Ha! you have no idea what goes on in Government/Local Government IT. I have a friend in the Civil Service, employed full-time, traveling around the UK, upgrading Senior Civil servant's PCs from Wfw3.11 to w2k, yes win2000, in two thousand and bloody nine!!
I have a drinking acquaintance who works in IT, for the "DWP", whose idea of a technical challenge is mapping a sodding network share. Fine you may say, but mapping a share is a full days work for the indolent, technically challenged, overpaid twat.
2 million squids to clean 40 or 50,000 local government PC's. I wouldn't like the contract.
PS I wonder what the effect on the affected machines was?
Now a group of German physicists say they can trick a pair of cobalt atoms into thinking they are in a hexagonal close packing structure by bonding them to a hexagonal carbon ring such as graphene or benzene.
If only I could trick my pr0n collection into thinking (there's so much of it it's become self-aware) it's in a hexagonal close packing structure, I could archive onto 3½" floppies:-)
Nope, I qualify it as "suitable", if the control panel (or facsimile thereof) matches the pattern of my favourite shooting jacket:-)
Good point though:-P
Even consider "sharing" info with the Recording Arse of America?
Stuff the RIArseA & others, I don't buy retail music anymore, haven't for about 6 years. I have an extensive vinyl, tape & CD library - some in triplicate, i.e. the same album on tape, vinyl & CD (yep, I'm an idiot) but I stopped buying new when the labels started taking legal action against their own customers.
I do still buy 2nd hand at flea markets & boot sales, but that's by the by.
:-) That was my intended point, $0. Some of the best value "Marketing" known to man; get the chattering classes talking about something, ostensibly from a third party and denied strenuously by the principal. Nice.
Now go back up the thread and read some of the utter tripe posted about page hits blah, blah, Apple wouldn't, blah, blah, Apple this, Apple that, integrity. Tosh.
If there's one thing I've learned in my half century on this planet: Corporations do nothing that's remotely altruistic.
Rheinheitsgebot is actually a load of old bollocks, and advertising old bollocks for all that.
Anyone who thinks German brewers adhere to that these days needs their head testing.
Go to Germany, look in the beer shops/bars, see Beer+orange or beer+cola to see just how far off the frigging Rheinheitsgebot modern German brewers actually are. It's utter tosh.
Disclaimer: My bird is German, my nipper half German, and I drink Haake Beck when I'm there. She drinks Becks+Orange. Yuck.
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Ha! you have no idea what goes on in Government/Local Government IT. I have a friend in the Civil Service, employed full-time, traveling around the UK, upgrading Senior Civil servant's PCs from Wfw3.11 to w2k, yes win2000, in two thousand and bloody nine!!
I have a drinking acquaintance who works in IT, for the "DWP", whose idea of a technical challenge is mapping a sodding network share. Fine you may say, but mapping a share is a full days work for the indolent, technically challenged, overpaid twat.
2 million squids to clean 40 or 50,000 local government PC's. I wouldn't like the contract.
PS I wonder what the effect on the affected machines was?
Have you tried plugging a thumb drive into an old NT Server box? Which hole would you put it in?
The last NT Server box I trashed had 2 PS/2 ports, a VGA port, a parallel port & 2 serial ports. Network port was an add-on card... USB - wassat?
Storage requirement is going up, relentlessly:
VCD = 700Mb
DVD = 4.7Gb
Dual-layer Blu-ray = 50Gb (potentially 100Gb; 4 layer @ 25Gb per layer.
And don't forget that Ch-erman scientists never sleep:-)
If only I could trick my pr0n collection into thinking (there's so much of it it's become self-aware) it's in a hexagonal close packing structure, I could archive onto 3½" floppies :-)
Me too. Although I couldn't say /. looks very, very good :-(
"Who has dumped Vista?"
Nah, give them a can of AC90. Encourage diversity..
Can't think for yourself eh sonny? You've just cribbed directly from El Reg.
:-)
Recording industry donkey (equus asinas)
Recording industry rectum
I prefer mine
Nope, I qualify it as "suitable", if the control panel (or facsimile thereof) matches the pattern of my favourite shooting jacket :-) :-P
Good point though
Until there's a suitable time machine to enable you to go back and look for yourself.
Oops, sorry, should have checked first. Foot meet mouth.
:^)
Still, my second point is still valid (until someone else points out more of my failings)
Even consider "sharing" info with the Recording Arse of America?
Stuff the RIArseA & others, I don't buy retail music anymore, haven't for about 6 years. I have an extensive vinyl, tape & CD library - some in triplicate, i.e. the same album on tape, vinyl & CD (yep, I'm an idiot) but I stopped buying new when the labels started taking legal action against their own customers.
I do still buy 2nd hand at flea markets & boot sales, but that's by the by.
Stuff 'em I say, tossers they are, to a man.
:-) That was my intended point, $0. Some of the best value "Marketing" known to man; get the chattering classes talking about something, ostensibly from a third party and denied strenuously by the principal. Nice.
:-)
Now go back up the thread and read some of the utter tripe posted about page hits blah, blah, Apple wouldn't, blah, blah, Apple this, Apple that, integrity. Tosh.
If there's one thing I've learned in my half century on this planet: Corporations do nothing that's remotely altruistic.
My next lecture is at the Wigmore Hall
Apple themselves leaked the pictures, after all they are the masters of "media" manipulation.
/. :-)
After all's said & done; it's just made the front page of
The Royal Navy now uses Windows for Warships :-(
I'm from the UK, can I have something better than 1.8Mbps to my house please?
Well, I live in the County of Lincolnshire, we've got an original copy of the Magna Carta, but no constitutional chart. What should I do?
As far as I'm aware it's not "illegal" to share files. It may breach someone's copyright, but it's not "illegal".
First past the post with the same sort of spec., but at $100, will rule the world.
:-).
Well, not actually Rule the world but sell a shed load
Rheinheitsgebot is actually a load of old bollocks, and advertising old bollocks for all that.
Anyone who thinks German brewers adhere to that these days needs their head testing.
Go to Germany, look in the beer shops/bars, see Beer+orange or beer+cola to see just how far off the frigging Rheinheitsgebot modern German brewers actually are. It's utter tosh.
Disclaimer: My bird is German, my nipper half German, and I drink Haake Beck when I'm there. She drinks Becks+Orange. Yuck.
Why would they call him a cigarette??
How odd.
Think how much more Stephen Hawking could gives us with this device.
:-)
I know he's in the hossie at the moment and I hope he recovers fully, enough to try this device.
Send one to him. Now!
Should really have been called "Cannot" cycle.
I could probably power a small village :-)
Any aliens sufficiently advanced to be able to travel to Earth from another planet, would be able to hide themselves......
Nuff said