Re: I'm confused
This bit of I-70 has signs saying 'Eagles on Road'. Now that would be something worth seeing.
Here in Wales all we're told is that we have Mud on Road.
Not quite the same as those FM Rockers of yours.
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The same here when I first moved to Antwerp. I waited for the appointed hour for the police to come by and, more or less on time two of them did.
They sat down, got out a folder from a briefcase and started to ask me questions. It was pleasant enough but it didn't take me long to think that, really, in front of me weren't too policemen but two clerical workers just taking notes. They were clearly in a department which did this day in and day out and all that they did was to turn up at people's apartments and ask them questions.
I then considered the fact that they were armed. I have no idea what they would expect in their day to day duties and what hazards they were likely to face other than the occasional paper cut or a stabbing from a paperclip that warranted them to be tooled up.
I've had three series II, a 24v series I (immigree from the Libyan Desert) and a modern Freelander.
I was thinking the same as Phil. None of those are Defenders. Four of my five were proper Landies; you could always identify them by the eternal drip on the passenger's left leg and the moss growing within the windows.
I am still baffled by the fact that my current Landie has a stereo. Until this series I didn't realise that they could be made to be quiet enough to warrant one.
Project Managers were, in my experience, people who were dropped onto you only to give you grief, provide you with charges that made no sense and never spoke to you but only told you things.
You'd get a PM for your 'team', aka yourself, after Sales had sold an application or project to a client which hadn't been designed or written yet. Sales droid would have been in the pub for a lengthy drawn out expenses paid-for marathon with client and have decided on the train home, pissed-up, what was required and when it was to be delivered. If there was an element of consultation then it would have only have been between Sales droid and PM over another lengthy pub session.
Then and only then would I hear about it. Of course a pretty chart from PM being the only form of project requirement and he having a near fatal hangover he wouldn't remember what was required to any useful level. The Sales droid would by now have oozed over to another client and all I was left with was a chart full of milestones and little clue as to what I was supposed to do.
I now work for myself.
I just looked at OpenStreetMap and I am amused to see that someone has put a mountain in my garden*.
In fact the area where I live appear to be littered with mountains which, thankfully, in the real world aren't there to bother us.
(* perhaps I ought to get an army of cartographical diggers and lorries and move it back to Powys where it belongs)
it’s hard for a resident to avoid sanitation or street lighting.
Thankfully we don't have street lighting. I can see street lights a few miles away down the valley and it amuses me to think why the people there are frightened of the stars.
Sanitation. Well, Dŵr Cymru supply the water and the waste goes into the cesspit. Neither of which have little do with the local authority.
And I still don't watch the BBC nor pay the telly tax.
I have fancy Bosch oven. No idea why but I have.
It's, on the whole, great. It is a little annoying when there's been a powercut as there are five, yes FIVE, different clocks to set on the thing after a power cut and there's no way that it can go into a UPS: not that I would want it to.
Sometimes I try to cook something and I find that ti's giving me an error message so I have to fiddle about with the controls (after looking in the manual) or sometimes going to the consumer unit and turning off the power to it for a while (the swtch to the power is behind the cabinets in accessible until the day we move).
Yes, it's all very intelligent and sometimes for too intelligent for its own good. Why would I want to risk hackers buggering it up? And why would I want an Internet Of Things attachment to it anyway?
Things tend to go in at different times when I cook something so I can't really do it remotely as it's not a crock-pot slow cooker. So having access from somewhere within an hour away would be pointless as (a) anything not too far away would have poor mobile coverage and (b) I'ts not goint to put the garlic mushrooms in at the last minute.
And the last thing I need is some twat in an Wisconsin basement buggering up my Sunday roast because he can.
The ideal way to cook sunday lunch is to sit nearby with a glass/bottle of red, sip gently and read the papers whilst the lamb slowly roasts in the kitchen next door and not driving like a lunatic the A470 looking for a lay-by with a mobile signal so that I can pull in to tell the open turn itself on.
That's what one of the five clocks is for.
The Last Good Thing in Office was when were were permitted to have more than 64,000 lines in a spreadsheet.
Other than that, there was nothing added of real worth.
In the meantime we've lost the ease of replacing menu items, adding VBA commands into the menu with ease into the right menu and generally making Office work for that particular client.
Now it's simply a mess designed by a committee of 'designers'. And that's not even looking at the price tag!
Design Experience?
I would trust that's been done ages ago in an office somewhere before the first watches came out of the factory and is something only experienced by a few.
Of course what Apple want is to restrict the 'Design Experience' so that new developers can't share in it.
God, how I hate these twatBadgery words and phrases. Experience, Solutions, Paradigm, Zeitgeist and the like. These, and their users, need to be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I am not surprised because they'd only embarass themselves if they did - by virtue that it does more than they claim.
For example, the official line used to be (it may still be, I don't know) from the MVP dweebsphere that there are no pointers nor any way to use them in VB6.
Which comes as a bit of a surprise here because I use them to build linked lists and binary trees rather than the Collection objects because my own linked list classes (written in VB6) run around seven times faster than their precompiled collection objects.
The problem with VB6 is that Microsoft never really understood what a good tool it was.
Years ago, before they knocked it down, I used to work in Bell Telephone in Antwerp and the first we'd know of a move would be when a Jobsworth (he would be the one with the small greasy moustache) and a Workman (the fellow with a brown overall) would turn up at your desk.
Jobsworth would look at his clipboard in an officious manner and whisper something to the Workman who would clag a sticker on your desk corner marked something like "18/F/12" and walk off.
You knew that you were about to be moved.
There was no point in asking the Workman where you were going as he didn't know and the Jobsworth wouldn't tell you. "It's not possible", he would say in his Flenglish and move on and put another sticker on someone else's desk.
We may still be working for the same department but we could end up anywhere. And usually did.
And did our department manager know of this move? No. It was all down to some mysterious department somewhere else which decided these things and when we landed in the new place we'd either carry on as before or see if the manager of those around us wanted a new body on his team.
Little wonder that they knocked the place down.
What happens when the military have new hardware to lob at people? New communications techniques and methods? Nothing is going to remain static for 50 years unless they write code which handles today's equivilent of teletypes and keep them supported whilst newer stuff comes along.
This sounds like a committee from hell being formed.
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I just can't imagine that Microsoft will make their searching less than painfully slow. Back in the earlier days of Windows their search engine was dreadful and had an interesting concept of what indexing in the background means.
If I want to search for a file name, or part of a name, then may I recommend the free utility called Everything?
I will never buy another Sony again after they threatened to sue me for buying a laptop in the US and then daring to to try to register it with a non-US address so that I could get technical support for it under their 'worldwide warranty'.
Over the years following the Sony television was replaced by another brand, the home cinema amp was replaced, the digital camera was replaced and so on...
The rootkit palaver happened after this time and that would have been the final straw for me if I were still using Sony gear as I consider this Superfish to be more misguided than Sony's rootkit which was, as far as I am concerned, intentional and downright evil.