Posts by plrndl

Re: “unpredictable system behavior”

It's those pesky users at it again.

Re: Gartner is, as usual, smoking crack.

Maybe you need to get a proper operating system.

Re: At least it's not my money these buffoons are burning

"I like the idea of free to view telly with no advertising..."

The BBC carries a vast amount of advertising, mostly for BBC channels and products, but none of it is paid for, and its commercial activities are so badly run and overstaffed that the make very litle money.

Incidentally the last time I listened to BBC Radio London, the most commonly heard phrase was "sponsored by HMV".

@Christoph

"So if you pass one of these courses and don't go to work for them or for someone they approve of, they will keep a permanent eye on you..."

...just like everyone else.

Re: No Surprise

"I'm still waiting for the people with the supposed knowledge to come to some consensus as to what is really happening."

One of the major problems with "climate science" is that there's no such thing. The drivers of climate that we know about cover a great many different disciplines. There could be many other that we don't even know about, other “butterfly in Beijing” effects.

Re: Ipad only a content consumption device

The number of people who consume content is many orders of magnitude greater than the number who create it. A modern PC is massively over-specced for the vast majority of users.

Re: why does this remind me of IBM

Microsoft(ies) should note that IBM had to lose $7.5 billion, two years in a row, before it came to its senses and started to change into a sustainable business, and it came out on a much smaller scale.

Re: Unique Passwords

@Neil Barnes

Be grateful you weren't born in Scunthorpe!

Re: The draft bill says they can require the ISPs keep EVERYTHING FOREVER

"A retention notice may—

...

(e) make different provision for different purposes"

Surely that makes ALL other laws redundant!

"Communications data is now used in more than 90 per cent of serious and organised crime investigations..."

because playing with a computer is much easier than getting off your arse and doing proper police work.

Re: I wonder how they got this information?

I'd rather have my freedom back, and run the risk of getting blown to smithereens. We're all going to die sometime, but I want to enjoy the time I have here.

Re: Elephant in the room

Maybe it was running XP.

"I'd love to run KitKat on my Galaxy S3"

Why not try Cyanogenmod 11? I'm running an unofficial build of it on my rather more modest Huawei Y300 and after 2 weeks it's proved to be stable and reliable.

Re: "Who knew the NSA might have some real benefit to the masses?"

Scott Adams has of course been here: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-09-06/

I once had a boss who spent hours creating spreadsheets of prices, discounts etc.

He did all the calculations on a calculator.

Re: @Domeyhead

"The car is hard to quantify..."

Rover, any vintage.

Re: Intelligence on the internet?

It's a long time since I was 13, but I seem to recall that mumbling a lot and refusing to complete sentances and answer questions were par for the course.

It should be easy for a computer to replicate that.

Re: Driverless car

"If it goes ahead, justifying train drivers will get hard."

You are making an assumption that passengers are rational beings.

Do you have any evidence to support this?

Re: My hovercraft is full of eels (Bing on Facebook)

I have a Hungarian friend on Facebook who sometimes posts in her native language, which Bing then offers to translate for me. The "translations" vary from completely incomprehensible English to almost pure Hungarian (only the word "fuck" was in English). I've never seen one which was in any way worthwhile, except as a joke.

Re: Bar Transport

"Or for old people"

Or for young people who are too stupid and irresponsible to drive safely

Re: TRUST? HUH?

"And so you shouldn't - someones probably swapped the tin for cheaper aluminium."

Foiled again!

"Wondering how much of the generously donated money is swallowed up in 'admin'"

ALL of it. The only thing you can do with money is pay people. It has no other use. (Buying "things" is an illusion.)