Posts by Terry 6

Re: "Media Bridge, based in Virginia, and LCX Digital, based in California"

There's a contradiction with the idea of benevolent dictatorship. Once the public start to disagree ( rightly or wrongly) they glove has to come off - otherwise the dictator isn't dictating anymore.

Re: why is it always

And when they do they get called all sorts of nasty things, by the right and left. e.g. Soros who funds all sorts of liberal and humanitarian causes and is accused of leading a world wide (Jewish) conspiracy, by both the far right and far left (n.b. Rees-Mogg recently)

Re: Why did the FCC accept all of these fake comments?

That's taking conspiricism a step (or more) too far.

And there are cultural differences in how we use eye contact, n how we position our heads, in how we respond to different age groups in terms of verbal and non-verbal communication. And probably a few more that I haven't remembered (class?).

Re: "under Nadella concluded that it would never win the application support"

Nadella hates the desktop - but once MS loses it it will lose everything.

I think that sounds right.

What is Microsoft known for (or even as)?

Windows and the big Windows programme Office/office's components.

If it's all about little "apps" then why bother with MS when you can get that stuff on Android or IOs or even 'Nux

And yes, most Microsoft UWP "apps" are pretty much piles of crap.

Re: District Council

"You can never have too many envelopes". It was a kind of budget mantra.

Re: District Council

Ironically, the end of year purchase scramble had to be much earlier than that, because by February some department ( with a friend at the top I assume) or sometimes even the council itself, would be running out of cash and our precious budget would be clawed back if not already spent. And then the following year we'd be cut because "You didn't spend all your budget last year.."

Re: Twas ever thus

Yes. Any combination of cables put into a dark cupboard, however far apart, will become entangled in the one part of the cupboard that you specifically didn't use because it already contained something complex and/or delicate.

So you slap in a cheap wired phone.

It's one* of the reasons I still like a landline. I might be sat in a power cut, but I don't need to worry about battery life, I can still make and receive calls.

*Plenty of others.

Re: Dumped HP deskjets some time back

I stopped using HP printers ( or anything else by them) years ago due to a ridiculous failed driver update.

The driver software would only install after a complete uninstall of the previous software. OK fine.Except one DLL would not uninstall. Nothing would remove it and while it was there the install routine would not run. It aborted when it cam to that bit. To make it more annoying the version number of that dll hadn't even changed.

There was no option to skip, which would have done the job, just to abort.

Printer was then useless.

I spent days trying to get that fucker off my PC. There was a whole set of uninstall layers and depths that could be applied ( buggered if I could see why it should be so complicated anyway). I did them all,repeatedly. If my memory serve me correctly i even tried to remove the traces from the registry. Just got nowhere.

And then went and bought an Epson

Never bought anything HP since.

Re: The 1990s haven't gone away yet...

You can disable caps lock Google it e.g.

https://m.wikihow.com/Disable-the-Capslock-Key-in-Windows

or various Tweaking apps will do it.

And don't worry. Everyone does. Putting it next to the " a" key means that typing ND SO instead of and so or similar is really common.

Re: Similar

As a kid we went to Wales on our holidays. On Sundays everything closed, including the pubs. It was "dry" in the places we went.

Except the clubs.Where the locals all vanished to.

A what can?

Re: Themes

I dimly remember, in those Windows 3 something days that you always had to save before printing ( still a good idea to save save and save again anyway). Because if you didn't there was a good chance the computer would freeze or crash and lose your work when you tried to print.

Exactly, users automatically click Y to any are you sure message, because if they weren't sure they wouldn't have done it.

Afterwards......

Re: 1/2 OT, bbc lies

The BBC is not the independent and balanced organisation it was.

two things have pulled it down (they're linked imho).

1) Govt. appointees to the board who's roles are frankly not far removed from political commissar -and who are involved with appointing senior staff and in turn commissioning editors

2) False equivalence as a form of "balance". If they have a world renowned expert backed by a solid scientific consensus on to talk about something they truly understand they have to get some wazzak on who disagrees. Possibly an outlier, possibly just an opinionated talking head or paid lobbyist with no formal qualifications in the matter. Then they treat both views as equal and the presenter will write the subject off as disagreement/controversial.

Re: Surely...

There's a universal truth in there. No one gets promoted for quietly being good at what they do.

Telling everyone how difficult a task was does get you promoted - even if it is the same task as the person just did, above, quite easily

Re: From the Seen That Department of Obvious Idiocy ...

Old story.

A tourist is walking along a cliff edge path. There's a massive drop.

Stopping at a cafe on the route he says to the owner, "That cliff edge is really dangerous. There ought to be a fence there."

"Ah, there was," said the owner. "but no one ever fell over so we took it away again."

Re: Surely...

Or indeed anyone travelling in London. Brent Cross shopping centre has a big bus park, but you don't make the mistake of going to Brent cross Tube station to go shopping, 'cos though plenty of buses terminate there, it's miles from the shops and nearer Golders Green. Likewise if you want Stamford Hill overground, it's actually at the bottom of the hill in Stoke Newington and actual Stamford Hill shops and stuff are a mile or two up the hill.

Assumptions can be risky. They rely on other people being sensible, for a start. Like only putting the name Brent Cross on a station that is actually in Brent Cross.

Re: Accounts names

Same here. Sometimes she just shouts across the room.

Sometimes a daughter will say she's my Mrs. and give them permission to talk to me.

Once it was a cleaner.

Re: Accounts names

Been through a few bereavements.

Northern upbringing help here..

"She can't she's dead" seems to get the humans working better than passed on/deceased etc.

Re: What about "extinguish" do you not understand?

I think there's more to it than that. Microsoft has a long history of expansion by acquisition. But all too often, having acquired a product/company they decide to play with it. The product becoming some powerful exec's private football. Instead of keeping the product fresh and useful they'll decide to fix the bits that aren't broken and change or remove any functionality the users might like, while holding on to their own pet ideas against all resistance. Which is why we got Windows 8 and the stupid "charms"- the invisible controls that only ever appeared by accident and when you least wanted them. And they've kept bits of that even in Win 10. Like the very narrow disappearing scroll bars in the Start menu.