Re: Only if they happened to be for sale.
Aren't they listed on the stock market?
That means they are permanently up for sale to anyone with the readies.
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Except that Apple it one of the biggest abusers of the US Patent system, so they are hardly likely to want to see a meaningful fix are they.
Do I see slide to unlock being mentioned? Hardly an innovation, the builders of Stone Henge knew that one.
Do I see things that go bounce? well that just happens naturally.
But the Mrs is a Red Dwarf fan too, I know she must be she bought me all the boxed sets and she never buys my videos that she isn't keener to see than me. She even introduced the kids to Red Dwarf.
As for post beer munchies, back in the pre-married days the favourite was the good old cheese toasty. The question is how much cheese can you actually get to cook under the grill? How many times do you need to cook a layer before removing it from the grill, adding the next layer of cheese and toasting the next layer? How much thicker can you make the cheese layer than the bread? And I like doorsteps when it comes to bread.
Of course you can't transport good cheese is the ex-Sellafield transporters, it eats it's way out before it gets to Drigg.
> It's more efficient to use the mouse as little as possible as moving hands from keyboard to elsewhere slows you down.
:-)
And I complained about HP's abandonment of the IFS keyboard to switch to the PC keyboard layout as the Esc key is so damn far away and I used it all the time.
> So tell me Dave,
I think this is a question of ignorance on their part. They don't understand that it is not possible to have a secure conversation with your bank while not being able to have a secure conversation with other people. They don't understand that having a back door that GCHQ can open means that every other government around the world and half the criminal gangs too can also open at will.
The whole political class just doesn't seem to have the faintest clue about how technology works and they seem to be determined to listen to "advisers" who will tell them what they want to hear. This week it might be Dave, in a few weeks it might be Ed or Nigel or Nick, they all seem to act in the same way once they get a whiff of power.
> Too many engineers fail to consider latency.
It's all bandwidth bandwidth bandwidth and so often its latency that counts.
No putting the proxy server for the Sydney office in London is not a good idea, really it isn't. No I know you think you've got a fast Internet connection, but...
Believe me, I chose those words very carefully. I wasn't trying to be tactful there. If you think of people as human resourses and you can see that an alternative cheaper resource can be used instead, then the business decision has to be to take out the costs. This has been being done for years, firstly it was people who used to do calculations by hand. Later we saw many people on assembly lines being replaced by automated equipment and if that didn't work, well there are cheaper people in another countries. But many tradishional "white collar" jobs have thought themselves safe. What Mark Carney was warning about was that those types of jobs will be in the firing line next and he finds the thought too close to home for comfort. Others have been in the firing line for years.
If companies are not paying as much tax as people think they should then the politicians have failed. It is their responsibly to write laws to ensure that people and companies are charged the appropriate amounts of tax. It is then people and companies responsibility to abide by these laws. You can not blame someone for obeying the laws you wrote just because you don't like the result, you wrote the rules.
Clearly the international taxation system is no longer fit for purpose when the laws in place allow companies to avoid paying taxes that others have to pay.
During the session Carney also expressed concerns over artificial intelligence and its "ability to displace cognitive jobs."
No one seemed to complain, or at least no one who really mattered, when computers/robot tools displaced humans performing manual tasks. Why should the world care if computers are allowed to displace bankers?
Get used to it.
If some programmer can work out how to do your job they'll find a way of getting a computer to do it and you can bet that some company will pay them to take you out.
How familiar is that then?
We're running late, what's next of the schedule?
Testing.
Oh, let's skip that we don't want to miss a project date.
What happens if this critical system doesn't work then?
Oh, that'll be a new project
So we'll have to fix it later then?
Well someone will, I'll have got promoted because I brought this project in on time and on budget, so fixing it will be someone else problem.
I'll wager if we can change the range to 15 years instead of 20.
I'll bet you one pint of beer that the temperature over the next 15 years will be the within the margin of error the same as it was over the last 15 years.
15 years ago I'd have bet you that the temperature would have continued to rise. I would have been proved wrong and we could be happily sitting somewhere enjoying a jar together.
Both bets would have been made on the basis that this is the prevailing trend, and is therefore most likely to continue.
I thought this was about Skype not Farcebook. Do you use Skype? Ever since M$ took over (and this is almost certainly just a coincidence) I've had 2 or 3 of these per week, always women, usually accompanied by a photo of a model, usually in a bikini and frequently not reflecting the indigenous population of the location that Skype gives for them. Mostly the contact request just say "please add me as a contact" occasionally they've done a little more work.
Now I'm probably what would be considered as a prime candidate for falling a for "a pretty girl routine", ie 50s bloke. But I'm not stupid enough to believe that some random "babe" from the other side of the planet is about to fall head over heals in lust with (I've a wife who loves me, lets face it here the goal is lust). Besides there are channels where its easy to meet people to play lust games in rather more anonymous ways.
I was also looking at going 4K towards the end of last year. Sod TV, I was shopping for a new monitor.
I even went as far as getting a suitable graphics card to plug into the PC but then...
At that point I realised that too much of what I need it for is tied to pixels and while I'm happy to own up to being a pixel junky I'm also in my 50s and my eye sight isn't what it was. So a 28" 4K screen wasn't going to help me read what was in front of me for the things which I couldn't just scale at will.
So I bought a 32" 2560x1440 display. Which is means I can have it far enough away that I can see it without reading glasses and everything is big enough for me still to be able to see it.
Roll on 50" 4K monitors.
How many people out there are sad gits like me running blocks of routed IPv4 at home (I've had a /64 IPv6 for at least 10 years too A&A have long supported IPv6). Most ISP only provide a single IP address, then you run NAT after that. So why should it matter if the ISP provides you with an IPv6 address for the router. Inside you could still run IPv4 for your old kit, everyone will continue to need to be able to talk to IPv4 addresses in the big outside world.
Just issue the edict and be done with it.
> Seriously, with more and more cities directly outlawing Uber, I fully expect a huge lawsuit against them from Uber.
I think you might be looking at this the wrong way around. With that sort of market cap. I think we can see a huge number of lawsuits against Uber. Up until now the lawyers weren't really interested since there was no money, so no point in trying to sue them. The action has only been trying to ban them, but the existing taxi firms couldn't afford a big fight.Now someone has mentioned the all important magic word Billllliiiiioooooooooonnnnnsssssss so the no win no fee get rich quick bottom feeders of the legal world will now be very keen to make sure that any Billllliiiiioooooooooonnnnnsssssss that do exist only exist in the back pocket of the lawyers. So where the cities deem Uber to be competing illegally with existing taxi services, the existing taxi services will now be looking for compensation for lost earning.
Perhaps they should have a simulator based test first.
One advantage of a simulator test is that it would be easier to control, give everyone the same test and not give you testers who say things like "turn left there" just as you go past the road.
The disadvantage of a simulator based test would that it wouldn't be anything like actually driving a car.
Nah, stop being a wimp and use the grown up version, what you really need is the Rolls-Royce Griffon. Sod the mere 27L, the Griffon is a full 37L and due to its history being linked with the Fleet Air Arm it rotates in the other direction (I guess the Navy liked to turn the other way).
The difference in rotation direction was a major shock to many pilots when transitioning from the small block Merlins to the grown up Griffons.
> has built an index of every public tweet submitted in the last eight years
Imagine if it turned out that the phone company recorded every phone call and decided to put them online and searchable.
I thought the idea of a tweet was you were shouting out to anyone in the world who could be bothered to listen to you. This isn't the same as recording every phone call you make or letter you write. With those you should have a reasonable expectation of privacy. This is why people (GCHQ/NSA/your government's equally nosy gang of eves droppers/your boss) snooping on email is so reprehensible. You have an expectation (even if naively) that this should be private.
But a tweet is a broadcast.
You put it out there for everyone.
So you can't complain when everyone can access it.
Firstly my wife's mobile get loads of these shit calls, fortunately mines currently get few, but for how long?
Secondly living without a landline rather depends on where you live and other factors in your environment. Vodafone's signal round here is crap these days whereas it used to be quite good, a little way down the road the is a hole where no-ones mobile signal works. My office at home seemingly has magic glass that cuts off the signal on all the networks. I can damn near see an O2 mast, open the door - 5bars, shut the door 1 on a good day.
As for relying on VoIP, not sure how that solves any of the problems since you still have a phone number the bastards can hook onto. But even with a pair of bonded ADSL lines the reliability is no where near good enough if you NEED to be in contact with the world. I have the landlines connected up as a backup for the VoIP phones.
Besides with no landlines there would be no Internet connection. 3G or 4G doesn't cut it I'm afraid, have that as a backup with a proper external antenna attached to the router but latency times are much longer than the ADSL and while peak bandwidth might be OK, it rather depends on who else is working locally. No "cable" here since the stupid cable companies tried to get the builders to pay them to fit the wiring, when at the same time they were digging up half the country and laying string down the holes for free, so no other way of getting online.
And I'm lucky, try living outside of towns/cities and people are in a much worse situation.
5120 by 2880 pixels, or 14.7 million pixels
Haven't Apple noticed that all their competitors are locked in a head long rush to reduce the screen resolution of laptops. It's been decided by industry officials that users don't want pixels on their laptops any more. Adding more pixels has been decreed to be the wrong direction. Before about 2003 then the market wanted to increase pixel count and eventually reached 1920x1200, then the marketing zeebs decreed that having too many pixels was a bad plan and put the industry in a reverse. Zeebs across the world are waiting to see which manufacturer will be brave enough to introduce the fully retro VGA 640x480 display. Or whether they'll decide on a wide screen format 640x360 display as their ultimate masturbatory fantasy.
Jeeeeez Apple are being just so 20th century here.
> Naw...that'll be in next month's model.
10 years ago laptop screens were 1920x1200, then they were upgraded to 1920,1080 and many were further enhanced to be NotMuchx768. Next years laptops will be so enhanced as to be 2x1 pixel displays.
Me?
I'd love a laptop with 4K support, even if it had a 1920x1200 laptop display (actually I've given up hope of anyone making anything better than crappy "Full HD") but with support of external 4K monitors. And I don't even want to be able to play games on them, I just a pixel junky.
If you are entering sensitive personal info into it then you are a moron who shouldn't be playing any part of a test cycle.
So you are saying that you can't actually test whether this system is usable in any sort of real world situation?
You can only test whether it can connect to other test environments.
Perhaps someone might like to test whether it can connect to their FB account. Since FB won't allow you to have fake or test FB accounts then you are saying that it is not possible to test this part of W10.
It isn't only the recent senior management at HP that have made huge "bets" with the whole company as the stake. The decision to go with PA-Risc was described at the time as "betting the farm" when both Bill and Dave were still on the scene even if no long actively at the tiller.