Posts by quxinot

Re: Pioneers of thrash?

>We didn't say that anywhere.

"...during the '80s, Metallica was among a clutch of influential bands that took the New Wave of British Heavy Metal sound, injected it with Motörhead and hardcore punk, and sped it up to a breakneck pace, creating "thrash metal" and..."

When you say 'creating' and immediately follow with a genre, it could be interpreted as creation of the genre rather than creating music within the genre.

And no, they didn't sell out after the black album. It was during the writing of the black album. "Thrash metal" does not allow a bloody ballad to show up in the track listing--see Slayer for details.

Re: Canny Canadian

Somewhere, a subeditor is sobbing....

Re: They are perfectly transparent...

Dark matter also doesn't ineract with light, and has enough gravity to suck.....

Fitting.

Bob, is that you?

Re: Covfefe-19

Kung Flu.

C'mon.

Only could be useful if you could get the data out of the unit in a usable form, and if that form was reasonably close to a known standard EKG output. Might be a nice additional piece of telemetry when used along with a holter monitor or the like, but not as a primary data source.

Though, heart attack as listed in the title and a-fib? Kinda different things, though there's some crossover with thrombus formation tying them together.

On the plus side, the only battery likely to be inside should be fairly easy to replace, and little to no glue is involved.

Re: I don't have a problem with this

To be completely honest....

Drain the swamp. So don't elect a crook or a moron.

Who's that leave? I don't see anyone in the running at all.... at best, they're all politicians, so a mixture of both. Some more egregious than others, to be fair, but there is no 'good' choice.

Re: 1000 cycles?

I'm almost a perfect canidate for an electric car. My commute is very short and I don't travel long distance by car with any frequency (highly unusual to go more than 200miles in a day).

And yet it will be quite a cold day in hell before I own one. I like to drive, and I like control. Not being fantastically wealthy, the trackday cars are priced out of my range, and every other electric car that I've seen is either a horrible economy car, or has firmware that as an owner I am not allowed to be placed in control of altering (i.e., the typical Tesla 'updates' that change behavior without my express permission).

With gasoline or heaven forbid a diesel, I have a reasonable shot at the very worse simply replacing an ECU if I can't find a way to reflash it to function in the way I desire.

It's bad enough with phones.

Re: here we go again...

She's the one in the Scunthorpe office, right?

Re: It's all perfectly safe.

>not enough sex...

Goodbye cruel world.

Re: Something seems wonky in that sentence

That mostly just changes what pollutants you get, though. It's all a balance.

Re: Stole my idea

I am not a carpenter and detest working with wood. But furniture made fro recycled corn flakes has no place in my home either. Been in an Ikea exactly once and I'd put it next to car shopping on the miserable experiences list.

Re: Call me a luddite and downvote me baby

All devs should be required to do testing on a computer at minimum specs, loaded with tons of resident applications trying to run in the background, over dialup (with significant packet loss).

Not only would that be a vaild worst-case test, but their work would comparatively scream in average scenarios.

Re: The awakening..

No one ever wanted Clippy to do anything but go back into its shell....

Re: If this was a car

The ideal interface for a car is one that you can interact with without opening your eyes.

Hrm. That may not be the best idea, now that I'm thinking about it...

Re: As a tax payer...

I wholly agree!

I think we should can all our other flying machines and have a fleet exclusively comprised of F35's of various sorts, none of which should be allowed to be put in the air.

Maybe then we could stop sticking our noses in the world's business! It'd be a massive cost reduction and very likely would improve the way other countries look at us.

And frankly, it seems that most places we stick our nose, we either get stomped or make almost precisely zero difference. At least in the past 70ish years.

Re: Prior art

>It did seem to be an extraordinarily expensive form of futility.

Once you say "lawyers", you will find any situation can be described as expensive futility.

Re: End of MWC?

> ...has good salespeople...<

No such animal, sorry. That's like questioning if there's such a thing as a useful HR droid--the answer is a resounding no.

Re: Keyboards

Beer destroys them in short order as well. They're surprisingly easy to rip to bits and run the keycaps and other bits through the dishwasher, though (don't run a cycle with extra heat, and use the area as far from a heating element as possible).

Re: 3 laws for AI

Goddamnit Cortana I told you to be quiet!

Stupid updates must have changed that setting. Again, grrrr.

Re: Hot to the touch...

And as the extension/variant of that: Once the drive is chilled and the backups are inevitably taking bloody ages because there's nine zillion tiny files that are being copied because you're trying to get everything possible and the customer isn't quite sure exactly where/which files are needed...

Spraying an inverted can of air duster at the thing while it chugs and tries to warm up.

There are some tasks that I ensure I'm not being watched while I perform:

-Most percussion fits that bill

-Anything that looks like a pagan ritual (using a freezer while chanting [usually "Work you f@#ing thing" repeatedly], and the like)

-Doing things that are clearly not to be imitated (scraping off a "no user servicable parts" sticker off a PSU to get the top open, swapping disk drive PCB's, running a motherboard in the sink to clean enough nicotine off to catch a buzz, etc).

Re: Windows 8

8 is significantly less of a wreck than 10 is. It takes an absolute truckload of time to hammer it into some semblance of shape, but 10 takes dramatically more--and then everything breaks next month and you get to do it again. At least 8 can have the updates turned off.

Re: 250

Thank you.

I've had to fix too many infestations of malware from advertising that was 'hacked' (also known as "not curated because we're lazy and money-hungry"). Screw your ads.

Re: AI could easily spot things we miss

Artificial Political-Level Intelligence.

Job done.

Next time, set the pump to run at a constant rate, and the fans to reference their speed against the temperature. The pump should be basically inaudible once any air has primed out (from shipping/handling/assembling, they're often noisy for a few minutes until they settle).

Re: Antitrust

Immediate flashback to the Ask Toolbar trying to get installed with...well... damn near everything downloadable for install.

Not all that different from Gator.

That being said, there's a number of monkeys that could use punched, and we'd all win...

Re: PL and TL

Can't get wool carpets approved because the beancounters nix.....

Huh.

Hrm....

I am 100% having the phone records of those who do the most damage to the population exposed.

Not terrorists or whatever. The politicians! Even a dedicated mass murderer struggles to kill more than a hundred or two people--a politician declares a military action in some backwards country and thousands of soldiers die, nevermind the non-citizen casualties.

Re: Do not use public information to test AI prediction.

There's a number of cars that use that technology. I think it first came to my attention in connection with the Nissan GTR.

The old version of a car knowing a test condition was dyno testing for emissions way back in the bad old days--if the car had a small light under the hood (bonnet) ostensibly to help you see to check the oil or something, it could just as easily be tied into the undoubtedly crude fuel injection system to make the car run cleaner, for example. Cars were emission tested on a dyno to simulate load, and invariably had the hood opened for connecting to the ignition system to measure RPM.

I think of that line of thought, I need a car that can measure when radar or laser signals are picked up in the vicinity, and slow me down enough to keep me from getting written proof of my car's performance.....

Re: Wouldn't it be nice if the UK had an effective regulator?

Bigger question. How much has been actually collected?

Re: Office 365

Personally, I was hoping it'd be called 'Windows Managed Desktop' just for the acronym. But I'm petty like that.

Re: ^^^^ THIS ^^^^

VVVVVV YELLING VVVVVV

Re: dwindling pool

Dwindling? Really?

Screw that. It gets worse every release because they keep adding idiotic stuff that just bloats it. Pocket, for example.

Mozilla needs to focus on making the base product fast as blazes and then stop shackling corpses to it. The whole idea with plugins is that users can pick out the bits they want, rather than having to disable the crap they don't want.

Re: What's the point?

With examples like that--having no grace period and always going for max fines, etc... I say great! At that point, we have laws being enforced equally, and can change the laws to reflect the way they should be dealt with, instead of writing massively draconian laws and penalties that may or may not be enforced.

Re: While they sit in their seats

>For example, if all the Global Warming alarmists were to immediately stop all personal local production of CO2 and other pollutants (in the best of the "think globally, act locally" tradition/mantra), don't you think the world would become a vastly better place, practically overnight?

The easiest way to reduce CO2 emissions from a given person is for that person to not have children. Seems like the alarmists always forget that fact. Man-made pollution can be easily reduced by reducing the number humans--given time, the numbers drop pretty quickly, but only if more aren't made in the meantime.