Posts by Geoff May (no relation)

Re: I'm waiting for the obligatory...

Moony McMoonface?

Re: Water seems to be everywhere

I always thought it rather stupid that aliens would drag water out of Earth's gravity well when there is plenty of it available in comets etc.

Re: Units

I whinged about something very similar 5 years ago:

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2018/04/09/sulfur_dioxide_volcano_life_earth/#c_3480671

And I am not under 60 ...

Re: Good use

I would prefer it for BMW, Audi and/or Mercedes:

FIRE EJECTION SEAT ON LEFT TURN WITHOUT INDICATORS

TURN ON FIRE EXTINGUISHER ON RIGHT TURN WITHOUT INDICATORS

Re: Again?

Mine did :-(

Taskbar did not load and didn't show any running tasks. Still, a very quick search found a working fix.

Re: Milestone moment

Astronaut 1: "I can’t find any milk for my coffee."

Astronaut 2: "In space no one can... here, use cream."

Re: 6 weeks

Of course the request is denied, mackerel do not deserve that kind of treatment.

Re: Interesting design

You just need something to distract you at the critical moment and totally fail to hit the ground.

digital motor

That explains what "digital motor" means, he printed the housing with from a digitally file on a 3D printer.

Thank you, I had always wondered about that.

Re: Raising the odds?

As long as we don't get to one in a million odds.

Re: Space bar

Would be nice and quiet, though.

Re: Hmmm....

You shouldn't be so negative about this.

Re: Ob H2G2

Or the rover could be distracted at the critical time and total fail to hit the ground.

Re: Fine

If 187 people had resulted in a lead, that would make £140,250. Anything above that is profit.

Re: Will be interesting

One of my work mates says he got a letter from his bank stating they were moving from VISA to Mastercard. His new card arrived a few days ago. He did not tell who he banks with.

Perhaps there are banks that are not happy with VISA too?

Re: Keep going

I wish I could get 9 out of 10 of my development changes right ...

Re: Wonderment in words...

... and I bet they nicked the code from the BOFH Excuse Generator.

Re: GW200105 and GW200115

Thank you for that, very interesting.

Re: Cosmic Dodgeball

Kim Stanley Robinson also discusses this in the Mars trilogy he wrote. Very interesting series of books:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

Re: Still laughing..

@Trygve Can we have your contact details, please? I'm sure I can send you a large number of items ... none are working but they are vintage and used to be called "computers".

Re: I'm reserving judgement

Yeah, Wallace and Gromit scoffed all their's so they have no proof.

This happened to me. I sarcastically suggested gluing the plug to the socket excepting the manager thought I was being serious so he did.

Several years later, the electrician was asking which dimwit glued the plug to the socket ...

Space docking

Is that like Space Trucking but for ships?

Re: Welcome back!

Or in your bookmarks:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/Author/Alistair-Dabbs

The world has been going downhill since we started experimenting with fire.

That is because we still haven't decided if it should be nasally fitted or not.

Re: OTOH

And the economy seats might even be an appropriate size for an adult human being.

Only for future generations because Genetic Control will have a restriction of four foot to humanoid height.

Most satellites store data on board the spacecraft and then it is downloaded at regular intervals. The down load needs an extensive team as you need to:

1 - Calculate exactly where the spacecraft is;

2 - Point the antenna to the spacecraft;

3 - Initiate the download (this usually stops recording on device #1 and starts recording on device #2);

4 - When the download is complete, start downloading from device #2 and restart device #1 (sometimes the recording is left on the second device and that is downloaded at the next schedule);

5 - Release the antenna team so they can start working on other satellites.

This requires at least 4 teams and they are almost always shift workers so that is a minimum of 20 people (to allow for time off and covering 24 hours per day).

Jupiterians?

Shouldn't they be Jovians?

Re: Marsy McMarsface

Noachin?

It's about the only thing beginning with N relating to Mars in some way I could find with a quick search.

Re: Tiptoeing around the elephant in the room

Just once I would like to read something on The Reg where some pillock does not fucking mention Trump nor Brexit.

Too much to fucking ask, I know but one can always dream ...

Re: Kind of humbling

Who nicked the fairy cake?

... are there any in Klingon yet?

Apparently there are bootleg versions out there:

https://www.asterix-obelix.nl/?lng=bootlegs

Scroll down near the bottom.