Posts by hplasm

Re: Revenue !=Profit...

Indeed. Should have stopped after "Is it necessary for state aid to subsidise BT?"

Re: An Apple self-drive car?

To the Apple store. And back?

Re: Aliens are among us !

Those 'debates' are necessary to ensure that we never get off this rock...

Re: What purpose?

Also: Surely the police have just one purpose?

Re: Could you perhaps tone down your laddish editorial? This isn't RALPH

If you 'loose yourselves in books' there's probably a different description of you than saddo...

Re: GIF

Isn't a Jraph a tall horsey?

Re: I still shudder...

Q: When will Windows be finally ready for the desktop?

A: An unspecified time. It's called the future. Get used to it.

Re: Didn't have to look

"Mother of Crom, does the word GLOBAL mean anything to you?!?"

Crom? What use to call on him? Little he cares if men live or die.

Re: Dungeons and Dragons

But... I thought that's what 3d printers were for...!

Re: Yes It's terrible

"So is "Cryptonomicon", of course."

It's Hollywood. The Necronomicon is more accurate...

Re: cantenna?

"...or violate the laws of physics."

Use neutrinos- they laugh at the curve of the earth, but respect the laws of physics!

Re: I find your observation...

Surely...

^0^

</Spock off>

Re: "the challenge will be for people to develop skills that cannot be displaced by machines"

"...a machine that costs less than 130'000 GBP."

Wait until you see the new MS perpetual licence scheme...

It's obvious-

The clock has advanced due to the threat of Page 3 being removed...

"It's apparently a chargeable upgrade..."

I read that as a charitable upgrade...

Re: and a new device to be announced later today.

"the new Super-Duper Microsoft ZuneBob Bingthing,"

They have announced the name of the new Surface 4 as well?

"although the absolute ignorance of software"

There is MS's problem, in a nutshell.

Well done for pointing that out.

What if...

They reference a book, and then 30 years later, the book is made into a film- and then a film is made that refers to the film that refers to the original book...

"The guy seems like exactly what MS needs."

An administrator?

Re: I did a whole Bhut Jolokia

The best mouth extinguisher I have found is Cointreau, neat. For some reason it kills the heat stone dead.

It may ignite though- perhaps I've been lucky so far...

Does nothing for the other end.

Re: AFTER 13:45

It implies sometime after the late 14th Century...

Re: Choose the right fight

Arrested for discussing pliers now!

"Apparently this form has superseded the old way."

No. From time immemorial, teachers have been known to be Wrong.

They don't like it when you tell them either.

God speed-

Is that faster than Ludicrous Speed?

Re: Decrypt any Microsoft wireless keyboard: MUH TRUSTED COMPUTING!!

" It's true that they don't say it's reasonably sniffproof, just "suitable for use in a commercial setting"."

But they don't even indemnify their OSs as"suitable for use in a commercial setting". Or anywhere else, for that matter...

Re: "Our AI systems must do what we want them to do"

" I fear that the "three laws" would make such systems impossible."

I hope that the "three laws" would make such systems impossible.

FTFY

So-

"I wonder who is behind this post?"

Internet Tough Guy. They love basking in someone else's anything.

Je suis Charlie.

Re: surely this is discrimination?

"In other words, the makeup of any company's workforce will tend to reflect the makeup of the applicants for its jobs."

This.

Re: I'll see your audiophile cat 5 and raise you

Is that the same air as between the audiophool's ears?

Re: Hmmm

"...to determine that they are statistically likely to be planets."

i know some people that this might include by accident...

Re: Not a problem

pah!

sudo apt-get install boomex.

sudo ./boomex

Re: Love it..

First time I tried to get Kraftwerk tickets (Free Trade Hall, IIRC) the gig was cancelled due to poor demand.

The next time, and ever after, they have sold out in seconds. Grr.

Re: In world where news is mostly Celebs..

"Never heard the expression "glass half empty", did you..."

Glass too big. This is a tech site, after all...

Whys the rum ALWAYS gone?!?!

Happy New Year to all and sundry!!

Re: Bullshit

"My whole company administration is automated through VBA. "

You say that with pride?

Re: Why?

"He thinks he's a nincompoop..."

Which show he wasn't always wrong.