Posts by ian 22

Re: Not just from getting home from the pub

When I were a lad we walked through snowdrifts higher than our heads and the headmaster beat us for being covered in ice. Then we had gravel for lunch. Cold gravel.

Re: Maybe ..

A self-lubricating holster! (He said lubriciously).

Re: Get your facts sorted!

Beef rises to record prices in U.S. due to drought. Wheat, corn harvest apocalypse.

Perhaps not caused by climate change. Perhaps not caused by humans dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. Perhaps. But most definitely caused by no human attempts to reverse the problem.

So glad Britain is self sufficient in food stocks. I hear Soylent Green is yummy.

Re: So the internet does some good

Yes, the sacrament of cat video porn. My moggie has a god complex, no doubt from watching too many cat video pornos.

Re: Alternatively?

"A nation must communicate directly to another nation"

Interesting. Does Sweden have a dedicated direct connexion to Switzerland? Who will pay for the undersea France to New Zealand cable? Etc. Etc.

Seems unfeasably expensive.

Re: The real difference

And Apple stole the mouse, bit-mapped display, icons, etc. from Xerox. And the whole world profited. Much as I wish Xerox had understood what it had and used it, I am glad someone (in this case, Apple) actualised it.

Rant to your heart's content, the world would be a poorer place without Apple. I have my Nomex suit on, flame away.

Re: 1 in 10 reasons probably invalid, so all invalid?

Are you suggesting the Daily Mail is not the fount of all wisdom?

I'm shocked, shocked.

Re: Suddenly world became a sadder place :-(

Actually, as he inflicted JavaScript on the world he should be drawn and quartered from the highest yardarm!

Re: I don't get it.

It is both a quantum computer and not a quantum computer. Does that quantify it for you?

Re: And subsequently...

After putting its boot through the ball and roaring "Bow before my might puny humans!"

Re: Not the point of the patent

So my f1.8, 1000mm lens will likely not be supported by this mount. Probably I shouldn't expect a Nikon to Apple adaptor, either.

Sigh. My dreams are shattered (even if my iPhone won't be).

Re: Couple of questions @LostAllFaith

I agreed with your post until you derailed at your final ad-hominem rant.

I am interested in how governments (such as Pakistan's) justify use of technology which counters their world view. Boko Haram, while repugnant in their actions, does maintain a level of consistency.

Re: Paranoia

"This is fundamentally a religious position, which is why I don't believe it."

Agree. The same skepticism applies to attempts to find "meaning" in CP violation, or cosmological findings.

Re: Looking good.

My thought exactly.

Have an up vote.

Re: In space...

When I pray to god, I'm the only one who hears, so I must be god.

Re: Leather gloves required

Given this is a robo-moggie none of your kit stands a chance. Claws of sapphire at least!

Kitteh kitteh burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What mortal hand or eye

Could frame your fearful symmetry.

Re: As we learn from Android

Current slogan is "Let a thousand hardware platforms bloom!"

Re: No constitution, remember...? @BongoJoe

Does this mean the UK and the US are right off the list of places to visit? Or only the UK?

I hear Afganistan is lovely this time of year....

Re: India is proud of having eradicated Polio

What with the current tension with the Yanks, perhaps Indian newspapers consider it politically inappropriate to praise a Yank.

You are TheManFromMars and I claim my £5.

Faux Science-Slayer indeed. You need a bit more grunt to slay science.

Re: Don't get it.

Useful is good, but I'd prefer beautiful. Mandy Rice-Davies for example. Nude and beautiful would be even better.

Naked women on banknotes! The French and Italians would leave the Eurozone to catch up to us, and the more restrictive religious countries (you know who you are) would sever relations with us to protect their repressed yoof.

Re: all that money on doing nice things for people

The US could have bought every tribesman in Afganistan a Toyota, then sell them gasoline. Win, win!

Common Off The Shelf, or garden variety launch vehicle. Bog common, much?

Re: Compromise

Or Sicily...

I call conspiracy

The Jade Rabbit shown here on Terra was wrapped in gold foil, while the one shown (purportedly) on Luna is clad in silver! Hah! Explain that, comrad!

So Britain avoided inventing the iPhone

From the phone wars I've read here, it seems Britain dodged a bullet.

(Waves multi fingered gesture, runs off)

Yoof oriented radio?

Playing SKA? I remember SKA, and I'm a doddering old bugger.

Re: Maybe now that the pollution is affecting machines the communist government will take action

Action? Perhaps the application of elephant ivory, or internal organs of endangered species will help.

Re: Off-topic: Electric cars?!?

@Sokolik:

I suspect electric automobile battery recycling will become an industry, much as lead-acid automobile battery recycling is already. It's not as if the silicon is transmuted into lead, after all. Per the article, it simply goes to pieces.