Posts by Geoffrey W

Re: a free coding course and apprenticeship scheme that it hopes will convince women

You *are* a man, though you definitely do *not* want to be convinced.

Re: what if you 'outgrew' ".Not" (aka ".Net") itself?

RE: "He did mention he was using libraries. wxWidgets being one such example."

Then he isn't doing what he was boasting about - using native APIs. He's doing what .NET developers do and using a library between his code and the OS. Shrugs...He sure does make a lot of noise about what he doesn't like. He doesn't make much sense though. He's too angry about everything.

Damning with faint praise, you real programmer, you.

RE: "I really hate the term 'consumer'"

I'm not fond of the term either, but what I really hate in modern economics is the concept of constant growth, where if you hit a plateau of constant use, but no longer grow, then confidence in your company falls as does your stock price and other abstract concepts only visible on bits of paper and numbers in digital bank accounts. What's wrong in finding a nice comfy niche and just maintaining it where it is?

RE: "What happens when he...dies? "

He'll probably do a Jim Jones, another cult leader, and take everyone with him.

Microsoft related threads on ElReg will be a bit quieter.

Re: Word Perfect 5.1

RE: ""Reveal Codes" feature"

Is that anything like the "View/Formatting Marks" option in LO? Sounds like it, and if LO does it I bet so does Office...

Re: governments can always legislate

RE: "getting dark at night is hampering your crime solving ability"

There is a solution to that one. Everyone is required to live at the Pole, and every winter is required to move to the opposite pole so they live in constant daylight. Nothing is impossible. Perhaps the encryption problem could be solved by some Californian start up inventing a time machine, (black worm hole travel) then speccy five eyes can go back in time and sneak a peek at the key as it is encrypted, or take a screen shot of the message before its encrypted. Nothing is impossible. Perhaps they could form a new military force to go with Space Force - Ghost Force comprised of real ghosts - then they could spy on their desired target up close without being detected. They already have "Spooks" - just push those spooks one step further and kill them, trapping their ghosts before they head for the light. They're patriots; I'm sure they won't mind.

Or, again using their time machine when they invent it, send a spook back in time and stop mathematicians inventing encryption, or stop the naughty miscreant's parents from pro creating preventing the use of encryption at source, or prevent Jobs inventing the IPhone, and Gates from creating DOS, or prevent GOD inventing life, or create a huge beautiful wall along all the shorelines of the world preventing life from leaving the oceans, letting the fishes have a go they would only have blow fish encryption which I don't think is as good as what we now have. On the whole, I think time travel is our best option. The opportunities for a smart teenager are endless. Why all the cynicism?

Re: Six of one...

I'm an outsider to California but my impression is that the move to split California into two is driven mostly by those rich mega city technocrats and not the other way round. It's the rich SF/LA area residents who seem to begrudge their finances filtering out to the great unwashed in the rest of the state and want to form their own state, or perhaps their own republic.

A general principal seems to be that the more money you have the more conservative you tend to be.

Re: I miss the good old days in San Fran

RE: "I was left with the impression that New Orleans had some 'bad' areas."

Oh, it does. My ex back in Britain was rather concerned when I announced my decision to marry a lady from N'awlins (the correct pronunciation for a Lousy-Anna native). She read an article that claimed the military sent their medics to train in that city because it was a place they had the best chance of treating gun shot wounds; a handy skill for a military medic. I went anyway and I love it dearly. Of course I now live in the woods on the side of a mountain where the only wildlife to worry about are the bears in the back yard. Human wildlife is less predictable.

Re: Why....?

RE: "Why can we not have mainstream journalism dealing with complex controversies as thorough as El Reg journalists produce? "

The more serious journalists do, just never about subjects that you would like them to, such as this one, since no one outside the tech or FOSS communities cares about or understands the intricacies of open source licensing. I'm not sure I'm all that interested either, to be honest. I lost interest about half way through the article. I mainly come for the cat fights.

RE: "features that 99.99999999% of users have no need of."

Trouble is, each user uses a different subset of features so even though any individual may only use 99% of features, with that huge number of users every feature gets used by someone and so is useful.

Re: Removing Gambling Apps?

RE: "= Paying $0 is still too expensive. What am I reading."

I was a bit OT. Loot boxes can also be found in AAA games, which are most definitely not free.

RE: "...an Aston Martin: And we all know which one you'd want..."

I'd rather have a Ford Sport Ka than an Aston Martin. If only they sold them here in the USA. And it would be a cold day in Heck before I buy anything Apple.

Re: Mundanity

RE: "Anarcho-tyranny "

Oh, there you go with your paleoconservatism again, you rascal, you. Off outside with you, and play nicely with your chums. No more petards! You hear?

Re: IDEs, WTF?

@stephanh "After 15 years of working as a C++ developer, I still haven't encountered a code change I couldn't do in Vim. <snip> Blech. No thanks. I am not sure what problem IDEs try to solve but I am glad I don't have it."

I have to agree with that.

I also haven't encountered a code change I couldn't have done in any text editor, including edlin, but given the use of Visual Studio why wouldn't I use it? I've never been much of a macho man wanting to do everything in the most painful and bloody way possible, so why would I want to spend X times longer working on code when I can be compiled and tested and delivered, and back outside saying hello to the trees and sniffing the flowers and joining my wife and cats in the sun with a glass of wine, instead of toiling in my man cave office listening to Blue Oyster Cult and getting ratty.

Sorry. No technical analysis or detailed substance as to why VS is better; just a purely subjective opinion as to why it is my go to coding tool of choice. If you don't agree- I don't care. You can do whatever suits you. VS suits me and that's all that matters. I can get work done much quicker using it. What else is worth considering?

Re: Nobody saw this coming?

Sheep have a surprisingly complex social life and structure and it is a very poor pejorative to apply to human beings. It does however say more about your thought processes than it does about others and is thus useful. Have a nice day!

Re: Another affluenza victim, shirley.

If who is convicted? Trump or Nicolas? A toss up at the mo...

Re: "Dazed and confused", surely?

Ooooh, that still aggravates me. Led Zep crediting themselves for dazed and confused when it was clearly written by Jake Holmes, who does a somewhat more deranged version of the song, though rather quieter.

Re: Don't get sheep herded by the fake news media

Don't be naive...

Re: Have an extra upvote for…

RE KLF

Please don't come after me. My post was entirely fake. My cat mistress made me do it. She says there are too many kittens on the interwebz...slutz apparently...I'm subservient...meoooow? purrrr? biscuits?

Re: The Microsoft Slurpage has to STOP!

Better stop using computers completely then, or stay off the internet. Onwards! Onwards to the past!

What is this comment? Am I reading Conspiracy.news?

RE: "Democratic contenders have been spotted running on a platform which promises that this will be implemented."

Whereas the republican contenders promise to keep all such superfluous frivolities behind their beautiful wall...

WTF are you on about???

Or, perhaps, WTF are you on???

Re: How will this work

DOH!!! If only Microsoft had thought of that!

Re: Progressivism Pumping Powerful Memes.

RE "why do you think the downvotes are from snowflakes?"

I don't. It's what on occasion Monster has said dissenters are.