Posts by Evil Auditor

Re: Alken-Maes

Darn! There goes Grimbergen. Oh well, never mind.

Re: Another Earth?

No. It all makes sense now. From time to time they send some to shove a probe up someone's arse and so far they concluded: not ripe, not ready to harvest. Phew...

Re: Hotel lighting

Ambiance, or their version of it, is crap.

Well, I for one prefer dim light. Anyway, so far I've seen one hotel room only with good light system. It had a total of four buttons: all on, all off and two sorts of 'ambient' light. Perfect. Especially the all off switch.

Re: Obvious?

Firestarter.

Obvious quote: Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.

a wearable IR LED array

Is it going to look like the LED version of pinhead?

Re: Laziness?

It takes half a second of trial and error to figure out what a hamburger menu does, people

Lucky you! You actually found the menu. Most of the trouble with millenial user interfaeces is, finding where you can do what you want and need to.

Re: Err, yes. But is it real smart,

Real smart of fake smart. Either way, it sounds just like our PHB (w/o the pointy). So for now I seem to know how they did his oral output. Still wondering though how his almost human-like appearance was made. Darn, it's really not easy to distinguish from a real, human being.

Re: Just because you're paranoid...

Dropbears won't work. They drop in Straya. You take 'em over to Blighty, right around the other side of the globe, they'll drift up and vanish into space. It's true.

@Potemkine, Ian, Andre

Indeed, I miss those days, too. That probably means that we are old farts, born and raised in a different millenium. Or, nowadays they simply lost their minds and haven't got a feckin' clue about proper UIs.

/rant

Re: Tip of the Iceberg

I'm pretty sure the comment was supposed to be ironic.

Most certainly it is ironic. Anything else wouldn't make any sense at all.

Yes indeed, he should. I'd suggest modern mythology is his subject.

Re: Ex designer of military kit

@Caver_Dave

Having worked in dev and production of aviation electronics, I certainly understand the much higher costs of milspec stuff. My issue is with paying that much money -or any, for that matter- for a piece of abolutely useless kit.

Re: @ Donn Bly I guess this is going to be tossed out

Is it grounds for disbarment? Possibly,[...]

There you go, "lost ability to earn a living". Self-fulfilling and stuff. On a more serious note, I'm not surprised - right now fighting, from the second line though, a lawyer in court who's obviously also represented by a lawyer. The latter one is maybe not very clever (or unable to control his client) but ok, while the former is risking disbarment. Will be a happy day once this happens.

Re: Nooo

What a time for being paranoid!

A while ago I considered giving it up. But now, most certainly not!

Re: Not sure...

Water wouldn't harm a mouse. Causing a short could be a (temporary) problem. Or, the water moved some of the usual ball mouse inherent filth around where it blocked something. Ugh! Still, after all those years, I'm still traumatised by what I encountered when cleaning sticky mouse balls.

to get rich

Write a book about how to get rich.

My problem is, that for now I still struggle to stretch this simple sentence over 200 pages to actually fill a book. Will tell you when I found out - you'll be able to read it in my (not so) soon to be published book.

Re: Not from the Midlands...

One of my former lives I had spent in Swabia. Swabians being known as rather frugal, of the few local phrases I learnt there was this gem: "nix gschwätzt, isch gnuag globt."* Which translates roughly as silence is praise enough.

I quite liked it there...

_{*Yep, had to look it up again to get it right.}