Posts by dogged

Re: Lew... That's enough

You know, that kind of sneering sounds exactly like the kind of religious fundie who, on hearing something Charles Darwin once wrote says "yes, but he's going to hell anyway".

Not coincidentally, I might add.

I'm posting this as an AC because I know it will be massively voted down, but the fact is (and this is not green wash), in some Reg Reader's lifetimes sea level will be 3 or 4 metres higher than it is now

[reliable citation needed]

As for Fukushima, it proved that a reactor built in the 70's that was never intended to withstand more than a third of the force of the damage which hit it can actually withstand three times that with no more than background-level radiation as an effect.

You can shout names of nuclear plants at the ignorant but this is the Reg. We know a little better.

1) Sell off the resevoirs so houses can be built on them.

2) Sell off prime agricultural land so houses can be built on them.

Will never happen. Housing supply is kept artificially low to keep house prices high (and thus, the buy-to-let 25% of Members of Parliament and the rental sector chums, not to mention the Daily Heil happy) and buy votes come election time as well as contributions from the "credit" industry.

Agricultural land is sold off for golf courses instead.

Trebles all round!

Based on the maths, at depreciation of £600/mile, yes it's actually 42 kilometers.

Re: What?

Have you seen the "new" Mini Countryman? I've seen smaller Jeeps.

Re: Challenge

The price is just about feasible.

Re: After all this time ...

> How long has Linux been around...is it bug free?

It's worse than that, Jim...

This is Windows and Office so for a valid comparison you need to be looking at linux-distro-of-choice plus office-productivity-suite-of-choice which, for the record, had better include translators, a macro language, a database (this can suck, don't panic), a note-taking tool, a best-of-breed spreadsheet, a word processor, a desktop publisher, and HTML editor, an equation editor, a graph maker, billions of templates, a presentation application that everyone hates (this should be easy because all presentation software is hateful), hundreds of thousands of file converters, a form maker and fuckload of crap nobody understands.

If your office suite of choice does not include all these, feel free to supplement it with other utilities.

And then add up the bugs. How many will you find, I wonder?

KUDOS

Thanks, El Reg, for being brave enough to actually inform (some of) the public about what is done with our money, in our name.

The kid above is probably fourteen and still thinks Britain can do no wrong - don't mind him. Without a Fourth Estate that actually reports and provides accountability, the politicians will abuse power, the bureaucracies that feed them will seize ever more and we shall continue to be expected to shut up and obey our masters.

Well, fuck 'em.

And BT.

Re: Are MS trying to intentionally fail?

> (you failed to provide sources for those figures btw)

Apologies. They're from googling 2013 financial statements. They were all PDFs but luckily all the increases were on the second page of each PDF.

I'd re-search (re-research?) but I have a meeting in 4 minutes.

Re: Are MS trying to intentionally fail?

Alright, you don't wear a watch. Nobody you know wears a watch. Nobody you have ever seen in your life wears a watch. Nobody in your entire country wears a watch! Nobody wears watches!

But based on 2013 figures -

Timex sales of wristwatches increased by 9.1%

Casio sales of wristwatches increased by 14.2%

Swatch sales of wristwatches increased by 12.7%

So somebody's buying watches. Perhaps, in your world, they wear them while locked away in darkened rooms with the blinds drawn for fear that somebody will see them.

Or maybe you're just wrong.

Re: Roslyn compiler

Roslyn Compiler project and source code

No, it's a compiler-as-a-service project plus added transparency.

Re: utter bollocks

> Ifmicrosoft were relatively open they would open source stuff that was in use at the time.

Like ASP.NET or the Roslyn compiler, you mean?

(Note - both of these are fully open source. They even accept "pull" requests and commits, unlike, for example, Google).

Re: Are MS trying to intentionally fail?

Well...

> Who wants a watch with a 2 day battery life?

A watch that wirelessly charges is no biggie. I take my watch off every night anyway.

> How will you use it as a phone?

You won't? I'm guessing MS are (like everyone sane) seeing this as a notification device (if it's not just bullshit). A watch is notification device, after all. Currently only for time and date (and in some cases, pressure) but you look at your watch to get information very quickly. Expanding that information doesn't seem like a terrible idea.

Making a 1.5cm thick watch in order to cram all the electronics in sounds like a shitty idea though; I wouldn't wear anything over about 8mm thick. Or that didn't have an always-on analogue face.

> If it needs to be paired to a smartphone then what is in fact the point of it?

What about driving? I get a call, I'm driving, I can ignore the phone, use Bluetooth handsfree or answer the phone and get arrested and fined. Or I can press the button on my watch that I've got programmed to send an "I'm driving, call me back in {x} minutes" text and hang up the phone. They can't do you for checking your watch.

Or an interview? I forgot to set my phone to airplane mode - oops. I can fumble for it, curse under my breath, switch it off and apologize to the interviewer or just tap a button on my wrist to make it go away.

Or a phablet? Say I've got a phablet and I keep it in my laptop bag and I answer calls with a Bluetooth headset - I get no caller ID but I can look at my watch. Or read a text. Without delving into the bag and producing an unwieldy and highly nickable slab. That's worth a few quid.

Are you one of those people who don't wear a watch and can't imagine why anyone else would? Because that might show a serious lack of imagination on your part. Just sayin'.

Ah. I see that you are. Okay.

Re: Platoooooo0n - HALT!

> especially wheelchair equipped taxis

Trying to get a wheelchair into Google's noddymobile looks like a right laugh for a disabled person.

Re: Things I wish I had

19 exists, it's just not legal - alpha‑methylphenethylamine.

Presumably it's illegal because it works.

Re: you've got to be kidding, 4pages of windging about phones.

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