Posts by LybsterRoy 1654 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2020
Lidl do seem to struggle with the "complementary product" concept. As an occasional involuntary DIYer I like the Parkside power tools - reasonable quality, reasonable price - and I'd been on the lookout for a 20V circulat saw to replaced my corded one. Finally I spotted them, bought one BUT I'm still waiting for the 20V batteries to come into stock :(
-- the 70% cocoa dark chocolate bars with cherry and chilli --
I'm a lover of dark chocolate (initiated on Terry's bitter dessert chocolate) and struggle to find products. My current quest is for a dark dringing chocolate that's not loaded with sugar (I'm diabetic)
Nowhere near as bad as that but when I bought a house in Rushden when we moved in I found the previous owners had removed the heater/lamp from the bathroom leaving (I think) three red and two black wires dangling from the ceiling. First time in my life I'd had to deal with ring mains. Bloody nightmare.
-- nothing over and above Windows XP --
I know quite a few people who'd happily return to XP if allowed. Personally I moved on to 7 and until my anti-virus/anti-malware stops that's where I'm staying.
-- save for ongoing support --
For most people that means bug fixes - some of which are worse than the bug being fixed. I'm lucky I only ever had one machine totally bricked by a Windows update.
Whilst I have sympathy for your viewpoint remember Hanlon's razor "Never Attribute to Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained by Stupidity"
This looks to me like a law involving technology made by people who just about have sufficient technological ability to flip a light switch.
Most of the problems with wp or spreadsheet application interworking seem to be based on the fact that they are trying to do lots of things that aren't really wp or spreadsheet. Maybe what we need are a slew of small easily maintained and performant tools - eg a form filler - all nicely self contained without the incredible functionality that everyone seems to want to bung into every app.
I disagree on at least two points - the simple one is that up to D2007 (the last I bought) Delphi abstracted MANY of the GUI elements - not all. In some cases you had to use Windows API calls directly.
The other point is that you are breaking the link between complex and high level abstraction. I'm not even sure I agree on what seems to be your definition of high level abstraction. A quick DDG gave me:
"Abstraction is one of the four cornerstones of Computer Science. It involves filtering out – essentially, ignoring - the characteristics that we don't need in order to concentrate on those that we do."
I'm not sure what assembler or the other high level languages would have filtered out.
Another one:
"the action of removing or separating something from a place or context (= the situation, facts, words, etc. that exist around something), or something that is removed like this:"
Way back in the prehistoric era when I was a nipper pop bottles had a deposit. Us kids would collect them and take to the sweetie shop to get the money equivalent in sweets. It was simple and convenient.
From the paucity of information around it looks like the deposit return scheme will be a bit more complicated - need to take to somewhere and get a token. What happens when the returns bank is full and awaiting someone to empty it. Do we have to take the stuff home? Here in the wilds of the Highlands they seem to have forgotten to empty our bottle bank. There's a nice pile of carrier bags round it now. Don't think that will do much for a deposit return scheme (at least it proves we're trying to recycle our bottles).
I eat the 2 finger Kitkat dark - the wrappers say they should be recycled at a supermarket where you would put the unwanted carrier bags - what's the probability of my saving all the wrappers from the Kitkats and other products so I can take back to a supermarket?
Anyone read the article on the Welsh recycling - 5 to 7 bins to separate stuff into - hmmm
I'm obviously a bit thick. I just tried a couple of searches and yes I had a small slew of adverts before the search results but as far as I can tell they are genuine adverts offering to sell something I could buy. OK I didn't ask for them but they were sort of relevant so in what way are they fraudulent?
I have upvoted you because I once had someone working for me (about 1983) who would type 2 + 2 into a calculator and accept 5 as the correct answer.
What ever happened to the "that just doesn't feel right" feeling that you get when looking at the result of a calculation? You know the one "whilst I don't know the exact answer I know its not umpty zillion" feeling.
-- Hidden by cutting permanent and senior staff --
That in itself would be bad but generally they seem to be replaced by bureaucrats
I got curious and wondered where the word came from so from the OED: Etymons: bureau n., ‑crat comb. form. In my warped world this may be understood as a desk comber!
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