Posts by JDX

Re: Acceleration

An average night out like that in Glasgow doesn't generally feature single-malt whisky in the bottle :)

Re: FB

The quality of what you see on FB is a function of the people you befriend. All those complaining it is full of facile narcissistic dross should consider that :) My wall is generally full of interesting conversation, sarcastic banter, and updates on what my (real-life) friends are up to. But I don't have as FB friends people I wouldn't talk to IRL.

Re: Free account monitoring service for the next year...

So you don't back up your config files? If they're not in Git they're going to be somewhere...

Re: Answer

Go use some other software.

Re: I conversed with a fair few ladies whom passed the turing test

You really know how to treat a girl.

Re: Any port in a storm…?

DB going down only means (for the vast majority) that your local changes are not getting backed up for a few hours. Probably not a big deal.

There will be a few people who need to sync to a new device - setting up a new PC or something - but that will be a tiny minority in the timescale in question.

Re: Works for me, too

How do you get "entitled" from that? It's a plain fact that supporting a site through advertising is hard work, if you want to do more than just cover the hosting costs.

Re: Maybe the Old White Dudes...

I like that you jump to the assumption this is the case though.

Interesting that El Reg's largely white, male forum membership is so quick to defend a company for hiring white, male people.

(I am being sarcastic)

Re: Terminate their funding NOW

20m is a long way really, for something that is supposed to be stealthy.

Re: Not too long ago

I think it is, when we're talking about small beer.

Re: Take two items never designed to go together

Like a telephone and a personal music player?

Re: Transporting water?

I struggle to believe you're really that stupid not to see that this has uses. Clearly you've never seen ready-to-drink milkshakes on sale, only the kind you mix your own milk with powder. Or pre-made sandwiches, only shops selling bread and ham separately.

If you want lunch at work or while travelling, faffing about mixing things together IS clearly a faff and if the point of this product is convenience, then more convenience is clearly better.

Re: Thinking of friends/fam I'm hoping some kind soul will write a nice little "freeeedurm" script

Thing is while most of this isn't ideal, the objections to it are largely ones of principle, not that anything is likely to happen because MS knows this stuff. So your friends/family probably aren't really that bothered, unless they read some scaremongering "Windows is stealing your soul - you won't BELIEVE what happened next" 'article' on FB. You can help them out but they probably won't really understand why you need to unless you scare them with a biased viewpoint on the subject.

Re: Long way from usable

The app and (I'm fairly sure) the website make it pretty trivial to filter video content that's available on Prime from that you have to buy, and the mobile app (iOS anyhow) lets you see content you own separately. The website is certainly not as nice though.

Re: I've always wondered....

Viewing things as particles is so 1960s ;)

It's all about fields these days.

Re: Still of dubious value?

£180 is still quite a lot... well outside the casual gadget range, and outside (I assume) the range of what most people spend on watches. I would've thought keeping the price under £100 is the sweet-spot for this type of thing?

Re: I've got the older version

You can run their full PC version of Amplitube on a Surface Pro (or similar) which is quite an intriguing possibility IMO.

Re: Not just that

>> free car oil change for anyone who walks by

Surely you have to drive by?

I'd quite like one though I prefer the table-based ones, they seemed pretty cool.

Re: Quite agree.

Main benefit for me is I can pay online for delivery, as most local places don't provide this.

Also, half the time when I phone up the combination of noisy work environment and language issues means I'm fairly unsure quite what I've ordered and where they're going to send it.

Re: Cheese and tomato sandwich

Cheese toasties.

@Warm Braw

Which is exactly what a nerd who doesn't find other peoples' lives interesting WOULD say.

Or... the quality of what you see on FB is strongly linked to the quality of your friends. If you don't like the way your friends act on FB, maybe they're not really friends in real life.