Posts by Anonymous Custard

"The Creature Wearing The Skin Of Atari"

'Zed, we have a bug...'

Re: Pear shaped splat

It would also mean we've been growing and holding pears upside down all these years.

And I have to wonder if the term regolithobraking should be coined for this type of landing?

Re: It was the first time the duo had been caught in the same frame.

I think the unsaid assumption is they meant images where you weren't standing on one of the two at the time. Or at least the frame had to contain the whole of each.

Otherwise anyone's holiday snaps which happened to have the moon in the sky would count...

Yes, but they also tend to nibble on the cookies too...

Re: Sometimes I miss...

On that score nothing beats the remains of this morning's cornflakes, spot-welded to the bowl by the dried milk.

Re: What time is saved?

Indeed.

And this won't change whilst the current sneak is in place by the airports. They of course now all have their metrics and targets, including "boarding on time".

The problem is that "boarding" is classed to have begun once they scan your boarding pass and let you through the gate. So these days they do that normally at least 5-10 minutes before the plane is ready, hence you end up with the queue on the other side whilst the cabin crew are running around doing their best with the mess that the previous self-loading cargo have left behind.

So the airports get their targets met (or more accurately they're closer to meeting them), and normally the cattle are left standing in a boiling/freezing (depending on season) jetway whilst the cabin crew are running around pickup empty bottles and other litter from the floor and seat pockets.

Of course the airlines have their dodges too (e.g. the EJ website lists the LGW-GVA flight as 90 minutes, when every time the pilot announces it as 70 mins (and usually achieves around that, with the 20 minutes being the regular delay added to the time allocated between boarding commencing and wheels actually leaving the ground).

So in the end the whole game is being rigged, and it's the punters once again who cop for the issues and delays.

Re: Why would this be faster?

The biggest benefit I find is having a fair chance to get your hand luggage (a laptop bag in my case) in the overhead locker at least somewhere close to where your seat is.

In this age of having to pay for hold luggage, many people naturally bring their suitcases as hand luggage and so things fill up all too quickly, and as they're too large to go under the seats the excess have to be tagged and loaded into the hold anyway (delaying the flight even more).

Re: no data would be stored for longer than a few seconds

It was a secret trial just before last Christmas.

Unfortunately some people mistook the pigs for drones...

Re: In-House Displays

Have an upvote - exactly the same usage case I had for mine.

At least until the batteries ran out on the bit that clamps around the mains cable (no I wasn't dumb enough to fall for the meter hype either, with the added excuse of incompatible solar panels on the roof) and then the whole shebang went back in the drawer.

Re: Gaming the IVR

Random words, silence or sometimes just pressing zero on the keypad will often have the same effect, without making you sound like a Clanger...

Re: Not so many years ago...

You might find there's a waiting time for such a request.

I'm sure my ISP has purchased most of them and is using them in my so-called fast fibre connection at random times...

Re: Contradiction

Manufacturer "advertised" size vs the size you can actually use when you install and format the thing?

Re: Sounds good, no idea what it means

The BOFH in me would just use the microwave part to explain it works faster than a normal drive, same as for ovens...

And if you're feeling mischievous, also say that once the file transfer is done it'll go ping :-)

Re: 'be dealt with in battle conditions today?'

Just be careful what you wish for. The next stage of the (d)evolution would probably end up with the ship being steered and navigated from an app on the Captain's iPhone...

Or they'd been watching Pacific Rim the night before and wanted to try as close to drifting as possible in the real world? And instead of drift, they got sharp turn instead....

Name of the game?

So what is the equivalent of percussive maintenance, but using Google instead of a hammer or similar blunt instrument?

Or is Google classed as one these days?

I would amend that to Total Inability To Send Up Passengers, except that their operation is such a farce it probably does class as a send-up mickey-take.

Re: Stickers still might bite you

Come on, if they didn't they wouldn't be management...

Re: DEC Engineer

That just sucks...

Re: Even to this day...

And it's a weekend, no-one's in the remote office and that remote office is a five hour drive away.

5 hours? Try 5 timezones...