Posts by Doctor Syntax 40485 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"some issue with the Firefox engine maybe?"
The issue being that they didn't test with it and therefore didn't tweak for it. Why their site is so badly written that it has to be tested and tweaked for each individual platform is a different matter - I think it's because that's been the industry standard way of doing things for about a couple of decades.
More recently, of course, Horizon would have cocked up the sub-Post Offices balance and sent the kindly old person to jail for fraud.
Of course as soon as they were no longer able to conceal this the convictions were quashed and a crack team got onto the job of ensuring the victims were properly compensated. What's that? They didn't?
If there were a real business case for it, VCs would invest quick-time.
Define "real business case". In VC terms it's something with a relatively quick payback time in terms of becoming a profitable business that can be sold on. Infrastructure projects tend not to be. Although they may be enablers for a lot of economic activity they may even become money pits for those owning them because they need to be maintained or updated. When the economy is tight private ownership doesn't necessarily have the money to put in so they then get nationalised (e.g.British Railways). Then they become political footballs; next time money's tight government decides it can't afford them either so they get cut (Beeching) or (ineptly) re-privatised.
2nd harmonic good, 3rd harmonic bad.
I remember reading a report of someone who'd creates a setup to add various amounts of various types of distortion for a listening panel. The listeners preferred to sound with some 2nd harmonic (or maybe a slew of even harmonics) distortion added.
Where to start?
It's plants and cyanobacteria, not animals, that photosynthesise and they do so to build more complex molecules out of inorganic molecules: carbon dioxide, water, natrates, phosphates etc.
We wouldn't "make" energy from light. Light is energy. Photosynthesis uses it.
Why would we want to use it industrially? To harness energy either to make electricity or to have a CO2 to fuel process that's more efficient than having to process plant material to make something like biodiesel. If that were possible we could avoid all the complications of switching to EVs whilst not adding to atmospheric CO2 - we'd just be circulating carbon between the atmosphere and stored fuel.
They still get to experience the consequences. I wonder how many of them wish they'd voted. IIRC when the result was announced it was reported that there was a peak of Google searches about the consequences. I wondered how many were from the non-voters and how many were from those who'd voted Leave as a protest vote against the government without thinking too much about what might happen.
Then there was the MP who'd campaigned for leave suddenly demanding that HMG replace all the EU funding his constituency had been receiving up until then.
The fact that there is no mechanism to enact the renewed "will of the people" is the lack of democracy.
This!!
Tomorrow a lot of us get a chance to change our minds about votes cast a few years ago.
A one-off, irreversible decision shouldn't be treated as binding when it was presented as advisory and should require a good deal more than a simple majority.
In fact the referendum was "advisory". Having got the result he didn't expect and obviously hadn't even planned for he panicked. It would have been quite reasonable - although unprecedented in government terms - to treat it as reason to undertake an impact assessment. That should have been his plan B. His emergence plan B was B for Bolt.
"like using customer address fields for CRM information"
I suppose it would be better than using them for customer addresses in one accounts package I once saw. Address lines about half the length of what one might reasonably expect to find occasionally and about 75% of the length of at least one line in most addresses.
There are no issues with jurisdiction here. It's not so simple if, as seems to be the case, the plaintiff is in Europe but data is passed on and processed in another jurisdiction. AIUI the claim must be made in that other jurisdiction. It really ought to be in the country where the actual data transaction took place. It would be nice to think that if the case succeeds it would apply in the UK but, of course, "we" have taken back control so that "we" actually means "them" and consequently there are no guarantees about that.
Nevertheless it's a step in the right direction.
As I've written in another comment, LibreOffice and others manage the situation without resorting to this. Libreoffice has just one DEB & pne RPM option. They install into subdirectories /opt. Seamonkey does away with DEB and RPMs with a file to be untarred into /opt (although if you don't want US English you have to choose the right tar-ball).
It was a solved problem years before Snap and Flatpak decided they had to re-solve it.
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