Posts by Thecowking

Re: Before I sign up

Permissions are network access and to see network interfaces, the application is taking up 8 mb (not including article data, which will vary clearly)

Re: Moto X Play

You and me both.

It's the SD card and the nice big battery that's tempting me, possibly, to not go from the 4 to whatever Google release this year.

That said, if it's a revamp of the Nexus 5, I might be swayed again.

My problem is that the Nexus 4 is still such a good phone that I keep putting off upgrading, because it's still more than good enough.

I've been using the technical preview on my gaming box since it launched and I'll be honest, it's no worse than any other version of Windows and faster than 7 was (which is what I updated from).

I've seen all the stories and failed miserably to find any bugs in every day use. Which as a software tester by trade is a bit of an arse.

Frankly it's been as boringly stable as ubuntu mate is on my laptop.

Re: Wireless charging is bad.

My nexus 4 has been only charged wirelessly for about 2 years now. I pop it on the charger before I sleep and it has a cover on to prevent slipping (The nexus 4 appears to have achieved a perfectly frictionless back) and it's fine.

So yeah, anecdotal data is anecdotal.

Re: A fine staple of hangovers in the Southern USA....

Last time I was in Texas (December last), I had biscuits and gravy.

Airline food was much better.

So was pretty much everything, including McDonalds.

That stuff is sodding awful, like wallpaper paste on sad scones. As for what passes for "sausage" there, the less said the better.

BBQ on the other hand was magnificent.

Re: Why on earth?

A bug is a specific type of insect, having piercing mouthparts iirc. Thus crickets with their mandibles are not bugs.

Re: Chrome and uMatrix

I'm running elinks in dash, I am probably already compromised :P

I still remember my parents cries of anguish when they discovered that I had done that to the VCR.

In my defence, you shouldn't leave a screwdriver near a child, asking for trouble.

Re: kitten

I use ukitten in the UK for similar reasons, never do I need to see Nigel Farage's face.

Re: You know you've hit them where it hurts

I disagree, the British public still have Private Eye, which can still spread the dirt on everyone, much sued though it might be.

My school library colour coded its Dewey Decimal stickers on the spines.

Only down to the hundreds level, but it meant seeing a grossly misfiled book was easy.

Good lord no.

Homogeneity is a curse when it comes to programming languages. Let them muliply and let the good ones flourish and the bad ones die.

Re: I despair ....

Me too, after Civ 2, I think the whole series took a downward turn.

I don't see why I'd build a temple unless Elvis is going to tell me that the people love me.

Re: WoW?

Like the iPhone, WoW did nothing new, but it did a lot of things in a shiny way which got great press and got MMOs into mainstream thinking.

I love WoW, but what it does best is rip off other games and polish their ideas.

Re: Consumer subsidy per car

I wanted a Tesla before this, but you've just made me _really_ want the Tesla 3 when it comes out. You're saying I'd save its price over about 7 years in various savings.

The subsidies work, I've got the incentive to switch to a Tesla 3 :) Just hope they roll out more super chargers around the UK

Re: Don't ask the user!

That's not what people said when they tried adding more horses to lasagne!

Re: Who actually cares?

I'm amazed you need to ask that question.

Seriously, are you trolling?

Re: Don't buy the Latest Roku 1

I got the fire TV stick too, but my experience was clearly different to yours.

I used it for half an hour where it failed to stream anything, suffered input lag (especially with voice) and got thoroughly annoyed with the fact that on their app the touch screen is used to emulate a damn D-pad instead of a touch-screen for the TV. *fumes*

We unplugged it and then went back to the chromecast, which despite apparently having much worse specs, actually lets you watch TV. Of course Amazon won't let you cast amazon prime instant video in the UK still so I don't get that from my renewed Prime sub (meaning I don't watch anything on it, but the free postage and delivery on Sundays is worth it for me now).

Maybe they've improved it, I can't imagine how it'd be worse than that half hour I tried with it.</rant>

The sad thing is there's a lot I want to watch on Prime instant video, but Amazon make it extremely hard for me to watch it, so I don't. The stuff isn't compelling enough to make me jump through the hoops they've put in front of me.

Re: Parents...

In all fairness, XXXXX is a pretty unusual surname.

It's more of a middle name in my family.

Re: Interpretation ..?

Terra != Sol.

Re: Pizza saves lives

See also: Samurai Pizza Cats.

Definitely not a knock off, nope. no siree.

Re: Mortgages are go!

Depends what your goals are.

I've visted the states a lot and while it's lovely to visit, living there would grind me down in months.

The food, the accents, the television, the politics, all of it would just wear me out if I didn't have the escape of Blighty to come back to.

I'm very happy to keep my lower pay but my (personal percieved), higher quality of life. I've lived in China, I've got a job that takes me round the world when want it to, but I always look forward to coming home.

Eventually I'd even like to get back to Manchester. If I was more motivated by sheer remuneration, I'd probably have taken that offer of a job in Sacremento four years ago.

Re: Hmm...

An actual maths examination doesn't get any easier if you have a calculator.

For a start, it rarely involves many numbers. If you're at an intermediate stage all it will allow you to do is skip the chore-work of, for example multiplying all the elements of two matrices by hand. Not that you shouldn't be able to do that if needed, but it's at a level so far below that which you're actually testing that to enforce it only serves to make maths feel even less appealing to those who are not inclined to love it.

If you're testing arithmetic on the other hand, calculators are right out.

It was called the package check.

I still have the T-shirt that came with my master system version of Mortal Kombat.

I might dig it and said console out tonight and have a bit of a retro gaming fest.

Re: "Mobile Friendly"

Oh that would be lovely.

Just imagine how fast pages would load without 8 megs of javascript to load or hideously large images that you don't actually care about.

I have to admit to browsing using elinks often just to get a nice clean, fast, web experience.

As previously stated, she'd be staring.

Probably at them.

Re: profitability still seems a way off for YouTube as a whole.

I think that's more Uber's issue than Google's.

At least until the self-driving cars get out in force.

Re: Um....who uses these things?

I can probably live without that cup, capacity is too small.

My tea mug holds over a pint and has Mr Greedy on it. Pretty hard to top that without some major engineering.

Re: Honest Question ... @jason 7 @thecowking

Really? Because I've been pushing the same install from HDD to HDD, to SSD as I've been playing and upgrading machines since launch.

The _Blizzard Launcher_ likes to be on the actual real HDD, but not the WoW install folder.

Re: Bookmarks.

Works on Linux too. If you don't want to always have to press alt, you can right click on the bar and select "menu bar" to show it all the time.

I wasn't aware there was another way to access bookmarks.

Re: Bloody hell

I was about to say the same thing. Though I'm not certain of Robert Dearheart's mortal status as of Raising Steam, I don't know that it's ever actually mentioned. However it was definitely her brother who was murdered on the tower.

Or on the ground by the tower depending on whether you take cause or effect as the actual murder.

Tshee-ow Mee

Or that's as close in English phomemes as I can get. If you've watched anything about Bruce Lee, the Xiao is the same as in his nickname, Xiao long (little dragon)

Re: Back in the day

Blacksmithing in general is very fun and satisfying too.

I recommend it as a hobby for children of all ages. I am still looking for a house with an outbuilding remote enough that I can sling a forge and anvil in there without upsetting SWMBO.

I think they drink in The Salisbury though, it's a lot closer for them and the food's better.

Re: I think I'm going to like this

It's out on Linux.

I'm using it already, there's .deb .rpm available. It's nice and fast and _very_ reminiscent of older Opera, down to the default mouse gestures, which really pleased me. I'll be giving it a good testing the coming week or so.