Posts by Chad H.
2088 posts • joined Tuesday 23rd January 2007 13:31 GMT
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Re: Much ado about nothing...
"I have seen people with so much cruft on their machines that the Windows XP Start menu takes up the entire screen, all full of masses and masses of tiny little icons, so really the only thing that saves you from (gasp!) losing most or all of of your working space for a few seconds (horrors!) is pinning or placing your shortcuts on the Desktop"
No, thats the only thing that stops THEM. those of us with a decently organised start menu like our videos not being interupted as we work.
Re: So regulator...
It takes up the entirety of my screen, covering the video I'm watching, the chat I'm regulating, and whatever else I may be doing. I am forced out of all of that until I find the program I want.
all this to launch a menu that should at worst be no more than a 3rd of the screen.
Re: And...
Apparently yes
If the printer itself costs £125k......
Then the Cartridge must be somewhere around 200k......
So regulator...
How do I get a start menu that doesn't force me out of everything and take up all of my screen on win 8 without a 3rd party fixes?
Re: And...
All major mobile companies do. The government pulled out the big stick on that one.
Re: Unions
Yes, Higher wages.
In Pune, India.
Posted in Pakistan signs up for China's GPS rival
As although we're told the US won't be "downgrading" GPS any time soon
Again, presuming the truth is told, isn't GPS's "Selective Availablility" (the pushbutton downgrade) not even a feature of the current satelite fleet?
Re: What about a fixed version of 8?
Well the issue there for enterprise would then be "Why would I go to the effort of installing Win8, then 2 other things, to get back right were I started from with Win7".
Re: Sadly
Obeying the rules and doing nothing wrong doesnt necessarily mean the same thing.
Re: Where will video conferencing be by the time HS2 is actually working
They've getting more carriages already, but this will be as far as they can go.
The capacity issue isn't about seats and carriages anyway, it's about the number of trains you can run in the signalling system. We tried upgrading the WCML not long ago to alleviate this; it was an unmitigated disaster.
As for more tracks on the current route... Remember this is a route built for trains that go 20mph with all the wrong curves in all the wrong places...
"how are we to value that time that is saved by those people?"
Which is faulty assumption number 1made by critics - that the case for HS2 has anything to do with speed.
Fact is, the West coast mainline is about full.
You can either build more slow lanes which do little to improve the attractiveness as a network as a whole, and go through paths that are inneffecent with modern technology (remember the current route was built for trains going 20mph, not 200mph, when slowing down to do a tight curve wasnt such a big deal).
Or you can try and improve the current line to make it go faster (Tried and failed a few years back, overcost and underdelivered)
Or you can build an express lane for long distance traffic, opening more capacity for local services on the old line where speed isnt a big issue
Or you can put your thumb in your mouth and never draw the connection between poor transport and poor economic growth.
Re: Chabdul Chadbul There is no such thing as Palestine!
Matt, I know you might not have many friends the way you act with so much abrasiveness and with the way you throw around insults... But I just have to let you know, a few replies doesn't make us buddies... I would appreciate it however if you stopped avoiding the question.
By the way, how much does Hamas pay you to embarras yourself like this?
users have been charged only for an entirely new iteration of the Windows OS....
Except for Windows 98, Me, Plus, 7, etc......
Re: there have been few major changes since 2009
So the only one of those that the home user cares about was a catchup to iWork...
Agree on the flash bit
Unless its video (and these days, arguably not even then), if your site is only visitable in flash.... Its not worth visiting.
Well
I was asked for this by a poker site once. Sent an angry email saying "Do you seriously want me to send these sort of details through an unsecure channel" and immediately (no kidding, acutally immediately) got a response back saying verification accepted, you're now free to play.
Re: Is this not getting ridiculous?
Well no, last year you had to pay ESPN/Setanta too.
5 Years ago you could just pay sky, but that was determined to be anticompetitive, so the PL was forced to split sales.
Re: Chadbul There is no such thing as Palestine!
One question though, if we're not that important, why do you keep coming back to a dead thread? Surely you would be more effective in threads that are currently trending?
Re: Chadbul There is no such thing as Palestine!
Oh Matt, stop it, I'm sure you HAMAS handlers are over the moon at the way you've made the average Israel supporter look like a complete prick. They must be so proud of the great work you're doing... You're clearly getting results they can only dream of!
I'd suggest you knock off and head to the pub, but you Muslims don't drink, do you? Well maybe you can have a glass of OJ or sonething.
Re: Is this not getting ridiculous?
I imagine to watch all the football you'd need a lot of spare time, and perhaps a time machine.
But you have a point. Rather than selling by who gets the first pick, maybe they should give the rights back to the teams. Want to watch all of your team? Watch your teams chosen channel.
Well
Well the difference between ESPN/Setanta and BT is the same as the difference between ESPN/Setanta and Sky. Both Sky and BT were (intially at least) pushing premium sport to push their other products... Its the same strategy Murdoch's other companies have used so effectively into getting people onto his pay platform overseas - tempt em with cheap exclusive sport to get onto the plaftform, make initial cash from supplementary products, and then milk em later when you cant get it anywhere else.
Re: Everyone's out, bitch!
Well, at least on dragons den you get some Scottish bloke who'll point out "You have no business plan, no clue and a bad product, I'm oot".
Re: Chadbul There is no such thing as Palestine!
"" So you trumpet something you admit completely destroys the Fakeistinian farce"
Err, no actually. Because there were palestinians living there at the time. Funny that.
As for the rest of your tirade, Shouldnt whats good for the goose, be good for the gander? If Isreal has a right to exist because of some similarly named historical kingdom 2000 years ago, does the Italian government, as the decendants of the Roman Empire, have the right to rule all of Western Europe?
Also, you might want to stop confusing "Being an absuive ass" with "making a reasonable and compelling point", you might actually sway some converts if you do... the way you're going, you're convincing more and more people than the Palestians are right, and the people on israel's side are completely unreasonable people who simply throw around insults to anyone who disagrees....
Acutally, no, wait I get it. You're smart enough to know that. Clearly you're a HAMAS agent posing as an Israel supporter in order to help blacken Israel's image. Good job.
Given your ID card is probably sitting in your wallet, with your drivers license and bank cards, and would require some inconvenience to remove from that position, that argument seems a little silly.
@ Marvin
Yet my "Existence" was "licensed" by the state on the day of my birth, and the cessation of such existence will be "licensed" when I eventually do kark it.
As it is for billions of others across the planet.
All this would have done in real terms, is replace an old document thats easy to lose and forge, with one thats a bit harder.
Shall I call oxford and tell them the definition of the word "Tryany" has changed, or do you want to do it?
Its time to celebrate!
Anyone up for a game of Street Countdown?
Posted in AT&T drops Facebook phone to 99 cents
Re: So, it's a free phone on contract !
It was however an expensive even with subsidy phone last week...
Re: There is no such thing as Palestine!
2) Israel did not seize Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem and Gaza from the Palestinians; those were areas controlled by Jordan and Egypt until Israel won the Six Day War in 1967. All so-called Palestinians are really just Jordanians or Egyptians.
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So by the same argument, all those Israelis are actually Eropean and Russians, and thus equally have no claim to the land.
I love it when Israel backers cite "there wasn't a country called Palestine" argument, because not so long ago there wasn't an Israel, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordon and Turkey either.
There was sonething called the Ottoman Empire though, but they never seem to be in a rush to call for its reinstatement.
Re: AC
...Which all in all excuses Israels foot dragging of the peace process.
No, wait, it doesn't.
At least now they're being honest about a 2 state solution being dead.
Posted in Star Trek: The original computer game
And just think...
If you were to make and diatribute your own game based on a popular sci do TV series without permission today, you'd be sued into the Stone Age.
Its progress Jim, but not as we know it.
One question
Where are his call centre workers?
Re: Waste of time and money
They didn't "get rid" of TBP in the uk, they just encouraged a million and one proxy sites to setup.
Re: Eventually...
No, they're in rural Thailand, sitting out the statute of limitations. To the OP, good luck with getting them.
Re: How much is it worth
It depends on who you ask.
The Film TPBAFK sums up the different sides. The "prosecution"s point of view that they earn allegedly millions from banner ads, whereas the guys who run it have no money.
Re: Internet connection required
Maybe you are.
Your internet connection breaks. Your ISP says it will take 6-10 Working days to fix. You decide to sit down and play a singleplayer game to take the edge off.
The game, and I stress this again, is singleplayer. it runs completely on your console, not some remote server. It uses no online content at any point.
But you can't, because some idiot decided that your console shyould always be online.
A few months later, you decide to visit some relatives. These relatives live in a rural area where internet connections are spotty... so they never bothered with one.
You thought you might take your console to play a few party games that have no online component
But you can't, because some idiot decided your console should be online only.
When it comes to "online only", the question shouldn't be "Why not", but "Why the hell should it be?".
So is El Reg invited to play at WWDC this year?
Re: Err, I thought a coalition was in government, now Clegg says his lot are in charge
@ AC
"This seems to have given rise to an opinion that everything that was bad that's been done by the coalition was down to the Lib Dems, everything else the Tories."
Which shows that the Coalition itself was a masterstroke by DC, and a damned foolish move by NC.
NC should have offered confidence and supply, no more.
How things have changed.....
1980's "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL"
2010's "TURN OFF THAT PORN".
Re: Surging iPad sales?
Maybe AC is one of the first guys in that Mars One thingie?
Re: Good luck with that!
Indeed Hutchinson Wampoa is the power behind 3, not Orange/Ee
. But it does mean some nasty surprises in store for the unwary.
Erratic, no, not really
Rather than recieve a nasty suprise on the bill you get sent to a redirection page asking if you'd like more data.
Seems the fairest way to do it to me.
Subscriber Figures
Were those figures worldwide, or just US?
Don't be evil....
...Unless everyone else is doing it.
Protection from the press?
Have you been living under a rock? Both of those companies have been in the headlines over the past few months for the same issue... Amazon got it twice as bad.
This seems like the opposite of open source...
So Mozilla is going to cut off its users from some secure content because they don't like what some third party is doing?
How does this make them different from the dictators they're trying to strike against... It's still "do what I say or else".
By all means support and encourage methods to subvert totalitarian control, but the instant you block content is the instant you become just like them.
And the instant you accept coladeral damage to non involved people is the instant you need to be stopped.
Re: why is it illegal?
It's a matter of degree.
Google doesn't celebrate the fact that unlawful behaviour can be committed through it - the pirate bay on the other hand openly promotes this as a feature, the clue is in the name.
In the other cases, lack of prosecution doesn't mean the behaviour can be considered okay.
I'm not trying to attack torrent technology - the question was asked what the Pirate Bay is doing that's illegal - that would be encouraging illegal behaviour, and I challenge anyone to say with a straight face that they do not.
Re: Comparisons with electricity are inappropriate
I would have instead have gone with "When the Internet goes out, my PC still plays single player games, my TV still shows TV, and my Toaster still makes Toast".
Re: sad state of affairs
Well, Microsoft could have killed the paranoia in a second. "No, we have no plans to do this".
Now instead, with comments like this, we're left to wonder.
Re: why is it illegal?
Because they entice/encourage illegal behaviour.
