Posts by Fibbles

Re: Meanwhile over in Android-land

... disabling Hangouts results in a periodic "Unfortunately Hangouts has stopped" popup.

Can't say I've noticed that on 5.0.2 though I do also have Google+ and the various Google Play apps disabled as well.

Re: Obvious when you think about it

hillarious cat

I believe the preferred nomenclature is 'hoopy frood'.

Re: #define spel spell

I'm only a hobbyist programmer so at the risk if sounding like a complete fool; why aren't they just running a 'find and replace' on misspelled variable names?

Re: I'll bet...

Wait till anon finds out that Glib is also used on Windows and that Microsoft has funded Linux development.

The need to define issues in black and white terms is surely the sign of a simple mind.

You might get games and other graphical programs that can better utilise your graphics hardware without getting bottlenecked by the CPU.

Re: Is it just me?

Losing your phone doesn't mean someone has access to your bank account. You'd have to lose your phone and your pin number. Similarly if you lose your bank card and have the pin written on it you'd be liable.

Re: Windows 7 cut off date is October

Just an FYI, if you get stuck buying a Win10 device you can buy MS certified 'refurbished' copies of Win7 on Amazon for thirty quid.

Automatically changing from transparent to opaque when struck by a laser isn't really going to help improve a pilot's visibility is it?

Hidden folder names start with a fullstop (period) and will always appear before none hidden folders in an alphabetical directory listing. They're really just deleting the 'first folder'.

Re: food hygene people!

From what I remember you need a special license to use wooden boards in a commercial kitchen. You used to be able to use hardened glass boards though any sort of glass in the kitchen seems to be discouraged these days in case they break.

Re: Christ

Helldesk well and truly earning their reputation there.

Re: Not that hard actually.

My guess is that Mr McCarthy is not old enough to remember Windows 2.

Re: Transparency doesn't matter

Gender is a social construct whereby people can be assigned to one of two sets. That certain people don't fit perfectly into one set or the other is an indication of how broken the concept of gender is. Gender is still binary though, despite recent attempts to subvert the terminology.

Re: That quip about hard things in CS...

There are in fact only 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

Re: Fuck Off Microsoft

what, no support for superscript?

googolplex^googolplex

Re: Microwave?

"Guam, and then onto the rest of the world"

Your plan for world domination has a really weird order of priority.

Re: Has Mr Dabbs got much better recently?

If Apple is unafraid to extend the hand of friendship, the Reg clearly isn't biting hard enough.

Re: Not your enemy

Not our friends either though.

Re: Complexity is fraud

Didn't Iceland's banks mostly hold money of non-Icelanders? It's easy to let your banks collapse when it's other people's money going with them.

Re: @Fibbles

As far as I'm aware, trade tariffs in Europe are implemented by the bloc rather than individual countries. The fact that Germany's economy is much larger than Greece's is no more relevant than the fact that California's economy is much larger than Nebraska's.

"Mr Fry's hair pies" sounds like the lyrics to something Alexi Sayle would sing.

Dr Marten's, Dr Marten's, Dr Marten's boots...

Re: Goodbye FTDI

But if you're using FTDI chips their shenanigans won't actually affect you?

If you were using fake chips why would they even care about your boycott?

Re: But why are they all red and white?

They look orange and white to me...

Auto is supposed to be used to save time when the type is already known which was part of my problem with the example originally. It's not supposed to introduce ambiguity which is what would happen if a literal could change from signed to unsigned simply based on its value. The programmer might expect an overflow into the negative but the compiler chooses to make the const variable unsigned and so it remains positive. It comes back to one if the core tenets of C and C++, that the compiler does what you tell it rather than what it thinks you probably meant.

You forgot return types BTW. It's one if my favourite things about auto.

Old way:

std::vector<std::tuple<int, std::string, double>>& foo = bar.get_stupid_container_ref();

New way:

auto& foo = bar.get_stupid_container_ref();

Re: Wonder how many Individual members there were?

Crowdfunding sites provide millions of dollars to people and companies with what are often stupid and unworkable ideas. Surely we can crowdfund something useful, like enough votes to seriously influence the FSF board.

Nope ... If either party undergoes a "change of control" then the other party keeps the rights.

It was a clause put in the agreement to prevent "Sugar Daddies" muscling in.

That's not what I saw reported but even if true I'd be very surprised if Intel didn't negotiate a new deal with AMD's new owners. If Intel ever becomes the sole producer of x86 chips they'll be at serious risk of the wrath of various competition watchdogs.

Re: Cross-subsidy

Well done Sherlock! You articulate a problem by assuming the the cross subsidy would be only for one company, and then present the solution. It wasn't rocket science, now was it?

Perhaps think before shooting someone with the sarcasm gun? If you strongarm smaller urban providers into a USO they go from say, providing lines to intercity Birmingham to being forced to provide lines in rural Scotland. That's not reasonable.

Re: anti-semitic propaganda? Gullible dupes?

If I were to hazard a guess it could be that there are large sections of Mein Kampf that read like the anticorporate conspiracy bollocks you can find depressingly easily on the Internet. Just replace 'World Jewery' with 'New World Order' or 'bankers'. We all love a boogeyman on which to blame all of society's ills, especially if they're rich.

That said, Google need to pay some damn tax.

American bacon is the equivalent to what is known as 'streaky bacon' in the UK. Only it has had all of the flavour removed and has been cooked till brittle.

About two days after it is actually found someone in the US will sue NASA to demand they divert New Horizons to pass it (ignoring the detail that it would be impossible to do, and that if it were possible they would already be doing it).

You're crediting them with too much intelligence to be honest. Expect the demands for a fly-by to start before the the planet is even found.

Re: Boom!

It's actually a reasonable question to ask. If a PC is part of a botnet then it's likely being used for something illegal. Why should ISPs and the like let such machines continue to access their network?

The answer is they shouldn't but they will because profit. So it falls to companies like MS to do something since they're the only ones with both the ability and inclination to do something.

Personally I'm a fan of redirecting all traffic from infected machines to a page with instructions on how to fix the problem.

Check the figures for number of MPs for Scotland and percentage of the UK population. Scotland is actually over represented in this democracy. They're in a privileged position as far away from enslavement as it gets.