Posts by Doctor Syntax 42273 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
The Snopes article itself has a couple of issues in left-pond English: 'dinette set' is meaningless - or at least its meaning has to be reverse engineered and 'an English speaker would describe a broken-down car by saying that it “doesn’t run” rather than it “doesn’t go,”'. The latter might be true of an American speaker but but hereabouts "doesn't go" would be the norm.
Tricky stuff, language.
"Often you can only make judgement calls on that based on a company's reputation, and that only tends to change over a scale of years or decades rather than the lifetime of a product."
The reality can depart from reputation PDQ - but only downwards. Change of management or sale of the brand is all that's needed.
"The wiring harnes decided to burn itself out at the main control panel."
No - just no!
I've replaced the main oven element twice and the fan once. It always happens about this time of year and the original element went on Christmas morning - now I keep a spare to hand. But the wiring harness....maybe I should order one now, just in case.
If I were running TikTok I'd be sorely tempted to:
1. Take the money
2. Deliver a barebones software system on the grounds that China's export controls forbid export of anything more
3. Withhold the user data on privacy grounds
4. Start another one next week. How does TikyTaky sound as a new name?
"The very, very vast majority of phone users will not downgrade from 4G to gprs."
They'll also complain when they can't get a signal of any sort. So where do you place the trade-off? Or, to make it personal, any time you find yourself without a signal do you consider it a good trade-off for somebody somewhere else to have 5G?
"It benefits ISPs which get to charge each user for a shared resource."
I may have misunderstood this but the implication of it seems to be that the internet is just there and wouldn't cost users any money without the wicked ISPs charging.
That shared resource cost money to create, costs money to be continually expanded to keep up with demand and costs money to pay people to look after it (and the users) and energy to run. Those costs are also shared and that's why you need to pay your ISP.
"MS have done the work on Model Clauses to cover all this which looks to a non-lawyer"
And those clauses are not worth the paper they're not written on. Because MS is subject to the US government they cannot abide by them if the US govt. says otherwise. That's the Schrems II ruling that is the whole point of the article.
Pine?
Pine Is Not Elm
I'd been using a Unix box which had the Rand editor but no vi before I found myself in my first real IT job. At the end of the first day I rushed off to Dillons. I've still got the book in my bookshelves but it hasn't been opened in the last couple of decades or more.
"Then, if for you silly money for software means any sum above zero, that's another matter."
Money becomes silly if it's more than the S/W's worth. If all I need to do is rotate images of SWMBO's patchwork back and forth to get the orientation right and them crop them for here weekly class handout then 150 of any currency units above pence is going to be silly.
Definitely +1 for Pinta. Kolorpaint can also be handy.
I regularly have to prepare images of SWMBO's patchwork for her class handouts and Gimp gets used for rotating the images backwards and forwards to get optimal orientation - and yet somehow Gwenview seems easier for the final crop.
I end up using a combination of all four - in Gimp the simple and complex are often equally obscure to work out.
