Posts by Tom 7

Re: Meteor storms are always accompanied by a shit load of fine dust

But I'd have to lie face down in the deck chair to do that. My problem would be staying awake!

Re: Out o'curiosity ...

"allow subtle but useful typographical features" I think the usefulness of them is far exceeded by their "subtle but fucking dangerous loopholes'. Fonts, to a large extent, are just another distraction space. Designers will wet themselves over feature the user will never ever notice or miss,.

Re: Stop backing gadget products, you twits

Outsourcing in a nutshell, no clamshell, no slideout keyboard unit...

We have a 500G monthly allowance. We have a couple of holiday cottages and rarely get near using it all unless a games machine appears on the list of devices. I tend to check when teenagers are seen around and very occasionally turn on QOS to limit it a bit. Did have an old lady whose phone seemed to have been infested and had to put that on choke.

Re: All machine learning is glorified statistical analysis

I'd put good money on the brain being the same, More layered and preprogrammed by evolution since the Ediacaran but nothing more.

Re: [aside to camera, crouching behind the bushes]

It is part of the de-democratising of democracy. Once you have got one party that is happy to dance for a lot of money the others cannot get a word in edgeways if they dont play the same game. One side is deliberately corrupt the others not so much.

Re: "[Palladium] is easily destroyed by heat"

In vacuo?

Re: AKA Libertarians

Just because you can legally shit on people doesnt mean you have to.

Re: Apple wouldn't do similar?

What did they actually provide for ARM that was new and unique?

I just ditched a 22" old Hitachi CRT monitor that was still providing good service after over 20 years. I used to shimmer on startup but settled by the time my tea was made. I only got rid of it because it took up so much of the desk and a few hundred unnecessary watts. I can fit the drumkit in there now!

Re: I think pedo Musk may come to regret this

He started it!

twistecukar?

Re: Space is hotter than you think

My apologies - I thought Bennu was the less Nazi name for the interstellar thingy. We have too many minor minor minor planets and need to name these thing scientifically with canonical cataloguing numbers or database SQL clauses that can be entered directly into my scope so it will spin round and knock me on the head as I try and find something in the spotting scope.

Oh god - I just hope Jenga and Lego never breed!

Re: Dear Santa....

No - you will have something much better in a couple of years and like it or else!

Alternatives to features.

Re: Most people don't care whether Andrew Sullivan is alive or dead

I'd like to see a picture of him - I dont know why they chose a picture of Kenneth Branagh playing a paedophile instead.

My old BT router was proud of the fact it wasnt ready for IPv6. My EE router doesnt seem to have anything to do with IPv6. Bitching on the Reg is fun but will achieve nothing.

Re: The senior manager wearing a mob cap and apron

I did a study of certain aspects of office efficiency and the tea trolley was by far the most cost effective 'extra', Without is people get drinks when they feel like it and drink more - as a result they need the loo more, As such people are a way from their desks more and harder to contact. for quick chats/updates etc and office rhythms are thrown. The important thins to remember, however, is beancounter's ideas are always right even it the balance sheet proves otherwise.

Re: Yeh,...

It wont be that far off.

Re: Interference

And gold can cause a thing called the purple plague - well if you dont put some Ti on the silicon before sticking gold connectors on it.

Re: Ok...ok...

White male privilege is not an ethnicity - it is a position of choice.

Re: "As if document publication is a core function of a government"

If only someone had invented a document format that can be read on screens of varying sizes and accessibility levels and kept up to date from a central server so everyone one has access to the latest and most accurate info. We could call it HTML.

Re: How do you pronounce spadeadm?

I'd decided its bastard Birdoswald. My dad was an archaeology buff with a predilection for Roman shit and many of my weekends were destroyed by being dragged along Hadrians wall( remember Derek Griffiths anyone?) and I went to Birdoswald more times than I care to remember, If I'd known this was just over the hill I might have seen if I could have broken in for a look!