Does that say......
....most Climatologists eat their own dogfood?
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Nope, that's still not man-made. We may have released a shitload of it in one inconvenient place near Kiev, but it ain't man-made. Those heavy nuclei would have decayed over time, releasing the same radiation, whether we were here or not.
Let me know when we start fusing light elements into heavy, fissionable ones on an industrial scale, you can have your boffin icon back then......
More like three years for MS to lose patience, make the decision that "this is it" and declare a "fuck you" to any subsequent updates and / or changes, so that the world has to code once for "vanilla" HTML5 and once for the MS version....
IE: It may not be a coincidence that a "9" can be a "6", depending on how you look at it.
Bloody standards bodies. It's their glacial decision-making processes that are the root cause of most interoperability fuckups. We should just chisel the spec in rock somewhere and wait for continental drift to distribute it to the world, it would be faster.
Why do people use MP3? Because every shonky playback device supports it, unlike OGG. You need to wait 'til every PMP and Car stereo in use has OGG support for that, I reckon about twenty years' time, if you start mandating the device support now.
Why do people use h.264? The same and also you are waaaaaay more likely to get HW acceleration.
SPEEX? WTF? You won't be wanting to actually talk to anyone else I take it? You *really* should have used the "joke" icon here.....
.NET Come back when you've convinced the corporate world. Good luck with that one.
MySQL? What? Ditch M$ for Oracle? Better the Gorilla you know there methinks (please try to keep up with the rest of us)....
Nice to see that the honest British horse puts out more work than its German counterpart*.
Presumably the German horse spends four thousandths of its time in Workers' Council meetings, arguing over whether it's still ok to pull the plough if the farmer were allowed to paint it green.
*Although, to be fair, ISTR that yer average horse turns out about three quarters of a Horsepower...
The Prius does this and it works quite well.
It does it with a rear-facing camera and some fancy image interpretation. It also displays the camera output on the main screen. This is handy 'cos you can prove that it's got it right and also use it for reversing in other situations too (it has a fisheye lens and gives a rather better field of vision than turning yer head round).
The snag here is that Prius drivers all learn very rapidly that it's a damned sight quicker and easier to do it yourself, following the helpful cue lines it draws on the screen for you, relegating the core function to "look what this can do" moments in the pub car park....
Make it as easy as possible for 'em too.
It'll give 'em something to be getting on with that'll make 'em feel like they're "doing something about it" (whatever "it" is this week), without actually having any significant effect on teh intahtubes at all.
Of course, a few people might need to move to a domain name outside the aegis of Nominet, but that's a trivial price to pay for keeping the plod busily barking up the wrong tree......
It all depends what was in front of him.
Everyone knows that white panel vans are the fastest vehicles ever made by man. This is easily proved as it doesn't matter what you are driving or how fast you are going, there will inevitably be a white van right up your chuff and flashing its lights to pass.
The interesting question is what the heck was he trying to overtake at the time.....?
Er, that's not a feeler gauge, that's a set of feeler gauges. A single feeler gauge is one piece of it.
All the ones I've used have been rivetted together to ensure they don't fall apart. Presumably having the lot drop onto the floor next to the shuttle is rather less serious than having a selection of metal pieces drop down the pushrod tubes into your engine's tappet chest.
Yes, but you have to wonder at the validity of the vote in this case.
Put it this way. If I were given some candidate names for a new building to put all the local government types in and one of them was the "Hairy Balls Center", I know where my vote would be going.
Unless of course the "Richard Head Building" and "Gareth Hunt Offices" were on the same ballot. Then it would be a tough call.
".....I've gotten through it. I think everybody else can, too."
Yes, but you weren't gifted with a first name that may be easily misread or pronounced as "Hairy". That's the bit that moves it from the sniggering category to the gales-of-laughter-spraying-coffee-everywhere one.
Anyone can easily buy a gun in Alabama, but getting your paws on a dildo requires a medical certificate?
I am awestruck. What the heck do their legislators smoke? I really want some of *that* serious, mind-altering shit.
Just out of interest, if you go into this "guns 'n toys" place and ask for a long barreled .45 revolver, does the proprietor's head explode?
This week: Religious iPhone app officially endorsed by Catholicism.
Next week: Bearded cleric issues Fatwa banning muslims from using infidel iPhones. Calvinists, Lutherans and Hussites burn Apple products.
Week after that: App store bans all apps with religious content.
Week after that: Papal Bull issued stating that users of Apple products will be excommunicated.
Popcorn please......
Several possibilites:
1) Even the dead are unable to fathom the processes of Ofcom.
2) Being dead doesn't make you any more all-seeing and prescient than you were when you were alive, but it does make you much better at bullshitting the living.
3) It's all cobblers and being dead means you can't talk to anyone, psychic or not.
I *really* like (2) here, as an eternity of winding people up sounds like oodles of fun to me, but I suspect that I am to be disappointed and that (3) is actually correct.
I'd also like to point out that genuine psychics are very easy to spot. They're the ones who have used the proceeds of their several double-rollover Euromillions wins to retire to a private island in the Caribbean and not the ones scrounging an appearance fee off Channel 4 to make ends meet. I believe that the number of such thus qualifying remains, as it always has been, at sod-all.
".....that special extra-secure one-time payment system - the personal cheque?"
Yeah, 'cos those are impossible to forge/alter, even when given a specimen signature off the original......
Would you care to take a stab at why these are being phased out and why they went the way of the Dodo eons ago in countries with a more-than-halfway serious organised crime problem?
If that's your idea of "extra-secure" I strongly suggest that you get someone else to look after your money for you. Ideally someone who knows slightly more than fuck-all about security.
Makes sense to me. After all, we've had quite a number of articles recently suggesting that Nokia couldn't find a viable product strategy at the moment, even if the CEO walked up to his desk to find a fat envelope on it labelled "viable product strategy" and containing a viable product strategy.
WP7 is a no-brain decision for Nokia and it sounds like they might have the requisite number of thinking organs to run with it.
There's an even simpler way, get a Draytek router.
Some of their products support up to 6 (OTT or what?) SSIDs, each with their own security settings.
You can even enable / disable them individually on a scheduled basis if that floats your boat.
Rather handily, as it's one unit supporting all the individual SSIDs, the whole shebang's on one channel. This is essential if, like me, you live somewhere that's a bit heavy on the use of the jolly old 2.4Ghz spectrum.
I tried going to a seperate 5Ghz setup for the "n" stuff, but something round here knocks the whole band out intermittantly and frequently. I reckon it's something at the airport up the road meself.
However, to get the question correct I also appended the words; " who's PC-fixated and right up her own arse" to "jewellery designer".
The answer came back Clarkson. Far more likely to be a good laugh over a few beers and he's very unlikely to have me arrested for suggesting a curry later, whereas any suggestions I may make to Ms Prissy there after a skinful are bound to cause trouble.
That would be the Smudger's job. What you have there is just the hacks. Their job is to consume as much free booze as possible to fuel the important task of ripping off someone's blog entry, slapping on some quotes off Twitter* and submitting the result as copy.
*Actually this item may be Old Skool: Make up something interesting that can't be verified or discredited.