Posts by LaeMing

Re: Consider the inhabitants.

I was thinking something crab-like, but Hard-Corbetites is good too!

Re: haaaahhhhhaaaaaaa

Yeah, they are just wannabe-wankers.

Re: Is it known for sure that the satellite had any significant technical purpose?

It gets whites clean in just 55 minutes?

Re: This is getting boring.

And what, prey tell, Mr Jake, is so important in your life that will be remembered 5 years after you die that your life is worth the energy it requires to maintain that wet salty bag of joyless entropy you slob in front of your screen on an internet forum in?

I am not at all into games, but I am happy for those who are to enjoy whatever harmless recreation gives them pleasure.

Re: Going down in my opinion

As a Newton(TM) developer they long ago lost my respect.

Re: Youtube without the offensive bits...

Error 434 - bring back the porn!

Re: wtf were Ubuntu thinking pulling this stunt?

My guess is they were thinking "$$$$$$$$".

Re: China imports coal?

Yes, but the coal is generally a very different (inferior) grade. Mostly sulphide-rich brown coal, which burns as dirty as ... the Beijing skyline.

Hmmm. Now I think of it.

Yes, they should have got some beefcake to play 'Prince Liam' amongst all the women.

That would be parody!

Re: For the headline,

Well, all the archaeologists in the story are claiming is that they found a square rock room labeled "Unicorn's Lair". The NK government is, of course, doing what governments the world over do when some scientists come up with some minor find that can be blown up into a propaganda parade.

Re: Slave

Slave didn't come across as very bad-ass when dealing with humans, but he had little time for Orac.

AlephOne

Marathon code was open-sourced and ported all over the place. And there are fantastic graphics-update packs.

http://source.bungie.org/

Yeah, its big enough, but do you know how to use it?

Most people have to hate something.

Most people here are to busy hating particular tech companies to have time for trivialities like what gender someone is/was/willbe.

Re: Bah, humbug!

At today's coal prices!?!

Re: You mean the town shortly to be renamed...

Oops. I spent so much time on the 'License' translation, I completely mis-copied the 'burg' :-(

Thumbs up for spotting my goof! ;-)

Just you wait!

Windows 9 will have a DIP-switch and incandescent-lamp user interface.

Re: long live eternal copyright

Yes, I am still waiting for my ongoing royalties on those PCs I installed back in '09. And the ones I installed in '10 too.

As Sir Humphrey Applebee said in a close-enough context...

"Think of all those selfless smokers laying down their lives for their fellow countryman."

Seriously, as long as people are doing it out of the way of those who choose not, it is their bodies to do with as they like. If they make an informed decision to have a slightly shorter life in return for something they enjoy, who am I or the government who claims to represent me to tell them no. Just as long as they take it on the chin without whining when the fun is over and it is time to pay the price!

16Gigabytes!!!

And here was me getting stroppy a few years back when I had to expand my root partition from 4GiB to 8GiB to fit my Linun OS and all its app(lication)s on with room for temps, logs, etc.

Re: Fools

The devs. probably have shares in Twitter.

I have a Twitter account for work - I use it to broadcast announcements to students, a task for which is is very well suited. But have no personal use for one.

Re: God dammit

Also, US flags get burned all the time. You are not allowed to just chuck them in the garbage bin and incineration is considered the most appropriately respectful method of disposal by those who's job is to consider how to respectfully dispose of old flags.

On a serious note

I shudder at what would happen if I moved my senior-cit. mum off Kubuntu. She would get totally lost in the whole missing-basic-functionality-until-you-pay-more, having-to-go-here-there-everywhere-on-the-internet-to-update-drivers-and-software commercial IT world.

Re: YouTube model

I once (only once) saw a YouTube advert that was of particular interest to me. I wanted to skip back to watch a particularly interesting/informative part of the advert, but the progress controller was locked down.

Can't for the life of me remember what the advert was for now.

Re: So....

and invalidate all our patents with their prior art.

Re: The genetic button that could turn a WOMAN into a CHIMPANZEE

Damned humans. Coming over here and stealing all our women chimps!

Get your hands off her you damned dirty human!