Posts by foo_bar_baz

wires on poles

How quaint. Almost steampunk.

Look at the face on that

If there ever was an obvious Autobot...

Offtopic whinging

The anglo-american crowd shows its lack of practical experience with the metric system.

"about 18” tall" does not translate to "45.72 cm". Look at a ruler to get an idea about the level of accuracy you imply (your rulers have metric on the other side, right?), don't just copy and paste from the calculator. Just say "about 45 cm" or even "about 0.5 m". I guess the distinction is hard if you're not used to thinking in metric.

Reminds me of the milk bottle I saw in a UK supermarket that said "2 pints, 1.13652 liters". Could I complain if the volume was off by a hundredth of a milliliter?

Another favourite is the use of grams in anglo-american cooking recipes for our "benefit". Who the heck measures flour by the gram? Come on, 1 cup is 2 deciliters for all practical purposes, you need to manually fine tune the consistency of the dough/batter anyway. In my kitchen we use a deciliter measure, a table spoon, a teaspoon and fingers for pinches.

A pint because it's a recognized unit for beer world wide.

History 101

There's a bit of historical baggage with frequency auctions in Finland. The Finnish ex-incumbent Sonera pissed away billions in Germany during the first 3G auction craze, billions that eventually had to be written off as losses. It destroyed the company's value. Sonera was eventually bou^H^H^H merged with the Swedish Telia at less than favourable terms.

http://www.mobilemonday.net/news/sonera-and-telefonica-switch-off-german-venture

@Coyote

The other passengers are looking at me now. Thanks for the laffs, though.

@PerfectBlue

What a load of crock. Let me guess, you've never admitted to being wrong. You talk about people being "flexible" with their values and beliefs, like it's bad. I'll talk to you about people making up justifications to support their own beliefs in the face of undeniable evidence.

You've set up a false dichotomy between self-chosen values and the "right" set of values of the majority. In fact we all have outside influences but ultimately we have free will and are individually responsible for our choices.

If the majority is right, how can both the people of US and North Korea be right? How can both Jews and Muslims be right? Don't they all follow the majority beliefs in their societies? If you ever wondered how people justified to themselves taking part in the holocaust or slavery, look at your own post.

Don't try to hide behind the majority view, because if you know any history, the majority view changes. It was OK to be a racist in the USA 50 years ago, but not now. In fact green values have already become the norm in many countries. While SUVs are not evil in themselves, yes, it's antisocial to drive an SUV if you can make do with a less polluting alternative.

@Lennart Sorensen

Wrong. See:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive_capacity#Formatted_disk_overhead

- allocation unit size in the Windows disk format dialog.

Small allocation unit size -> more space used for metadata -> less space left for data -> smaller "formatted capacity"

Large allocation unit size -> files that are smaller than the allocation unit result in "wasted" space

@Grease Monkey & others

The nasty stallmanites have come to steeeaall your mojo (since you already gave away your code) and they will give Nothing! They'll bin your ports and replace your man pages with GNU info! *maniacal cackles* Seriously though, the beauty of OSS is that good ideas live and develop while obsolete ideas die - as opposed to the so called free market where other factors like patents and marketing matter more. So stop being afraid, protective or sceptical. You cannot lose, you can only gain. BTW nice as it was, I gave up Frisbee for now. Horses etc.

@ratfox

Awesome. Not surprisingly the author of the original article is "Min Chun (intern)".

The second article on that page is just as good. If I can interpret the translation correctly, the people of Martinique never bend over to pick up anything, even valuable items. This is because French invaders used to "Sri Lanka disgrace them" (sounds horrible) and ride the people like horses. After a brave individual threw off his French rider they decided never to bend over for anyone or anything.

Lmao indeed

Funniest article and comments ever. Bravo. Thanks to AQ for another Black Adderesque episode that gave us so many "jokes about ze breaking ov ze vind". While a sound rebuttal of Saudi tyranny, it was an overly literal take on assassination. Maybe they ought to employ a consultant or two. Maybe someone from Belfast this time, not a CIA mole.

@ac

Or a machine you use has a keylogger trojan.

@skewed

Could we please have a poll with each thread, to save people posting their predictable rants and us wading through them? A lá:

- ha ha

- mine works

- serves the smug gits right

- my expert opinion (anecdotal evidence) says this is BS

- I blame reg/MS/user/anyonebutjobs

- reg is biased

If there is a bias in the poll, why is the reverse true in this thread? It occurs to me Apple users keep it in the family, crying in the 'privacy' of their forums but being defensive in 'public'. A bit like an abuse victim.

Special hugs to Lord Shocktroop for a great attempt at pre-emptive defence for Master Jobs. I didn't bother reading the post but those caps tell me all I need to know about how you are feeling inside. It's a tough moment when faith and facts can no longer be reconciled.

@Michael Fremlin

Lay off it, you're just putting yourself down to the same "loon" level. Same goes for all others who think the OS their computer runs defines who or how big a boy they are: get a life, start respecting yourself and others. I understand tongue in cheek comments, but certain people really need a reality check.

Regarding Linux noobs (not loons), I think it's a good thing we're seeing evidence of clueless Linux users. It means Linux becoming more popular among the non-übergeek crowd. Not many years ago there wasn't a Linux user who couldn't configure X with only a text editor, simply because they had to. It's not like those vi-heads have stopped using Linux and moved to BSD. It's that Linux is becoming more mainstream, and that's a good thing.

To all Linux noobs: keep those silly mistakes coming, don't give up trying and learning.

Rgds,

A Linux, BSD & Windows loon

matrox

Matrox disappeared fairly soon after their 3 panel VGA card came out. I hope this won't be a trend.

@horse

Wizball! Wasn't that an Amiga game? I doubt I've had more fun with a multiplayer game. Probably the 1st game I finished, too. Thanks for the memory.

Other titles that make me feel warm and fuzzy: The Way Of The Exploding Fist, Racing Construction Kit, Winter Games ...

@Eddy Ito

Haha, my thoughts exactly. Fishmobile.

@adam foxton & never going to happen

It's a good principle but the world is always more complex than that. The Internet is a common effort and ISPs have the responsibility to be good Internet citizens, ie. stop spam and DOS attacks originating from their networks. It is not hard and is done (semi) automatically by some ISPs on their home customer networks. When SMTP outgoing spikes massively you are put in a quarantine network where all port 80 traffic is redirected to a notice page saying your PC is a spam bot. A phone call gets your connection back. Surely UK law mandates that ISPs monitor their networks and keep them in order. They risk losing their business if their house is not in order, or should.

@hate2

This is about the treatment of the admin not about the forum post. His only 'crime' was to have as customer a site that contained dissenting or critical voices. That is why this borders police state treatment. He had no control over the content, not even as a moderator. It's akin to blaming a mechanic or the off licence for encouraging or assisting a customer's drunk driving.

Next time

Stay in the car.

@ac 12:17:

With the deadline approaching the guide decided on a hasty snapshot of the trunk. The commit failed and it was the elephant's tusk to roll back.

Pole sana to Mr. Siebel.

Classic

Got to love the 'I have no problem so the statistics must be wrong' comments. What muppets.

My 360 has no problems, same as about 3/4 of owners. That is still shockingly bad.

Paris - blonde logic

@matt 58

It would appear that way since the article misses the most interereting part, how it stays with the ship. The PDF offers only a hint, but I guess they don't want to give it away to competitors. It's not a magnet anyway.

@Prodigal Rebel

Can't copy your mp3 files? I'm not sure what that means. I copy mp3s to my N95 using the Phone Browser all the time.

Use of the GPS and Nokia maps are free, including the route finder. You need to pay for navigation - if you are the law abiding type.

Expectation of privacy

Hard lesson luv. Paris, obv.

Nice article, low on expletives

Made me think - If you operate a DNS domain it might make sense to run your own wildcard on subdomains, e.g. *.mydomain.com to catch at least a proportion of typos yourself.

Nice one

... but I must ask when did British coppers extend their persecution of vertically prominent photographers to Sweden? Has every tall camera-brandishing Brit been locked up already?

@AC: If Apple sold apps for another platform too ...

iTunes would still be a monopoly. I cannot sell my iPhone software anywhere else -> iTunes has a monopoly on distributing software for the iPhone.

I hope you feel like the idiot you come across as.