If only they had a horse called IoT that fell at the first hurdle due to an unspecified new found weakness.
Horse named 'Cloud Computing' finds burst of speed to beat 'Classic Empire' in actual race
A horse called 'Cloud Computing' has just beaten rival 'Classic Empire' to the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the three races comprising the "Triple Crown" At this point we need to explain The Reg's sudden interest in horseflesh: it's because we can't make stuff like this up. Classic Empire looked to have the race won at …
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Sunday 21st May 2017 07:08 GMT Michael Hoffmann
Take offense at "nag"
If there's one thing these horses aren't it's "nags". I would have applauded however, had the author deigned to use the word "inbred" in there somewhere.
Seeing as all thoroughbreds come from a mere 3 stallions to be registered, they are so highly inbred that, to paraphrase the great Pterry, they might as well try to breed with themselves. As a friend once remarked "you either get something that can win the Derby or the Preakness, or you get something with 3 heads".
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Sunday 21st May 2017 09:34 GMT Doctor Syntax
Re: Take offense at "nag"
"all thoroughbreds come from a mere 3 stallions"
What about the maternal lines? Everyone seems to concentrate on the paternal ancestry as if the mares are simply vessels in which to incubate a replica of the stallion. But the mare provides the only X chromosome of a stallion foal, one of the X chromosomes of a mare foal, half of the rest of the nuclear genes - and all of the mitochondrial genes. Given that it's the last which provides the critical mechanism of aerobic respiration if there's any variation, however small, in that it could have a significant effect on performance.
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Sunday 21st May 2017 12:43 GMT John H Woods
Re: Take offense at "nag"
All humans are descended from a handful of ancestors, too. But for any sensible measure of "inbred" say a duplicated ancestor within four generations, your kennel club dog is much more inbred than a racehorse. Bearing in mind what horses are bred for (sporting excellence rather than physical traits) and that, naturally, horses have a herd structure where only a few males father the next generation, the idea of thoroughbreds being "inbred" needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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Monday 22nd May 2017 00:36 GMT Michael Hoffmann
Re: Take offense at "nag"
If you're bored, spend some time browsing http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/
They highlight "inbredidness" (that's not a word...) by showing when there's common ancestral horses on both sides. (mine has a common great-grandfather on sire and dam side, not too bad as these things are considered, but then he's a WB not a TB).
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Monday 22nd May 2017 11:30 GMT LesC
Re: galloping pet food
The Torygraph's cartoonist Matt came out with this at around the time of the horsemeat scandal, it just about took out Findus in the process. A lot of inexpensive (= $supermarket Value, SmartPrice, etc) meals were found to contain horse as well as percieved more upmarket Ikea meatballs istr.
Horse is eaten in most of Europe it's the horsey types over here that don't allow it. A quick visit to the chocolate factory's search site will soon find you some prime ex-pony steaks along with diced llama, moose and squirrel, probably tastes like chicken, delicious :]
Matt: http://www.slow-life.co.uk/one-rule-for-them/
Mines is the one with the
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Monday 22nd May 2017 11:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: galloping pet food
"A quick visit to the chocolate factory's search site will soon find you some prime ex-pony steaks along with diced llama, moose and squirrel, probably tastes like chicken, delicious "
An acquaintance came back from a gap year in South America with a taste for Guinea Pig.
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Sunday 21st May 2017 17:28 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
Re: pet food
Nothing wrong with horsemeat; it's actually quite delicious. Of course it is a scandal if horse meat is sold as beef as you're being ripped off.
Traditionally, Rheinischer Sauerbraten is made from horse meat. Although it's been slowly fading out of fashion for quite a while now. I understand it's rather a problem on the supply side; not that many horses end up at the butcher's these days.
The area around Solingen is still pretty big on all kinds of horse-based foodstuff; maybe it has something to do with all the knives and cutlery they make. Here's a menu, click on "Unsere Pferdefleisch-Spezialitäten".
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Sunday 21st May 2017 20:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: pet food
In England in the 1960s our school bus went past a row of very dilapidated shops. One had a sign indicating that its sole product was horse meat.
A friend in Finland in the 1970s told the tale of getting her first horse - and horse meat then being banned from the dinner table. Touring northern Scandinavia in 1979 we shopped in a supermarket. A little bell made me do a dictionary look up for the label on a tin of meat chunks - "häst" = "horse".
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Monday 22nd May 2017 00:41 GMT Michael Hoffmann
Re: pet food
Heh, yeah, as a horse owner and avid equestrian, I have no problem with horse meat. It's quite game-like, though needs proper preparation. I'm amazed at how some horsey-girls go into paroxysms of rage and tears when you dare mention eating horse. Yeah, I draw the line at cats and dogs - too high up the food chain as carnivores. Not entirely consistent, oh well.
Hmm, Solingen you say? I'll be near there in a few months.
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Sunday 21st May 2017 18:58 GMT Mage
cloud computing will overtake the classic empire of on-premises computing
"actual cloud computing will overtake the classic empire of on-premises computing some time in the early-to-mid 2020s"
So at some point there will be a critical mass outsourced to Cloud.
Even if a 100x more reliable, it WILL fail, (and a wrong patch might propagate in a way than makes malware writers jealous). Then you won't be able to make calls (no billing), buy food (no POS) or get cash (ATMs will be using the Cloud as will the banks anyway).
There will be no silver lining.
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Sunday 21st May 2017 20:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: cloud computing will overtake the classic empire of on-premises computing
"buy food (no POS)"
The whole food restocking system would be out too. The UK has something like only three days supply of food on the shelves at any one time.
One of our POS support staff was on site in a supermarket when there was a major outage with a store full of shoppers. The emergency plan was for staff to (under)estimate the cost of each customer's trolley. Not sure how they paid though - IOUs?
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Monday 22nd May 2017 16:50 GMT Herby
So many "interesting" horse names...
...so little time. Maybe El Reg can come up with a bunch of names and handicap them in a race for the hearts and minds of the audience.
The best part would be the one line after the horses name that the handicapper describes the abilities.
Would be interesting.
And then you would have "Wannacry" just put a gate across the track, and is awaiting payment to lift it.