Posts by Inventor of the Marmite Laser

Nah.

Sucks on a mobile. Too much wasted space. Cant comment on the ads; long since gave them the boot - you only inflict animated/video ads on me once.

I have to agree with previous comments regarding pigs & lipstick

Helium?

Isnt that the gas thats pretty hard to keep in? How long will one of these drives last?

"to leverage the Echo’s impressive ....."

When folk start talking like that its pretty certain to be wank spank or an HR consultant has gotten out of the secure wing

So. Kicked in the crotch twice, eigh?

One with getting just 1TB anda a second time being saddled with Orifice 365.

Still, I suppose you don't HAVE to use Orifice.

"Google leveraged its platform dominance"

Please. What is wrong with "used"? Has someone escaped from HR again?

Cars are fun too

Many years ago I had need to ask our graphics/marketing literature deaigner to move the nice Vauxhall Carlton hed bought newish sexondhand off the comaony.

As usual, it took ages for him to appear, by which time Id got bored, found a chunk of parcel strappimg, opened the car and was waiting for him.

His reaction: You camt have done that its an executive range car.

Another time, our admin lassie rang in from town, having locked herself out of her Datsun (it WAS a long time ago). Went to her rescue and managed to spring the catch on the back window then rwach in and unscrew the catch from the glass, open the window enough to reach the hinges, unscrew them, lift out the window and finally get at the door latxh.

Despite the two of us doing thus in the middle of a carpark and making no secret of it, no-one took the blindest notice of us.

What I find difficult to get my bonce around

OK, so VW, with the might of its huge design & development teams couldn't come up with an engine that met emissions regs and resorted to fraud.

Then the brown stuff hit the rotating object.

All of a sudden, a "solution" was found, tested and rolled out. Not only that but the "fix" was, for most engines, a firmware tweak and, in the case of the 1.6tdi, adding an airflow control device (a plastic mesh) in the intake.

Magically, that was all developed and rolled out in next to no time.

One is given to wonder why, if it really was so simple, VW couldn't have got it right first time around

Unless, that is, it wasn't possible to produce compliant engines that would not run a big, big risk of early EGR valve etc., failures - which seems to be exactly what is happening.

See what's trending

I have never understood why I should give a rats arse about what is "trending"

It seems to be associated with organisations serving me ads for more of what I have just bought/looked at/etc.

I love this mag

never change.

And NEVER

Use the word "Leverage" as a verb

No-one expects....................................

Its

Pai Day!

Capacitors

Many years ago: It wasn't unknown for a 22uf, 63V electrolytic capacitor to find its way, wrong way round, across the 12V power supply rails in some of the printers and terminals we often had on test. They were too small to have a vent but big enough to make a very satisfying bang.

Happy days.

"new ways to leverage Spectre"

Please. Stop the twaddle

Pai a backhander

Works every time, so long as the backhander is big enough

Come back Lester Haines

Methinks they doth protest too much

Nuke it from orbit

Then nuke it twice more

Just

Pai the backhander

Does the data provide ENOUGH resolution?

For instance, would it identify someone who, when presented with targeted advertising - or, iindeed any of the mindless trash that gets hawked around - would be quite happy to rip the authors head off and defecate down their neck?

We might be on to something