Posts by katrinab

Re: New name?

I’m thinking OneDrive for Developers.

Re: Sage 50!

The number in the sage lines refers to the number of employees that a company in its target market would typically have. So Sage One is for self employed individuals and personal service companies; Sage 50 is for small companies up to about 50 employees, and so on.

Re: Suing Ecuador ???? What a joke!

I thought he was suing in an Equadorian court for breach of Equadorian human rights?

Re: "You can now buy music without DRM. Why can't videos be the same?"

iTunes will sell you an aac file that can be played anywhere that has suitable hardware / software. Most others, eg Amazon, will sell you an mp3 file that will work basically anywhere that can play music.

Scrapping DRM in music did not negatively impact sales, so your stuff about income streams and costs is not relevant here.

Re: Green Credentials

The three Rs are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

If, when the battery on one of these things goes, you replace just the battery rather than the whole device, that is much better than buying a new device and sending the old one for recycling.

It is called the Direct Marketing Association, not the National Malware Association, but he didn't pay his subscription fees to it.

Re: Just using Uber and Lyft as whipping boys

Maximum size of vehicle seems to be around 8 seats. I can't find the rules for London, but East Ayrshire has 8 seats, Tameside has two classes of licence, one for 4 seats, and one for 5-8 seats. Citymapper are doing a shared minicab service with 6 seater vehicles, maybe that was influenced by TfL rules.

Re: Cross Distro?

It would certainly be reasonable to assume that it is only compiled for ARM, not AMD64/Intel.

Re: Samsung/Huawei

But some companies such as Apple understand the paradox of choice, and keep the number of SKUs to a minimum.

Re: I never quite understood why one would get a bundle

I paid the £789 for my iPhone my Amex, so I'm covered by the consumer credit act. Amex are far more likely to help me than O2 if there are any problems.

Re: Another option to tackle the pension deficit

Also, pension funds are invested in shares, including BT shares. If dividends are cut, pension fund deficits increase even more.

Re: "V-Moda Forza Metallo"

"why use Italian words"

Because if we didn't use words borrowed from other languages, I'm not sure we'd actually have any words of our own, and we would end up having to borrow an entire language from somewhere else.

Re: Security? We've heard of it.

The UK are world leaders in CCTV deployment, by a very wide margin. 16% of all CCTV cameras in the world are in the UK, monitoring 0.88% of the world's population.

Other vegetables / fruits are available, and if the price to tomatoes doubles, people will substitute.

Maybe Cyberlink is the only program that needs to access "My Cyberlink DVD Projects", but Cyberlink might need to access "My Videos", "My Excel Documents" (yes I know it's not really a thing), or just about everything else.

Also, what if you want to send one of your Cyberlink DVD projects to someone else? Outlook might not be the best tool for this particular task given that it could be 4GB+, but you are going to need some sort of program to do it. Microsoft would tell you to use OneDrive, there are other options.

Re: You shouldn't be able to get to there from here.

"Would Morrisons be vicarious liable if an employee walked into a store and gunned people down?"

Yes they would, and there was actually a case along those lines in 2016, except that the employee attacked the customer with his fists rather than a gun.

Re: Linux kernel devs

Only for any code samples you post. For everything else, it would likely be something along the lines of the CC Attrib-No Derivatives licence.

Re: WTF?

The target market appears to be the same as the target market for the Amstrad Em@iler, which didn't exist back then, and is even less likely to exist now that our phones can do these things.

Re: 128K of ISDN

Lotus notes is crap with any speed of connection

Re: Fake news ??????

I could give you some examples that I think everyone would agree are fake news, eg the claim that Peter Jones invested in an automatic money-making machine during a Dragon's Den show that returned some stupidly high % of his investment in only 20 minutes, and the article is mocked-up to look like it is from The Mirror.

Then there's the claim that a pizza shop that doesn't have a basement has a paedophile ring in the basement that it doesn't have.

I suppose the question is where you draw though.

Re: Utter shite

I'm not claiming to be a Perl genius, and that's the point. If I can do it, then it is obvious to anyone who isn't a complete idiot. Most of the difficult stuff was done by the author of whichever CPAN mail library I used, and the rest of it by the authors of ClamAV.

I think the CPAN library in question was Mail::Internet, first published in 1995.

You might trust the owner of the printer with whatever you are printing, but not everyone else on the network with other information.

If you are printing a booking pass at an airport for example, then they have that information anyway.