Posts by BorkedAgain

Re: New software already?

How much fragmentation can a fanboi spot if there's one (1) item of hardware in the wild?

Re: Why not...

I'm in. Probably paying over the odds but what the hell, it's nearly Friday...

Re: well @Rocket_Rabbit

I think you'll find the _owner_ of the local hairdressing boutique drives that flash car. Their oh-so-stylish minions are likely paid significantly less.

(I speak as a bald man who trims his own hair on a No 0 setting, who was shocked and stunned when I found out how much Mrs Borked paid for a trim... )

Re: Lets harken back to the early 2000's...

No it never happened, because everyone had seen the prior art every week in gorgeous, sixties colours:

*Flicks communicator* - "Scotty, three to beam aboard..."

Re: How about this for an idea

Nice idea, but you kind of know that the staffer in question would have a TXT file in his dropbox root with a list of the keys for each of his secured folders in plain.

As we all know, claiming something to be foolproof underestimates the ingenuity of fools...

Re: Age?

...and his reply (from memory, something like "You've got about five minutes left to spend it.") also shows that it was an unexpectedly generous tip...

*Lies down with paper bag over head*

Re: gorilla.bas

I love you fourThirty. You have made me young again.

Re: If DFS can get away with it

I suspect I may be the only person in the history of the world who actually bought a sofa from DFS when they didn't have a sale on.

I know, I know... In my defence I was younger, and more of an idiot...

Re: What about Chocky?

+1. Spot on. John Wyndham has long been among my favourite sci-fi writers because his scenarios are so far beyond the obvious straight-on battlefleets-in-the-sky idea most folks seem to favour. I have to admit a weakness for the slightly twee characters as well, but they're proper characters with believable voices.

I'm not sure whether to be relieved or disappointed that nobody's done a movie of The Kraken Wakes. If it were done well it could be spectacular (the night of the sea-tanks?) but some idiot would ruin it with 3-d effects (tentacles whipping out at the viewer... Yawn...) and flying monsters. If it watched like it read, I'd go see it...

Re: If the government want to assume responsibility

Silly Anon! Confusing your "Responsible" with your "Accountable".

Review the following. There may be a test:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix

Re: The thing about outsourcing @ AC

I wonder if we met the same bank IT manager; I've heard the same argument.

My reply was, essentially, "No, you're in the IT business, you just happen to work at a bank."

I guess we now have a powerful example of what happens when the IT folks lose sight of what business they're in...

Re: <Monty Python>

Can we see it?

Re: I see opportunity

Nice idea. Might I suggest a design feature? It should be possible for your Pi Hole to be opened and, more critically, to be shut.

Re: The Note is a joke

I don't get it.

Re: It's not just Apple

Uncle Polonius? Is't you?

Re: "innovated"

I guess you and two other people didn't spot the tongue between my cheeks. ;)

Re: screen

*checks screen*

You spelt FUD wrong.

Re: You don't have an ad-blocker installed? @ Link

"I'm going to have to get a life at this rate and find something better to fill my afternoons with. Like auto-erotic asphyxiation using a scrunched up Daily Mail as a ball-gag."

POIDH

@ madra

What in the name of all that is holy and good are you talking about?

Re: So.

Not on full settings, obviously, but should look okay.

Comes to something when the block diagram makes cores look like the transistors in early ICs...

*boggles*

Re: Protector

This sounds like the kind of in-joke I normally get, but I don't!

What'choo talking about? What did I miss?

Re: @Philip Lewis

"...programming is the final act...."

Spot on. Does my heart good to hear that, although you might want to add a moment or two for testing afterwards. But you're dead right - it's all about the preparation.

There's a skillset that's worth instilling in the next generation. Those who don't grok it can always be shunted into the mandatory Project Management course down the hall...

Re: Don't panic Mr Mainwaring!

That was more-or-less my thought: the rest of the world's in trouble, perhaps, but the UK and US chocolate industries, relying more on sawdust and margarine than cacao to make their chocolate flavour confections, should be hunky-dory...

Re: Anecdotal

@Phil

Yes, I pointed out exactly that to my teenage daughter when she was particularly obnoxious about getting mentioned by Smiley Vyrus, and was immediately pilloried by said daughter AND Mrs Borked for "ruining her moment"

so much for keepin' it real...

Re: Early adopters...

Reckon they'll be made by Joo Janta, then?

Re: Is it hackable ?

Download Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) and set up your RSS feeds there. No need to hack; take you about fifteen minutes with a following wind, and it'll handle your file format conversions as well. Job's a good 'un.