Re: Corbynite?
I believe it's some kind of manouevre
Posts by Quortney Fortensplibe
168 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Sep 2015
India follows up Mars orbiter with successful space observatory launch
BBC joins war against Flash, launches beta HTML5 iPlayer
Wednesday 30th September 2015 10:44 GMT
Re: Late to the party BBC !
"...Years forward, hows yours doing? A score of 555 tells us you made it to the future..."
Score | Browser
526 | Chrome 44
525 | Opera 31
467 | Firefox 40
402 | Edge
396 | Safari 8.0
Confirming my personal experience that [Google-taint aside], Chrome has now unseated Firefox as the browser of choice for when you want most stuff 'just to work'©
Wednesday 30th September 2015 10:32 GMT
Re: About time...
"...I've had flash uninstalled for my main PC for a few years now and, partly thanks to initially Apple then others, there are steadily less and less websites that rely on Flash.."
Same here. Must be going on for 5 years now. And I can't say I've missed it.
"...the BBC is one of the few places I have to right click and run flash player nowadays..."
It was always possible to access quite a lot of iPlayer stuff on your desktop comp anyway, by the simple expedient of changing the 'UserAgent' settings in your browser to self-identify as an iPad. This just makes it more straightforward.
Russian antivirus vendor fire bombed for research blogs
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus: Harder, faster and they'll give you a buzz
Wednesday 30th September 2015 10:13 GMT
Price of Admission
"...press the on-screen keyboard, for example, and it becomes a trackpad, enabling you to place the text cursor..."
Forget all the pointless twattery. To me, this alone ^^^ sounds like it's worth the price of admission. I've whinged long and froth-lipped many times before about the absolute arsery that is selecting and manipulating text on touch screens. Whoever came up with the original UX for that needs a right good kicking.
Now, if only I could find several hundred quid down the back of the sofa, I could finally upgrade my ageing [and increasingly arthritic] 3GS.
Bill Bailey: The man, the musician, the comic, the troll, the legend
Monday 28th September 2015 12:17 GMT 
Rubber Chicken Circuit
"...venturing out into radio commentary, acting in both sitcoms and feature films as well as selling out the Royal Albert Hall, appearing regularly on TV and releasing many best-selling DVDs and albums..."
Or "would turn up to the opening of an envelope" as we used to call it.
That said, at least Bill Bailey is quite funny and has done something to justify his inclusion on the 'Rubber Chicken Circuit'. How people like Germaine-fucking-Greer can still manage to make a [probably very comfortable] living doing likewise is beyond me.
NEW ERA for HUMANITY? NASA says something 'major' FOUND ON MARS
Zuck, Gates and Bono in ludicrous internet access for world+dog by 2020 bid
Robot Romeo gets its 'antenna' snapped off in attempt to 'charm' testy American
Holy litigation, Batman! Custom Batmobile cars nixed by copyright
Google makes admen pay for fake YouTube views, claims research
PETA monkey selfie lawsuit threatens wildlife photography, warns snapper at heart of row
Thursday 24th September 2015 09:09 GMT
PETA-Potty
<i>"...The day a monkey decides to bring it's own lawsuit and can go oin the witness stand to defend itself, I'll concede it can hold copyright..."</i>
Indeed. If, on the one hand our simian friend is considered to have legal right to copyright on an image he took. Then he must also have similar legal right to hire and fire his own counsel. The court should ask PETA to show where and when the monkey appointed them its legal representatives.
Conversely, the photographer could produce a disclaimer form, signed with a suitably smudged paw-print, wherein the monkey waives his legal rights to the photograph, in return for a nice juicy banana.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
