50-year plus plot lines can be done if the writer is good enough.
Posts by Snapper
607 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Nov 2010
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95
Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments
The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?
UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings
Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11
Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works
Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders
Re: seeking a tech firm to help public bodies "transition to cloud software or hosting services."
Oh I dunno!
Just come across yet another new client who whose IT director locked their company in a five-year internet and phones deal with a con com..... sorry, that should say a 'comms' company. They now can't get out of it but just before she left she renewed it for another five-years.
It was eye-wateringly expensive so they reckon she was getting a very good taste.
Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account
Re: If he thinks that's bad he should try MacOS
Agree, the latest version of Outlook for Mac left column can't even show how many unread emails there are in a folder if it's nested e.g 'Important Clients' > 'Biggest Client' > 'Head Cheese'.
If it does show any numbers they are in a small thin blue font that can't be changed.
Note to Microsoft's Interface designers, YOU HAD ONE JOB!
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes
Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026
Re: Serif PagePlus...
And Affinity are just one (small) payment until a big version comes out when they give excellent upgrade rates, unlike Adobe who charge you for the full Adobe range (except for the Photography kit) irrespective of what apps you use and how many. Experience has told me the hard way that you can't trust anything outside the 5 core Adobe apps to still be there in a few years.
Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries
Leaked email: Unit4 ERP system leaves some school staff with 'nil pay'
Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200
Re: Good lord
Change the hair, change the nose shape, the colour of the eyes, the weight, the walk etc. How is a budding actor going to be able to 'prove' that the likeness is them? The image would almost certainly be adjusted to suit the directors purpose in terms of clothing so I'll think we'll be in the situation of the TV or film company 'renting' 50 or 60 1920's miners or London commuters and literally choosing them from a catalogue.
How many of the film and TV stars of today started as extras? Hopefully the stars will realise just what this means and threaten to withdraw their labour otherwise they will be next!
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten
Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight
China's SpaceX wannabe recycles a rocket after just 38 days
You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company
IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform
What's really going on with Chrome's June crackdown on extensions – and why your ad blocker may or may not work
Bright spark techie knew the drill and used it to install a power line, but couldn't outsmart an odd electrician
Re: Other folks' DIY
I did that once and had to call out a plumber on a Sunday!
After he'd gone I continued very carefully tapping in nails but working to the side of the pipe I could see under the floorboards and marked with masking tape on top.
Hit an old, punched in nail in the joist that must have been there decades. My nail bends at 90º and goes straight into the same pipe.
Plumber could not stop laughing.
Previous owner had built a 1st floor extension over a sloping roof the length of the house and either he or his sparky had held the lighting wires in place under the ceiling joists with bent nails, then put the horizontal plasterboard straight underneath, nailed to the joists and crimping the wires tightly that were then connected straight into the light fittings with no extra cable.
UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech
Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process
Re: I know it's hard to believe
I have plenty of clients running Macs with the whole Office shite including that rather nasty Teams shit, Chrome (I don't know why/actually I do know why) with plenty of RAM left.
I'm looking over the dining room table at at my wife's early 2015 MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM (but I upgraded the original 512GB storage to 2TB), She has Word and Excel open, as well as three browsers, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. Chrome has 34 tabs open (sigh) and the original battery gives her about 8 hours of life off the plug. She'll also have Apple Messages (texts), FaceTime ,Telegram and WhatsApp open. Never had a problem with RAM in the 8 years she's had it.
Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable
Cisco to sell enterprise version of $400 Bang & Olufsen earbuds
Re: B&O was the choice of fanboyz before fanboyz were born
They were probably not fanboyz buying B&O as it was bought out by Phillips and all the people who knew what they were doing quit and went and formed Scandyna.
B&O were left to fit Phillips electronic stuff inside (very) expensive looking (and not only looking) boxes.
Red light for robotaxis as California suspends Cruise's license to self-drive
Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
I wouldn't touch an iMac Pro. You can't upgrade the internal drive and you have to take the screen off to upgrade the RAM. Plenty of other 2017 and later models around (apart from the 2020), and all 27-Inch models beyond 2013 have a PCI slot you can use for a standard NVMe drive with a £15 adapter. I've found WD Black go like stink but avoid Samsung.
Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control
Re: Convenience
Oh that reminds me of an incident about five years ago. I went to see a client as their server kept restarting. I found they'd removed the side, front and back panels of the 2m rack to hang their wet cycling gear. On a wet morning the server kept restarting.
Can't think why......
AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen
Ex-Microsoft maverick takes us on a trip through vintage Task Manager code
95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers
HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop
Apple's iPhone 12 woes spread as Belgium, Germany, Netherlands weigh in
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
Re: Oh gawd no,
Late 80's here. I went into a quasi UK government department where people were using Macs, and found that every person had their own Apple LaserWriter IINTX (about £5,000 then) sat by their desks. As a Mac consultant I gently wondered aloud why this setup had come about as Apple printers were net-workable with Apple's LocalTalk cabling or Ethernet adapters,
The answer was that they had recently moved over from a printing hell caused by MS-DOS computers and the nightmare of getting networked printers to work, and it was thus department policy to provide printers to all staff.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of the sales meeting of the Apple Dealer who got THAT gig! "THIRTY-FIVE LaserWriter II's!!!, Here's my youngest daughter, bring her back in moderate condition tomorrow!!"
Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people
Re: Why do people call a small outpost a colony ?
And that pre-supposes that everyone is getting along.
What if they split into factions like the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn did?
Putting some in an airlock without a spacesuit like Heinlein wrote in 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' would be pretty feasible.
Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs
Old news
When you look at WD's history, with macOS 10.9 Mavericks wiping WD drives because WD had not modified their drivers for year despite strong warnings from Apple, then two or possibly three attempts to flog unsuitable 'NAS' drives that could lose massive amounts of data in the last 5-6 years, I think my trust in them is almost totally gone.