Posts by wikkity

Re: Appealing to the individual voter?

As much as I like [most of] his policies I doubt he could get close to affording them. That said I personally think he would be much better that May when it comes to negotiating. Mays posturing is just going to get everyones backs up, she already has the EU against her and makes it worse every day. Corbyn comes across as actually sincere and can command respect, to those who politics does not mean arguing like school boys/girls. The negotiations are going to be long and hard, someone who can maintain respect rather than focusing on getting sound bite and newspaper headlines would be best placed.

Re: I think I've found the problem ...

How many enterprise systems do you know that are self contained?

Maybe you are lucky you are to have a problem domain that does not need to interact the outside world. Possibly you work for a company that does it's own weather forecasting, banking facilities and handles currency conversion, provides it's own banking facilities, can plot travel routes taking into account current traffic conditions, checking stock levels at customer and distributor sites (all using different APIs), checking for fraud patterns, ...

Re: But seriously though folks....

I'd still prefer to try the honey over homeopathy like Mr Jobs.

That's a very precise number of developers.

But not accurate, it's actually 2008, I think someone miscounted

Re: "The idea of quantity over quality is long gone."

That is because of they "produce words that people want to read", which unfortunately in this case is not the journalism that El Reg referred to. However they are making money from articles based on the way popular thought is orientated, which is how much benefits immigrants get rather than the hell they had to go through and somehow miraculously survive.

Such "press" is not journalism but provides people with want they want, confirmation that their view of the world is correct and shared with others, and it does not get more correct to them if it's printed on paper and on sale. Unfortunately the affect is to exaggerate the beliefs and suck more people into it.

IMHO These _journalists_ are responsible for a lot of the mess the world is in but it is profit that drives it as after all they are a business. I think the term newspaper should be regulated based on fact and how many related facts are ignored. Very hard to do I would imagine and I would not know where to start.

I'd sympathise with Trump about the press but I suspect what I consider press to be the exact people he whines about are the people I'd call real journalists and vice versa.

Re: NHS hospital a couple of weeks ago. PC in the corner was XP

There are still a lot of XP devices out there, especially in places like hospitals where it is needed to communicate with perfectly serviceable medical equipment manufactured when XP was cutting edge. They do however have restrictions in place and kept off networks unless required and then limited.

Re: Java is so easily messed up... just put spaces in a path or a password...

"Windows is no longer constrained to 260 characters path for a while, although you may have to enable the new behaviour explicitly:"

Did someone tell explorer? I had this issue with explorer on win 7 enterprise last week trying to copy a java source tree onto a USB drive, had to use cygwin.

Re: Works for cities

If more people were to rely on automated vehicles there'd be less privately owned cars sitting parked on the streets so more spaces.

My street is a perfect example, the house were built long before it was ever considered a single house would have two or three cars parked outside. The road is narrow, you can get cars half on the road and pavement with enough space to drive down. It's a cul-de-sac as well. It can be hectic to get out in the mornings or evenings, and if you are expecting a delivery of something large, e.g. building materials you need to go around your neighbours to be able to get the delivery truck near your property. The less privately owned cars the better in my eyes, something that could get us down to one per household would be great (yes we have a car and fortunate enough to have a big drive).

Re: I'll gladly lend a hand to these nice American chaps!

Remind me again, after all the dust settled, was there any SCO proprietary code?

Re: i'd like to see the option

From what I know. I've done some development with Alexa and monitored network traffic between it.

Plus, despite what people may think of Google/Amazon/Big Corp, I seriously doubt they would be continuously gathering what is being said whilst their product description clearly states what it does.

Just using it it is clear that the trigger word is detected locally, they have difficulties with a a 5 year old kid trying to activate it but once triggered, both Alexa and Google Now have no trouble understanding the search term. I doubt either would do anything to damage their reputation by blatantly lying.

Alexa does occasionally get triggered falsely so there is certainly some audio uploaded that was not intented, however the Aleax app lets you see the history and remove things.

Re: due to mechanical stress

You are sitting on it wrong!

RE: would listen to experts outside of government

Depends on what the subject matter was. They've never listened to experts about some subjects, e.g. drugs.

Lately it's becoming across the board, but I think this is due to politicians trying too hard to appear vote-able, there is much more of a tendency nowadays for politicians to ignore what they actually believe in and go what they think Joe public thinks, and Joe Public does not believe expert opinions are based on fact and understanding.

Re: Unbelievable

Sorry, no idea what went wrong with that, possibly no beer on a Friday afternoon. I meant to say:

Only the compilers fault if it generated code that did not do what the source specified. The error in this case was down to a programmer.

Re: Bollocks to Trump

RE: I don't have anything to do with Twitter, Facebook

They'll also want your theregister password

RE: fake laws

Nowadays they are called alternative laws.

Re: "saner heads should prevail"

Maybe my d key was not working but I manged to miss the d in activated twice there!

Re: Sort out your pricing and customer service, Virgin

Internet is good, TV packages are just not worth it. Last price increase was enough to motivate me reducing my package from the list of things to do at some point to things to do now, took about 4 years to get around to switching from the full to the basic channels, only extra channels we ever watched were the kids channels, which were only available on the full package.

Kids nowadays only watch YouTube, Netflix and Disney life, now £40 a month better off (disney life is 4.99 and we already had netflix and skynow). I can completely understand why people would choose to use things like mobdro when half your subscription package is simply for a handful of channels that are not anything special, like nicktoons showing endless repeats of the same cartoons but unavailable in any other legal form by themselves.

"between the combination of Java and Linux"

And the fact that most android software is implemented in a particular programming language is significant how?

Re: okay, but...

> You mean like the UK still hasn't fixed it's public toilets - since Victorian times.

I've not seen a broken public toilet in the UK for years. Then again I've not seen a public toilet for years as they've all been closed around here.

Re: Interesting why block this one?

I assume that this one is blocked as the software is "clicking" the ad and therefore incurring the charge ad as the article says this could be considered fraud. They are not blocking this one as it blocks ads.

While I'm sure Google would like to earn the extra cash from these clicks they have a responsibility to their clients to ensure ad clicks are bona fide.

Re: Proof Positive

I think you have a typo there, should be an a instead of an i.

Re: WTF

> READILY AVAILABLE. TO ANYONE!!! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! I

They already have, you have to be 18 to buy a knife in the UK. Children have to steal one from the kitchen.

Re: It would be nice to see some tech jobs outside London

It would be nice to see some tech jobs outside the South

FTFY

Re: Apple does not enforce screen positioning either.

No one else can sell ios devices so there is no one to enforce. Android users are free to move the app form the initial position.

Re: Besides...

Or push them ads for better batteries or external battery packs.

Re: GNU utils

have nothing to do with Linux. Linux is an OS, the gnu tools are user software. The user decides what software they like to use on the OS of their choice, if they decide the gnu toolchain is better that bundled with the OS, that should not reflect on the OS itself.

Re: Whats this GUI thingy?

"I have three Emacs sessions"

But if you use the GUI version you only need 1 session with C-x 5 2 (make-frame).

As for a mouse with Emacs, I do like/love using nothing but a few mouse clicks to cut and paste a block of code, to non believers it looks like Jimi Hendrix playing his guitar with his teeth.

RE: because the light that lights up to tell me the alarm is set is so bright

I close my eyes when I'm wanting to sleep. It works, you should try it.

massively hard to prove?

Not really, in cases of a crash it's common nowadays for mobiles to be examined and checks with service providers. It's probably OTT to check during all car related incidents but if they suspected you of doing it they would. There was a case not so long ago where a woman who caused a fatal crash deleted her sent text messages and was surprised they found out.