Posts by Robert Carnegie

Re: MiniDisk? Bah!

Spike Jones (not that one) goes metal?!

But

Doesn't the modification make a serious head injury more likely next time?

I suppose that may be intentional.

Re: Pictures or it didn't.......

I just cycle in ordinary clothes, but I do find that doing so cold weather leads to disconcerting numbness in the, er, front padding.

Re: El Reg interview time?

Certainly eligible for "Who, Hm".

"blessed by BRP, Mercury, or similar"

Isn't Neptune your chap for divine blessing of marine crafts?

According to the novel "Rivers of London" the fire brigade are technically worshippers as well - long story? (With rather a number of horrible gory deaths and such like, the novel I mean.)

Re: Inquiring minds want to know...

Someone described their login process to me as "I type user1 user1" at which point we both realised that half of that was meant to be the secret password. I believe I promised to forget this, obviously I haven't - but I did change the name in this telling.

Re: Deadpool

As mercenary assassins go, Deadpool is considered nearly heroic by several other superheroes. He did kill REDACTED though, on the orders of REDACTED.

Re: Must be a popular one...

I get my updates through iTunes on Windows; I expect it to be more robust or redoable but I'm not certain. I think that last time the download to PC took an hour and the install about ten minutes, but the phone may have had to be plugged in to the PC throughout. Maybe I'll wait a little for this one.

Re: If we taxed the rich properly

I expect on your private island you can grow the smoking herb of your choice as well, tax free.

Re: Silly NIC games ...

Du you buy MAC addresses from a global authority, like IP addresses?

Then it sounds like someone bought 20 addresses since they were only shipping up to 20 network cards in one multi-pack.

Or, after manufacturing each 20, something with a counter on the production line got reset.

Or, the manufacturer actually had 40 MAC addresses and you were just unlucky not to get one Box A and one Box B.

Re: As a fake its unconvincing

From memory (I did write it down), BBC Radio 4 news the other night told us,

"President Trump's dismissed reports that he worked for Russia as a big fat hoax."

Can you tell me if this actually is funny, then I can send it in to "Private Eye". I did e-mail it to "The News Quiz" but I do not expect a conclusive result. They'll laugh at anything. "Unfortunately, Slimming World has had to cancel its meetings here on Saturday mornings as the group is too large for the room."

Re: Military Ship Radar

It - oh, joke. It wiped your memory too.

I don't remember getting the sedative, euphoric, anaesthetic, and memory zapping drug I was supposed to have during a colonoscopy examination in 2016, but since I remember the colonoscopy itself at least as well as I might want to, I have wondered whether the anaesthetist pocketed the drug for their own use later.

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Actually, no thanks, foul stuff.

I got a non-smart Breville "Hot Cop" machine. When activated by hand, it dispenses 500 ml of good boiling water from its spout, after 60 seconds.

If you don't want an exact multiple of 500 ml of boiling water at 60 second intervals then you are out of luck, and I find it more than I need - in fact I needed extra-large cups. But a current model of the machine now allows the quantity to be varied. But, as far as I know, not verbally.

It just occurred to me, maybe I could put glass marbles or something in the machine and get less water out. (Is that what they've done?) Supposing that I can buy Pyrex marbles...

Re: Yiddish?

Further down, Wikipedia says Arabic was also "official" until 2018, and presently has "a special status". Which sounds a wee bit like when the Dilbert organisation assigns an employee to "a special project", which I'm sure is the intention.

The article is not adequately edited, to which I attribute calling the plaintiff company "the Israeli" - I presume corporations are considered people and citizens only in the U.S., and so this is, at best, a form of grammar that I'm unfamiliar with - but it's only a word short e.g. "the Israeli company" so maybe the writer forgot they hadn't typed the word "company". That happens often to my train thought.

Re: Aproximate

Specifically, when you're doing mathematics with infinite decimal places then the difference between 4.0 and 3.99999999... is 0.00000000... which obviously is 0. So 4.0 and 3.99999999... are the same number written two different ways.

Personally I distrust this infinite stuff, but I'm comfortable imagining someone starting to write out the digits of the number, and never stopping. But there's no question of getting to the end; there isn't an end.

Re: Wild West Days

That was Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley. The Internet can do you a topless Cliff Richard.

Since it substitutes for what mouth and hands can do (*), it ought to be able to participate in business meetings on your behalf. Particularly if you already have to treat your boss n the way this wonder machine is designed to.

(*) It seems to me that it should look much more like an excited squid. Maybe it does when you take the cap off?

I'm not their consumer but

Arguably Fox and Breitbart are amongst the best at selling stories with minimal truthful content. They have quite the audience, for one thing.

One "good" bad trick is to report opinion, what's been said by the President or the White House or the candidate running in Springfield. On the other side... well, the other side really, isn't hugely different, politically. Like homo sapiens and chimpanzees, they are 99% the same. What's really different is other countries. Therefore also what's really scary. I don't think I see a lot of partisan content from the other side, except for someone who keeps posting a list of Republican office holders who are child molesters. And I don't know which cases are accurately stated but I assume that those who are known to be child molesters are the ones that we don't have to worry about. Anyway, the point I was going for is that a "news" site whose actual business is transmitting partisan statements from partisan third parties is technically lying only in calling this stuff "news". Oh, and in the words "Fair and balanced." And "Most watched. Most trusted." Though... if you don't "trust" them, then why watch, so they must be at around 99%.

You have redundant parts when you expect some of them to break. So, some of them break Then, more break... You still eventually run out.

S'pose you could send another box up that only contains extra gyros, and that mates with the original. Or send up a new bird with a better camera.

Re: Somewhere, deep in space, three hundred years hence...

So, let's use Jeff Wayne's material instead. ...What?

Re: From bitter experience I must disagree

Wimbledon: presumably different games (or, same game, different matches).

If they pass coverage from BBC1 to BBC2 or back then it's liable to run in parallel on both until there's a pause.

It's how tennis is - when it's on, there's a lot of it. Five-a-side or more would let more people play at one time and on one TV channel.

Re: Look out

Vaping causes drooling dementia in 90 percent of users exactly 20 years after the first or only huff. Possibly. But since it isn't 20 years yet, it hasn't been detected. This is how medical research works: long term effects require long term research.

Oh, it's 30 years if you were just standing next to a vaper. But whichever comes first.

Re: Please forgive my ignorance, but isn't "undocumented API" an oxymoron?

I don't know the details, but I think perhaps it's that the Harmony Hub may include open source or other imported software that implements this API as well as other functions - but Logitech didn't plan to offer this API or advertise that it was there in their device - although not in its specification?

419 not 491

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam unless for some reason you did that on purpose.

"The number 419 refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud."