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Yes! Another step toward being vegan for me

Um... quote from the page that you linked to:

Well, that we can agree on

That was a brayve post

:D Anyone else get all misty eyed at Zelda games?

And thus pointless.

I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House We watched this after reading a lot of positive reviews. It stars (the wonderful) Ruth Wilson as a nurse who moves in to an isolated house to look after an old lady. But the house has a history... So, the idea behind this movie to work solely with atmosphere and tension. Which, to be fair, it does well. However, nothing, and I mean nothing, happens. Nothing! A movie cannot live on atmosphere alone! There are lots of (beautiful) shots of Ruth Wilson drifting around the house (the film really is beautifully framed) while she wastes her talents. We learn nothing about the characters and there's no story to speak of. mrs_sparkeh and I were both hovering over the off button on the remote but as we like to see a film through we waited and endured an hour and a half of moody drifting. Unfortunately mrs_sparkeh fell asleep just before the end when the only real event of the film happened. However, I envied her as she missed a real let down and will forever be better off for it. Despite the positive reviews from critics I urge you not to waste your time on this film.

Of course. Because its the installer Agreed. There's no need to create an .exe installer when there is a well established, thoroughly documented procedure (created by the OS vendor) for providing installation source (msi). With the thrice yearly updates being recalled fairly often I would be horrified to learn that sims was being updated daily. That's the beauty of using msi and a software deployment product. With sccm I could just update the sims package with an updated msi and all the clients would update. This would take less than a minute. I hardly call that a waste of time Age is irrelevant. Its the standard way to install software in windows, create by Microsoft. It works, it works really well. And how difficult would it be for a company the size of Capita to create an msi? (though you could argue that the very size of Capita is actually an impediment with cumbersome internal procedures and inertia hindering change). I have. But dammit this is the Internet, I am right so will continue to argue Totally agree. And think of the man hours going into the development work to produce the S3 system when they could have just created an msi. And we still don't have a sensible UI to use!

@matt40k no I think that @Michael has it exactly right: the agent is not the installer it's exactly as it says it is: an "agent" which downloads the required installers to actually install the software. And you still need the S3 console to get the software on the machine regardless of how you get the agent on it. The agent checks in to see what needs installing and installs it. What was argued for before was an msi to install sims (i.e. Run it and sims is installed, or deploy from sccm or whatever your favourite software deployment solution is). That is very very different.

That's Pi in the sky

Their whole thing is having an animal product free environment. They kinda have to take that stance to retain credibility. And I assume that their customers would expect them to do this as well. Good on 'em.

Wait what!? Are you sure. Remember the brush offs we got about getting an msi to deploy sims? So it's ok to give us an msi for the agent but not the actual software? Makes no sense. But you still need to define what machine get what software in the S3 UI. If the above is true then it's only an msi for the agent. S3 is a solution to a nonexistent problem. Give us an msi for the software and a lot of people would be happy. But don't hold your breath as we've been on this ridiculous roundabout before.

Well said. Pretty much sums up my position. Except, and pendant mode activated, humans are not carnivores. Omnivores or herbivores (depending on which scientist you read) is more correct.

Agreed, you can sink many hours into trying to get the native menu working whereas Classic Start is a breeze (with more control, flexibility and functionality)

Sad news Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs dies aged 86 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38178353

Merry Christmas everyone!

Easy, use Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO). Its not a choice between using tallow or killing orangutans

Not wanting to eat animals doesn't neccessarily mean that you like them I put it down to meat rage

I don't see the relevance of the amount of animal in them How so?

Argh that made me laugh like a complete idiot in the office. Genius

That sims upgrade went well.

According to the notes makers (Innovia Films) the tallow is there for its anti static properties. And the good news is that there a vegetable oil based substitute that is already widely used in many industries (did you know that fabric softener and tumble dryer sheet manufacturers have pretty much all stopped using tallow now). Its called dipalmethyl hydroxyethylammoinum methosulfate if you are interested

It's funny, I've never understood why some meat eaters get so irate about vegetarians/vegans. I've had the discussion often enough to know that this is generally the way it goes. On the whole I've found us veggies to be a pretty relaxed bunch. Is it too much to ask for a bit of consideration for those who want to avoid animal products for whatever reason (ethical, religious etc). Hey ho people are weird right? I'm glad that the bank has seen sense and is looking to change the notes now. I mean why use tallow, we aren't living in the Middle Ages and there are plenty of serviceable substitutes around now.

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