Posts by JDX

Re: GIMP

It's hardly an everyday tool for the masses. You might as well clamour for Blender or Audacity to be in the list - all 3 are great but all are a bit niche.

Re: Prime was trumpeted as...

Given Amazon's normally excellent customer service, if lots of people start kicking up a fuss I wouldn't be surprised if they part-refunded subscription costs.

I bet if you want to courier a parcel using DPD or RM directly you can get it next day, just like you could last week.

Re: So does this affect Amazon Prime Members?

That's the fault of the couriers operating in your area, or more specifically the individual drivers, not anything specific to Amazon.

I am only a member for free next-day delivery - joined before they rolled out video streaming and jacked up the price. I'm not sure we'd stay at the higher price but if it's not even next-day shipping, what exactly is the point?

Re: So does this affect Amazon Prime Members?

That's going to be fun for their customer service staff then :)

I don't see the connection to BF either. Why would a massive 1-day sales spike mean they cannot do next-day delivery for the whole of December - surely the BF sales are the problem not their normal day-to-day stuff?

I do note Amazon are now offering two new delivery options:

No Rush: it takes longer but they GIVE YOU money

Scheduled: pick a specific time for it to arrive

Re: Google aren't doing this for humanitarian or altruistic reasons

Most of the great technological and medical advancements weren't. Or at least, weren't funded for those reasons, even if the people doing the R&D were.

Re: Odd statement

I'd like to know which species tried and failed to decode their own genomes.

Maybe you should read the article again, a bit more carefully (the issue isn't the TV).

Although it does raise the question, when you use Netflix et al on a regular TV, does the TV know to switch the right frequency to avoid the same problem? How do you even find out what FPS iPlayer, NetFlix, Amazon, etc, use for their streaming content in the first place.

Re: What! Have! They! Done?!

They will be now :)

Rather than Mozilla depending on Google to survive, suddenly Yahoo! is depending on Mozilla?!

Re: Cue panic

You know, they might have improved it since 1998.

re:Electrolysis of brine produces as much chlorine as hydrogen

Wikipedia claims seawater is about 3.5% NaCl by mass. Since NaCl is heavier than H2O, that means the molar ratio i.e. the volume of gasses produced is surely lower than 3.5%, not higher?

But none of that even matters. If you fully electrolysed 10% of a volume of water and dissolve chlorine/sodium back in, the remaining water's salt content is only increased by 10% regardless how much chlorine you have in terms of pure volume.

That's assuming you can dissolve the Cl+Na back in once they've been decomposed, of course.

>>There's a lot of everything in seawater, including gold. The problem is getting it out. Very low concentration, thus very high processing costs.

Hydrogen is fairly prevalent in water on the other hand :)

As for releasing nasty gasses you could just dissolve them straight back in, without noticeably affecting the concentrations. I'd rather suspect even in the immediate vicinity, the differences would be very small though I don't have a clue how many mega-litres of water would be processed per day.

re:Fusion EATS hydrogen to make helium, leaving less fuel for the car!

It doesn't eat very much of it though. We are not in short supply of the most prevalent element in the universe.

Re: Sounds like a good batch

The thing about King is that even if you only like 10% of his books, that's still about 5x more than most authors write in total.

I had found more recent stuff a little tired (Duma Key) but Under The Dome was proper King to me - long, slow but somehow gripping regardless.

Re: Dawkins

Um, I AM speaking for others... based on things they've said, not based on me not liking Dawkins myself. On geeky IT forums, where religion discussions are generally pretty one sided, he normally attracts more criticism than praise.

Re: Most people who 'like' the Bible

Those two points weren't linked? You weren't suggesting others who read it wouldn't reach the same conclusion?

If not, fair enough my mis-comprehension.

Although becoming an atheist because you don't believe one religion's teachings seems a little narrow. That sounds more like "I don't WANT it to be true" rather than "I strongly believe it's not"?

Re: Robert Long

"I have to wonder if this is true. The book is so obviously just bad folklore and contradictory nonsense mixed with flat out lies"

Oh yes, it's "obvious". And clearly I'm just lying, because nobody could possibly have a different viewpoint than you based on the same facts. All those centuries of debate, and some IT nerd has the arrogance to suggest "it's obvious".

I rather doubt you bothered to read the thing or read books around the subject because it's so obvious that would be a waste of time, right?

This reminds me of a non-technical person "what do you mean it will take 2 weeks for this feature, you just have to do this one thing. It's obvious"