Posts by Hans 1

Re: so do these new patch bundles

Thanks, I think you forgot the Fail icon!

Re: but but but

>UK unemployment could double, and it'd still be below those sclerotic basket case EU economies.

It all depends how you count, mate ;-) Those "sclerotic basket case EU economies" do not have slavery contracts (zero-hour contract, anybody ?).

As for skilled workers in IT, there is a shortage across the continent ... of course, if you are the secretary type, Windows-only because I dunno wot "line of command" or "whatever you call that thing" is, you are out of luck ... Linux/UNIX admins are rarer, and highly paid, especially if they have xp, a clue, or both ...

Re: Nuff said

>it always makes American coffee.

Don't be silly, who is to transport the dirty socks from the laundry to the machine ?

Re: Fine people management there, Mr. T

>Funny how Torvalds can't quite wrap his head around why his rants are newsworthy. Why, he says to the interviewer, sometimes I mentally pat people on the head for doing well!

Sadly, as I have already commented to two or three occasions, taken out of context, his rants ARE extreme ... put into context, it is a different story ... when the arsehole thinks he's right, it is bad enough, when you tell him NOT once but twice or thrice that he is wrong and he still won't listen, he gets all he deserves.

I "seriously" think it is the journos who do little, FAR TOO LITTLE, research and get him for it, because, one email taken out of context is click bait ...

Better click bait would always be: "Moron doesn't understand and gets lynched by Linus" ... much better headline ...

@El reg, still waiting for the "Don't feed the lawyers icon" and would really, really, no, REALLY, like a Bestie icon as well ... this is a tech site, after all ... ;-)

Re: I found a victim of this very issue...

>That said, you won't be able to reach The Register if Gmail screws up again - take your pick..

Lol, gmail outage ? what was the last, like, 44 minutes ? Here, we are talking DAYS, if not a WEEK!

Re: Read it and grin madly

> They can just say they were inspired by Braun designs of the 1950's

1. Sorry to bring you this, but our imagination always takes inspiration from something, whatever you do.

2. This is closer to the fruit of Ive's imagination, though, much closer, actually, than to Braun's design (better known as "Ulm school of design" style, I think) I did not look closely, but the thing looks like an iphone.

Here, they have ripped off Apple's design more than ever and I know this is not a popular opinion on here. Sadly, when you rip off a design, you feed the lawyers ... don't do that, please!

Could we have a "Don't feed the lawyers" icon, please ...

>Rather than output a probability between 0 and 1, perhaps an angle between 0 and 90 degrees?

Thanks, made my day ... though you did forget the joke icon ... probably why so few noticed ...

Here's a thumb!

Re: Sour grapes

>t would mean that you could potentially run a company to the ground out of spite if they didn't let you buy them out before

I think salesforce are desperately trying to save linkedin ... if MS takes them over, they are dead wood ... only the MS fanboys will stay on it ... look at yammer ... dead.

The funny thing is, if the EC steps up against the acquisition, as MS says, other jurisdictions have already agreed ... it is goona be tricky for MS to get out of that mess ... perfect timing on Salesforces' part ... and no, no fanboy here, salesforce software is crap, they are the proof their software is crap, missing targets and writing red every quarter ...

Re: Our Windows windows will be resizable, soooon, vows Microsoft

>Newer doesn't always mean better, and older doesn't have to mean outdated. Sometimes an older idea works because they got it right back then, and further "innovation" isn't necessary or desirable.

Especially when you go eating vertical screen real-estate (ribbons, anybody ?) when everybody, or almost, has wide-screen displays ... brain-dead, no ifs, buts or maybes ... brain-dead!

Apple has not really changed their main menu since ... forever ... see, they like it ;-) ... yes, you have search, it is a separate box, works perfectly ... why is everybody else doing this start menu search BS ????????

Why do I still have these silly tiles everywhere ?

1. they are ugly

2. they eat screen real-estate

They are Microsoft for a reason™!

>I'd like to know how many new credit cards were signed up as a result.

Sadly, we have a great many brain-dead people who would say: "Well, I have 5 or 10 credit cards already, and am in hopeless dept, I could do with another for that fancy foot bath massage thingy I saw on telly the other day - that lady in the ad was hot!!!! - and I still have room in the attic in case I do not actually need it ...

Then again, those who requested a card were not spammed, all the others were ...

Re: This is worse than it would appear at first glance

>The second server is over twice the price of the first in MS tax.

In your server, you do not necessarily want per core performance, you may want many threads, the more the merrier, of course, you will want some baseline per core performance and the other important thing is throughput ... with many cores you will need much ... especially on MS servers, because their active-active cluster solutions are piss-poor compared to the competition, competitor's systems from FreeT@rdLand are free of charge, or almost .... especially once you see these prices ...

So, depending on what you are doing, many cores is important ... more so, in Windows world ... and they are right to squeeze the lemons, good job, MS, ... how about a Debian server, sir ?

For the Window Cleaner and Surface Experts, that Debian server is CHEAPER than that Windows 7/8/10 Desktop license with Office ...

Paris, coz even she could work that one out ... FFS!