Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Its not just the creationists

you left out earthquakes (or whatever destroyed the walls of Jericho) --- and that "pillar of salt" thing.

- I think an episode of Ancient Aliens covered that...acoustic weapons apparently...

And whatever happened to Sodom and Gomorrah...

- I'v always suspected the ruins are either off the present coast or at the bottom of the Dead Sea (if they exist, or the source of the legend at least) - Unless they moved to the Caribbean and become rebranded as Hedonism2...

..Oh, right,(that, whatever happend to...) according to Ancient Aliens, Atomics, which explains Lots wife being mineralised. Damn more than a mere thunderbolt or RPG style fireball at any rate.

I don't really believe in the whole Ancient Alien thing either, but the questions are fascinating, even if the answers are dubious.

Most of the early Bible is based on Assyrian myths, Genesis mostly, even the god name is thought now to come from a region south of the region between egypt and Babylon.

Re: Enquiring minds want to know..

Pirates!

(Monty Python style.)

Pythons Icelandic Saga (Part II)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hExE6iLxfEw

Re: "Loyalty"?

I tend to shop at the same place a lot.

Loyalty? No,

Habit? Certainly.

Re: Quantum TV

What happens if you watch cat videos on a quantum "box"? Millions of observed kittens spontaneously popping their clogs?

I prefer to think in terms of Terry Pratchetts observations on boxed cats, theoretical or otherwise, alive, dead or bloody furious - possibly the latter as they are not seeing any royalties...

Re: Comparative context

IBM's Watson, with 300 million patient's recordsets = 5 comments.

But then IBM are not in the Business of collecting information primarily for mining for Advertising purposes in quite the same way Google are.

It could be you.

If this year has taught us anything it is that most people in this country cannot grasp that Millions and Billions aren't a lot of money overall when you are considering a nation's finances.

Probably not, most people only encounter those figures in connection to the National Lottery.

They got all frothy over £350m a week!

- This weeks Rollover?

The return of phrenology?

Retro-phrenology - for idiots doing dubious machine learning experiments.

A few sessions of being hit on the head with different sized mallets might do them a world of good, even if it fails to alter their personalities.

Re: CFCM?

French council of the Muslim Faith

Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics, and some Canadian church org

With the tories, the only approval is them watching everything you, just in case you might do something (I'm not convinced labour have killed new labours plans in that direction either).

Re: once again touting their belief in $deity$ as justifying their violations of human rights.???

Religion isn't to blame for people being dicks, they manage that all by themselves.

- It does seem to be a primary source of permission for being dicks, just ahead of football, politics and sometimes race/community*.

* I grew up in Northern Ireland, were all of the above were often in alignment.

Re: Carphone warehouse

Last time I wandered into CW, I wandered out again to check the sign as i thought I'd walked into an Apple Store by mistake (well I wouldn't go in on purpose).

Should rename themselves to Smartphone Showroom...

Re: Wasted opportunity...

It's not a word that gets a lot of publicity since the Prague incident 1618. It really could have done with even a small Reg outing

Re: If Only Google Could Get A Handle On Their Own Security Problems

There's your solution right there.

Have the OS market totally fragmented to under 2% market share with s/w binaries totally unable to run on other systems. No takers? Didn't think so.

Back in the 2000's the primary way of getting s/w onto linux was compilation yourself (a lot of that decade I was still on dial-up for a start, less fuss to pick up a Original DVD every six months) plus the userbase was generally more IT aware, still is, compared to the Windows user base, but there are more non-techies using it than there used to be.

The vast majority was the userbase, but how convenient an OS is to use plays a large part too, and 'Linux in the 2000's was rather inconvenient to use as a desktop OS. Didn't put me off one iota.

Re: Embrace...

.... have they given up?

Maybe, it'd be like pissing on a large forest fire.

My response at the moment is 'mummy, mummy, Microsoft is trying to ingratiate themselves.'

How are we going to protect the Falklands from those Arggie aggressors? Surely we can't leave it just to Jeremy Clarkson?

- Well as weapons go, he's pretty offensive.

You want to scare the enemy? Why not a range of Theresa May figureheads

Neck beard?

This isn't the 80's anymore, get out from behind you LCD. Most 20-something young guys are all sporting a beard these days.

Most neck beard wearers I see out and about are not also dressed in 'tech chiq' but something eastern...

Re: I was going to buy one...

Buy one anyway,

You can rest it on the coffee table to impress any hipster friends, which is something you can't do with your wedding tackle (although I suppose it depend on how content you are, and your circle of friends).

'Buy more now, buy, and be happy' - THX1138

Re: Dell Linux (ubuntu) laptops 200 quid including delivery

For those who paid 400 quid for a BBC micro back in the middle of the last century

The middle? was it available shortly after the War then?

I seem to remember it being new in the early eighties, I was at the awkward adolescent stage and hence really really wanted one, but settled for something that was both affordable and easier to get.

Re: I think the GOGs are on here!

Which should be a solid proof - prolonged exposure to technology makes people grumpy.

- Might be on to something there...

prolonged exposure to hyped up technology that turns out to be the same tat with a spruced up but useless UI makes people grumpy.

Sounds more accurate.

Re: News?

"He's the 2nd coming and did not even need 3 days for resurrection. On your knees and repent you sinful ignorant bastard."

If anything, that portrait pic the reg had up against a recent article reminds me of the Roman Emperor Caligula.

I was rather hoping for a Grunthos the Flatulent scenario.