Posts by Minophis

Re: We Don't Need No Education

Yes you do, you used a double negative.

Re: Dell Mini 9

I still have mine and use it on a regular basis.

Re: A tenner a month for...

A bargain is only a bargain if it's something you actually want.

Re: Dons cynical hat

Agreed, there does seem to be a bit of theme recently. Well I suppose it pays for the other stories. I just wish EA had console versions of the new one, I refuse to run anything but linux on my desktop.

Re: Genius!

"better implemented by creating an industry standard and minimal cross-licensing to encourage adoption I think."

This is Apple we're talking about.

Re: estimates are a tad pessimistic

There are people who pay to get a certificate saying that a star is named after them. If you could prove that bottled water was safe and sourced from an asteroid people would pay what ever you ask and they would probably be happier if you make extra expensive so it seems exclusive. If it happens at all the entire future industry of asteroid mining is likely to be kickstarted by the novelty bottled water drinkers.

Re: Funny

If they really want to impress us Curiosity could drill a few more holes and then put up some shelves and maybe asemble an IKEA flat pack wardrobe as a peace offering to any passing martians.

Re: Periscope.

'motoring their submarines through solid rock'

So in Jamie and the Magic Torch Mr Boo was actually an ancient martian submarine commander.

He wouldn't have had to face the jail time if only he'd made a clean get-away.

Re: "how many Pis is each school involved getting"

I would think Pi's were at price point were rather than the school getting a few to share each child could be given one of their own. After all they do cost about the same as an average text book.

The things that still need to be worked on for this are more teaching materials, volume of production and a decent curriculum to make use of them.

I have always thought of iPads as the Fisher Price Activity Centre of computing devices.

Re: Oval?

While versica piscis is an acceptable generic term for the shape, when used correctly it refers to the shape between two overlaping circles of the same diameter overlapping by where each circle has its centre on the perimiter of the other. The name for the biconvex shape between any two circle overlapping by any amount is simply a 'lens'.

Re: Glaring omission

The Diamond Age?

Re: Can't wait ...

Agreed. Something like this wouldn't be in consumers hands for more than a week before some old dear looks closely at the emitter to see if it's working and burns their face off.

While microwave radiation seems better for the environment than many of the herbicidal chemicals it does look a bit dangerous for domestic use. Better to stick with a tough pair of gardening gloves a trowel and a fork.

Re: Only 23?

The job of a parent isn't to coddle their children endlessly, it's to teach their children to be self reliant and able to cope and indeed thrive in the real world. If someone without severe disabilities is not capable of managing that by 27 something has gone wrong and something should really be done. Booting out does seem a bit harsh but that sounds like a problem case. Anyway if the counterstrike playing pothead is shocked into at least attempting to cope on their own then following up with a bit of parental support wouldn't go amiss.

If a bird is going to fly for the first time it has to be kicked out of the nest

@Rob Kendrick

'this light is not powered by gravity. It's powered by the human who lifts the weight onto its hook.'

The light is powered by a conversion of stored gravitational potential energy. You are simply taking whatever energy conversion process came before and claiming that that's the one responsible. You could just as easily say: -

'this light is not powered by the human who lifts the weight onto its hook. It's powered by the chemical energy in the food eaten by the human.'

or

'this light is not powered by the chemical energy in the food eaten by the human.. It's powered by the nuclear energy of the sun that grew the food eaten by the human.'

Re: angry much?

I hate Facebook as much as most people but I have to say that they are not responsible here.

No Facebook != couple not violently murdered for unfriending murderers daughter on Facebook

No Facebook = couple violently murdered for ignoring murderers daughter at party/insulting her new dress/splashing mud on her shoes/doing almost any trivial thing that upset her enough for her clearly unstable father to take dispropertionate retribution

If a company makes hammer intended for hammering in nails and someone uses one to bash someones brains in it is not the companies fault. You can't say that the murder would never have happened in a world without hammers, because the murderer would have found something else.

Also people managed to plot and incite murders, riots and all kinds of mayhem long before Facebook and Twitter. I imagine that if you took social media sites away the people who do these things through facebook twitter would be doing the same thing with email, or text messages, or notes passed round and quite converstaions in the pub

@jcrb

'Moon Base Alpha come back in time through a worm hole in space.........'

Back in time from the year 1999?

You might want to rethink that....

Re: Stupid, stupid move.

I'd go even further and get them to do it comic sans

Re: Sounds like (AC 18:08)

I have been in full time employment since I left University over 16 years ago and you certainly don't speak for me. Someone unlucky enough to be born with cerbral palsey or severe Down's syndome may never be in a position where they are able to hold down a job or even care for themselves. If my taxes can help pay to support these people and ensure they have a decent quality of life then I am happy. After all it means that I am paying for the privilage of living in a society that is at least partly based on comapssion, emapthy a dignity rather than being shaped by by callous, cold hearted fuckers like you.

I imagine that many of the people in this position would give anything to be able to work and contribute to society However being born different or a chance accident that changed their lives means that they are not lucky enough to be able to. That's all that separates us from them, Luck. Try remebering that.

Re: New Process

That's an excellent plan with no obvious drawbacks. May I suggest that to avoid any potential road accidents getting the snakes to the decommisioned military base they should transport all the snakes on a plane (possibly with Samuel L Jackson on board to prevent mishaps).

Re: or maybe

Where as Apple are happy to get their phones manufactured by a company who's response to workers hurling themselves to their deaths off the factory roof was to install nets. When it comes to being the good guys and not harming people I don't think Apple can take the moral high ground.

Re: Hanlon's Razor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1rHNyJO_dw