Posts by Doctor Evil 271 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Feb 2013
Why the rush? The urgency of the demand to "make a decision" is really "hurry up and say yes". Because, really, what's the difference between (a) saying no to Huawei 5G gear on the network at this point in time and (b) the status quo without a yes/no decision?
Exactly.
And so where do you think the pressure to make a "yes" decision is coming from?
"Honestly are any of the alternatives in the Tory or Labour parties any better? I mean seriously.. what a state politics in the UK is in."
You might as well say "what a state the world is in" because, really, the grass is no greener on this -- or any other -- side of the pond!
Adding the icon because this is all that's left to us as recourse. Cheers!
Whether these shipments turn into sales to consumers or linger unsold in warehouses will, obviously, determine whether PC sales are truly back in the black. One assumes that manufacturers are basing their behaviour on market intel, but is is a bit premature to declare that the market for PCs has rebounded just yet?
"When with the opposite version be created, the guess-the-dong-length version for hen parties de-robeing men?"
Women don't need a special app for that; they just look at your hands and feet. Tells 'em -- with a good degree of correlation -- what they want to know.
Right, "Big Donald"?
"Who in their right mind would buy a Tesla after reading a slopey - shoulder statement like that?"
Someone who wants a nice EV with great range between charges. Just don't use the Autopilot feature ... it's not mandatory! (Plus, hopefully they'll get it right someday and send you an over-the-air update.)
From TFA: "Just ask the unfortunates still using Windows XP."
Reading the paragraphs immediately following that with respect to the delightfully extended update adventures of (some) Windows 10 users, I'd say the "install once and forget about it" update experience under Windows XP Embedded (POS Ready) looks fairly attractive. But ... progress!
"An Uber spokesperson told The Register that the reasons for congestion are complex: “[...]That’s one reason we believe in comprehensive congestion pricing, which would provide millions to invest in cities’ public transportation systems.”"
Because, if you're the root cause of the congestion in the first place, then of course you believe in congestion pricing. Why wouldn't you? You've been a prime contributor to the problem -- and that way, the worse it gets, the more you benefit.
Until they catch on, that is -- which it appears they now may have.
"People need to grow up about politics in general in this country and have a clue what they're voting for instead of flip flopping around every year from one end of the political spectrum to another on a whim.
I envy how much the Yanks are involved in their politics and actually get it."
These two statements are mutually contradictory. Believe me, few inhabitants of this planet are less actively involved in politics -- or have less of a clue how it all actually goes together -- than the average American. The view from this side of the pond is much different; the White House makes Whitehall look positively exemplary as a working democracy!
Nope. La Belle Province de Quebec has a language law which actually prohibits signage in any language other than French. Montreal being situated in Quebec, the sign is correctly (whether you agree with the provincial language law or not) in French only.
I still think she's absolutely in the right. Handcuffed and detained for half an hour for failing to obey a directive? That's abuse of authority and richly deserving of sanction. The same sign says to hold your baby's stroller in place ahead of you with one hand while holding on to the handrail with the other. How safe is that?
If I understand this correctly, what they're saying is that when the big one hits the earth, there'll still be an earth afterwards (once all the bits re-coalesce -- see video 2). It just won't be recognizable as the earth per se. So, no problem, right?
Thanks anyway for spending all that time thinking about stuff like this, you guys. Have one on me.
I have a Macintosh Classic II computer -- the last model with only a black-and-white screen, I think, but it did come with an 80 MB hard drive -- in a box in my basement where it has been sitting, "stored", for a couple of decades. I pulled it out and dusted it off a couple of years ago, just to see if it still worked at all.
It booted up just fine and ran the old software (MacWrite, MacPaint, ClarisWorks, etc.) as if it was still 1992! (No internet access, obviously; no NIC.) To my astonishment, the dot matrix StyleWriter printer that I bought with it still works perfectly too, ribbon and all. Pretty impressive! Makes me feel better about the hefty $$$ I had to fork over for it back then.
Thanks ed.s!
"The experiment was originally touted as a study into the potential ways astronauts might be able to live in space during long missions. Being able to grow cotton could help clothe space explorers, Liu Hanglong, a professor at the school of civil engineering at Chongqing University, who is leading the bio-experiment, previously told the South China Morning Post."
Hmmm -- might have put my finger on why the experiment per se didn't accomplish very much. Maybe put a plant biologist in charge next time?
If you're (still) running Office 2010 on an older 32-bit system, then yesterday's update will break all your Office apps -- again!
Instead of the familiar and desired splash screen, you'll get a little window with a message that says "Entry Point Not Found : The procedure entry point GetDateFormatEx could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll". And then ... nothing.
Same old, same old; this happened a month or 2 ago with KB4461522. This time the offending update is KB4461614; uninstall that and all will be well in your (admittedly somewhat antiquated) world once more.
"Actually a gun is NOT involved in every mass murder. IED's, poison, cars, plains, etc. are often used in mass murders."
Look, I'm all for making a good argument by heaping on the examples, but I challenge you to produce a single instance of a mass murder in which a prairie or grassland or steppe or anything of that genre was ever used as the murder weapon.
""Oh look, FF isn't running slow enough."
I essentially abandoned the ESR stream at about v52.3, finding it bog-slow with multiple tabs/windows, and simply reverted to v50 with updates turned off. I rechecked periodically but found no improvement -- until now, when I tried v52.9.0 ESR and found that to be a huge improvement over its predecessors. It's crisp and snappy again (with all the same add-ons/plugins) and I haven't seen the slowdowns in startup and page-rendering I used to.
Well done, Firefox developers! Seriously.
"It is a cut down, cheap, semi-automated and semi-autonomous (possibly going autonomous in the future) unmanned hunter-killer submarine."
Possibly a very good idea for our Russian friends, given their track record with manned submarines.
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