Posts by Triggerfish

Re: "It is still too early to declare it a failed IT project"

Its never to early to declare failed projects.

Just look for this initial sign.

Its being run by the government.

Surviving

Everynow and again I used to find fry and shrimp living in the filters of my fish tank and it goes a few months without cleaning, thats a cubic space about 8 litres with a flow of upto a 1000litres an hour going through it.

Re: How about a swap?

I knew a Thai girl who had learn't English mainly from watching "Only fools and horses" DVDs, that was pretty odd.

Re: Spare a thought....

Canteens can be run by catering firm and still subsidised, was working on a site last year, full english about £1.20 for breakfast, a big lunch was about the same and used to visit it for dinner as well, my food bills were quiet low for a coupla months. Food was adequate - occasionally pretty good, they had a load of warehouse workers emptying loads into cold storage, so getting them well fed probably was a bonus because thats a calorie using job. Unsuprisingly the canteen was well used.

Re: And how many people realise goldfish can easily live to 20+ years if looked after?

You must have a mellow fish in the 50 gallon. I found them to be a right pain in 3ft odd tanks, just for harrassing the fish. It will be interesting seeing two in a big tank always though about that as well but never had a tank above 100 Gal and nano tanks is they way I am going at the moment, and a small tank for Choclate Gourami, which is no way having a red tail shark in it for obv reasons. :)

Re: Technically correct. The best kind of correct.

I thought there was a company called US Congress and it was highly profitable for its members, you telling me they're actually government?

Re: She could always have taken the offending banana and throne it in the freezer....

Stories from dockers working at Tilbury unloading banana boats would say probably not. They used to tell me how they would all line up near the doors and open them to a warehouse full of bananas with an army of large spiders running for freedom, which they would all then proceed to hit with bits of wood.

Re: Little boxes made of ticky tacky

Well its a rather old mill workers house, and its considerably less drafty now so that may be it. But living with single panes near the peak district, I swear it felt like you could almost feel the heat seep through the window panes as well.

As for noise the dawn chorus is currently defeating my double glazing, its amazing how much volume something as small as a wren can produce.

Re: Noise?

Thanks for the replies, that's a shame. I happen to have enough bits lying around for a PC, barring a board after I killed it (Used it as an excuse to buy a whole new pc) and a case, decent components as well albeit dated. But it irks me they are sitting doing nowt when they could be put to some use.

Re: 'switch' requests raised between banks aren't being processed and can't be cancelled

Then charge RBS an admin fee, tis only fair.

Re: Usual Apple greed @MArk85

Big companies usually lessen their loss leader by making smaller suppliers suffer.

A reduced rate, or by changing the payment terms (from say 30 days to 120 days), things like that they have the purchasing power to force that on the suppliers but a change in cash flow can ruin a business.

I have seen it working with manufacturers who supply the big chains.

They have attached a proper curry house to one of our locals, a stroke of genuis.

Re: Works 4 me @ Ac

And that's how you boil the frog.

Re: Self-inflicted @boltar

But Boltar you sound like one of the commentards frm the mail, who make up a back story for someone you know nothing about to justify your own predjudice

Re: Still in business .....

Quality of camera has never been a consideration. I have had to use the camera on a Galaxy S2 (considered a good camera at the time) on holiday when my beloved Canon S50 (pretty ancient by then) died, and it's shit there's no way it came even close to being as good.

Let alone the fact I spent to much time worrying about it being broken on the average day, whereas the S50 looked like it had been used for target practice.

For me the camera on a smartphone is for a quick snap when out in a pub or something, so not crap is good enough quality.

Re: Why Paris

True, but Winnie from the wonder years has turned out to be a rather lovely looking lady and has the maths cred as well.

Re: Could a drone hurt a 737?

I seem to remember the blades on the turbine can be more delicate than you would think with certain stresses like hard impacts.

Re: This is all wrong

Yep going equipped and ready should just mean you brought weed, skins, some beer money and enough clean pants.

Re: Three weeks without being able to send mail

Heart impressed me when I used them, a ticket seems its dealt with by people who actually know what they are doing, they've even pointed out a potential issue.

Build a Farady cage, put the phones in there, and tell the students they can have them back once they can explain the physics.

Re: Land of the free

I think there comes a point where you are going to have to stop calling the US, "Land of the Free", I mean I know its not fully suppressive regime etc, but that slogan is getting to the point its sounds like a marketing tourist advert rather than truth.

Re: What are we trying to prevent?

I know, Sales info, pen, paper job done.

I think some bosses genuinely think because they say its a paperless offce it actually is one. I worked in a place were they refused to buy post it notes because of this, everyone just bought their own.

Re: Smalled brained females? - Was this the Kardashian sub-species?

and if you think about it, that exploitation is successful because of males thinking with something other than the brain.

Re: Some Female Lizards in the Wild

Some people think the Komodo may also have venom due to finding some evidence of venom sacs or spaces for them. I think the juries out on it but leaning towards venom, I may be out of date though.

Other monitor lizards (related family (which they now think also may be slightly venomous)), use similar tactics, the mouths are full of bacteria you do not want to be bitten by some of them

Re: Business Choices - Nick you are going to fail big time....

Looking at the list of watch companies they own and manufacture for above, there's a chance it may not end up cheap electronics they have some premium brands in their portfolio.

Re: mouthful of seawater? No thanks.

Its pretty common among my diving buddies who are in the water most everyday especially tropical water to take a few days off if they get a large cut it turns into a sore very fast with all of the contact with seawater at which point its often anti biotics needed to clear it.

The other habit picked up from them is to wash your ears out after each dive with fresh water, ear infections can be pretty common otherwise if you dive a lot.

Re: the real problem is that people don't know how to drive any more

"God forbid making the driving test comprehensive enough to weed out the bad drivers in the first place."

What you mean things like keeping a decent grip on the steering wheel and not being distracted? Good grief.

Re: Ah, yes. "Capitalism"

How about a unvetted taxi driver having a crash, whats your sick benefits like when you are off work?

How about if you cannot work anymore? Figure a normal household insurance is going to give unlimited liability like a taxi for the pasengers, or are they going to use the excuse of it being used as a cab to just not pay anything?

Re: Another wrong place to look for AI

"Or, accidentally via increasingly complex interactions between programs, data sets, and hardware."

River of Gods by Iain McDonald explores a similar generation of AI like that, the prequels stories also, it's a good novel as well.

Re: re: the minute it became obvious you had the capacity to spy

Whatever happened to "The Talk"?

It seems it got replaced by "The Keylogger"

Re: This sums up the problem:

Aaah the linear levels bug me so much ever since I think it was one of the Modern Warfares that insisted I get on a bridge over a road to use a MG, but would go mental and kill me for trying to flank the position instead.

Basically the turned it into space invaders with pretty graphics, its that much on rails.

Re: Warm blooded? @Arnaut

However if you are just quoting Jim Rose, then you are not staying up to date with current opinion, there's plenty of people who have pointed at flaws in his arguments.

We do not know if fish have a psyche ( you are making the flaw of assuming they do not have one on the judegment of this guys ten year old research.).

Likewise fish have been known to show varying personalities pufferfish, groupers, sharks all are examples, they have even found some tool using fish, and some quite complex interactions between fish and also other species. All of which argues to some level of intelligence.

I think you need to do more research.