Re: <misty eyed>
Seconded. Still the proud owner of an NTK tee shirt.The "Elite" one.
Posts by CowardlyLion
36 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Apr 2008
Bet you can't guess what I'm wearing, or where I'm wearing it
One person's harmless japery can be another's night of LaserJet Lego
Microsoft tells volume customers they can stay on Windows 7... for a bit longer... for a fee
Can the last person watching desktop video please turn out the light?
US-Europe Privacy Shield not worth the paper it's printed on – civil liberties groups
Thursday 2nd March 2017 12:04 GMT
Re: Uhm
> we can get ourselves a new government if they don't fix it.
You'd like to think so. Others are not so sure.
Britain’s one-party state
Labour’s implosion leaves Britain without a functioning opposition. That is more dangerous than many realise
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21707209-labours-implosion-leaves-britain-without-functioning-opposition-more-dangerous
Pokemon NO! Hospital demands ban on virtual creatures after addicts invade private wards
Thursday 29th September 2016 12:03 GMT
That sort of thing has already happened...
" I crashed my car playing Pokémon Go
"I saw this Lapras was close. As it’s a water-type creature I assumed it must be down by the nearby lake. I jumped into my younger brother’s car
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/05/playing-pokemon-go-crashed-car-experience
Post-Brexit UK.gov must keep EU scientists coming, say boffins
Stop lights, sunsets, junctions are tough work for Google's robo-cars
How Brussels works: if you can’t beat them, join rewrite an EU directive
Tesla autopilot driver 'was speeding' moments before death – prelim report
What's Brexit? How Tech UK tore up its plans after June 23
Tuesday 26th July 2016 12:29 GMT
Re: @ Doctor Syntax
One effect of the Brexit vote is that there has been a huge upswing in support for the EU across the continent .
"Support for the European Union has surged to multi-year highs in the bloc’s biggest countries following last month’s Brexit vote, according to a poll that will disappoint Eurosceptic parties hoping to usher their own nations out of the EU.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/eu-support-surges-in-big-european-countries-after-brexit-vote/article31017083/
Time to re-file your patents and trademarks, Britain
Saturday 25th June 2016 10:38 GMT
Re: 'EU' -> 'UK' -> 'K'
Except that Great Britain is the name of the island that comprises England, Scotland and Wales.
So, if Scotland leaves we can't call what's left the UK (the union of the the kingdoms of Scotland and England) nor Great Britain, because we only have half the island.
Not that only having part of the continent stops the USA referring to themselves as "America".
Windows 7's grip on the enterprise desktop is loosening
べーコンはどこですか? demands post-pub nosh fan
Is it humanly possible to watch Gigli and Battlefield Earth back-to-back?
'Yes, yes... YES!' Philae lands on COMET 67P
Windows XP market share GROWS AGAIN, outstrips Win 8.1 surge
Wednesday 5th March 2014 10:56 GMT
Re: That has got to be embarrassing for Microsoft
True, but our Intellectual Property laws are such that no other company can take on support for Windows XP until 2096 or thereabouts, even though Microsoft don't want it. They should either support it, sell it to a willing third party, or open source it so we can all support and develop it collaboratively.
Retiring greybeards force firms to retrain Java, .NET bods as mainframe sysadmins
Windows 8.1 becomes world's fourth-most-popular desktop OS
Monday 3rd February 2014 09:32 GMT
Re: Where's Linux and MacOS on the graphs?
If you follow the link to netmarketshare you can see the data in a variety of ways.
Desktop OS share gives Windows 90.72%, Mac OS 7.68%, Linux 1.6%, Other 0%
So Linux at 1.6% has about 1/6th the market share of Windows 8 (inc. 8.1) at 10.58%.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
Cinnamon Desktop: Breaks with GNOME, finds beefed-up Nemo
Tuesday 29th October 2013 13:27 GMT
Fedora has up-to-date Cinnamon
Cinnamon 2 is already available in other distributions, Fedora for example:
# rpm -qi cinnamon
Name : cinnamon
Version : 2.0.3
Release : 1.fc19
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Wed 23 Oct 2013 11:58:06 BST
Group : Unspecified
Size : 6762352
License : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Sat 19 Oct 2013 02:02:52 BST, Key ID 07477e65fb4b18e6
Source RPM : cinnamon-2.0.3-1.fc19.src.rpm
Build Date : Fri 18 Oct 2013 17:57:02 BST
Build Host : buildvm-16.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : Fedora Project
Vendor : Fedora Project
URL : http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com
Summary : Window management and application launching for GNOME
Description :
Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced
innovative features and a traditional user experience.
The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2.
The underlying technology is forked from Gnome Shell.
The emphasis is put on making users feel at home and providing
them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience.
US Congress proposal: National Park will be FOUND ON MOON
Who should play the next Doctor? Nominations needed!
Coke? Windows 8 is Microsoft's 'Vista moment'. Again
Star Trek: The original computer game
Blighty's revolutionary Cold War teashop computer - and Nigella Lawson
Thursday 28th March 2013 16:43 GMT 
The Case For The First Business Computer
> Nobody can say whether the LEO lived up to Thompson’s promise to cut expenses or whether
> it helped Lyons become efficient - I asked Frank and Ralph, and they reckon nobody really knew.
You would probably be interested in the following paper:
The Case For The First Business Computer
Author: Nick Pelling, 26th March 2002, Kingston University Business School, Surrey, UK
ABSTRACT
The business cases behind the five proposals made to the board of J.Lyons & Co. by Thompson and Standingford in 1947 - which led to the construction of the first business computer [#1] - are analysed, but found to be strategically lacking. Both an alternate reading of the case and some contemporary implications are then developed.
http://www.nickpelling.com/Leo1.html
Lunar water-prospecting rover rolls closer towards launch
Tuesday 9th October 2012 12:30 GMT 
Soviet find water on the Moon in the 1970s
We already know there's water on the moon, found by a rover in the 70s. Going back to find more is still a good idea though.
(Phys.org) -- In August 1976 Luna 24 landed on the moon and returned to Earth with samples of rocks, which were found to contain water, but this finding was ignored by scientists in the West.
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-soviet-moon-1970s-west.html
New guide: Bake your own Raspberry Pi Lego-crust cluster
Milky Way DOOMED to high-speed smash with Andromeda galaxy
Big Media drags 142,000 through UK's courts in a year
Wednesday 21st March 2012 13:37 GMT
Re: Now that Radio 3 had turned into shit ...
Rubbish. What about Late Junction for just one example? Do Classic FM have anything like that? Not any time I've listened to it. Classic FM seems to have, generally, what I'd term "chocolate box" classical, whereas Radio 3 has a wider variety of music, of all genres, than any other radio station I can think of. Classical, Opera, Rock, Jazz, Folk, Electronica, Experimental, you name it. I've discovered so many great things through hearing them first on Radio 3.
Wednesday 21st March 2012 12:18 GMT
Re: What about commercial TV?
Exactly. I can't find a citation at the moment, but some years ago a research group did the maths for three consecutive years. It turned out that "free" ITV was, in effect, funded by a hidden sales tax of about £230 a year added to your grocery bill. At least if you don't have a TV you don't need to pay the licence fee, try asking Tesco for your TV subsidy back. As I recall the group in question were forced to stop publishing the numbers under pressure from the commercial broadcasters. Shame because I would love to see updated figures.
Wednesday 21st March 2012 12:18 GMT
Re: License Fee
It's to keep it separate from the government, as with the police and the courts. One of the BBC's prinicpal duties is to be a publicly owned body reliably and accurately reporting to the British people what the government are doing and why. It's one of our safeguards against fascism. Becoming a directly funded media arm of the government itself would be a very, very bad thing.
Eddie Murphy heading for worst movie ever glory
Android Market morphs into 'Google Play'
Wednesday 7th March 2012 15:28 GMT
Re: From Google's blog
I've just had a notification pop up that an app (Angry Birds) requires updating. Clicked on the notice and I get the message "By using Google Play you agree to the Google Play Terms of Service, the Google Books Terms of Service and the Youtube Rentals Terms of Service" with accept and decline buttons. I read the first of those (Google Play Terms of Service) and did not like it, especially the bit that says, more-or-less, we reserve the right to delete anything we want off your phone any time we like. So I hit the decline button. That just quits the app, so now I can't update Angry Birds (as it is in this instance). Presumably I now cannot update any of my apps ever again until I accept these new terms, let alone install anything new - not even the ad supported freebies. This is not good at all.
Teletext toddles off as licence taken
How to destroy the music business
Friday 21st November 2008 15:23 GMT
Musicians can always make money from T-shirts
> Musicians can always make money from T-shirts and playing live,
> and as far as I know, no one plans to take that away.
Unfortunately, they do want to take that away:
"Time was when bands would supplement their income from selling
merchandise. Now, though, greedy venues want their share of the proceeds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/jun/11/costoftouring
Biting the hand that feeds IT
