Posts by jelabarre59

Re: A little sensationalism?

If the police hadn't found any weapons, would they have offered to leave some behind?

Might even have been how they got there in the first place... Bring along your own evidence in case there isn't already enough there.

Re: A little sensationalism?

But, did the police *know* about the weapons before the raid? Nothing in this specific article implies they did.

Of course they did. They had to bring them along with them on the raid after all....

(you *have* heard the term "drop gun" haven't you?)

Re: The Need For Speed

Given the restrictions on model based on having a physical button, personally, I'll stick with being able to pick my remote up any time and turn my TV on.

But when you LOSE that remote (as is certain to happen in THIS household), you have a piece of useless electronic junk, since apparently *ALL* manufacturers have decided to do away with buttons on the TVs now. So it looks like our next TV will be a *used* one from the local resale shop, as I don't want to reward the electronics manufacturers by buying the shit they're making now.

Re: Let's face it, who amongst us hasn't lost a tie to the...

This particular commoner doesn't even own a tie.

Years ago I had 3 or 4 hangers worth of ties, almost 4cm thick on each, of various garish colours and patterns. At one job the sales manager told me I didn't need to wear a tie to work. I mentioned it to a former manager, and he said "no, he just meant you didn't need to wear *THOSE* ties".

Had given away a lot of them some years back, and the remainder got destroyed in our house fire soon afterwards.

Re: Legal

The exception is for weird fan-subbed Japanese anime that the kids watch, or some low budget US reality shows that the Mrs likes occasionally. Neither of which are ever likely to appear on a legal UK streaming service. So they end up browsing dodgy websites that half the time don't work due to my network filters blocking to many porn ads.

Ah yes, Kissanime, 9anime, etc. I honestly would rather avoid them if I could, but if I'm looking for certain older shows, even the official streaming services don't want to carry them, And as for the fansubs; there is a "gentleman's agreement" as far as the Japanese studios are concerned, where as long as there isn't an official distribution deal (usually for the US, don't know how they count UK) for the series, the studios don't care if someone fan-subs it. In return, the fansubbers will pull a series from their sites if the series *does* get picked up. So even the fansubbers would prefer a series not show up on those sites, because it breaks their ability to drop a series if it gets licensed for a market.

I think it's Trigger studio that has set up a Patreon page to let fans support them directly. And while the "Help KyoAni Heal" fundraiser is more to help victims and families of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, people are also specifically shopping for KyoAni digital downloads to support them as well (digital DL meaning the now diminished staff don't have to worry about packaging actual merchandise).

Re: Entertainment is a problem

Ah yes, Disney, the company actually founded on theft.

And sometimes they'll even have the balls to issue injunctions against the very people they stole *from*, if the original creator dares to show something of the source material Disney stole from (such as "Lion King" being stolen from "Kimba the White Lion").

Re: Meh, porn companies have always been in the vanguard of net technologies...

Meh, porn companies have always been in the vanguard of net technologies...

... Soon one or other will create a browser...

Or a smartphone operating system.

Wasn't for manned flight obviously, but that was the gist of what later became Project Babylon, the famous Iraqi "super gun." The original plan of the designer was to fire satellites in to orbit using the gun built up the side of a mountain.

Yes, my dad's office was down the hall from where they had one of the prototype projectiles on display. They had the 16" gun for testing the propellants, etc, just across the border from us. 4 or 5 miles away, it would still rattle the windows when they fired it. My first summer job was working grounds crew at the facility.

Or a short steep track up a mountainside - and a very fast train.

It's been done...

Re: And when we get shit code in Rust ?

Of course there is still opportunity for shit-ness but it'll be the same kind of logic bugs or bad design you can get in any language.

Exactly. MSWin programmed in Rust will still be, well, MSWindows.

Re: "a bad workman blames his tools"

Using a hammer on screws doesn't make the hammer a bad tool. Just the wrong tool for driving screws.

But a hammer *does* work good for *setting* screws; getting them to stay in place in the wood so you can *then* use the correct screwdriver (this is usually when you don't have pre-drilled holes). Mind you, the correct screwdriver is key too; that Phillips is going to be crap for driving that slotted screw.

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

We've already got a decent looking and functional UI (Cinnamon Desktop). The trick is getting it to work as a MSWin shell. Was so much better with the MSWin 3.x versions where that was a fully-supported function (although through at least the MSWin 9x versions it could be made to work too).

Re: Firefox next ?

FF is my non-Chrome browser of choice, but it has some nasty habits...

I've had the same with Waterfox (Linux Mint as well). Seems the rule of thumb is that **ALL** modern browsers suck, and only differ in the particular flavour of their suckiness.

But the FCC will be made free to illegal immigrants? What does that mean? Illegal immigrants will get to decide their own communications policy while the citizens have to follow the rules?

Why not? That's the way it's been going with everything else...

Re: Why now?

This is classic old-style MS FUD. It seems the ghost of Ballmer is not yet laid to rest. But why now? What have ReactOS done recently to upset them? Gained market share, got something useful working, or just got caught in the crossfire of some other gameplay?

There was my thought. Only reason I could see for MS making a fuss is if ReactOS is potentially threatening them.

Or maybe MS is taking my suggestion of adding a Wine-like layer to MSWin10 and using it as a way to remove legacy APIs from the mainline WinXX kernel. Maybe ROS is in the way of that ?

Re: Shades of SCO saga

For you, me, and others of the technical calibre communing here, fine. For the other 99% of users, that would just result in a lot of support calls when the user can't read the card they inserted, or can't read it when they take it to another device. Asking users to install foreign file-system support on their PCs isn't going to work either.

The *smart* thing (ah, there's my mistake right there) for the various device makers to have done would have been to make an industry-wide decision to support something like EXT4, FlashFS, whatever in their devices (cameras, media players, phones, tablets, etc) and merely provide a driver install for that particular filesystem. MSWindows does have an "installable file system" capability, it's been there probably as far back as MSWin NT 3.x. It wouldn't be any different than the bloated and overbuilt driver packages they want you to install now, and people manage to make that work no problem. And once it's installed for one device, you can read flash/SD/USB from anyone else that uses the spec.

But that would have required the consumer electronics industry to be something other than lazy, chickenshit cowards.

Always dispose of sensitive material securely.

The fires of Mount Doom.

Actually, I've found laptop hard drives will disintegrate in a sufficiently hot woodstove.

Re: Little will really change

He doesn't need the money, and is on record as saying he's tired.

That's fine, we're tired of his crap design sense too.

Re: so his crowning achievement

Now, a sane person would have thought that because so few people have need of such a monitor stand that any outrage about the price tag would be limited, but no, this is the internet.

Outraged? Nope, not here. Amused, yes. Astounded at the chutzpah Apple has in releasing such a thing, yes. Glad that I'm not such an Apple FanBoi that I'd feel the need to eve consider such a purchase, very much so.