Posts by Frank Haney30 posts • joined Saturday 21st April 2007 12:55 GMT
The exact quote from Teresa May was "There are no plans for any big government database. No one is going to be looking through ordinary people's emails or Facebook posts. Only suspected terrorists, paedophiles or serious criminals will be investigated,"
And El Reg fell for it. "The Register can't help but note the language here: To repeat, May said no big government database would be created"
To repeat: no she didn't. She said they haven't got around to planning a big government database. Yet.
I agree with you a bit re: dicking around with the desktop. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 but I'm using what they call the "Classic Desktop" 'cos I'm an old stick-in-the-mud. However, if you used Ubuntu in a corporate environment it would probably be one of the "long term support" releases. 10.04 was the last one, the next one is 11.10 but you don't need to upgrade then, 10.04 is supported for three years so you've got another two years to play around with the new desktop on your development machines and if you still don't like it you can still switch to the Classic Desktop.
I sound like a fanboi. :-(
Was this a press release that should have been embargoed until the beginning of next month? The joke doesn't work otherwise. It's just to silly.
What matters is who you bought the computer from. The purchaser of a Dell computer does not have a contract with the capacitor manufacturer.
That sounds like retail price. At that point in the distribution chain I'd be surprised if they were worth more than £10 each.
It's like when the customs nab a drug smuggler with £1000 worth of cocaine and it morphs into a "street value" of £1 million.
Paris, 'cos even she would be able to do the math (sic).
Come on guys. You know IE6 is the best browser there has ever been. It would be a sin to discard it just because something a bit flashier has come along.
http://www.saveie6.com/
Join the campaign.
Please tell me that "moby" and "lappy" are still double plus ungood unwords.
And txt spk, of course. LOL
Make a car that's uglier than the Fiat Multipla? I think they succeeded.
That disclaimer. It sounds reasonable to me. If you get duff advise from the official HP website you'd expect to have some comeback. They're just making it clear that this isn't an official HP website and you're on your own. Caveat Emptor so to speak.
"So how long before the first person ashes are scatter in space?"
It's already been done. Gene Roddenberry (of Star Trek fame) was one of the first.
"At the turn of the millennium, Microsoft took a fundamental decision that the PC remained its destiny and that the internet was a treat to Microsoft's hard-won desktop business." doesn't seem to make sense. Did you mean "..a THREAT to Microsoft's hard-won desktop business"?
"The only way they will get my DNA is as a swab from my corpse."
I'm sure that can be arranged. Is next Friday convenient for you?
It's not clear if the following is the author's opinion or the Microsoft spokeman's opinion:
"Critics of OOXML have two main objections against the standard. First, Microsoft does not support Open Document Files (ODF), a rival ISO file format standard used in OpenOffice, among others. MS-Office 2007, for instance, uses OOXML formats lacks native ODF support. (In the toing and froing over the OOXML standard, Microsoft said in May that it will build ODF support into SP2 of Office 2007, due out sometime next year.) Second, many in the anti-camp are against OOXML - because they are against Microsoft."
It reads as if it's the author's opinion but it does hold the Microsoft line perfectly.
I am a critic of OOXML so let me take those two assertions in turn.
1 Microsoft doesn't support ODF. So what? Microsoft is free to support whatever file formats it wants to. It would be nice if Microsoft supported ODF but if it did it wouldn't need another standard so the argument is somewhat circular.
2 We're against OOXML because we don't like Microsoft. I am against OOXML because of the way Microsoft has ridden roughshod over the standards process. We didn't need anothert document standard and remember, this is a "standard" that doesn't have a working application and is unlikely to have a working application since Microsoft won't be implementing it.
And finally, you say "because they are against Microsoft" as if that's a bad thing. Look at the company's record of illegal behaviour, what's not to dislike?
I've received a lot of spam email today, supposedly from MSNBC Breaking News. Actual return email addresses vary.
Is this how the virus/trojan/malware is being spread?
I also made my UK debut in 1949.
Please don't describe ME as a 60 year old.
You seem to be mistaking freedom fighters for terrorists. An easy mistake to make.
So there's been a reduction in KSI (killed and seriously injured) figures. What they don't tell you is that the reduction is almost completely in the seriously injured figures. The number killed each year has remained almost the same in spite of improvements in vehicle and road design.
And when you think about it that doesn't really make a lot of sense. You would expect the number killed to be a more or less constant percentage of the total KSI number. But I'm sure nobody would stoop to massaging the seriously injured figures just to pretend that speed cameras actually do what they promised - save lives.
Mine's the one with the abacus in the pocket.
"...Gordon Brown claimed the ubiquitous device in the name of Mother England."
Really?
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out the absurdity of a scotch person claiming an invention for the sassenachs.
"i have yet to hear a convincing argument to-date to say the moon landings were faked... and none of thes nubile rantings about mulitiple light sources, no stars in the sky, perfectly framed pictures from chest mounted cameras with no viewfinder.... proper arguments....."
He he. I caught one.
There are adults who believe that Neil Armstrong was on the moon not on a film lot in the desert somewhere. How dumb is that?
"If he doesn't fetch water, he can't wash."
He's a 16 year old boy.
Not washing is what they do.
Penguin 'cos it's cold and there's no polar bear.
Where would the world be without 5 year plans?
I wonder if the Chinese authorities will be taking lessons from our own glorious leaders...
"Thank you for supporting the petition on the Number 10 website. The Prime Minister is aware of your concerns but will continue to do just as he damn well pleases.
"Please don't hestitate to contact us if you have any other burning issues you want us to ignore"
Hedley Phillips wrote "...Surley companies are save millions each year by their IT staff keeping informed of the latest threats..."
Surely you meant "surly".
The last time I checked a Ubuntu laptop was £40 more expensive than an XP or Vista laptop. If you just look at the base model machines Ubuntu is about £50 cheaper than XP or Vista but it will cost you £90 to bring the processor, memory, hard drive, DVD drive etc in line with the Windows machine.
If I wanted to run Linux on a Dell so badly I would load it myself and save £40
I'm sure there must be a Paris Hilton angle to this story.
This is another "Using A Computer" patent. That is: find something that people have been doing for tens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, describe it then put "using a computer" at the end.
IBM once managed to get a patent for queuing "Using A Computer".
http://www.news.com/2100-1017-961803.html
"...extrapolating the results to every computer user in the country is probably a crime against statistics: so that's exactly what The Times has done.
...
...and if the person next to you has never stolen a Wi-Fi connection then we have to assume that you have."
Is it safe to assume that the last sentence of the article was included as another example of a crime against statistics?
"if they were complying with laws what were they doing in court?"
I suppose you've never heard of a trial where the accused was found not guilty. I wonder what they were doing in court.
"She's supposed to be a role model, what does being a murderer or peadophile have to do with singing ability"
Being a murderer didn't do Leadbelly's career any harm.
I've got to agree with Declan, although I'm sure that if we got rid of X Factor they'd only come up with an even worse, just when you thought it was safe to turn on the telly, Son of X Factor.
Under the heading "Open Source? No kidding" the anonymous poster, in amongst personal attacks on "Open-source fanboys" etc writes:
"Open Office is the weakest link. It's slow, bulky, and lacks interoperability with the common office formats (Microsoft's) that everyone else uses...
"All we know is, that Open Office can't open .doc documents, and that other people can't open the documents that we send them."
A mildly amusing rant. I'll give it 5 out of 10.
It just goes to show how little he really knows. One of my favourite uses for Open Office is to rescue MS Office files, especially Excel but Word as well, when MS Office refuses to have anything to do with them. Does that mean that Open Office is more interoperable than MS Office?
