Posts by MyffyW

Re: Down under

That's A$700K worth spending if it stopped further idiocy.

Re: I doubt she'll ever be Home Secretary, but...

Just because she's the shadow doesn't automatically mean she'd become Home Sec after a Labour win. That's in the gift of the PM.

Don't blame the Serbs

British fears of German Naval strength, French desire to reclaim Alsace-Lorainne, Russian angst at the length of time it would take to mobilise their army, Austro-Hungarian dented pride mixed with internal contradictions inherent in a land empire, German expansionism and desire to avoid encirclement might all have a had a slight part to play beyond the single hand weapon that Gavrilo Princip discharged in Sarajevo back in 1914.

I'm out of breath now ....

Re: "Feeling Googly"

... or the management response "The Sound of Silence"

Been around for many years

Yes, but OMD are still one of my favourite synth bands of all time.

If you leave ... being about the most perfect accompaniment to Molly Ringwald's prom-night dilemma in Pretty in Pink

Re: There will be £10m for a scheme to identify ways to keep physics and maths teachers in schools

@Danny_14 said "The profession is basically boiling down to the same as the NHS - hopefully you can train enough people in 3/4 years to replace the ones who quit after 3/4 years."

The same grim equation that held sway on the Russian front for a similar period of time.

Re: The evolution of euphemism

deeply offended ... I'm getting the flock out of here

Re: would you like to play a game?

How about withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty?

What do you mean that sounds risky? What's the worst that could happen?

Re: Give it to me straight.

@J.R.Hartley - assume the position.

Re: Hands up: who'd heard of it before this article?

Heard of it from our Fujitsu peers, never so much as dipped a toe in it, but given what a Horlicks FJS make of our traditional co-lo services I'm not mourning it's passing.

Re: The Queen

If her Maj really does take the same route every time, surely that in itself is a risk?

Re: What a machine.

The Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) is without a doubt one of the most intricate mechanisms humankind has ever constructed. And the concept of a reusable space plane is pure '50s dreaming. Flawed but awesome.

Re: No more planets?

The ability to destroy a planet SpaceX-press-release is insignificant next to the power of the Force a 41 year old RTG.

Lest we judge

Whilst few of us would care to have our lives weighed in the balance (by Anubis or any other deity) I did get reminded of a phrase a learned co-worker of mine oft repeated:

The Karma Police will get you.

This doesn't feel like a ringing endorsement of the platform, merely a meek recognition that the game has moved on. I wouldn't care to bet on which tech-titan will ultimately hold sway, although I'd be putting an outside bet on a company I've barely heard of - but for the fact I've yet to hear of them.

Re: What's the net benefit to workers?

Sanders is a Left-Liberal or (in European terms) a Social Democrat. That's certainly a bit left wing but "far left" is pushing it.

Saying he's keen on "doling out other people's money" misses the point - the state already does just that when private industry privatises profit but nationalises loss.

Re: I'm shocked...

I rather appreciate the fact somebody has gone to the trouble to model the not-so-simple-harmonic motion my wobbly bits are subjected to.

I do look forward to Calamity the Cowgirl being fitted with a Triumph Doreen full cup to comply with Fortnite's concerned shock. Make sure you include those thick shoulder straps.

Re: On the subject of wildly optimistic deadlines

Domestic Fusion?

Everybody knows all you need is Pons, Fleischmann and a beaker full of heavy water....

Re: How long?

S/4 HANA SaaS product lacks many features of the S/4 HANA product you can run on your own VM, so I would concur - SAP don't want to own the bitbarn space. They already own you via the ERP software,

Re: Centrifugal force

Centrifugal Force? .... an engineering phantom. There is no such thing. An object undergoing circular motion will be subject to a centripetal acceleration. The "force" outwards is a reaction to the circular motion.

[Takes off her pedant hat before she feels it necessary to refute the assertion "It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the universe together"]

Re: That's no space programme ...

...err. And that's about it, really.

Move along, nothing to see. It comes to something when you yearn for a President with even the vision and moral fibre of a Kennedy or Nixon.

Re: Wait until the last sentence

Three guesses as to what the 'c' stands for.

Is it the speed of sheep in vacuum (measured in linguine per unit second)?

I for one...

Welcome the red-top-rag click-bait merchant's witty one liners - biting not just the hand that feeds it but often taking the upper arm too.

Keep it the f*ck up good people.

Re: Well....

You can have food you don't need delivered by people you absolutely don't give a sh*t about whilst you queue for a phone that massages your ego and tells you that "you're worth it".

Re: You have not lived ....

Alas it was not the big box zx81. My inner Anastasia Steele thinks that might have been fun. In reality I think that would have sent me to the Students Union (or the dole queue) rather quicker.

"My" Nimbus was beige and looked not entirely unlike an IBM-compatible PC. Until you tried to do anything with it...

Threepence

Though in some regions of the country (including my own flattened North Country vowel sounds) it is pronounced thruppence, it is spelt threepence.

The threepenny bit - or Joey as it was called - also doubles as a bit of rhyming slang for certain bodily functions. No similarity to Equifax should be inferred.

Re: If your considering...

don't get out of bed for less than 600 a day - unless the gig requires one to be in bed, in which case you're on to an all together different - possibly hourly - tariff

Tenth Ammendment

Idiocy not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Re: 777?

chmod 777 - for when you want the world to know your business

Re: The American Midwest is famous

I'm sorry boys, but for being wrong footed by the slightest of perturbances from the normal I claim the title for Britannia and Queen Bess.

Hurricanes -pah! Lightning - nah! A slightly slippery leaf is all it takes here.

Any chance...

You could just make the news better? It's not been very nice recently, I'd quite like this to change.

Re: My best and only program.

I created two forks of my code base, of which I'm rather proud. Although they generally run without problems, resource contention can occur.

Region == Datacenter. WTF?

Whilst I already knew some MS regions were represented by only one datacentre, it strikes me as odd this is the case in a highly developed part of the world that is known to have it's fair share of freak weather.

As for one region being able to take down Azure Active Directory, Calrissian's conjecture would seem to apply - This deal is getting worse all the time.

Re: Should have turned off the SDS hammer action

My Significant Other still believes you need a drill to hang a picture, so maybe this is just a result of somebody mounting an inspirational poster to "motivate" the cosmonauts?

Re: "Don't be evil" (Terms and Conditions apply)

All revolutions contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Re: Not a problem for me

Such an "upgrade" might fix an OPEX hole in the Navy budget though.