Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

"It's a Buddhist meditation technique. Focuses your aggression."

-- Otto (A Fish Called Wanda)

Re: Facebook AI

Steve Martin - The Cruel Shoes (from Comedy Isn't Pretty)

See also: The IT Crowd, S 01 / E 02 - Calamity Jen

Re: When CFO and al. ...

"profound experience in nation-wide, complex IT projects"

IIRC, you could use the Psions (3, 5) quite well standing up or walking around (slowly) if you were using both hands to hold it and both thumbs to type on it. Pretty much like I'm doing right now with a tablet. It worked even better on the Psions - proper keyboard, better form factor for that sort of thing.

Sad, but true... I still have quite a lot of SONY consumer electronics from the good old days, because they just, you know, work without any fuss.

Re: Unrelated of course to foisting it on people...

Nope, you're not the only one. In fact, I'm a bit surprised that Pocket wasn't a part of FF/Mozilla already. But then I never was really interested in Pocket anyway and never looked into it.

There, there... technically, while circling the moon, you are still simultaneously circling the sun.

Anyway, good luck to SpaceX! Good to see that somenone is going to go "out there" again. Although I wouldn'd call a lunar orbit "deep space".

But it makes sense; it's the logical step towards moon landings and, later on, mars missions.

Re: You'd need a generation of early adopters first...

That was what the Pebble tried (and failed) to be.

You would have needed a bigger Pebble, and several of them, so to speak. The home computer/PC analogy works quite well here. If you started dabbling with computers in the early 1980ies, you had a lot of choice. Most of the names are forgotten now, but there was a wide range, and with local flavour too. Depending on your goals, budget and inclination, anything from 'build your own' to 'off the shelf high performance' was availiable. And, and this is the important bit, you could write your own software. And if you knew you wanted a computer, but didn't really know what for, you'd get one that you could play games on.

And wearables never really went through that phase.

Re: No word from the queen?

I understand her job is to lure tourists into visiting Britain, and apparently she is quite good at it. Right now, Britain is making a handsome profit off this business model; this may well change when travelling to Britain becomes less convenient.

Re: Cue exciting music

This was carefully designed by engineers - so how is that not technical?

Re: AI is lost without humans

Nice graphics, but some actual information would even be nicer.

Re: Court of law

Ahh, that explains a lot... I always knew that disabling the "fast save" option in, say WinWord 2.0, was a good idea as "fast save" had a tendency to fuck up your files (not something you'd want, especially while working on your thesis), but now I know why.

As to the the article - "Today, 10 years after of SHA-1 was first introduced, we are announcing the first practical technique for generating a collision," the research team said today. - I can't shake the feeling that maybe another team, possibly based in Anne Arundel County (MD), got there already a couple of years ago, but didn't bother with announcing it.

Re: euphemisms

Actually, I'm a waiter. I'm just going to auditions and take the odd acting job until I find the right restaurant for me.

Re: down the A5 for part of the way - even when the M1 was a faster alternative

I do that on the routes I travel fairly regular. Whenever possible, I time the trip so that I'm at the right places for elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner... Travel is much more enjoyable that way, and the stress I avoid is worth the extra time and the odd little detour on any day.

Re: On the premises or off? / including travel time

Some people can manage that easily...

RIMMER: Yvonne McGruder. A single, brief liason with the ship's female boxing champion. March the sixteenth, seven thirty one PM to seven forty three PM.

Re: Bah!

They just can't come to grips with the Foot-to-Linguine conversion subroutines.

Re: Spectral type?

"... but you should use the link to send corrections."

No offense, but that's basically heresy.

Re: ...should probably get checked out.

No, the standard procedure to hide your super powers is to affect a mild-mannered personality, comb back your curlicue and put on a pair of glasses.

Re: "Without naming the machine's maker"

"Why do I have to ask Tesla for permission to sell MY car?"

Good question... is it really YOUR car, in the sense that you actually OWN it and can do with it whatever you want?

I don't know the particulars in Tesla's contracts, but lately I have been noticing a tendency amongst makers of vehicles to regard their products not so much as sell-and-forget physical things, but rather as intellectual property on wheels that the "buyer" may use for some time, within clearly defined (and somewhat repressive) parameters.

Re: How many VR companies do we need?

1: Form company pushing the latest idiotic buzzword loaded tech

Hey! Look guys, I just invented Twitter!

If this is anything like Twitter, you got the bit about profit wrong.