Posts by Dan 55 16872 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
You don't need to explain it to me, I read the link given in the article, which is where the mention of Office was.
And in that linked page we find that MS decided it wasn't worth updating Office to filter out this filetype (see text I quoted from the linked page above). I guess they will when the exploits roll in... indicating MS is following the Adobe whack-a-mole method of bug fixing and Thunderbird, with much more limited resources, is more proactive.
There's also the post where Levy pretty much accuses Clive of being a dribbling vegetable. As Clive has outlived his usefulness (or is getting tired of the whole thing and wants out of this nonsense), he's promptly thrown under a bus.
And there's a new post about RCL failing to pay a new manufacturer, just like they failed to pay the old manufacturer.
They won't share photos because they're going to send out different versions made from whatever crap sticks together in the office.
They won't share a video (apart from that one where you never see more than five seconds before it disappears under an effect) because it runs like a dog.
The few units they do send out will be to friends who they know won't kick up a fuss because they've fallen apart after five mins.
Yes, there are so many career paths on offer that it is merely choice that decides you do an unpaid internship instead of a paid one. Also your wages are purely choice too. Finally people don't chose to be middle/old age but do choose to be young, sort of like Benjamin Button, right?
Makoski's first day at Lloyds will be next week, although it is not clear what he will actually be working on, other than "human centric design".
When the batch runs go down again overnight and can't be recovered in a timely fashion due to outsourcing the job to people who don't know, he'll have the responsibility of crafting the friendly error message (or perhaps it'll be an emoji) that everyone will see the next morning.
Looking at a comparison of survey software, it seems the only one which gets it is the one from Germany - on premises. All the rest are ripe for the picking.
The person who downvoted that obviously hadn't read the Enlightened thread on TDWTF.
I have to say that travelling on French toll motorways is a pleasant experience. Reasonable tolls, not overloaded with roadsigns, cards accepted by machines without crazy mad crashing UIs, clean bathrooms with baby changing facilities, shops and vending machines which cover practically all food and drink requirements on your trip, picnic areas, bins which are a) available and b) actually emptied.
Then you cross the Pyrenees, and are charged three times as much in tolls for all the same things but with the word not in front of them.
I can complain like the best of the locals.
If you're a slurpy business you can always move to Delaware, i.e. open a shoebox office there, keep everything else the same, and say you're treating all your users' data except those from the EU and California according to Delaware's 'privacy' laws.
There'll always be Delaware.
The pace of global regulations is hard to predict, but we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our products everywhere.
One thing that GDPR wasn't was hard to predict. It gave two years for businesses to get ready and was four years in the making before that.
California's law was harder to predict.
There has been no software tender for any of this, so make of that what you will. If the rollout of Universal Credit is anything to go by, we're talking years - a decade.
Meanwhile, in Rotterdam, they're planning dry-run customs controls to test how things would perform after Brexit.
We will control our borders by not controlling them.
If a country bordering the UK controls their borders, they are terrible people and they're doing it to get at us.
Let's pretend we've never heard of WTO rules stating that if two countries don't have a customs agreement then they must run ports of entry.
Shame the Electron had slow memory chips to save costs, some kind of video memory contention in its ULA which the BBC didn't have which slowed things down even more, and no Mode 7 which a 32K computer really needed as otherwise the available memory was limited.
Sinclair had Acorn beat when it came to building to a price point.
That's because teletext screen resolution was 480×500, higher than most home computers' screen output (apart from the BBC's of course, but only when it was in teletext mode, i.e. only when the teletext chip was working).
I'm tempted to put the font on the Raspberry Pi to make it more readable.
Red Box suddenly triggered an involuntary memory. From the snappily-named Electronic Fulfilment Services Ltd:
Never got one though. I wonder if someone's selling one on Sell My Retro or eBay... no... must... resist...
Don't forget the Usborne 1980s computer books (scroll half-way down the page to get them as free PDFs)...
But tidy the place up, throw stuff that reminds her of how better IBM was before away, wear these clothes, don't go near her, don't touch stuff, don't be on holiday.
"We are a fun and vibrant team of marketeers... but one step wrong and you're out."
They have the shared currency EUR and it is one, singular only.
As do dollarized economies.
They have tight rules over their economic policies
You mean they shouldn't run a deficit.
and are chained to the same interest rates/source of money. They do not control their own currency, that is what the Euro entails, giving up your own currency to have the shared currency.
They have a shared central bank setting the interest rate, as do dollarized economies.
Not exactly. As I said a direct comparison would be the IMF bailing out California, that is bailing out the US.
No, that would be bailing out Californian bonds.
Eh? EU currency is Euro we are discussing the bailout of the Euro particularly a section of the Euro area directly interacting with the Euro area.
No backpedalling.
Quote 1: "Primarily because the IMF is currently bailing out the EU who went cap in hand in their bailing out of Greece for loans which will never be repaid."
Quote 2: "Thank you for agreeing the IMF bailed them out. So therefore showing the EU was being bailed out by the IMF. As I said to the other guy, it aint difficult to understand."
Not Geography, currency area. The economic area of that currency from issuer to country returning it to the issuer.
Once again, if a country dollarizes its economy, it becomes part of the dollar currency area.
You're arguing that bailing out a country is bailing out another country (or, in the EU's case, bailing out a supranational legal entity, if that were possible). I'm using the example of a dollarized economy to show that is not true.
So if a country not US gets bailed out is that bailing out the US? Is that seriously your comparative question?
Yes, it is seriously my comparative question.
Each euro nation state has their own bonds, debt, and so on even though they use the same central bank to emit money and set interest rates.
So really, if you're arguing that bailing out Greece is bailing out the EU, then bailing out a dollarized economy is also bailing out the US.
And that's before we get to the bit about the EU not being a nation state.
If the IMF bailed out California then yes and that would be an equivalent example.
Why? Geography?
Taking gold and services out of the equation, UK physical exports to the EU are estimated to be 50% of all of the UK's physical exports. If the UK is not in the single market and customs union, that's going to be quite a hit.
Revealed: How gold takes the shine off Britain's trade figures
Thank you for agreeing the IMF bailed them out. So therefore showing the EU was being bailed out by the IMF. As I said to the other guy, it aint difficult to understand.
So if a country uses US dollars as their official or pegged currency (say, a dollarized South American one), and the IMF bails it out, is that bailing the US out?
There has been a drop in immediate new investment due to the uncertainty over Brexit, that is normal, but no significant disinvestment yet.
For Brexit Tories, the hard border is too hard a question
By the end of last year, OECD figures show foreign direct investment down by half on the average seen from 2012 to 2015 and by 90% on the bumper inflow of funds seen in 2016.
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