Posts by TRT

Re: Microsoft Train Simulator

Ha ha! Great little program that one. Yes.

Re: Physics

BIRD: What the devil are you doing up here?!

ARTHUR: Falling!

BIRD: Then get on with it! Go on.

ARTHUR: But the drop will kill me!

BIRD ONE: Well, you should have thought of that before you started out. No point in saying “I think I’ll just go for a quick drop and if I get tired on the way down, I’ll jump onto a passing bird”. It’s not like that up here, you know! It’s all to do with the harsh realities of physics, up in the sky; it’s power-to-weight ratios, it’s wing cross-section, wing surface-areas. It’s practical aerodynamics! It’s also cold and extremely windy! You’ll be better off on the ground.

ARTHUR: No I won’t, I’ll be dead!

BIRD ONE: Well, it’s your habitat, not mine.

ARTHUR: It’s not a question of whose habitat it is; it’s a question of how fast you hit it!

Re: Changed the (IT) world

I recall the flight sim on the Silicon Graphics SGI machines. Spent several hours mucking around with that.

Re: Chevalier

Indeed I had the honour of seeing one up close just a few weeks ago. Earned in a naval motor boat on the beach at Juno. Incredible stories, and lucid as anything for a 94 year old who's almost transparent if the sun gets behind him. Great fellow; a bridge to a different time.

Re: Bill Gates and the international reputation of the English honour system.

Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-king, you and all your silly English kerrrnnnniggets. I don wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed, animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of Elderberry.

*cough*

Adobe.

*cough*

Some companies don't recognise the value in the gander because they're too busy chasing the golden goose.

Re: A biologist writes

And just to explain the effects of an extreme-dosage of ionising radiation on the nervous system... the thing that's going to kill you is all the messenger & transfer RNA being machine-gunned to pieces. There won't be time for your cells to recreate enough of it, especially from the now damaged DNA, to keep your little grey cells supplied with neurotransmitter molecules before they all get used up. Once your stock is depleted, which they say takes about 5 minutes, your neurones will stop talking to each other and you'll basically suffocate when your diaphragm stops moving or goes into spasm; but you won't feel anything as your consciousness will have dissipated by then due to generalised disruption of cortex wide synchronisation.

Nice thought to go to bed on.

Re: Alternative titles ...

YouMüllerTube?

Could the snowflakes cope with the Troma?

Re: Small point

Dunno. A quick Google reveals a Yorkshire based company specialising in flail mowers, whatever they are. Colour me intrigued! Sounds like it would be the ideal agricultural implement to tackle the current weed-like crop of YouTube influencers.

Re: Duh!

The original Prius was lead-acid.

Re: In Trumpton, it describes a particular style of play in a hockey game

I'm sure Chippy Minton wasn't hostile, rough or belligerent. Quite a helpful chap, IIRC.

Re: Duh!

Ah, but you’re in Trumpton now!

Re: Duh!

"Would the average chippy have been able to tell them exactly how and why this was the case?"

Very probably, yes. My chippy knows everything, and isn't afraid to tell you either.

Re: @Dave 126 ... you know someone

Well someone just needs to make a stand on this...

Customers?

Ker-chingstomers.

Re: only 1200x1600

Yes, but Apple have created a display with extra light pixels. Over 1 kilo-nits.

Yeah mate. There's your problem, see? Pinhole in the sleeve, innit? Let the air in, haven't you? All that oxygen, see. It's oxidised your copper - THAT'S the source of your trouble. Oh dear, oh dear. Spend all that dosh on a decent cable, and you just don't take care of it, do you? Tell you what, in the back of my van I've got something special. Yeah. Second hand, mind you, but it's top quality gear. From the presidential suite at Trump Tower... Solid. Silver. Conductors. Yours for just £1,000 a metre.

Re: Soundbars , meh

Unfortunately the more they "enhance" a product the more annoying it becomes. For instance I definitely do not require it of my TV that if I happen to point the remote off the right hand edge of the screen that it pops up a list of suggestions of what to watch. Yet this is, I find, what it does. And you can't turn the bastard feature off. Nor do I require it to do anything beyond display what's coming in on a single HDMI cable, and allow me to adjust the volume (for when I don't fancy the amplifier being on), and picture. Possibly I like the remote control on my phone, as it allows me to turn the thing off (standby) when I can't be bothered going back to the lounge from the bedroom. I certainly don't need a Netflix, Prime, BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, Spotify, Plex etc etc app. I don't need it to connect to the WWW (0.5millibytes doesn't even allow a modern web page to render, so don't bother), I don't need it to listen to my voice, I don't need it to show an enhanced programme guide by connecting to some slurp-factory.

I think I just need a bloody big monitor, really.

Re: He left the grass cuttings on the field...

Even though it's a lot less bovver?

Re: What a pity

You know... with all that extra gubbins on board the ageing 747 airframe of Airforce One, the flight characteristics must be considerably different to your standard jumbo jet. One can only hope that Boeing engineers saw fit to implement some sort of software system to augment the manoeuvring characteristics.

Re: Oh really?

At least with an AI core it would interpret input in such a way that it complies.

“Open this exit door right now or I’ll head down to your major data banks with a very large axe and give you a reprogramming you’ll never forget, capicé? OK, get the axe.”

Re: The future is called Powerpoint

Wasn’t there a concept of document oriented computing a few years back? You don’t open a document with an application, you tell an application to deal with this document. Or something. It hasn’t come to pass anyway.

Re: Weird pricing model

Khaaaaaaannnnnn!!!!

Re: I was born in Islington

It’s also where Douglas Adams lived and where Arthur once went to a very nice party, met some very nice people and a very nice young lady that he totally failed to get off with.

Re: Islington...

True, true. If you can fit one into your converted rabbit hutch, or find a space within your curtilage which isn't taken up with recycling bins.