Posts by Alan Bourke

One PITA for developers here ...

... you can't install it on Windows 7. Way to nobble take-up, Microsoft.

SAP should do less kite-flying

and more concentrating on avoiding disastrous implementations and lawsuits.

Anyone who uses the term 'disrupts' ...

... needs a fourpenny one up the f**king bracket.

They always find Jeebus don'[t they

Pathetic.

The corporate tax rate is part of it for sure ...

... however to cite it as the only reason is just incorrect - many of these companies are just as interested in the fact that Ireland is the only English-speaking country in the Euro currency area. And in the event of Brexit, it'll be the only English-speaking country in the EU.

This is sort of meaningless.

'Elite' had an entire galaxy and fitted in a 32KB BBC Micro. Also Doom is 2.5D.

"In many ways, the existence of Chrome with support for Windows XP"

Hmmm ... not sure about that to be honest. I suspect most home users still on XP without being forced to stay on it by some piece of software they need to run are quite happily using IE6.

We had a Mac network in college in the late 80s.

It was great. Immense fun to be had going round the machines and using ResEdit to assign an orgasmic sigh sample on floppy insertion, then watching confused agricultural science students look around the room in a panicked fashion.

I notice there is a layer of CIGS

Is there a cadre of white-coated scientists tasked with ripping up Bensons for research purposes?

MOAR TRINAGLES

YES TRINAGLES

Yes tax

although that will be less of a factor going forward presumably. The fact that Ireland is the only English-speaking country in the Euro currency (and if Brexit happens the EU as a whole) is also a big factor.

I was due to win it this week and all.

For feck's sake.

Pim Dale

Loved him in the Carry On films.

Ah, PLCs ...

Rotherham. 1992. On placement for 6 months from a college course. Siemens PLC controlling a machine that put steel bands around flat reels of steel 'tape' to hold it together during transport. A similar situation saw me doing a 24-hour straight shift to get a new ladder program working. When I got home the Freddie Mercury tribute concert had just started.

Is IE still cack on it?

IE is still cack on it. Also many websites don't seem to test on it, so a lot of times you just get a blank page. Then there's the app gap, and more specifically midlevel apps like your local travel company, who will have an iOS and Android app, but never bother with WinPho. And it just errs too much on the 'walled garden' side for me in general. So back to Droid.

VS, considering what it is, is pretty good.

Thank farg they've fixed that ridiculous palaver of having to re-authenticate the whole time if you're on an MSDN sub. I also hope the Git support is better.

Always loved that NORAD display.

... and I always wondered why Grand Forks looked like buying the farm first in 'War Games'. Granted, Grand Forks AFB is there but I always wondered if it was an in-joke from someone involved in the film.

I drove from Sheffield to Worksop

... to turn a monitor on, circa 1992.

I haven't dabbled in Android development

since 2010. Is the phone emulator still murderously slow?

So, okay ...

... can I get a report for the management bods out of it yet?

Look, look for shite's sake.

Driverless vehicles are an unfeasible solution for a problem that doesn't exist. Driverless postal vans is running-bullshit-up-the-flagpole writ large.

Yeah, there are reasons people use Excel.

* Finance wonks love it.

* CFO's love it.

* Everyone knows how to use it.

* It's been around 30 years ... yes, and? It's mature and trustworthy.

Is big data really just about ...

"Is big data really just about gathering enough information about a consumer to target ads to them that they’ll block as unneeded and annoying?"

In my case I try my utmost to stop them getting the data at all, before I even start with the blocking as unneeded and annoying.

Present company excepted of course. Ad-blockers off on nice sites like the Reg that don't take the piss.

Oh yes you may mock

but when you're being bombed by autonomous robot prostitute-drones you won't be.

I remember them well ...

they were still floating around in the early 1990s PC boom, and always got on my tits for not being a PC. I bet Victor Meldrew had one for pounding out complaint letters to the local paper.

Sounds great this NoSQL stuff.

Can I get reports out of it yet?

Horses for courses, and NoSQL has a fairly narrow course.

You missed the ONE stat that really matters ....

.... will it shift Minecraft?

The main problems with WinPho 8.1 for me

are

(a) lack of official Google apps

(b) errs too much on the Apple 'walled garden' side, so not really configurable, no choice of browsers, no choice of keyboards

(c) pay for voice navigation? GTFO