Posts by TRT

Re: Alternatively...

Heck squeeze me? Check out the junk. I'm male. We just don't DO that kind of thing.

Re: Left handed touch-typist

Diet tab. Unless you need the sugar rush.

Re: "no reports of the malware impacting Mac or Linux machines"

Excepting where research groups used shared folders and one group member had a Windows machine.

Re: MS still cleaning up after Windows XP

It's the last puppy you'll ever need.

Thanks for the tip on the Bose QC. I might invest. Someone thought it was a good idea to put the air-conditioning only in the Outer Office, but they also put the training/analysis PCs for the 'scope in there. Queue lots of chatter about two feet away round the corner. >>>SCREAM<<<

Re: Should get married to Amber Rudd.

She could always go to work in a men's suit, so that when she comes to put a bolo on, they can refer to it as the Amber Necktie.

Re: Management speak ...

"...takes equal opportunities very seriously, we are disappointed with the outcome in this case on that part of the claim where we were unsuccessful".

Double talk of the highest magnitude.

Re:In the beginning...

The Book of Gensys?

Re: IRA

Drawing parallels seems artificial? Well, it rather depends on how short your memory is.

The names behind it, the reasons behind it, might have changed, but if you are on the receiving end of half-a-pound of nails delivered courtesy of a lump of Semtex, you're not going to be going to pieces over how clearly defined the motivations behind your imminent death are.

I think the IRA are far from finished, however. I still pick up news of killings perpetrated in the cause of Irish nationalism. That moment where Sarah Connor is sitting at the gas station watching the boys fight... that.

Re: Sign of a mature market?

I miss the old x-serve. A proper powerful 1U solution, with dual-PSUs and very easy servicing. :(

Re: Meanwhile...

All I can tell you is that when I suggested the documentation for the Quarter function should explicitly state that January, February and March dates returned a value of 1 etc, that only the month value was examined, and that there were no other arguments for setting the various methods of calculating a "quarter" as defined in the accounting best practice handbooks (the fiscal quarter is not clearly defined on a global level, it's set by a company's accounting practices and in the US at least has to be notified to the state in order to get an EIN - this is required for 10-Q filing, for example, it's not always 3 months long, and it doesn't always start on the 1st of a month) there were at least a dozen backwards and forward messages in public telling my why I was an ignorant fool and citing dozens of links to web pages where there was a 'clear definition', and four personal, private messages telling me amongst other things, that I didn't deserve to have a job, that I should give up coding and take up a less demanding occupation like garbage collection, and that my mother must have been married to one of her own relatives.

Now, somehow I think that if that kind of abusive message came from, say, a Microsoft engineer's account, then I'd be rightly justified in taking it to their manager, and THAT person would then be looking at the prospect of finding new employment. Whereas Johnny Greasebucket sat at home in a pizza stained Britney Spears t-shirt can let loose with all the bile and vitriol that they've been saving up as a result of living their own, sad, little lives because if they ever directed their anger at the true source of their enforced misery they'd choke themselves....

Sorry. Bitter, moi?

So, in short, I expect the same level of nastiness, nitpicking and personal abuse exists across the board, but in some sectors it gets kept on a leash out of self-interest.

Re: Prophets of doom

It used an 8-bit palette, which is what I was referring to.

Although it began life as a 32-bit compile, it also ran on 16-bit DOS and other 16-bit platforms by using various techniques. It has been ported to a Vic-20, which is an 8-bit machine throughout.

And how long since they were changed?!

Re: ...little consensus on when books in the actual library were destroyed....

I'll have to listen to that Dr Who audiobook tonight to find out.

Re: SGI

We had an Indigo and an O2 for 3D reconstruction work. Lovely kit. We also had a Space Ball 4D joystick control. $*cough*,000s The PSU alone (a 9V wall-wart from Tandy) was listed as £400.

Re: Elon Musk has five sons...

http://blog.solarcity.com/island-in-the-sun/

He has form of course...

And he probably would tweet about it.

Twenty-two ships over the seven seas.

I'm sure they'll install mediterranean wide covefefe.

Re: 3.9 million miles?

Anybody not wearing two million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day, get it?!

Re: You forgot...

I would happily advise you go and watch the film SpaceStation 76 which is showing on SciFi channel fairly regularly. Absolutely superb pastiche of 70s/80s Sci-Fi sets and models. Beautifully detailed.