Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: the text editor for granddads

So what's vi - the text editor for the undead ?

Re: Matt Hancock to involve patients

>Tory MP has ever considered asking The Product for an opinion

Didn't work too well last time <cough>brexit<cough>

Re: In before . . .

>I dont have pictures of my private parts on an internet connected device because I’m not an unthinking moron.

That's your choice, and probably as an el'reg reader an aesthetic one.

But you shouldn't have to self-censor images of yourself and partner because you can't trust the computer maker

Re: GPUs

>idiots who believe they will get rich in a week if they grab an off the shelf mid-pack NVidia GPU

If it wasn't for idiot consumers we wouldn't have nice shiny toys - it's just a shame that short term it means I have to buy Quadra cards for no good reason.

Re: So.

> value is only arbitary and ultimately decided by governments,

The difference is that governments can demand that you pay taxes in their made up magic beans, and they can send men with guns if you don't

>I thought the warranty reduction was due to the chip shortages, switching from TLC to QLC?

No it's because of these evil bankers miners - nothing to do with us cutting costs, we are the innocent victims here, poor us etc

Re: drummer =/ artist

>Drummer: <noun> A programmable metronome.

What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine ?

You can punch a tune into a drum machine

Re: In the void there is a container of positive and negative possibilities

So will the art market reward higher and higher grade vacuums with larger and larger prices?

Re: Should get a better dictionary

>what is actually "Art".

Art is anything made by an artist that sells

>"You often drive 400 miles without stopping to discharge/recharge occupants?"

Yes and I do it at 300km/h while sitting in a nice seat while somebody brings me coffee, and the vehicle is electric and only needs 1 driver for 10000s of people.

Re: I'm Anonymous

I'm Anonymous ..... and so is my wife

Re: Coward

>I’ve got a tee-shirt with an Anonymous logo and bar-code.

>Made by Gildan

You've become a victim of the T-shirt industrial complex and a pawn of big T-shirt

>one man COULD manipulate crypto coins via opinion tweets suggests that investments in such things is, at the very least, UNSTABLE

Janet Yellen knocked $Bn of the SP500 this morning by saying that one day interest rates will have to rise - she isn't even chairman of the Fed.

Re: I thought ...

Somehow I don't think there is a big overlap between computer hackers and people who sit in their basements cuddling AR15s so the vaccine wont turn them into cell phones.

Of course that may just be what the MMB want you to think.

Not quite, a Ponzi scheme is funding payouts to existing investors from new investors = ultimately unsustainable con.

Bitcoin is just like any mining any other useless scarce resource.

If you can convince the peasants that a bit of crystal coal or shiny orange metal is worth a months salary and is required as a mating ritual - then you win.

Re: On the other hand ...

>h a candidate that 60% of overall voters in post 1/6 polling consider unfit for office

If you allow those people to vote.

If the only valid voter ID is an NRA membership card and a confederate flag T-shirt, and the local "well regulated militia" get to check all the voters ....

Re: Laptop + Monitor = two computers?

>mostly a status thing.

Funny thing.

It used to be that being pale was high status because it meant you weren't out working in the fields.

Now the lowest status is the pale person with the most powerful machine - because they do the work.

The tanned person with the least powerful but thinnest laptop is the big cheese.

Re: Qualifications before being allowed to use a laptop

It was the way that HP used the perfectly obvious abbreviation "PC" for "Paper Cassette" because what else would PC stand for ?

Re: Qualifications before being allowed to use a laptop

It says "PC load letter" I've been putting letters into my PC for hours and it still doesn't print !

Re: "they exclaimed, 'How did you do that?!'"

I'm remembering a 2 monitor system where the desktop layout didn't detect when you unplugged 2nd screen.

So it was possible to lose a document/icon because it was on the extended desktop.

In this case it was hard to convince people the document wasn't in the "other computer"

Re: Examples...

RAM + HDD is still von Neuman. Unified memory just means that memory used to store data can also store instructions. The idea was that code can be modified at run time - which it rarely is in practice - at least not deliberately!

A lot of microprocessors (eg some Arduino-AVR) don't have this architecture because instruction memory can to be slower, or lower power, or remain intact when powered off.

Re: Laptop + Monitor = two computers?

Ironic that the experts complaining that people call broadband WiFi still call them "telegraph" poles.

(and to all the EEng out there spluttering that broadband is any modulation scheme where message bandwidth significantly exceeds the coherence bandwidth)

Re: Laptop + Monitor = two computers?

> such as #!~|?%@

How dare you sir! My mother was a saint.

Re: Laptop + Monitor = two computers?

> Get in the car, turn the key, and the engine starts. Magic

For normal cars yes. Or at least the sort of 10th hand Fiesta/VW you had as a youngling.

First visit to the USA with a rental automatic.

Turn on, doesn't start.

Seems you need to have one foot on the brake, gear stick in park, other hand on your chest singing the star spangled banner before it will turn on.

Then when you turn it off, discover it wont restart until you have locked it , arming the alarm then unlocked it, disarming the alarm, before it will restart.

Re: Everything in Australia trys to kill you

Surprised Australians are concerned by a mere rattlesnake.

That's not a deadly snake - THIS is a deadly snake !