Posts by Lars

Re: When to move abroad

I resent the idea the main reason to vote leave to be about stupid individuals. We all know there are indeed stupid people too and we probably know one or two. But those "stupid" probably did not vote, and if they did they probably voted 50/50 out of stupidity and I doubt they read ElReg either.

But when people fall for lies, bluffs and miss information it is stupid all the same, if understandable, we all love snakeoil salesmen.

The leave campaign was full of energy, enthusiasm and hope and fauls promises. Poor Cameron a guy who would have difficulties selling a ten pound note for a fiver.

People voted to leave in the hope that it would bring them something good, some perhaps in hope of some more "Rule Britannica" and fuck you foreigners, here we come, fish and all.

Now this might annoy some Brits, but you are not "world leading" in problems and non of those problems are due to the EU and non will be solved leaving of the EU.

There are some guys who claim the leave vote was against the elite, and that I find rather perplexing looking at the ardent leavers at the head of the ship like Boris and Rees-Mogg.

At times "stupidity" does indeed enter my mind no matter.

Re: One Lunar Day?

Yes, some claim mink fur is very warm but a dead mink in the cold is not warm at all.

Yes, this a bit like blaming the car maker when some people refuse to fasten their seat belts. The ease at how people can be fooled is nothing new, and this time I will not mention brexir at all.

Re: darn it...

"Check its latitude." I would suggest the longitude as that is about the east/west while latitude is about north/south.

"Lat är den som ligger" for those who know it.

Re: Brexit FUD

What about the British can then, not even invented to kick down the road.

How hard it must be for some Brits to admit the French ... are better at a lot of stuff.

Re: Definitely Russian or Chinese hacking

Not intending to leave NATO too to go global.

Re: Huzzah!

I would suggest AC to read up on ESA and Galileo.

Galileo was wholly taken over by the EU as the private industry did not take part as much as was hoped for.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states[6] dedicated to the exploration of space. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France,

EU and the European Space Agency

The political perspective of the European Union (EU) was to make ESA an agency of the EU by 2014,[70] although this date was not met. The EU is already the largest single donor to ESA's budget and non-ESA EU states are observers at ESA.

The contribution (2019) to ESA apart from the EU budget from member states.

Mill E Contr.%

France 1,174.4 28.1%

Germany 927.1 22.2%

Italy 420.2 10.1%

UK 369.6 8.8%

Spain 201.8 4.8%

Belgium 191.4 4.6%

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This corresponds fairly well with the size of this industry in those countries.

I have no doubt every European country would be able to build a system for themselves as it's all about only time and money but I doubt anybody will, and that goes for Britain too, as it's obvious that the balance between time and money and on the other hand status and advantages will lean strongly towards lunacy.

Then again, if the wonder kid from Eton who never grew up and lives on belief becomes the PM then all odds are off.

PS. Why would ESA like to build a competing system to Galileo, such rubbish.

Re: If cows had wings..

A nix* kernel doesn't incorporate a graphical user interface, that part is done on top of the kernel.

The choice Gates had was to write Windows on top of a nix* kernel like Xenix, that would have created a very different Windows. To quote MS "the company stated in 1981.[8] Microsoft referred to its own MS-DOS as its "single-user, single-tasking operating s ystem",[31] and advised customers that wanted multiuser or multitasking support to buy Xenix".

In fact such a Windows would have become very similar to any Linux distro, a nix* kernel with the GUI like Gnome or KDE or ..., but be called Windows. Such a Windows would compete with Linux on supercomputers.

I don't want to sound rude or something but I started programming before Gates and Jobs and I have been able to live the history of both Windows and Unix and older stuff.

We are where we are and things happened for various reasons, now in the past, but that doesn't stop us from playing with the "what if ..".

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Re: SMTP and Outlook

Most of all that stuff on a word doc are there for good reasons, that is for the printer there are lots of esc- sequences to tell all the stuff the printer need, all very easy to find out if you have a printer manual. Unfortunately a word doc also contains stuff about the machine and the user that, in my opinion, should not be there. Also there may remain text from a previous version of that document that is not shown or printed but still in the file.

A number of years ago some US lawmaker had a proposition for a new law, and it turned out the text was written by a lobbyist.

Word documents are not safe.

Re: Just what we need

"the only way we get money back from the EU ".

All you have to do is to wreck your economy and join countries in need of help like Poland and others.

And, voila, your dream will be fullfilled and you can once again live on the work of others.

Meanwhile I hope my country will remain rich enough to afford to take part in financing the project(s).

Re: Dubious Honours

@MrXavia

Thanks for responding to my fishing,

My problem now is that there is murder in the eyes of my wife, if I as much as looks towards a keyboard when her love and my sweat is needed in the garden.

So lets return no later than Monday.

Re: Scarier than Manchester?

"Most of the rest of us wish they'd stop babbling about it and get on with it.".

Farage is working on it, but Americans don't quite fall for his persona the way he has been hoping for.

Re: Techno-balkanisation

"Many of these problems are caused by "special interest groups", manufacturer inspired protectionism and plain political stupidity.".

And sometimes it's just that one country starts first, selecting the standard of the day, and later other countries coming later have the advantage of using a later standard. This is what happened to the TV standard, and there are other examples too.

Re: Keys

"then billed the uk for the service ,".

Ah please, that's more than silly, you provide food, oil and stuff for free because the British as such jolly good fellows. Seems to me that the "have the cake and eat it" is an old tradition among some Brits.

The US wasn't like the USSR where everything was owned by the state.

Incidentally the real expert on selling arms to both sides was British.

"Amazing he still gets away with talking like that!".

He cannot help it, the ball is now with the American people.

"why would any airline try to bring them back into service".

I don't think all that many customers are that interested to knowing what plane they book so of course they will fly again. This will be expensive for Boeing in many ways and for several years and some orders are apparently already cancelled. As far as I know the full report is not out yet.

Re: The only conspiracy

"Which book?"

Some Unix book void of any chapter on defraging, perhaps.

Re: re: I wonder why they would pretend to think....

A down vote for Food Inc, I find that surprising.

Re: Want to try to reprogram it so it feels and drives like an F1?

"Bicycles are an unstable system". Yes, but speed will make the wheels function as gyroscopes and it gets stable, as for inputs, they are not reliable "under the influence", I am told.

Re: "with US-only standards [...] being dropped in favour of LTE, because it was cheaper to buy."

Perhaps there is a simple "not made here" reason for it in the US, as long as that lasted.

"GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. It was first deployed in Finland in December 1991.[2] As of 2014, it has become the global standard for mobile communications – with over 90% market share, operating in over 193 countries and territories."