Posts by John Bailey

Re: Will it really change anything?

Or..

This is a broadcaster that gets it.

Re: Down to the parents....

Well.. The solution is obvious then.. Ban the sky fairy cults.

Think of the amount of confusion that would save. The amount of children who would never be traumatised.

Not to mention the sheer spiteful joy of watching them try to argue around the "think of the children" meme.

Seriously though..

The whole sex information approach is the only practical workable solution. But it can never be applied as long as religious groups "preserve the innocence" of children.

Make it mandatory, Make it impossible to qualify as a school unless it is taught PROPERLY. And make it an offence similar to truancy if the kids do not get taught it.

Within a generation, family child molestation (a real and serious problem) will disappear. Uncle Tony will be serving a stretch for touching his nephew in a way that really is unacceptable. Not just taking a photo of the kid in pair of swimming trunks in the back garden.

Teenage pregnancy will be down.

Children will not be traumatised by boobies.

People will have a much healthier attitude to sex.

Where is the down side?

Re: harder to design

So essentially.. Ferraris are fast because they are red?

Nope.. Still an idiot.

Pfft.. I had to reprogram more than that to get my Harmony to work. And to be honest.. With the mess that Logitech calls software, the learning remote type programming would have been easier.

Re: Making a version number part of the name...

Oh but it gets better..

Is a Windows 8 app going to run on the the surface and the desktop, or is it going to be a Windows 8 surface only app? And just imagine the fun when explaining to someone that they got a surface that runs Windows 8, but can't run Windows 8 software on it. Only Windows 8 apps.. But if they want to run Windows 8 software they need a surface hat runs Windows 8..

And people say Linux is confusing..

Settling down with my popcorn factory shares to enjoy the show.

Re: @Citizen Kaned

@AC

Be fair.

It is highly unusual for an urban dog owner to let their dog "exercise it's instincts" and attack other animals. And dogs are usually not allowed to roam free. Even in the country. Actually, especially in the country. Where they can get into a pack and worry livestock. So the comparison is not really valid. Is it?

As to irresponsible dog owners.. They do most certainly exist, but are not really the norm, where cat owners allowing their pets to go out at will, and partially eat wildlife, and damage neighbour's property... Are the norm.

Unattended felines.. Common sight.

Unattended dogs.. Quite rare.

Re: Gabe!

Well.. Then they have a problem..

You can always quarantine it in it's own user account, or even a separate Linux install. Which makes the idea of inserting all the Windows world DRM enforcing crap kind of utterly pointless. Tot he point of counter productivity. Especially if they are trying to attract Linux users. And from what I read,Valve seem to be amassing enough clued in people to not make such elementary corporate mindset mistakes.

Remember.. One of the good things about Linux.. You are in charge.

Not the distro maker.

Not the companies and individuals who make it, or the programs used..

YOU!!!

The administrator of the box in question.

You can install more than one Linux, or install it beside Windows/OSX. So even if valve did something monumentally stupid, and tried to take over the computer, you can frustrate their agenda, by not allowing it..

Re: This will not end well.

I'm stocking up on popcorn.

True.. But when the people they are supposed to be terrorising are so determined to be terrified that any mention of blowing something up in ANY context, no matter how Blindingly obviously transparently and unquestionably NOT A THREAT is treated as a real threat. Then the idiots have won.

I mean. seriously.. "If the airport doesn't stop making the planes stay on the ground, I'm going to make them keep the planes on the ground".. Is this a logically consistent sentence? Does it pass the "pissed off bloke sounding off on twitter" test?

Coming soon to a newspaper near you.. "Aircraft destroyed by London Surface to air missile found to be magpie carrying tinfoil". "Minister for running around in circles and screaming considers death toll a tragic, but entirely proportional response to the new suicide litter collecting bird threat. "

The rational response is..

1) Read tweet.

2) Dismiss as nonsense.

3) Slap person who reported this nonsense.

4) Get on with life.

5) Eat more fibre.

Gotta go.. My right offside car tyre is a bit soft, so I'm going to pop down to the filling station and blow it up..

Re: Yup ! time to get those win7 certs

Ahh.. Like Vista..

So using Windows 7 makes you suicidal..

Re: @Karl H:

"The good thing about the IT industry is that it has so many standards...

You do know that the Mac keyboard has been around since 1984, right? It hasn't changed.

The current Windows keyboard—with that "Windows" key and the "context menu" key—has only been around since 1995. Which one is "non-standard", again?"

The one that more than a single brand uses.

Re: More oddities:

Yep..You sussed it.

It's iPhone hater propaganda, because Apple product batteries NEVER EVER explode. Even the ones apple had to recall due to exploding.. So he must have replaced it with a stolen magical fake battery.. Because the unicorn powered one that Apple supplies runs on sunshine and lollipops, so has no nasty chemicals.

Lithium cells do build up pressure when damaged. They don't explode so much as burst. Which is why they are usually vented. To relieve the pressure.

It is quite easy to damage a Lithium cell through normal use. Especially in a too thin casing which takes every flex and bend.

Even Apple has duds.

Now get over yourself and get a life.

Re: So...

Yep.. Kind of like the millennium dome. Cept more useful.

And it took so long, because the local builders merchant was out of massive lumps of stone, so they had to go all the way to Wales for it.

Re: @John Bailey Hilarious

So did we. So did everybody who turned a blind eye to extraordinary rendition.

Re: Yuk

"Or like..."

Making up an excuse for not doing something one was not going to do anyway. OP is and was pretty pathetic.

Seriously..

ANY code can be used for nefarious purposes. If it wasn't Linux being used for this, it would be something else. The weapons would not stop being made.

Re: Feel Good story.

Off you go then.. We were just waiting for you to lead us.

Re: What about my 3 year old?

Bravo..

Such a masterful deflection..

STRUCTURAL MECHANICAL, FUNCTIONAL design.. is not the same as AESTHETIC design. Which is what is actually being discussed. That the table has to be fit for purpose is a given. So nobody is suggesting a coffee table be used in a lab setting. Nice sermon though. Shame it's irrelevant.

A table with 4 legs is a brief synopsis of a functional minimum. A perfectly valid illustration.

And a good metaphor for the extent of Apple's "immaculate industrial design".. A bare minimum of effort.

A metal hoop between two sheets of glass. Not exactly incredible industrial design. More minimum effort.

iProducts are dull and repetitive. If you can't handle that information.. Tough.

And echoing PT Barnum.. You are obviously the one.

Re: Le Sigh

Ok.. Penny pinching, license dodging, idiot exploiter it is then.

See.. We can totally ignore the fact that a company that skims an unusually high mark-up is using a dodgy company to manufacture it's goods just like you do.

Re: especially of the makers supplied a sachet of something to smear on it

Remember where you are. Quite a few here have little first hand knowledge of such things.

Re: ooops!

You mean like they didn't bow to the Italian courts?

Methinks you over estimate the ability to do what one likes a little bit too much.

Apple advertised a product with a feature that does not work in the region. The fact it works somewhere is not relevant.

Re: Learn to hack food, Khaptain.

No.. There are a lager percentage of men who cook than you imagined.. And what exactly makes you think Bill Gates can't cook?

These days, men cook, and women do DIY. The whole gender specific thing is a bit old fashioned.

I think yours might be the one with the Bernard Manning DVD in the pocket.