Posts by Gio Ciampa

I assume it runs WearOS

... WankOS surely?

Re: how is this better than Cygwin?

"WSL allows you to run actual linux programs without re-compiling them (you can just apt install whatever)"

Someone has to compile them... you just install the result...

Re: Window of Opportunity?

They already do share code as I understand it

That was my 12-year-old mind's solution for all manner of issues ... almost a decade before James Cameron thought of it...

Re: "4K video beamed from car circling the streets"

World+Dog will be watching the cats I presume...

Re: If you think that this device is expensive

Depends... who has got all the patents that extend "on a mobile device" to "on a foldable mobile device"?

Better nip over to East Texas, just in case...

Bunnies!

Re: WOW!

I was thinking more Starbug

Re: £8,000 to relocate from Glasgow to Newbury?

Glad someone (else) remembered to bring up Dodgy "Dine Me" Dave...

Re: Dark matter/energy question

"I don't think the virtual particles produced in the vacuum gravitate"

They do - given that they're the basis for Hawking Radiation (one of the virtual particles goes down the black hole, the other thus becomes real to compensate and reduces the mass of the hole as a result)

Re: Incompetence expected

Auntie seems to know when I access the likes of iPlayer on a VPN, so I'm surprised that Netflix et al doesn't

Re: Something doesn't fly right with this story

Assuming, of course, that whoever is technically savvy enough to pull off this stunt hasn't, you know, taken them off...?

Re: No mention...

If Gyimah thinks the EU is playing hardball, just wait until Trump gets his turn, when he'll have us in his favourite position (by the short-n-curlies)

Re: Not so smart!

"Advertising Standards Authority"

I've wondered about whether there'd be a case to answer on that score too...

"not having estimated bills anymore"

I get an email once a month from my (non-big-6) supplier, asking for a reading ... takes 2 minutes to reply with the numbers (might as well use advert breaks usefully after all...), so why install a gadget to do it for me?

Re: Ignorance can be very powerful

"We give £350M a week to the EU"

Technically even that statement is false - given that it's the pre-rebate figure - so we actually hand over rather less than that (and then most of it comes back our way - in effect - through EU spending)

I gather someone is trying to sue Boris over that whole bus thing... popcorn at the ready...

Re: Today IS payday...

I ended up making sure all the bills were timed for the first fortnight of the month for that very reason.

(I've gone from "Last Tuesday" to "28th" to "Last Friday" to "25th" over the years...)

Re: Time to ban Google outside of America?

Can't imagine the EU will ban them outright - not when there's (potentially) a semi-regular source of big fine income they can impose...

Re: "As far away from Trumpton as possible."

I loved the reference anyway - it would go so far over the heads of certain people...

Re: That is going to be one hell of an expensive failure

"will balloon to £15 billion"

...and the rest! ESA or NASA (or the Russians) will have us by the proverbials for a launch system

We might just about manage to pay for it if we scrap HS2 ... but even then I doubt it

You have been able to backup most things via adb since android 4.0.

"Most" being the operative word - given that there is a flag that apps can set which will block the ADB backup process from happening (for that app)

That said - there are apps out there that will (without root being needed) perform ADB backups on a per-app basis (rather than a monolithic single file) - Helium by Clockworkmod being the first one that comes to mind (it was the one that informed me about the no-backup flag too, as it happens)

Be a damn sight cheaper if it were...

Given Google's dessert fetish

Pavlova?

Re: Eggs out of pancakes

"Don't worry, only TSA approved staff have access to the key."

...or anyone who read the Washington Post article that one time - and "forgot" to remove the picture of them...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration#Checked_baggage

Re: eh?

"Amazon, go HOME but pay your TAXES First. We can exist without you. You are NOT wanted."

That's the real reason for claiming there'll be civil unrest... they're trying to avoid the UK being able to (finally) put a stop to their Triple-Irish-Dutch-IsleOfMan-Sandwich (or whatever their tax scam is called these days)

Re: Undecimate?

Thanks for the clarification - all who mentioned it.

I didn't even consider "undec" = 11 (or spot the 1-in-10 meaning of decimate as used by Harold Saxon in "The Sound of Drums" when I (re)watched it the other day...).

Re: PETA... yeah... right...

"People for the Eventual Termination of Animals"

fixed that for you...

"I really wish mobile networks would finish the job properly..."

Oh no... can't be having that... how else will HMGov get its fix of easy cash every couple of years (when there aren't any public services to sell off on the cheap)?

I'll wager though that after the £23 billion they got for 3G, the mobile operators have gotten wise to this...