Posts by anarchic-teapot 226 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Oct 2007
"the police have got better things to do with their time than pull over motorists who are doing a couple of mph over the limit."
Damn right, that's what the speed cameras are for.
Think yourselves lucky: in France it's €90 and 1 point off for going 1kph over the limit in the vicinity of a lurking cam.
I pay a small amount of UK tax, although I'm not allowed to do anything as controversial as vote, or even voluntarily pay for the streaming of BBC programmes.
I'd love to get involved, HTF do I email these guys? Messages posted on a forum rarely lead to anything serious, in my experience, although I'm going to give it a try.
it's actually been made available in your country of residence, and in the language you want.
I'll start thinking about buying/renting films and TV shows off iTunes when they stop dictating I can only watch French TV and subtitled films.
Even access to music videos was policed last time I looked. Bah, humbug.
> Only thing missing in this story was the bloke should have punch the t*at in the face,
> at least the arrest would have been for something worth while.
No problem. I'm pretty sure there are thousands of us happy to queue up to use the anal orifice as a punchbag while Hero Steven cheers us on. As he opens another refreshing beverage.
The patches come in several small(ish) packages so that the IT department can test individual patches to make sure they won't crash any sensitive applications in use in that company.
If it's all or nothing, there would be even more vulnerable, unpatched PCs out there.
Bear in mind also that Apple make it well-nigh impossible to roll back to the previous version if a patch/update causes unexpected problems.
Does having a back that's so badly damaged that you can't use a vacuum (or get a job that pays well enough to employ a cleaner) still qualify one as lazy?
Enquiring minds and handicapped bodies wish to know.
Anyway, I've been eyeing this device for a while. I reckon I'm going to have to invest soon. Thanks for the review.
The world would be a sadder and infinitely boring place if we were all the same and had the same toys. Harken not unto those who drink keg lager, for they are void and without passion.
I'd be tempted, even at £1500. I miss my AmigaOne. What could I do with it? The same things as I do with a PC mostly, but with less hassle and more enjoyment.
And AOS 4.x is an amazing achievement, especially when you realise how tiny the dedicated band of (extremely gifted) programmers that produced it really is.
Wot spatulasnout said.
In fact, the TACO 3.0 update (because that was how it was presented, no mention of extra code, nor even addon size) came out rather earlier than this week.
I binned it two weeks ago. Going to give Beef a try.
muttermutter small screen don't want it covered with popups and extra toolbars and other crap.
between "social networking" and "giving up all hope of privacy". I wonder if you can tell me what it is?
Your boss doesn't necessarily need to know who your friends are, or the sort of things you talk to them about. Neither does your family. And, of course, vice versa.
We behave differently depending on who we're with. Mixing completely different social contexts into one big mess is Not A Good Thing.
> People need to accept the practicalities of where they choose to live
Yep, like in a village where other people already have broadband. Do read the articles before sounding off like a bigoted tightarse.
Of course, that's assuming you *can* choose where you live. Most people don't have a large choice as to where they reside, income being a major factor.
Faulty logic, dear boy. The two are hardly comparable... except inasmuch as XP can read W95-formatted disks.
Whereas XP to Vista/7 means renewing your entire computer park simultaneously if you want to retain a lot of stuff, including networking, or just reading data off a USB key. A lot of software doesn't have a native XP mode, so where's the bonus in moving to 7?
Please note, I do have a PC running 7 and I quite like it. But that's for personal use. From a business point of view there's currently no compelling argument for moving to 7, whether the company be small or large. Especially in the present economic climate.
Microsoft might possibly be making a tactical error in trying to force firms to 'upgrade'. We can but wait and see.
Spam in my inbox was down by at least half since the beginning of this year. It shot back up to early 2009 levels this weekend, though.
In any case, even if takedowns only have a temporary effect, I'm still all for them. It's not because crooks are hard to fight that you shouldn't fight them.
"but he'd clearly become the man that any self-respecting tech publisher mounting a big push absolutely needed to have on board"
He was. You'd read his stuff and actually learn something useful about the product reviewed, or whatever he was discussing.
He will be missed.
"Opera’s example, where a Windows XP user has rejected installation of IE 8 for the year it has been available but suddenly decides to install it is not realistic"
"Not realistic" meaning they're never going to install it on XP ? Or "not realistic" as in "we always pretend that nobody ever waits a year for our new releases to be sufficiently debugged"?
What's the situation with Windows 7 (which is still one big security hole with all the stuff you HAVE to run as admin)?
So not only does the site apply the UK-only BBC licence, it adds insult to injury by foisting ads on the hapless viewers.
Looks like it's just the Beeb trying to squeeze extra income out of old shows via "outsourcing". Good luck to them, although I still think they'd sell more DVDs and VOD is they actually allowed furriners to watch at least the trailers (I kid you not, even BBC trailers are restricted viewing).
You can get around most of the problems with the old "right-click and run as administrator" ploy which MS don't educate people enough about. I suppose it costs too much money to print a small booklet "Getting started with..." </sarcasm>
So:
Not Mozilla. Once installed you don't need to be admin for it to update
I don't use Google apps. Apple requires the right-click treatment.
Out of your list, only Adobe are sinners, with that bloody awful system for updating Flash. Oh, and add Microsoft, since they require an Administrator account to run Windows Update.
"Why the fuck did someone not section him FIRST!!!! - not after he has been sent to prison. If he had spent some compulsory time in a psychiatric unit, he would have been given the necessary treatment and, once back to normal, would have probably been quite cooperative and apologetic for missed court appearances, etc"
Watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" recently? You must have really liked that nurse...
A few sanity checks:
- At no point is it stated that the guy's mental health problems required permanent incarceration in the horror of a psychiatric unit.
- It is estimated that around 10% of the population have mental health problems that require some sort of treatment, starting with counselling (fairly common) and going all the way up to lithium and other scary stuff (much rarer). Are you going to stick them all in hospital?
- Do you have any idea of what is "normal", in psychological terms? And that "to section" means "to cut into pieces"?
- Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a deranged mind ( (c) T Pratchett)
> Sprinkle some hot chilli powder around the area
I gather you have yet to meet a cat that likes spicy food. I've had two. They'd just lick the stuff up and carry on regardless.
Incidentally, for all the usual whiners about "trivial" academic projects, why cats purr is one of the great mysteries in animal psychology. And the more we know about animals, the better we also understand ourselves, though why mine occasionally tries to play on the computer (I am NOT making this up) will, I hope, forever remain an enigma.
Actually, from the point of view of marine-dwelling species, oceans *are* part of the atmosphere. It's just not the one we mammals can breathe.
Well, the idea of sinking obsolete US army equipment (presumably that means most of it, much like all the other armies in this world) sounds a lot more fun that trying to make the phytoplankton eat its damn spinach. I've been trying for years, it's a total washout.
Bluegreen> I appreciate it's a bloody drag for our mod to do what she does but I like this system, and she's blocked a couple of unwisely worded posts of mine. Much rather that than have them out in the wild (so, thanks Ms. Bee).
Wot he said. Some of my posts are a bit painkiller-inspired (not, not the same as House's, but evil stuff nonethless) and were rightly consigned to oblivion.
It would appear to be a closeup of a computer keyboard stained with some sort of brown liquid, probably caffeine-based.
Incidentally, the bloke with the horrendous moustache is some Soviet-era Georgian called Dzhugashvili, who used to be cited to psychology students as a probable example of the very rare mental illness of pure paranoia.
on how many people object to the ruling on the grounds that wearing underwear is against their religion, or produce a medical certificate stating they can't wear tight clothing such as bra and/or knickers.
Personally I reckon dressing in a boring and conventional manner would be worse for the reputation of a sunny place like Florida, but then again it *is* in a state once run by a Bush, so presumably that's something they'd like to cover up.
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