Posts by Captain DaFt

Re: I wonder if...

" the real business of populating his administration with criminals ready to line their pockets with anything and everything they can grab or get away with."

So politics as usual then?

Re: Science

As a sage once said: "The Universe is not only stranger than you imagine, it's stranger than you can imagine."

It's a fun game to watch though: line up the theories in a row, and see how fast the Universe knocks them down.

Re: The time has come .......

"Citizens of the US, I'm sorry but the time has come where it just has to be said - if you want the rest of us to start taking you seriously again you're going to have to do something to stop this sort of idiocy"

Sorry, we're helpless to stop this.

We've tried to reign in Florida's idiocy, but time and time again, any attempt to inject common sense into the state is stymied as it, somehow, always disappears at the border.

"or at least prevent us from finding out about it and having a good laugh at your expense."

We're laughing at Florida's antics just as hard as the rest of the world.

(Except maybe California, they have their own crazy going on.)

"so if it appears somewhere I'll recognise it and make a point of watching it. :)"

Here it is!

(Link to Daily Mail deliberately chosen to test your resolve) ☺

Re: Congratulations

"NASA planned a mission to !Go! to a black hole. So good catch avoiding that potato reportage quality."

Well, they could if they wanted to.

There's a massive black hole Nearby right outside Washington DC that swallows massive amounts of energy in financial form, draining resources so heavily that it's had a major negative impact on the nation's infrastructure,and programs, including NASA itself, with fallout creating "no-go zones" worldwide.

You can recognise it by its unique five sided appearance.

Obligatory response:

https://youtu.be/SUS4TpBry6c

Re: Puzzled

"You ask why the ad-flingers persist."

No. I don't. It's obvious.

They get paid by companies trying to get their brand to the masses, and will promise those companies the Sun and Moon to get their ad dollars.

Then they blast the ads at the public, who doesn't want them, for pennies on the dollars they take in.

Public loses through degraded, dangerously malware filled "advertising".

Companies lose. Both financially and reputationaly for using the ad-flingers.

Ad-flingers rake it in from the real morons, the Companies that pay them.

That's why they persist.

Re: brought back

"Should you feel the need to play with a paint box sod off and design packaging for tins of beans."

Oh crap no! They'd end up putting them in sardine tins and labeling them "Asparagus" because it's "trendier", or some even worse nonsense.

"No s**t Sherlock. It's hardly likely to be pilot error, is it?"

Depends, was Homer Simpson training on it?

https://youtu.be/2n23oapBEao

Re: Mopeds?

"It works for pizzas (which are heavy, delicate and time sensitive). We'd need significant improvements in power storage density and AI before a drone would be a better solution than a human on a moped"

All ready got that covered: orbital pizzas!

Still a few bugs in the system though.

Re: And it appears to be 3D skeuomorphic!

"because even MS can't achieve true portability between versions of its own damn suite!"

Well of course. Once some numpty in high places gets the latest and greatest, it forces everyone else to "upgrade".

Otherwise, who (besides said numpty) would ever bother?

Re: on that (lack of) accuracy claim:

"Only Imperial Stormtroopers are that precise"

Obi-Wan Kenobi was a snarky bastard. ☺

Re: Kitten heels?

Had to look that one up myself.

Turns out it's a type of high heeled shoe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitten_heel

Re: Covered in wrapping paper

"I think many of the meeting I have to go to would be improved by everyone being covered from head to toe in wrapping paper."

I'd settle for just taping shut certain people's mouths for the duration of the meeting.

Re: Traditional media is good

Perhaps you are thinking of country singer Conway Twitter?

Best known for his song "Your Cheating Lark"?

Nukes? Psshaw!

More like: Return that drone ASAP, or we (the US) will default on all those T-bills you (China) are holding!

Re: First thought

You got the wrong end of the stick there.

IBM has a habit of going over budget and under delivering on government contracts. (see Australian census for latest SNAFU)

That's what I was poking fun at.

Hillary? Trump? Overall, I don't see one as better or worse than the other. Just different flavors of fail.

Re: Just...

"Throw all the Windows 10 devices into the Serpentine and go home."

>Crowd of MSCE holders< "OH no you wouldn't!"

Re: $7M you say?

"Hell, I'd stand up from my desk, not even log off, leave everything, and just walk away to retirement...."

Nah, keep quiet, work like normal... but buy your boss's mortgage.

Then when he acts the ass, threaten to foreclose. ☺

"MS quality control."

Did they ever get the memo that it is not the same procedure as pest control?

Re: Anvils

"I'm ordering a family pack of anvils."

Make sure it's the famous Acme brand. Airborne since 1948!

Re: ,So there's an online fix for not being able to get online?

"What it needs is a big red 'FIX' button in the centre of the desktop that can't be moved or removed and they press it for you before the software leaves the factory."

That's all well and a good idea, but what happens when an update bollixes the fix button?

(And you know it's a 100% certainty that'd happen!) ☺

Re: Robes?

Robes, cloaks, it all depends on how you use them

Re: They're under our beds!

Well, what'd you expect to happen?

The OMG! TERRORISM! spiel has about run its course, since it's been so heavily over played, NK is a joke to everyone but its own citizens, and China's a valued trading partner.

So it's time to fall back on the good old OMG! COMMIES! RUSSIA! until a new boogeyman comes along.

OK, that explains it

I was wondering why anyone would accuse Linus of using Win 10 with its patented "Can't handle the UI? Just start typing in the command for dubious help" interface. ☺

Re: What's on the menu?

"More like pork. Don't ask How I know that...

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I SAID DON'T ASK!"

Geez, no need to bite my head off!

Re: Maybe this is me being dumb...

"Or am i missing some bafflingly-obvious distinction?"

British company makes autonomous aeroplane.

It immediately buggers off to Scotland.

Re: The OTHER key factor pollsters failed to account for was

The other, other factor was the polls were concerned with Democrat vs. Republican candidate.

This election was viewed by voters as insider vs outsider.

It boiled down to the perception that Hillary=more years of same old shit vs. Trump=brick through the window to show they're pissed.

Both Republican and Democratic parties should take this election as a shot across the bow.

Re: Instead of another work-around we need to fix the underlying problem.

Well, since the problem is due to the effects of tides caused by the Moon, take the military option and Nuke the Moon!

"We stand today on a great threshold of History. After this war with Luna, the lunanites will no longer be able to steal our precious Earth's rotation! >click<."

Re: Windows 11

I look forward to Windows (N) finally getting it right.

Funny, people have been saying that for forty years now! ☺

(My, how time flies!)

Re: I think you just nailed it Andrew...

"Was their real goal saving the planet? Or did they just hate people deriving pleasure and utility from the use of cars and cheap air travel?"

"I think the answer is most certainly yes to the latter. There is also a lot of free money in NGO work."

It's a mindset. I call'em PATs, People against things, They define themselves by what they're against. The more common and public the thing, the better.

"Ahhh... the Smoking Olympics. Whatever happened to that?"

Never really caught fire. It was just a pipe dream, after all. ☺

"And I can't help wondering about more obscure animal products."

Not obscure, but not obvious: At one time or another, almost all the water on this planet has been part of a living, breathing animal. ☺

Re: Microsoft will fix it

"I think 5150 would be much more descriptive..."

Microsoft 503 seems the most accurate.

"I'm almost certain that any VR or AR developed by Microsoft will be stealth-patched to include advertising on any available space."

You mean like this?

Yeah, The future's really looking rosy, ain't it?

Re: This is a genuine question to all software devlopers...

"with most (closed source) software these release candidates would not be seen outside of the organisation that writes it."

If only that were true. Too many times, closed source software that'd barely qualify as a FOSS early Beta is shipped as "the latest and greatest".

Unfortunately, as AndrueC stated above:

"So we have to be pragmatic and choose a level of quality based upon the target market and what that market will tolerate."

And the Market's been trained to tolerate some pretty shitty quality software.