Posts by Rameses Niblick the Third Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops Where's My Thribble?

Re: I always thought..

They don't have planning permission yet - 20 years is still a possibility!

Re: the problem with this

If you didn't want heated seats then you'd save at least £20 in petrol / diesel by not hauling around the extra weight of heated seats during your time of ownership.

Have you ever lifted a heated car seat? They are unbelievably heavy.

Re: warning

Joking aside, I'm wondering why you think there was ever a need to move a 200 ton rock? Best estimates say the heaviest stone in the Great Pyramid is somewhere in the region of 80 tonnes. Large steam locomotives weigh nearly 100 tonnes, and people have been craning those around since they were first built.

The problem you have is that none of what you claim is as difficult as you make out. Plus current estimations are that each pyramid took 20 to 30 years to complete. That's literally a lifetimes work. It didn't happen quickly.

Modern day example. People were discussing the possibility of using the Saturn 5 to move large loads in to orbit once again. The problem? All the people who built, maintained and otherwise worked on them have long since retired so no-one now knows how they work. That doesn't mean they were built by aliens.

Re: Cognitive dissonance can be quite fascinating

I've just blocked Elon on Twitter, purely to see what happens

I don't know anything about space rockets, so to listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I think he's a genius.

I don't know anything about electric cars, so to listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I think he's a genius.

I do know at least something about tech stacks, website coding and web hosting servers, so when I listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I realise he's a freaking charlatan.

As a result, I now have zero faith in his space rockets or electric cars.

Re: Technically, it was 90 percent cheers & 10 percent boos

If a person was recorded on video booing, and then viewed the recording I think they would feel the full cringe.

FYI kids don't say 'cringe' anymore since they realised the adults started using it.

Cringe got yeeted.

(And yes, I know no-one says "yeet" anymore either)

Interesting, I didn't get that from the headline at all:

"Creator of spec for melting RTX 4090 cables urges Nvidia, others to 'ensure user safety'"

I always thought Nvidia was the manufacturer? Sure, previous reports (listed in the article) stated that Nvidia blame end users, but from this I took it that that body who came up with the spec in the first place is telling manufacturers it's their responsibility?

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm the first to criticise the americanisation of the register (lower case all intentional), the shooing away of Dabbsy and them generally getting rid of all that made this publication unique, but in this case I think the headline is fair enough.

Re: Catch-22

This was my reaction as well.

Maybe they are trying to gently get people accustomed to the idea that Twitters offices will be closed permanently, and not in the good* WFH way.

*ymmv

Re: he is being spam voted into taking the show's most revolting challenges

When the universe is otherwise engaged, people must do what they can to assist

Re: why do we accept it?

So if we want a change, all we have to do is change our voting habits. Stop electing 'these people'.

Which is exactly my point, and yet people insist on voting for these imbeciles and putting them in power, despite all previous experience. If people still want conservatives in charge in spite of the last few years, no amount of "someone I never heard of" putting their name on the ballot is going to change masochistic tendencies.

That being said I would gladly stand against them, care to lend give me the £500 it costs to do so? Unfortunately I can't afford to throw that kind of money away.

Re: You know where you are with an omnishambles

...it's oxymoronic to be permanently in a crisis

...and yet here we are!

Re: Had a quick look on how to acess

"It's pathetic watching you grind away on your own day after day. It's like a dog that's missing it's masters leg. That groinal attachment's supposed to have a lifetimes guarantee, you've worn it out in nearly three weeks."

I don't think I need to add anything else.

Yep, short but sweet this week.

+1 for Dabbsy, mostly because my username is too long for Substack. It's like using the previous version of the Reg forums.

Re: Incorrect measurement

Johnson didn't eat any of the cake.

Or drink any of the champagne. In fact he wasn't even there. Wait, there are photos? Ok, he was there, but only for ten minutes. Well, twenty minutes. Plus the speech he gave. But he didn't realise that was a party. Or the other one. That was a work discussion. The cheese and wine were there by mistake. Why is no-one blaming the caterers for this? Really it's their fault that Boris kept accidentally finding himself at parties all through lockdown.

Actually on that last point, given as Johnsons view of home working is, and I quote "My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and then, you know, getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop and then forgetting what it was you’re doing", then it's hardly surprising he thought a cheese and wine party was work.

Also, did no-one notice that he basically admits he can't be trusted to manage his own time?

Would I rather the car stopped if in any doubt or plow on regardless until 100% certain it had hit something.

Next time you're in busy highway traffic, and for absolutely no reason whatsoever, stomp on the brake pedal as hard as you can until the vehicle has come to a complete stop and see what happens.

Unfortunately and wandering off topic....

I've just received this as well, so please feel free to off topic as much as you like. I've always been a huge fan of the SFTW column and am very sad to read this. If Bofh goes as well there will be little worth coming here for. Tech news I can get anywhere; the Reg was always light relief for me.

I find myself conflicted as to whether to up or downvote your post. Downvote for the message itself, but upvote for making it known!

Re: Maths

This argument is maintainable right up to the point where the boss gets a 32% increase, and apparently that's fine?

Re: Don't know if it's just that my coffee hasn't kicked in yet...

It would explain why they thought photocopying $20 bills on to, in all probability, cheap copier paper and then colouring them in with felt-tip pens was absolutely going to go unnoticed and totally a good idea!

Re: Proposal for a New Law

Unless brown sticky stuff hits the spinning turbine

In my experience, the CEO is the absolute LAST person you want or indeed need around when the midden hits the windmill.

Now, after getting loaded by right-wing whack-jobs by the Trump regime, the anti-gun zealots might as well give up for a bit. It's a completely lost cause, as is the abortion debate. All that energy and angst would be far better spent trying to convince people to stop voting Republican.

In principle I agree with you. However, by drawing attention to these kinds of rulings, I do wonder if some of the thinking is that while accepting that it is a lost cause currently, it may change the minds of more moderate republican voters to see what is being done in their name and encourage them to reconsider?

Maybe just wishful thinking.

Re: Seems to have ended well in this case

If you try that kind of thing these days you will find that Turin trouble

Re: Half full or empty

As an auditor, I require a detailed explanation of where the other half of the coffee went, why it wasn't accounted for and a report detailing how you intend to mitigate this in the future

Re: Oh. My. God.

Indeed, when I read the dialogue back in my head with shwing in place, I read it in Garths voice.

Nice work my friend!

Party on!

Re: He might not be stupid

Pascal Monett: And what has Elon Musk ever done for us?!

XERXES: PayPal?

Pascal Monett: What?

XERXES: PayPal.

Pascal Monett: Oh. Yeah, yeah. He did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.

COMMANDO #3: And Tesla.

LORETTA: Oh, yeah, Tesla, Pascal. Remember what electric cars used to be like?

Pascal Monett: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you PayPal and Tesla are two things that Elon Musk has done.

MATTHIAS: And SpaceX.

Pascal Monett: Well, yeah. Obviously SpaceX. I mean, SpaceX goes without saying, don't they? But apart from PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX--

COMMANDO: OpenAI?.

XERXES: SolarCity.

COMMANDO #2: StarLink!

Pascal Monett: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.

COMMANDO #1: And he proved you can call someone a peado and get away with it.

COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...

FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Pascal, if Elon Musk left.

Pascal Monett: All right, but apart from PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, SolarCity, StarLink and the ability to call someone a peado and get away with it, what has Elon Musk ever done for us?

XERXES: He does have a buttload of cash, Pascal.

Pascal Monett: Shut up!

Re: Figured out what THAT meant

Worse even than everyone and the dog attempting to get the first bloody obvious reference to Red Dwarf ot HHGTTG in before everyone else does

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Re: Bears in a forest

They leave quite a mess, I'm told.

You should see what the Pope did

Re: Surprisingly decent

You should see the kiddies cartoon that $BOSS paid real money for.

Please tell me it was an NFT, that would make it perfect

Re: @Spaceman9

Maybe the gov isnt as dumb as it looks

Lets be fair, you're not exactly setting a high bar there are you? That is to say that this mob do such a fantastic job of looking so freaking dumb that to actually be more dumb than that would be quite an achievement.

Re: Fascism 101

Ditto Republicans