Posts by phuzz

Re: 30 per cent faster

It's been in beta for months, if you wanted to test it out ahead of time that was your option.

If you don't want to use the normal release channel like everyone else then there's an LTSESR version, or you could just disable automatic updates.

I disagree with the first part of your comment (I expect to be compensated for the work I do, if I have to work late I expect pay or time off), but this part I very much agree with:

"My stance on overtime is simple : if you tell me no overtime is paid, then I'm not working overtime. And don't come and blame me for projects that are late, you're management ; you're supposed to be aware of my workload and find solutions to lighten it if necessary."

If you can't get all of your allotted work done in the time available (and you're not being a lazy/incompetent git), then it's your manager's problem for giving you too much work.

There's another side to this as well, working more than about 50 hours per week reduces your efficiency in the long run. So if your manager wants you to work more than that, then they are actively harming the business.

Re: The answer is simple

"Puerto Ricans can't vote in presidential elections."

The ones who are moving to Florida will be able to...

Lets face it, the LotR films were basically New Zealand tourist board promos.

Re: Leaked leaks did not come from WikiLeaks

Don't forget that he ran from Sweden to the UK apparently because he was worried about being extradited to the US.

Which is about as sensible a plan as running from Norway to China when you're worried about being extradited to Russia.

Also, why's Clinton getting the blame for this alleged conspiracy against poor widdle Julian? Wasn't Obama president then?

Re: Just how big are they?

If you email their corrections team (there's a link under each article) then they're usually pretty responsive (and they always say 'thank you').

Re: X-37

I'd say that the X-37B looks like a (baby) Shuttle, whereas the Dreamchaser looks like an HL-20, which it should as that's what it was originally based on.

The HL-20 looks like a mash-up of an HL-10, and a BOR-4, and again, that's basically what it is.

If anyone wants to know more about lifting bodies then I can recommend "Wingless Flight" by Dale Reed, which you can read here

Re: REALLY???

"Is it time to have a 'droid app for 'droid that uses a secure tunnel?"

No need for an app, there's a VPN client built in to the OS.

VPNs are illegal in some countries though, so caveat emptor.

Re: Well, it's a start I suppose

"Not to mention latency spikes (a problem for anybody with a Puma 6 chipset modem, like all Virginmedia customers using the Superhub 3)"

Hmm, that's a problem ours hasn't had. It's had it's share of other problems mind you...

Re: Good luck to them

I guess the advantage of cubesats is that the very worst things that can go wrong are a lot less bad than a full size satellite.

Re: Inject printers cheaper than Laser printers

Consumer printers use expensive ink, but the commercial ones use ink that's more like 30p per ml (it's more like £5 per ml for desktop inks).

This 3D printer looks much closer to the commercial market than consumer right now.

Re: Bravo !

"Why give it to Wikileaks to publish it"

Presumably they calculated that the embarrassment for the CIA was more useful than any possible rewards of keeping it hidden.

Re: IT happens

My granny was from Yorkshire and used to say that we should "have a good chimney fire once a year to clear it out".

My mum used to ignore her and just get a the sweep in every year.

Re: Bonus to the bigger screen - more battery!

But doesn't a larger screen require more power?

Personally I'd be happy with a phone that was another 5mm thicker if it was all stuffed with battery.

Too late, they have their own version.

That said, AMD are only putting it in some chips, and aiming it at the enterprise market where it's actually wanted.

Or maybe just charge people a small (tiny even) subscription fee. Except that wouldn't make the VCs the megabux they're looking for I suppose.

Re: Oh, look, parents are passing the buck again...

"Don't like the idea of having to watch your children all the time?"

See this is the problem, you're sat there thinking, 'well, sure it's tough, but I'm sure I could do it', without thinking through the implications of all the time. ie it's not uncommon for new parents to go at least week without a shower, because they can't take the two minutes away from the kid to do so.

So, when you, AC, have spent three weeks with no more than an hour of uninterrupted sleep at any one point, lets see how high and mighty you are about keeping your kid off a phone when you realise that just one cebeebies cartoon will allow you to have the first shit on your own you've had for weeks.

Re: Who would pay for BBC access?

"so much of its other output is populist drivel"

And yet if you have a quick look at BBC4 there's stuff that would never be funded at a commercial station in a hundred years (eg).

Sure, you might not like their more highbrow stuff either, but I can't think of any other broadcasters that make both "populist drivel" and what I'm going to guess you'll call "elitist drivel" at the same time.

Re: Dear Motorola

To save you the bother of searching, here is LineageOS's officially supported devices list. Of course, you still have to go through that list to see if there's any phones on it that fit your criteria on there.

Bono's not being ignored, it's just there's so many different famous people fiddling their taxes that the press doesn't know who to start with. This will continue to play out over the next few months whilst various celebs and their lawyers refuse to comment and in the end practically nothing will change, because those in a position to do something about, for instance, tax evasion in the Channel Islands, have too much to lose.

Re: Link ATM?

I was using a newer Link ATM recently and it seemed to be offering me UI customisation options. There was a queue so I didn't investigate further, but if I get a bit of time with that machine I'll have a look and see what it offers. In theory there's nothing stopping them from allowing customers to set some preferred default options like "withdraw £30 without a receipt or checking the balance".

Re: store fakes

Even today, after this story has been around for a few days, if you go to the Google Play store and search apps for "Whatsapp", you still get at least one clearly fraudulent app in the first page of results, and that's without even mentioning the apps with icons clearly designed to be as similar as possible to an existing one.

Re: Even the experts sound iffy

"what kind of cockwomble blows €10,000 on a whisky"

Someone who, A) has that kind of money, and B) wants to let everyone know that.

Re: @Doctor

"Secondly, you can't refuse the service if the checkbox isn't ticked."

Why not? There's plenty of businesses where if you don't sign their contract they won't do business with you, what's different in this case?

(honest question, IANAL)

Re: Has anyone else seen Qualcomm advertising?

"Even if the general public have no idea what the stuff or doodads actually are..."

eg Centrino.

Re: Wow

Err, they're planning to use 5.9GHz, that's a pretty short range signal and pretty much the opposite of what you'd want for surveillance. It'll only be detectable over slightly longer distances than an ANPR camera could pick you out.

Not to mention, even if this went into law tomorrow we're talking about the US where they haven't even made seatbelts mandatory in older cars. You'll never have to install this in existing cars even in thirty years when your Tesla is an old hoopty.

Re: "seem to have been designed as if the aircraft will only ever fly in perfect sunny weather."

"like that US "stealth" plane bought down in the former Yugoslavia when it's radar invisibility coating rusted."

It wasn't that the stealth coating was damaged (I'm pretty sure anything iron based would make a terrible radio-wave absorber so 'rusted' is definitely the wrong word). Instead it was a combination of the F-117's using the same routes night after night, and modifications made to the radars to use longer wavelengths.

The predictable routes (and poor radio discipline) allowed the Serbs to site their AA battery right under the flightpath, and their older radars weren't the sort of system that the F-117 was designed to guard against.