Posts by BurnT'offering

Re: Not a 'thermal' printer...

So, could it be used to print paper circuit boards?

Re: Just looking at the Google car

You evil person! Keep on like that and you could be the next Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

Re: luxury!

"In the UK, hot and cold water is still delivered to the taps in separate pipes"

Strewth - it was a joke. Everyone knows that, in the UK, you have two pipes. One for ambient temperature water, and one for water heated at vast expense to slightly above ambient temperature.

Re: Isn't it horribly bad luck to rename a ship?

Except for the case of the USS New York. It was a very good ship

Re: We have a shitty system

Thanks! I did look at that and think it was probably the most useful and informative thing I have ever written during working hours.

Re: Logic & Gui

There's a difference between application architecture decisions and political platform log-in decisions. As the article mentions, MS already have a dandy set of Android apps. They don't need to downgrade them to ports of the Windows versions

Re: Tory Parties 4 pillars/beliefs.

"which ones do you disagree with?" The one about small government needing the highest levels of borrowing in history

Re: Lots of lateness

Perhaps broadcasting SSIDs to deter leechers is not quite as clever as they think it is

Re: "...more comprehensive error checking and handling?"

Also, FCA Compliance

Re: honestly can't tell if this article is satire or not

That 's the mark of the best satire. And - the worst

Re: Where is the "WE DOOMED, DOOMED I TELL YOU!!!" icon??

Apple's holding it in reserve for when Icahn buys back in

Re: A few splashes?

I wouldn't have been surprised if you had said it continued to work while fully submerged. Tough buggers, Vaxes

Re: what makes GDS think they can do it any better?

A few public hiccups?

They've delivered a website. They've claimed credit for a bunch of transactional services that predate their existence and which they had no part in. They claim to have delivered many more services that are still vapourware. Their ID project is years behind schedule and over budget. They fucked up Universal Credit. They fucked up Defra so much, Defra reverted to paper.

If this was one of the big outsourcers, questions would have been asked in Parliament and contracts torn up.

They are so incompetent, they make the aircraftless carriers project look like a model of efficiency. They are the most useless, unproductive, arrogant, lying, unprofessional bunch of jumped up tossers I have ever encountered. It is a complete mystery to me how they manage to continue existing and getting people to believe their bullshit.

And yet, they still act surprised and hurt when a few sceptics don't genuflect to their superior wisdom.

There is a story of wasted taxpayers' money and breathtakingly bad management crying out to be told here but I'm not optimistic we'll ever hear it

Re "Bring Your Robot to Work day"

Sadly, it's more likely to be "Bring Your Human to Work Day". Must rush - I've just got time to give master's slippers a fresh coat of Hammerite before he gets home.

Re: 2 words

2 more words:

Henceforth;

Opossum.

Re: A bagless hair dryer is just what I need.

In that case, you might be in the market for a hairless bag dryer

Re: Microsoft showing off their coding skills...

Who plays Igor now that Ballmer is gone?

Re: Ban all the guns from the planet and in 50 years it will die.

If the planet runs out of oil, the guns will die.

Re: Can we have some innovation please Apple

You're missing the point. You could try reading the article. The amazing innovation is spending resources and time on software engineering to provide system wide tools for professional colour management for those who care about that kind of things (eg photographers, designers and artists) and not shouting about it so ignorant people can carry on bargling about Apple shiny toys. Of course Samsung et all also do similar things but you'd think Reg readers of all people would understand that any new smartphone is a product of many, many amazing and uncredited incremental innovations produced by hard working and talented engineers, programmers, designers, etc. We are living in an age of miraculous technological innovation and the response is tired, hackneyed rants about rounded corners. You lot wouldn't recognise innovation if it was shoved diagonally up the direct channel to your brains.