Posts by Geoffrey W

Re: Well I'm glad it's not just me

Battle ship grey every where isn't uniform and dull as washed out?

Re: What about the Foot Soldiers?

Just to spite you.

Re: "Now they are your best friends? sigh..."

Bob, if your posts are in any way indicative of your behavior IRL, then...See Ya! Been nice reading your insightful comments and measured thoughts. Lets meet up in the next life and compare notes about how it all went down.

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! It's the American way!

Re: I wish they'd stop messing with things that don't need "fixing"!

I'm not being snarky here, but I've been using the new Firefox and didn't even realise the address bar was different, in fact I'm still not sure what's different about it since I don't have the old version anymore. Perhaps you could be explicit about whats different, and particularly what's wrong with it, coz I'm durned if I can see it.

Re: It has been explained many times ...

You totally missed my point and I never said copyright should be perpetual - Life plus a bit at most.

You said if something was unsuccessful then it must be because it was crap. I was making the point that because a work is unsuccessful in the creators time doesn't mean it's crap; ref. Van Gogh

Contrary wise; because something is successful doesn't mean it's good - Have a read of Guy N Smith for proof; or you could just take my word for it and save yourself some pain.

Re: Once again, Social Networks and Work don't mix!

Another internet rule is that no matter the location or subject, people being what they are, crap will be posted and often. My wife is a member of a crotchet group - something to do with "Hookers" which sums up the general tone of the place - and I look on aghast at some of the fights that go on there. Who would ever imagine crocheters could be so unruly?

Re: 'Just drop in this script' to run their ads.

RE: "Does targeted ads even work well"

This question has been asked ever since advertising was invented, in magazines, newspapers, radio, TV. It works.; it's been studied (do your own googling) If it did not work you can bet it would have been dropped long ago. And if random advertising works then you can bet targeted advertising works even better. It's sad but advertising is something I fear we will have to learn to live with. The only escape is if civilization collapses and I think I prefer advertising.

Re: VB.net, not Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding your comment but Option Base statements got left behind when VB.NET took over from VB6. It's base 0 or bust.

Re: Swapping out fo...

Quite. There is as yet no hard evidence of Huawei malfeasance, only suspicion, whereas the US CIA, or one of the TLAs, were caught intercepting shipments of networking kit and fitting their own hardware inside it, which is more than a suspicion. Hypocrasy of the highest order, but of course the US are the good guys so whetever good guys do is obviously a good thing. Bah! A pox on them all.

Re: This outrageous!

Airbus' Best Friend Forever is currently Boeing. 10,000 thumbs up from the Europeans!

Re: So much for German efficiency

IIRC That company wasn't even in the ferry business, leased boats or not, and had no prior experience of ferrying. They could have gotten me for half that price.

Re: Do...While

VB (I know, I know...)

x = IIF([condition], [True_result], [False_result])

Re: Any MS devs looked at this?

Sabroni asked a very reasonable question, seeking reasonable replies. Do you and Bob have no self control or ability to say nothing? It's tiresome and boring and makes you look faintly ridiculous. It's clear you, at least, do have things to offer to the forums from your apparent long experience, but this is not one of them. We all know the views of both of you by now so can we not take it as read that you are going to say this (again...and again) and you just walk on by with a zipped lip.

Re: And when we get shit code in Rust ?

They might find a few buffer overruns that C++ doesn't give a flying one about, and still run as fast as the C++ version. Are you saying that's a bad thing?

Re: Might be beneficial

RE: "All black UI..."

Already done; ref. rock band and loudest thing in the Universe, Disaster Area, for it is they...

Re: Some, of course, prefer to stick with the likes of Vim,

A single asterisk? What happens if you want to type an asterisk eg 5 * 2

You happy optimist, you.

Things will only ever "Just Work" out of the box once everything is controlled and specified, hardware, software, everything. Absolutely everything. That's how Apple can get away with saying it "Just Works" - by controlling the hardware. And even they can't always get it to "Just Work".

We're actually doing a pretty damn good job, so live with it and get on with your life...:-)

Re: Sleep is a Good Thing(TM)

RE: "Who is making money from this? Who is living as if what they say isn't actually reality?"

The oil companies?

Well, not actually making money "From" it, but making money by denying it and carrying on as before. It's their documented strategy, and it has varied from total denial at first, to well, it's not as bad as they say it is, with lots of obfuscation thrown in and diversionary tactics and what-a-bout-ery. It's the same argument you used, but worse.

That tells me something. Aren't you ignoring the obvious?

Sometimes all these "Issues" are a vital part of ones livelihood. Keep em' coming!

Besides, things changing, better or worse, helps keep the old thinker working at it's agile best.

I believe that Boeing were allowed to certify their own plane as air worthy. Under funding of the FAA led to the FAA relying on Boeing to do the FAA's work for them. That is my understanding. Couple that with Boeing's desire to get something out quickly to compete with Airbus's new fuel efficient air craft which was already being delivered, and...

Re: Exactly true

Ta! So nothing for me to worry about then. Nothing endemic and baked in and unfixed since windows XP, which is the impression I got from the quote, just an occasional glitch which will be fixed, just like happens now and again with everything, microsoft related or not.

It wouldn't surprise me if Williamson was the leak but he didn't realise he was leaking. He was just chatting to this nice man who seemed to like him, not realising what he was saying, and what could be inferred; so when he claims he wasn't the leak he might not be lying, even though he was the leak. He does seem to have risen far beyond his abilities and has Brexit to thank for this, since May has quite clearly been scraping the bottom of the barrel for some time now for talented people to surround herself with. All the capable politicians have long since walked out on her, if there were any in the first place - lets say all the least incapable politicians have abandoned her, leaving her with this lot.

Re: Not really sure why this surprised anyone ?

GABA GABA HEY! We acshept you...youre my besht bud...hic!

Re: Patsy

Tarantulas don't build webs. They're hunters. Just thought I should mention that.

Re: Keys

OHHH! Goody! Here's another one to add to my list of Americans to entertain myself with on the weekend. Bombastic Bob, Big John, ST,...hmmm...you really need a better nick. ST doesn't conjure up Yosemite Sam like the others do. Come on dude, you can do better than this. You haven't mentioned the second amendment yet.

Re: Bad boss

Trump is the living embodiment of the PHB - Pointy Haired Boss - from the Dilbert comic...and yet Scott Adams is one of Trumps cheerleaders...what new kind of dissonance is going on in Adams head...I no longer understand the world...kernel panic!

Yes it does. In what way doesn't it work properly? Elucidate...?