Posts by Captain DaFt

Re: dammit!

Thus the real implications of this find; the site of the world's oldest couch!

Nah, knee-deep sounds about right, since they went in head first!

Re: Descent vehicle

Actually, after the lander has landed, the most useful thing the descent vehicle can do is not fall on the lander!

"The lander is down safely, all systems are g*CRUNCH*.... Oh, bugger!"

You forgot... The Stig.

Re: Cape Hatteres

That's in North Carolina, so you're in luck! Their legislators just passed a bill limiting sea levels in that state.

(I'm not kidding; stating that NC sea levels will rise higher than the mandated level will get you fined!)

Re: Intro or the real scientist vids?

So you've had to deal with girls in that age group I take it?

(I'm going, I'm going... no coat, it's way too hot!)

Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTrWPqS4Kxk

"But it's happened to Microsoft quite often. Why show off incomplete products to the press? leave that to the developer shows where the level of understanding is higher."

But isn't that par for the course for Microsoft? When Apple unveils a new device, you can buy one immediately. When Microsoft demos a new device, it's always months/years before they have a finished product, and it's always short on what was demo'd.

I'm no fan of either company, but at least with Apple, what you see is what you get.

Re: Makes More Sense

Here's a thought; try googling "self inflicted stab wounds".

You don't need a gun to be a self destructive idiot, you just need to be an idiot.

Re: In a word...

Fugly POS, innit?

Why doesn't MS just own up that they lost all their desktop UI software in a server crash, and they're just throwing this kludge out to keep Win 8 on schedule?

Re: Rich get richer etc

And then, none of them make a profit in the UK. (At least on paper.)

Re: I made my digital transition in January of this year.

Same here. I only subscribe to my local cable company's internet service (since it was the cheapest), and get no actual "cable" on my cable.

Oddly enough, one a week, I get a circular in the mail from them, extolling their internet service, and trying to get me to sign up.

(That's right, they want me to add the only service I'm using to the list of cable services I'm using.)

Re: Victims?!

I dunno... When I saw the boxes marking all the people behind the guy dressed in brown as victims, my first thought was "Amazing! It can even spot flatuence!"

Re: *Very* big risk

'year of linux on the desktop'

That's come and gone already. Those of us that want it, have it. MS's problem is that consumers have many choices beyond desktops now, and Apple, or some form of Linux, runs on most of the alternatives.

So in typical panic mode MS is trying to expand out... by pushing a non-desktop interface on desktops? Oo-kaay...

Re: Patent lawyers... IN SPAAACE!

Maybe this'll cheer you up:

Once they're up there, we can cut the com link, then leave'em there!

Re: A very long piece of string

You beat me to it... except I was going to say "fuse" instead of "string".

Re: So my question is

Accident... similar name... Yeah! That's the ticket!

Or for the youngsters... ORLY?

Re: IT angle?

Almost got it... It's "ODFO".

(Honestly, didn't the moderatrix give you guys a checklist when she left?)

Re: Heath Robinson

@CarlC, are you agreeing with him, or are you the poor sod that got stuck maintaining his code?

Re: Paging David Banner

Hulk like new lenses, Hulk see good now!

Re: ****ING Repeats!

"Many "documentaries" that last for an hour, could be shown in 30 minutes if they cut out all the padding."

You've found some very informative documentaries! My last foray into watching TV ended when I realised that after watching the intro to a documentary, you could skip past all the "These are probable theories" BS, and find all the actual info in the last two minutes before the closing credits!

Re: I'm ashamed to ask this...

Yep, as matter is spun furiously in orbit around the event horizon, due to the blackhole's intense gravity, it becomes energized, emitting x-rays.

Kind of a naturally occurring particle accelerator.

Re: IT connection

Isn't it obvious? Once her victims wore out, she had to go 'digital'!

Re: When meeting MS people...

Bonus points if the macs you're "trialling" have Redhat and Ubuntu in VMs. :)

Re: Machine Intelligence?

I'm afraid that the first sign of human level intelligence will be when a chat bot misses the test because it was busy on Facebook.

Re: TINRA

Don't know why you got the down votes, truth is as long as Word, Office, and Exel run primarily on Windows, business will just keep using Windows. It ain't the OS any of them give a crap about, it's the software that they're using that matters.

Re: 12 month licence

Maybe... ask again after Feb/29/2016.

Re: DOES ANBODY UNDERSTAND THIS

These symptoms are obviously, the result of quantum fluctuations in the vaccum between your ears

I dunno... "nostnausea" seems to roll off the tongue better.

(Eeeewww! That doesn't sound right at all!)