Posts by illiad

Re: Let's not overlook the obvious

He is too lazy to get a decent backup program..

Re: Don't forget to sue them for time lost...

win7 source code??? If you have been following the apocryphally awful development of win10 from the start, you may have surmised that they junked it ALL (workers, code, etc, etc...), being sooo confident it was super fantastic, that they took **6 months** to realize that people hated it!!!

It seems they had to go back and recreate the good bits again from scratch... :(

Re: It's 2018 and best open source web browser?

yes, that is a VERY personal question... it depends what end of the geek/ normal scale you are on... :P :)

speed, speed, speed!!!

- Then you will be using something with almost NO functionality, just to prove you have the fastest...

Its MS, it must be good!! yea, keep believing the lies...

Its famous, industry standard, so managers say its ok to use it!

- yes, based on an **ancient** report (about FF 10 or summat???) that 'da management' have understood.. - so no moaning about 'unknown software, even though FF60 is awfully top heavy, and has a 'new' eg 'ruined', 'too new' app structure alienating all those app devs.. :/

I only keep the last good one (V52) for tesing and 'keep the boss happy'..

I use a good 'mozilla open source' version call Pale moon, that adds a good graphics engine, good functionality. and has even copied over most good old FF addons for use!

This is NOT for 'mad geeks', just for those who want a good browser like FF 20 used to be.. :)

Re: Alien UFO's are Real - True / False...

I guess you haven't heard of the Torah, which the bible is only a small part of...

Re: Don't buy a new Intel based system for a while?

BUT!! AFAIK it affects AMD and apple too... : O : O

Re: Richard 12

FF already has lost many, BUT... more clueless idiots sign up...

Johnfen: there are other Moz based browsers.. :)

Pale moon is a good steady one, with a good forum, latest release is great, still running months old addons... :)

Re: "it works by essentially not trusting said equipment."

and

c) websites wanting to stop people by-passing their ads!

Re: I assume Thinkbroadband are using the "can pay extra for fibre" definition of ("has access to"?

Well Thinkbroadband has is own odd view of it all. :/

I suggest you try ispreview.co.uk for a bit of a wider view...

Re: Nice Impression - do red skies have blue rivers?

hey, you cant expect the poor artists to do *everything* !!!

Re: Don't "Google it"!

Yes.... google, you have got to that level of fame, stop moaning about grammar, and be proud that almost no-one says 'search the internet' anymore!! If bing had been as good and inclusive, superbly effective etc, we would use that word...

we all say 'sellotape' even though it usually a cheaper brand of adhesive tape!! same thing with Hoover, etc...

Re: It really is like a war ...

c) just DONT USE chrome???? :)

Re: First world problems

It rather depends where you live, and the attitude of the local supermarket...

I live within yards of a huge waitrose, and they keep cutting out stuff I want to buy!!

there is a sainsburys about a mile away, that has much more choice!! only problem is, it is a 'metro', with low stocks...

Another 5 to 10 Km away in either direction there is a massive sainsburys, but that means half an hour on the bus... makes Online much nicer..:)

Re: Split brain

no money, they sacked half the IT staff, and the rest went on holiday, or worse... :)

Re: Back-up, folks?

yes, dont bother with the TV news (RT, SKY, BBC) the first 20 mins was all about terror, then 2 or 3 mins on BA!

Re: Somebody has to say it...

its on rule 34...;)

Re: SW was never about our future.

Kate Adie started on a national news team in 1976... :)

http://frostsnow.com/kate-adie

Re: John Brown (no body)

AAAAH the wistful dreaming days of the late sixties......:P :/

we thought computers were all powerful, until reality and recession started....:(

lightsabers???

Did you 'jump' before you read the rest????? :P

*NO* lightsabers, *NO* palm-sized video calls...

Re: needs clarification of terminology

D U M B people, who think an image that LOOKS like its 'floating in air' ....:

Re: Holograms by Captain DaFt

here is a web on how to do it.. NOT a hologram, just a 'back projection'... :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/thingstodo/bp-make-your-own-hologram-projector

Re: Holograms by Captain DaFt

well, plenty of them here..

https://youtu.be/7YWTtCsvgvg

BUT... *what* is your definition of a 'hologram'???

MY one is a picture , that will change its axis, as you walk around it...

the above youtube does not show this, just a projection onto plastic, so it looks like it is 'floating'..

a REAL hologram..

"you could see a small chip, with a magnifying glass floating above it. If you looked from above, you were looking 'through' the glass, and saw an enlarged image of the chip"

- if you moved slightly, it magnified a DIFFERENT part of the chip... :)

Re: Where have the real holograms gone?

I think the main reason is safety, cost, and the limited nature of the pictures... It is not that easy to make a 1 hour long movie using the process...

then lasers are *dangerous* - for any good display, they are carefully monitored to prevent it hitting your eye, causing blindness or worse...

Re: Holograms by Captain DaFt

WAY to miss the point... DO tell, how long did it take you to make those 'holograms'??

say about 100 to 200 dots that took a lot of patience, say about 15 minutes of your life wasted, when a proper process would do that in a few seconds... THAT is 'bandwidth' - the time it takes to do something... how many dots do you think are in that star wars LP??? thousands??

and also notice it has been done ages ago, you have to 'look into' the glass that the hologram is in..