oldcynic

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by oldcynic 8y ago
No, please don't push things out to a forum - few would use a forum and it doubles the pages a searcher has to check to see if they've got the appropriate question/answer. A lot of the time if there's many comments on a
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by oldcynic 8y ago
One of the reasons I love his books is the lack of "Standard Hollywood / Fictional Ending number 1" that has become so pervasive that it's effectively satire of itself and so unsatisfying.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
The link to MS's licencing terms for refurbishers was added after my comment, not before.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Fits with my experience. Aside from hating the feel of the new keyboard in my 6 months ownership of the new Macbook Pro it went back for warranty keyboard repair twice. I sold it and bought a second hand 2015
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by oldcynic 8y ago
So you apparently need the original recovery disk, and the original manuals? In other words MS are trying very hard to make selling refurbished computers impractical, so please throw it away, and buy a new one with new Windows licence. If t
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by oldcynic 8y ago
> What if their intent was to charge the other recyclers $10 a pop vs the $25 msft charged for the same thing? Not what was happening at all. MS charge Dell et al $25 for a copy of Windows Home OEM, complete with certificate of authenti
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by oldcynic 8y ago
"But both the letter and the expert were pricing a disk that came with a Microsoft license" So the $25 is the cost, to Dell etc, of volume purchase of Windows OEM along with the sticker with licence number. Utterly unrelated to a
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by oldcynic 8y ago
It often seems that the duplicate is different enough that they should remain separate. Or just as frustrating the duplicate relates to a previous release where the same question begs a different answer.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Yes, but, the whole of the UK permanent workforce gets tenure in the US sense after, I think, the first year of employment. As do most EU countries. Long may it remain so. The Tories abolished tenure in the UK sense which roughly removed th
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by oldcynic 8y ago
It's not quite as bad as attending, but cost of a degree is about £18k or so - at £3k/year if you do the typical spread over 6 years. The cost has been going up markedly ever since £3k fees first came in. They still offer bursa
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by oldcynic 8y ago
It's quite appalling how UK universities seem to have changed since tuition fees. Most saddening is the effective destruction of the Open University as they now charge the same fees as everyone else. Few can afford to take an OU course
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Isn't that at risk of becoming the worst of a planned economy? We've already seen plenty scope for fraud with benefit systems with voucher schemes, fraudulent claims, multiple claims, problems getting back into work, etc. Governme
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Wasn't that more like: Science gave us CFCs then commerce and industry over-used them irresponsibly, and fought regulation. Science later appropriately berated us for the hole in the ozone layer...
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Most of the new data landscape is only adopted reluctantly - no shopper was given a choice in this. The fact that consumers feel powerless, and every medium to large business feels they must grab all the data possible, doesn't make it
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by oldcynic 9y ago
You're effectively suggesting people take all their business offline again. When I walk into store (a) it's reasonable to assume that store (a) might be observing my behaviour, along with perhaps a sub-contracted security company
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I would not be at all surprised if the second will come within most of our lifetimes. Probably under something akin to a wartime economy. It will come when climate change is obvious even to the most arrogant denier troll. It won't be p
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Well first remind them of the difference between secrecy and privacy: "Hide? We all know what is done in the bathroom, yet we still close the door." Then you might point out that it is not about them, but the worst of everyone e
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by oldcynic 9y ago
They both mention the cost and life. Fully agree that some representative trials would be sensible first. Far too much of what we do turns out to have unintended consequences. Maybe they should explore possible glare from a white, coated, r
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Yet the piece parent links is far more detailed and informative than Fox's short summary. It would be the better HN link. It's unfortunate they wrote balanced as I don't think it's about balance or bias. Just amount of i
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by oldcynic 9y ago
No it really doesn't. Microsoft have marketed it to business and portrayed it as intended for professional business use ever since XP introduced the version split. Until large enough to be allowed near volume licensing SKUs, when you p
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Same as with previous releases: an unknown, invisible, price because it generally comes with the machine. Choose Win x Pro if you want a more "corporate" laptop and get features to connect to the work network, Bitlocker and so on.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> Pro edition ... Of course they collect data There's something fundamentally wrong with that to my mind, given how the Pro release of Windows has always been placed. I should not need to get an Enterprise release to be able to mana
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Doesn't seem that slim a possibility. I honestly can't see the need for bots or cheats in GW2 when there's so little that's grindy in quests or dailies and there's shortcuts through most of the dungeons simply with
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I'm often struck by how excessive it has become when seeing photos from history of any town. Where once spaces were for people now they seem to be spaces to shout at the people. Marketing, ads, signs get bigger, brighter and every avai
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by oldcynic 9y ago
It's my understanding that the EU right to be forgotten legislation places the onus on the search engines to do the delinking. It's the search engines that have forms to submit requests to, not BBC, CNN and so on. It's the s
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Well in the UK it would be based on sentence. I'm not sure of the usual severity of sentence for rape, but imprisonment is quite common and I think of a length to often never be spent. I think many would consider it a serious enough o
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Doesn't seem dangerous or journalistic at all here. In the UK at least the legal system is already aware and deals quite reasonably with the right to be forgotten. Has done for years. After a certain period a crime is considered spent
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I tried to live with mine for about 6 months before giving up, selling it and buying a second hand 2015. Needed keyboard repair twice in that time, and was horrible to type on. Useless touchbar, and an over-large trackpad that was constantl
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by oldcynic 9y ago
For the most part why does it matter? 98% of news is of no import. The tiny fraction that will impact our lives to significant degree or have global effect will be almost impossible to miss. You didn't need to watch the nightly bulleti
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> It's tactile and gives me a feel for my spending Both in games with premium currencies like diamonds, and in real life with plastic cards and services, it's been shown time and again that the further you are from actual cash

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