Posts by m0rt

Re: It all sounds

Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

Re: Firm-1 and sophisticated algorithmic proprietary code

It is the relative value of low that stops you losing all your capital in a few hours that the research goes into.

It is all a fiscally cancerous endeavour, however.

Re: Analysis?

The waffy strategy that is presented with the products they produce. They are a tech device company presenting a lifestyle façade. This is one of the reasons they have money measured in GDPs, not just for tax reasons, because they don't know where to go with this. So they start focusing on the minutiae of cutting a few mm here, a curve here, a current usable port here. They are in serious crisis and TC daren't forge his own path, oh know. The legacy SJ left behind is powerful and it seems to me they are stalling and fairly scared to actually break out really forge something that isn't rooted in advertising or prophetic profits.

Re: Make use of...

I get it. A lot of people don't like cyclists. We can hold you up on twisty roads, especially if there is an incline. There are cyclists who don't pay attention and can cause you stress, granted. A driver who doesn't pay attention, however, is more likely to cause serious injury.

However, the attitude I encounter on the road is, quite frankly, crazy, but from a very, very few drivers. Deliberately buzzed, get beeped at. An idiot cyclist, for the most part, will cause a scratch on your car. An idiot car driver can easily cause serious injury and death.

We all are allowed by law to use the roads. They are all of ours, paid for out of general taxation. This attitude that the road is for motored vehicles only is false. The only place where that is true are motorways or other roads that are specifically designated so.

If you get held up a few minutes, so what? This general us vs them has no place on the road regardless of what you are in or on. If you think like that then you need to examine yourself. We are all trying to get somewhere. It is up to all of us to ensure we help each other to get there safely. If you don't like that, then hand your license in.

Your attitude is dangerous.

Re: ASDA

To comment on a few points:

It was 08:20 in the morning. I would get 05:00, or even 07:00.

Self service is great for a few items. But when you have a trolly full, and every other item struggles, or unexpected item in the baggage area, then have to wait for the member of staff to correct it...

Also, for those that state staff costs etc...really? Service is just about that. If ASDA are losing money that they don't have someone on the Tills at sensible times then ASDA have got a bigger problem than staff costs.

FTR - their choice is crap, and the quality is rather lacking. I went to a Tesco in Ruthin the other day and was blown over at how much better this smaller Store was in this relatively smaller populated area than the 'superstore' I normally go to and wear out a pair of shoes walking around to do a normal shop.

Oh and another thing, I find it amusing that this particular thread went on for so long...:) cheers for participating. It causes me to feel less, well, 'special'.

Re: hail the next knee jerk legislation then

This needs to be done. It really does.

Re: They canned the f22 and tried to kill the warthog for this pile of shit.

"f16 - f22 - and now f35. They need to go the other way. I predict the successful fighter aircraft will be the f1.8."

Bokeh wins wars.

Anyone else noticed that every comment gets a TROLL icon? :D

Re: "We are now constantly connected and hungry for data..."

"That's so complicated, I just read the list and memorize it. No need for silly gimmicks"

In your case, yes. Funnily enough I am crap at lists but I was struck by how well that worked for me.

No need for silly put downs.

"Why not just take the list with you?"

Can't decide if you are being funny or being flippant. I'll go with flippant since you posted AC. :)

Re: Small beer?

"What happened to cheap craft beer?"

Hipsters.

Re: WHy????!!!!!!

But would they have the same style sense?

Re: Living hell 4 m0rt

This upsets people I see.

I suggest you never go into testing as 'works on my machine' is a banned term around here.

As is sending a spreadsheet, correctly formatted, from Open/Libre office to a client, who then opens it in excel and complains the hell about the way they can't use the numbers. This is after copying and pasting the numbers to compound the issue.

But hey. I should get a grip because, well you know, Excel is just a simple spreadsheet program, right?

Re: Shirking from home

You can kind of see how this came about. They just looked at stats of attendence and used that as 'evidence'.

What this shows is the lack of real managerial insight at Vodafone at the moment. Watch the slippery slope...

Re: Talk Talk should just progressively block more and more traffic...

I prefer DumbDumb.

Re: Answer

Well responded. I withdraw my hysteresis.

Re: Or we can read this as

"50% - I swear I get USB ports wrong 75% of the time."

USB plug fits into the RJ45 of my Macbook 2012...

I know this many times.

"So isn't Uber aiding and abetting a criminal/interfering with a police investigation?"

As much as I think that Uber are the epitome of amorality and greed and a perfect example of how not to run a company, I disagree with that statement. I don't think that because something is really handy to law enforcement to arrest someone that not being able to rely on that means they are actively being interfered with. It isn't like they have said "Hey, this is the law, give us unfettered access to your systems or else taser!". More like their job is not as easy.*

*Although, it seems that this is now becoming an offence...at least where it wasn't before.

Re: "to provide an automated way to detect "toxic" language in social media"

"At what point does saying "I disagree" become a punishable offence?"

When you are being that you need to give your password/keyphrases to the plod.

Re: Two words spring to mind...

So...where do parents fit in all this? Because they bloody well should do parenting.

So, pensions screwed, people working till they are in their 80s, elderly care screwed, nhs on its knees, cuts everywhere, energy costs rising, divided nation, lack of workers rights, subsidised wages because somehow a decent wage is an affront to ukplc.

"But hey - lets tackle something else that we know we can't actually fix and lets fail at this too."

UK Gov - take a step back. Get out of your collective arses and do some actual proper governing as opposed to silly policies that you think will get you public opinion, but will end up just costing taxpayer more for less.

@Rnixon Re: Sadly, I predict failure

"and the Passport was just a bit TOO weird." <- did you try one? So far, the best phone I have ever had.

Sadly, I needed certain apps.

Re: Blue Windscreen of Death

But they *did* insure the car when it had 3.3.3.5 installed. So why would that version, all of a sudden, not be insurable?

So what this means is that some kind of body will have to state: We accept this version as insurable.

That same body will also have to state: This version has X bug, so is no longer insurable after X date.

Now since you can't really allow the manufacturers police their own releases, due to conflict of interests, (Hi Tesla!), this means that there needs to be a very high quality, and comprehensive testing policy that determines that something is suitable.The insureres will have to ratify that they will trust this body. I suppose this is similar to determining thata vehicle is roadworthy. This will need to be paid for, and paid for it will be by the manufacturers, and therefore by the consumers.

As it ever was, thus.

DVSA (nee VOSA) could be onto a winner, here..

Re: Don't mind if I do...

I would hesitate to drink anything provided by Rentokil, tbf.

Re: Until we fine

"alohanumeric" ?

This mean only letters found in Hawaii?

Anyway - try creating passwords on their Super Router 3, or whatever it is. Have to choose over 8 long, must have special characters, Capitals, Numbers, emoji, grandmother's maiden name, the second letter of the day of your birth, last 6 digits of your entire DNA sequence, IQ divided by BMI * blood alcohol level taken at midnight on new years day 6 years ago.

Re: How about....

It will be the UK Gov. :)

Re: Greek toolkit

"There is no problem that can't be fixed by hitting it harder."

Broken hammer?

Re: I see what you did there!

I think that we should, henceforth, know 568ml, or 1 pint, as the equivilent of 1 Reg unit.

So we can say, with some certainty, 5 Reg units = 1 reg Friday Lunchtime, or a RFL for short.