Posts by Old Tom 226 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Mar 2009
Old Excuses:
1) I'm socking it to 'The Man'
- Most apps are from small/independent developers to whom this is their livelihood; no big corporations/publishers involved.
2) The prices are far too high...
- What? A dollar/quid or two?
3) It's not a lost sale, I wouldn't have bought it anyway
- Don't install it then.
Keep away if you want to - but don't bend my ear about how clever you are to do so, and don't call me a moron.
Facebook has put me back in occasional touch with old friends; it's handy for organising social events (put those together and you get great drinking sessions with genuine friends from the past); it facilitated a bunch of us to help each other during redundancy (understanding the law, catching the company out, and more drinking); it's facilitated me teaming up for economic activity with someone thousands of miles away; it's a handy way to communicate and see pics of family on the other side of the planet. Yesterday it told me that you can enhance strawberries with balsamic vinegar.
There are other channels to facilitate the above, but this one happens to work quite well. It probably helps people get sex too.
Rob 30 said " glad this has happened, but i don't think you can really say thanks to the tories for it as they were forced into it, and even stated they would have appealed against it had they been able."
As reported in the article - May said: "The Government cannot appeal this judgment although we would not have done so had we been able."
Pay attention Mr 30...
"Children who commit sexual or violent offences ....The new powers relate only to children who are referred to a children's hearing over allegations and either admit them or are found to have committed the acts complained of."
So what's the problem? - It sounds like this is simply retaining DNA from young criminals. Surely no problem with that, this is nothing like the retention of DNA from randomly arrested innocent people that we have south of the border.
"Hops aren't a sedative ... That's an urban myth."
The Interweb says that hops contain 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol which has sedative effects. So although you're right that they're added to beer as a preservative, you're wrong about that. They're also, of course, added to ales for their flavour, bitterness and aroma.
While I normally hate people suing corporations on dubious grounds, this sounds like the utility company were well out of order here. If it was her contract and bill, and they unilaterally lumped it in with a 3rd party's bill, they've managed a double whammy of disclosing confidential data and billing that 3rd party for her account.
Reminds me of BT 30 years ago when my mum had a phone installed in her name, bill to her etc, and BT put my dad's name in the phone book.
I hope she wins, but only a few bob.
This is merely pragmatism. They're not in a situation where they can argue about it for a week, and at least the landline and extra cider taxes got dropped as part of this washing up.
The issue will need revisiting with a calm head in the next parliament anyway - as the EU commissariat won't like it.
I got one of these mails this morning, and of course I didn't open it. But the other day, my better half was expecting a real delivery and opened the delivery of a trojan from a spam mail purporting to be about a failed delivery. She's not dumb, it was just fortuitous timing for the spam to arrive.
Why the hell does Vista default to not showing file extensions? My non-techie lady can understand not to 'open' a .exe file, but when it appears that you're 'opening' a document, ordinary folk are fooled.
And why the hell do they say 'open' when they mean 'run'? If 'open' were used for docs and 'run' for executables, the world might be slightly safer.
Ordinary, non-techie people are not dumb and do not deserve to be pwned. Maybe you're just trolling.
I have to sneer at all these positive feedback mechanisms that the IPCC gravy trainers keep suggesting. If all these mechanisms existed, the climate would not have been stable for millions of years - at some point along the way the 'tipping point' would have been crossed and we would simply not exist.
Say no to positive feedback bunk.
"But in the US, and for the mob journalism which accompanies every domestic terror story, careful thought has no place.
In fact, other media outlets had bitten on the rectum bomb story back in September, notably the Murdoch-owned New York Post, whose editors thought it was mighty funny, calling it the "butt-bomb" and dubbing the perpetrator an "ass-assin"."
Also - notably - The Register's 'Suicide bum-blast bombing startles Saudi prince' report of the incident - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/21/bum_bombing/
Every year we get this bleating from the solar deniers. It's simple, on the Greenwich Meridian the sun reaches its zenith at noon GMT.
It does make sense for practical reasons - if your country is small enough - to adopt a common time for the whole country, and so we do. There is no practical reason to extend this to a whole continent, indeed there are strong practical reasons not to - look at USA, Canada, Russia, Australia; the only huge country with one artificial zone is China ('nuff said).
Personally, I hate getting up and going out in the dark; whichever way, I come home in the dark in Winter anyway. I don't want my morning light taking away. If individuals down south wish to do so, they can time-shift their day starting Sunday morning. They are perfectly free to do this. If there's popular support, they could even get together and get their LEAs to time-shift the local school day; but leave the rest of use to live in the real solar world.
To the pump storage respondents:
Yes, we have pump storage, which is very useful for short-term fluctuations in demand - BUT it can never have the capacity, to last for a couple of days of no wind.
Yes, we have a connection with France (Nuclear) - but what happens when one February, low pressure sits stationary over Western Europe? France will not have the capacity to bail us and Germany - plus a ruck of smaller countries - out.
I listen to a certain BBC local radio station a lot. I live and work outside its official area but can mostly receive it OK.
- I will never be able to get that station on DAB at home or for 98% of my time in my car.
- I can't listen to the station wia the Interweb in my car.
- The Interweb feed is cut during times of football commentary.
So I effectively lose access to that BBC station I pay for. Also, with FM, they can broadcast commentary for more than one footy match at a time using their different frequencies. With DAB they won't be able to.
I have a portable DAB radio. But it's not really portable - it eats batteries; it has an extendable aerial rendering it impracticle to use while on the hoof.
FM is a global standard. DAB is a bespoke local standard. This is why my car and my phone have FM and not DAB.
Will you ever be able to get an inexpensive hat with built-in DAB?
HMRC know all about my and my partner's income. We all have a Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR) allocated to us. Why the hell, then do I have to declare a subset of the information HMRC already have attached to my UTR in a separate form for HMRC's Tax Credits office? Can't they use IT?
Google comes out top in a Google study! Shock, horror!
Seriously though, they would perform best by that measure due to the most arrogant app in the world, ever - GoogleUpdater - it's so irritating that it led me uninstall Chrome. It was checking for updates far too often, even though I wasn't even using using their browser (has it got any better yet?)
I uninstalled GoogleUpdate again yesterday. Just checked and there it is running again.
Anhyway, Secunia tells me when I need to update Opera.
"...all crisp bags with the same brand and expiration date would be pulled from its shelves"
I hate this creeping ingress of this hideous worst-the-Americans-can-come-up-with quasi-word 'expiration'. Yes, it *is* worse than 'burglarized'.
It really is the end of the planet as I knew it. I first saw it on a Toys'R'Us receipt and hoped it would be confined to there; and maybe 'Plumb Center (sic)'. But no, it's insidiously marching toward ubiquity.
I must go and lie down now.
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