Posts by graeme leggett

Eg if it's looped through one of those staples designed to reduce the ability of a miscreant to get bolt cutters onto the shackle?

Re: Bloody replicants getting everywhere

Which desert?

The French attitude to extraterritorial may be coloured by history. French Empire was quite big even if a lot of it was sand. There's also that nuclear force - having one of those gives a feeling of self-importance.

Re: "getting drivers a street-level cab"

With a low cab, where does the engine go to? And with a cab in front of the wheels, won't the space taken up at turns increase?

Re: Next stop Venezuela

I have heard that Aberdeen as a whole is suffering a downturn due to the low oil prices.

Re: We know you, you know!

"It was rejected, hated, railed and rallied against"

You forgot "rioted".

Re: Good article

I don't think I was agreeing - I was pointing out that the organisation follows the intent, just as an SOP is formed as a means of turning a policy into practice.

Re: Damn Lawyers.

They've only got series 1 to 3 on Netflix in the UK. Damn them.

Actually, now I think more on it. The Chromecast device using wifi, I'm surprised it couldn't work out which country it was in - and therefore the likeliest frame rate in use.

Re: Interesting times.

"Dixons-PC-World-Whateveritiscalledtoday "

and there's the problem. A desolate hall - about 50% empty space - compared to the days when there was actually stuff on the shelves.

Someone will try, and that's a good thing.

Re: Can't tell scale from photo

Or a Kenner (Palitoy in the UK) action figure would do.

Re: How is this legal?

On the other hand,

a) such devices already exist, and if there have been instances they should have been acted upon already

b) if it is mandated, then the specification will probably also include requirements that the device should not present a hazard if use, and some form of safety testing to confirm that before the device is incorporated into a vehicle.

"What does this Turbo button do?"

Or on the cheaper cases - "what does this Tubro button do?"

Re: This is how it should be done

"all your copies don't disappear in a puff of smoke."

though in the case of the 1980s issues I recently found in my loft, they can go a bit crinkly and yellow

Re: Reading mode

Just tried the reading mode. I wasn't aware of it before but will be trying it again.

Re: More bloatware...

there's a "suppress partner offerings" (or something similar) in the java settings. Right down at the bottom.

Re: Retina display?

I remember when 1280 by 720 was adequate for getting things done on a 14-inch monitor, so I don't see any problem when applied to a screen one third the diagonal even if held only one third of the distance away.

Gemini Man?

Re: Antichthon

Or referencing Doppleganger / Journey to the Far Side of The Sun by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson

Re: I'm puzzled by these attempts.

Tesco have Clubcard and Tesco credit card to get customer shopping habits.

Generalizing here a bit but I suspect the vast majority of shoppers at Tesco don't give a flying fig roll (aisle 15, next to the ginger snaps) about being tracked through their iphone

Re: Monitor this....

With your workplace, it sounds like everything are subject to in the way of monitoring is clearly understood and openly acknowledged. You know your position and accept that.

In other places, there are employees unaware (possibly blissfully so) that management look through their emails, count how many times they take toilet breaks, what hours they arrive and depart and those who have a suspicion that it goes on but have not been told that it does. Those are the ones that need a bit of protection.

Re: What makes art?

As an exhibit - better suited for a museum of computing, as a "famous computer" because the bits of themselves are only factual.

Now if someone had reused the pieces to represent the act of destruction, or the overbearing state, by for example laying them out to spell "1984" then that might be a bit arty.

Re: Fast Integral Reactor.

I've cancelled overflights of the Salado Formation in my light aircraft 'Eagle' just in case.

Re: "I still to this day want to know just what the hell they where medicated for?"

Or protect you from whatever grew on, or in, those bits of wood bolted to the ceramic rim in lieu (see what I did there?) of a proper lifting seat.

Re: Service? Industry?

Or worst case, send someone down the local chippy, Chinese takeway, etc while promising a post-production trip to a Michelin-starred restaurant.

though if the "major talent" was already in a tired and emotional state, it might only have taken a lack of mushy peas to set him off.