amen. The number of time I've been searching for answers to technical problems, find a site that seems to have the answer from the Google summary, only to click it and be told "denied, reason: personal blog", where i get home and find that someone has hd the same problem I had, blogged about it to help others solve it.

So,... I waste loads of company time re-solving that problem because the IT guys think they know best. Sorry - when IT stops being a service to enable the users and starts being their own fiefdom, its failed.

Apparently its 18 times faster than the original BBC B, so yes it should....

but as there's no monitor output, controlling your ship is going to be tricky.

Which UK home that contains a person stimulated by maths, technology or computers science does not also already have a PC or and Android device?

and how many of those homes use the device for anything other that games, email, web browsing?

The point of this thing is not to be a computer, but to be the bare bones of an educational device. It has no tv-out for example. It'll be used to teach the "how computers work" course in the curriculum and that's it. There'll be no taking it home to use as a media centre, no playing games on it, nothing but its intended use - its basically an interactive textbook, an educational device.

True, I'd rather they spent time on responsiveness - but process per tab won't necessarily fix that (all they're doing is shoving code that used to execute in a thread into a process, ie an isolated thread, in terms of what they do and communicate with the main browser, nothing really changes)

Still, one reason why I will still close the entire browser and not one tab is that if a tab breaks, closing it closes the tab. If I close the browser, when I open it again, there's my tab (hopefully not broken again) and I can resume where I left off.

I'm sure the biggest problem is decided where to spend their engineering efforts, and ppt and 64-bit means other areas (eg memory, perf and responsiveness) will not get the attention.

but Chrome is almost moving away from per-process tabs as they use more memory and don't really give you any improvement over the browser - if a tab dies, you'll still close the browser and reopen it, just in case the flaw had affected something else and besides, some tabs are grouped in processes anyway. (I don't know if this is still true, years later but it shows how the hype is often nowhere near what's desired)

So why bother implementing something useless, just to make some people feel better. Its like 64-bit support. Why bother with that, it'll make no difference to daily use.

Now, fixing memory usage, reducing cache usage by idle tabs, freeing up memory used by closed tabs so the overall memory doesn't grow... things like that are what's important. Not visible to most people, not "cool" by any means. Just boring, but solid, engineering discipline.

But that's really what we want.

for every 100 "idea" persons there is 1 who not only has the ideas but knows enough that those ideas are sane and sensible. This is why the "idea person" is a fool and treated as such.

You see these guys on shows like The Apprentice, the ones who have no talent or skills and so have to fall back on their mouths. They're simply salesmen who always get shown up to be useless in the end. Even a true businessman has plenty of skills they have to learn around organisation and management (real skills, not just shouting at people and pretending they know what they're doing).

So: Idea people, get a clue.There's no easy way to skip the essential steps of truly knowing what you're doing unless you learn those skills.

your problem is possibly down to sitting around too much, one day you'll be stuck in that chair 24/7. Not good.

the answer is to get up and start using those muscles that have forgotten what they're there for,

sure, but I thought gtk had a dependency on systemd nowadays so you have to count it's, and all its dependants' binary sizes too :-)

I found Wt really interesting, replacing desktop UI controls with their equivalent in HTML ones, passing the data back to the same c++ backend that the desktop would use. I'm sure it'd be a cool thing to replace your QApplication woth WApplication and have it turn into a html5 GUI, but what's the chance the GUI components supported would just be the most basic?

true, Windows stole a lot of features from Linux (without doing them as well), but I don't think the desktops feature in Win10 will be as slick as you want, partly nothing ever is unless it has the exact feature set and keys, and partly because multiple desktops has not been a prime feature for Windows user since.. ever, as you know by the lack of a desktops program!

I'd just stick with Windows 7 until there is a need to move.

You mean like this Windows powertoy from Technet?

plastic is easy to recycle generally melt it down but... it depends opn the types. You cannot recycle "plastic" if you have a heap of plastic that is a mix of HDPE and Polystyrene, not unless you sort it into 2 distinct heaps first.

And that's the problem. Sorting is hard as one white bottle can look much the same as another white bottle made with a different type. Maybe they could legislate that all plastic goods are easily marked in some way (like coloured insert or large area of special texture that varies by type), but otherwise you're going to have to sort it expensively.

Its not quite that simple.

Glass - really easy to recycle, we have even been doing this for decades in the UK. Only thing is, you have to sort it by colour first or it cannot be recycled, except as glass that is used in non-consumer areas.

Metal: easy to recycle, ferrous material is even easier as a big magnet can sort it. The rest is basically aluminium from drinks cans.

Paper: can be easy, but not if its contaminated with plastic (eg windowed envelopes) or plastic (coated to make it shiny). Even then, there's a limited recycling cycle for it, but it can still be burned in the end.

Plastic: now we get a problem. There are so many different types, (you can see them on your products by looking for the number inside the recycle triangle). Then there's problems with the colours - put black plastic in with the rest and it can only be turned into more black plastic. The prices for most plastic is so low that its often cheaper to just chuck it in the garbage.

Ultimately sorting at source is the only option to make recycling cost effective (and even then, if one neighbour decides to stuff his rubbish in the recycling bin, none of the lorry load that collected it gets used).

Round here, we do plastic in bags; metal, paper and glass in bins. I used to live in a place where you could put the latter 3 in a single bin as sorting that was relatively easy, but they didn't take plastic at all.

There are ways to encourage recycling like we used to do: community groups could collect things like paper, you'd store them until a church or scout group would turn up to collect bundles of one type of material (say, papers) where they would take them to be recycled and possibly even get paid for them as the bundles would be properly sorted and thus worth a lot more, or you could just put a penny deposit on glass or metal that could be refunded on return.

BTW, Ars had an interesting tour of a recycling centre:

http://arstechnica.com/science...

to be fair, the same applies to all languages - I recall the C# yield stuff someone wrote once (probably because it was cool, and even he couldn't understand what he had done sometime later).

And then I think of my colleague who writes the simplest of C# code, but writes it in layers behind layers that its a maze.

Language features do not necessarily make for confusion, like most things, its the way you do it that matters.

and the pangolin, what's not used for trinkets or medicine is simply scoffed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

"They asked up to $1,500 (£1,000) a kilo. Asked why they were so expensive, one woman replied with no apparent shame: "Because they're rare and illegal."

My only hope here is that when the pagolins are all dead, the ants they used to eat in great quantities rise up and eat the vietnamese and chinese who put profit above ecology.