Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
You mean the shiny rolls that more resembled greaseproof paper than anything else?
Thankfully, I've not seen those (anywhere) since the early eighties.
Every institutional bog I came across as a wee lad seemed to have this useless paper. Back then, the bogs were certainly not in benefit of even a half-arsed cleaning contract with only daily cleanup, so bog roll that didn't so much wipe and spread was possibly the worst value.
Oooh. I forget the name of the episode.
But another Adams Doctor Who script that actually got made, and was also reused for Dirk Gently was that Tom Baker episode with Lala Ward as Romana set in Paris..
I just remember Lala Ward in that Parisian schoolgirl outfit the entire episode.
It's probably eclipsed all else.
What?
The opening of the third book is brilliant.
The bit about Arthur, alone on the prehistoric forests of Islington for five years suddenly meets up with Ford again. He's so glad to have human company again he could almost cry.
Unfortunately, Ford is an immediately annoying person.
Then there's the eddies in space time.
'Eddies in the space time continuum'
'Then please tell him to come and pick up his sofa'
jake, I think you uncovered the key for eternal life. If it was possible to prevent kids from putting stuff in their mouths.
Now if only we could stop a certain class of male from inserting appendages in Vacuum Cleaner nozzles, we'd have a more thoughtful race from the cradle to the casualty bed.
maybe.
“Well, no. Gee, all you need to do is be far enough along to be able to get three square meals or to solve the calorie problem long enough so that you can reproduce. And then, that’s it. You don’t need a lot of smarts"
When we were all wandering the steppe looking for a meal, the rash, the stupid and the clumsy had a lot more chances to take themselves out.
Civilisation provides a safety net. This is a good thing in some will get to learn from a mistake or two.
But some never learn, and get to pass on rash, stupid and clumsy to another generation.
Multi-screen application support has been something that;s lacking, despite the increasing number of screens about now.
But in the end, how usable a two screen device ends up being will depend on how much control you let the user define by themselves.
At least, in while all wait for the avalanche of apps designed to make use of two screens floods out from devs around the world (yeah! right).
I think I have a similar problem.
People often commented that I was rude when I started overtalking someone.
I really couldn't work out when it was the right time to join in, and observations about my rudeness I didn't grok, so I dismissed them.
Of course, the same people would complain if I sat politely and didn't engage in conversation much.
Can't win either way.
'Muggles' maybe, but it's the thoughtless corporate types driving A.I. with nothing but dollars in their eyes and being able to fire even the robots in H.R.
And so we end up with cars that mow down pedestrians, and probably sooner or later something much like ED 209.
We'll be lucky if there's anything vaguely in the training about not inflicting harm.
Maybe a digital readout to assure punters
'It's been XXX days since this unit caused a death. Have a Nice Day'
Vegans demanding that everyone stop eating meat, so that the animals can be set free to survive on their own.
That'd only last for as long as it took for Vegans to realise a lot of animals only eat other animals, then we'd have campaigns trying to get cats to stop eating small rodents, birds etc. and Lions to stop eating Gazelle.
Windows 7 might lead to hackers worldwide picking over the code looking for, and exploiting, Windows 7 security flaws
Probably, but white hats would be doing it too.
You might get more prompt fixes than the odd tuesday, and lacking in additional hare-brained additions and bugs masquerading as features.
but to actually get of their lardy arse and do something...
And if youtube goes dark andall on demand streaming...
You think they'll shrug and pick up a Book???
They say every society is three meals from revolution...
What would that be in hours of no video playlist.....?
I think the enquiry would return a verdict of death by a mob of the bored, the annoyed and the desperate for any entertainment.
You're looking at it upside down. Actually what they are doing is making Linux applications run on Windows... which is not the outcome you all wish for....
Yup, transitioning over to Linux?
Nonsense
they still need something They can licence for a profit, transitioning over to Linux will mean users could migrate off of Azure or whatever future base and run it without paying Miscosoft.
It might be something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Linux.
Fat chance, luckily.
The last thing the customer needs is to discover they've got more of a ride than they bargained for from some unlicenced underpaid headcase who took the job partially for the chance to corner a victim several hundred feet up.
Safer alternative would be to build a heavy duty drone with handrails on the underside -
Try for a drone and passenger design that creates a Mary Poppins like silhouette, be a great tourist draw for London.
its the data that allows companies that rent your screen space for advertising to make sure they're getting value for money.
more like "conned into thinking they are getting better value" - I've never seen advertising fed through these data gathering advertising 'giants' particularly more relevant than the anonymous kind.
I think the claim is as spurious as much of advertising is outrageous claims on the flimsiest of evidence.
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