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Should have called her Efta (Greek for seven).
One of my grand-daughters was born on 03-14-12,(US format) but her parents totally refused to call her Pi! Be interesting to see if she ever recognises the significance of her birthdate, as Pi day is not celebrated in the UK the way it is in the US.
Although I do not disagree with you Bob, the ability of politicians to achieve meaningful change has become more and more constrained over the years by the way our permanent unelected bureaucracy have interpreted our unwritten constitution. These people hold positions of power that are unconstrained by any real oversight – Ministers cannot actually dismiss any incompetent or intransigent Civil Servants. Only another Civil Servant can do this with ultimate power residing in the Head of the Civil Service who answers only to his maker!. Cameron tried to change all this but Brexit derailed his efforts. link The old-boy system also ensures that no-one can be brought in to the top hierarchy who might possibly rock the boat. link
Unfortunately Brexit will kill any efforts to change all this in the medium term, as the only real change that could work would be a written Constitution and Bill of Rights that was drafted to break up the cosy nepotism/old school tie that permeates the top Civil Service jobs. That of itself would be a huge task, and probably bigger than Brexit as it would have to navigate through a Civil Service set on destroying it!
I do not disagree wrt Theresa May. Those who could probably make a fist of it probably see it as a poisoned chalice at the present time. I suspect that even Corbyn would like her to stay. A wounded, uncertain leader is a much better opponent to have than (say) a vigorous photogenic Justin Trudeau look-alike.
No arguments re carriers etc. Total waste of money – drones plus a container ship would be a lot cheaper and just as effective as HMS White Elephant which may never be able to fly off its F35’s. link
We should be stepping back and re-examining our place in the world, what MUST we protect and what do we require to do it. Playing lap-dog to the US just makes us enemies as does fiddling around in the Middle East/Horn of Africa,
British foreign policy should put British interests above all else – and ignore all US demands unless they suit us. Our armed services are ranked around sixth to ninth in the world based on assets and numbers. Well behind even India, and certainly behind France.link On another ranking Japan, Italy and South Korea are also higher. Our aspirations should comprehend our abilities, and diminished post-Brexit status, not some vague memories of our Imperial past..
Sorry Bob I disagree, if we cannot land at the main airport in response to the requests of a legitimate Government then we are invading them. Sweden does exactly what you state, but does so only in response to requests from that country or the UN. Fiddling around in places such as Africa just makes our Special Forces troops hostage without any adequate support.
Btw Ars has an article that adds weight to my original response on the Space Council dog&pony show.
[edited — a comment I made on the recent killing of US Green Berets in Niger was wrong and deleted)
To be honest Steve I was not as worried as you. This was a political dog&pony show aimed at getting the Senate and Upper House to back Trump’s vision. Without the two Houses agreeing to the massive increase in budget funding that will be required this venture goes no-where, even with offloading some of the costs on commercial partners. To get them on board external enemies and threats have to be used as spurs. Patriotism is ingrained from school age onwards, and is a never failing spur in the US just as it is in Russia and China.
I’m glad our country is showing some sense in dumping the Naval assets required to invade other countries and get embroiled in US wars. The beaches Churchill referred to in his stirring speech were those of the UK — if we must spend money on the Navy let it be on sufficient small fast inshore patrol craft appropriately armed to sink any smuggler’s boats!
“. It’s a good job the apple fans don’t tend to cross the divide”
I do not think Apple will be able to rely on that for much longer. I don’t think I recollect as many fanbois mags coming out with as much criticism as they have for Apple’s recent offering. They even dared to criticize the design – especially the ‘notch’ in the screen of the iPhone X. If I had a lot of exposure to Apple’s stock price I think I would be selling it short, as the fanbois are recommending getting the Apple 7 rather than the 8.
In my previous post I of course meant VLC not VCL (I do not even know if the latter exists!)
The major differences between FOSS software and paid-for stuff is usually the documentation.
I have found only a handful of FOSS software with decent intelligible documentation that addresses typical user issues. Some attempts at documentation verge on works written by the Devil – almost deliberately ambiguous or misleading, a great majority assume a prior depth of knowledge that rarely exists.
I could add support, but some like VCL have excellent support, while for others it is just non-existent along with the documentation! In fact you can pretty much guarantee that poor FOSS documentation leads directly to a carp support group.
[EDIT] I would like to thank those who have given their views on the packages. I’m going to dump Acronis and try Macrium Reflect, as from my reading it addresses one of the major issues I had with Acronis — viz suspending Shadow Copy if something else such as a VM required access .
“7.1 includes a default 15 minute VSS timeout that will cause a “VSS Timeout” error message in the log followed by a retry without VSS Writers, or termination:”
Dave – apologies for the necro-post, but what was the final result of your deliberations?
Politics is never just ‘fun’.
It is in any case a waste of time as anything you are told by a politician will at best be a Blairing’ of the truth — a mixture of half truths and misleading statements just like Boris’s ‘£350 million/week’. What he said was factually fairly accurate, but a total misrepresentation of reality very similar to Blair’s statements on ‘weapons of mass destruction’.
Although Windows Updates are getting highly reliable, I have noted one issue with ‘major’ updates such as installing the next one (Developers Update on October 10).
If update pop-ups are announced by Apple (iTunes), Oracle (Java) etc onto your PC DURING the Windows update process then there is a fair chance that the Windows update will fail gracefully. I’d therefore recommend updating this cruff before commencing a major Windows update.
My guess is that the major releases often update the IP stack and Apple/Oracle etc do not let go of their hooks when requested.
Fallout 1 on Steam – today only.
https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/09/fallout-1-free-steam-download/
The topic has even got the Daily Star excited enough to do an article on technology. Scrub that, it was probably the visual realms opened up by ”groping mucky hands break sex robot’!
Looks good – now I can post my educational link!
Seems to be something seriously wrong when you try to page back on Recent Forum Posts. The first two pages seem OK, then it goes pear-shaped on a random basis. Some topics such as ‘Sex Robots’ in Education are referenced but cannot be opened. Searching for a topic heading has a similar problem – try ‘Sex Robots’!
(I was going to post this ‘educational’ piece from the Daily Star!)
You may need to do it from an Admin account. I’m afraid I no longer have a Win7 to play with, but sometimes things are concealed unless you are running as an Administrator.
Run the Windows Disk Clean-up utility, use the option to clean up System files and pretty much delete everything it allows – especially the files used for Windows updates. My guess is that you have 7GB of cruff hiding there!
just tried that, saved less than 200mb unfortuantely. i figured as we would be losing the steam games anyway until i reinstall them on the new pc, i removed left 4 dead 2 and that saved enough. so, i am running the utility now. again, just to check, the key i buy would be the thing that determines pro as opposed to home?
Unusual, normally there is a LOT more than that! Have you done this step?
Looks like a number of files are cross-linked. My reply in this thread had nothing to do with the thread! It originally was an attempt to reply to Marc in this post:
“i just tried to install the tool. firstly it only asked if i wanted to install windows 10 and didnt mention home or pro so i presume that just depends on the key i use. secondly, it wouldnt let me install as it said i need 8gb space available on C which i dont have. any thoughts?”
Hey – ho cross-linked files are a ‘b’. Other than a restore from backup I’d just run the appropriate utility or give-up!
Just for interest, others with similar needs and a ‘good enough’ laptop could look at running Android x86 in a VM. This review is very dated but shows what was possible 3 years ago. I would guess that unless you have a fast CPU/GPU games may be a bit naff, and it is only Nougat at the moment.
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