Posts by Dave 142

No

"the authors of the work seem to use PGplot for their graphs."

No, it's IDL.

eh?

"The cool kids of yesteryear ran Linux."

On which planet was that?

FORTRAN

XCode still doesn't have a FORTRAN compiler though.

Wrong Place

Surely this is just the wrong thing to use an App for?

Network!

I'm not having a networked computer on my ship!

Apple's numbers

I think I saw that Apple's iPad numbers did include 'sell-in' and 'sell-out'. Of the 9 or so million in the one quarter around 2 million were still in the channel.

money

Android does so well because it's like an iPhone but cheaper. Being cheaper is what makes most people go for it as they don't give a damn about open vs closed phoney arguments.

flippant

I'm pretty sure it was just a flippant remark rather than an actual economic policy, no one round here ever makes those though do they?

Wow

Reading these comments makes me think that Fandroids are really give Mac fanbois a run for their money these days in the whiney defense stakes.

bad

I get delayed by a couple of hours a month because of this (or some sod topping themselves on the line at Oxford - it's a depressing place), so I'm not surprised at all. I always assumed replacing it all with fibre would be expensive, but maybe it would be cheaper than £20m a year.

not a surprise

at least a colonoscopy is over quickly, cleaning a Windows registry takes much much longer

surely

His plan is rubbish. I'd just google 'what did xxx used to be called' then I'd have their old name and their info anyway.

Meaningless

How are we to have any idea whether this is a big number or not. How many laptops do other large organisations lose or have stolen each year? How many stolen or lost laptops is this per member of staff? Without that information too this could be summarised as "adding lots of numbers together makes a bigger number"

huh?

"'I'm a Christian, If you say 'I'm a Christian,' people will expect you to have certain values"

That's a stupid point to start with given how much different types of Christians argue with each other. If you compare quakers to gun-nut evangelicals I don't think you could find many similarities in their values or outlook.

Equal?

They aren't necessarily more equal constituencies though. They're going to be based on the number of people who registered for the previous election, not the actual number of people in a constituency. Very handy for increasing the influence of the better off.

plan?

given Dave's great new plan to replace 150 managing bodies with 500 new ones I doubt there'll be any great new deals coming along in the future.

no

Despite my Apple allegiance there is no way on Earth I would buy a Time Capsule because it's so expensive for what it is.

limit radiation

If you want to limit your mobile phone radiation then you actually want to be close to a mast as then your phone will give out less radiation itself and as that's the thing next to your head that's the thing you should worry about. Not that you should worry about that if you're not a tin foil hat wearing idiot.

something good

not inviting Dell to come along and rip the taxpayer off with shoddy, overpriced goods seems like one of the few good things the ConDems have done. Granted, it'll probably go to someone who went to school with Cameron, but keeping Dell out can't be bad.

Good Advice

Regardless of the iPhone angle it's good advice not to use q-tips on your ears. All ENT doctors tell you not to use them as they can cause damage to the ear and a certain amount of wax is required by the ear anyway.

common

It's rare for Barbara Ellen to get anything right so it's not surprising.

What good?

What good would buying his software do even if some Mac virus suddenly appeared? His software would only fix this after the fact, so the current version is just a useless way of using up CPU cycles!

bad design

Seems like a way to fix other people's bad web design too.

£1million

Well how else would their chief get his £1million bonus?

PC world

Doesn't seem like a good idea to me. PC World will probably dent and scratch them and leave them dusty in the corner, while John Lewis treats its Macs with the respect they deserve. Some useless PC World rep will probably try and switch the sale to a netbook too.