Posts by TRT

Re: IZAL

The history of Ical toilet paper

Re: communist loo roll?

What? Where "resources" are spread around evenly ? Yes. Izal can do that for you.

Re: New technical terms.

Combined ultrasensitive magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) / 3D image reconstruction achieves magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with resolution <10 nm. The image reconstruction converts measured magnetic force data into a 3D map of nuclear spin density, taking advantage of the unique characteristics of the “resonant slice” that is projected outward from a nanoscale magnetic tip. The basic principles are demonstrated by imaging the 1H spin density within individual nano-scale particles sitting on a nanometer-thick layer of adsorbed hydrocarbons. The result represents a 100 million-fold improvement in volume resolution over conventional MRI, demonstrating the potential of MRFM as a tool for 3D, elementally selective imaging on the nanometer scale.

Think I'm making this stuff up?

Re: New technical terms.

Surely you need a tunnelling scanning cryo-electron microscope to profile the magnetic polarity of the diatomic regions, visualise the granular domain boundaries and generate a probability density map for the distribution of annealed and fixed data domains?

Re: Personal experience.

Some of the chips had melted...

Bloody lucky!

Re: Good design my a***

I had a Sony Vaio once that persistently failed to connect to WiFi. The power switch was a fancy sprung loaded slide to activate job that also released the clamshell lock. It was located right next to the WiFi /Airplane mode on/off slide switch which was about 2mm thick with a tactile surface. There was no Wi/Fi on/off light either, it was a green on-screen display.

Every time the user opened the clamshell, they clicked Airplane mode to on. I would go through a whole load of shitty superstitious mumbo jumbo removing drivers and adding them back and taking them away again and putting them back again... and then miraculously it would work. I had usually rested my thumb on the switch and pushed it back on by accident.

It took about 6 months and 6 visits from the professor in question before I eventually downloaded the manual and decided to read it page by page to see what was going on. Then, THEN, I noticed the little line with a number on the end pointed at the edge of the Vaio, and THEN I decided to look up what Number 7 was, and saw it was "Airplane Mode".

Re: Jammed...

Ah! Now, you're reminding me of Chris Tarrant, and his railway ventures.

Which makes me think of the Phantom Flange Ringer of the Old Railway Yard.

Which makes me think of The Wheelltappers and Shunters Social Club.

Re: Good design my a***

Some of them were so sharp that you could happily lacerate your entire hand without noticing until you came to percussively reattach the beige case components leaving a large, bloody handprint over the side of the machine. PC maintenance by an Orcish clan.

Re: Online backup?

Do I need to replicate in next door's shed?

Re: Why store them on a shared computer in the first place?

Whole device encryption means bugger all if you are copying the decrypted data out to another location.

Re: More interesting than the barrister's name would be the backup system's name.

Definitely. This sound a very dodgy bit of gear.

It was a joke...

Based on the time difference, yes.

Jeez!

Re: Wearing my +2 Rose tinted spectacles of the Marshlands...

Played up until I left uni. That was 1990. Not played since.

Re: It ain't D&D without a tangible 20-sided die...

A 60 second round was divided into 10 segments of 6 seconds each and determined how soon into the round you had an opportunity to make a meaningful act.

Re: What's new?

True. Gygax left TSR in 1985. AD&D2Ed came out in 1987. AND RUINED THE GAME!

Re: Please sir..

Box edition? Blue, red and black? Basic, Advance and Master?

Re: It ain't D&D without a tangible 20-sided die...

I'm pure old school AD&D, no bloody 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th editions. An initiative roll is on a D10 with a dexterity modifier for fighters and an intelligence modifier for magic users.

Re: Point of Order

It might be a web app written in HTML.

Or it might be an App, written in Java orC++

Re: How many Time Crystals are required...

Each one will earn you 5 seconds in the dome...

Re: God bless America

Oh the speech is free enough, but have you seen how much libel costs?

Spaniards, actually.

Re: I note...

I also note how it picked up on Samuel L Jackson holding the gun, but missed the two white dudes in the background.

Is it rAIcist? Or does this reflect a bias in the training routine?

Anyway, how would it cope with this?

Re: Can it detect someone armed with a pointed stick?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqISLI2UQMY