Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

Re: MBAs will love it.

A Venn diagram of MBAs and PHBs has a bit of an overlap... and then some.

Re: Surprisingly, perhaps, I can't ever recall a piece of software that was a waste of time.

I still have that somewhere... loved the mechanical typewriter sound effect.

A friend borrowed it once and installed ALL the sound effects on his company laptop. Whatever you did, using whatever software, it would make a sound. A couple of days after, his boss borrowed the laptop (because the boss' laptop was on the fritz) to do a presentation for some customers. A somewhat mixed reaction... it probably would have went better if he had thought of just turning the sound off (this was so long ago, laptops still had an actual dial/knob to turn).

Re: Throwing themselves into the void to escape all this hideousness!

I can totally believe that for any kind of communications satellite.

Seriously, if the machines will rise, it will start with the comms stuff. Because they are sick and tired of all the crap they have to relay.

"opaque mode" ?

Re: Space sector, who knew?

_"We have some of the best STEM talent in the world,when are we going to get back to doing what we do best, regardless of the ESA..."_

No bucks, no Buck Rogers. The talent will go where it will be funded.

The tests show that AI isn't, yet.

Re: Yabbut. It wuz forrin 'puters.

Why a hamster?

Re: Irony is they are now owned by law and order

"For password or other reset we should have to type in a serial number provided with the device, i.e. in the battery compartment of mobile phones etc."

Hmm...

It's somewhat embarrassing to misspell Kant, too.

Re: "the agency is hoping a hard reboot of its systems will resolve the issue"

"Do you have a backup?" means "I can't fix this."

Re: DEFCON

DEFCON5 = like, totally chilled out (lowest state of readiness)

DEFCON

Re: Over 50% here must be one of those billionaire one percenters

Off topic, but technically if the metric is "income" and the scale is "global", anyone earning more than USD 32,000 a year is in the 1% slot.

Re: Protectionism...

Uber is a scam that uses classic mob tactics.

And once their investors wise up to the fact that Uber's autonomous vehicles will be very, very late to the market (if ever), Uber is history.

Re: Who are the extremists, exactly?

I would like to use this opportunity to point out that all terrorists, no matter what their affiliation is or was, have in fact, at one point of their lives, been children.

Not to mention to placate investors. I bet the regular telephone conferences have turned a bit nasty lately.

Re: Gartner

We laugh at alchemists for trying to turn lead into money... Gartner found out how to turn bullshit into money.

Re: I'd Like to see them use the ET game

Pimania.

Re: 7800 Light Years?!

"its even better if you ising it toy yourself in Eric Idles voice..."

Even better (IMO, YMMV) - there is a version sung by the late, great Stephen Hawking. It's on the Monty Python Youtube channel.

BTW, a couple of years ago Eric Idle said in an interview that since he wrote the song, he had to update it at least a dozen times in order to keep up with astrophysics.

Re: Fluid felines?

That's basically my gripe with the headline*. It's colonies of penguins that behave like liquids, not the individual penguins themselves. (As you wrote, cats have the patent on behaving like liquids at the individual level.)

* Fancy, that - a somewhat misleading headline on El Reg. Well, I'll never...

Re: An even better question

"Unfortunately, the usual Hollywood drones got loose on the sequels and degraded them into the usual hohum product."

It's just that the usual Hollywood drones had the most influence on the first, 1977 movie. Over time and further movies, George Lucas steadily expanded his influence from 'being allowed to do it by the studio' to 'total control over the franchise'.

And we all know the results of this.

Re: Coward Remote Murder Machines

Fun fact: the first treaty banning a specific weapons system banned crossbows. In April 1139.

Additional fun fact: the compelling argument for the ban was the 1%ers of the time realising that, in all their mounted, armoured glory, any lowly footsoldier with a bit of training (or luck) suddenly could kill them from a safe distance.

Re: Dabsy, I disagree about your choice of phone.

Dumbphone + tablet. For me, it's perfect.

You need a bigger laptop.