Posts by MrT

Re: "Survivalist Scone Baking"

Ah, Bradders - she's almost the spitting image of my sister-in-law... somewhere between Julia and Jennifer Aniston...

Though not if drawn by Axel Scheffler ;-)

Re: "prove causation" != "observe a [certain amount of] correlation"

Bang goes the secret behind soooo many tabloid headlines...

Still, while we're having fun with correlations, have a look at this collection... the one I like best is 'German passenger cars sold in the US' correlating with 'Suicides by crashing of motor vehicle' - "It's just not as good as everyone told me - goodbye cruel world!" - although the Divorce rate in Maine having anything to do with Per capita consumption of margarine (US) surely must have some mileage with the dairy industry...

Re: Doh is a dear

Yes indeed - even avoiding the Simpsons, the comedy potential has a long, long way to run...

Machines that "know what I want"...

... resulting in something that tastes almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.

The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation welcomes you to the future. Share and enjoy!

Actually, we had one of those MaxPack dispensers at a former employer whose best effort at "leaf tea" tasted like they just picked random leaves fallen from roadside trees, lightly marinated in oily puddles and mixed by Goodyear, so maybe the future has already happened... sadly.

Re: mmmh...

It seems that way since the picture shows a fairly even spread of smaller points - there doesn't seem to be a pattern, though possibly more to the lower part of the image, and given the scale it looks like stuff has stayed fairly close. It might be the biggest impact observed, but it's nothing like the Arizona crater.

However, NASA won't have imaged it using HiRISE at the time - two years or so of erosion will have softened things. The report mentions evidence of nearby landslips that they attribute to the shock of the impact.

Re: I'm not sure

But surely the design stage is to prove concept and function? Even in the late 70's and early 80's companies like Ferranti were offering custom ULAs, so just get the design right [ ;-) ] establish market potential and batch order. These days for simpler stuff I'd be using PIC style devices and soft-wire stuff. With SoC the fiddling moves ever more towards code-level.

Soldering stuff is fun, and you feel like you are connected to the build, but for anything commercial-scale the production techniques have to step up - there's still a place for handiwork, it's just not viable for most of what goes into bulk items (mobo-based things, etc.). I visited the Pioneer factory in Wakefield well over a decade ago - might have even been late 90's - and even back then they were positioning the heftier components on cable TV box boards (for Canal in France, IIRC) using cameras and robots, with the boards later being floated across solder baths to do entire boards in one pass per side. People just fed the parts and did a bit of moving and shifting - the bulk happened using conveyors.

Re: two decades of data...!

There doesn't seem to be much storage capacity - the probe was designed to be in continuous communication. The uplink speeds are mentioned in this NASA link down at the end...

Re: EJ Thribb....

... (17½ million miles, give or take)...

That's it!

The tracking was off... Anyone got a jeweller's screwdriver and some tape-head cleaner?

Re: Sort of Reasonable

Monitors do that already, at least Plug'n'play tells the graphics card what the monitor can handle. The problem comes when my 17" laptop has a higher res than my 32" Sony, and a 10" Nexus tablet can beat both by some margin...

It's unworkable.

Re: In other news...

Nothing against it - although some BTC exchanges have been quoting Bitcoin values using the symbol for Baht, probably without realising that's why the symbol exists in the first place.

My comment was meant as a joke - icons still not available on the mobile website - that MIT might dish out one cryptocurrency but then twist things by only accepting others; generosity knows no limits etc. Still, as others have suggested, it's probably part of a case study to see how students respond to the handout.

Re: other peoples after-pub leftovers

I'm sure that there is a way to channel company expense account funds into Vodafone (double Dutch with an Irish twist and a side of Bahama bananas) and then to staff handsets to pay for a 20oz steak, rare with trimmings, so they can take one bite and leave the rest ;-)

Re: Suspicious

Looks a bit like the Mazda logo to me, with that crack line (?) going across a vaguely oval shape...

Re: Perfectly sums it up

>> "TheFlagOfAbandonment"

Thanks - that made me laugh!

I think we've just seen the birth of a new meme... if there's any way to link in cat pictures or Private Eye's Controversial New Columnist, or a Keep Calm t-shirt then I'm sure it will succeed.

Oh, I don't know...

...steampunk mobile phones look pretty cool... ;-)

Either that, or...

... the Germans just need to bring in a drone that's better at taking penalties. Or just flash images of a Khan Bentley or Khan Range Rover Sport being crushed on the advertising boards: should put anyone on the field off their game.

They'll be...

...the proportion of the US population who realise there are countries outside of the USA have travelled to countries outside of the USA.

“I was like, 'yea!'”...

... I wonder if he was quite so “'yea!'” after working out what he got as a reward. Still, at that age being given anything in recognition is nice, and his dad's clearly pleased for him.

Spoken like a true Californ-aye-ayyyyyyy beach boy, both of them. Just missing the response containing "stoked", "bummed off", "gnarly", etc., starting every sentence with "So..." ;-)

Surely the question is...

...the potential new ElReg unit "micromechanical cleavage".

And point-load in the hammock may affect the ability to provide adequate support - what is the density of the cat, in Jubs per Bulgarian Airbag...?

Sounds as if staying away from...

... St. James Park is the answer.

Luckily Newcastle City Council wisely avoided renaming the place on roadsigns etc to the Wonga.com SportsDirect Stadium, or whatever Michael (only-in-it-for-the-c) Ashley has pimped it off to this season.

:-D

Volvos...

...Boxy, but Good

Crazy People: the Jaguar advert is also a good one, but they all stick in my mind pretty well...

Re: 4.7.5.1.83.8.94.1.37

It's the new, easy-to-remember replacement emergency services number...

Oh, hang on - as you were; the new number ends in a '3'...

Re: Hopefully King's Waterloo moment

More hopefully their "Battle of Balaclava" moment...

"Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them"

Better stop there, it sounds like the basic premise for "Cannon Fodder Saga™"

Please let one of the King board members be called Cardigan.

"Into the Valley of Death rode the King board members..."

Re: Mohammed and Allah

... I wouldn't want to be named as the artist on that character set... ;-)

He also left...

...King.com - the compass is working fine ;-)