Posts by Blane Bramble

Re: TV ownership fine

You can own a TV without paying the license fee.

There, does that help?

Re: Employer...

"the boss between 10 and 11 and he worked through until 6 or 7 in the evening. Anybody, especially management, leaving before him was a slacker"

Seen it, but it's a sign of poor management. The response is "my guys have been here since 8. You arrived at 10. Of course they're leaving before you".

Re: As for ghosts (holy or otherwise) ...

So are UFOs real then?

Yes. UFO ...

Unidentified

Flying

Object

It doesn't mean "alien spaceship" you know?

"BT should have point blank refused to allow other companies into its exchanges back in the 'mercury' days. "

We'd still be waiting for ADSL to be given the green light while BT protected their leased line and ISDN business.

Re: I have to thank ken for my passwords

"Coders should have sound proofed booths."

You'll never cope with having kids if you have that attitude to disturbances. Learn to focus.

Re: Doing this in parts of the US too

Having studied the USA for many years, I believe your solution is "moar gunz".

Re: Well that ruling has a timespan of about 30 days in the UK

"Threatening "No Deal" is going to a car dealership, and saying that if they don't sell you the car you'll steal it and torch it."

No, threatening "No Deal" is going to a car dealership and saying if you can't agree a price you'll walk away. A relatively strong bargaining position.

Removing "No Deal" from the table is going to a car dealership and telling them you have to leave with a car, no matter what. A very weak bargaining position.

It is clear a lot of people have never tried to negotiate anything in their life.

Re: "In The Box"?

Ahh, but that isn't latency introduced by the network (those wires and switches and routers and stuff).

Hence. no "network" latency.

"This will add a free extra 25 miles driving or so on electric"

It won't be free for long, currently it's subsidised by fuel duty. Once a significant proportion of vehicles are electric the government will need to reclaim that money elsewhere. You will be paying for charging, and probably also a tax per mile travelled.

This sounds like EBS failed and wasn't even locally redundant though. That is a much bigger problem if true.

Re: Brilliant?

"Top Gear does still have some of that amazing photography that Grand Tour was completely unable to match."

You might want to go back and watch a bit more of Grand Tour then, you clearly didn't see the same camera work I did.

@Julz

They provide a very nice and flexible tool kit that you can use to build lots of amazing things, and just like any set of tools, if you know how to use them they're great. If you don't know how to use them, you'll need to pay someone who does, or take the risk that your DIY job might turn out more expensive than you thought and still require a professional to sort it out.

Re: As much as I love bashing Apple...

There is a time and plaice for that sort of humour

Re: I like proper cash

You HAVE to accept cash in England, and in Scotland, you have to accept certain coins.

Not true. You have to accept legal tender for a debt, and cash is legal tender.

You don't have to accept cash for a sale.

Of course your (V32) 9600bps modem operated at 2400 baud.

Re: Estimating Software Projects

Sounds a bit like a Z80 assembler course I was on, already knowing how to use it. So tasks like "write a sub routine to beep the console 3 times" became "use the most esoteric instructions and logic to beep the console 3 times" - jumps by pushing addresses on the stack and returning to them, using the index registers, that sort of thing.

Re: Changed the (IT) world

Or the joys of F15 Strike Eagle on the ZX Spectrum, so much engine power that you could get your wings blown off and fly back to base just by keeping the nose up.

Re: Two day delivery?

It's two days in the USA I believe - it's quite a big place.

Re: Lol arcane knowledge of memory management

@Zilla "Nobody ever taught memory management to anyone."

Maybe not to your generation.

"that we can't even launch without getting permission from the White House?"

Because that last bit is wrong.

Re: A thin line

But you previously stated: "No doubt put in there as a result of poor management. ... unfortunately nobody thought of replacing said management."

I take it they don't do sarcasm where you're from.

Re: 44 allegations

@Loyal Commenter

But as a student your details are present on two different lists in two different polling stations.

Now do you understand the potential issue?

Re: £120 for 4MB

First SIMMs I bought cost me £120 per MB

Re: Who's next then?

@snozdop

That is what Apple claim, and they want you to think.

The US and French response is to find if this is true.

I am not sure why so many people seem to leap to Apple's defence based purely on a one-sided interpretation.

Re: Can we stop calling it a Psion please?

I want one for the exact opposite reason - because it runs a standard Linux distribution. It should give me a fully loaded remote terminal/tech support machine that can fit in a jacket. Very useful when out and about for 24x7 support.

Re: Well....

In fact as a first worlder, isn't London and NYC basically the most identical 2 cities you can pick across countries?

Why pick London at all, if you're trying to appeal to the concept of new music etc. surely Liverpool or Manchester would make more of a statement, and save the pennies.

Re: The weakest point ... ?

That is, of course, also it's strongest point.

You cannot prevent a counterstrike by "decapitating" the government.

This hinges on what you mean by "identify an individual".

Your netblock identifies who is responsible for the IP address.

Not who was using it.

Re: AD&D detailed rules?

See, that is where you went wrong.

(A)D&D is not supposed to be a simulation of a universe that details the rules to cover every situation.

It was intended to be a framework, with some standard rules that you could then use intelligently to cover other situations.

Interactive storytelling.

Not a computer simulation.

Re: 18:9?

Came on to say the same thing. It's 2:1 but the general public has been fooled into "bigger numbers are better".

@James 51

The illegality is for weapons whose primary purpose is blinding, not those that are designed for another purpose but might also cause blindness when used.

Re: Ubuntu naming convention

Because Microsoft Windows releases never have code named, right?

https://namingschemes.com/Windows_codenames

"Hey boss, we're going to skip Longhorn and Blackcomb and are going straight to Jupiter, OK?"

Re: "This helps to ensure that ... data is kept safe and secure"

So what they're saying is: if it's stored in a cloud hosting provider in the UK, it's safe; if it's stored in a cloud hosting provider outside the UK, it isn't.

Except there is this thing called "The Internet" which connects all the clouds together.

No, what they are saying is that whilst it is stored in a cloud hosting provider in the UK it is subject to, and protected by UK law.

Whilst it is hosted outside the UK it is subject to, and protected by the laws of that country.

Re: just get rid of it.

The problem with this is that it penalises those who have to commute long distances - we're all told to be flexible about where we work, but then required to pay for the privilege.

Re: Inflated prices...

Consumer hard disk drives have rarely been so expensive and surely not in the last 15 years or so.

I guess you're new to this IT thing aren't you? Speak to those of us who remember 10 and 20MB disks. I remember my first 32MB RLL drive. I also remember spending £500 on a second hand 500MB SCSI disk (yes, these are all MB not GB).

Disks now expensive? Get off my lawn!

>>while spending on acoustic guitars and power drills is relatively low

>The end of an era.

I'm old skool - bought an (electro) acoustic guitar a few weeks ago and looking at buying a new drill.

Directors are still liable for criminal or fraudulent activity.

Re: Murph

That wouldn't have been a large American oil company would it?

Re: Trust?

Neither of those links are to do with x86 processors.