Posts by TheVogon

"A story I heard"

Original version: http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/misc/wordperfect_helpline.html

Modern version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVC7I5VcTiw

Re: Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

"but the gameplay is identical to MCPE, and it's multiplayer compatible with MCPE, and not the Java version."

Because they have had to start from scratch porting it to better performing and more modern architecture. They are as it states building on this going forwards. I would expect that development will eventually cease on the Java version.

"Oh yeah, and no Linux support"

I doubt MS care too much about ~ 1% of PCs.

Re: Clonk.

"Another one bites the dust. (Or several hundreds of thousands...)"

Like Levis jeans in the past - The Russians will just have to make do with inferior local products instead...

"guess Russian will keep on using pirated copies of Windows, though..."

This being Russia, probably they were not paying for any of the licences.

Three

Just bought another Three 12GB data SIM for my Q7 SatNav / WiFi - which lasts up to a year and cost me £48 from eBay. I used Three for this for the last year andi have had zero issues.

"an app store where MS thought they'd be able get a chunk of the piles of billions of dollars"

They seem to be making progress in doing that. MS recently announced they have had 3 billion visits to the store since Windows 10 was released. Also of note - Windows 10 customers are generating four and a half times more revenue per device than Windows 8 users.

Full blurb here: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/02/04/windows-store-trends-february-2016/

Re: That's Bundeskanzlerin Frau Doktor Angela Merkel to you

"with the Conservatives doing their best to reintroduce feudalism"

It's not their fault Labour elected a hopeless peasant with medieval beliefs as leader....

Re: Boondoggle

They still have PCs running windows XP ffs. Paperless is the least of their worries....

"Expecting Microsoft to put in a bid in 3, 2, 1..."

For what reason? Even Windows Phone has a larger market share now than Blackberry!

Re: "... complaints and fines from the FTC"

Presumably Google designed Android so that serving adverts is a native feature anyway.

Re: Lots of staff

"150 staff for a company with basically one product?"

Glad this discussion wasn't about say Facebook, WhatsApp or Uber then!

Re: 'Faulty Router'

"Did they try turning it off and on again?"

More importantly did they try working out why failover to the backup router didn't work?! You do have a resilient design BT for half the country's internet?!

Re: Schoolyard

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hawRbECNX8o

Same applies to Dutch really. English (and maybe Cantonese) is the future!

"It's a hairball of historical accidents with lots of bullshit crammed into the kernel that shouldn't even be there in the first place"

If you think that about a microkernel OS like Windows, what about Linux?! It's way way worse in that regard.

"to make this more than an exercise in pretend due diligence?"

That seems to work for the Open Source world.

"'AV' means both 'antivirus' and 'audio-visual'"

Ahh, I was thinking Adult Videos.

Re: Actually there will be ZERO cost for Apple to pass on

"are still due, just in the future when they bring the money into the US."

Except when they aren't:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/839e662a-b3dd-11e2-ace9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3xbDTaLlN

Re: @Lusty

"If the values don't match (consistent) which one do you trust?"

The one with the valid checksum.

Re: So close...

"it will be "sorry mate, you need a new catalytic converter, £600"

It will cost them miles more than that to install them - as well as the cost of the cat, you would need to install a secure mounting, modify the exhaust piping either side and modify the wiring loom to install a temp sensor - and reprogram the ECU. All for presumably reduced performance and fuel economy. For that reason imo next to no one will install it - which will probably save the bacon for VW....

"I'd say Diablo is least to blame"

It's still crap programming to display the frame buffer before initialising the desired content.

Re: I think it *will* be a ghastly mess

The data does not need to be downloaded to the meter. Would you look at your meter before turning on the washing machine? Most wouldn't be bothered. The spot pricing is used only on the billing end, and if any ability to view the current spot price at home was required, you could use the internet.

Re: What a fucking mess!

"Anybody who buys Oracle products, who relies on Oracle products, who even looks at the oracle website needs a good kicking so they understand how Oracle works"

+1 from me. You would need to be insane to use them on a greenfield site these days.

"depriving Oracle of a few million pounds of sales as I stopped a procurement going forward and moved our system to Postgres"

Similar for myself and many peers but it's far more commonly moving to MS SQL Server in my experience. We need an enterprise ready and fully featured product we could run all our databases on as a clustered utility model and have support from the majority of our application providers and Postgres isn't even close to qualifying. Presumably it works for you with a single specific requirement though.

Re: Finns gonna pay the fat redundancy cheques again

"True. Britain has one of the lowest labour productivity stats of the developed world, certainly a lot lower than France"

Per person the UK has a higher GDP than France. As per http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=PDB_LV

Re: Someone think of the audio

"I have a friend who has stocked up on enough 100w incandescent bulbs"

Now you just need to buy 100W incandescent "heaters" instead...

Re: Likely causes....

You missed:

0. They outsourced the support of a critical system to a third world country and fired the people who actually knew how it worked.

"Not sure if you've noticed, but most placed had a bit of a digital switch over a few years back."

OK, to update that for those that have switched, most of the world uses 50Hz display standards while the USA is still stuck on 60Hz. That's why cinema films look so crap (juddery) on screens set to US settings - they have to do 3:2 pulldown....

"now uses ATSC rather than NTFS."

I think you mean NTSC (Never Twice the Same Colour as we call it).

Re: No big deal

What a cock.

Re: Industrial processes... in SPAAACE!

You forgot:

6. Space time is GMT.

Re: Well yes, but I would keep the complexity down first

"“Of course there is only one company making these,” Rutkowska said. “It's an American company called Intel, and it's a completely opaque construction.""

Did I miss an announcement from AMD that they are no longer making CPUs?

Re: A shortsighted view

"parallel or dsh or pssh or clusterit or clusterssh or multixterm"

So you have to use a different external toolset to the shell just to run stuff in parallel - wow that sucks.

"Try that in PowerShell and brace for the total ballache."

All you do is "invoke-command -computername Server01, Server02 {command}" - far simpler than *Nix with no need for additional authentication.

Most commands and parameter names can also be abbreviated.

Re: Must have been...

"powerful blast of gas"

Probably not unusual with a Scottish diet....Probably it was really caused by someone plugging a family size ActiFry into the UPS supply!

Re: Not at all

There are several enterprise ready NoSQL options these days, a useful guide to types and solutions can be found here:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=330292

"More likely, though, Google are just sloppier than AWS"

To be fair, AWS have customers to worry about loosing...

"Sounds a bit Microsoftish: fuck the customer over."

Sounds far more like Apple to me. For instance the Apple watch only working with the Apple "QI" charger, magic cables required for all Apple devices, etc, etc...

"There is a good reason why retail OS X is a lot cheaper than retail boxed Windows."

Yes, those reasons are a) you pay for it via the vastly overpriced hardware, not directly, and b) it has far less included functionality / features.

"Legitimate Email rejected as spam due to a hard SPF rejection policy"

That's not Virgin's fault - that's what SPF is meant to do. The issue is with those that have incorrect SPF records.

See https://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/senderid/default.mspx

"Indeed, unfortunately having SPF enforced in your filtering system means that if you're receiving mail from a source that doesn't include an SPF list in their headers it will most likely also get rejected as spam."

No it doesn't. Firstly SPF isn't a "list in their headers" - it's a DNS record type - and secondly SPF filtering only applies to those with published SPF records.

Re: If we can cut through the fanboy drivel from both sides briefly....

" MS are an enterprise-facing company."

I'm pretty sure most of those 1 billion Windows users are consumers - and all those 50 million Xbox Live Gold members....

Re: Dronepaper

I prefer the flamethrower option:

https://www.rt.com/news/325293-teen-drone-flamethrower-turkey/

"I thought people would only go there for Windows"

As far as I know, Azure is the only hybrid out of the box single vendor cloud. Hence mostly why it is growing so rapidly - Microsoft overtook AWS in total cloud revenue 2 quarters ago.

"If you're paying for RHEL support, you're not going to be on Azure!"

Why not? It's better and cheaper than any comparable Linux based cloud option I know of.

Re: Great cameras, but...

"They won't be able to support the 1020's inevitable problems running W10"

The 1020 is already great running W10.

Re: No absolute numbers provided. Why?

Of the 6.3 million Android apps analysed in 2014, one million of these were classified as malware, while

2.3 million were classified as grayware. A further 1.3 million apps within the grayware category were

classified as madware.

Re: The guy is the hard-core Democrat's dream.

"Bring back spitting image."

For the benefit of those in the Colonies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZjb9ReW5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FaH7ATXkWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZfYOKAO-BI