English translation please...?
"it's the prospect of having whatever profits you might be able to make competed away leading to the death of the organisation that does."
From a professional author...?
Posts by Bloodbeastterror
600 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Oct 2013
Why OH WHY did Blighty privatise EVERYTHING?
Microsoft releases free Office apps for half of all Android phones
Thursday 25th June 2015 06:38 GMT
"Hate fest"...?
A bit strong, no? I've re-read the comments and yes, there are a few negative ones, but more go along the same lines as mine about bloatware, and there are even a couple praising MS.
Me, Bill Gates caused the explosion in personal computing, which would never have happened if we had had only OS/2 or Linux. Windows isn't perfect by any means, but at least it's usable.
(No flame wars, please. I've tried Linux, couldn't get on with it - just personal preference).
Wednesday 24th June 2015 22:24 GMT
Storage...?
I don't think MS have a good handle on Android. When even large satnav apps take up maybe 30MB of space, why would a word processing or spreadsheet app occupy way over 100MB? Word has a stupidly unusably large number of functions which 90%+ of users don't know about and don't need. Why not provide a skeleton version more in touch with Android/normal user needs instead of propagating bloatware into the platform?
Man in India claims his new iPhone 6 combusted in his car
This time we really are all doomed, famous doomsayer prof says
Monday 22nd June 2015 12:30 GMT
Oh for god's sake...
A scientist voices an opinion that our race is on its way to extinction and Tim chooses to cast up that he's been voicing it for 40 years...? Perhaps Tim thinks that mass extinctions take place in the blink of an eye rather than over the course of centuries or millennia?
On the balance of credibility I think I'll go for the Professor rather than the opinionated author.
Yep, it's true: Android is the poor man's phone worldwide
Friday 19th June 2015 23:03 GMT
I don't consider...
...myself to be materialistically poor (I earn a good salary) but I do think that I'm technologically literate (I've worked with computers for over thirty years).
My choice is Android, not for price reasons (I bought a Nexus 6, for god's sake) but because I can't stand the walled-garden over-protective over-weaning over-intrusive proprietary self-congratulatory attitude of Apple.
My thought is that you *buy* an Android, but you just *rent* an Apple in the hope that they don't take offence and brick it if you try to use all its capabilities by rooting it (I think fanbois refer to it as "jailbreaking").
Free ethical upgrade offered as Fairphone launches mobe No 2
Toothless Ofcom: C'mon consumers, show your teeth on broadband speeds
Oh, shoppin’ HELL: I’m in the supermarket of the DAMNED
Saturday 6th June 2015 12:06 GMT
Waitrose
(Pace Dr_N... :-) )
Expensive but high quality including their magic wand on which you register each barcode as you put it in the basket. It counts the items and totals the cash on the scanner screen so you can see how much you're spending. At the end, scan the "finished" barcode on the automated till, do the normal credit card stuff, and leave. Brilliant. Used it dozens of times and never had a problem.
Jeb Bush: Repeal Obamacare and replace it with APPLE WATCHES
Monday 18th May 2015 15:00 GMT
Re: Crown jewel
@codejunky
Maybe the NHS isn't perfect, but if you break your leg which side of the pond do you want to be on...?
I would say that the country can't afford ***to be without the NHS***
Health care, or Trident missiles mouldering expensively in unused and useless silos against a non-existent threat. Hard choice?
NASA on track to triple Discover super's grunt
Apple Watch: Exactly how many vids does it take to teach a fanboi to tell the time?
Got a Samsung Galaxy S5? Crooks can steal your fingerprint – claim
Hungry Apple fanbois can now buy a lunch date with Tim Cook
Lib Dem manifesto: Spook slapdown, ban on teen-repelling Mosquitos
Apple is like HITLER says Chinese billionaire
Forum chat is like Clarkson punching you repeatedly in the face
Saturday 28th March 2015 14:15 GMT
Re: Good riddance, I say
@cornz1
"No, he mumbled *something* that was misconstrued"
Maybe I'm not getting your point. It's all over the place, and people can hear for themselves. Me, I'm not misconstruing anything. The fact that he bottled it and mumbled the word (perhaps in a momentary flash of shame and guilt, but maybe I'm being too kind) doesn't make it any better.
Not even a question of PC - it's simply a question of common decency.
Saturday 28th March 2015 13:32 GMT
Re: Good riddance, I say
I agree. I remember many years ago that there was another BBC furore about political presenter Jack de Manio reading a script on the radio about the African country Niger. He mispronounced it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_de_Manio
I always thought that if the word was not part of your normal vocabulary then you would not be capable of such a gross error.
It's not a word I would use. It's not a word I care to think, much less say aloud - it has too much significance. Clarkson used the word in front of a camera apparently thinking that it's just a harmless joke. It isn't. He deserved to be sacked then, and he deserves to be sacked now.
So as far as I'm concerned this repeated pattern of gross verbal and now physical abuse *is* his persona, private as well as public. Not a nice man.
Saturday 28th March 2015 11:51 GMT
Re: Good riddance, I say
Bloakey1,
I take your point too. However, I would have no trouble at all in saying "You're a twat" to the faces of Clarkson (just saying the truth), Hammond (especially) or Tony Hall (for letting Clarkson get away with it for so long).
But despite my Mr. Angry persona (which is real because of the many stupidities and injustices I see) I have a reasonable sense of humour, I'm prepared to admit it when I'm wrong (it happens), and I'm ready to accept others' points of view. As long as they're right... :-)
Saturday 28th March 2015 09:19 GMT
Good riddance, I say
It's not as if Clarkson will starve. (I hesitate to say "unfortunately", but it's hovering at the back of my mind). He's made his millions, he'll continue to write his intemperate nonsense for right-wing papers.
Hammond is a disgusting cringeworthy embarrassing little squit, a small rabbit caught in the headlights, withering every time Clarkson talks to him, grimacing and giggling like a first-year schoolgirl.
May has other successful projects, many of which I enjoy. He's the only one of the three that I have any time for - he seems like a reasonable bloke who tolerates rather than agrees with Clarkson.
The producer comes out of this fiasco well - he made no fuss, made no complaint, and will no doubt be able to find something else within the BBC.
The BBC didn't come out of this well. After all Clarkson's racist guff ("I never used the N-word" - OFFS, you were in front of a CAMERA!) he should have gone a long time ago. The wonder of this final (I hope) incident is that it took so long for him to not have his contract renewed (is that what they call a sacking these days?) since in any other reputable organisation he would have been marched off the premises and possibly down to the local nick.
Force your hand: Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display
Thursday 26th March 2015 12:31 GMT
Re: Looks ok but...
@BobRocket post
Why all the downvotes for what is obviously meant to be a tongue-in-cheek comment? Is this our local fanbois expressing their advanced sense of humour again when *anything* less than glowing is said about their iShiny?
For what it's worth, Bob, have an upvote. We need people with some vestige of humour to keep things interesting.
Taylor Swift snaps up EVEN MORE pr0n domain names
BT set to undercut rivals with return to mobile biz
Apple Watch is like an invasive weed says Gartner
Sensitive apps with 6.3 BILLION downloads found open to FREAK
UK Supreme Court waves through indiscriminate police surveillance
Sunday 8th March 2015 17:24 GMT
Marching blindly into 1984...
..with the connivance of judges who are failing in their job of protecting us.
I hope that the European Court take a firmer stance.
I'm not accusing our judges of deliberate bias; I believe only that they're human and subject to the same deliberately-whipped-up political climate of fear in which *any* criticism of the police or authority is seen as tacit approval of terrorism.
Shove off, ugly folk, says site for people who love themselves
£280k Kickstarter camera trigger campaign crashes and burns
Wednesday 4th March 2015 07:34 GMT
Risk?
I always thought that Kickstarter projects were providing funding for possibilities rather than concrete results. Did I misunderstand? Genuine question - I don't know.
But if I invest in something that doesn't actually exist yet, is it not the same as playing the stock market? Win some, lose some?
Forget 1,000 lashes for Facebook posts, Saudis now want to behead blogger Raif Badawi
Tuesday 3rd March 2015 07:34 GMT
7th century...
...is when Islam was founded, and it's therefore 7 centuries behind other religions. 7 centuries ago Christians were behaving in what we now regard as an uncivilised manner. One day, I hope, Islam's fundamentalist followers will also learn culture and become like the rest of normal decent humanity. And in that group I include the majority of Muslims who condemn their mad co-religionists.
Out of time: Huawei, LG unveil watches nobody wants to buy
Sunday 1st March 2015 18:11 GMT
What am I missing?
My Citizen EcoDrive Dumbwatch does one thing, and does it brilliantly. It cost me £239 (shortly afterwards it was £299 when they realised it was too cheap), waterproof to 200 metres, accurate to within half a second a day but automatically resets itself to atomic time in the middle of every night, "perpetual" calendar until 2099 (that'll do...), never needs a battery because it recharges on even weak light, and has a face that I'm happy with and don't want to change.
I use my Nexus 6 as an entertainment/web/communications device, and it's no big hassle to pull it out of my pocket when it rings with a phone call or text.
These smart watches are pointless and are simply the product of companies desperate to pull money out of gadget freaks' wallets. Me, I like gadgets (hence the Nexus 6) but I won't spend money on one that essentially serves no new purpose.
W*nkers of the world unite to save the planet one jerk-off at a time
Linux clockpocalypse in 2038 is looming and there's no 'serious plan'
Saturday 21st February 2015 17:52 GMT
Re: Nah...@blood beast error.
Apparently I'm going to have to work on my communications skills. Or maybe other people need to read more carefully before hitting the downvote button.
Do tech people really follow the stereotype of having no sense of humour? Maybe I don't after all, who knows? :-)
"Baldrick, to you irony is like bronzey and steely, isn't it?" Ben Elton, Blackadder.
Saturday 21st February 2015 08:18 GMT
Nah...
Y2K was a big fat nothing. Every computer system worked just fine. There was never any need to panic. Millions/billions down the drain. I know this because 2000 came and went without any problems at all.
(As it happens, I worked on Y2K and I giggle at the opinion above voiced by the general public. I hope this one gets a bit more visibility).
HAWKING ALERT: Leave planet Earth, find a new home. Stupid humans
Friday 20th February 2015 13:23 GMT
Re: LOOSE != LOSE
Sorry, I'd have been glad to use the "Send corrections" link if I'd noticed it - and even after your comment it took me two minutes to find it, not on the main page, nor in the article page, but only in the Comments page.
But as someone else has already commented, tongue in cheek (as I'm being), name-and-shame is much more fun. Apologies if I made the headache worse.
Actually, after posting the above comment I noticed the "Tips and corrections" bottom left, tiny grey letters, no obvious hyperlink. Another fallout from the "upgrade"? And since I'm mentioning hyperlinks, why does the "Comments" blue (i.e. hyperlink colour) at the bottom right of each of the home page list of articles just lead to the article instead of directly to the comments? Bad use of colour coding by your web designers...?
Happy to follow the best procedures, but help me out here...
Swedish National Font marches to the sound of whalesong
Smartphones don’t dumb you down, they DUMB you UP
Saturday 7th February 2015 23:02 GMT
Re: Why dont you just ask...
And since you menation "scum", I bought Tomtom Android just over a year ago, upgraded to a Nexus 6 with QHD screen (same as several others such as Note 4) and Tomtom no longer works. And they show no sign of shame or recognition of this reprehensible behaviour which (IMO) falls little short of fraud when I bought the app for the "lifetime maps"...
Despite repeated requests from many people they give no indication that, unlike almost every other GPS navigation provider (Sygic, Nokia Here, so it can't be a difficult technical limitation), they have any intention of fulfilling the spirit of their sales promise.
Rant off...
But beware.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
