Re: But this is *not* a network, by your own definition.

Do you remember the first phone networks?

Er, no. I am only in my late fifties so I'm perhaps a litle young to remember such a thing.

"When I was at school we had to enter the bootstrap loader for the PDP-8/e using the toggle switches on the front."

God, I remember doing this and trying to peer at the funny LEDs which were behind some semi-opaque plastic and trying to get it all going in in the right order. Great fun those days.

Re: Another Way to Push Out Possible Customers

"I was thinking about the same thing... anyone not competent enough to need an app. to find their car, really has no business owning a car."

Many years ago I parked my car one of the long stay car parks at Brussels airport to go to Norway for a month or so on business. I carefully made a note of the car park building number, the floor, the zone and what have you.

Four weeks passed and i returned to the airport, found the bit of paper in the Filofax (yes, it was those days), hunted down the car park building number, climbed to the right floor and then looked for the car in the correct zone.

Nothing. Not a car there. I checked and checked again but, no, nothing and it was then that I could have used such as app.

As it happens, I found the car many hours later - they had renumbered all the car parks whilst I was away.

Re: The welsh lobby

"I'm sorry but it's absolute bollocks to say that there are any significant number of Welsh people who have difficulty with English."

So, where do you get your information from? I get mine first hand from direct experience of knowing people here on the Llŷn Peninsula, so I can present this (and them too, I suppose) as fact.

Or does this experience make me out to be some sort of liar?

Re: I can answer this!!!!!

Why is it that all their road signs are in Welsh too?

It's a diabolical plot to kill the evil saes!

Reminds me of the kerbside crossing instructions in Caerdydd. In Welsh it said "Look Right" and in English it said "Look Left"...

Re: You can get the bible in klingon for kindle

"They don't even have a set at the UN and even Palestine managed that!"

Could you show me the seat at the United Nations which has the name 'England' on it?

Re: Klingon Vs Welsh

"Fluent Klingon speakers: estimates vary from 25 to around a 1000, unsurprisingly, the vast majority being Male."

Do we need to check their declared marital status?

Re: The welsh lobby

"That old chestnut."

Indeed, as as soon as they suspect that a Saesneg comes into their shop they quickly tear down the posters of Will Carling and quickly affix a picture of Owain Glyndwr to the walls before turning to the in-shop CD player whipping off the "Land of Hope and Glory" that's been playing and then quickly shoving on BrynTerfel's "Calon Lan".

I see it every time, you know, that I go in for a newspaper or a packet of matches.

One will find that the only time that they will speak Welsh is when they wish to converse with someone who's Welsh. It's odd that someone may wish to use their own language to talk to their fellow man.

I know Porthamdog and the shopkeeps here very well, as I do a lot of the establshments hereabouts, and I know that what the poster said a few posts ago about the shopkeepers is certainly not the norm. The only way that this may possibly have happened is if the poster went into the shop and upset the locals in some way. As an immigrant to the area I can assure you that his experience is certainly not normal.

But this is getting off-topic and, oh by the way, to respond to a third poster; Welsh is not only spoken in Wales. Again, not your fault for not knowing this but is symptomatic of the language issue; over in England a lot of falsehoods are presented as facts and when I see the number of downvotes on these threads it's simply because either people have an anti-Welsh agenda or just are plain ignorant of the facts and not realise how an important subject the language issue is.

Re: The welsh lobby

"The Welsh lobby generally make more noise than their actual size suggests."

A lot of people simply don't realise that in some parts of Wales, the Llŷn Peninsula for example, not only is the first language Welsh but a good proportion of people on Pen Llŷn have difficulties speaking English.

We have many friends on the peninsula and it's often easier for us to try to converse in Welsh than it is to have a conversation in English because after the third sentence it's back to Welsh anyway.

Sadly a lot of people who visit Wales only look at Cardiff, the South East and visit the English speaking sections. Get off the main roads and into the countryside and you will find that most of the locals speak Welsh first and foremost and, as I have said, have difficulty in speaking English.

I am not knocking those who don't understand this because, quite simply, it's never been brought to their attention. As for these figures about fewer and fewer speaking Welsh there's a lot of suspicion about these numbers but anecdotal evidence is that more are actually speaking Welsh than before For example, there are schools in the South of Wales which are now being built for Welsh speakers and ten years ago this would have been unheard of.

The Welsh language is not a tourist attraction, is certainly not dying but is a real and significan part of the way of life here in Wales and despite these 'facts and figures' issued from HMG (the same body which tried to forceable stamp it out within living memory) is strong and, more important, a core component of the Welsh culture.

And, at the and of the day, if we can stuff written in make believe languages such as Esperanto and Klingon (for Goodness' sake) and in languages from other parts of the globe then why not languages from these islands?

Re: If I get this letter through I will stop paying my TV Licence

"You only need a licence for live TV. So what you suggest would mean no licence needed... until you start watching the live streams on bbc.coo.uk or wherever."

For the moment. They're already looking to close this little loophole.

Re: Upgraded to XP here

Thanks for the reply. However, it's not only only SQL Servers 2005 and upwards.

For example, I have a little VBA application which runs in Excel. It creates a linked list and in the run that I hae now the list is about a quarter of a million nodes in length.

I've written the code so that the speed of writing to the list is optimised, i.e. pointers where there should be to get new nodes in the shortest amount of time.

Each node is about 1.5k in size and, as I say, there's about a quarter of a million of them.

Run the same code with the same data on a new W7 machine and the other on a crufty XP box and the timings are interesting -- the XP box is almost exactly three times faster to run up and down the linked lists than the W7 machine.

I use linked lists because the Collection class is far, far too slow to contemplate for serious amounts of data bashing.

I make a pile of five dimensional linked lists and run up and down them all the time in my analysis and guess which machines it runs faster on? Yes, the old XP boxes. On any of my W7 machines it's just too slow to use.

But for most folk who like to look at pictures of internet cats, Skype long lost relatives in far off lands and such then W7 is fine. But if I want to really hammer data day in and day out then W7 just doesn't cut it.

I've got friends in the music business and they can't bear to run their recording studio (no, not mp3 dance 'music' but proper recording) on W7; give them XP and they're happier.

I know of many a developer who have upgraded their machines from W7 to XP simply because XP runs better than W7.

Cheers.

Re: AV is a malicious Peril

Well, in my world, which appears to be a different version of reality to yours, when someone has an infected machine here they don't care too hoots about the semantics as to whether it's a trojan, a virus or whatever.

It's infected and that's all that matters to them.

Re: Not a big enough discount . .

I have spent the last 30 odd years in IT training idiots not to touch my screens.

"Don't touch my screen"

"Why not? What happens if I do?"

"Your nose will suddenly start to bleed"

Re: Idiocy

There was a game set in the Traveller universe called 'Snapshot' which was basically combat on a spaceship.

If that wasn't space marines then I am not sure what is.

Re: This is not news

So was I.

But, worryingly I was at an agricultural college in mid-Wales.

I'll get me coat...

Re: So cowell is not...

You wouldn't be able to put protection on it. Like his 'musical' artists' work -- he already owns that.

So, that next Facebork or Worls of Warcraft that you write for the show; he'll already have owned it.

He's not looking for the next Zuckenberg; he's looking for someone to make him the next Zuckenberg.

Female G-spot, as opposed to...?

Re: Why queue?

The reason for queing for concert tickets, as used to be the norm if one wanted to see Genesis at the City Hall in the 70s, was that if you didn't queue overnight you didn't get a ticket.

The same with Sales.that nifty three piece is a one-off at a massively discounted price so one had a better queue.

As for queuing for a mass produced device which will be on sale for years to come, no, I can't help you there.

Re: Adobe struggling? Oh goodie!

I can only wish for the day when this is so.

People seem to have made the strange connection that PDF is Adobe, so whilst this goes on then Adobe can charge an extorionate amount on PDF wrters yet a good one costs a few sheckles from a bloke in a shed somewhere.

I only tolerate Adobe because nothing comes close, as far as I am concerned, to Lightroom and Elements.

When someone makes a better (not only in features but in less bloat and more efficient use of memory) then I am stuck with this rotten firm.

Oh no

...as Roger Glover once wrote, "Swiss time was running out"

Re: Sad thing is, I wouldn't bet on it

I read somewhere that one of these Swiss Check-In Peg-Out clincs have the users click on a button in an Access application which then gives them that special injection.

Re: Airstrip two

I didn''t know that it was a legal obligation to be a British Subject and also having to speak English.

There are a good number of people who are, for example, Welsh and don't speak English or can't read English.

That is why we have the Language Act so that people can speak the more orginal language of these Isles rather than this late arrival Saxon which everyone East of Offa's Dyke assumes that everyone in the United Kingdom speaks, or at least reads.

Re: Beer can shares

Without the enjoyment of drinking the beer.

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Not if it's American beer.

I can see that going well

ring... ring...

"Hello, Mr Ambassador. Just to let you know that of five minutes ago your building has been declared 'non-embassy status' and in about three seconds our men from Mi5 will be entering your building.

Oh, and don't delete any files or shred any papers , there's a good chap. ?"

Re: @AndrueC

Broadband BEGINS at 2 Meg (and it always has).

Not so. I was designing and developing ISDN exchanges in the 1980s and they were considered to be 'broadband' by the telecos and suppliers, so your statement is not quite accurate.