Posts by Richard

Mollusc!?

I think you mean Cephalopoda.

Hate to ask

What exactly is the point of knowing if a civilisation collapsing or even mass extinction meteor is heading our way, if we have absolutely no way of diverting it.

The only situation where this project will earn its pay, will be one where currency, government funding comities etc. are going to quickly become irrelevant.

Best to just go back to watching idiots stick fireworks in themselves on YouTube.

It'll never reach Madagascar

I expect its one and only port to shut down any second.

Plonker

That's really all I can say. It's like people posting videos of themselves speeding on YouTube. Check and mate sucker.

32 percent?

32% of those in relationships. What percentage of the 1130 people fell into that category.

Signed

Humanity Against the Reporting to Readers of Useless and Misleading Percentages, Honestly

HARRUMPH

@AC

Clearly you're not a beer drinker. That's your IT angle right there.

Should be fun

If observed from a safe distance.

It's just a new kind of herasy

and they are a new kind of inquisition.

Please, there are no witches and paedophiles are very rare. Lets stop this madness.

I know this is an over simplification but...

Why didn't she just impregnate herself? OK, not with her brother's juice, for down that road oversized foreheads and webbed toes lie, but she could have just gone to a clinic.

There sure are some crazy people from Lesbos.

Bugger off!

If I want to buy a bottle of Sainsbury's finest Bulgarian Merlot to quaff of a weekend, I don't want to be spending more than £4. So bugger off and let me be.

Also, how can taxes be used to apply a minimum? Could they apply a sliding tax scale, depending on the current cost of a product? Or would they just apply an additional fixed amount to the existing price? If so, spirits would cost the earth.

So

One continent of furries, flying penises etc. and anyone who actually enjoys second life.

The old continent for the hundred or so misguided, overenthusiastic academics who want to be down with the kids and give their lectures using these cool new web 2.0 thingys (while actually sitting comfortably in their office drinking tea).

Signed

Signed the e-petition, for all the good it will do.

Jersey!?!

So that's where the bastard's been hiding! Get'im Bergerac!

Grr

"Taylor, 45, from Yeovil, Somerset, reckons one of his two pet cats brought the invertebrate inside from his garden."

If he owns a cat, he deserves to have his laptop melt.

Hurrumph

I'm sure I'm not the only person who posted a comment in your last article on the launch, saying that this had happened, which haven't shown up in said article. Admit it, you were on your lunch break and didn't want to look stupid.

Perhaps

This would probably work quite well for mobilising reinforcements to friendly, possibly besieged airfields quickly, rather than doing some kind of 'hot-drop' (this is all getting very sci-fi).

Pfft!

Button based remotes are good enough for me thanks.

If

If having to remain naked and live underground is the price we must pay to look fabulous, so be it!

Oh sure

Oh sure, the LHC may help physicist gain a greater understanding of this magnificent and massively complex system, we call the universe. Sure they may even discover some answers to the fundamental questions; when? where? how? (and possibly even) why? Sure, such deep curiosity is probably the greatest thing we humans can claim as truly _ours_; extension of natural mammal inquisitiveness it may be, we've managed to make it an art. But...

Will it help me pay for my fuel bills, rent, grumble-mag subscription fees, pop-tarts etc?

Sigh... time to get back to work, huddled over my desk, bashing the keys with my palms. Look how far we've come.

Nope

Sorry, James May has already shown us the future of the car. It looks exactly like a normal car, performs like a normal car, costs about the same as a normal car, fills up like a normal car (albeit with hydrogen), and is made by Honda. It's going to be the next best thing, because it's just as good as the old best thing. Nuff said.

Punishment?

Possibly. Cheeky sods!

Still, I'd probably opt for a clean install anyway, since I'll be starting with a clean slate. Not really a good option for those managing a large network, having adopted a "We don't need no stinkin' Vista" attitude though.

@AC

"Super heated" water i.e. gaseous.

Also, the boiling point, melting point, triple point etc. of any substance, including water, is effected by conditions such as pressure. In a high pressure environment the boiling point of water will be higher. If the planet has a dense enough atmosphere (unlikely considering this as a small rocky one and not a big gassy one), the water may be held at very high temperatures without vaporising.

...and so ends the lesson.