too worn to use.

Re: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Benign? Did you forget Queeg?

Re: Pedant? moi?

They then make the correction silently, and don't let on who informed them of their error. I recently corrected a factual. error in a piece and it just changed with no acknowledgement (not even a 'thanks' e-mail reply).

Bullshit. Apple are the worst of the lot! I wonder how much they paid the judge for that fucked up decision. If it's closed, it's a monopoly. Hate on Google all you want, but they do at least allow sideloading and Apple take exactly the same cut from developers as Google, making a mockery of that part as well.

Re: What these type of people dont realise.......

Like the Observatory in Lucifer's Hammer.

Re: Jedes Schrift'l ist ein Gift'l

El Reg, however, no longer cares for this spelling as they now "anonymize" things, rather than anonymising them as stated in the footnote :-(

Re: Why can't they just...

Downvoted for the wrong reference. It's actually Pink Floyd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_the_Controls_for_the_Heart_of_the_Sun

Re: Nothing much to be missed if lost.

New Glenn *may* beat the odds, when it eventually flies. I wouldn't hold out too many hopes of 2024, never mind August.

Re: traffic lights more efficient ?

Exactly the same here in Exeter. Instead of a 'Green Wave' on major routes we get the Red Jams. Prioroty given to side roads, even when there's no traffic whatsoever emerging from them.

When combined with a piss-poor implementation of the '15 minute City' idea I'm half convinced the County Council is trying to poison the residents!

Re: Falcon 9/Heavy are working out pretty well

I see every indication of just that in the sentence beginning 'While we've been staring goggle-eyed at the conflagrations coming out of Elon Musk's SpaceX,' linking to the Starship explosion.

comparing Apples and Oranges.

Re: Idiocracy

How far in the past do you want to go? Just far enough where the mill was the only place to work and was 15 minutes away (as was the mill owners shop)?

Or maybe far eniough back that you had to walk a day to get to the local Town, so were forced to use the village shop?

I live in a subutrban area of a smallish city and the main thing within 15 minutes walk from me is charity shops, hairdressers and a dog shampoo parlour, unless you want to but a fireplace.

Re: "We can't undo the damage that has been done."

Erm, no, it isn't easy.

How do you compensate for those who took their own lives because of this?

Re: "the French capital was taking a step backwards in environmental sustainability"

Quote - 'Interestingly, e-bikes are ~3x more CO2 efficient than push bikes as human food is much more CO2 intensive than electricity.'

I call bullshit on that one. I don't consume any more food when I ride a pushbike thatn I do normally and, at the end of it's life (well longer than a battery) my pushbike won't have the same amount of hazardous waste as an e-bike.

Re: Deja Vu yet again

Yup, Ole Warty Face didn't even like the Parliament that his bully boy Pride had given him.

Typical Military Dictator.

Re: "Have you seen the forms?"

Of course there isn't a 'Dollar Price', that would be like saying "How much for a Ford".

How many cores do you want?

How Many LPARS do you want?

Do you have a Z/OS workload or is it all Linux guests?

Beginning to get the picture?

Pause button

The On/Off may be *designed* to only be used twice, but you have an outage of all of your Linux guests whenever you patch an LPAR

Re: "accelerate adoption of – and preference for – mobile banking apps"

Did you miss the bit about also making the victim responsible for the losses?

"Furthermore, Wong said customers and banks would have a shared responsibility for any losses in the future"

Re: Hmm

Oh, there was a build up to 'The Troubles' (nice conflation of those with the recent woes over Brexit induced customs tomfoolery).

The build up was, once again, the fault of those Damn Europeans, specifically the Frenchies.

You *were* aware (like any half decent historian) that the Pale was established by the Normans, weren't you?

Re: In space

Imagine the sound of an indrawn fart

Re: Colour me impressed...

I also grew up with analogue TV and the snow was frigging abysmal.

You might have been lucky enough to have a perfect picture, but I bet you lived about 10 feet from the broadcast mast, unlike most of the country.

Bullcrap

So, a 3 man band reporting on All things War, staffed by an ex-American forces guy is expert in this now?

Do me a favour, it's another American whitewash.

Re: And in Germany...

You would have thought that the Judge mifght have demanded some actual proof from Sony, rather that just a wild claim.

It's not as if sony don't have form.