Posts by shifty_powers

Re: Colour me surprised

You root your wife? This is a family forum, I'll have you know.

Re: A technical issue was identified

You seem to have misspelt his name with a H instead of a C for some strange reason.

Re: I'm confused

No, it changed to allow the possibility of it, with permission still needed from licensing authorities to extend beyond the norm. (And lots of rules and regulations around locations and such like).

Re: I watched a documentary about that Chocolate Factory the other night...

Repeat after me:

"The plural of anecdote is not data".

Re: Recalcitrant doors

"Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"

Re: apple keyboard

yes you do, can see it sitting here in front of me right now.

Re: Can someone please remind of the upsides of a mobile contract...

Because not everyone can afford the insane cost of even mid-range phones and the ability to amortise the cost across the contract length can be very useful?

And the 'you don't need an all-singing, all-dancing smart phone' argument is a red herring. YOU may not, other people will. And on such a subjective point, the only person who gets to determine the validity of what they need is the individual involved.

Re: Finder's Keeper's

If you can go and physically claim it, sure...

If you listen to Dan Carlin on Hardcore History, you'll find out that it comes from the Roman Army. They would execute one in ten of a given group for certain capital crimes such as desertion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)

(Apologies for use of wikipedia).

Re: Designing software to create computer illiterates

Well, could just use noscript then.

Although will be grateful when noscript 10 is finally released for FF57.

Re: NoScript ?

Noscript already has a webex extension which works with the nightly/developer builds. it will be released to stable channel when 57 is released on the 14th. anyone with it currently as a legacy addon and disabled should get the webex version at the same time according to the developer.

Re: Ahn Lab coming first ...

Nope. They are simply in alphabetical order.

Yes you are. Everyone is a little bit racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM

Re: Naturally all of these questions were answered in a completely honest way.

Legal? Yes. But morality, ethics and what is truly in the public interest are not necessarily the same as legal.

Re: Mess

In fairness, it did not say that he disagreed with the judge's ruling.

Re: Blind support

A confession seemingly gained during interrogation for up to 24 hours without a lawyer present? Thanks but I'll err on the side of innocent until proven guilty.

Re: USB cufflinks.

in fairness the article nor the commentard said they were wearing them...

Really? Funny how I am using nightly build of Firefox 55 with ghostery running just fine. Also, they are not getting rid of extensions. They are getting rid of NPAPI, a huge difference. Vast majority of extensions that people use will carry on just fine.

I don't agree with everything Mozilla do but it is right on this count. And it is still a decent browser and one where I at least have some confidence that their existence is not predicated on stealing all of my information for advertising purposes. (Looking at you Chrome).

Re: 2018? Are you having a larf?

As someone who spent 10 years working and studying in the NHS I would say it very much depends on the trust. I have seen both ends of the scale; from still working with purely paper based notes to a nearly fully computerised system from end to end.

This is part of the problem though. The NHS is not one contiguous body. It is in effect a network of networks, only made worse by the constant meddling with structure; not least the last move from PCT's to CCG's. Every trust is just a little bit different and may have a different system. And there is no central person with the ability or authority to mandate a solution that is consistent across the system.

Frankly if they had any sense they would leave solutions alone. They would work out open standards for data structure/api's and so on. Have a legal requirement that all trusts use them but leave it up to them to get a solution that uses those standards. You'll NEVER have a central, consistent IT system in the NHS. But you might just be able to achieve some form of sensible data portability. This in and of itself would make life significantly better.

Re: Seems about right

In fairness that is not specifically down to agenda for change, it is just a pay scale. If the trust chooses to be arseholes in what banding they put jobs, that is another story. Before I left the NHS, (after 10 odd years training and working as a nurse), one trust decided to rebuild a mental health hospital and make everyone reapply for their jobs whilst also downgrading the pay band for many of the specialist clinical staff....

Re: BBC take note

Don't know what you are watching on iplayer but I can use the html5 player on 99% of videos. The only exceptions are the occasional live stream/video on BBC Sport these days.

Actually a lot of iplayer content is now available in html5. (Not all of it mind). I no longer have flash installed in firefox and it hasn't stopped me watching my usual stuff via iplayer.

Re: Analogue versus digital? FTW!

Well mainly because the annoying buggers didn't actually release any news of new macbooks. I would happily buy a new macbook if they could be bothered to release one the lazy gits.

Re: Jet Lag

Or the fact that the hack in question has just come back from holiday and has posted an extra session to clear the mailbag. Or you could just read the article ;)

Re: On a related matter

Which whilst I always like a good snark is completely irrelevant to the point made as the share price was undervalued at the time the the buyout was made, not 4 or 5 years later.

Re: Simple Answer

What, your mobile phone? Not very convenient solution that...

According to http://www.techspot.com/news/62129-ddr3-vs-ddr4-raw-bandwidth-numbers.html anwyhere up to 60 odd GB/s

Re: Laughingly simple explanation really...

Heh, or someone will find a use for pain relievers and muscle relaxants in a male prison O.o

Re: Ha

"How are the screen drivers for Linux? Drivers for obscure peripherals?

Thought not."

As someone whom has used Linux pretty extensively, (and I probably shouldn't admit this but my wife was a UX designer for canonical; I know, I still haven't forgiven her...), I can say that the screen drivers work perfectly fine 99% of the time and it's pretty rare I find an obscure peripheral that does not work. Ironically Linux will be in a far better position for this than Windows 10 will be. (Also completely OS agnostic. Have used Linux and all versions of Windows pretty extensively, currently using OSX).

Re: @ AC OP

"Yup, my 18+ month old SSD already runs at that speed, and it wasn't a new model then, so no progress in the last 2 years then!?"

Which shows that you have somewhat missed the point :P

The IOPS will have just as large an impact on performance for mot people as trhe headline mb/s speed.

I'd rather have a slightly lower mb/s speed and a much higher IOPS....