Posts by bluesxman

Re: Dude's not wrong... (except where he is)

@Joe W

Tell me more about this "chess boxing" -- inquiring minds need to know.

I dunno, my daughter still managed to buy the "wrong sort" of scientific calculator for school (UK), thus requiring a second purchase.

Back in the day it was Casio all the way; TI were certainly not to be trusted.

Re: [Checks Calendar] ...

At $950 a go, you’d be a fool all year long if you bought these.

Re: "no-one should assume their level of technical expertise exempts them from risk"

Your faith in your own infallibility will be your downfall.

I consider myself to be someone who is "aware" and "on the ball" with this sort of thing, but a number of years ago in a pre-first-cup-of-tea moment I clicked something I should have known better about on MSN messenger without thinking and sent similar spammy messages to a whole bunch of my contacts. Oops.

Re: At the risk of being downvoted to hell

Been over 20 years since I was near JCL so don't have any well formed memories, but it sounds more like it doesn't actually have "comments" but just ignores control statements that don't have a valid command ... so you could perhaps standardise on something like

//* COMMENT: actual comment text

<shrug>

Re: Seems pretty obvious

Sorry a few typos there, I blame the proof reader. Hopefully you can derive intended meaning.

Re: Monitoring software?

Fair enough. Then I have to concur with the sentiment that he’s an idiot. Another much less likely explanation is that he is subject to some sort of bizarre conspiracy. Don’t fancy his chances of arguing that case given his past form.

Re: Wouldn't work

@Yet Another Anonymous coward

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Re: It's been awhile (thankfully!) ...

Leaf it alone, it's just not worth hit.

Re: Oh dear

'Just watch the film "Idiocracy" - and think of Trump's America.'

Just think of Trump's America and there's no reason to watch the film "Idiocracy"*

_{* This is not intended as a slight on the film, which I very much enjoyed.}

Re: Good luck explaining the latest Microsoft acronyms...

There's such a thing as trying too hard.

Re: Swagway

Also "Swegway" is a thing. Difficult to decide who's riffing off whom.

Re: Does MarcoMasala work at 123-reg?

I assumed it was one and the same when I saw the first reports of this 123 debacle. Curiously prescient. Though Marco came across somewhere between "trollish" and "massively incompetent".

Re: Pirates

There's nothing like a little entrapment :-)

Re: You're photographing it wrong

It wasn't a good joke; but a joke, I believe, it was.

Reference

In that vein: you're reading it wrong.

Re: I think...

The last 4 characters of that YouTube link (the link itself) triggered my (childish) snirking reflex.

Re: MicroSD card slot is just underneath the battery actually

Not on the S6 and S6 edge. Where have you been?

Off somewhere appreciating sarcasm, I'd imagine.

Re: Docking

Press WinKey and Left/Right cursor to move a Window about from half to half. I don't know of a mouse equivalent.

RE: "I know this might be a little inappropriate....."

You might as well have gone the whole hog and wrapped your comment with:

"I'm not racist, but..."

and:

"just sayin'"

Re: Worra laff

from waters breaking to birth.

Until I got to that part, I was assuming it was a boast, of sorts, highlighting the other end of the pregnancy.

Not only that, but also...

... software support.

There's enough fragmentation due to varying hardware platforms in the Android arena (for example) at the moment. Seems to me that all the necessary virtualisation/abstraction layers it would require for everything to play nicely together (or even at all) and relying on myriad component vendors to maintain a decent level of support would make for a phone which would perform somewhere between "like shit" and "not at all".

On many fronts, implementation would be a total bitch - but I do love the idea.

Re: Is Glass too new to copy?

> I like the pun of calling it iWear.

iSight™