Posts by aks

"I still contend that any non-sovereign government backed currency is a scam and waiting to be unloaded onto the next sucker"

I'm not sure why you regard sovereign government backed currency as not being a scam.. If it quacks like a duck ...

Re: Artificial Idiocy

My pet rock is offended by your derogatory insinuation! How very dare you!!

Re: Weird objects showing signs of being both Melty and Non-melty origin?

That's why you're advised not to pick up a freshly-fallen meteorite, not because it's hot but because it's very very cold.

Re: Nominet needs to go

Non-profit organisations are created to fill the pockets of the directors as there are no shareholders to hold them to account and no profits to generate taxable income.

Re: "HR" - there's your problem.

You left out Diamond. ;)

Re: Printing fail yet again!

I don't remember quite how but I tamed my New Folder page quite quickly, starting with the Focused option.

It now has a very clean look, showing only the Microsoft icon+name, the Search box, and my eight favourites. No extensions.

Running Windows 10 Pro, 20H2, build 19042.330.

Re: Hitler a communist, hah!

Mussolini was a Fascist which was corporatist socialism. The state ruled.

Hitler was a National Socialist not a Fascist. The state ruled.

Stalin was an International Socialist. The state ruled.

When war was declared by the UK it was because Hitler and Stalin agreed to invade Poland together.

The normal term at the time to describe these three was Totalitarians.

Re: I expect that I will be downvoted...

Likewise with my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL from 2015.

Updated until the end of December 2019. Apps still updating. WhatsApp dropped support at that point but Telegram works fine.

Removable battery, USB-C, 3.5 inch audio jack, 20 Megapixel camera, Dual SIM, 32GB.

Re: Oh dear...poor use of symbols and units

Austria

https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/29/austria_budget_millions/

Re: Free Trade

This seems to be designed to benefit France and Germany. The other 25 will get crumbs.

France have clearly insisted that this must be based in a French speaking country (Belgium) as they did when setting up Brussels + Strasbourg as headquarters of the EEC/EC/EU.

I can't see Poland being given a look-in but they'll be forced to comply and to pay.

Re: I like it

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Re: But what about...

Amazon is focused on selling new books. It also now owns Abebooks which is focused on second-hand books. You can find almost anything there.

Looking for Isaac Asimov on abebooks.co.uk finds:

Books (37,241)

Magazines & Periodicals (1,830)

Comics (7)

Filtering those, I find 190 first edition, signed, with dust-jacket available.

Wikipedia says different. United States customary units

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

They are same as Imperial measurements for length but different for some other units such as volume.

Re: Why the uproar ?

So much data is being gathered on all of us from so many sources, including the strong push to stop cash as a medium of exchange. All current governments have the ability to track everything people do but there's so much data that processing it is only being done currently for people of interest.

In future, wholesale profiling of all individuals becomes feasible. The compute power required is not there yet but it will come.

Re: Junior Customer Engineer

Back when I started using IBM 360/30 and 360/50 machines, I was told that the big red "Emergency Stop" was not a graceful shutdown but a "pull out the plug, someone's being electrocuted!" procedure.

Re: And the moral of this story is ...

He may or may not have had anything at all on his phone.

He refused on a matter of principle against such a "fishing expedition" and on the assumption that his phone had been sanitised, it's more likely simply to generate sympathy from his supporters.

Any way, that's what I'd do in his boots (that don't fit me, by the way).

Re: In a world, where smartphones aren't shitty PCs

Microsoft 950XL is still my phone and it works extremely well.

HERE maps are fine. They've been adopted by car manufacturers, so they have a lot of support.

My Mail app allows me to joint to each of my email providers through POP3 or IMAP, so there's no problem. There will be a huge number of apps available from various stores. China will make sure of that. The China market alone will convince app authors to place their products there, as well as in Google and Apple stores. Should be an easy port to another Android. The necessary libraries will become available with familiar API's.

The author of this article seems to expect everything to look exactly the same as Google's offering.

Re: More money into UK Plc

BT is a publicly traded company. Who knows what percentage of the current shareholders are foreign individuals, companies, or sovereign wealth funds.

Its headquarters are in the UK, that's all.

BT and Openreach's operations are dominated by UK business and customers, so that's not likely to change.

Re: Exterminate! Exterminate!

Nobody was force to use IE. It was given away as part of Windows.

The complaint was from companies who wanted to sell copies of their own browsers.

Nowadays, nobody sells browsers; they're given away and make money in other ways.

Re: When will it be the year

With LibreOffice available on Linux, why would you want to pay to put Microsoft Office on it?

Re: I'd be perfectly happy if ...

Fortunately, that's where I live. Non-homogenised milk that occasionally is difficult to pour until you poke a hole through the yellow cream that's blocking it. </smug>

A place I worked at twenty years ago had scaffolding at one side of the building.

During the night, naughty people broke in through the first floor windows and proceeded to steal the keyboards. Presumably these were younsters who thought the machine was the keyboard, which joined to a TV. They left the CRT's and that other box that didn't seem to do anything useful.

Re: What's Really Behind This?

I fully agree with your comments regarding the guys who go out in the boats and the infrastructure that achieves such marvelous results. The top level within the organisation (which operates in the whole of Britain and Ireland) has been criticised in the recent past for using the funds for non-lifesaving purposes. I have no insight into the accuracy or relevance of these criticisms but we do need to separate out the people at the sharp end from the other people in the back office before giving carte-blanche approval.

I'm sure he would spam the USPO if filing for a patent was free. Each application costs serious money.

Re: Howabout a breakdown of OS vs Browser bugs maybe?

Easy solution. Don't use them to connect to the internet.

Which is your preferred safe browser, in that case?

Re: Wrong argument

The EU have not been asked. This is a unilateral French decision which if they succeed, they will push to be made EU law.