Posts by Wibble

Re: too late, I'm already gone...

I was with you there until you mentioned PS4. That's made by Sony who live in the 7th layer of hell along with Adobe. Up against them MS almost appear to be saints.

Re: But will they pay for access?

So they can use the "free" WiFi and not bother installing/upgrading their base station.

Re: Mac vs Windows laptops?

> If it's Windows software you are developing then the Mac generally sucks.

Yeah, right. You put the Windows in a VM and develop on that. You can have several VMs for different scenarios (like all the poxy IEs). All the development VMs can be copied from a single installation which you remove all the Windows shite. Even Microsoft ships pre-built VMs for testing IEs on websites (I downloaded the set of three the other day: IE9, 10, 11 on Win7. And as the Windows isn't going to be used for anything other than development, you don't need all the AV shite, orofice, or any of the other CPU-hogging cack that comes with Windows.

If, as *I* inferred from the OP, you are developing Java or J2EE, then a Mac makes for a really nice environment. Eclipse works well along with Maven and all the other development tools which are ported to a Mac environment. OK, there's no Tortoise port, so you end up using Versions or suchlike.

It's as simple as this: the majority of all "enterprise" developers I know use Macs. Admittedly I happen to know a lot of freelancers, consultants and contractors, but the fact stands.

So what's the alternative to a Mac... A horrid plastic laptop with letterbox-sized washed out screen running Windos. Haven't you got any pride in yourself man? A plumber's toolkit costs many times more than a Mac...

Re: Hang on...

Isn't Flash / SWF interpreted? In which case it's the interpreter that needs patching?

Met office

Updates is all that matters...

The biggest issue with IE is it's glacial update cycle. Updates only ever seem to fix the legion security issues and rarely update it's functionality. Compare that with Chrome & Firefox which are updated in pretty much monthly cycles.

Whenever I have to test a site using an IE, it just looks, errm, crap. There's something about the way that IE looks and interacts that makes it look and feel like an unfinished amateur product. Just take the naff way it handles <select> dropdowns with it's script-kiddie JQuery-esque animation. But I suppose this is the same for all of Windows when you compare it to other operating systems.

Re: Welsh Krautrock, anyone?

What a pity there's no previews available on that site. I like different music, but I'm wary of buying on spec just in case it's crap (IMHO)!

What about the Top Gear and Dr Who repeats*. BBC3 is useful for that. Similarly for some specials.

And Bluestone 42

And In The Flesh

*Some of us live in a bandwidth blackspot so can only dream of iPlayer working.

Re: OK so let me get this straight..

How can caveat emptor apply to people stealing software?

I don't want to claim the moral high ground but it does seem like just desserts...

Re: No need

You've obviously not applied for a loan recently then. Things have changed 'cos of all the PPI pigeons that came home to roost coupled with the new FSA^H^H^H FCA rules that means the bank now need to take -- and fully document -- your whole history regardless of your relationship with the bank. They effectively treat someone walking in off the street in the same way as someone with a 25 year flawless history with that bank.

Madness, utter madness. The pendulum has swung way too far the other way.

Re: ...

> The Impossible Girl

Odd how the Impossible Girl story line went OK, probably as it was a strong enough story to paper over the cracks underlying the Clara character. Sassy becomes downright annoying.

Now it's painful. Almost like there's a petulant teenager as a companion. Which is just plain odd as it doesn't suit the new doctor at all. Would work better with a more Donna-like character. Or Frank Skinner!

Is that the IE box model commonly known as the "broken box model"?

Whatever; the fact was that MS decided to ignore the standards.

Re: Purgatory

Looks like the MS fanbois -- or PR twonks -- are out in force with their downvoting...

Re: A plague of bots

> I run a large club, and we use a mostly automated feed to remind people of the events we organise

Why not simply email them?

Re: Outbid!

Is that related to Bulgarian Airbags perchance?

Re: Broadcast TV is a dinosaur

Please, do explain what you're talking about...

Must give him/her some credit for using capital letters and avoiding s2pid abbreviations.

Re: Drop in Ipad sales / saturated market?

Totally agree.

My iPad 1 with 64GB runs pretty much all I need. I'd like to upgrade, but the later iPad versions don't offer anything substantially different from what I've got. Sure, they're lighter, faster, better screen, but nothing *trully* compelling.

If the next iPad has the fingerprint sensor, that might make it worth the upgrade, but it's still an awful lot of dosh for fundamentally incremental improvements.

Quite frankly, it's the same for the MacBook Pro. I've a three year old 17" one and the latest versions have no compelling update: the CPUs are a few percent faster and the screens are great, but counteract that with the smaller screen (17" vs 15"), they're massively more expensive, they've no built-in DVD reader, you can't upgrade the disc or memory...

Why update at all?

Office 2003 was the zenith of Office development. All releases since then add little and completely screw usability.

FFS table formatting is still broken; formatting images is painful; it still crashes.

Don't fall for Microsoft's money making scam. You know it's not worth it.

Re: No matter how they approach ....

Just like fixing their bloody websites... Can you do a website for me (I develop them for a living). Yes, but it'll cost you. How much they say. Well, I don't know what you want, but lets say between 10 and 20 days, so somewhere between, lets say £2 to £5k but could be more. Eeek, that's not like the adverts for One and One on the telly.

Yep, please do.

I do get pissed off as they don't do that for their accountants, lawyers, surveyors and other professions, yet they do do this for us "IT" people. FFS we have to defend our reputation for being overpaid geeks...

Re: "Wouldn't use them myself" <> scam

Also... They're a scam because they employ considerable passing off techniques; similar typography and design (much like grocery manufacturers to to market leaders).

If they're morally dubious and adding no value, then they're they're probably scammers.

This is now getting more mainstream coverage in the UK -- for instance Money Box on Radio 4. From what I see of this change to the market-leading web browser -- Chrome -- this is simply going to aid the scammers, so expect a lot more of the "I've been conned" stories in the future.

Re: Power savings

> Anyway, after reading that I'm not sure my PC will have a hard disk for much longer.

I updated my Mac last year with the M500. It was so fast it was like I had a new machine. I love the silence; the reliability, but most of all I love the speed.

Worth every penny. Can't recommend highly enough.

Now if they could hurry up and increase the SSD to 2TB as I want to add another couple of Prog Rock tracks to the file system;-)

@AC - windows stats

> 75% market share of servers, about 90% on desktops - growing rapidly on mobile phones - doesnt seem so in the near future.

That's utter utter bollocks. More servers run Linux than Windows - check out the stats. The desktop is a declining market and few companies would even think of rolling out that W8 turd.

WTF has TIFKAM got to do with anything? Apart from proving Microsoft's pig-headed bombastic approach to customer research.

Are you Scott Forstall? If you are, then well done for killing Microsoft in conjunction with your pal Monkey Boy. I always thought Microsoft's competition would bring it down, not internal politics...

Re: "maliciously crafted applications can execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox"

Thankfully the 30 spam messages today containing zip files which contain a file ending in .exe don't seem to have any affect. That's the nice thing about Windows attracting all the ner-do-wells; targeting Mac just ain't worth it for them.