Posts by Midnight

Re: I'm pleased I don't live in a mind...

Something "rounded and T-shaped at the same time" would be a nail.

How is that distressing?

"Say there's a city that's gotten so big that all efforts of everyone have to be directed towards importing food and sanitation. There are no resources left for anything else, and all man hours are required to keep the city alive. Crazy Eddie chooses this moment to lead a strike of garbage workers, demanding better working conditions.

"Now say that there's a company which has lost so much money that it can no longer pay its IT staff..."

Re: Who needs this model anyway?

If it was then it should come with wet celery and a flying helmet.

Re: 100℃ ??

"For this idea to work properly, you'd need a barometer built in to the kettle, feeding it's output to the off switch."

Or, perhaps, it could use the built-in assisted GPS to determine its current location, look up the local weather report on the Internet, and then use that information to determine when the boiling point of water.

I can't imagine how anyone ever knew that water was boiling before The Internet Of Thingees arrived.

Re: Why the horse?

It's the Walmart.horse, one of the Walton family's proudest acquisitions.

Re: why on earth would she buy a pirate toy for her 5-yo kid?

And then shooting a policeman, stealing his helmet, going to the toilet in it, sending it to the policeman's grieving widow, and then stealing it again.

The side of freedom, liberty and democracy, of course. Now please step into this room and we will have a quick chat about it, citizen.

Re: KISS

Good luck buying tin foil. Did you ever wonder why The Government made sure it was all replaced with Aluminum?

I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.

Re: GOT can feck off

Just so.

Some times it just over-fails.

Re: The chances of anything coming from earth are a million to one he said.

"Hey, have you ever seen the effect a big red button clearly labelled "DO NOT PUSH" has on people...? Just wondering..."

It's about the same effect as saying "Now whatever you do, you can't eat _this_ apple. Now I'm just going to go look the other way for a while..."

Re: American Politics

They having trouble with Hildabeast and her email saga - might need to add treasonous to the list.

"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason [...]" -- 18 U.S. Code §2381

Hmm. If it was an Exchange server then it would technically be the enemy of all living things, and that would include the United States, but from my experience there is neither "aid" nor "comfort" involved in running it.

You may be stretching just a little bit there.

Re: It seems to me that Apple do almost everything just a bit better than their rivals...

Which would be wonderful if they weren't using signed ints for everything and wrapping around to -2,147,483,648.

Re: So this person

"What I wonder about is why 1.05 bitcoins? Why not exactly one bitcoin?"

You have to add VAT.

Yep. I asked for a loan of it so that you could use it in your speech.

I would prefer one which was agonized over by goths in New York City.

Re: AI or MInd?

Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...

Re: Blocking dating sites has too much fallout

"Does this stop them requesting access to stupid things? No. On several occasions (for example) we've had employees trying to book prostitutes. Often quite ugly ones. So yes, people really are that stupid."

True. People leave their workstations unlocked and go away from their desks all the time around here.

Usually they only return to find that they just offered to buy drinks for everyone, but your way isn't really that surprising.

At a former workplace one of the developers, who spoke English as a third or fourth language, was always quite happy to announce that he was able to reach a solution to a programming problem by using a workaround.

Or, as he put it, to give a reach-around.

I don't think anybody ever told him what that phrase meant.

Re: On your own device?

His code is compiling.

https://xkcd.com/303/

"You can set an Exchange server correctly? How? How? How?"

I think that Gene Spafford's directions pretty much cover it. "The only truly correctly configured Exchange server is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts."

Re: He's Canadian. Born in Calgary

The Americans knew what they were getting into when they traded Elizabeth May for Ted Cruz and a first round draft pick.

And if they wanted to return Beiber then they would forfeit the entire damage deposit. There is plenty of evidence that he was not "like that when we bought him", thank you very much.

Re: Inflation

That version was always light on storage.

You know, the Moto G 2G 4G 8G.

Re: Been there done that - To some extent money and time are the easy bits ............

So the problem is that you think like Montgomery Scott, act like Geordi La Forge but are treated like Reginald Barclay.

Re: Go Calgary!

"Little"? With a population of 1.2 million, it's the fourth largest city in Canada.

And if you're looking for embarrassing Calgarians in the international media, both lawn-chair-guy and Mr-creation-science have to take a back seat to the Member of Parliament for Calgary Southwest.

Re: "claiming to only deal with ethical governments"

which ones are those then?

The ones whose cheques clear, I suppose.

Re: Pure Douglas Adams ...

Unfortunately the weight of the new Facebook logo was such that shortly after it was erected, the ground beneath the letters caved in and they dropped for nearly half their length through the underground offices of many talented young complaints executives—now deceased. The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read “Go stick your head in a pig”, and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration.

Re: Stackables.

That's a good idea, extending the PCIe bus to an external device.. You should market it and give it a catchy name.

"Thunderbolt" sounds good, but if that's already taken there's always "ExpressCard".

Alternately, there are a number of products out there which will extend an existing mini-PCIe slot to an external enclosure. The only challenge is drilling an appropriate sized hole for the cable.

Re: So....

"If I've bought it, I expect the creator to be paid, whether or not I consume the whole product. It's not like I can send a couple of slices of Pizza back to Dominos for a refund..."

This isn't about Amazon giving you a refund for your unused pizza, this is about Amazon keeping your money but then docking the kitchen staff's pay because they don't think that the pizza was good enough for you to eat it all at once.

"I can't think of any company which would want to hire him based on what he's achieved after Nokia."

I don't know about that. I can picture a conversation like this playing out.

"Sooo... Our current product line is crap, we've gotten rid of all of our engineers and replaced them with extra layers of middle management, and our previous CEO ran off with everything of value including that sweet rolly-chair from my office. What do we do now?"

"There's only one thing we can do. We hire Elop. What's left of the company will burn so brightly that everything will look like it was his fault and we can slip away unnoticed."

It's all about playing to your strengths, whatever they happen to be.

Re: Dare I ask...

It's the little red thing right between the "G", "H" and "B".

I know, I know... you can't find it on your keyboard. Lots of guys have that problem so they just start mashing on the touchpad instead. Perhaps you could find a helpful video on the Internet to show you what you're missing out on.

Re: Thumbs up!

We're not talking about garden variety idiots here, these are genuine idiot's idiots.

Re: As the old saying goes...

All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what has digital done for us?

Re: Admiral Adama

The first season was really a re-make of the original. Every episode has some kind of connection to part of the original series, either by borrowing characters, scenes or entire plotlines.

Season two is when they couldn't believe that they hadn't been cancelled yet and needed to start writing their own stories. It didn't go so well.

Re: Even worse

Achievement unlocked! Longest. Name. Ever.

Re: Opposite day?

I think there's a missing bit there. It makes more sense if you insert an extra phrase:

"employees – drivers – get between twenty and twenty five per cent of the fare [and give it to us]. And the thought was if we could raise that to twenty five to thirty per cent [...] our margins would go up"

The details are a bit foggy, but my understanding is that Uber takes a 20-25% commission off the top, depending on how much they like driver, followed by another 10% because they're just so awesome, and some additional insurance fees for the same reason.

Indeed. I get a much better class of ridiculous security hole when I pay for it.

Re: Laptop?

Civ runs smoothly on a Bay Trail Atom, as long as you don't stress the 3D graphics too much. Leave it at the default settings and it will crawl sadly along until you give up waiting. Switch to strategic view and disable the talking heads and it will fly.

(Now you know.)

Re: Hardly a bug, is it...

> > I have the body of a god.

> > Unfortunately it's Buddha

> Buddha isn't a god.

Fine. I have the body of a _Greek_ god.

It just happens to be Hephaestus.

You mean smart, classy people like these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8nJKWJTsUg

Re: SMH.... His sentence was expected.

There are a lot of those going around.

I have an independent mind, you are an eccentric, he's gone round the twist.