Posts by Marvin the Martian

HP

Weren't they ink sellers? I believe they were. With some sidelines in mickey mouse tech (inc),

It's no actual problem

Just put in more processors, and they can each run WM7 and run a separate task. Seamless!

I'm with you here.

They were indeed the only two things I considered buying. All the rest: I didn't get the memo that valentine loot is now supposed to break the 50quid barrier, and break it badly!

[A 2100quid philips big screen tv?? Seriously? Since when are valentine nicknacks supposed to eat up living room space for the next 5 years??]

Read your own first paragraph.

"A handful arrive late & extremely noisy."

Ryanair decides to let those on!? Waste 100+ people's time, and let then them have a plane ride with free megaphone entertainment by drunken student?

But she also clearly knows interesting people.

I've never met anyone who actually survived "...stepping off a fast-moving train and onto a supersonic jet." So I'd like to read an interesting interview with such people.

@saggar: no, they are not.

France is overrun with explosive numbers of boar, so that hunting is not going well there. Everywhere on the continent there's a surprising boom in numbers, and severe culls needed.

e.g. 23/12/2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11948612

Even internal consistency is gone!

At a glance, I'd say Gold for the iPad, and Silver for the HTC desire --- not touched either, but just counting sales and headlines it's rather safe.

If you disagree, then it gets ridiculous: compare that category and the "mobile" one where the iPad won:

if Desire > iPad, and iPad > Windows7Mobile, then clearly the Desire (being a *mobile*) should win the "mobile" category!?

It's par for the US course.

You should look up the numbers in US "Supermax" prisons, and their practices. It is completely not fitting for social species like us primates (but creationists will dismiss that argument then probably).

The central idea is sensory deprivation --- stuck in a small empty cell 23h or 23h30 per day, no natural (varying) light, solitary confinement, no contact with humans. Clearly a recipe for mental breakdowns, and arguably torture. To a large extent this is an extrajudicial punishment, because it is usually decided by prison authorities, not by an panel of judges, as a procedural matter to simplify the officers' lives. It is in often given to "difficult" prisoners, with "difficult" to an outsider usually translating to "obviously mentally extremely distressed" (e.g., covering themselves in faeces).

The numbers are staggering, and what will happen after returning those to the streets after a decade of that hardly bears thinking (well, reoffending clearly, and that's then posthoc justification?).

There should be stronger UK campaigns against this, as this government (and the last!) are too pro-SuperMax for comfort. Although I shouldn't personally care --- me & nobody I know will end up there so why care?

What we rather want to know ---

The size of the envelope being pushed, is it C6? Or more or less ambitious?

Device?

At first sight it seems a fair margin --- clearly not $130 for every iPod Shuffle, but $130 for every Mac Pro is far too little to be competitive.

But there's so many apple-device-less sales: applecare extended warranties (linked to a device, but clearly a separate service), applestores selling all kinds of trinkets (USB cables, docks, Epson printers, whatever), iTunes and appstore, boxed software, ...

So your rough per-device profit is a bit meaningless, all in all. Show me an overpriced device, seems the simplest approach.

[When the MacMini was disassembled and costs summed up, a cry of "overpriced! outrageously so!" followed --- but all competitors that tried made either a more expensive or an inferiorly specced product (and several cleverly did both at once), so not much more was heard from that. Same with the first iPods --- decent-brand competitors weren't any substantially cheaper... Only the chunky no-name flash players are cheaper per GB. And don't mention the Zune. Quality competitors do have to go for features, alternative design, and audio quality never price.]

Sweden also has lovely lakes.

Tho a moose once bit my sister...

full address?

No, they failed to add the exact house number. Though the graffitied insults on the front door are a giveaway.

My thoughts exactly.

When it becomes more cost effective to have this thingy around than an actual specialist, that may be a bit off... They seem to have a similar shelflife, say 15years, I'd hazard.

Well, supposedly you could have a lot of "interpreters" around who each feed their questions to one centrally located QA machine --- however, it then purely depends on the quality of the interpreters, on them accurately understanding the situation and correctly gauging the importance of each factor present.. almost like a specialist would do. Hm...

@__PB__: Nicely farfetched story

But there being no indication whatsoever that the school was involved as a location, spending 2hrs combing through it makes as much sense as combing through any other building.

2hrs X 30 (at very least, backups/comms/... etc) = expensive.

Viral marketing

... Or maybe they were regular ladies, and this was viral marketing highlighting the portability of the thingies?

camouflage

I'd on the other hand worry how often guns are sneakily lost like this (easier to replace so nobody has to know)? To put a fluo yellow thingy on a roof next to the blue/red lights and not notice is just... strange. So how about a small gunmetal grey thingy?

Modelling -- a science even if spelled with one l.

The most obvious red herring is going on about "global warming" and how it's less degrees on average or not... That's not really the point, is it?

Somewhere around 2000 the consensus was reached that we're not so much worried about warming, but about climate change --- if the temperature stays the same on average, but in some regions it goes down others it goes up then there is indeed a big change. Especially because precipitation/rain is very sensitive to these changes... There again, if average rain stays the same but it all falls in autumn, you're not really going to survive with a foodless spring and summer, are you? And in most cases it's not going to be the same quantity of rain (so possible to store & ration) but a very different one...

Short version: global warming out, climate change in, get with the programme!

Actually, number plate would do, here.

Number plate would be much more use here and reasonably easy to get... But the provided video is still essential, mugshot on its own would be hard to get here as well as useless without some evidence of that person being a criminal as well.

I dunno...

Galapagos implies an evolutionary cul de sac, a special evolutionary outcome maintained by lack of competition. Not a promising idea...

"Taupe" is what you're looking for.

That darker-than-mid-gray-but-not-really-dark, it's known as taupe (french for mole, so mole-gray really). Don't ask me --- it was dress code for a marriage I attended some time ago.

/troll as this one looks like a fraggle, hence similar to a mole.

Mr Lizard club, "one downvote"

There's more of us. Where were you in the 80s? Haven't you seen V?

Why?

What are you on about? You're seriously discussing on a UK site a tv programme nobody here can watch. Well -- the equivalent show is here of course (as it is in every country), but not yours.

And nobody cares here; it's a tech site not a tv review. Why blabber about Palin improving much because there was (and is) so much room for improvement (or that's what I guess, TL;DR)?

It's called "alphabetic"

If you want to look it up, it's near the beginning of that dictionary thingy. Somewhat after Aardvark, before Astroturf. If you find Africa, continue. If you reach Gnu, you're right out, better give up.

Hope it helps!

@Matt 21: "While I use the Skoda."

There, you lost the argument!

On the other hand

It's one of the few countries not to go after the women and letting the men off (no pun). It's there together with Sweden I guess, so I salute them on this.

[For example, Blighty still finds it easier to harass street prostitutes than booking kerb crawlers; less chance of embarassing outcomes like soiling the name of good housefathers of course.]

What you mean?

I'm sure on all our desktops Space Invaders is one of the top-14 productivity apps.

Why 14 per screen you ask? Because 16 would be weird!

Don't worry

It's anyway only meant for 100sq m airports.

Meh.

Their targets are also a famous bunch of w*nkers, play-acting believers in an even less coherent worldview not even propped up by good intentions like the commandments.

Like the EDL creating an atmosphere that helps recruit fundamentalists, the two deserve each other but make it worse for the more sane rest.

"A dumb arse like Jobs"?

I certainly believe your superior brain power has let you achieve far more than the pedestrian Mr. Jobs. Now you can build on your credentials by calling Bill Gates a dumb underachiever.

Good boy, you'll get far.

I didn't get further in your comment than those words (maybe they were ironic? I'll never know), showing already the intellectual and entrepreneurial gulf between us.

The only reaction possible to this...

(Did I overlook this in the article?)

http://xkcd.com/191/

Man: If you learned to speak Lojban, your communication would be completely unambiguous and logical.

Black Hat Guy: Yeah, but it would all be with the kind of people that learn Lojban.

"Cheaply built"

I'm not sure I understand what's wrong with a plastic casing for a static object. Yes, make my laptop a titanium one please, but outside of houses with hyperactive cats or inquisitive toddlers I don't see the point of a sturdy tv*. And even with crazy cats & offspring it will be a matter of judicious placing anyway, possibly with wall-hanging... so bring on the weight- and resources-saving plastic.

A cast iron tv, on the other hand, is strangely appealing.

(*and outside of such houses the rain is more of a problem anyway.)

Or conversely,

I would start worrying about my methodology, getting answers like "I'm making love! LOLZ!" or "Splitting atoms! Someone must clean up leftovers! =(!" etc. Some legpulling may have occured.

Using humour is OK for this.

But his sad attempt worsened things (by point (1), now against a named individual).

If a politician says something outrageous/wrong/... and meaning it all, then just pointing out they said it (through this "humour") doesn't do anything at all, it just summarizes.

Twittering is just a hopelessly dangerous thing for politicians --- you can only refer to known stuff, maybe make a connection between two or three well-known things at most, so only possible reactions are "he says A and I think A/not-A so he's great/stupid", or "he says A and I think he's great/stupid so I now think A/not-A". This means people whose gut feeling about an issue differs from your opinion will think less of you --- while they may actually think more of you and/or change their feeling if you had had space to say why you think something on balance of all pros and cons.

Hitler hated communism but that shouldn't make you like/dislike either of them.

That's why they took it into space

Weightless, eh?

It was to support the zombie cause!

It's like the "I'm Spartacus" thing! Minstrels too, they support integration!

"rather than an ugly utilitarian lump"

.... In other words, you've never had a Mac.

I'd run that code past TheDailyWTF

It seems the android version is a bit more sane --- no "mCriticalityIndicator = CriticalityIndicator" and other obvious typo/bug-creators.