Posts by DJV
342 posts • joined Tuesday 4th August 2009 12:24 GMT
Wow!
I'm off to buy a shed load of black ones and a tin of white paint!
Posted in HTML5 kicked into 2014
@Trib
"Didn't IE9 top the current HTML 5 compatibility tests from W3C?"
Maybe, but it certainly falls way down the list on www.html5test.com - the RC scores 116 (+ 5 bonus points) whilst the FF4 beta 11 scores 197+9 (though an earlier beta scored 207+9!), Chrome 9 scores 242+13 (but STILL can't print background colours and images - aargh!), Opera 11.01 scores 177+7 and Safari scores 207+7.
Posted in HP gives Lou Reed a right shoeing
One word....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
And, if not that...
...then maybe fined for wasting police time (and therefore taxpayers money).
@Lord Lien
Sinclair BASIC was arguably better when compared to the C64 (I have to POKE WHAT to get hi-res graphics?!?!) but reliability-wise they were far inferior. I should know, at the time I was working in an electronics repair shop and the number of dead Spectrums being returned around Christmas 1983 was astounding.
I also bought a Sinclair Cambridge calculator in the early 1970s (the prebuilt version, not the kit). It lasted less than 2 years before it popped its clogs, however I've still got a Commodore SR-1800 scientific calculator from a year or two later (1975, if memory serves) - I stuck some batteries in it just yesterday (first time in about 5 years) to see if it still worked - it did!
dip in, dip out appeal?
Shirley, that's SHEEP dip in.....
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Anyway, Shaun the Sheep is wasted on kids - the number of in-jokes and references to films (e,g, Psycho, Close Encounters, Saturday Night Fever, Airplane) and other TV programmes (e.g. Fawlty Towers, Futurama) are way above most kids' comprehension!
£400,000?
Blimey - I'd do it for half that!
Competent Minister?
But, Shirley, that's an oxymoron?
Posted in Sony Ericsson sues over Clearwire swirl
That's marbleous!
My cats occasionally chase marbles around my house - I'm sure some of the marbles look EXACTLY like both of those logos. Does that mean I (or possibly my cats or maybe even the marble manufacturer) can sue both Sony Ericsson AND Clearwire over this?
I off to phone my lawyer...
Does not compute!
"How do you respond to the problem of terrorism, of paedophilia, to subjects such as the right to be forgotten?"
Just asking... but what happens when the terrorists and paedophiles ask for their right to be forgotten? Will Sarky's brain throw a "does not compute" wobbly and explode? Now THAT would probably be a good result!
Posted in White iPhone inbound for spring of 2011
About time!
All those ceiling cats have been jealous of their basement buddies!!
Smartest? Which planet?
Well, if the only 2 things on a planet were a PC and Ballmer then I'd definitely agree that the PC would be the smartest out of the two.
Megaphone because that's what Ballmer reminds me of...
Posted in Microsoft's IE9 'nearly finished'
March?
Blimey, Google will have issued at least 7 new versions of Chrome before then!
Breaking News...
...Lowell McAdam injured in mysterious accident involving a chair.
POD?
Are Apple aware of this?
R2D2?
Look more like R2D2 vs Steam Roller and the droid lost...
I've seen 2 or 3...
But immediately saw they were fake when I noticed that what they linked to wasn't linkedin (I use MailWasher which previews emails and shows the link and then what that link really links to).
@Alastair 7
Agreed, Alastair. I'm a web site developer too and have just spent the morning attempting to slap IE (prior to 9) into place due to its stupid non-standard rendering. If this site allowed me to upvote your post more than once I would have done it a thousand times! I would have also DOWNvoted clueless idiot Mike OReilly's post a million times too.
So far, IE9 *seems* to render things properly but I'm still waiting to discover the big elephant in the browser that I'm sure is lurking in there somewhere...
Fantasic!
I've got an old laptop that runs DOS and can just about run Windows 95. Hey, I can get £50 off a new PC!
Oh wait...
...a PC from PC World or Currys...
...knew there would be a downside.
But...
...do any Cheela live on them?
(obscure SF reference - go google it)
Posted in Voting reform finally on the agenda
Rushing
Well, Labour know all about rushing things through parliament - a prime example being the hated Digital Economy Bill.
I for one would like to see the end of First past the Post asap - not sure yet if AV or PR is the better route, though...
Androd(sic) Scripting Environment
Good job they hadn't originally named it the Android Rapid Scripting Environment
Retrieved from the black box...
Co-pilot: Hey, aren't we about to hit that mountain?
Pilot: Nope, the iAltimeter says we're way higher than that peak.
Co-pilot (looking UP at top of mountain): Oh yeah. My bad.
Plane: Crunch.
Downgrade to Vista?!?!?!
Seriously? There are people who would willingly downgrade from W7 to Vista? I can understand downgrading to XP but... VISTA???? Are they completely bonkers?
Posted in Government lunatic magnet goes live
Ex Amiga developers?
Love the fact that when I just looked at one of the topics it fell over with:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 0
Varnish cache server
Them ex-Amiga developers get everywhere!
Opera 10.54
Bug is still present in Opera 10.54 - just so you know,
Or it could be your profile
I've updated to 3.6.6 after 3.6.4 and haven't seen a single hang as yet. Sometimes things in the profile get corrupted which can cause the same effects. There are plenty of web sites that explain how to add a new profile to Firefox - google it...
However, before you do that, it seems to me that you haven't actually proved it's not a plug-in as yet. Have you tried disabling ALL your plug-ins to see if that fixes things? If it does then re-enable the plug-ins one by one until the hanging starts happening again. If you can isolate it to just one plug-in then please tell the author (after making sure you really are using the latest version of that plug-in).
Hope that helps.
Funny?
Are MS are doing their best to piss of Opera? If you run the Amazon Shelf demo - in most browsers it says which browser is running in the bottom left hand corner. For Opera though it says "Other browser" - or are they just reading the user agent string wrong?
Agreed
Except that a good proportion of the other half don't even understand what the red wiggly line actually means and carry on regardless "no mater wot there speling iz liek!" Of course, I blame icanhascheezburger.com
Me too!
There - I've always wanted to post a "me too"
Obese people
"But if all this is really true then we should send all obese people to the great rift valley and get them endurance running. If they survive then our bodies are well adapted.."
Yeah, but don't send 'em there all at once - else it would no longer be a valley - they would fill it to the brim and turn it into a saturated fat marsh.
Indeed!
And if we'd originated in Blighty instead of Kenya we'd probably all be rather hairy and have gills.
Posted in Canonical rejigs Ubuntu support services
Ubuntu Advantage
At least they didn't call it Ubuntu *Genuine* Advantage...
(shudder)
Ballmer insists that one day, it will turn black
Yeah, on the day the sun turns nova and burns the Earth to a crisp.
Posted in Windows 3.0 turns 20
We won't mention Windows Millennium Edition (ME) nor Windows Vista
Err, just thought I'd mention that the sentence where you say you weren't going to mention certain things became rather self-defeating in that you, er, mentioned the things in the process of trying not mentioning them...
...or something like that.
I'm confused now and have to go lie down.
You could be right!
Just recently I've seen politicians apparently talking sense! What is the world coming to?!
Posted in Clegg promises liberties restoration
Shirley, something wrong here?
This can't be right - he's a politician and he seems to be talking sense. Am I really awake?
What?
Well, they may have tickled a Rubidium atom with laser beams and ensnared it in a crate made of interfering laser beams built by seizing the atom's embulgenated outer valence shell using a ponderomotive force field. But did they remember to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow at the same time? Enquiring minds want to know....
Posted in The internet, as imagined in 1965
"No more newspapers as we know them?"
I think that is already true - back in 1964 the newspapers of the day tended to carry ACTUAL NEWS, not the biased, soap-orientated, media-obsessed crap that gets churned out today.
But I live in hope that Murdoch's days must surely be numbered - especially with the paywalls he is now putting up.
Bloody hell!!!
Someone's talking some sense - quick, lock them up before they start infecting and influencing the idiots in power.
</sarcasm>
(nt)
"The unit treats patients with severe mental health problems."
Sounds like they employ a few of them as well!
Hopefully...
...someone anonymous at one of the "shafted" companies like HTC will post info onto Wikileaks about some of these MS patents involved in these deals. It would be an interesting show if we find that some of their "patents" only cover "obvious" stuff that should never have been allowed to be patented in the first place.
Posted in Murdoch newswire sues over 'hot news'
Copy n paste
Tut, tut. When will they learn...
..what they should have done was copy, EDIT SLIGHTLY and paste...
I wonder how...
... Dean and Nigel would do:
www.deanandnigel.co.uk
Posted in 'Gossips' say Apple will acquire ARM
In a word....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
