Posts by Triggerfish 2452 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010
What's next... rape won't be a crime as long as it's done within the privacy of your own home?
Well actually
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/09/marital-rape-is-semi-legal-in-8-states.html
Oh and no I do not stand up against the goverment against anything, I read learn and look at history and as much as our borders might need be guarded by rough men and we have the privilege of freedom to criticise the goverment, blindly following what your goverment says shows a certain naivety, lack of critical thinking, and possibly a lack of ability to extrapolate possible futures in its own right.
Personally I thought the Goverments job was to serve the people.
I am also not convinced of what functionality as a non business user can be aded to it (for me anyway) that would convince me it was worth it. Also had a look at a couple in stores, not sure I feel like the join for the modules to body is particularly strong enough that I would feel happy about it being caseless in my pocket.
I dunno, last web design agency that was in our office mainly seemed experts on marketing speak, and that sort of general bullshit. I mean don't get me wrong the sites nice, but coding wise HTML and CSS with a bit of jscript is not exactly hardcore techy knowledge, why would you expect people who mainly trained in graphic design and marketing to know the other aspects of important IT business, like backups, making sure the hosts are solid, etc. The lot who came in to sell the website did not strike me as techies, they were salespeople and designers.
Not saying there are not good companies out there or websites that are not complex, but your average business owner tends to fall for the sales people and buzwords far more, so thats what you get when they sell you their product, and most cheap hosting outfits provide some sort of shopping cart type sales device that can be implemented.
It's very hard to convince the beancounter there is a difference between paying say a couple of hundred quid and a couple of grand more for a site that looks to their eyes the same.
You're talking about a similar app for Politicians and you come up with PwnedAR, I could think of something more suitable starts wth F ryhmes with CluckAR, also you can have the ratings superimposed with appelations to the AP name when you view the politician in question, you know things like; lying ...., total ..., complete .... .
Presumably the SEO campaign by UC Davis (where Lieutenant John Pike pepper sprayed a peaceful student demo) was designed to put other search results above any containing the terms, "UC Davis", "Lieutenant John Pike" and "pepper spray". This will be quite difficult if there are many other pages with those terms ( "UC Davis", "Lieutenant John Pike" and "pepper spray"). Perhaps it would have been better if UC Davis had never entrusted Lieutenant John Pike wth such harmful weapons as pepper spray. Then they wouldn't find themselves having to try and beat the search rankings for "UC Davis", "Lieutenant John Pike" and "pepper spray". That's, "UC Davis", "Lieutenant John Pike" and "pepper spray".
Oh is that how SEO works then?
Money, Sky are doing it right. The installers are not, but I have seen lots of contractors who take risks because it's cheaper and being self employed it's cash. I've had a call after a contractor went on to a closed building site to run some cable (if he had an accident no one would have known for for the whole night), fair to say the site manager was pretty pissed, rightly so, I was as well.
Not being able to walk two miles is pretty important Boltar, people might not be able to do it because of their lifestyle, thats their choice. Being not able to do it due to injury would be different. I can quite easily walk several miles and while I do not often, it's handy to do so. I dunno why it is that you do not think legs should be useful working things to you, but mostly the rest of us like them to be functioning properly.
everyone's day is made longer because these processes have to be put in place.
Trust me not much is as long as the few minutes trying to keep someone alive while an ambulance comes. (internal bleeding from being hit by a skip that was shunted backwards after being hit by a unregulated forklift going to fast).
I miss the good old days when personal culpability was the rage and if you acted the idiot and got hurt it was your fault.
I don't I have sent guys into sites and its my job to check there is not asbestos, I have sent people up mobile phone mast it's my job to make sure the towers switched off.
Personal culpability is all well and good and I absolutely agree with it, someone should be able to say they are not going to work in unsafe conditions. But it's also up to the company to make sure they do not go in under equipped, under trained and unaware of the dangers they may have, it's also my job to make sure they have the time to do it safely without hassle and without pressure.
You hit limits, when you go outside of the narrow perfect range of conditions for these phones. Tried an S2 years ago (which was current at the time and had a well rated camera) my S50 died on the journey, it's just not good when you need something more, and also a right pain in the arse to use. Not saying didn't get a couple of nice photos, but it feels a bit more hit and miss on whether you are going to be able to.
Barring the best camera is the one on you, which is fair enough. If I was going anywhere I was thinking of taking photos, then a pocketable decent camera is so much better.
I never really look at anything on the imaging of the phone I pretty much work on the assumption it's there for pub snaps rather than photography.
I'm starting to come to the opinion that for me, any high endish phone has a good enough screen (the difference say between dpi on the screens for me seems pretty irrelevant for day to day), is quick enough, and usable enough day to day whatever the make, looks mostly don't care it goes in a case.
Give me a memory card slot and a good battery, (preferably easy to replace).
You are so right there, its become the winner for me.
Few years back went to see some friends in Thailand, had a Galaxy S2 by the time I had travelled down on an overnight train, got a ferry across to the island I was meeting them on. My phone was long dead even though it had been switched off on the train journey and I had not used it for much during the remaining day, spent a while finding someone where I could plug in and charge enough to call them, and then had to travel to the other side of the island to find them, pain in the arse when you have been up all night.
Took a Z3 this year and happily spent a month wandering round Vietnam at Christmas, You need Google Maps permanently on when walking round Hanoi it's a bloody maze, likewise used the same for motorbike journeys down the coast between cities, and I got to use it as a bloody smart phone as well, surfing stuff when stopped for a coffee, making calls the usual stuff. Still would have charge at the end of the day which often meant the thing had been on the go by then for a 16hr day without me caring about preserving battery life, (Did occasionally get a bit hot though).
Felt like I had a mobile phone again, rather than a devce I had to coddle between charge points.
Fair enough and I can't say, but I was under the impression places like Sabah, it was more issues with religous clashes like the Catholics wanting to out the name Allah in the bible, preaching to convert muslim by Chroistian organisations things like that. I was under the understanding Malaysia has freedom of religion in its law and its just those pushing for Sharia that cause trouble. I certainly have not heard of executions for apostay. (If I am wrong feel free to correct me).
Also AC, plenty of Malays born to Catholics and Christians as well, just because you are born Malay you are not automatically enrolled into the Muslim faith, and generally speaking Atheism comes about a bit older anyway as a lifestyle choice. A large part of the population is also Budhisst there's a large Chinese family influence in that part of SEA and so Buddhism is quite popular.
I have never heard of anyone having problems in Malaysia and that comes from a lot of people I know who have lived and worked over there, or in the surrounding areas and have visited.
There's no reports of religous police checking for girls in bikinis in Langkawi (tourist spot, good diving). Last time I was there I was in Penang, staying in an area that was definetly quite religous, the Muezzin used to do prayer call's usually about the time we were sitting out opposite the mosque with a beer discussing what to eat. The GF never wore a headscarf, didn't cover her arms, we were never hassled.
My GF worked there for a couple of weeks on her own in KL, she never felt she had any problems.
That Reuters report does not sit with my experiences I know of Malaysia anyway.
Sorry I should qualify It's not whether its running Chrome OS, or Linux. A Chromebook is a laptop type PC, some users will much prefer a larger screen "sit down" pc, for various reasons that will sometimes might seem irrational to more techy types but are enogh to influence their descision.
I think what matters is who are the windows 10 customers? I can see something like remix OS being perfect for people like a family friend for example. She doesn't need office, she would just like something that can surf the web, get emails and things like that it's a OS and PC for people who have given up the pc already and are using their smartphones and tablets, but would maybe like a pc experience in the way of keyboards and a bigger screen etc.
People who fix washing machines, and TV's etc are not Engineers, in the same way the person ringing up the till in Boot's is not a pharmaceutical scientist.
Anyway I am starting to wonder whether we will see a lot more repairman, the future is looking like you may be better of being low tech on a lot of things, IOT seems eminetly hackable at the moment, can't see the advantage of that over a good mechanical lock for example.
Yep, it's rarely going to taste great. I tend to break up long flights now by booking ones where I have an hour or two off the plane, give's me a chance to stretch the legs out from cattle class, and grab a McDonalds or simialr (yeah I know this ain't great food either I rarely eat it though so if anything it's like a guilty treat).
Most of my recent flights have been long haul trips so food and drink has been inc, but just out of curiousity I had a look BA you can actually book a gourmet meal for your flight for extra cost. I'm assuming a £15 airline breakfast is just going to taste of dissapointment though, not sure how great Loch Fyne Salmon might taste several hours of being kept warm into your flight either.
Anyway they can lose the screens if they want just keep supplying free wine.
TBH last flight was 16hrs and while the food was adequate, after having all of your meals on the plane it was a pleasure to drop my kit off and eat something proper.
Thing is it may not yet be quite as good as the mainstream, (the UI is awful, maybe even branding had to get a replacement phone after losing mine in Asia, the phone shops were all pushing Samsung as the familiar Android option) but the price of this phone is definetly at the rivalling S7, Iphone 6 price range. I thought Huwaeis advantage was that they were nearly as good for a decent saving, not sure nearly as good as the rival but the same price is going to cut it.
I agree with the pricing comments as well, these phones are getting near the same price I paid for a PC with a decent 27" monitor, need to replace my lost Z3 and at the moment can't see any phone that would justify me spending more as a significant upgrade.
I have to say when I have called Three they have actually been pretty good, they gave me a timescale for an issue, a manager called back when promised and they phoned to make sure I was happy and all was good. I am obviously comparing them with former phone service Orange who are the most useless shower of shits that ever flopped out with the afterbirth anywhere, but I have to say I was pleasantly suprised.
Mountain rescue risk their lives, in incredibly harsh conditions, I was in Scotland a few years back when a winchman was lost on a chopper (at a sea rescue but same chopper pilots as far as I know) after cutting the bale to stop risking the chopper. I was supposed to be getting on a ship in that weather and the ship came into port with crew looking really scared*. I reckon if they say they cannot fly then they cannot fly.
*We actually looked at the crew and said fuck that, we will wait for a better day and went to the pub.
Mixed on this. I live near the peaks and it can often be sunny down in the valley and you will see cars from the tops coming by with an inch or two of snow, it was lovely a couple of days ago, a couple of hundred feet higher and two miles away they got what looked like almost 3 inches of snow in the space of four hours.
I think a lot of people who do not live near places like this, especially if you come from the nice flat South where I am originally from don't get how harsh the difference can be, or how changeable so quickly, or how dangerous it can be. Really would not suprise me if she just though hmmn very big hill, rather than thinking it could turn into mini Alpine adventure.
On balance I would say it was a silly thing to do, but I am willing to forgive because of ignorance and also because they are aware enough to realise their stupidity.
If it was someone who does know about these sort of conditions and still risked a quick trip I would have a lot less sympathy.
At the same time, yeah stuff like this is what Darwin awards are about. :)
I'm pretty sure a lot of the patches you see are temp patches which is why they fall apart, I remember them from working burying cable under roads a long while back, they are supposed to come back and do a proper repair even though sometimes it can be a lot more disruptive. That final bit seems to be missing out of the process, nowadays its just patch and that will do..
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