Posts by Francis Boyle

There must be some mistake

You used the joke icon.

Tell me

What is the guarantee of an AC worth in the open market?

Standard 8 ran at 16 fps. Super 8 ran at 18 fps (when silent - the sound version ran at 24 fps). But pre talkies 35mm ran at pretty much whatever speed the camera operator (and the projectionist) cared to crank it at. I'm simplifying of course - if you want the detail read Kevin Brownlow on the matter.

An over-complex infrastructure

designed to pump shit around? I'd run with the metaphor but I fear I'd be stepping on someone's toes.

Impressive, certainly

but I fear you're right about the manufacturing. The real breakthroughs these days are in fab techniques.

Re: Encryption?

Spelling mistakes, gramatical errors.

INcorrect captiisation

Anything by amanfrommars.

We're all doomed!

I remember seeing an documentary a while back

I rememer seeing an documentary a while back

that made the point that in 1940 RAF fighter command was one of the most efficient, (self)disciplined organisations to have ever existed. The Luftwaffe on the other hand was a bunch of egomaniacal cowboys.

Who's who in the current context is left as an exercise for the reader.

"Would have"

I find you're pour grammer* deeply offensive.

*Mruphry rules!

Well it's not like

Europe has a history of tribal violence. Viking, Goths, Spartans, they all have an undeserved reputation for violence. And of course with the coming of the Nation State Europe got busy civilising the rest of the world not engaging in a series of increasingly bloody continent wide wars.

Seriously, you don't have to blame colonialism for all of the continent's woes to find the "violence - it's just the African way/the problem is the Africans"* sort of thinking deeply disturbing.

*As expressed upthread not in the comment above. I consider guilt-based history to be stupid and unproductive.

Hipster misogyny

Cutting-edge stuff, folks.

And folks it's happened

We've finally found the one true anti-Eadon.

Anything for a hook

Two NAS product have names beginning in "NAS' - it must be the work of lizard aliens or at least the Bilderberg Group.

Beat me by "that" much*

Have an upvote.**

*Where's the Maxwell smart icon?

**Have another for the username.

I installed the prick measuring extension for Firefox

but I got rid of it when for some reason it sent me here.

There trusted all right

That's the problem. . .

Say what you like about "Metro"

and most of the things I would like to say about it are not appropriate even here, the flat style is not the problem. (The implementation on the other hand. . .)

A strange little secret

in the sense that nobody ever mentions it, is that the Nexus 7 actually does fairly decent pressure sensitivity. I only know of one app that supports it which is a pity because it is otherwise rather primitive. Now if only Adobe or Autodesk would pull their finger stylus out.

Re: Yum Yum

Just proves people will eat everything if it reminds them of boobs.

More seriously, nail on the head.

While I shove this Dalek headfirst into a toilet bowl

Nah, it'll never work. You've got to leave some Daleks alive.

Where's your sense of British history

Clearly the proper way to land on Rockall is in a harness hanging beneath a Harrier.

Re: Wow

"If only people stopped wasting money on all this technological research we could get on with the job of harvesting nuts and berries and hunting bison."

As long as you hunt the bison by the traditional method of stampeding them over a cliff. This spear development programme is a waste of nuts and berries.

By their logic

we should all be floating near the ceiling since gravity is just a distortion of spacetime.

Count yourself lucky

Given El Reg's record in entomology I'm surprised they weren't described as termites.

or maybe just a 'metaphor'

Are we going to put and end to Shakespeare as well?

I have a Pre with inductive charging

The coil's in the back cover. If it weren't for the outline molded in the plastic and the contacts you wouldn't know its there. It's a small thing but marvelously convenient It'salso one of the reasons I'm in no hurry to upgrade.

Or

bee-eaters.

PS, won't someone tell this guy about El Reg standard units. I've no idea how big a US one cent coin is. Now if there had been a stick of linguine in the frame. . .

Wasn't it Alexi Sayle

who said: "Never trust anyone who talks about 'workshops' unless they work in light engineering". Or was it 'solutions' and chemistry. In any case by that principle Palin is safe.

On topic: I gave up on Hotmail the moment it demanded my phone number. So long and no thanks for all the spam MS.

If only I still had

the 1950s tape recorder my father used to make the soud-tracks to his films.. I loved the sound, I loved the smell (yes), and in particular, being a visual rather than music person, I loved the glowing blue-green tube that served as a level indicator. Virtual's just not the same.

According to wikipedia

the first picture on the web was les but maybe I've missed something in translation

Irony fail

You can't buy a Google Glass unless you can prove that you own, and frequently wear, a fedora.

I agree

the problem's not skeuomorphism as such but "seriously cheesy design work" but it's still skeuomorphism. Most skeuomorphism is cheesy because unnecessary - think fake brick siding. It's just that in the digital world there it has a legitimate use case because the objects we are dealing with here have no default physical form. So symbolic skeuomorphism, such as semi-abstact icons, is good. It's the representational version that's cheesy and bad.

I tried that

It didn't end well.

Who'd have guessed monkeys don't like to be smeared with PVA adhesive.

Exactly

A century from now when people ask "what did Microsoft do" the amswer will be "they invented the taskbar".

In fact

The rod could be completely mechanically incompressible (in the sense that the inter-atomic forces were effectively infinite) and the effect would still propagate at the speed of light since everything including forces propagates at the speed of light. The lightspeed limit is implemented at layer 1 of the universe.

Is that you Tony Blair?

I'd recognise you vision and foresight anywhere.

Are you Gerry Harvey by any chance

because if postage costs were anything like your example eBay would have shut up shop in Australia long ago. Standard postage costs for a DVD (I just checked) - about $5. Lenses (I know from experience) - around $10-$12. I can't imagine where the $50 comes from - are you paying someone to ride shotgun? Your 10cm cube shipped from Brisbane to Perth, assuming the maximum weight of 20kg (what are you shipping - solid gold?) - $64.95 for standard shipping. Yes, you can pay a silly $200 plus for express shipping but that's utterly irrelevant to point of the article. For something more realistic - under $10.

Nice try Gerry, but remember - the internet makes it ridiculously easy for people to find out when they're being ripped off.

Re: Ern Malley

Little known fact: every line of Ern Malley's poems is valid Perl code.