Posts by 0laf 2369 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2009
There are some very broad assumption there in which to base findings.
People are moving closer to cities therfore they want to be closer to city based offices?
Or transport links are appalling outside of cities
Or fuel is expensive so people want to minimise driving
Or many other things that mean life is generally more expensive and more difficult outside of large population centres.
But no, you fixate on propping up the commercial property values as your only conclusion
Smart TV seem to be pretty much obsolete out the box. Venders being rather unwilling to maintain these shiny screens for any length of time. In fact was LG not fined for selling brand new TVs which were already unsupported?
We use an add on streaming devices and run the TVs as a dumb tv. They're not network connected to anything. The streaming box is better maintained and the TV doesn't listen.
Indeed you are supposed to carry out due dilligence on all your sub-processors.
Buuut, in this case the act was committed before the GDPR /UK-GDPR was in place and the the flow down of responsibilities was not so clear in the older legislation.
This case is being held against the DPA 1998 not the current laws 500k is the max fine for this one
Where is the 'Break' key that caused so much terror to both me and my small collegues in the early-mid 80s?
Sitting there on the keyboard like the Sword of Damocles ready to drop at a particularly stressful moment when playing "The Oregon Trail"*.
*I believe you can recreate the trauma of the game online now.
I wouldn't sneer at the ECDL. It was very useful for many people that hadn't had any exposure to using a business type computer. I agree the simplistic on/off stuff can be dropped now (was useful then) but the basics around how to use a word processor, how to save and retrieve a file, simple spreadsheet use. That's all still relevant.
There has been a push to say that "everyone is digital native now", it's total bollox but was wheeled out to justify cutting training budgets. Lots of people even young 'uns know ahow to use a phone but aren't always knowledgable about office type tasks on a PC/laptop
I'd humbly suggest that an ECDL type course focussed on using FOSS would be a fine thing to have around.
Are they just trying to avoid upsetting the orange toddler?
His big tech funders seem to call up him pretty quick when anyone threatens to take a penny or two out of their pockets.
Would he back up Ol' Musky? I've no idea if those two have tiffs in public just for shits 'n' giggles, to pump stocks somehow or if it's real.
I think that's it really. For home users (not gaming so much) Linux has been perfectly usable for a long time. Now the gaming stuff is much improved.
But it's not Linux that is winning users it is MS that is losing them.
W11 doesn't work for them or the upgrade from W10 is too expensive. Some will move to Linux but I suspect the majority of users that move away from MS will be people who just give up on the format and start to use a phone or tablet for everything.
Businesses won't shift, but the sovereignty concerns caused by the Great Orange Leader might start to move those rusty gears for government. If nothing else they might well force a legal split in the hyperscalers into US/EU entities
If they drum up enough F.U.D. and generate enough fear amongst politicians then they will probable get all the data access and grid upgrades they want without spending a penny. With a bit of luch and by greasing the right palms they might even swing a tax subsidy
I'm happy to stream thing I will likely never read or listen to again. It save the clutter and I won't miss them if the supplier takes them back.
If i really like it I'll buy it, ideally second hand.
Sopme things are gettign quite rare now (90 UK comedy shows are my usual hunt at the moment as they seem to be disapearing, have you seen the price of a "Filth, Rich and Catflap" DVD!)
"Good, fast, cheap", you're not wrong there. But with functionally stupid leaders and a lazy disinterested populous Fast and Cheap aways wins.
Props for bringing up Slackware. The first Linux distro I ever got working in about 2002 (after failing to get Debian to work).
Tax the rich.
Except they like to use the Guardian definition of rich which = earning more than the UK median, owning a house, having a car, having a private pension, having savings.
But doesn't seem to include - earning more than £1M (including through stock options, paid through intermediary businesses, loan based income and any other non-salaried income), having more than £100M in assets, being a pal of a minister, donating more than £100k to the party
Ditto for businesses.
Totally not enough to put me off. I find the Mint setup actually very nice.
I'm sure some of teh games could be made to work, No Man's Sky the most recent attempy which from a quick browse generally has very good Steam/Linux compatability.
But it is the usualy Linux issue of everything being great unless it isn't and fixing things is often a bit of a chore which I don't have time for.
Shaders and NVidia the main suspects I think
I had a 500 which was a dream machine for me after seeing my cousin's machine.
Some of my happiest gaming time ever. Speedball 2 as someone else brought up, Alien Breed, Stuntcar racer, Starglider 2 (came with a book), It came from the Desert.
I had the Batman pack.
Sorry to admit but most of my games were cracks and copies but I did have a fair few legit ones.
Who would have thought we'd be thanking POTUS for protecting British citizens data however incidentally it has come about.
UK push to change encryption so that it only opens for the pure-of-heart despite all leaders in the field saying no, despite all academics saying no, despite the maths saying no, is the usual magical thinking by politicians who believe that if they say it outloud then it can be done. I'm also sure there is a queue of snake oil sellers at the door suggeseting that if only they get a grant/fund/contract they can make it happen.
Not really a surprise it is theft after all. Once upon a time they would have taken the bank manager's family hostage to ensure he opened the safe when requested.
It's just a remote version of that old scam. Maybe does show a bit of desperation on the part of the attackers.
Moving into threats of physical violence puts them in territory where plod will actually put down the coffee mug and get involved. When it's just money and data they can shrug their shoulders and use 'limited resources' as an excuse to do nothing.
W2k was peak functional windows for me. It just got on with the job.
The UI was familiar from 98 but the stability was NT4.
XP was good to use, Win7 was too but nothing since then.
WinPho 8 I consider to be the best mobile OS I have ever used.
W11 was the final straw for me, the idea that I should throw away a decent rig just to buy a half finished OS which acts more like a piece of spyware whilst failing to carry out basic functions (i.e. I could not get W11 to format a USB stick).
I've switched that machine to Mint (Via Pop_OS). I do like it and it does everything I need but the idea that Linux is super easy to install is only true when it works. If you have any problems installing hardware or software on Linux it is a complete ballache. PoP despite being advertised as the most steam compatible OS with built in NVidia support would not use the NVidia card and managed to corrupt user profiles every time the drivers were forced in. Mint was more fluid but still suffers from the occational blank stare when things are opened (especialty the software centre), at the moment it won't pair with a bluetooth XBox controller and the solution is tied up somewhere in GitHub in a way that Mint doesn't seem to understand. nor do I for now.
However I like the OS, it's still an improvement on Linux of old it's nice to feel back in control to some extent anyway and my old hardware continues to provide value.
I've got my son a Macbook for college now that his W10 machine is also seen as unclean by MS. He's just not up to learning Linux and I don't have time to support him, he just needs something that works and that means Apple. I use an iPhone not because I'm an Apple fanboi but because it works, and everything works with it. Apple is easy mode.
I had a droid phone once but got sick of incompatabilities and unreliability with pairing to devices especially cars.
My Mrs has used Macs for years and that is her default.
So right now in my house it's anyone but MS.
Well that same government has kicked investors in the head by reducing the tax free allowance on dividends from your investment.
Investing in individual startups is a very high risk activity and really not ethical to encourage those with only a small amount of savings anyway to take huge risks with it.
Maybe there needs to be another way to encourage investment. A low vlaue startup ISA that isn't included in any other allowance, maybe a salary sacrifice option. Plenty of people would take a punt on putting in a small amount, maybe only £10-500. It might be high risk but it's better odds than the lottery and a million people putting in £100 is a lot of money.
I think it even says it in this article that 'blame' is to be apportioned in the second report.
But the police are already investigating. As a rare organisation with independent powers of prosecution their abuse of those powers should result in them facing far stricter judgement than Joe Bloggs in the street. We can only hope that the CPS isn't pressured to use the public interest as a way to let the buggers off with it. Hopefully their friends in parliament have moved on/retired and the current lot are less chummy with the accused.
Don't ever forget either that the money these poor people tried to pay back to cover the ficticious losses went into post office coffers and directly contributed to income and therefore any bonuses of those in charge.
On top of everything else the accusers stole from the falsely accused and their families.
LOL 'only' getting 20-30Mb on 5G. If I pick up 5G it usually seems more like 56Kb.
Switching to 4G usually increases performance considerably.
I note I'm starting to see invites for 6G webinars. I'll look forward to higher still theoretical speeds that deliver the same as a 300 baud modem in RL.
"What kind of idiot would you have to be to destroy your career forever?"
There is your first mistake. You are using rational ideas against someone who is very likely irrational.
They aren't thinking like you, they may well completely believe they WILL get away with it or that they are saving the company or just completely in the right to do what they are doing.
It not quite delusional but nearly.
Think man-logic taken to 11. You can justify that new car/computer/thing you probably know you are fooling yourself but you let it slide. Irrational people think the same way with their actions but the idea that they are fooling themselves never occurs to them.
These are the people who are an utter nightmare to manage. For fun research look up "high conflict personalities". It's related to narcissism as well. As soon as you read a little on that you'll start to recognise them everywhere.
