Posts by NotWorkAdmin

Re: Oh, dear...

Blimey, what a depressing viewpoint. I think you're reading too many of the wrong news sources. There's plenty to be cheerful about, the trick is to look for it. TIP: Sky News isn't the place to get a world view.

Re: Or....

Of course, most of Disney's output is derivative work. They didn't come up with Hercules, Aladdin, Snow White and so on and so and so on. That's what's so warped about this endless extension - it stifles creativity.

There aren't really any new ideas in storytelling.

Re: You have to wonder how much they spent

"just gets you the logo and a report full of shit"

Possibly not - I seem to remember this in some terms & agreements:

"Don't forget, anything you upload to FriendFace imediately becomes our property for us to do what we like with it"

The real problem here...

...is simply that the users have an expectation of unlimited capacity and seemingly no way of determining what needs to be stored, and what should be discarded.

I dread to think what their homes are like.

Re: The only reason Google is fighting...

@matt somehow, you appear to have misunderstood everything I said. Bravo.

Re: Suggestion

Come on now Peter, you realize quite a lot of what you've said is insulting right? Had I said I was an idiot it would be fair enough - I don't believe I did though.

Re: They actually allow phones to be switched on during class?

I'm horrified too. Presumably phones are banned in exams at least, so the schools know how to do it.

Re: Much as I dislike Google...

Agree. Censorship is censorship. A dangerous thing to use, and in any case, quite likely impossible given the existence of the net.

We already have plenty of legislation for dealing with objectionable material - the obscene publications act for instance.

Re: A step in the right direction

Speed limits and other road safety measures are simply trade off's between the number of deaths/injuries we're prepared to accept vs the economic impact of harsher restrictions. Uncomfortable an idea as that is, if we made everyone drive at 1mph we'd have next to zero deaths, but not be able to afford any hospitals.

For me, autonomous vehicle is the ONLY viable way to get what we all really want.

Re: Deactivated @ David H

Interesting argument. I had an armed robbery at my workplace involving a sawn off double barrel shotgun. After the event, one of the other staff scoffed that it had been a replica.

When you're unarmed and looking down the barrel of a gun held by a shouting lunatic, there is absolutely no way thoughts about whether the gun is real will enter your head.

You did what?

I tried this myself - shunt a user over to Mac in the hope that would end the support questions.

Trust me, it's not that easy.

Re: People click on links in "unknown" emails???

Much as it pains me at times...if users weren't retards I'd be out of a job.

Re: Decrease page load times by A WHOLE SECOND!

OK, I searched for some data and here's some. 2012, 1.2 trillion Google searches. Obviously that's a tiny proportion of the number of internet page loads in that year, but even that number, improved by one second each equals 38000 years of time saved.

Obviously, individually none of us can feel that time being saved. That doesn't mean it isn't real.

Re: Service went down, then it was brought back up again. @peshman

I hear the rage, and understand the frustration.

It does, however, occur to me that a Reg reader ought to understand that while outages are generally rare, they do happen.

And for another thing, were Virgin to hire enough staff to handle calls in the event of a system wide outage occurring at any given time, they would be charging you a heck of a lot more.

Feels odd defending this company, because I hate them. With a passion.

Indeed...

...but try watching his more recent output. HBO decided he's for US citizens only and geo blocked everyone else. Which is a shame as I rather enjoy his stuff.

Still, annoying for those people who use Twitch...

Indeed. Just got the email and came here first to see whether it was just me. Apparently not eh?

Re: Meh...

Er, just saying. 100M water resistant doesn't mean you can submerge something to that depth and expect it to survive. Water resistance is quoted based on lab conditions. In the real world water is moving about and it makes quite a difference.

Re: Ive is a designer?

I'd have to agree. Manufacturers tend to do the finished design you end up with as they have to work out how to make the actual components required to make something work look as close to what the guy with the crayons sent them.

And anyway, a designer bemoaning users doing the design and removing him from the equation? Not really surprising his crayons got thrown out of the pram at that thought.

Re: require a whole new system

While I agree the NHS needs a computer system that works (which they don't) the last people I would trust to buy such a system is the NHS itself. In fact I'm not sure who I would trust to make that buying decision.

Re: Large singer required?

I am (or at least work for) a business trader. Go back 6 years and most of what we did was eBay. Today? There's no money to be made on eBay - we just use it for clearing old stock. If I was running the place we'd have closed our eBay account 3 years ago or at least restricted it to selling broken tat.

To put it in perspective, for 2014 just shy of 10000 orders through eBay, the majority at break even or a loss vs 20000 through Amazon and even with their charges, we made money on the vast majority.

Re: 4Mbps down and 1Mbps up

Aye - I'd be more interested in some semblance of reality in the description of the "product" I'm paying for. Virgin says I get 30Mb down. I've NEVER seen as much as 10.

Analogy time again. If I bought a Kilo of sugar and the package contained less than 333 grams I'd have reasonable grounds to complain.

Re: not until after a long, long, *long* period of mixed autonomous/manual traffic

I seriously doubt that. Once autonomous vehicles are available, the insurance premiums for them will be tiny. In a short period of time, possibly less than 5 years the cost to insure a manually operated vehicle will sky rocket to the point virtually no-one can afford it. Unless you and I have a different interpretation of *long* periods of time.

I also doubt autonomous vehicles will get extensive (meaning costly) extra development to be able to cover rare situations. Autonomous cars do not need to be perfect. They just need to be better than humans and that's not all that hard. It's a powerful message to be able to say you saved 20000 lives. To spend an extra few million in development to maybe save 20001 just isn't something that happens in the real world.

Re: I for one.....

I'm glad to hear it's not just me who wants one. I spend a lot of time picking up my "children" from pubs & parties. The idea of simply sending the car to get them...freaking awesome.

The parking at my property is atrocious. The idea I can disembark at my front door and let the damn car go and park itself...more freaking awesome.

I like driving, but not all driving.

Re: Not just google

It's called retargetting. Company I work at uses it. Customers do complain sometimes at how our advertisements "haunt" them as they traverse other websites. I agree, it's creepy.

Re: only two or three feet..

My BT headset advertises 7m. I've walked out of my office, downstairs, through the downstairs office and well into our warehouse and it's still connected. A distance of well over 30m and through 1 floor and 3 walls.

Re: T&Cs

That's what occurred to me. I have a Netflix account. I pay them a fiver each month and I watch stuff. I assume there are some terms somewhere but I never looked. I know if I do I'll just see a bunch of reasons why I shouldn't use the service. Can't do that until I've finished Dexter at minimum.