Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Why does Trump want Greenland anyway?

'Viking' propaganda finding it's last victim'?

popcorn???

"doubtless sold thousands of bags of popcorn across the English-speaking tech world"

Yeah popcorn? Maybe a very small punnet.

Really, I think only the 'stakeholders' (or more probably steakholders - something more tasty to nom on, and perhaps a bloody one something to throw to the baying of the lawyer hounds).

Most I cold manage is a small box of chocolate raisins with the highlights.

Re: 50 miles???

then there is the issue of bladder range, which as you age gets less and less.....,

I always seem to find the slight but constant pressure of a seat belt for long periods exacerbates...

Re: No henhouse

It never was, it was always a vehicle for Corporate interests.

Wait, don't you guys update your computers yourself?

Your average Reg reader can, yes.

Personally, I really try to avoid any It gear that with a locked on or otherwise pre-installed OS.

We just like to be bitter about IT companies fleecing the average non-techie punter.

Personally, I live my life by the same motto as the alcoholic from Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

"Never ever, bloody anything, ever."

Hysteria

300 years ago it would have been witches on brooms.

Which would have been easier to spot due to the larger size (and the cackling).

Re: My greatest fear...

patent troll?

Probably, might not be 'IBM' by then anymore (possibly hasn't for some time)

Just wait for when it finally transforms from IBM to ICBM

It'll be a remnant 'radioactive' piece of IBM shrapnel with a half-life far longer than SCO.

Transforming to selling cloud like every other iT company? Well, better hope the market doesn't have second thoughts on that strategy.

Re: GDPR on the way...

i can see LOTS of people firing up requests to know how their chats were used

I can't.

Certainly not as LOTS that there should be.

I doubt there'd even be a blip on statistics compared to the population using these 'services'.

Sometimes it just feels like the majority of the population are fine with being tracked like cattle and sheared regular.

privacy? They might have herd of it, but are not bleating about it.

Re: Easy Fix

Maybe they opted for the 23rd Century retro look consisting of banks and banks of unlabelled glowing buttons?

Re: Something new is not always bad

Sorry but this tech should scare the crap of anyone with a rational functioning brain.

Unfortunately (or thankfully for some), those are in short supply.

The product quality control was never any good, non-existent returns policy, extremely poor warranty and repair little better than retro phrenology.

Re: So much for EU workers protections then...

Another remainiac totem falls flat on its arse.

UK Employment Tribunal though.

I've always suspected a fair bit of effort has been going in these last couple of decades to moving the UK closer to US values.

The sitcoms are just the vanguard of the propaganda campaign.

Re: When will they learn?

Management will never accept open source/free(excluding support) because they are driven by COSTS.

A certain type, management or not often distrust free software on the assumption that if it's free, it can't be any good.

I've never seen the same applied to 'beer'.

Re: 31st October

consequently they can play their little games without us

Did we get a vote on Googxit?

I'd bet the honorable? Members of Private Enterprise wouldn't have been as keen to rush that one through...as long as Alphabet kept the brown envelopes coming regularly.

Nope, Google we don't get a choice in leave means leave, you can only minimise your contact.

Re: A more realistic image...

At least one of my nephews is still addicted to Minecraft....

rewrite required

"What did we do wrong? How could they get it so wrong?"

"Not that wrong, only five percent lacking."

But that isn't as exciting or 'Storm the winter palace' as your version.

And neither as badly scripted as the reality in which those who were meant to take charge argued over redlines and political posturing and handed the same deal repeatedly and thought they were canny bargainers.

May tried to force her vision on the country over the head of Parliament over this, and Boris is looking to do the same, this alone should scare you.

The article over at Ars Technica says Google had to ask the FCC to allow them to use more powerful transmitters.

Now, you'd expect permission from a federal authority would ensure safety and the best interests of the customer at heart.

But with the current incumbents in the offices, this may no longer be the case.

Eternal Darkness was bloody good - might have gotten more attention if it were not a Gamecube exclusive though.

The Sanity effects ranged from disturbing paintings and scenery to hearing footsteps and what can only be described as hallucinations during gameplay to sudden cuts to fake gamecube system messages reporting the joypad cable was unplugged as well as health impacts.

Re: Too Easy

measurable (liberals v conservatives)

That's not an absolute measurement, therefore it's value is open to question.

It's only measurable value is from your relative standing on the spectrum, it's worthless as a shared metric.

Re: Names

No disrespect to people called Saoirse, but I bet you often have to correct people.

pronounced Sue...

or possibly sore-arse?

'Sorsha' is close enough to pass - always makes me think of Brigette Nielson in Red Sonja...

Re: Disaster

Many countries have successful and stable coalition governments, so no reason why it shouldn't work in UK.

Our lot would need significant retraining - the result for a couple of decades is likely to be akin to when the Swedes switched what side of the road they drove on...

Knife fights in the Parliament bar would need less, they'd only have to change to stabbing in the front.

Re: Wyden for POTUS?

Trump cannot be trusted. Riiiight because we could trust Obama, and we could trust Bush, and we could trust Clinton

There are levels of 'trust' - You could trust Obama not to make the US look like an ass (he was presentable, and had a professional air, unlike Trump), Clinton, it depends, the husband you probably couldn't trust to be alone with a pretty secretary, Bush got over his problems with the bottle, but the whole 'God wanted me to be president' was a little worrying.

Re: CoD

if you owe the bank £1,000 you have a problem, but if you owe £1,000,000 the bank has a problem?

The government will be quicker to provide assistance to bail out the bank, the individual is still at the mercy of Universal Credit. (wow! almost wrote 'Social Credit' there).

Re: Do you want a second referendum?

Facetious or delusional, either way, I'm pretty sure most of those centuries of historically loyal voters, were not longer around to vote.

Was the European Parlament anti-euro vote not totally taken by not-conservatives?

I think you just want to blame the conservatives for Brexit failure - mostly, you might be right, but partly the main pro brexit players are all grandstanders and egomaniacs who enjoyed having the PM over a barrel too much the last few years. Almost all of them are extremists who should be off in their own party except they know they'd get nowhere without being attached to the conservative brandname.

Almost all of them will retire to a cushy boardroom gig afterwards and leave others to pick up the pieces.

It's a bad policy pursued by madmen and lunatics.

Re: Just FYI

I was thinking more of the Catalan Christmas Chocolate log....

Re: Not that difficult...

Might be a slight scaling issue, but mostly due to the extreme ineptitude of Home Office, GDS, Crapita etc. in planning and project management.

The broken part is not the previous attempts, which as usual were corruption built in, and not designed with the convenience of the general public built in but the convenience of the state and any corporate groups contracted to run it badly/cheaply.

The broken parts are Home Office, GDS, Crapita etc.