Posts by ITMA 1310 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2019
"The downside is that you create a very juicy single point of failure..."
The "single point of failure" is giving your personal details (even if fake) to FaceSlap and/or Gaggle who then whore you (in the form of your data) out to anyone and eveyone - in exchange for pieces of silver.
Judas Iscariot would have been proud.
The "golden rule" of "free online products/services" is that if what is offered is free, it is because YOU are the product, to be harvested and sold.
"..and Steve's most astonishing invention - the colour black."
I think the Martin Marietta Corp might have a word or two to say about that.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4111762A/en
And those of a monotheistic religious persuasion might also wish to quarrel with Steve Jobs about it:
Book of Genesis
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Darkness=black ergo prior art.
"I have over 20 years experience in proofreading and publishing, and there are many instances of the truth being corrupted by illiterate busybodies for various nefarious (or even innocent) reasons"
Like the word "hologram".
The "Tupac Hologram" - NO IT IS NOT!
The election campaign of Narendra Modi by "hologram" - NO IT BLOODY WASN'T!!!!
Just because something appears 3D does NOT, repeat NOT make it a hologram.
And as it happens neither the Narendra Modi "hologram" nor Tupac "hologram" even did that (appear 3D). People standing to the left of each of those see EXACTLY the same view as people in the centre and people off the far right. IF they were holograms they should see different views. BUT THEY DO NOT.
Likewise, projecting an image that appears to hang or "float" in mid-air does NOT make it a hologram.
Of course most know why they try to label such images as "holograms". It makes them sound (and thus sell) far better than if they called them what they actually are - plain old 3D or video versions of ye old "Pepper's Ghost" illusion.
And Putin has now made his threat of nuclear retaliation overtly.
If Putin for one second thinks there will be anything left alive in what is now called Russia if he makes good on that threat, I think he is seriously mentally ill.
There won't be.
The utterly insance tragedy of this man's delusion is that there is likely to be not much left alive anywhere else on this planet either.
Dobby needs to go.
Putin probably thinks he is demonstrating that he is the "strong iron man of Russia".
Sorry mate - you just look like a Soviet era dinosaur with archaic Soviet era dinosaur thinking.
And as for that thinly veiled threat of nuclear retaliation if anyone "interferes" - What you think MAD has gone way?
Think again matey....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X236AeHt5RY
Substitute "Putin" for "Snow"
I wonder if the Russian people really understand where this dinosaur is taking them.
Back in my younger days - some time in the precambrian - those two basitans of Government were know by their "alternate" names:
Job Centre - The Joke Shop. Need I say more....
Local DHSS Office - The "Fun" Factory, as it was always such fun everytime one had to go there about your benefits claim (like it not being paid)
Why are Microsoft even bothering with the "Insiders Programme" since they seem to have adopted the policy of using paying customers to do almost all of their testing anyway - whether customers want to be used as guinea pigs or not?
As a paying customer one could be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft do sod all testing themselves.
Their own QC and change management appear to be garbage verging non-existent.
Just like supermarkets....
And probably with the same motive.
And while I'm here - which twat at Microsoft thought it a brilliant idea to rollout that predicitive text feature in Outlook and Word TURNED ON!!!!
I fully appreciated some may find it very useful. But they are MY COMPUTERS and MY BLOODY PHONE so stop forcing crap on me. Tell me it is there and let ME decide if I want to use it.
DO NOT turn it on and then leave me having to f**** about wasting time finding out how to turn the stupid thing off..
Sorry - actually no I'm not sorry - but that is a load of dingo's kidneys.
You are confusing "ludites" with those who just don't see the point of change for the sake of it.
Change that produces benefit can be fine, providing the benefits it brings outweigh the downsides - and there are almost always downsides to any change.
Too many of the more recent changes in the Windows GUI, are "New Coke" fiascos.
Nothing wrong with the old one and the bulk of the changes seem to have no real benefit for most - the biggest benefits I can think of being to those who thought up these changes to try to justify their jobs.
"Not a huge fan of Server Core myself"
I am 100% with you there.
Yes I know PowerShell is very powerful and that virtually all of the server managemenet "applets" are just pretty graphical front ends which effectively "spit out" PowerShell commmanrds.
I also appreciate there is significant overhead to have the WIndows GUI on a server.
But my philisophy is this - I am using and have been using for amany years Windows Server as much because it has the WIndows GUI through which you can do pretty much everything without having to learn a whole load of cryptic commands
If I really wanted to have to learn lots of cryptic commands to do virtually anything, I'd be using bloody Linux and not Windows.
I'd still like to know which sick **** decided the Metro interface should put on Windows Server 2012 r2.
Find his car on a very hot day and secrete some of smelliest cheese on the planet and let it sit there, baking in the heat.
Payback for the "pleasure" the Metro interface has given on a server.
"Don't forget the BBC Micro - white text on a black screen when you powered it on.
Even their word processors used the black background"
Not if you had one of those nice crisp green phosphor monochrome monitors it didn't, such as the Philips BM-7502.
I still have mine. And it still works!
If you were a flash git, you had the amber phosphor version, the BM-7522, just to be different.
And several models of RGB monitor, particularly the later Philips ones, had a "green screen" button - not as crisp text though since you still where reading it on a screen with RGB phosphor triads.
Ok, if the route the UK commission wishes to take is "ban HikVision because of the application one of its major customers (the Chinese Government) uses their products for".
Then the next logical step is ban everything made in the UK because we sell weapons and weapons systems to anyone with the money and the rigtht old boys club connections.
How many such products used for "nefariouos activities" by foreign governments contain ARM technology? BAN ARM!
Utterly childish attitude and pure political posturing to be seen to be doing something when the reality is UK commission can do SFA.
It's the old "what does the killing? - the hammer or the killer weilding it instead of using it to build something?"
The magic words to deploy in business environments when asked about "when can we get W11"? are...
ROI - Return On Investment.
What planet are Microsoft on if they think a small business with 70+ machines, all of which are perfectly good capable machines running W10, are going to chuck them all and buy new ones just to run W11.
Personally, without a bloody good reason not too, I'm going to do what I did with W7. Wait until EOL approaches and we've had maximum value out of the cash we've spent on machines.
