Posts by BongoJoe

Re: So...

Apple Carz - sues Samsung Carz for being able to handle corners...

Re: How I always remembered it

Indeed the 'perms' should have been called 'combs'.

One of the first thing I learned in sixth form statistics in the seventies.

Re: When there's doubt...

On my sites I don't have GA installed at all and it's fun when I get asked by Advertising Fucktards for my stats and I send them something that approximates my wildest imagination.

Oddly they can't get their heads the fact that most of my readers are seemingly from the Vatican City...

Re: Expectation sets the bar

With the Prometheus DVD I found I was simply fascinated with the Making Of... bits (all seven hours of it).

The film may be flawed but watching how it was made really impressed me and after watching the Making Of I finally forgive all the flaws and went back and said Wow!

Re: This all seems quaint and amusing

Oh, and also the bit at the end of the programme: the one that's telling us what's coming next week.

Again, no need to tell us because if your programme was decent enough we'd remember to tune in and watch next week. I'd rather that time were spent on actual content.

I have often wondered what happens if something is actually 'bunked'.

Re: How awful

Pissing away money? Sorry, to rain on your parade but some of us actually do make money or a living out of punting.

Like I said in a post just higher up: "value betting". That's all one needs to understand.

So stop being so bloody puritanical and closed minded.

Re: Small steps...

Solar panels on the wings.

That would sort out the issue of noise of night time flights near airports.

Tongue firmly jammed in (my own) cheeks

These competitions could only be improved if they all arrived clean shaven and then locked in a room with no food and water (but only CCTV) and then told to grow the best beard before being released.

That would sort out no end of social problems and clear the streets of a vast amount of knobheads.

Re: Double trouble

@AC

I think that it's plain to see that Trump is some sort of neo-cryptoAnarchist and that his plan is working quite successfully, thank you ever so much.

Re: Thriller

One didn't need the Ribbon. One could just customise the various toolbars for use for the firm and then roll those out.

It worked well before Microsoft buggered up Office and just dragged it further down the toilet with each and every release.

I wonder if your mother worked for a pre-natal clinic.

Re: No code review??

Ah, good old ERNIE, who (or did) dish up the numbers for the UK's Premium Bond prizes uses a different method: counting moving atoms or something similar.

Re: Hothouse

I found Helliconia to be his best work and I must read it again.

Re: If you are a bad-un all you need to do is:

Damn, yes. I must be a very dodgy criminal every time I switch the thing off for the theatre or a concert.

You might be one day! Was the showing pre-approved?! WHO WERE YOU WITH?!

Was it Les Mis? Then you're someone with revolutionary tendancies, as would be if it were Evita. And if it were Chicago then clearly you're hanging around with nefarious types.

Re: Brexit

More remoaner bollocks.

That's it. I have had enough of this expression, "remoaner".

From what I have seen over the past year and a bit over no end of web sites it's always been the pro-leavers who have been the moaners.

So, what is going on?

Re: There are only two kinds of people in the world.

And those who understand the meaning of value betting and the 99.9% who don't.

Re: Context

<emEven closer when you take the Earths orbital speed into account of approx 30km/s.

So Earth covers the 6800km in about 3mins 45secs</em>

Which has qualified as the most chilling post of the year*.

(* or as the Left Pondians would say: "Chillingmost")

Re: Runny eggs ?

Welsh Breakfasts do exist. Especially in the Welsh speaking heartlands of North Wales and the Llŷn.

Re: Kickstarter's about 99.995% bad

I used Kickstarter to pay for an excellent coffe-table book on the history of the Empires of Eve.

Seriously though. Cost of HS2: £55Bn. Cost of wiring up the whole country to be proper actual FTTP: <£55Bn. Which one is more important?

Clearly HS2. Because with HS2 a small, but clearly important, number of high earning City types can then commute daily from the Yorkshire Dales to their London office.

Re: Jesus, NO!

I accept your point but the problem is that we see today so many 'independent' studies that aren't.

We see reports saying that sugar isn't harmful, for example, and then we find out who has sponsored that study. I have lost count of independent studies that show us that various foods are good/bad and the same for medicines and behind them somewhere is someone is a vested interest.

Not all of them, of course, but far too many to not to take this, and anything else, on face value.

Re: the nub of the issue...

Nobody expects users to do their own diagnosis... just please be a little less unhelpful!

Normally, I would agree. And then I get the users who say "There was an error box popping up."

"What did it say?"

"I don't know. I just clicked on OK"

Which is a far cry from "The car pulls to the right" or "there is a noise over 50mph". Those users who just click on the error box may as well say "There's something wrong with the car but I am not going to tell you what."

I do remember living in Belgium, until about the turn of the century, that even posters on the street, advert cards in newsagents all had little stamps on them. It seems that there was one person's job in the post office to just handle these stamps.

I think that these transactions just about covered their salary.

Re: Devil's Advocate

Only if the cars trigger the camera. If, however, the cameras took a picture every second then the copyright would belong to the Dartford Tunnel people.

It could be interesting if this went further (and applied to the Right Side of the Pond) because this may mean that the pictures couldn't be sent between departments or different authorities.

Until the day, that is, that there's a small disclaimer written on a notice board saying something like "Use of this motorway is considered acceptance of our terms and conditions regarding copyright of your likeness."