Posts by Andrew Moore

The solution...

Just let it be known up and down the straits that all pirate vessels will be scuppered and that it's the responsibility of the crew to ensure they have enough life jackets available.

Season 2 wasn't too bad...

It gave us Gay: The Gay Musical. Problem was I think the rest of the series was overshadowed by that one. Plus Denholms son is no replacement for Denholm.

OH MY GOD. HAVE YOU HEARD??????

EBAY KILLS BABIES WITH A MINCER!!!!

It wouldn't be difficult

You could ape exactly the way GNSS systems currently work. And without the need to derive out some of the non-dispersive errors it should be pretty accurate.

All the system would need to do is rewrite the almanacs to include stationary ground-based transmitters but I'm pretty sure that's already included in the protocol.

Leaking helium...

Reminds me of:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/astronauts_suffer_agonizing_high

The Americans did it first...

...with Noraid supplying funds to Northern Irish paramilitaries. They had T-Shirts too.

Hmmmmmm...

Creative possibly in the "look and feel" department but not as much so in the background process. I think a lot of bloat has appeared because today's programmers have access to a lot of resources (CPU speed, RAM, hard disk space) which just wasn't around 20 years ago (hell, even 5 years ago). Optimisation seems to be a thing of the past.

Hmmmmmm...

That doesn't look like it would spin too well in a DVD drive.

Errrrrr.....

There's somehing different, I can't quite put my finger on what it is though...

Ah memories...

Reminds me of the time I came across an unknown length of Cat5. Couldn't work out where it went or what it was connected to- all I did know was that I hadn't installed it. Anyway I cut the cable and waited for the complaints- which told me exactly what the cable was being used for.

@Pierre

'but it seems they took a huge chance of "loosing" her'

Maybe they'll tighten her afterwards.

@Anonymous Coward

"So it's ok then to mow down smart arse pedestrians who step/jump into the road and cycle lanes right in front of me then? :)"

I did last Friday- a woman stepped into the cycle lane without checking if it was in use and I ploughed her out of it. She was most apologetic and left with a nice black tyre mark up her nice cream slacks.

[Yes, I did brake and even though my bike has disk brakes there was no way I was going to be able to stop in time]

Wow

Unfunny piled on top of unfunny. This sucks as much as Vista

Don LaFontaine...

Come back, we need you NOW!!!

"In a world..."

The only way I see this working...

...is if it is somehow a continuation of the original (and not the awful Legacy of RP). Clunes plays a character who is inspired by the story of Perrin and decides that he is going to do the same thing. This would allow the series to draw parallels between the two eras. Clunes is a half decent actor though nowhere near the calibre of Leonard Rossiter.

And to those who call for the return of Raymond Baxter (sadly departed) and Johnny Ball (now shilling Nintendo DS's with his daughter) I'd like to see the return of James Burke.

Whereas...

...Joss Stone gives you ear cancer and Joss Whedon gives you eye cancer.

Fire him.

If any IT Manager I employed bought hardware through ebay I would fire him.

Dadi Perlmutter

now there's a name you just have to love...

hmmmmmm

I hope it does better than this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaN1Nz1Dyls

In defense of french food...

but when it is done well there is nothing in the world to match it.

Timely...

I needed to do something like this today and this article came along exactly at the right time.

Gay

The gay musical.

Rave reviews include:

"Not as long as other musicals"

"Tolerable"

I think this sums up my position perfectly:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/local_idiot_to_post_comment_on

Remember the BOFH gene???

It was discussed here a lot a few weeks back. One of the gifts the gene gives you is the ability to feel heat and hear fans that are about to go pop.

Back in the early days, one of my main pieces of diagnostic kit was a max/min thermometer...

@It's the little things that need fixing

Joe hit the nail right on the head. It's time to drop the stupid naming conventions and the forced acronyms. To me Gimp is a character from Pulp Fiction not a graphics package. Same to 99% of the rest of the planet (well those who've seen Pulp Fiction). Likewise I will not use a Word Processor called "AssRape" or a Spreadsheet called "SheepShagger". And any company that uses the following naming convention: [colour][animal] can fuck right off too.

It's fine...

Until your six year old throws her Wii Remote at you when you beat her at Mart Cart (again).

Extremely old news...

I remember being in San Diego back in 1999 when one of my american colleagues pulled a humongous brick of a mobile and made a call. After he finished I asked him what the hell that was. He then went on to explain to me (in the simplest terms possible) the concept of cell phones and how you can make phone calls now anywhere and without wires. "No" I said, pointing to his brick phone "What the hell is that?" and pulled out my mobile (an Ericsson SH888 if I remember correctly) which was about 10 times smaller than the device he was using. He shut up after that.

Later on that day I used it to receive email- Which really pissed him off ("Oh, don't you have mobile email in America? How strange...")

Brilliant

"Richard Stallman is talking next week and I've been having some insomnia problems recently."

@scott: "WHO would nick the Mac book [sic] and feel?????"

Apple.

Well done...

...and thanks for the link to dephormation.org.uk

Ah nostalgia...

I remember a report from over 20 years ago stating that computer game piracy at the time may have hurt the industry in the short term but was a great boon in the long term because it argued that most of the piracy was being done by kids but once the kids grew up and started earning money they started buying legitimate copies of software (the same went for home taping instead of buying LPs/cassettes).

Hmmmmmm...

I notice there's no ruling on how the data is to be given to Viacom. Youtube should just print it all and hand them the printout. They could also make an environmental issue out of it- "Viacoms demands for this information lead to two forrests being destroyed..."

So the simpliest backlash...

...would be for anyone who has an account with Barclays to close it and transfer their business elsewhere.

After all, if Barclays are not going to put money in UK tech workers pockets why should we put money in Barclays shareholders/board of directors pockets.

Remember...

Only Ryanair are allowed to overcharge for their shitty service.

An idea...

Maybe it's time to protect the rabbits by keeping them in home-made underground bunkers...

This is not funny...

I know from painful experience how true this all is.

What I love...

is when you fix a problem by suposibly doing what the user has been doing for the last half an hour (which I rarely believe) and the user then asks me "so what was I doing that was different?"

How the hell do I know that- I've got the admin gene not the telepathy gene.

And I have LLI- the opposite of Aspergers.

Alan Moore rides again

Wasn't Abdelaziz a 2000AD Future Shocks character- The Man with Two Brains??? As usual some other idiot has got hold of another excellent Alan Moore idea and rewritten it- This time as The Man with Two Asses.

You've got to remember

RTD is very fond of the Reset Button. Remember last years cliff-hanger were everything just returned to normal?I'm expecting more of the same this year (with the same shite dialog)

@Jeffrey Nonken

>"And while we're splitting hairs, "merkin" is a pubic wig."

We know...

@Steve Renouf

Wrong in this instance. There would be no problem if there was a straight sterling to euro exchange (plus or minus a few points). But in the instances I referenced the traders have a differing euro price versus sterling price (not set by the credit card systems)