Posts by Anonymous Custard

I would have advised you to treasure that ignorance, but sadly I'm too late...

Re: DougS

What about the unknown knowns, things that theoretically should exist but we don't know yet?

Re: Am I missing something here?

Weren't they some of the ugly buggers in Star Trek a few years back?

Re: The F35. Is there no end to the things it cannot do properly?

...and then install that via a USB stick, one plane at a time.

Re: Downsides

I'd also wonder about EM shielding efficiency, and if anything went adrift the risk of basically subjecting your own vessel's electronics to an EMP burst and toasting your circuits.

Re: Not Maetric not interested

Only if you can wrangle them for long enough to get them all in a line without their lasers blinding each other or you...

Re: Industrial Light & Magic

Or even the old spoof hoax one (allegedly) of Powergen Italia that was around for a while...

Re: Blah blah blah

Kodi 17.2 was also released this morning, including a fix for this issue.

Re: I'm barred from all PCW's....

But but but but... it's so much fun to do!

And I think maybe you're mixing up doping with dopey...

Re: Interfering mice

Probably the same crowd who insist on the "freedom and flexibility" of wifi connection when their machine never actually leaves their desk, and the boring old Ethernet cable gives them usually at least twice the actual network speed...

Re: "...you'll have to find someone else to name it after"

Just cut out the middle-man and call it Planety McPlanetface straight away?

Re: 3310?

Possibly shouldn't reveal this, but when working on-site at a certain major chip maker our company phones are Nokia's of the 3310 ilk (not actual 3310's unfortunately) but ones of similar size and spec and almost similar battery life.

Basically they're about the only phones available these days which do not have cameras built-in, and aforesaid customer has a blanket ban on cameras being taken on-site (ditto our laptops have special screen bezels which completely cover the camera, as temporary things like stickers and tape are not enough for them).

That said I had a 3310 for many years back in the day, and it was a sterling little trooper.

Re: Punishment? Yeah, right!

Or if you said "They get promoted so that there's someone below them who can filter out the worst of their idiocy and it takes them away from dealing with customers" then you're obviously a colleague of mine...

Re: The random trainee

In our organisation we call such individuals "line managers" (at least in polite company anyway, what we call them under our breath isn't repeatable) and generally try to work around them. It's generally easier than trying to clear up the mess afterwards...

Consider this though - in the worst case scenario which of the two would you rather have falling on your head?

Re: Move along

Given all the fuss they've made about now requiring a £145.50 TV license to watch iPlayer even if you don't watch anything via other means, I'd hardly call it free...

Re: Maybe

Or to quote the great Tom Lehrer (in reference to Gilbert and Sullivan, but who cares) -

"It's full of words and symbols, and signifies.... nothing!"

Re: Lovely shots

Indeed, although it also makes me feel rather old as I got to know over the 'net a bit a couple of the programmers who worked on it when I was a student. And when I think back how long ago that was (the wrong side of 20 years ago) it makes me think quite what a long undertaking all this has been, and indeed how successful it actually was.

Can still remember one of them's signature tagline - "Why yes, in fact I am a rocket scientist..."

Re: "Mechanical Sympathy" and magic

Yes, most Microsoft references to BS don't mean backspace ;)

Re: Missed QI much?

Nope, not a dream -

The people at QI call a fish that drives a tank "Alan". Alan is a goldfish in the QI office who has a mini-tank (he has a normal-sized tank too) which detects Alan's movement, and moves on wheels in the direction Alan is swimming. The tank itself was made by QI elf Alex Bell, who appears on the set to describe how it works. It was made out Lego over a few days. This design was based on that of a Dutch company called Studio Dip who made a similar, larger tank. The tank has motion sensors in each corner that detect the movement of the fish. (Forfeit: Sir)

QI seriesL episode 1

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/qi/episodes/12/1/

And even then I think it's only happened once, and that was basically because the quake happened so close to where the train happened to be at the time that there wasn't enough time to slow the train down.

I saw a programme about it not to long ago, which went into quite some detail about the detection and prevention measures that they took for the system, which are both extensive and impressive.

Re: Pareto analysis

I do use WinPhone, and can bear out your comment (at least for the default tiles - the size can be changed easily either larger or smaller on a few different set sizes).

The phone (a Nokia 640) is good for what it does - calls, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack plus the usual tools like the alarm clock, email, calendar etc, and has a battery life of between 2-4 days if I don't hammer it with excessive wifi etc.

In light of the articles comments, it's still a bit surprising that the OS didn't do better than it did, and indeed quite a shame as for at least the basics of being a phone it does work well. And for everything else, there's my Android tablet...

Re: How to ground a F-35

They seem to be doing that quite well so far on their own without any outside assistance...