* Posts by TeeCee

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Intel Sandy Bridge many-core secret sauce

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Me too.

Same results for me there. TR had two massive advantages over Ethernet. Firstly the TR NICs got waaay more throughput than the Ethernet ones. Secondly, without the collision/retry overhead you could actually get 4Mbps out of it. It was easy to prove, four machines running early versions of DOOM in deathmatch mode* and chaingunning the f*ck out of each other would collapse Ethernet damn near instantly, 4meg TR would handle this quite happily.

16Mbps TR flattened everything else around at the time.

If I ever needed to convince anyone that TR was the superior option I'd just open the nearest wiring closet and invite the sceptic to disconnect the cable of their choice. That one always used to wind up any Ethernet fanbois within earshot.

*It's a network testing tool. Honest.

Project Canvas becomes YouView

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What else....

Maybe the same thing that caused some people to rush out and buy a digital set-top box before they came down to a sensible price?

First rule of marketing: Never underestimate the stupidity of the buying public.

CES pitted for Intel Wireless Display boost

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Re: I get the feeling...

"Wireless HDMI? Yes please...."

Which sounds suspiciously like exactly what this is.

Ok it's a closed, Intel only, limited to specific kit one, but I'm sure that someone, somewhere has a "works with anything you like" generic specification up their sleeves. A bit like a sort of AMD64 answer to this Itanium, if you will. With a bit of luck, this bollox from Intel should provide the necessary boot up the backside to everyone else to standardise for fear of Intel pwning their sorry arses.

The silly buggers here are those manufacturers bothering to build kit for this proprietary, doomed-to-die version.

1 in 10 Americans prefer colonoscopies to PC security

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3/4 of adults......

...can't be arsed to clean the registry?

The most suprising thing here is that would imply that 25% of 'em know what the registry is........

I suspect that the correct conclusion for this feedback is: "People given a question which they haven't got a fucking clue what it means are considerably more likely to answer 'No' than 'Yes'."

Virgin Media set-top box modder gets 5 years

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So.

The top man in this "boxing" ring is Mohammed Ali?

Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

Yahoo! economist rebuilds ad empire with 'Magic Formula'

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Re: Interesting logic

"If I ran a top500 web site, exactly why wouldn't I be calling my doubleclick rep?"

Er, because the groupings of "smart people with cash to spend" and "people who have their hosts file redirecting doubleclick to 127.0.0.1" have a large overlap?

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Re: YGroups

I don't quite see how that little lot would have any simian spanner effects on McAfee's equations.

The maths still manages pricing and distribution of advertising. The fact that nobody's bloody looking at the ads 'cos some "me too" Web 2.0 fixated arsehat chased away all the eyeballs is an entirely different matter.

"I already have my GoogleGroup ready....". I'd try again there, looking for somewhere less bleedin' edge focussed. Otherwise you're bound to get to do it all over again when Google decides that folding Groups into Buzz or something equally as daft is the next obvious step.

Devil manifests in Hungarian bathroom

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That's not Satan!

Odd, drawn-looking face in *red* bathroom tiles = Manifestation of Satan.

Odd, drawn-looking face in *blue* bathroom tiles = Some dead Na'vi bloke.

Get yer ficticious characters straight FFS!

Update kills code-execution threat in Samba

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Re: Errrr...

You had it right the third time.

"It" is the correct pronoun for a Troll, even a misguided one.

Steve Jobs no ninja, says Apple

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Jobs Horns

Of course he's not a ninja.

How the hell do you expect him to move around stealthily and undetected at night with the sun shining out of his arse?

Zuck buffs image ahead of Facebook movie

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Re: Sorkin

Yes of course, because no decent director has ever been responsible for a genuine, cast-iron, gold-plated stinking shitpile straight from the "this is trendy and might make some cash this week" school of filmmaking, have they?

Anyone who thinks there's any truth in that ought to go and look up who directed "G.I. Jane" for starters.

Action gamers make better drivers, soldiers, surgeons

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Re: Role Model???

Definately, being both British and a driver.

Maybe not a good model, but certainly an accurate one.....

Intel's Sandy Bridge welcomes discrete graphics

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"nor do I see Formula One race cars going away just because we built Priuses."

Gosh Intel, I hate to piss on your picnic but even if you were building Bugatti Veyrons rather than Priuses, Formula One cars *still* wouldn't go away.

Is that your bottom lip quivering?

Over The Air: Losing drones and forging bus tickets

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Lobster.

Isn't there a slight flaw in there?

There may be no difference in the beep noise, but the difference between an Oyster card and an iPhone with a shonky pic on the screen might be a shade obvious. I have a sneaking suspicion that there aren't enough blind bus drivers around to make this a viable scam.

Microsoft shields Russia's refuseniks from police harassment

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You don't know what you're doing!

"...plans for a program to stop third-parties pretending to represent Microsoft as counsel."

"...Microsoft will appoint an independent legal firm to investigate the NYT's claims."

Ok, who forgot to copy the left hand in on that memo from the right hand then? I'd have thought that one of the first things they need to do in order to make it clear that third parties have no right to represent Microsoft is stop deliberately appointing third parties to, er, represent Microsoft.

I'm sure that to them there's a world of difference between: "scumbag lawyers we're paying" and: "scumbag lawyers we're not paying", but to the rest of the world it's an imperceptibly fine line.....

Nintendo hails Super Mario's silver anniversary

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Mario.

He'll always be the little bloke that jumps the barrels in the Donkey Kong arcade game to me.

Since I remember playing that in the pub during, er, lunchtime while (not) at college he's been around a tad longer than 25 years IMHO.

US military builds laser backpack for 3D indoor mapping

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Is he serious?

"We have already generated 3D models of two stories of the electrical engineering building at UC Berkeley, including the stairway and that is a first,"

Why the hell are we spending money on space / deep sea exploration and expeditions to the Amazon jungle when there are apparently unmapped staircases at UC Berkeley?

'Hyperbolic map' of the internet will save it from COLLAPSE

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Hyperbolic routing.

A new technique, the need for which is driven by hype and bollocks.

Google Instant sinks raft of search controls

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@Ian Geek

Oh dear, now you've gone and done it. Now you've let it get established in Google it can't be long before *every* search term returns nothing but pages of results for "japanese knotweed".

All CO2-spewing kit now in existence is OK for the planet

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Re: Dear oh dear.

I suppose that says: "I see your 'think of the children' and raise you a 'think of the gigantic, intelligent, mutant cockroaches'."

I love Friday humour around here.

Oh and lubricants? Breed whales.

Hurd to take $950,000 salary after Oracle pay cut

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Only 950k?

There must be benefits too.

For example, does he get to choose his own "consultants"? Are Oracle guaranteeing to pick up any "consultancy fees" he may invoice without any trouble, difficult questions or sacking^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinvitations to resign?

There things are important you know. Top executives need to be sure that can obtain the "services" they need to stay on top of things while on the job.

Brits don't want in-flight calling

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"Very annoying to the operators it is too."

That sounds like the best reason for leaving the phone on in an aircraft that I have ever heard.

Usually it's them that get to annoy me. Nice to know that there is actually a way of getting my own back, even if it smacks of petty vengeance.

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Trusted you?

Or just had the common sense to realise that there was f*** all you could do to it while sat in a sealed tube full of potential witnesses.

US raygun jumbo jet fails to beam down test missile

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Those Russians.

Have they hired Valerie Singleton to run their Defence department?

"Here's one I prepared earlier."

BioWare zeroes in on Mass Effect download snafu

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Whoever did this.....

.......is a *very* noughty boy.

Google Instant blacklists the Slutskys

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Well bugg.. me!

This one works too! In fact "bugger" is the *first* suggestion there, beating out "buggy" which crops up second.

Anyone out there know enough to script feeding the first few characters of every word in Roger's Profanisaurus through it to save a bit of time?

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Not perfect.

Try typing in "knob e".

Some very interesting results instantaneously returned for that, including an Urban Dictionary entry compiled (it would seem from the search page) by someone called "titwanker" as the second item.

I'm sure there are more and this could be a long comments section..........oh look! "Bollo" returns some fun things from the googly instant world too.

Damn! Like I wasn't busy enough today already.....

Google squirrels into human brains with Scribe experiment

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WTF?

I know what this is.

It's an automated version of a roomful of monkeys with typewriters. Same effect, less of the inconvenience associated with large quantities of bananas and monkey shit.

Two-lane BRIDGE FOUND ON FAR SIDE OF THE MOON!

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@hplasm

I reckon it's a WWII bomber.

Quite obviously the Star was right all along with their "WWII BOMBER FOUND ON MOON!" headline.

The fact that it's still there and has just been moved a bit proves that their subsequent headline "WWII BOMBER ON MOON DISAPPEARS!!!!!"* was misleading, so tabloid journalism standards are intact.

*Something like that. There might have been more exclamation marks.

Assange asks for new lawyer

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"Denies blaming CIA for 'smear'"

Of course he does. He now believes it was actually the FBI, who were being manipulated by the Mafia. They, in turn, were having their strings pulled by the Bavarian Illuminati.

Gotta go, Orbital Mind Control Lasers have just turned up and the Society of Assassins can do some real damage with those......

DWP spent £1m on search engine 'biasing' in single year

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I've said it before....

.....and I'll say it again.

You can see the root cause of this by looking at government advertising. Sometime in the last few years, the small print strapline at the bottom changed from "Go online to <url>" to "Search online for <some words>".

Whichever complete and total dickheaded fuckwit thought up that mind-numbingly idiotic piece of sheer arsehattery ought to be made to pay for the consequences!

In the meantime, I'd love to see some bunch of merry mischief makers make a list of all the <some words> in HMGs adverts and googlebomb/rickroll/goatse the fuck out them to teach these daft pillocks a lesson they richly deserve.

NASA buys cutting-edge Cornish robot

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Re: Hold on a sec....

Yes, but this is NASA we're talking about and open deep-fat fryers are a bit of a liability in zero-gee.

Thus a series of inventions/discoveries that revolve around battering something unlikely and dunking it in boiling oil for a few minutes aren't really of interest to them....

Oz pedestrians fall to 'Death by iPod'

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I used to commute by Tube.

The "tsky, tsky, tsky" noise emanating from some adjacent arsehat's muzak player's earphones used to drive me batshit insane.

It's nice to see that some Higher Force is going out of Its way to organise my revenge for me. That's not say I wouldn't have preferred to see the inconsiderate bastards dropped en masse into a vat of boiling yak shit, but horribly maimed or killed by passing traffic will do as a compromise.

'Larry and Sergey's HTML5 balls drained my resources'

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YAWN!

So while you're sat on the Google page and your CPU's sitting around, scratching its arse waiting for you to get around to typing in a search term*, Google give it something pointless but fun to do?

All those wasted CPU cycles that would have otherwise been gainfully used updating the %age load on the System Idle Task......my nose bleeds for them.

*Symantec Users? YMMV here....

Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook

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'...citing Facebook's "onerous terms"...'

Other articles around today would suggest that maybe those "onerous terms" which Ping can't live with are something like: "You are not allowed to spam the f*** out of our users."

Wikileaks founder blasts reopening of rape probe

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Re: WWII

That may be so.

However, the RAF was pretty much on its knees at the time, facing a choice of either losing the farm to airfield bombing or pulling the fighter bases back north of London (and a handy distance from any invasion from a German perspective).

The germans made an official apology for their accidental bombing within the exclusion zone, but Churchill bombed Berlin anyway. You don't have to be a genius to work out that for the outcome of the Battle of Britain, the London Blitz was the best possible thing to happen for the British, short of the Lutwaffe deciding to stay at home en masse. I personally reckon that presented with the opportunity and knowing that both Hitler and Goering had so much by way of promises riding on it, Churchill took the obvious course of action.

Chain Home is another issue. Actually here, the radar installations were rarely targetted after an initial assault by Stukas. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, they're damned difficult to seriously damage with anything bar a dive-bomber as precision bombing is a must. The Stukas suffered horrendous losses in the initial raids and the dive-bomber variant of the Ju-88 was still some time away. Secondly, the Lutwaffe found that after those inital raids to knock out radar, their bomber formations were still attacked in numbers by RAF fighters. The Observer Corps were able to a do a sterling job advising of the position of Germn formations in real time. The trick the Luftwaffe missed was that radar gave *early* warning, allowing the fighters to get a break and rearm/refuel between raids, while still being up and ready in time to intercept the next raid. Thus the limited strength of RAF fighter command was able to function in a manner as effective as a fighter force of around three times the size running continuous patrols. This is why the Luftwaffe continually issued vast overestimations of the strength of Fighter Command.

Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic

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@Titus Technophobe

"....Virgins where do they come from?"

Er, here? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/egyptians_uptight/

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Algerian hackers?

With a geographical ballsup of that magnitude are we sure that they're not just proving their credentials in order to help their applications for US citizenship?

iTunes update plugs WebKit flaw

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"flaws in the media player's WebKit browser"

So, not content with merely having the updates punt Safari at every opportunity they've built a bloody browser into the thing? Also, now with social networking cobblers (like there aren't enough ways of doing *that* already).

Christ on a crutch, are Apple going for some sort of all-time, swiss-cheese bloatware record here?

Samsung specs up 7in Android tablet

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@LPF

Too right!

I recall when 3G first took off and video calliing was supposed to be the "killer app". I called a mate one day and the conversation started like this:

"Can you talk now or are you still in your meeting?"

"No, that's finished, I'm in the dunny."

"...!!....Thank f*** we don't have video calling!"

D-Link DHP-306AV powerline Ethernet adaptor

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I still don't get it.

A Wireless-N Router can be easily had for under 70EUR these days and range extenders knock in at under 50.

You'd have to have an absolute shitload of dead zones in your building before these puppies start to make sense financially. Even then, if two or more devices need connection at any given point, the wireless option's still the cheaper one.

Jobs takes swing at Google over Android activations

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"it's hard to think of anyone Apple really thinks of as a friend"

They really are becoming more like MS every day, aren't they?

<--------Billy no-mates.

My Exchange conversion

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"Exchange 2010 is a polished product"

Makes you wonder what exactly it was they polished to make Exchange 2007, doesn't it?

NASA seeks inflatable popup roof for camper vans on Mars

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Re: Holidays on Phobos.

Don't bother. I went once and found it lacked atmosphere.....

Microsoft locks down Windows Phone 7 code

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re: re: About those hours.

"2000 testers would give 208 days if my maths is right." - It probably is, but that presents another problem:

"tested on nearly 10,000 devices per day" - that would be the thick end of 2,080,000 different devices according to my maths.

HTC must be gearing up for one motherf*cker of a product launch.

So, is this bullshit or just shocking grammar from MS? I suspect that the correct answer here is: "both"....

Symantec and Snoop Dogg launch cybercrime rap contest

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Are you Mystic Meg in disguise?

".....we can't help fearing the musical results are likely to be dire."

Er, it's a rap contest? The entries are going to have to be vastly superior to anything in that genre to date to get anywhere near "dire"......

Geek tech firm loses Jedi credentials

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@Tim Jenkins

I wonder where the assets of White Star lines reside these days? Are Cunard* still around of have they been bought out too?

They should sue James Cameron.....

*As in:

Very smartly dressed sailor: "I work for Cunard and I am very well paid because of that."

Scruffy sailor: "I work my bloody balls off mate and I'm paid sod all".

Game-addicted man scores rare win over software lawyers

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WTF?

I look forward to it now:

"WARNING: This game may be addictive and can lead to hospitalisation, extreme and serious emotional distress and depression, if you're a sad, useless fucker with no life and no self-control."

That should rule out any future cases.

OED goes the way of all flesh paper

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OED online only?

One problem with this is obvious. How is one supposed to fold down the page corners and underline all the naughty words then?

This is going to make the humour of "Ink and Incapability" impenetrable to future generations....

Crooks said swiped church funds were for sex crime victims

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"the Impeccable Group"

It sez here that a secondary, religious definition of "Impeccable" is "without sin / incapable of sin".

So, that name sends a "holier-than-thou" message to those of a religious bent then. Even if you don't agree with what they did, you have to admire their sense of humour.