Posts by Chewy
139 posts • joined Friday 8th June 2007 10:34 GMT
Re: bring back the crusades
Um it didn't work out well for the Christians last time did it?
Re: Ignore them...
Easier said than done if your child was murdered
Snarf
Then the "child" Thundercats
DotNet legacy - really?
Same argument that was going around six months ago that conveniently forgets that .Net is still going to be around for Workflow/Web technologies which is the core part of the platform. Anyway even if .Net died a death do you think it really would be too difficult to jump to Java? Most of the interesting ideas for Java get a .Net port so we aren't exactly living in a bubble on the MS stack.
Posted in Build a bonkers hi-fi
Re: Laws, sausages, vinyl records
Yes they do still make vinyl. Obviously vinyl has its limits but I think we all know that CDs aren't indestructible - vinyl from the 80s was notoriously bad (with some exceptions) because they skimped on the thickness which made the record warp easily. Although sales of vinyl did increase during the dance music boom it has dropped off again, although quite a few classic rock albums have been re-issued on quality vinyl.
Unless the record company is being extremely lazy they aren't taken from a CD. Once the album is mastered it has post production for the CDs - volume levelling etc but that is more of a symptom of modern music i.e. a lack of dynamics. The vinyl of Pink Floyd's Pulse album definitely did have different mastering to the CD since it was delayed to long after the CD was released.
Much of the problem is down to record companies being greedy and outputting lowest common denominator music.
No objection to simple languages here
As far as I'm concerned the simpler the language the better. After all we are talking about GCSE not university and it doesn't define what languages that those who choose this profession will move onto.
Limiting the choices to a few languages makes it more likely that the teachers would be able to grade the work. Those that have already interested in programming won't be put off by having to do VB for example. The more time that can be spent learning the basics rather than having to know a language specific syntax.
With linguistics we weren't even given a choice at GCSE - French/German for the top stream, German for the middle stream, and Italian for the bottom stream.
Re: Irrelevant you say?
Surely if the leak threatened the lives of the informers they would already be dead? The information is already out there and releasing the information to a military trial is effectively closed door so wouldn't go any further.
Re: Another Big Patch Day, and a Week of Start Up Repair Routines
Would you rather MS didn't fix the flaws then? Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Posted in Ten... Kitchen Gadget Treats
Re: @ A 31
I'm afraid you are both wrong. There are much better roasters here in the UK that wipe the floor with the supermarket bought varieties (Has Bean, Monmouth, Square Mile etc). A Gaggia Classic is a much better machine although it takes a while to learn, and can be tweaked. If you want to just press a button that is fair enough, but it won't give you the best coffee. The Gaggia can use those tubs but its a waste of aluminium. Then there is the Aeropress for £20 ish which you'll have to spend a lot more to beat it.
Only green beans can be kept sealed in the freezer by the way. Roasted beans should just be kept in the sealed container and have a lifespan of 3 months. Grinding your own (or bean to cup) makes a huge difference.
Re: Or
Precisions are not comparable to Macbook Pro (except in price) as the Dell have certified graphics cards for use with CAD etc, dual hard drives and had better CPUs. As far as updates are concerned I haven't updated the graphic drivers since I bought it nearly 2 years ago. The other hardware is stable (like the Pro) so really only Windows updates.
Nothing against the Macbook Pro as it was also in the running, but decided the Dell fitted my needs better despite the bulk and the power hunger.
Android
Except that this isn't an Android bug but a flaw in HTC Sense
Local radio
Isn't it just Heart FM these days?
Buddy Christ
Could have made Kevin Smith some more cash
Posted in Samsung RF711 17.3in Core i7 laptop
Weight
If you think that weighs too much you should try cycling with a Dell Precision M6500 (and power supply) on your back.
RE: Time for a change?
Do you really believe it is a simple matter to write a new OS? When was the last time we saw a genuinely new OS? Both Android and OS X use existing *NIX implementations for the groundwork and the latter has been tweaked constantly for 10 years. Somehow I doubt whether Steve Ballmer would take that approach given his views on FOSS. Supposing it takes 5 years to write a ground-up OS do you really think Apple and Google will be standing still - look at how much catching up they have had to do in the mobile market. Anyway much of the work seems to be moving towards the cloud.
Despite there being reliability and security issues with Windows it remain their principle brand and it takes a brave company to change the name of their cash cow.
Not frontman
That'd be Paul Stanley
I'm hugely confused
If the jihadists wanted to kill us before and they wanted to kill us after the cables were released by wikileaks what exactly has changed?
One small problem
is that we've been cutting down those rain-forests so what we've got left is a wheezing smoker's lung not working on the original capacity
cheap Dell cr*p
You obviously aren't aware of the Dell Precisions then. Sure they look tank-like but they certainly aren't cheap nor crap.
actually
Most proper audiophile magazines push FM because of the crappy bitrates and compression that DAB offers
Hardly
I've yet to hear a digital setup that sounds like a proper valve amp. And presumably you have to make sure that you put the phone into flight mode in case somebody decides to ring mid gig so you don't get the Nigel Tufnell effect.
oil and gas
Suddenly Scotland has more to offer England than poster originally thought
I hope
...that you referred them to Arkle vs Presdram? Might take them a while to figure it out.
Posted in Web manhunt child abuser gets 20 years
RE: 19.5 years...
At which point he will be 80 and living on prison food. Can't see him getting out alive can you?
Actually
It sounds perfectly reasonable that these laws will defend people from minority religions - employment etc. However these laws shouldn't be used to defend the religious teaching itself.
How about
If newspapers are forced to print a decent sized retraction if they lose the case, not one that sits in the bottom corner of page 5. If the original article is front page news then the retraction also has to feature on the front page.
The change to the law has to be water-tight so that Carter F*ck et al cannot stop the media from publishing the truth. We have to stop libel tourism as well.
If it means we have to pay top lawyers to find holes in the law then so be it. This has become a national embarrassment.
@Roger Pearse
Because Google earn a lot of money from advertising in Turkey. Now go back to the bridge you've been hiding under.
No real problems for me
Have upgraded one desktop and one server. One issue I've encountered was the version of Tomcat I'd been using was no longer in their repository. No issues at all with the desktop even with Nvidia drivers.
Posted in Canonical rents out Ubuntu mavens
RE: Upgrade
The six month releases are supposed to fit in with the Debian (on which Ubuntu is based) release cycle. There are the options of sticking with the LTS versions of Desktop and Server which are the most stable which are released every 2 years and supported for 3 years (5 for server).
ActiveSync
Possibly the only thing that WM has in its favour but now that it is supported by the iPhone it is no longer an advantage with integration with Exchange. As for the WM phones themselves, no matter how much HTC skin the interface there are parts that look like Windows 3.11 with tiny close buttons which means a stylus is a must.
MS are out of the race with Apple and Google tempting application developers. MS will need pull some pretty special tricks out the bag if they wish to claw their way back, but I cannot see that happening.
Ownership
So its seems that the former coke/scag-heads of Motley Crue were smarter than Morrisey by keeping hold of their back catalogue ha ha
Posted in Texan judge outlaws Word
RE: Result!
How exactly is this a result for common sense? Surely every XSD is custom XML which means the Patents Office have granted a patent to a troll.
Perhaps
..if that no talent ass clown had spent more time trying to progress then they would have had better sales. Instead they jumped on the nu metal bandwagon.
Electing the police
The more I hear of incidents like this the more I think that police chiefs should be elected despite their protestations.
RE: haha!
The reason why web based systems exist is because of deployment costs. Consider how much work it takes to deploy a new version of the application for every single user.
possible
"According to Microsoft, the "facts" show IE 8 beats Firefox 3.0 and Chrome 2.0 in a number of areas and features" - bugs perhaps? I've definitely had IE8 crash on me a few times now which didn't happen in IE7.
Posted in Yamaha TSX-130 iPod dock
RE: Overpriced
You obviously haven't seen the prices that Naim charge for their kit if you think £250 is top end
meh
So a few mac noobs get malware, who cares. Move along nothing to see here
Fingerprint reader
Since my fingerprint reader (MS branded) didn't work on 64bit Vista I'm not inclined to believe them.
@Wade Burchette
But surely you should also provide evidence that it isn't happening?
As for Al Gore, I've no interest in listening to the "do as I say, not as I do" brigade which Prince Charles is a member of.
You also say that the job of a CEO is to make money, but this surely covers cutting costs and since energy is expensive it makes sense to waste less energy.
@AC 21:36
Hmmm I'm not aware on any kind of Marxist government in this country. Tell us exactly what Marxist policies exist in British politics.
The fact that you quote from Wikipedia means nothing, since you could have easily changed the figures. Hardly surprising from a party who weren't aware of what impact Polish pilots had in WW2 though.
You really should look at the racially pure people in Roger Ballen's photos.
Missing the point
This shouldn't be some pathetic OS debate, but should actually be (as per the article) why haven't the Swiss government asked different organisations to tender bids. They should at least publicised why they chose MS over the alternatives - existing infrastructure etc.
Posted in Cisco settles open source case
@Don Mitchell
Yes because using Microsoft's patents worked out so well for TomTom didn't it. A company the size of Cisco should know better than to break license agreements.
The Linksys products that used those licenses actually makes it easier for Cisco because the Free Software movement provided firmware upgrades without Cisco having to do it themselves.
Patent troll?
Can anybody point to evidence suggesting that the patent isn't anything beyond simple XML tagging?
@Kevin Bailey
Obviously you have never used the .Net framework for any kind of serious development either. I've never met any developer who was an expert in both - I've heard people claim to be experts in both but that doesn't make it so.
The .Net framework goes way beyond just web development so cannot be compared like-for-like with PHP. Don't get me wrong as I'm aware that Apache is better than IIS in its design, and that PHP blew ASP out the water.
Does it really matter if .Net is platform neutral? As for being unmaintainable, well I've never had any trouble with sites that were well written.
XP fanboys
Please we don't want to hear that you prefer XP to an OS you haven't actually used. You have an OS that you are happy with, but do you really need to ram it down our throats constantly.
That also goes for people using Macs and *NIX systems. I'm not anti other OS's but the grass isn't always greener. I like Jaunty but it isn't perfect as I'm having problems with Tracker complaining the index is corrupt.
@Raymond Cranfill
But then the problem is that in the sticks they get bad internet access. Competition doesn't exist when something isn't profitable which is why BT are the only provider in some parts of the country.
Posted in Old school music sales fell 8% last year
Vinyl sales
Strangely the number of turntables sold increased last year according to Hifi Choice. Still it is a minority market in comparison to downloads on P2P.
Posted in Blu-ray to boom despite downturn
Blu-ray Films
Now while I own a Blu-ray player I've not gone down the route of buying lots of films like I did with DVD. The reason is that Blu-ray films are mainly of the Craption genre so the more interesting films are still on DVD. The other problem is that Blu-ray highlights the flaws in the filming process and some disks aren't worth the bother.
@jonnyscavenger - I really doubt your favourite film on DVD looks better on your laptop than watching Planet Earth on Blu-ray on a 40" screen.
RE: open-source dot .NET
No its just their MVC implementation rather than the whole .Net framework
