Posts by CowardlyLion

Re: NMOC

I once heard "why have you 3D printed a save icon?" in reference to one :)

Re: <misty eyed>

Seconded. Still the proud owner of an NTK tee shirt.The "Elite" one.

Re: Radiation Leak

That's very off topic for this thread! But here you go...

Russia indicates rocket engine exploded in test of mini nuclear reactor

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/russia-indicates-rocket-engine-exploded-in-test-of-mini-nuclear-reactor

Re: Microsoft is giving people some extra time...

> Yeah, like Active Directory, or Visual Studio...

Even that's available for Linux now

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Re: Well it ain't coming from me

The Newsweek site is particularly annoying for the videos that insist on playing even after you've stopped them, and then follow you around the page.

That sort of thing has already happened...

" I crashed my car playing Pokémon Go

"I saw this Lapras was close. As it’s a water-type creature I assumed it must be down by the nearby lake. I jumped into my younger brother’s car

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/05/playing-pokemon-go-crashed-car-experience

Re: "attracting European students and staff members to the UK was necessary"

"Hmmm, on a serious note, they voted the EU out? Linguistic tic or perception? I thought they voted themselves out not the EU.

Fog in Channel. Continent cut off.

Re: So ? Humans can mis-see things too.

Or this one...

http://xkcd.com/253/

“the Daily Mail of the Europhile elite”

>> described earlier this year as “the Daily Mail of the Europhile elite”

> By whom?

By Charles Moore in The Spectator...

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/de-gaulle-knew-it-britain-does-not-belong-in-the-eu/?_ga=1.147754167.1882574306.1456488948

That was mentioned in the article. The software to monitor the current speed limit was not sufficiently reliable in practice so it is not enabled by default.

Re: @ Doctor Syntax

One effect of the Brexit vote is that there has been a huge upswing in support for the EU across the continent .

"Support for the European Union has surged to multi-year highs in the bloc’s biggest countries following last month’s Brexit vote, according to a poll that will disappoint Eurosceptic parties hoping to usher their own nations out of the EU.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/eu-support-surges-in-big-european-countries-after-brexit-vote/article31017083/

Re: 'EU' -> 'UK' -> 'K'

Except that Great Britain is the name of the island that comprises England, Scotland and Wales.

So, if Scotland leaves we can't call what's left the UK (the union of the the kingdoms of Scotland and England) nor Great Britain, because we only have half the island.

Not that only having part of the continent stops the USA referring to themselves as "America".

Re: If they'd made Windows 10...

Could you tell us more about this anecdote (the MD's computer being forcibly upgraded to Windows 10)?

µ is AltGr+M at least on my machine (Fedora 22 / KDE)

Re: "So bad it's good"

Thumbs up for TOFIEWOO - will be using that in a sentence first chance I get!

Re: That has got to be embarrassing for Microsoft

True, but our Intellectual Property laws are such that no other company can take on support for Windows XP until 2096 or thereabouts, even though Microsoft don't want it. They should either support it, sell it to a willing third party, or open source it so we can all support and develop it collaboratively.

Re: @BlueGreen

What does RIF stand for in your comment?

None of the definitions I can find seem to fit...

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/RIF

Re: Where's Linux and MacOS on the graphs?

If you follow the link to netmarketshare you can see the data in a variety of ways.

Desktop OS share gives Windows 90.72%, Mac OS 7.68%, Linux 1.6%, Other 0%

So Linux at 1.6% has about 1/6th the market share of Windows 8 (inc. 8.1) at 10.58%.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

Re: Damnit - Free Robot Assistance

You've not seen the movie "Moon" then?

Re: One Pi is Pi

The collective noun for Raspbery Pies is a punnet.

Re: We need to name this future galaxy

Actually, I like "Milkymeda"!

Re: Now that Radio 3 had turned into shit ...

Rubbish. What about Late Junction for just one example? Do Classic FM have anything like that? Not any time I've listened to it. Classic FM seems to have, generally, what I'd term "chocolate box" classical, whereas Radio 3 has a wider variety of music, of all genres, than any other radio station I can think of. Classical, Opera, Rock, Jazz, Folk, Electronica, Experimental, you name it. I've discovered so many great things through hearing them first on Radio 3.