Posts by DasWezel

Re: Stock photography

On that note...

What the /hell/ is the guy on the left wearing on his face?

Re: Huh?

Well, for starters the TV production industry quite like to be able to record what they're shooting...

Re: Mockery

AC: Please cancel your DM subscription.

Re: Americans...

@WatAWorld

"The Brexit thing is actually a good idea, nothing to be embarrassed about."

I am forced to completely and totally disagree with you. Ignoring the actual result itself (which is still frankly a wildcard at best) the month or so of squabbling, infighting, outright lies, scapegoating and straight-up bullshit being spaffed about by both sides was a national f'ing disgrace. That's without taking into consideration the violence and publicly-broadcast hate that were fuelled by the issue.

As far as I can tell, even before the first vote was cast, we made ourselves look like squabbling, childish fuckwits on the global stage. If that's not something to be embarrassed about, then we've certainly lost any right to tell another country to be ashamed of itself.

Re: Ban the vape!

And I'll bet you spend more time in the fug than you would otherwise by taking a few moments to berate the user. Lawks.

Re: Brilliant...

I'd argue otherwise, as most Indians I've dealt with have a much better grasp of English.

"Look,s its shell FFS. Get the first version right and dont change the bastard."

Linux user who regrettably has to deal with Windows sometimes. Personally, found the later versions of powershell genuinely surprising in terms of the sheer power available. Actually in /some/ ways quite like the idea of return data being either formatted to screen or passed as an object to another function.

No bloody clue to how use most of it without extensive googling though.

Re: But the program is error free!

"My favorite was standing behind one of my programmers one day and watching him...."

I can only imagine just how calm, comfortable, unpressured and in no way likely to make any stupid mistakes that guy was with you leering over his shoulder, ready to sack him at the slightest sign of not being the bestest best programmer ever.

The beer is for that guy.

Re: Overpriced

This weekend, I shall be building a turntable controller for a model railway. Stepper motors and switches, and a need for a non-tech to pull the SD card and fiddle with the settings to suit his layout. (So Arduino is out for a super-fast development lash-up) - I'd say this is absolutely not useless. In fact I'd say it's just cut costs by £25 over a standard PiB2, and will do the job /perfectly/.

I believe you may have inadvertently confused your opinion for fact. It happens, have a beer.

Re: ...despite its fluffy image, the centre eschews cloud computing....

I'm amazed the aforementioned fibre hasn't been taken out permanently by a tree. Lost count of the number of times the railway mess landline at Maespoeth got taken out by the buggers a few years back!

Sods law says you'll get connected for less than a week before the road's blocked again by splintered remains of tree and fibre...

Re: Life-saving, really?

"How much impact can a bra-wire really stop? To my best knowledge*), they are similar in gauge to coat hangers"

I hope you're not impugning one of the best bodging supplies (the coat hangers, not the bra) known to man here.

Re: How

"If my plumbing or my car starts playing up I might have an idea but I don't have the skills or the tools to fix complicated problems, it's not my job so I hire a plumber or a mechanic to look at it."

While this is mostly true, you'll in all probability try to hire a plumber or mechanic recommended to you or that generally has a good reputation. You probably won't hire Honest Jeff because he was first to rock up outside your house, pushing his rickety wooden cart, and promising to do the job for a really good price and of course he can keep an eye on things while you nip down to the shops to get some cash.

Re: Hmmmm less and less of a selling point.

"It's slowly beginning to win in the server room, but your nan is never going to be able to figure out which version does what for her home laptop."

Your nan (re)installs Windows herself? Kudos.

Re: Kerfuffle?

More of a fracas if you ask me.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I for one cannot pummel the downvote button on your particular opinion hard enough.

Some of Joe Public are very interested in why we should unknowingly sacrifice our privacy to an arm of government that simply says "trust us, because you don't need to know".

Re: Pint?

It's the proper imperial pint! Is there any other kind?

Re: RMS

I have met RMS and - while he knows his stuff - I was forced to categorise him as an individual under "Bellend". Serious people-issues in there somewhere.

Great to listen to his lectures. Bloody difficult to ask him a question though unless it's under ~5 words though (although I understand that's partially to do with US culture or some such.) Happily I wasn't looking after him while he was in the area...

*Anon because post is based on speculative bollocks.

There, I fixed it for you. :-)