Posts by Piers 213 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jul 2007
Has this guy ever LIVED in the Country, I mean the REAL country, you know, like you get in Scotland, Northern England, Wales or Cornwall, not the bloody London commuter belt.
Let me tell you, everything tends to be more expensive, there isn't a great deal of employment and it's largely neglected by Government. Even though people have been living here for thousands of years.
>if they buy a computer with software pre-loaded it
>should come with proper documentation and backup discs...
When was the last time THEY bough a frigging computer? My Apples came with backup discs, yeah, but my WinXP netbook? No. My Sony laptop? No. My Compaqs? No. Just a stupid sticker on the case and some weird 'make a backup yourself with your own CD's' app.
And as for Documentation - stupid wall chart showing where to stick your mouse and two bits of folded a4 telling you what the START button did. Do they actually have ANY clue?!?
The iTunes library info is stored in an XML file. I have DJ software that gives me access to the iTunes music, playlists etc through this file. It wasn't blocked by the iTunes update (I checked...). Palm could have easily written a simple synch app that did this and now that iTunes is DRM free everything would work as expected. But no - they want to do things differently and are prepared to mess with the USB standard. Did they REALLY think that making their phone pretend to be an iPod wasn't going to cause some kind of trouble? *sigh*
"And all this mess is just a bad side effect of someone's attempt to try to inject some artificial intrinsic value into something which has none"
Actually, if you use your mobile for business then having to change it is a PITA. It's on your business cards, it's in your customer's phones, phone books and heads. Keeping your number but being able to change provider is a big deal in these circumstances for a lot of people. And you might want to do that if you move house/office to a poor reception area or if your service provider gets crap/bought.
Out in the country (Cornwall in our case) one of the most important reasons for choosing an operator is how good the reception is, which can be highly localised and not related to simple distance from nearest town.
Keeping your number can mean the difference between making and not making money and staying in business.
From http://www.centos.org
The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward.
The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions.
We look forward to working with Lance to quickly complete all the agreed upon issues.
More information will follow soon.
Last Update: August 1, 2009 04:34 UTC by Donavan Nelson
WTF? I'm sure when this whole will-they-won't-they thing started MS wanted Yahoo's search engine. But it's been going on so long maybe I just don't remember right. Anyway, in the light of the whole sorry story this result looks just weird. MS is doing WHAT for WHY? Basically trying to buy market share - and if people who use Yahoo do it cause they LIKE yahoo they ain't going to necessarily like Bing are they. Looks like an opening to a FAIL.
>Ye Olde Evile Gates, not evil Jobs, as if Apple had stolen the patented MacOS
>look-and-feel from someone else it would have been noticed, shurely?
Not 'stolen', originally licensed from Xerox who (strangely) were not interested in developing it commercially at the time. Apple developments later licensed to Microsoft by Apple.
"The reports authors spoke to junior staff at GCHQ, who said there were too many middle managers slowing decision-making and contributing to overly complex internal procedures."
Replace GCHQ with your choice of NHS, District Council, City Council, in fact, the list of Government 'organisations' to whom it would *not* apply is probably shorter.
Oh - and then they go on to call for 'diversification', rather then employing the best person for the job irrespective of their other attributes.
I think these two things are linked - probably in a manner that is going to involve infinite recursion until the whole house of cards falls down under its own weight.
Microsoft tried to push IE8 into one of my IE testing setups today. The Installer message reads...
"Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the familiar Web browser that you are most comfortable using. Internet Explorer 8 helps you get everything that you want from the Web faster, easier, and more privately and securely than ever."
>the latest version of the familiar Web browser that you are most comfortable using...
Um, no. Making a bit of an assumption there - are they trying to get Firefox users to click INSTALL by accident? Are they desperate?
From the BBC...
In a statement Google said ...
"We were careful to ensure that all images abide by UK law. Imagery is taken on public property and is no different from what any person can readily capture or see walking down the street."
Actually, Google are using specialist equipment to collect a mass of information for *comercial* purposes. Clearly *not* what any person can readily capture or see walking down the street. If people want to take pictures of your property (or you) for *comercial* reasons, then other rules apply.
They also link the images directly to a geographical location rather than 'somewhere in wherever'. The privacy implications are rather more complex than people seem to realise. Some people are unhappy about this and shrugging off the larger picture (so to speak) just cause you're biased against them won't take this away. Opt In is clearly completely fair and should be applied in this case - ahhh, but that would be too hard to implement, wouldn't it Google?
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