Posts by Dan 55 16883 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
What does geofencing have to do with Google slurping your location 24/7? Do tell.
If Google is forced to remove the slurping, the only thing the customer will notice is increased battery life. There are no downsides.
But Apple differentiates themselves with the amount of in-house R&D and QC they do which is light-years ahead of the competition who outsource all that stuff to the lowest bidder.
Software - goto fail;
Hardware - Louis Rossmann
The problem with the Recreated Spectrum is normal mode can't deal with multiple keypresses at the same time and game mode uses a special keymap where keydown gets one character value and keyup another. However sometimes the keyup character goes missing and then it's constantly thinking a key is held down until you press all 40 keys so the missing keyup character gets sent again and the software realises the key is up.
But it's fun to drag out and use on a Pi/Wintendo from time to time.
What you need is ZX Omni 128 Laptop or Spectrum Next in a laptop case...
Oh no, it's not off. Google knows exactly where you are, even if it's paused on the dashboard.
There was a story in this esteemed organ about this very thing last year.
They didn't call it 'off' for a reason.
Firefox especially at work. It has its own certificate store so you can see if you're being MITM'd.
There are settings for NTLM in about:config.
I don't honestly get what you're trying to prove other than the single market exists, but this was news about a quarter of a century ago.
Your misunderstandings as shown in this thread about what falls under these standards and what doesn't, who develops these standards, and how the UK would lose influence are disproven, however.
Thank you.
So you object to single market standards existing even if the UK is part of making them, not the incorrect reporting of them.
You seem to prefer the fact that in the event of Brexit the UK won't be part of the process for creating single market standards, yet if it is to sell to the EU after Brexit it would have to meet them anyway.
I can see no logical rational reason for your stance on this subject.
But if it makes you feel happier, I admit single market standards on jams, bananas, and low power electrical appliances exist, the UK was part of making them, and British newspapers misreported them, and you fell for the Sun, the Express, and the Mail's propaganda on behalf of their non-dom billionaire owners.
By the way, Dyson's buggeted off today. Another one who believes so much in Brexit he's relocated his company HQ out of the chaos that it'll bring and, this is funny, will take advantage of the free trade agreement Singapore has with the EU.
Ever had the feeling you've been had?
I think I did a fairly good job of deciding your low-information post.
Nobody dictates anything, your post shows a fundamental misunderanding of how it works. The UK is part of the process of developing single market standards, as it did for the letter box standard above. Indeed, the UK developed the single market in the first place.
If the UK didn't manage to effectively take part in a standard for something, perhaps it is the fault of the civil servants who took part?
If later on you call something an EU standard and rail against it, even though it was developed in the UK and is a perfectly good standard, again, that betrays your irrational hatred of the EU more than anything else.
Thankfully. Instead of being trapped by duff standards of low power, correct curve of a banana, what fruits are allowed to be put into a product called jam etc we can join the rest of the world.
All disproven:
Low power and bananas - fail and fail.
Jam - fail.
The joke's on you. Why?
EN13724 is available from the BSI Shop and available in different languages including French and German.
It is prepared by the SVS/4 committee.
What's this nefarious committee which dares to rule over our lives? Why, it's a British committee belonging to the BSI.
The story sited Ireland's adaptation to this EU standard. So there you have evidence that the UK has influenced foreign countries because the BSI created this standard and it was adopted by the EU.
So, Brexit means British influence on future standards will be lost, because the the UK won't be part of the EU.
Are we taking back control yet?
Apple said computers should be made for the end user (whether they know what they want or not).
I think since 2012, Apple computers are made for Apple. They look nice to pull in the punters (designers, marketing) but are unexpandable so it requires replacement and unrepairable without a load of cash (accountants).
And yes that led to clashes between Jobs and engineers.
I think even Jobs knew when to stop, especially since he got fired over making the original Mac unexpandable and black and white, until it became antiquated compared to other computers of the time.
Many people just accepted (and still accept) the "that can't be done" of engineers. Apple and Jobs say – "well go away and work out how it can be done".
But in Apple's case, they don't actually do it very well.
So there you go. A plague on everyone's houses down at Apple.
Perhaps because QuickDraw supported colour, but only for the printer and limited to a few applications and The Mac II was the first colour Macintosh and it came out in 1987. They may have been some Frankenstein's monster consisting of a Mac 128K and external colour monitors set up before the release of the Mac II but if it existed it hardly had a commercial impact.
The Mac II was late because as Jobs believed in the purity of a black and white screen as he thought it best reflected the printed page, and because he wouldn't budge on this subject Apple had to fire Jobs to get a colour Macintosh out (see From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years), two whole years after the Amiga and ST.
In 1998 Kickstart 2.0 wasn't out, which was a vast improvement on 1.3.
I've programmed System 7 in the early 90s and don't recall the experience to be particularly user friendly, so I have my doubts over previous versions of the Mac's OS. Meanwhile the AmigaOS just clicked with me, it was just the right balance between simple and powerful and probably the last PC that could be understood competely. But again, that was post-1.3.
You can claim System 7 is many things but preemptive multitasking is not one of them, that was introduced in 8.6.
Memory management was pretty terrible in 7 too, the user had to get info and reserve a fixed block of memory that other apps couldn't use and the app itself couldn't go over.
One thing on my to-do list is to try Sailfish on a Sony Xperia X/XA. You can try it for free and if you like it, buy it for 50 euros.
There's also a community version which may be ported to other phone hardware but I haven't looked into that very much.
A Firefox plugin that adds a Google tab to DDG which you can hit if necessary is Privacy Labrador.
In the real world, it's practically impossible to leave the Catholic Church. No apostasy for you.
Try Explorer or Ghost Commander with the SMB plugin.
I think the local HTTP server for ES File Explorer would be for transferring files over LAN or WiFi Direct, but in an effort to make it tap-and-drool they opened up a honking great backdoor.
No AC, you remember where MS first bought Acompli, it used an AWS instance to talk to the Exchange server and the app talked to the AWS instance. Then MS changed the backend to Azure but apart from that the architecture remained unchanged, it was still a cloud backend talking to the Exchange server and the app talking to the cloud backend.
And here is a diagram from MS themselves.
As it's unnecessary I would have thought approval would not have been forthcoming, but it seems they don't care that much.
The legality of gambling in a state depends on the type of gambling it is and which state the gambling is carried out in, but after this ruling interstate gambling is always deemed illegal even if you're in one state where it's legal and the backend is in another state where it's also legal.
Hence servers in every state (except Hawaii and Utah where all gambling is illegal).
Internet gambling is going to be difficult, I guess, unless it's via a mobile app with location services on.
I presume this means big video game corps will be happy to set up a server in every state possibly sharing hosting with each other to keep costs down, or maybe Azure/AWS will do one data centre per state and all the leaches will pile in and rent space.
Where there's a will to suck money off of people who can't afford it there's a way.
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