Posts by TeeCee

This is because most men aren't quite stupid enough to pay four times as much for exactly the same thing with a label on it. Thus the potential rakeoff from the fuckwit tax is much lower and prices are correspondingly higher to compensate.

Also, when it comes to designer gear that makes a statement, while Primark do an olive drab T-shirt with a silhouette of a Chinook on it labelled "Big Chopper", none of the designer labels appear to for some reason.........

"...Trevor Pott convinced them that posts need a character limit...."

Yes and turkeys voting for Christmas too......

I have to admit to having watched this umpty-something times.

Dunno why I love it, but I do. Wife and kids are heartily sick to the back teeth of it.

Oooooooo! Much better.

Have a bun.

You mean as in:

<Clarkson>

"All the cocks drive Audis these days."

</Clarkson>

More interestingly on that one.

From a Chinese legal perspective Taiwan is part of China, so continuing to sell in Taiwan could be seen to put Apple in contempt of court.......

More popcorn please.

Yup, they spent a mint on the revamp, with the more urgent theme, the smaller Main Mission and such. All to please the American audience, which promptly hated the changes. The fact that this budget blowout went unrewarded with audience share stateside is what killed it.

Moral: Never try to give the public what they want, 'cos they invariably turn out to have no idea what it really is.

Footnote: If they really wanted to cast Catherine Schell full time, WTF was wrong with her appearance as the Guardian of Piri[1]? Too expensive using that much toupee tape to avoid the wrath of the censors in every episode?

[1] Feel free to drool here. Everyone did at the time.

Damn. Now you've done it. Forcing vulture towers to make a quiddage choice of historical computers or celebutard spaceplanes? That's a really dirty trick to pull.......

Holland's Slough

Actually worse than that, at least Slough doesn't have a "Golden Tulip" hotel. Some of us only worked there occasionally and were almost invariably forced to stay in the ruddy Tulip when doing so.

You can easily judge an hotel near an airport by which airlines' aircrew stay there. The Tulip was one of the ones where all the badges and uniforms seen were from the Ryanair end of the airline spectrum.

Techy devices tend to have ports on them and some civil servant jumped to the wrong conclusion when carving up the jobs.....?

"...everything else for WOA will need to be recompiled."

So moving to a completely new architecture with a totally different instruction set requires a recompile? Who could possibly have seen that coming, eh?

The alternative would have been an x86 emulation layer, which would undoubtably have run like a total dog.

I have thought of many uses for a Raspberry Pi and eagerly await them shipping.

However, even I'm not bleedin' daft enough to try to replace a laptop with one.....

Well I thought that Mugabe's bought-and-paid-for judges were the most bent in the world.

Thank you Texas for proving me wrong.

"....as well as via a trailing Ethernet cable...."

In every large company somebody has to write those huge standards documents that nobody ever reads.....

CURSE YOU!!!!!!!!!

(That should be read to the mental background accompaniment of: Da-da-da-dum da-da-da-daa daa-da-da-da-da da-da-da-dum........etc ad infinitum and while thinking about Gabrielle Drake in a close-fitted silver suit. That's today written off then.)

Arthur Clarke did it first. Some scientists were spraying sulphur out of a nozzle on the moon, to measure the moon's very slight atmosphere IIRC. The public were told the effects would produce a glow visible from earth and that going out to watch would be a good idea.

It turned out that someone had taken a fat bung to replace the nozzle with a "Coca Cola" shaped one.

I think that story's in the "Tales from the White Hart" collection, I need to check that though........

Easy one. Plug a laptop into the smart bullet and ask it where it came from.

Coming soon in the next series of "CSI Fairytale Land".

Obvious really, prototype build vs. mass production.......

So somewhere in the Universe there must be an enormous factory turning out suns, planets and such, staffed by angels.

Everything available in a variety of colours and finishes, although in the early aeons of mass production you could have any colour you wanted, as long as it was black. This explains Dark Matter.

It makes eminent sense to me. Back in the day I used to use the "contact the author" function to do this. Shortly after the comments system turned up, that became a "mailto". Reading at work that fires off a mail using my work email address, rather than the one you know and love. Being a lazy sod, I took to posting cockups rather than mailing 'em to save myself the few minutes of fannying around with a webmail service.

When the form came back I sort of stuck in my newly-accustomed rut. Now we have an official oopsies form I'll use that.

Although it could be unreasonable Captain.....

As the kneejerk M$ hatery has already gained 4 upvotes, I have decided to award one to your actual test result in the interests of sanity.

They used to provide stress balls with trite messages printed on them, they stopped doing those for some reason or other....

It was realised that encouraging execs to sit around playing with their balls was like selling sand to arabs or preaching to the converted?

Trouble is, that "rawness" makes his stuff some of the best going for shining an umpty-million candlepower searchlight on the limitations of audio playback systems. Many of the things that make a reasonable fist of autotuned music are utterly shit at harmonics, fingers squeaking on strings, foot shuffling, breath sounds and passing aircraft.

Oh and it's "Wyld Stallyns" BTW....

Get thee to the "Jonathan Livingston Mavur[1]" on the harbour in Reykjavik! If it walks, flies or swims anywhere within about 100 miles of the place, it's on the menu.

Last time I was there I had Reindeer (nice), Ptarmigan (a bit stringy, but otherwise pleasant), Puffin (a bit too tough), Whale (actually not very nice at all, a bit like salt beef and I think it was a bit off) and Dolphin (salty, very dense red meat). That was the day's selection platter.

Highlight was a colleague calling a waiter over, pointing at the menu and asking if the Dolphin was Tuna-friendly. Apparently if you are an Icelandic waiter this is not funny.

[1] Yes, that is Icelandic for "seagull"[2]. This thread is now officially unsuitable for small children.

[2] I'm told it's horrible. I didn't have any.

And you think that little problem would deter Rambus how exactly?

"...a barrister cross-examining himself....."

Ah, opportunity for a new euphamism there methinks.

"On my lifetime platinum account? that I paid for?"

More fool you. I took one look at the advert strewn mess, the relentless upgrade nagging, variable reliability, vast selection of links in the wild pointing there for obviously moody content and decided many moons gone that my money wouldn't be going anywhere near the ruddy place.

Always felt just a shade too fly-by-night for my liking. There are plenty of online storage places that don't have a presentation that looks like a Flash advert for Geocities and who wield the banhammer at anyone taking the piss with what they're sharing.

Put it this way. If you had a selection of diamonds would you put them in a safe deposit box in a bank vault or "Honest Fred's no-questions-asked secure storage"? Caveat Emptor.