Actual Discount
As some people have rightly pointed out 17.5% is an increase on a smaller number. The actual amount of discount advertised in the small print is 14.9%. Better than a kick in the nads though.
Posts by Lexxy
19 posts • joined Tuesday 10th March 2009 11:02 GMT
Posted in Scientists weave battery into clothing
Pure electricity. In my pants.
I tried this before they waterproofed it and I must say it was simply a shocking product.
Posted in Microsoft slips out Silverlight 5
RE: Doh
LOB developers wanted this feature because it was a common scenario that the application needed greater access to the client PC to interact with say, legacy components or bespoke hardware.
The feature is enabled for enterprise roll-out through a group policy and the application assembly itself must be certificate signed to match with that policy. Without this, no elevated trust is provided to the application by design. So the risk is malicious code attempting to break that design - but that risk applies to everything - the application, the plugin, the browser. Nothing new there.
Posted in Microsoft slips out Silverlight 5
Productivity
His point is that development in Silverlight is more productive than development on the web tech stack - which is something I happen to agree with him on. The ubiquity of the platform is an entirely different question, so I can see how you failed to see his argument when you go off on that old "but it doesn't run on every device" tangent.
Speculative views presented as fact
Folks,
Can someone please cite an official source and not an opinion or rumour piece backing this commonly held view that Microsoft will end development on Silverlight on the PC ?
I'm just looking for some clarity amongst all the FUD: I fail to understand how "Silverlight is dying" as people say, when a major internet player is taking the platform on at this stage of play. I would go as far as to say to those still blindly repeating that particular rumour that it's time to re-assess that view?
I see your occupyflash and raise you
http://occupyhtml.org/
Posted in id Software Wolfenstein 3D
ROTT tribute sequel
ROTT was great and a dedicated fan has made an excellent tribute sequel which you can run SP/MP+Coop on Doom2.WAD running on the (very latest SVN) zDoom sourceport. God/dog mode included...
URI: http://elzee.cz.cc/rott.html
Das Boot?
ALLAAAAAARRMMMMMMM!
Posted in Yorks cops bust Bradford guinea pig farm
Calling Dr. PigThumb...
Hello, I'm Dr. Pigthumb
Have you ever had the problem of running out of Guinea pigs?
and just can't find some - anywhere?
Well try my Dr. Pigthumb grow tips
I'll show you how to grow inside and out
From cavy to clone and the best homegrown
And if you're afraid of those pesky pork choppers in the sky -No worries we'll fix them too
With one of our Dr. Pigthumb 'Sizzlean' screens
To block the nosy pig's vision
Don't believe me? Just ask one of my many satisfied clients here Jed Sanders, How well it works....
Posted in US may disable all in-car mobile phones
Moral Statute Machine
"Sir, that wasn't a scratch, it was a pick - you have been fined 10 dollars for driving while digging. 300 dollars in fees will be added to your account."
John Spartan, you are fined five credits for repeated violations of the verbal morality statute.....
New keyboard please!
After being told that your chances of survival are much higher than originally anticipated I can imagine one would be left ashamed of the emissions from such an undercarriage for the rest of the flight.
Guess you could laugh about it later ;)
Posted in NHS trust tags mentally ill offenders
Too Lazy, Didn't Read
Can I just express my discomfort at 'TL;DR' which is creeping its way out of forums of a young demographic: It's a poor excuse for intellectual lazyness and a completely moot, immature point to make when used as a statement.
I'm not having a stab at you Lottie, you just needn't summarize your opinions into one line for the risk of some smug adolecent replying with "TL;DR". If people care enough to view the comments on an article - i figure people are going to read them.
The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.
"especially when so many kids are obsessed with gadgets, computer games, social networking and playing music really bloody loudly on their mobile phones."
Let me solve this for the Royal Society. Children would rather play games and socialize than actually do some real school work. That is all.
Posted in Hack forces Flash onto iPad
I Love You Flash!
He's for everyone of us,
Stand for everyone of us,
He'll save with a mighty hand,
Every man every woman Every child,
- with a mighty flash!
Windows Mobile struggles to find a direction
I just couldn't get a good bearing on this article either.
No browser?
An operating system without a browser is like the chicken without the egg. How does Mr. average computer user get their given-right-to-choose-a-browser if all their only mechanism for acquiring one will be Microsoft's prescribed:
Please choose a browser for your computer:
[X] Internet Explorer 8 (Recommended, Recommended, RECOMMENDED)
[ ] Firefox 3.5 (May Slow Your Computer Down)
Perhaps this heralds the return of the PC magazine included CD-ROM?
Posted in Futurama back from dead again
Great bongo in the congo!
Argh! My Bones!!
My one regret is... that I have... boneitis.
@AC (Gazelle)
Gazelle is just a code name. The real product will be called Microsoft Sloth.
@Code Monkey
Actually, you disabled your Facebook account. Everything you ever posted to that privacy-gobbling website is still there - in case you decide you want to re-embrace it in the future.
I'll stick to email.
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David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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