Posts by TeeCee

Heisenberg says.

Do cows festooned with monitoring kit behave differently in earthquakes to cows not so encumbered?

I read this and think:

<Alan Titchmarsh>

"Move over Ripley, this one's mine."

</Alan Titchmarsh>

@JT2008

No, it's like saying that the more you watch NASCAR the more likely you are to have sex with close relatives.

"Has been linked to", remember?

Europeans.

No need to go stateside, a quick trip across the ditch will suffice here. Hey presto, 139 EUR rather than 179. Apple's exchange rates are soooo last year.....

Re: the Religious fundamentalist position.

It was Jesus in an Iron Man suit.

Obvious when you think about it.

@Colin Millar

I was going to point out that diesels and jets (both internal combustion engines) survive quite well without an ignition system. Then I reread the article and found that the word used is actually "injection".

Fail x 2 then.

Techo-leaf??

TECHNO-LEAF????!!!?????

I've got absofuckinglutely no idea what one of these really is*, but I call for the banhammer on this term. Now. What is it about the septics that they can't do anything even vaguely innovative without coming up with a whole appendix to the lexicon of shite neologisms to describe it?

*Which is sort of the point. What's the reasoning behind dreaming up a shite buzzword if the result doesn't leave the reader any the wiser as to WTF it's describing?

You forgot "throbbing".

Surely with all the pumps 'n things in there it must throb a bit?

Or are they not testing the internals yet? Maybe throbbing will come (oops, sorry) later....

Easy answer.

Host the cleanup servers elsewhere. Let's face it, there are quite a few hosts out there in certain countries who, for a small consideration, are quite happy to let you run whatever you like, far from the influence of US / European law enforcement.........

Re: Party

<deadpan>

Is this on YouTube? Can you post a link?

</deadpan>

Oooooo! The fail, the fail.

Here's how it really works. Incoming government looks at big high-cost projects. Decides they're NFG and cans 'em. Once feet are under table, dreams up new exciting "initiatives" that require, er, big high-cost projects to implement.

Big consultancies declare record profits from providing services in winding up projects in category A and kicking off projects in category B.

Oh, and the reason that the Home Office behaves like that is that they're Civil Servants (hah!). The change in the colour of the minister's tie doesn't affect the day-to-day running of the place.

"The gravy train will be leaving from platform two and not platform one as previously announced."

World Bank.

You mean there's an International organisation that says it doesn't accept / give bungs on third-world contracts and then actually *does* something about it?

Who are these people and what planet are they from originally?

Victrola?

Always wondered what one of these was, so I followed the link.

It says here that a Victrola is an "internal horn phonograph". i.e. the important difference is that the acoustic horn is hidden within the box providing a more pleasing appearance to the device as a piece of furniture. Anyone at Gryphon characterising that enormous excresence as being inspired by such has missed the point. Big time.

The clue's in the quote.

"....we.....took the necessary steps to ensure a good experience,"

In other words, they've deleted it.

Performance hike?

There was I under the impression that existing XP notebooks frequently outperformed new machines by adopting the simple expedient of not having Vista installed.

(Someone had to say it.)

Six of one......

They're saying a mail that appears to come from HMRC might actually be from a vile thieving scrote who you wouldn't piss on if he was on fire?

I can see the problem. How the hell is anyone supposed to tell the difference here?

@Dave Ross

If you're paying........

What do you get with 5000 "D" cells?

Presumably it's self-funding from the cash they make knocking out promotional bunnies on teh intatoobz tat bazaar.....

Dear LG.

No doubt you are now conducting market research to find the correct price point and signing up resellers.

Don't bother. You'll sell every one of these you can make, even if they're priced to be hand assembled by Tibetan nuns from rocking horse shit placed in an unobtanium casing and only sold through one online outlet in Baghdad.

Hmm, drool has the same effect on keyboards as coffee. Who knew?

@E

"....real killer one like Reiserfs"

ROFLMAO!!!!!111!!!!!!!oneonetyone!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!!elevenmilliononehundredandeleventhousandonehundredandeleven

(Not dissing the FS, it's the "real killer" reference that just made coffee come out of my nose here.......)

Strange delegation?

"....Defence Minister Willie O'Dea....."

Presumably there was a bit of stick on offer as an alternative to any carrots then?

Re: Not dead.

Not only does it smell funny, it's also forgotten what it's for and developed a habit of weeing in the kettle.

@Gav

Same way world + dog on the 'net does it. Once your Account's been blocked, your next attempt is greeted with something like: You have made three incorrect login attempts. Shove this button to get a new password mailed to the email account you registered with us. Said new pwd turns up and the first thing you get to do on using it is change it.

I recall some bright managerial tit extolling the virtues of this for our systems not so long back. It had to be the right thing 'cos "that's the way everyone does it on teh Intertoobs". My innocent question as to, given it was the desktop / LDAP password he was talking about, how the f*** the user was supposed to get at their company email account to find the new password, let alone gain access to the Intranet to use said automated reset system in the first place, went down like a cup of warm sick.....

Obvious really.

She said "people". That's fairly specific and leaves plenty of scope elsewhere, species-wise.

Off now to the costume hire shop and to practice my barking.

Clones? Androids?

Nah, no need. Every time this happens for real they just wait until he rises from the dead three days later.

The reason he's absent this year is 'cos he's currently taking a lie down in a rock-hewn tomb outside Cupertino with a big stone over the entrance.

This also explains the dearth of really cool stuff alluded to. Apple insiders have now learned the sacred lesson that nobody should say anything important while Jobs is busily being dead.

Any prior art around?

Like, say, allowing customers to browse the stock in a real, bricks 'n mortar bookshop, but not letting them take the whole book away without paying?

I wonder who the unsung genius was who "invented" that one.......

So this is what happens.....

......when patent trolls stop taking their medication.

@AntidisohIcantbearsed

What I'd be interested to know is if there was an avenue by which they could pay the artists directly*, how many of 'em would actually do so.

My money's firmly bet on none at all here.

*An anonymous cash donation to the Musician's Union is probably the closest you can get to this right now. They may not give money to artists (quite the reverse) but they are the only thing that stops the labels screwing the poor buggers into bankruptcy.

@Xander

"Where's my dead vulture?"

It was starting to pong a bit and the lads running the crack lab in the basement complained, so they buried it. There's a picture of the tombstone now.

@Outcast

Planet X is actually a crap Korean car? Who knew?

Next week, new pictures of the planets Mercedus, Porchiu, Ferraru and Skodia.

@Badminstyles.

Allow me to point out the terrible, glaring flaw in that idea. As far as I can see, you still end up on O2?

It's a fan!

No question about it.

The guts of this beast are quite obviously a rehash of Mattel's Harry Potter levitating challenge game. My kids used to have one. Ok, it's now in white and pastel colours rather than brown (pseudo wood), black and other such less tech-friendly shades, but it's the same thing.

If you don't believe me, link: http://www.toymania.com/columns/spotlight/hplevgame.shtml

I reckon that you wind the knob on the front to move the fan around the circuit. The ball stays in the airstream courtesy of Bernoulli. The headset does something to control the altitude of the ball (fan speed). The Potter thing used to come with a handle to control fan power that also made the Potter figure in the middle wave his wand up and down.

Conclusion: Mattel seeking to get some extra cash out of a long obsolete product by rehashing it to appeal to a new audience.