Posts by jelabarre59

To completely destroy a planet requires a deathstar.........

If you only need to destroy a continent, a Wave Motion Gun will do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0x4XHdbyc?t=180

Re: Not just open source

It doesn't sound like you like to work on a team. It sounds like you like to moan about other people and not look at yourself.

So if someone's toxic attitude is dragging the rest of the team, you're not allowed to point that out? How very woke of you.

Re: Project size

I think it really comes down to your intent for the code/application/etc. How you want to see it used would determine the sort of license you put on it.

It's much like the Creative Commons licenses. If I am posting CC works, some I might post as CC-BY, while others would be CC-BY-NC (with the option of being "dual licensed", such as some violin building books my father had written).

Re: what is a GP?

A GP is a General Practitioner, basically a NHS "family doctor", and the person you go to for non-emergency treatment,

I've seen the term "GP" used in the US as well, althpugh more often known as a PCP (Primary Care Physician).

if you can find an available 10 minute appointment in the timescale before your ailment solves itself - they're usually all booked up weeks or months in advance, a fair signifier of the Conservative government's attitude towards health funding.

With the atrocity that is "ObamaCare" (officially the "Affordable" Care Act, named in the usual ironic fashion where the name is completely opposite to it's function) we are fast headed that way too. Especially as subsequent congresscritters put their ham-fisted hands on it and fubar it even further.

Meanwhile PoSReady 7 and Windows Embedded 7...

Come on, MSWindows is *ALWAYS* "PoSReady"...

Re: Why some people keep on reinventing the ill-fated Palm Foleo?

Exactly, as something to drag out to the datacentre, to save trailing a monitor around with you. But my ideal device would be an actual laptop that could do the same thing.

Turn up at a borken server, flick a switch on your laptop and you have your own KVM setup.

I think the Lenovo Ideapad Y730 (the old one, not the entirely different model using the same number) could do this, at least as far as the display was concerned. The VGA port has an "in/out" switch. Unfortunately the display harness in mine is bad, so I can't test it out.

Re: Hold on!

The Electoral College votes are the same whether you win by 1 vote or by 1 million votes.

The reason for this is that more rural states do not agree with getting ruled by New York, California, Texas and Florida.

Would work even better if we could pick up the Libertarian practice that "None of the Above" is automatically a line on any ballot.

I also think it's time we implemented an Electoral-type system for picking US Senators for a state; each county gets one vote, tallied against the popular votes in that county. Population centers are already adequately represented by the HoR, so now we need a way to balance against what the dimwits in NYC do.

Re: Here is a phone I want to buy

Literally everything you mentioned drives up the cost of the phone.

If that's the case, why is it whenever Apple *REMOVES* a feature the price of the phone goes UP?

They've removed enough functionality the phones should be nearly free now.

Unless there's a realistic alternative to Windows 7 that comes up (Linux isn't it, sorry)

Ah, if you hadn't said "realistic" I would have suggested ReactOS <g>.

ROS continues to be that option where businesses could have opted for a more sane MSWin alternative has they simply contributed some money, time and resources into advancing the project. But that would require many of these companies to NOT be cowardly little whiney-ass bitches.

Re: I feel fortunate

However, the proliferation of non-removeable crapware/shovelware on desktop Windows 10 ("Candy Crush Soda Saga", etc) shows that if Microsoft was against such stuff in the past, they've certainly overcome their moral scruples since then.

Don't know how it is on the tablet, but it is possible to remove those completely. It does require a more technical mind to do it, but even with the hoops you have to jump through to de-crappify MSWin10 it can be done. As shit as MSWin10 is, you're still allowed more control over your OWN devices, while Google believes you should never be allowed to control devices you bought and paid for.

Re: Sustainability my a**e

I think the solution here would be for EVERYONE bricking their older device to ship them to Sonos HQ, care of the CEO.

Re: The article is...not great

She did not even bring up obvious points, such as would she be required to use "Your Majesty", or "Oh Greatness" if a poster identified as such. And what is the correct pronoun to use when the poster identifies as a "free spirit penguin" (answer "you smug idiot Piers").

I want to be addressed as "HRH Emperor Norton the Second".

Re: pole-dancing robots

Can I get the Vocaloid versions of those NAO robots? No, that's quite alright, you can keep the Kaito and Len models...

Re: Deleted

Animals with retractable claws can be trained to some degree - plenty of things I have trained my cats to do over the years, e.g. getting cat to bring back the toy you throw for it to chase.

The trick with training cats is to convince them that *THEY* wanted to do whatever it is you were trying to train them to do. In extreme cases you may have to convince them you want them to do the exact opposite of what you're training them to do, so they'll do the trained action just to spite you.

Re: Oh yes

So assume you have an in between bit of software to reformat,

That's a bit of an assumption for your typical LAN-based accounting software of the early-mid 1990's. Nope, it involved either manually re-entering the data at one company, or having custom-coded hacked-together import/export modules at another. EDI was nice in theory, provided you had small enough volume to re-enter the data or had a big enough IT department and were on systems that actually allowed you decent access to the data tables (and additionally your company was typically holding orders to do purchase allocations in a boatload of spreadsheets *before* allowing orders into the system). Oh, and if you were trading with more than one partner, expect to have to have your expensive subscriptions with multiple EDI interchange services. If your production lead-time was closer to 6 months, "just-in-time inventory" was not going to happen.

One can only hope the software has improved, and the interchange services have finally, grudgingly, agreed to talk to each other.

Re: Call me old fashioned

I don't write them down on paper anymore, though. I use the modern equivalent -- a standalone password manager on a portable device.

I *used* to have that (GNU-Keyring on a PalmOS device) which even synced to JPilot on my home computer. Unfortunately any PalmOS devices I still have are long since dead, sync no longer works under Linux (and was a severe PITA to get working even when it was still current), but at least I still have the local backup in JPilot.

Re: "and believes the government needs to be accountable"

Feinstein, for example, has frequently supported the curtailment of various rights.

Certainly she has been rabidly opposed to the rights in the 2nd Amendment, and without that the rest go away in time.

It's possible users of other browsers will be annoyed by a slightly malfunctioning site, but they will be annoyed for sure by being told to GTFO.

But look on the positive side; sites blocking me give me an opportunity to send (yet another) scathing putdown of the company, site, and all involved. So at least there's the entertainment value.