Posts by Swarthy 2412 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
So, the big question is, is it worth £30 or closer to £20 if you shop around? Well, that depends exactly how interested you are to see how far one of gaming's premiere franchises has evolved.
Or, wait until the people that felt it was worth the £30 play the 15 hours, and get it used for £10.
Or have the games publishes finally succeeded in killing the second-hand market?
Everything I eat, with two exceptions, is organic.
The only things I eat that are not molecules containing carbon are water (h2O), and salt (NaCl).
Although, some of my salt is smoked, so it may even count as organic (and the flavour it adds is truly excellent).
You are close. Imagine a bomb with the casing coated in bomblets, so the Big Bomb goes off launching/scattering the bomblets, these then go off sending their casings all over, some of those casings may collide.
Or Fireworks: We've all seen the ones that fan out, and then have secondary shells which them throw sparks in all directions; sometimes, those paths cross. In a firecracker as big as the universe, it is guaranteed that some embers will hit each other.
"I'm not dissing Filezilla, I am dissing your instructions."
If I were training an toddler on how to do this, then maybe.
Neither my 5 year old son, my 93 year old grandmother, nor (most) of the tech support clients I had (from 1997-2003) needed the kind of hand-holding you espouse for the "average" user.
Also: The Dropbox install is about on par with the filezilla setup, so if they can't setup filezilla, how are they going to work Dropbox?
When condemning the US government for hypocrisy regarding Human Rights and Freedoms, it is in poor taste to bring up the Drone Strikes and "acceptable" collateral damage. It is more apropos to bring up the percentage of the population incarcerated, which is the highest in the world.
If it were Grooveshark giving you those recommendations, I would have to apologize, as Infected Mushroom does share a few of my playlists with Dropkick Murphy's, next to Mindless Self Indulgence and Penny Black Remedy.
But, as I don't use Spotify, I got nothin'.
I will have to check out Inspiral Carpets.
1) They were hunting on the Intel Agencies' private reserves
2) They exposed holes that then had to be closed, holes that The Agencies may have wanted to use
3) Because what The Agencies are doing is illegal, so anyone doing the same must also be breaking the law
4) They did not have the money/political power/blackmail material/agents to "make it all go away"
All perfectly valid reasons</sarcasm>
The point of the last paragraph, as I read it, was that if tech and media were to work together, there would be more money in the system; enough for everyone. Between the way the system worked out and the only currently successful(-ish) model of business, there has not been any new money drawn into the system; and the current business practices have categorically failed to create any new wealth in the system.
"Americans are hyprocritical moronic prudes. [snip] There have been hundreds of similar examples."
But it's not really our fault. Some country, not that I'm naming names, sent all of their overly-repressed megalomaniacs over during the initial settlement, And they sent them in a sound boat. Would it have killed you to have drilled some discreet holes in the Mayflower? Really?!
At least you did not send 'em with enough provisions, but they found a work-around for that.
You know that limited html tags are allowed, yes?
Are my maths off, or is it Audi's? Usually a 30 month contract will have some of the price shaved off, because you're 1) paying the money up front or 2) a guaranteed income for the length of the contract. Why then is the 30 month contract more than 5x the six month?
It's only $4 more, but I would expect a discount of $15-20 for promising to use pay for their service for 2.5 years.
"Where is everybody?"
After pulling some numbers out of my making estimations of a scientific nature, based on these findings: using fairly large numbers (except for R* which shouldn't really matter) I mostly got non-zero but less than 1 results.
"The universe is infinite, by definition. Therefore there are an infinite number of planets. If only a fraction of those planets have intelligent life, and a proportion of infinity is itself infinite, then there is an infinite amount of intelligent life. It is, however, infinitely far away."
I can see the that "The Authorities" would want to down-play issues and avoid panic, but do you have anything other than Anonymous Assertions to back your claim?
I put a lot more faith in official documents (not complete trust -Oh, Gods No!) than I do people saying "You can't trust them" with no other information. "The Authorities" have to at least make it look like they are playing fair. The results of independent verification have to be able to come close to the official line.
The anonymous coward does not even have their own name to add credibility.
If extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, then ordinary claims require ordinary evidence.
That "plume" graphic is bloody terrifying, and most of us 'septics' are afraid of reading, or at least have been strongly discouraged from doing so.
On a side note, I propose that the El Reg Standards Soviet adopt the BED (Banana Equivalent Dose) as their unit of radioactive exposure.
I have previously proposed a solution to a fair few of your hopes for care.data, but being on the wrong side of the pond... Yeah.
My proposal: A Smart card-ish device with a good encryption standard to hold your medical records; with emergency info printed on it (allergies, etc) it gets reviewed whenever you go to the Doc/A&E, and then updated with your treatment. NHS can offer a "Back-up" service to provide a replacement for a lost/stolen card, and they can run analysis on those who use the service. There should also be a method wherein your GP can make a backup for those who do not want to be analyzed. Read/Write capabilities should be regulated as medical equipment, with the associated costs, to keep snooping/malfeasance to a minimum.
This, I believe, would allow the data portability (data ubiquity, if you will) that care.data is supposed to deliver with the added benefit of the individual to control their data.
I am liking the PAL-V concept. although the Terrafugia 2.0 concept looks pretty slick as well.
I am actually a bit disappointed in El Reg's Flying Car Desk, as there have been many updates in this field with more promise than this article(and far more than Moller's works), with little to no mention. I was beginning to wonder if they had closed that desk (cutbacks, you know).
Flying Goggles -->
You raise a very good point; and I think that's why people think that Google Maps is going down-hill.
When they first debuted, GMaps was awesome, a one-of-a-kind phenomenon (for those that didn't know about KeyHole, the company that Google bought the maps from). It could have been little better than crayon scribbles and we would have loved it (I think that may have been the case, actually). Each iteration has removed us from the sense of wonder at the awesomeness, and made it more commonplace; what was mind-blowing has become mundane. As the Maps have matured, the room for improvement has shrunk and each update has been less impressive.
So pause, look at the application from your perspective of a few years back, and then mourn the loss of your sense of wonder.
And then resume pillorying Google for ruining the maps, because they have.
Here is a handy guide to Neutrino interactions: http://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
In the US, the only time you get all your taxes slightly more than paid back (and trust me, it is slight) is when you are so damn dirt fucking poor you are either homeless or on your way there shortly or rooming with 10 other people in a 2 bed apt.
Or have a annual income of $32,800 with more than three kids, as was the case of a former supervisor of mine. He actually got a 'refund' that exceeded his tax withholdings by $5K.
Given that the median income of the US is ~$44,400, the 'Only a minority pay taxes' is an overstatement, but so is your stance that only the "dirt poor" do not.
I've been virtualized for a wee bit now, and agree with Ant Evans - Virtualbox makes it insanely easy. I usually have 1-2 Linux (Mint, Kubuntu, CentOS) servers running in virtual boxen off of a Win7 host on a Toshiba laptop. I did have to max out the RAM for stability when running multiple VMs, it's now running at 16GB and has run 4 VMs, (Plus Windows with SQL Server installed and Oracle installed on the centOS) without choking.
I also really like the networking options between the V.Box VMs allowing for private vLAN, public NAT, etc.; and multiple virtual NICs to tailor the networking of your Servers to your precise need.
For example: a Linux VM with Apache/PHP pulling data for the web from a SQL Server instance installed on the host, and then writing said data to a separate centOS VM with Oracle installed. (Yes, it was ugly, and I do realize *now* that there were faster/easier ways to move the data. But it was fast set-up and I didn't have to pay for conversion software.)
All on a Toshiba L50-class laptop.
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