Posts by Ian 55 1043 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Feb 2010
(See Hyde Park Residence Ltd vs David Yelland, et al [1999] EWHC Patents 247, reaffirming Glyn v Weston Feature Film [1916] 1 Ch. 261 on this point.)
... it's particularly ironic to see taxpayer cash going to support someone in trying to stop piracy of porn, which by definition is grossly immoral.
Yes, I was thinking that Forth is ideal for people who want to / have to get things done in less than the size most other OSes have for their logo graphic. As well as the tiny footprint, it also gives you unparalleled interactivity, so remains ideal for people who have to do stuff with hardware. It's much more useful on things like the Arduino than the C variant that's the official language, for example.
A fixed Forth would be going against the language philosophy. One of the reasons people want to replace X is the baggage you need to have an X driver. It will never be needed, but without it, you're not X. Forth takes the view that if you don't want something - arrays, for example - you don't have to have it. If you do want something, you probably want a particular sort of it - an array that keeps track of the max/min/average value say - that will be important for you, but not something that should be imposed on everyone. That's not being too flexible, that's power.
That's part of the greatness of the film - the all-American 'hero' is an idiot and it's the Chinese Amercian sidekick who actually gets stuff done.
The picture's main problem is that it was made a decade too early, before the West got Jackie Chan. Hollywood has now got the Hong Kong 'heroic gunplay' genre - even giving the inferior remake of Infernal Affairs the best picture Academy Award - but it still hasn't 'got' the magical genre.
What they said they would do: send a free text alert when the (low) data limit was approached.
What they did: not send any alert, but charged 10p/Mib until all my PAYG credit was gone and then send me a text saying 'You've got no money left!'
It was this that got me installing a data checker on my phone.
I suspect it's about marketing. The SDP* used to call itself that, rather than the Social Democratic Party because polls told it that people didn't like political 'parties'. Here, you've got the FUD** about Linux putting some people off trying it, so just talking about Ubuntu may get some people to try it.
* For those lucky enough to be too young to remember, they were a bunch of right wingers from the Labour Party who split off in the early 80s to form their own party. There had an 'Alliance' with the Liberals, then after a couple of elections, most of them dropped out or merged with the Liberals to form the LibDems. The notable exception was Dr Death aka David Owen whose rich backers gave up when the rump SDP finished behind the Monster Raving Loonies at a by-election.
** When even Micro Mart with its reasonable Linux coverage can talk about Linux infringing Microsoft parents in an article about what to do after XP, you know there's plenty of it about.
Before anyone says it, yes, I know that there are some shots of people being given a couple of *minutes* demo via a 'hold this mask in front of your eyes / glasses' setup at the MakerFaire, but as anyone with glasses will tell you, having 3D glasses on top of your glasses for two *hours* in the cinema rarely goes well or comfortably...
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Never mind Spain: if I were Prime Minister Milliband - it could happen - I would veto Scotland's admission to the EU on the basis that Scotland's independence means I lose whatever majority I have and Labour will never win a UK General Election for the foreseeable future.
Nobody thought in 1980 that a chess program on a micro could beat a grandmaster.
Ken Thompson's Belle used custom hardware made of LS TTL chips controlled by a LSI-11 mini ("It is portable, but one has to be dedicated to take it anywhere"), while Robert Hyatt's Cray Blitz ran on a - shock - a Cray supercomputer. Outside rapid play, none of them could beat a GM, and it wasn't until 1983 that something running on a micro beat a Master in tournament conditions.
Of course, they all expected to beat the world champion in five years...
"it has not been proven that TorrentPond contains links to infringing material"
Quite - unless I am missing something, it doesn't even appear to be a torrent site. Not only does it not host material, it doesn't even host .torrent files for torrents of the material.
It appears to be a site that enables you to search a selection of torrent sites, one at a time, with the same search. Google / Bing / any other general search engine does more than this: they will give you results from more than one site at the same time.
Looking (thank you, CoL Police) unless I am missing something, it doesn't even appear to be a torrent site. Not only does it not host material, it doesn't even host .torrent files for torrents of the material.
It appears to be a site that enables you to search a selection of torrent sites, one at a time, with the same search. Google / Bing / any other general search engine does more than this: they will give you results from more than one site at the same time.
Quite. Only a moron would pay $10bn for Twitter - if you had that much, didn't want to lose it but still insisted on spending it on tech shares, would you buy Twitter, 5% of Google, or use it to fund 100 new companies? - so why not ask the morons for more? You already know they're morons.
This is 'let them eat cake', isn't it?
Not everyone can just up and move to another state, and not everyone is somewhere where their vote matters.
Some are somewhere where there have been active attempts to stop them voting. Some are somewhere that's been gerrymandered to fuck. Even for presidential elections, if you are not in one of a handful of states, your vote is irrelevant.
Quite, a 17 year old Jewish refugee discovering just prior to WWII that many Brits don't like foreigners in general? 'Job done', Lord Rothermere would have said, before going off to write another article about why fascism is a Good Thing.
My grand-fathers and some of my uncles went to the rest of Europe to shoot Germans. My generation goes there to shag them. I think we have the better deal to be honest, and it's no thanks to the Mail.
The only Windows programs I care about that won't run under WINE won't run in XP either (thank you, Microsoft for removing something that was in Win2000 in one case, and authors of games making stupid assumptions that undocumented stuff would stay the same across versions for a couple of others) so they're in a VM.
I've just gone from a Linux Mint machine that did have a dual boot into XP, but was never used in that - whenever there was a kernel update that needed rebooting, I'd let it boot into XP first and do the security patches, then reboot back to Mint - to one that had Win7 put on (the motherboard's BIOS update is only done via Windows) but will probably never see Windows again.
I did see enough to know that Windows 7 is actually better than XP and Win8, and therein lies Microsoft's problem. Vista was a pile of crap, so people held off updating, and very few people want Win8 but Microsoft is reluctant to do what's necessary to change that.
Have you looked at your account to see how many devices Amazon think you have? Do you ever have to re-enter your account details on it?
If it really doesn't do this for you, delete the date for the AppStore and see what it does. I would be very interested to know if it doesn't create a new device, because it's doing it here on three bits of kit running on Android 4.0, 4.2 and 4.3.
Their 'AppStore' program normally remembers your Amazon details, but every time you have to re-enter them for some unknown reason to log into it on an Android device, it goes 'Ooooh, a new device!!! Let me create "Ian's Nexus 7 10" to go with "Ian's Nexus 7 9" and "Ian's Nexus 7 8" and "Ian's Nexus 7 7" and "Ian's Nexus 7 6" and "Ian's Nexus 7 5" and "Ian's Nexus 7 4" and "Ian's Nexus 7 3" and "Ian's Nexus 7 2" and "Ian's Nexus 7"!!! There's no chance that they could actually be the same bit of kit..."
Then it complains you have too many devices and so can't run the programs until you go to the Amazon website and delete some of this stupidity.
The idea of forcing everyone to attempt to switch over to DAB via taking away FM is bonkers, and I say that as someone with more DAB radios in the house than FM ones.
Picking a 50% target just shows greed for the cash in selling the spectrum, and failing to get there just proves how unwanted the switch over is...
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