Posts by War President

Re: Canada, Rogers, repeat

What is it about wireless companies? Scum.

They're also a land line company and an ISP company and a cable company. I believe they're the four service providers of the apocalypse.

Re: Why 60 days?

"Or is deleting done via RFC 1149?"

I apologise for any lost packets, but if it is any consolation, they were delicious.

Re: I don't see the problem

Sir, are you implying that Firefly is not a religion?

Re: The housing situation in the Bay is obscene.

The Bay area housing scene is insane. Clearly, the best solution would be for tech companies to include dormitories for their employees to live in, ala FoxConn (just make sure the windows don't open to cut down on possible suicide attempts). That would enable even their lowest paid employees to live in the area, rather than face a 2 hour commute. The second best solution is what this couple did.

"Whoever wrote that ought to be impeached immediately; or whatever you do to senators to stop them hurting themselves and others."

'You,' as in 'ordinary citizen,' can do nothing other than complain to the government and vote out the twats that make bad laws the next time they're up for re-election. Congress has a 9% approval rating, yet, overwhelmingly, the incumbents are re-elected. As a long term resident of the US, I can confidently say that the citizenry gets the government it deserves. Often to the detriment of the rest of the world...

Re: @timcroydon

None of this puts npm as an organization or as a package manager in a good light. They'll instantly cave to vague threats and willingly change ownership of a package (kik) to do the bidding of a 3rd party in contravention of their own dispute policy. If you terminate your agreement with npm, they'll keep your IP (left-pad) if it suits them, in contravention of their own terms of use. Who was it that removed the BSD license and changed it to WTFPL? If not the author or at their behest, then someone violated the license terms.

To my mind, it also seems a little worrisome that there are so many dependencies built into these packages. You really need to add a dependency for a simple text padding function? Really?

Re: Ad-masking: its about performance as well as bandwidth

A Squid proxy on an older PC would really help to mitigate bandwidth and processing overhead issues on portable devices. The only question to ask, of course, is whether you should install *BSD or Linux on that box?

"True. BUT, this incident does relate to Win 10 in that it is further proof - should any be needed - that forced updates are a horrible, horrible idea."

Ah yes, forced updates. Microsoft has shown me the way! I've turned off ALL updates from Microsoft on my personal Windows 7 Pro machines, thanks to Microsoft destroying any trust they might've had by pushing Windows 10 style spying/tracking/telemetry malware onto PCs.

Re: Whoooo Hooooo!

"Almost went the Windows route (ugh) with a Cintiq Companion, but resisted."

I bought a Cintiq Companion 2. It's a wonderful little (actually oversized and unwieldy) beast. I bought it primarily for illustration and am happily using Manga Pro 5 and InkScape, with occasional forays into Adobe Photoshop and CAD software. There are lots of pluses and some minuses (particularly the price).

Minuses:

It runs Windows. 16:9 widescreen. Seriously, this needs to be 5:4 or 4:3, I don't know what Wacom was thinking. The included stand is fiddly and only works for landscape orientation. No Surface Pro-ish cover + keyboard available. 3rd party covers are nonexistent, and Wacom doesn't sell one. You'll need a separate Bluetooth or wired keyboard. Included folio cover is nice, but the pen case and external power supply get stuffed into a pocket with no wiggle room and a high likelihood of causing damage to the screen at some point. I ended up putting just the tablet in the folio for protection and the folio in a small laptop bag with the pen case and power supply in an external pocket.

Pluses:

It runs Windows. Palm rejection (when using the stylus) is pretty decent, I'm curious as to how good it is in this iPad Pro. If you have the constitution, a spudger, and a heat gun, you can open it up and replace both the memory and the M.2 SSD to get a reasonably priced killer tablet. Throw VirtualBox on it and run OSX for fun...

Re: Take the man at his word

No sir, we fight with cannon! Only girls fight with hot air balloons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmZuvF9JSMc

Re: Non-problem

" Basically, if you eat about 100 times the amount of crisps or coffee that people usually do,"

Uh oh, never should have assimilated: "100 times the amount," is the usual amount around here (US).

Re: correction Christophe

I'm guessing the FBI guys either outright lied or through sheer, massive lack of understanding, misrepresented the facts in the "interview" with him. I don't have links handy, but I know he's said in the past that he's gotten access to flight controls IN A SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT. Of course, all the major airplane manufacturers claim that there is no connection between the in-flight entertainment system and the flight controls system. So, which is it, are the flight controls on a network connected to the entertainment system or aren't they? Can you really just find a tombstone under any number of aisle seats, pop it open, and plug in (with a little fiddling) to the network and take over the plane?

Re: Vinyl introduces a lot of failings - Laser Turntable

Well, that's part of the point of vinyl, innit? You're not just hearing the artist's music in high fidelity, but also the scratches, clicks and pops generated by the needle scraping over your dead skin cells collected in the grooves of the vinyl.

Re: "Add an extra mesh option with the same animation rigs, and job done"

Quite. The polygon count would go up at a staggering rate, plus, how many of us have graphics cards that can handle B00bPhysX?

Paris, since we're talking about boobs...

Re: So ...

OkCupid is a social media site dedicated to insipid quizzes, polls, and communication with like-minded members interested in getting together and f***ing and s***ing until there's no tomorrow, without the stigma of using Craigslist or hiring professionals.