Posts by Teiwaz

Re: What about the stuff that we really don't want...

You forgot all the telemetry stuff....

msknight bends the knee to the barons in redmond.

Re: EPIC

Just follow Canada with their recent legalisation thing.

Then no one would be particularly bothered about brexit or anything for a couple of decades.

Granted, whoevers left will probably be cripply paranoid, but upcoming generation boring might disdain weed as they allegedly disdain alcohol, so maybe they can take over in a decade and a bit.

Re: Fixing a problem that no longer exists?

There's no reason to believe PWAs will survive.

Because there's no reason to believe Javascript won't be considered as out of date as the likes of Fortran or COBOL then either.

And we'll be on some digital 10th generation esperanto that's more efficient with agile or whatever 'new age' business coder regime that's replaced it.

Re: But not the European Court of Human Rights.

Actually yes, I was thinking of things like voting for brexit, even though everyone in government thought it was a terrible idea and now they have to go along with it

It is a terrible idea.

I don't think there are any left 'in government' with a pro EEC mindset (might be a few tory MPs, but only backbenchers)

May might have been on the other side earlier, but only because she expected the result to be different and feared being on the loser side. Being the former Home Office Minister, she's never liked Europes higher courts interfering.

She doesn't seem to like anyone telling her she's wrong or anyone else getting involved in the decision making but her. Fought tooth and nail over Parliament having a say in the process, insists her plan and no other,

As to Democratic rights, we're denied a say on the resulting deal/no deal.

As to if/when or how badly it all goes, I expect those responsible will retire from politics fairly quickly and be safely cushioned from the worst effects.

Re: Just ban puberty

Looking at the immature behaviour at the HoP recently, I think they're leading by example on this one (that's got to be a first).

Re: Fear among the gargantuans

None of them can tolerate interruptions to the feeding scheme for the AI monsters in their basements!!

That's what concerns me. At some point they're going to get loose, lumber up the stairs and take over.

Re: Is Julian's cat leaving little "presents" on the carpet in the Ecuadorian embassy?

"And what happens to Mittens if Julian is thrown in a British pokey??"

Mittens gets a new Forever Home and heaves a big sigh of relief ?

And quite rightly too.

Calling a cat 'mittens' should be a imprisonable offence.

Re: I really wonder what goes on inside these companies

murdering their fellow pupils because they wear the wrong trousers

That's rather missing the issue.

Schools are barely managed jungles, a kind of open prison with secure facility overtones.

The whole system is as long overdue a rethink and a redesign as much as the gun freedom laws in the U.S.

Re: Should they email you notices

Really should have an auto service that sends an SMS to customers to let them know their service may be experiencing issues in their area, and hopefully, an estimated fix time.

It sounds like a no-brainer basic concept. Less people would be likely swamp their customer lines to find out what is wrong.

Disadvantage is an easily accessible record of how often the service goes down for the customer though.

Leaving the EU is prompting a large number of changes to government business, and this scale of change creates significant opportunity to transform government's digital services even further,

'Opportunity' for whom, to do what.

I have to suspect a whole new gravy train, closer to home and with an even tighter circle.

A lot of prancing digital fluffers to hide Gov has little substance and even less direction.

Re: Is it still a choice...

It's always worth considering what you can do yourself to help improve Linux - it might be writing code, but it can also be testing, writing bug reports, project managing, project championing. They're all needed to keep something on track.

Wish I could provide more than a single upvote.

People can't expect GNU/Linux to be run with the same unified vision Apple has for its product or Microsoft tries to have it weren't so cross-eyed, long and shortsighted and only able to discern dollar signs with any clarity.

Desktop GNU/Linux is still mostly a community project, despite the corporate sponsorship it can garner these days.

Following the Dulux paint convention for giving colours silly names, the pink laptop is referred to as "Blush"

Hasn't Microsoft been doing enough blushing with the Surface line already?

Microsoft is utterly shameless, and an embarrassment.

Re: Silly first name.

And a failed attempt to pronounce "Saxon". Applied by both Scots and Welsh even if the ethnicity of the person being spoken about was Anglian.

And with all likelihood the political vision they found annoying was brought in by the Normans.

>> feeds don't mesh well with the internet's data gathering industry

is, I suspect, the real reason for the removal from browsers.

Pretty much. Sites don't advertise feeds much. If they exist at all it's a tine link buried in the small text at the bottom.

If sites don't provide an attractive feed and it's not easier or as easy to use as other aggregates like Facebook, of course the browsers are going to drop the code.

I suspect most people don't want to read more than a paragraph and expect a video instead.

I've Newsbeuter with feeds from all regularly visited sites set up, but they've gotten so few and far between it's just easier to go direct, and most articles link to the real site anyway these days.

Re: Babylon 5 photo with Star Wars references...

The Vulture may bite the hand that Feeds IT

But runs round the yard making less coherent sense than a headless chicken rather pecking on Disney seed.

In the words of Admiral Ackbar

"It's a shame"

Re: Wait! What?

Sadly, I suspect that the risk of "employee dissent" would not cause a company to back away from a $10 billion contract.

That recent immigrant family separation thing caused a good deal of negativity.

Employees can be bought off, sacked or promoted sideways, but the more the bums at the company desks are unhappy, they'll pass it to friends and family, and the press.

Re: Just the Tip of the ICEBorg*?

Attempting to make sense of amanfrommars1's posts without the requisite amount of liquid inspiration will cause headaches.

Liquid?

Nope, liquids as a medicinal for those particular migraine in potentia are insufficient at this stage. I recommend peyote, which, unfortunately is not yet available over the counter (any counter, 'round these parts).

The French have been known to prefer Absinthe, or failing that, a painkiller inserted anally.

Re: Reichstag fire

really amazed how the Americans lost their shit about it.

No one should have been, the swamp people are hoping will be drained is the rising tide of the squits that's been festering for years now.

10000 years from now, a legend of a new Atlantis. The 'paradise' that sank into the brown and smelly.

Re: After 43 years in the business ...

Beancounters have never understood that a QA department is, business-wise, a profit centre. They always treat it as a cost centre, and hence ripe for cutting.

And you're surprised?

Businesses seem to regard IT as a cost and nothing else. Management and Marketing would love to be able to just sell the promise alone, profits would surely be up, and along with that, management bonuses.

Seeing the kind of half-developed crap pumped out due to asphyxiated development times and over-pumped steroid ambition feature additions it often feels like they are trying to skate along on the dreams and promises and more hot air than substance.

It's almost sort works, look at Magic Leap.

Re: The tablet is just par

For $199 the keyboard better be awesome!

For that much (even if it is in dollars) it'd better do the typing for me (I seldom pay more than £30 for a keyboard).

Re: First nail in the G+ coffin...

"Look at when Apple put U2 on everyone's phone. Nobody likes being forced to listen to U2."

Nobody should be forced feed Bonos ego, ever, against their will....

Re: WTF?

It's a common thing here in the comments section to forget *we* are not the target market,

True.

We are, however, a fairly good representative group of the informed consumer market. Any device we'd have misgivings about should be looked at with rather more suspicion.

Of course, these days, experts etc. no one listens to.

Re: Dear Microsoft

KDE is years ahead as much as a polished turd.

What are we operating on exactly? The application.desktop file, the one that resides in the "start menu". So if you opt for "move", the app is gone rom the start menu.

I've no idea what the user was trying to do in the linked image, so it's hard to use it as an argument for anything. I've come across Windows users running Office and all their documents installed to the Desktop dir (the system slowdown was horrendous).

The Plasma desktop doesn't really have desktop icons (per se, there are options using folder views of the Desktop folder on Home).

The Control KDE gives you over your desktop is almost totally absolute, that includes the ability to mess it up.

I think you are trying to use KDE like it was Windows and rubbishing it when it doesn't respond the same way.

I'm not saying all are perfect, or that any of them are. Maybe it would be nice if there was one desktop with more attention paid to it so it shone like a diamond of perfection, but reality is, everyone has their own idea of perfection.

Go look up that XKCD about competing standards...

With police and other agencies now flying their own drones, it's going to be interesting when they shoot each other's down, no? After all, their record (for most values of them) at connecting the dots is what it is.

Begun, now, the Drone Wars has.