Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Just FYI

Remember Fizzlesticks? - a candy popular in the 1970's?

A spanish candy company made them, and the spanish do do chocolate (or to be more accurate Doo-doo chocolate).

Re: Shite Is this what Windows 10 was made for?

Well, Windows 8 did look like play blocks....

Re: Surprised

I'd trust that more than a self-proclaimed "stable genius

Perhaps we should start psychiatric evaluations on potential genius businessmen - seems a sensible precaution to avoiding any future 'Hank Scorpios'

- of course of greater priority should be evaluating our politicians first.

Re: We are just not going to have professional developers to build these applications.

This 'dBase idea' for the non-programmer has been tried before.

Until you've got something like the Computer on the Enterprise D (and citizens used to the idea of challenging themselves rather than tromping through the motions they were taught on their first day on the job) not really very likely without some structured logical training at least.

Re: Obsessed with fibre

CountCadaver

Hermitage is still an option.

In fact I'd recommend it.

Niche languages just need to disappear

I can maybe understand the downvotes to this sentiment.

Coming from N.I. the whole 'native language' issue was politically charged, but politicians are the last people to give a dying language a needed marketing boost.

Mostly as when they attempted to speak it the results were unpleasant*

* I'm not in any way even familiar with Irish, but even someone unfamiliar with either english or irish could tell after a few sentences, given the information that 'agus' means 'and' with it occurring far more often than is usual from someone at all coherent.

Re: Convenience v Surveillance

I guess all you folks use cash or barter

Might come to that, if and when my credit card starts listening to me and beaming it all back to the Bank (or Facebook/Amazon - for when the ultimate path of leaning toward convenience is reached, and Amazon is the only commerce, and Facebook can no longer be separated from civilisation*)

* It'll be sixteen years in the gulag** for ignoring a friend suggestion - the cattle will mix

** LinkedIn.

Re: Huzzah!

A lot of the tech for Galileo (especially the crypto) was British anyway. If we want to build something, we certainly can. It's more a matter of whether we should bother on the basis that the money could be better spent elsewhere....

It's not the expertise, it's the implementation. No one would question British expertise ingenuity and engineering, it's British management that would mess it up.

Whatever happened to the Beagles on Mars anyway....

Re: Go community is free to fork the project if they're unhappy with Google's involvement.

Please create a forked version called Come.

Go (community), Please youselves and not Google.

Re: Full disclosure?

due diligence means

I got the impression it meant 'going with what the group or company proposed and not arguing it was a bad idea'.

Proactive : Additionally also being (or giving the impression of being) really enthusiastically behind the idea.

Re: There is no such thing as trustworthy code.

But you put your faith in the submit button nonetheless...

Submit?

The Human centipad button, more like.

i.e once there's crap in the system, we're all fed it.

For a company so good at backwards compatibility, Microsoft are surprisingly bad at consistency.

Not that good at backwards compatibility. As any person dealing with business vs IT on different Office versions over the years can attest.

No, not having managed to muck up Win32 API does not count as being good at backwards compatibility.

Re: Slide into a surveillance state?

I'm afraid idiot parties are all that's available. I suppose we could each vote for a different idiot party.

Well, not voting for the major parties everytime.

I think if people are upset with party A but feel uncomfortable voting for Party B, they tend to vote for Party A, and hope things will work out.

Re: "Ford bleeding Galaxy"

My mom had a Ford Prefect. Bugger took all the towels and then took off!

Is your name Ford Anglia by any chance?

How many heads do you have?

Oh, and how many mothers?

Shield? It was only ever a fig-leaf.

It was a thin tissue of lies.

All the local chav areas round here have George Cross hanging from upstairs windows.

I sympathise. I'd be annoyed too, poor bastard.

Housing Executive estates in N.I. (can't call call them council estates, the Councils haven't been let anywhere near anything more important than bin collection and the arts in ages) aside from the partisan Union or tricolor (irish, although I'm sure i saw a french one a few times), also like to fly other partisan flags in support imagined like struggles - Palestine-Isreal, Basque-Spanish

Re: Decisions, Decisions...

The State needs to perpetuate itself and will do the absolute minimum

The State wants to perpetuate itself. Necessary, to some extent, but it tends to become the primary goal to the detriment of any other concern.

A good example is a department or body to 'tackle' some 'issue' or 'problem' of concern to some interest group. Once it exists, this body will actively seek to ensure the problem continues to be a relevent issue, from seeking to expand the scope of it's purview, increasing the size of the problem or allying with extremist or fringe interest groups with similar concerns.

e.g you start off with a body to tackle underage drinking problems, but soon enough this body has expanded to adult drinking and allied itself with fringe anti-alcohol, temperance league nuts and spend more effort trying to get its budget increased and it's purview expanded.

Re: Glitches

I'm not sure if that quote is real, if MS really did make DOS incompatible with 1 2 3 then people would have not upgraded or switched to PC-DOS or DR-DOS (or whatever DR-DOS was called before being called DR-DOS).

I think I was still messing about with BBC acorns at that time, but I do know Windows 3.11 wouldn't run on top of DR-DOS...

"We do not believe Brexit will pose a significant risk to our business."

Presumably they're far more worried about the quality of their products and services then?

TL'DR, probably.

Same case of affairs that led to the Autonomy thing.

Re: It's that word again.

robust and reliable

Isn't that just code for 'it makes a good doorstop'

I'll bet Douglas would have jumped on that one to describe the Quark II by Wayforward Technologies.

Re: I don't know about this

It sounds like one of the primary design features is to make it easier for Google itself to update the device -- something that I don't trust Google to be doing.

Maybe, but many phone carriers or manufacturers can't be trusted to be bothered to update something you've already paid for a couple of months ago either, not when you might be encouraged to pay again.

Re: Same as it ever was...

Scott who?

Re: It's an opinion.

the whole point of WINE is the old 32bit programs that have never been updated and don't run on Win10 64 bit anyway.

So you think Windows 10 is not worth avoiding if you can manage it?

That's probably the best positive testimonial Microsoft is going to get all year.

I don't think the 'Linux market for ancient 32bit apps is that huge, any company that trapped in the 32bit era is probably still running XP anyway (big shout out to the NHS and Greggs CNC mill).

Re: Am I the only one who...

I was thinking of trying it on the gleeful threesome, Boris, Nigel and Jacob.

They are already a bunch of tits.