Posts by Chad H. 2434 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2007
I dont understand why commenters are saying the Surface RT was a good product.... The customer had the choice between the iPad, countless android devices, and Microsoft's own full fat surface pro that did pretty much everything they want.... and the Surface RT which did not a lot of a not a lot.
The product had no reason to exist. It wasn't a cheap device (cheap android devices from China had that nailed down), it wasn't a premium device, and it wasn't a mid range workhorse.
It was just a complete mistake.
"I have seen people with so much cruft on their machines that the Windows XP Start menu takes up the entire screen, all full of masses and masses of tiny little icons, so really the only thing that saves you from (gasp!) losing most or all of of your working space for a few seconds (horrors!) is pinning or placing your shortcuts on the Desktop"
No, thats the only thing that stops THEM. those of us with a decently organised start menu like our videos not being interupted as we work.
It takes up the entirety of my screen, covering the video I'm watching, the chat I'm regulating, and whatever else I may be doing. I am forced out of all of that until I find the program I want.
all this to launch a menu that should at worst be no more than a 3rd of the screen.
They've getting more carriages already, but this will be as far as they can go.
The capacity issue isn't about seats and carriages anyway, it's about the number of trains you can run in the signalling system. We tried upgrading the WCML not long ago to alleviate this; it was an unmitigated disaster.
As for more tracks on the current route... Remember this is a route built for trains that go 20mph with all the wrong curves in all the wrong places...
Which is faulty assumption number 1made by critics - that the case for HS2 has anything to do with speed.
Fact is, the West coast mainline is about full.
You can either build more slow lanes which do little to improve the attractiveness as a network as a whole, and go through paths that are inneffecent with modern technology (remember the current route was built for trains going 20mph, not 200mph, when slowing down to do a tight curve wasnt such a big deal).
Or you can try and improve the current line to make it go faster (Tried and failed a few years back, overcost and underdelivered)
Or you can build an express lane for long distance traffic, opening more capacity for local services on the old line where speed isnt a big issue
Or you can put your thumb in your mouth and never draw the connection between poor transport and poor economic growth.
Matt, I know you might not have many friends the way you act with so much abrasiveness and with the way you throw around insults... But I just have to let you know, a few replies doesn't make us buddies... I would appreciate it however if you stopped avoiding the question.
By the way, how much does Hamas pay you to embarras yourself like this?
Oh Matt, stop it, I'm sure you HAMAS handlers are over the moon at the way you've made the average Israel supporter look like a complete prick. They must be so proud of the great work you're doing... You're clearly getting results they can only dream of!
I'd suggest you knock off and head to the pub, but you Muslims don't drink, do you? Well maybe you can have a glass of OJ or sonething.
"" So you trumpet something you admit completely destroys the Fakeistinian farce"
Err, no actually. Because there were palestinians living there at the time. Funny that.
As for the rest of your tirade, Shouldnt whats good for the goose, be good for the gander? If Isreal has a right to exist because of some similarly named historical kingdom 2000 years ago, does the Italian government, as the decendants of the Roman Empire, have the right to rule all of Western Europe?
Also, you might want to stop confusing "Being an absuive ass" with "making a reasonable and compelling point", you might actually sway some converts if you do... the way you're going, you're convincing more and more people than the Palestians are right, and the people on israel's side are completely unreasonable people who simply throw around insults to anyone who disagrees....
Acutally, no, wait I get it. You're smart enough to know that. Clearly you're a HAMAS agent posing as an Israel supporter in order to help blacken Israel's image. Good job.
2) Israel did not seize Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem and Gaza from the Palestinians; those were areas controlled by Jordan and Egypt until Israel won the Six Day War in 1967. All so-called Palestinians are really just Jordanians or Egyptians.
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So by the same argument, all those Israelis are actually Eropean and Russians, and thus equally have no claim to the land.
I love it when Israel backers cite "there wasn't a country called Palestine" argument, because not so long ago there wasn't an Israel, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordon and Turkey either.
There was sonething called the Ottoman Empire though, but they never seem to be in a rush to call for its reinstatement.
I imagine to watch all the football you'd need a lot of spare time, and perhaps a time machine.
But you have a point. Rather than selling by who gets the first pick, maybe they should give the rights back to the teams. Want to watch all of your team? Watch your teams chosen channel.
Well the difference between ESPN/Setanta and BT is the same as the difference between ESPN/Setanta and Sky. Both Sky and BT were (intially at least) pushing premium sport to push their other products... Its the same strategy Murdoch's other companies have used so effectively into getting people onto his pay platform overseas - tempt em with cheap exclusive sport to get onto the plaftform, make initial cash from supplementary products, and then milk em later when you cant get it anywhere else.
Yet my "Existence" was "licensed" by the state on the day of my birth, and the cessation of such existence will be "licensed" when I eventually do kark it.
As it is for billions of others across the planet.
All this would have done in real terms, is replace an old document thats easy to lose and forge, with one thats a bit harder.
Shall I call oxford and tell them the definition of the word "Tryany" has changed, or do you want to do it?
Maybe you are.
Your internet connection breaks. Your ISP says it will take 6-10 Working days to fix. You decide to sit down and play a singleplayer game to take the edge off.
The game, and I stress this again, is singleplayer. it runs completely on your console, not some remote server. It uses no online content at any point.
But you can't, because some idiot decided that your console shyould always be online.
A few months later, you decide to visit some relatives. These relatives live in a rural area where internet connections are spotty... so they never bothered with one.
You thought you might take your console to play a few party games that have no online component
But you can't, because some idiot decided your console should be online only.
When it comes to "online only", the question shouldn't be "Why not", but "Why the hell should it be?".
@ AC
"This seems to have given rise to an opinion that everything that was bad that's been done by the coalition was down to the Lib Dems, everything else the Tories."
Which shows that the Coalition itself was a masterstroke by DC, and a damned foolish move by NC.
NC should have offered confidence and supply, no more.
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