Posts by Mark 85

Re: Russian

And here, I was believing that he embodied the mythical steely-eyed, serious rocket man of legend.

Re: Scratches head

I tried taking quarks - gave me hiccups!

Lucky devil. I got Quark Farts and am now banned from several local establishments.

Re: So he talks about cow farts?

I blew it. You win the Internet. I like that term and from henceforth shall use it as needed.

Re: Noticed this the other day

Seems like it doesn't it? MS has cursed the "X". I guess X-Men will have to change their name also.

Re: Not good coverage...

Hmm... no cell phones. I already like that idea.

Re: that spinning flywheel...

From what I've seen, it's either "profit" or "stupidity". Pick 2.

The USA has long been off my potential holiday list.

Hell, almost all of the USA is off my travel list and I live here. Between TSA, police thuggery, and general idiocy by the populace, I just stay close (within a couple hundred miles) to home.

Re: Huh?! This is about PEOPLE - not technology!

Funny thing... for the most part, too much of media has ignored his use of the visas and overseas manufacturing. Yet, he's bullish on jobs here. Go figure.

Let the downvotes from the Trumpties commence. I'm neither a lefty nor a rightie but dead center and see the stupidity and the rationality on both sides of the fence. In this case, it's more of hiding the truth.

Re: Simple solution

Indeed and speaking of "ponds", the bay they are using for the sailing, rowing competitions is so polluted that there's been warnings issued over it. I'm surprised they're even holding the Olympics and ParaOlympics there.

And then there's the political issues going on with the President allegedly being impeached but not much happening from their Parliament on this and people taking to the streets on a regular basis.

Obviously a bunch of palms have been greased.

Re: What really happened

Ah.. That's good that was the problem. Here, I was thinking they repurposed the server to handle the demand from all the users wanting Windows 10. My faith in humanity (not MS however) is restored.

I tend to think this is more for the PHB's... err... leadership team, yeah.. that's right term.. then for the worker bees.

Re: "We have all the knobs"

So the knobs now have knobs then?

Re: Video ads not seen by a human...

A recent article here on El Reg talked about the lawsuit against AdSense... seems they were putting ads on parked domains and 404 pages where no one would ever see them but then charging for doing so. (Ok.. allegedly doing so...)

Re: There are other benefits though...

It will if they don't put Solitaire on them. Around here, all the county offices don't allow web browsing but the computers do have Solitaire. Pretty obvious from the green glow of the monitor on people's faces.

Re: I hate to say this, but aren't most Uni documents just re-hashes

Or do you want to be the one to tell the Vice Chancellor that the reservation for his Xmas party can't be recovered?

There will be grave consequences for this.. very grave.

Re: Airstrip One has no choice but to comply.

It will, however, give a green light to our CongressCritters since we now have to catch up the UK. I'm expecting a new outburst of surveillance legislation from the likes of Feinstein in 5.....4.....3.....

Re: I must come from a different planet?

I don't see any problem dressing as a "Crusader". Unless of course, one is going to certain Islamic run countries/territories. They still are pissed and use the term rather derisively.

Re: Why to never trust Microsoft

There's only 97 reasons? Or is this just #97 on the list that's infinitely long?

Re: selected from applications sent in by the public

I can think of a few people to send....

I have a few on my list also but only if they are strapped to the outside of the capsule from launch until it lands.

Greedy, bottom-line-obsessed fuckwits.

Can you name one company that isn't this? I can't. I daresay most corporate directors would sell their mothers if improved the bottom line.

Re: Users don't help themselves.

Even if it did display the extension, there's a lot of users who remember zipfiles that were ".exe" to auto un-zip. But yes, MS has not helped anyone, ever, by hiding the extensions by default. Assholes.