Re: Impressive growth?
I just installed Office 365 last week as Outlook from Office 2013 stopped working properly for some reason. Teams and Yammer notifier were thrown in and placed on the desktop, so there's your impressive growth.
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I installed it on my laptop for shits and giggles. Hard pressed to find anything new apart from dark mode, ported iOS apps, and my spinning rust drive changed to the new file system.
Dark mode and the desert background looks decidedly Ubuntu... perhaps Apple can make brown the colour of success?
They signed on to participate in a meritocracy with reputation rewards, and they think that is being taken way from them. It is perfectly consistent to be pro-tolerance and pro-inclusion while believing this subculture ought to be all about producing good code without regard to who is offended by the process.
Lose points for bad code, no insulting necessary.
Obviously if you're already a Full Google Fanboy it makes no difference, your settings will already have been set up so your Google account is linked to Google's ad network, your location is known, and all browser data is synced up anyway.
For the rest however, some people want a choice not to have Google standing behind them, breathing down their neck, and "getting right up to the creepy line and not crossing it" (note: creepy line seems to have moved a bit since Schmit's day).
Oh yes, nothing like sending a message, getting an incomprehensible error in your chat history, copying the original message you sent from chat history, pasting it to notepad, stripping the superfluous crap copied around it because copy and paste in SfB doesn't work either, copying from notepad, and pasting it back into SfB only to find out that they immediately reply because they had read it the first time round.
Loads of broken features left unfixed for years... either they don't dogfood it or don't care because it's Office and manglement who buy the licences will accept any old crap because it's MS.
When you're trying to get your boarding pass on your phone in queue at security or the gate, it often helps to have to navigate through infinity levels of menus and screens that are the equivalent of the Planters Pretzels ad.
What in the world about Brexit will stop the Border Control from checking lorries? Is that some kind of WTO thing? No, didn't think so.
Time will stop customs from checking lorries. It has been calculated that a 2 minute delay on the French side will lead to 37 mile tailbacks. However judging from yesterday the French government don't seem particularly willing to waive the rules because UK exceptionalism.
what's the problem with zero tarrifs on imports? Then let the sniffer dogs do their work.
I assume you would British businesses to survive against competition which has employees which earn the same in a year as people in the UK do in a month?
And sniffer dogs must be mighty clever these days if they can find more than drug... in fact in an impoverished UK, legalisation of currently illegal drugs will probably happen as TWAD is costly to maintain.
What the EU does have is customs facilitation agreements with a great many countries which means the UK does spot check customs inspections with a lot of the rest of the world because there is a trace back to origin. And that's going to stop because they won't be exporting to the EU any more.
And the only way around the queues on the UK side would be to throw open the borders to the rest of the world in a non-discriminatory way.
If that happens, prepare to eat shit, buy lead-painted toys held together with thin metal death spikes for presents, and watch out for house fires brought about by dodgy cheap consumer electronic tat.
Isn't it Skype for Business, The Clusterfuck Formally Known As Lync, in which case you'd have people queuing up to load the shutgun so MS can pull the trigger.
Shame MS still can't work out which features to port to Teams before doing the deed. Want to IM and screenshare at the same time...? Naaah, you've got to call + screenshare. Why? Who knows.
As an EU citizen they have a right to work and reside in the UK visa free
The UK could have implemented the "three months without a job after arrival and you're out" rule as in the 2004/38 directive, but it didn't. Can you guess what happened a little over a decade later?
Pretty much every Asian family I know are hard core Brexiteers
I take it you don't live in or around Leicester then.
I think they think if it works with at least one other piece of hardware (Fire TV Stick) they've got a get-out clause, which would be very wrong in the EU.
It also doesn't say much for their development if maintaining support for the same controller on four different devices is so difficult.
Doesn't matter. "The controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk … account shall be taken in particular of the risks that are presented by processing … which could lead to physical, material or non-material damage".
Unencrypted bank details is a no-no.
In the age of digital distribution and app stores with one app having several builds targetting different CPU types and OS versions without the user being aware, the most portable way of writing a fast piece of software which doesn't require the user to mess around installing is a probably a compiled language like C and C++.
Update: Microsoft stakes future on .Net strategy:
Jun 23, 2000 1:00 AM PT
The company said .Net will work on Windows and other operating systems, although it didn't specify which ones or when they would be supported.
You're right, and it's only taken us about two decades to get here, if you're happy with a subset (Core).
We never got that, you did, and clearly you got it wrong because you were made to vote again until you gave the right answer.
Read A second Brexit referendum could be for the best: look at Ireland and Lisbon and notice how the description of the first vote and the campaign leading up to it is a practically a copy of the UK's referendum and what changes were made before the second vote.
I am not quite sure how to explain this better but the result was to no longer be in the EU aka leave.
Well done. You voted leave. You voted to no longer be in the EU. Now tell us your plan for undoing 40 years of treaties with the rest of the EU, disentangling the UK's economy from the rest of the EU's, not upending the lives of EU citizens in the UK and British citizens in the EU, and not rebooting the Troubles.
Nobody else has been able to, least of all Vote Leave, the ERG, or Boris Johnson.
Isn't it the worst thing when you just want a holiday to get away from it all but they still won't leave you alone?
I guess he realised he was just a step away from a Musk-style meltdown after the travelling circus announced it was following him and decided that if he wasn't going to be allowed a holiday then outside help would be the best way to manage the pressure he's under. Lucky him, at least he's got that option.
It also strikes me as a very American solution, you ask for holiday but we'll still badger you anyway because we don't actually know what a holiday is, but a shrink is wonderful and we'll let you have some time off for that. All he needed to do was turn off the phone and see a bunch of castles and some scenery in Scotland and come back refreshed.
I think Google just sit around thinking up shit that other browser makers don't come up with due to budgetry constraints, an understandable lack of specialised staff in that area, and finally a vague sense of knowing where to stop.
Google just plough ahead anyway so they can claim their browser has all the standards, hopefully enough devs will use the shiny APIs, and then they'll get end users and their precious data that way.
Instead queuing up for an hour to see a bit of France's cultural heritage, I decided it would be a bright idea to buy my tickets from www.monuments-nationaux.fr, download the PDF files, and breeze past the queue which looked like something from an MC Escher painting.
As I use Firefox Focus for the small number of payments I make using my mobile phone as it forgets everything afterwards, it waited right to the final payment page to tell me that... well, not tell me, but dump me at an all-purpose 'I give up' page.
So then I tried Firefox which thankfully did work because the alternative was Chrome which probably sends the whole lot to Google. PDFs downloaded, success, hour of queue avoided, gold star earned.
Later on I decided the same trick would work again only I forgot my password which was hastily thought up before. So I hit the 'Mot de passe oublié?' button and was cheerfully informed of my password in a plain text e-mail.
Really, perhaps they should have just stuck with Minitel.
The problem was that the SNP document was a total work of fiction. They assumed England would simply pay Scotlands national debts, set up a favourable trade agreement, vote for them to be allowed back into Europe, and gift them all of the oil (which according to international convention is in English waters, not Scottish ones).
Then presumably, if the Vote Leave document were similar, it wouldn't have passed review.
(There still is no Vote Leave document. Not even the ERG can summon one up after all this time.)
You can’t blame the remain vote for the complete lack of Brexit plan by the people who proposed it.
Cameron, if he had enough of a brain to dig himself out of the hole he himself created, should have said, "Vote Leave have a month to come Downing Street with a document at least as detailed and as heavy as the indyref document published by the SNP before their referendum. This document will then be independently reviewed over a period of one year. If the plan is viable then the article 50 notice will be given."
And Vote Leave would have had a month to come up with something which isn't unicorns and rainbows, and as we know know, would have been impossible.
But instead he said, "We'll have a new Prime Minister on Wednesday, do-dooo do-do, right, good" and buggered off.