Posts by Terje

Re: Handy to know

I usually just prefer bringing a towel with me, then I can usually get water and lift to the nearest galactic vacation spot.

Re: Interesting story, but...

Looking at the experiment homepage it seems like the mass of the detector is 3500kg, while the mass of Xenon is 62kg.

Personally I prefer shooting pictures when it's dark using a properly cooled back illuminated monochrome ccd camera with a filter wheel and proper filters connected to a nice telescope on an overly sturdy mount. and then produce the color image in post processing on a good monitor instead. No smartphone has been able to mimic that yet :)

I'm also quite sure the report would have been quite a bit more thorough then one page with "Seems legit" in the middle.

Re: Not a nuclear scientist here...

I have the feeling that this would be very easy to get around even using low tech methods. Seeing as we are basically detecting electrons then simply pack your radioactive material in some material that will readily grab that electron and you can no longer detect it.

Start menu: I think it works quite well for the way _I_ use it ie. I mostly use the search in it to find/start programs, most of the things I commonly use I launch either from the taskbar or a desktop icon, the tiles on the right could just be removed though as I never use them and just ignore it. And I feel the search works better then it does on windows 7.

Controlpanel / settings: I totally agree and hate it, though it's not something that annoys me for daily use so that's only an occasional source for banging my head against a nearby wall.

Explorer ribbon is something I have learned to live with and it no longer annoys me, though I have to say that I'm one of those persons that have come to like it in office so I may be damaged from that.

Accessability: can't say anything about that as I have never used those features and use a grand total of zero metro apps.

Telemetry: Blocked in firewal and included in l the glaring issues part just forgot to write it.

Cortana: Very not enabled and microsoft have not insisted, may be because while I use an English windows (I refuse to have a localised version as it's bloody awful) It is set to Swedish locale and I think cortana is not available in Sweden.

I have a hard time to put a finger on what I like better with it but somehow it just feel slicker and faster to use to me.

Maybe if the exponential growth continue for to long it will turn into the server equivalent of the "Shoe event horizon" I think I will keep clear of needless cloudification just to be sure not be the cause of the destruction of our world.

Re: Nice story

If you are in the right part of Eastern Europe they can have decidedly good beer, so it may have been worth it!

Re: Don't be........

But does Osmiumfoil have the same proven shielding effect as proper tinfoil?

Re: IOT=Crap

The only use for an internet connected thermostat I can see is if you have something like a cottage that you only visit rarely and set it to maintenance temperature to avoid freezing when not there but want to turn on heat remotely so that it's warm and nice when you arrive.

Re: Promise to do better

Never tell that to the pissed off grunt with the launch keys for the rods from god!

Turn off your computer, what nonsense is that? Only time I turn mine off is for surgery or cleaning!

Re: Not sure...

Rose, that's your problem, If it had been either white or red I'm sure it would have been perfectly fine, but I'm sure the touch pad had taste and just refused to work with someone drinking rose!

Re: Projection much?

You neglect to mention that many supposedly bad genes may serve or have served a decidedly positive point in surviving. Quite a number of bad or damaged genes found today can be shown to be granting resistance or immunity to various diseases or parasites.

Re: They should stick to mice and keyboards

You are not supposed to hit the side buttons with a hammer! :) My G700 have lasted since early 2011 and it's been flawless apart from needing a new micro switch for the lmb after wearing it out. Apart from that I have had no issues at all with it and that is with heavy use. I guess they may well have changed the design of those parts to be cheaper though. What keeps me stuck with logitech though is the free spinning scroll-wheel that I can't fathom to live without now.

Re: RTFS much?

He asked the guy responsible for the application about the error and got told it was nothing to worry about. Unless you have a particular reason to not trust that person then I can't see that he did ANYTHING wrong, you got to remember that error / warning messages can quite often be rather unintelligible unless you know the software rather well. I do hope the application guy got a nice welcome when he got back to work though...

Re: About a billion years ago in internet time (call it 1986) ...

Have an up vote!

In the poor chemists defense, in chemistry G is usually something entirely different (Gibbs free energy). To much exposure to one field of science (particularly one involving lots of organic solvents preferably halogenated ones) tend to erode any residual knowledge in other fields.

Re: El Reg forgot to mention ...

Of course it doesn't melt, vampires are at ambient temperature!

Re: Interesting, but radiation killing through water?

High energy muons are remarkably slippery and can pass a kilometer of water without to much trouble. The same thing applies to the ability to pass through a human, megalodon or whale though so I have no clue about how much energy are dumped into a nearby dna molecule when the muon zips by.

I think we can safely ignore the neutrinos though as you have to be inside the surface of the star to recieve a lethal dose of neutrino radiation from the supernova and unless the megalodons were surfing on the stars hitchhikers guide to the galaxy style they were probably not in any danger in that regard.!

Re: Maybe its time for Microsofties to study programming?

There's also the possibility that as the codebase grows older it gets harder and harder to maintain as there are fixes changes redesigns and tweeks all over what in the beginning was nice clear and easy to understand code. I guess a large part of the windows codebase could realy do with a rewrite, sadly you tend to never get the time to do that as you need to get new shiny feature (that makes the code even worse) out to make the beancounters happy.

Re: RE: Dried Pasta & Stubborn, Unmoving Cats...

I prefer the overcharged CATtle prod myself.

Re: if breathing() return LYING

That is likely because only 35% of the tweets actually contain any information that can be truth or lies the remaining 5% is likely truth by accident.

Re: It's not that Windows failed, it's that it failed in public view

What's wrong with a good old "Guru meditation"?

Re: Not just assembly.

Mmm, reminds me of the good old days when I used to do 68k assembler, I promise you never once did the MOVEM instruction bite me when I pushed more or fewer registers on the stack then I pulled back...

Re: Em Drive

I have to admit that I never looked to carefully at the proposed em drive, but I do recall some chamber that somehow amplified things in ways that should not be possible.