Posts by jake

Re: The death knell ...

Me mate once fancied an earlier dish, and so warmed it back up .

His fiancé found out and broke off the wedding.

The IT angle is Bootnotes.

Bootnotes exists to cover journalistic sins. All work and no play makes ElReg a dull Vulture.

Re: what do you call...

"Astronaut is not an English word, it's what the Romans would have called the people in their space program."

The word Astronaut is from the greek.

"Unfortunately, not having a word for zero - their launches never got off the ground"

The Latin for zero was nihil.

_{Yes, I know, their maths wasn't up to the concept in the modern sense ... but they still had a word for it.}

Re: What are the criteria for inclusion as crew?

"As for Obama did the backlash against him lead to the election of Trump?"

No. If Obama could have run for a third term, he would have beaten Trump handily. People actually LIKE Obama.

Trump won because the other inelectable candidate chose to play the popular vote card and didn't pay enough attention to the electoral college.Trump didn't so much win, as his opponent lost.

Hopefully We, The People have learned an important lesson. I ain't holding my breath. People as a set are ineducable, and politicians know it.

Re: One C, one R

"Maybe people record things other than the human voice via the phone?"

Some people use screwdrivers as hammers, too.

Re: One C, one R

"300 to 3500Hz is where the majority of human speech fits"

Good old analog POTS used 300–3300Hz for decades, with no issues to speak of.

Re: Spin class ...

But you've got to admit, the rental variety sure pollute the waterways in and around any town where they are available.

Re: Spin class ...

Not oil. Grease. Oil gets flung off at anything resembling speed, and drips all over the floor if standing still.

Horses for courses and all that.

Re: Setup time

"Setup only needs to happen once per ship"

Until they roll a rev on the software. Or the crawler hardware, for that matter.

Re: AI is a Tool. It creates nothing.

"Seems as though he knew more about statistics than he's been given credit for."

Either that, or George didn't give a shit.

He knew full well that he was addressing an audience full of normal people looking for a laugh, not a room full of pedant statisticians who have never laughed in their entire lives.

Re: T?his whole "green" thing is getting sillier and sillier.

The propane comment was an over-all comment on backup power, not the article specifically, based on my own rather extensive research on the subject.

Using HVO as a diesel substitute doesn't make any useful difference in "carbons" released with this intended use. Worse, as the article makes clear, many commercially produced HVOs use a large percentage of the planet-killing Palm Oil, making it worse than useless.

Re: Not shocked

It's an emasculated version, but a version nonetheless.

Re: Ken Thompson gets a lifetime pass

I'll not just listen, I'll pay very close attention.

Thank you, ken, for all you have done for computing.

Re: Only slightly off-topic

"sold in a plain brown cover"

You've got your eras wrong ... that was 1976's Lions' Commentary.

Re: I was expecting he'd compiled his own OS.

"I was kinda hoping he'd have his own WIP pet project OS."

He does. Two actually. Plan 9 and Inferno.

Apparently he runs Plan 9 on his Mac at AlphaGoo/go ogle.

Re: Good luck...

Why would I need a Pi (of any kind) to run Raspbian?

"The next paper will be published typeset in Cosmic Sans."

Are you suggesting they'll be jivin' us with their cosmik debris?

Re: PICNIC, PEBKAC you softies

On the other hand, Dr. Wang told a roomful of Silly Con Valley luminaries and hangers-on that he got over the locker-room derived humo(u)r of his name during his first year at Harvard, but we should feel free to snicker at it if we liked. In his opinion, it said more about the person doing the snickering than the owner of the name. He further said this applied to any name.

"Where's the soap?"

"Yes, it does ... "

That would be meatwear.

Re: FUBAR

FUBAR is US Army slang, circa 1944 (according to my OED). Probably at least a little earlier, as these things are usually in widespread use before they are written down fr posterity..

Re: Well that was unfortunate.

"Maybe a woman who doesn't like the implication that a random woman can be blamed for any and every problem"

It wasn't a random woman. It was a non-existent woman. Who wasn't being blamed. The word was being used as a handle to indicate a specific problem, it was in no way an indictment on anyone who uses the name "Sue". Especially not a Sue who entered the picture long after the handle was implemented. Anybody who thinks otherwise is probably in need of serious psychological help.