Posts by Destroy All Monsters

C# is needed?

Whatever for?

If on Windows, do as the Visual Basicers do.

A qubit is not a cat.

The only paradox lies in illiteracy.

These conditions are unlikely to be all true

"These could include banks with millions of customers accessing online account information and other services that need low latency and high throughput that can't be delivered by a traditional relational database."

1) banking applications with million of customers

2) who need high throughput operations

3) who need low latency

4) who are willing to take a relaxed view on the ACIDity of their transactions

Welcome to the black market

Never gonna learn, these people.

Oh really?

>women

>female volunteers aged 18 to 20

Lithium is also good for schizophrenia I hear.

And what is 1 trillion anyway. One. Single. Bailout. I hear the next is already in the stove.

In the same vein (pun!), this article at the Jazeera:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/06/201061594440469863.html

"Burgers will be served behind this curtain"

"It is unbelievable customers were being offered porn DVDs with their beer and burgers at an outlet that did not even have the necessary licences."

I wonder what part of "free market" is hard to grok here?

This will certainly lead to "macho dialing"

...get the phone with the highest numbers.

Instant street cred.

50 "anciens EUR" say...

...there is no Higgs and no Supersymmetry.

Icon of the "Go" Particle mandatory.

At least we have advanced from Clinton's "Clipper Me" attitude

“The FCC's mission is to ensure that broadband networks are safe and secure, and we're committed to working with all stakeholders to prevent problems like this in the future.”

Thirty years later, lots and lots of civil servants will have grown fat on salary and graft and retired with nice pensions due to these words, but the problems will still be there.

Stupid sacks.

They get fined and jail beckons.

They didn't even kill anyone by gross negligence and didn't even get rich by transporting "sailing boat fuel" across Iraq.

Didn't have Cheney on their side.

"Pamela Jones"...

...certainly qualifies for some kind of Nobel Prize. If it is a team (is it?)

Economics? Peace?

Some of the uselessly deranged people how got these somewhat earlier may consider offering theirs (Obama? Krugman? Hellooo?)

Free Money dreamers gonna keep on dreaming

That is all

The wars come home...

...but the blowback is not exactly unmanageable.

No, really. This _is_ 2010...

Young women baring all in front of webcams and flashing various anatomical parts (and&or using them) is now considered one of humanity's well-established customs, in the same category as mowing the grass on Saturday and walking the dog in the evening.

Nothing new really.

"restraint of trade"

Here's hoping the FTC does something useful for once and Apple laywers start soiling their pants.

Thethered machine...

... and no commentariat reference to "Instrumentality Project" and "Dead Sea" Scrolls yet?

Well, to _do_ look like non-wrinkly E.T.s..

...and I would expect these at the business end of a Minigun in a shoot-them-up game.

But at least they are easy to mold out of plastics.

Euphemisms, James. They confuse people.

"patent-backed" H.264 codec?

More like "patent cancer codec", am I right?

Ron Hubbard creeperati still active...

If only Hubbard had stuck to writing crap fiction or not been out drinking with Heinlein at night!

Frack the fearmongers and the religio-confused

Full yeast ahead!

Sounds fishy

UFOs grilling your lawn are ball lightning but ball lightning does not exist. So who now grills your lawn?

"increasingly sophisticated malicious insider behavior"

Bwahahah!

Red lights light up all over Washington D.C., starting at O'bomba and Killary, go on all over Congress. Then various lobbies and thinktanks light up like Christmas Trees. NSA, CIA, FBI, TSA and whatever attract moths from all over the place during the night. The glare from Wall Street, SEC and FED can be seen from the Moon.

Hopefully, these targets, once identified, are uploaded to submarines via satellite and nuke-tipped SLCMs are soon on the way for some appropriate termination.

Microsoft HPC

...that sounds ugly and patent-encumbered.

Get ready for a countersue...

Also, attorneys relaxing in large villas on a sunny beach, slurping martinis.

Rogers billed Jessica Rabbit?

There is some possibility there...

Jesus H. Christ

I agree with Andrew?!

Good lord!

The bubble of attorneys and USPTO employees

"Although your humble Reg reporter would never claim to be well-steeped in the abstruse complexities of patent law"

Patent law is complex? Throwing the whole lawyerfeeding cancer overboard, then. And I'm not talking about software patents only.

Because you need a Zimbabwean truck of Zimbabwean fiat money to pay for Zimbabwean Windows

"Piracy is limiting IT innovation, job creation, local economic growth and is robbing governments of vital tax revenues."

On the contrary. So-called "Piracy" is fueling IT innovation, creates jobs, fuels local economic growth and thus increases governments' vital tax revenus (which it can then throw away in War On Stuff etc. so the actual "Piracy" is not where you would think it is.)

Why not bring interesting patents for once?

Something that has not been thrown up by the intern during the afternoon break then granted by USPTO officials too clueless to be able to get a decent job?

Correct me if I'm wrong but if any Reg Readers are already doing this, might they not get into legal hot waters, as if you know that you are infringing and are not shunting money to the guy who suddenly turns out to be owning your idea, eventual punitive damages imposed on you may well be doubled without further ado.

Big Brother icon because Big State.

Do these guys know something we don't?

"ACTIVATE BRUCE WILLIS!!"

"Yes sir, we do not currently have any launch capability left, as you may recall."

"Ah yes. Oh well. Set up a competition for Earthquake-Proof Radios then or something. Cheaper anyway and it looks like the recovery isn't coming in a hurry."

"As you wish."