Posts by AndyMulhearn 113 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Mar 2012
Apparently the crime writers of the 30s had a policy that the reader had to be able to work out who was the culprit based on the content of their books - all the clues had to be there. This seems to have fallen by the wayside on shows like NCIS, where facts that nobody was privy to earlier in the story suddenly appear and the bad guys are in cuffs before you know it. I still find it enjoyable, but the sudden reveal at the end gets to be a little bit irritating
Watching a time range of stuff recently has led to some interesting observations.
Star Trek; TOS episodes are 50 minutes long, so ten minutes of ads in an hour slot. By the time of Star Trek:TNG that’s down to around 45 mins so a 50% increase in non-show time. Series last of NCIS is at 43 mins or so, so a further drop in show time. Explains why the story telling on some shows has got very rushed and poorly developed…
I would argue that NT 4 is when the MS rot set in, myself. Moving the GDI into the kernel was an egregious error, trading design cleanliness for performance.
I remember being surprised at this choice at the time and it doesn't look any better looking back. I think DC had moved on before the change was implemented
There are two obstacles that I would need to overcome for me to move from Adobe - I'm on the £9.95 per month photography plan, doing all of my work on a 12.9" IPP.
First is I would need something that works as well as Lightroom when it comes to image management. I've looked at some of the possible alternatives for my use-case and they're all somewhat lacking - ON1 in particular came close but image editing wasn't stellar on the iPad which brings me to point second.
Second, I would need to re-learn all of the editing techniques that are so familiar to me from ACR and LR, things that I do without needing to really focus on until it comes to refinement. None of the alternatives, including Affinity Photo, work the same way as does LR which makes for me, any level of editing both painfully slow and hit or miss.
One additional point, the current version of LR CC on iOS has just gained some powerful mask selection capabilities as part of the rolling upgrades the cloud versions get. If I'd been on the perpetual licence I'd likely have had to buy a new version of LR to get it - Adobe being Adobe. That and the fact my plan includes 1TB of storage makes it far better value to me than any of the alternatives. As ever, YMMV.
Because there is no requirement to *check out* of a place, so the app assumes that the infected person remained in a place from the time they checked in until either 23:59 or the time they checked into a different place (if they did).
Yep, this. No check out means as you suggest anyone that checks in after the case is detected is fscked. That’s always been one of my bugbears about how the app worked right from the start. I get that it was rushed out but there’s been plenty of time to add a checkout option to the app. At least that way if I forget to check out it’s my fault but no option to do it at all is an odd omission.
Nicely put with the potential but not actual infection. I was in Kew Gardens last week and walked past a number of sites where they wanted me to check in. On a sunny and breezy day with not too many people in, what risk did I face of contracting COVID? And if someone that had checked in had a positive test who would have been notified to isolate? The 20 people that just happen to have checked in around the same time or everyone that checked in in at the gardens that day?
Way too blunt an instrument now we have rapid tests etc.
I’m not a huge fan of chicken on a pizza, it’s dry enough as it is, but wouldn’t want to fall out over having on the ingredient list.
On homemade pizza I’ve come to be a big fan of chopped celery. I’m not sure why I even tried it (You may well have been pissed at the time, Ed) but it’s become a firm favourite on my pizza efforts.
So let me understand this, there was no 300% cap just referral to higher authorities at which point questions would be asked about why targets weren’t set higher. Sounds like it has more to do with embarrassment of the local management than anything else to do with the actual sale.
Then on top of that we have the question of OTE for the salesman and his targets being set too low. The deal is worth approximately £5m per annum on a turnover of £121m so his contribution in year one on this one deal alone is around 4% of annual turnover. Not having been in a sales position myself I can’t assess how rational it is to have one person set sales targets of 4% of total revenue in a year? So what questions would be coming back about setting his targets too low? And that’s without considering contribution to annual sales rather than just revenue.
Agree with all the other comments though, the Judge should not be considering profitability of the employer just whether the contract was complied with and if they didn’t refer to US management as stated then that should have been more of a consideration.
That and the option to disable forwarding which was also handy.
I worked with Notes a lot in the 90s before it became better known as Domino and could never really understand the draw of Outlook/Exchange (still can’t really tbh but that’s another story) particularly as Notes was as much about building workflow apps as it was email.
That and everyone else will have moved to the country with WFH so house prices in the Highlands will be like London prices; you'll get a London townhouse for pennies though
With the option of a nicer, bigger house in exchange for a longer commute for possibly two days out of five as opposed to the full week, people seem to be moving out of London already. A friend is doing this at the moment - from London to Chippenham - and he says prices are very soft in London and late-negotiation demands for discounts are rife.
The difficulty with Face ID is that it doesn’t depend only on the kind of limited camera fitted to most laptops, including Apple kit. It uses an additional “TrueDepth” camera working in tandem with the standard camera. And allegedly Face ID won’t come to laptops any time soon - possibly until Apple wind back the ultra thin screen surround fetish - because the camera is currently too big to fit anything other that an iPhone or iPad screen bezel.
So yeah it can be done just not on commodity kit, which doesn’t negate the poor performance of the setup mentioned in the story in any way.
The slightly bigger screen is also nice. It has the option to use the pencil 1 - but I've not been willing to blow £120 on one until I'm convinced that Apple now properly support handwriting in apps like email. I seem to remember that the next version of iOS might do this - but have lost track.
You don’t have to spar £120 to get pencil goodness, there’s a Logitech Crayon which can be had for £59.95 from Curry’s and works as well if you don’t want some of the more esoteric pressure/angle functionality, i.e. just for notes and stuff.
I believe handwriting works everywhere but can conform once my IPP gets the iPad OS 14 upgrade later today...
I seem to recall that when I installed LR on my first iPad Pro, i had to explicitly disable the iCloud backup because it meant I was doing the backup up twice - to iCloud and to the Adobe repositories - which due to the way LR manages local storage with the Adobe cloud sync was also pointless.
I feel for the people who’ve lost their work like this but if disabling the backup to iCloud has some part of their loss then I’m not totally sympathetic to their plight.
I'm very well aware of that. The vast majority of what I make doesn't go to customer. But it still needs to work and including random versions of external libraries that might change at any time is, quite frankly, a bonkers way to proceed.
Well don't allow your build tools to use un-versioned upstream dependancies. All of the build pipelines I've worked with have the facility to define package versions to be used in a build and lock on those versions until you decide to upgrade. If you're not doing that or have dependencies that are only defined as version-latest then it's not the fault of your build pipeline...
How about two of the words you quoted - Judicial Review. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review which is a link from the page you reference.
Judicial review is a process under which executive or legislative actions are subject to review by the judiciary. A court with authority for judicial review may invalidate laws, acts and governmental actions that are incompatible with a higher authority: an executive decision may be invalidated for being unlawful or a statute may be invalidated for violating the terms of a constitution. Judicial review is one of the checks and balances in the separation of powers: the power of the judiciary to supervise the legislative and executive branches when the latter exceed their authority. The doctrine varies between jurisdictions, so the procedure and scope of judicial review may differ between and within countries.
Does that not suggest there are controls in place to prevent this kind of unilateral action?
It's an interesting looking blower, though the price is s bit high, and not having apps like Maps some of the more worthy music apps would be a bit of a drawback. Having said that, a moments duckduckgoing found a legit Opera apk that can be downloaded - from Opera themselves - for sideloading and includes Whatspp and FaceBook messenger built in and on desktop at least supports the Spotify browser client. Combine that with web access to email and that feels like most of your basic needs met without going anywhere near Google.
Lynch's chances of avoiding extradition likely depend on the outcome of this case - something HP may choose to delay if they can to get a better verdict in the US.
Which strongly suggests Lynch should be lobbying for extradition to be delayed until the current trial is completed. I suppose it comes down to which court has priority.
Very poor work from the expert, very poor!
Actually I'd say the reverse. HPE's expert made the assumptions he was required to work under clear to the court and seemed to me to state clearly when questioned that his own view was that Autonomy had not acted against accepted practice.
Scarcely very poor.
With the US Department of Justice starting extradition proceedings to force Lynch out of the UK and into the hands of American prosecutors, there is a possibility that the entire High Court proceedings may become what lawyers call a "moot point" – or, as you and I might say, "irrelevant".
I'm not clear why this should be the case. If the Judge finds against HPE then why would we look favourably on a extradition request for something our courts have already found against? Alternatively why would we consider and acquiesce to an extradition request when our court hasn't completed consideration of the case?
Personally I'd think long and hard before turning Harold Shipman over to US "Justice" as it stands at the moment, never mind someone in a case like this where the facts are so clouded in technicality and doubt, on both sides.
As the old rubbish amstrad internet phone? That was a real rubbish.
Alan Sugar used one of them on the Apprentice IIRC and that was the only time I've ever seen one.
It would be a brave candidate to interject into one of Lord Sugar's "I am the god of product development" diatribes "Internet phone Lord Sugar?"...
I remember these! Specifically, I remember some bloke claiming he could type with the device INSIDE HIS POCKET.
Well, he said he was typing. Imagine standing talking to someone with your right hand twitching in your pocket and a broad smile on your face. I can't imagine that ever being a good look...
The 'latest' stock from LG was a completely knackered heap of unusable turds. Lineage gave it life and usefulness again, but jeebus it was a ball ache just to get the bootloader unlocked.
With the way some of these companies behave - and Apple I am looking at you here as well - you'd think they still owned the hardware you'd just purchased. If it's my phone and I want to put something else on it, lineage for example, why should you be allowed to make that difficult for me?
I can perhaps understand carriers getting a bit edgy but the folks at Lineage are essentially just doing what all the manufacturers are by talking Android code and customising it for their kit.
Yeah, it's not as simple as the headline suggests - see https://reflect.jbl.com
Start fully charged, listen to music for 3.5 hours per day and change for 1.5 hours under light at 50,000 lux and it's claimed you get 68 hours of listening time. A bit like fully charging your normal pair of headphones then topping them up for half an hour each day.
Still not too bad but a bit too marketing speak for my liking.
I disagree that there are few viable alternatives but whether they're actual alternatives when you come to use them is a different story. For me, I have way too much invested in muscle-memory when it comes to photo editing and raw processing on products such as Affinity Photo is just too much of a learning curve for me.
A couple of years ago I went completely iOS for my personal compute - 10.5" and then 11" iPad Pro - so my choices are more limited but even so, I much prefer the LR CC package with DAM, editing and offline storage all bundled into one option than any of the alternatives. Yes, the subscription doesn't work for all but it does for me. Add in freebies such as PS Express and PS Fix and I find it quite a usable, portable approach.
It;'s not just Samsung though. I have a Panasonic TV that is less than five years old and has not seen any kind of software upgrade for any of the built in apps - Netflix, iPlayer, whatever - in that time. We now have an Apple TV which gets updates to all of the required apps regularly...
In software terms. most of these TVs strike me as being like old landfill Android phones, shipped with a version of software and then never updated.
Ooops, should have read more before replying, the discussion of alternative poorly supported TVs starts further down.
The whole MS phone debacle is a real case of if...only. If only they'd stuck to making a business phone; ignored the games market; and (mostly) hadn't tried to put the phone interface onto the Windows desktop.
Although I can understand the reasons it died on it's arse - my view is developers getting fed up about the continual API changes and rewrites so that the move from 8 to 10 was one step too far for most and with no Apps. market shared tanked - I quite liked Windows Phone. And I speak as someone who is now invested totally in the Apple Ecosystem.
Even relatively cheap phones performed well, battery life was good, Phone 8 was nicely usable and some of the apps that were available worked way better, IMHO, than the equivalent Android and iOS versions of the time. I have no idea what MS thought they were doing, though I suspect Apple faked them out with stories of converging iOS and MacOS so that MS thought they had to get there first with the resulting disaster that was Windows Phone 10.
And, as they say, the rest is history.
The stupid design decision to run on the full fat graphics every time you connect another display?
Aaah, thank you for that - have a virtual beer. You've just explained why the battery life on my work MBP - the same model - is so piss poor when driving a TV for stuff. An hour of use can see the battery drop 40%. And it's also why so many people see crap behaviour from identical kit when resuming with external screens attached.
I had the same on a recent purchase - there was no option to not sign up for it, in fact IIRC it was a "we've given you a free trial" rather than "Want to sign up for a free trial?" I'll still cancel it in 30 days but until then will make use of the free delivery on some stuff.
All-in-all a pretty unsavoury practice and one they quite rightly should be censured for.
To be honest, I don't think there's one single thing that stands out as a must have. In my case I have an Apple Watch 3 paired with a iPhone XR and I can do stuff like read messages and send short replies, answer calls (think Dick Tracy), silence alarms, control music playback, log exercise sessions (usually brisk walking) check my pulse rate, pay for stuff (easier than by phone or card TBH) and probably some other stuff that hasn't occurred to me at the moment.
It's not really one thing though, just a multitude of little things that become easier and I bought mine fully intending to not really make much use of it but I'd miss it more than I expected if I went back to a non-smart watch. Odd.
Oh and I can tell the time, it runs easily for two days between charges and like the watch in the article. will go to time only mode for three days when the remaining power hits 10% or before if I want.
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