Posts by onefang

Re: Quality output

"Easy. Just forget to take the lens cap off when you photograph the whiteboard!"

Shirley a blackboard is better for that sort of design?

Re: Umm...

"Swords are large and can leave a mess. Why not just stick to hanging Chad instead"

I don't think there are any politicians around here called Chad.

Re: Bank Holiday Friday

Christmas, the following New Years Day, my birthday, my sisters birthday, her husbands birthday, and my brothers ex wife's birthday, all fall on the same day of the week, all within a couple of months. I'm too scared to ask about my brothers new wife's birthday. The rest of the family, no idea, they had to make theirs hard.

Re: "As you probably know, the internet is a network of networks. "

"It's clearly a superhighway with many smaller highways branching off it. Though nobody ever explained how the service station toilets fit into that metaphor..."

Have you not seen social media sites?

"I have visions of cars crashing in a similar manner to Coyote hitting a brick wall because Roadrunner has painted a tunnel entrance there."

I think you have stumbled on something there. Self driving car makers need to feed their cars with a steady diet of Looney Tunes cartoons.

Re: Waste of space.... literally

"Category and time/comment count - two lines that just aren't needed"

I kinda like those bits. Though now I'm trying out the RSS feed, that doesn't include those bits. We shall see.

Re: @Grikath you must be...

"Why didnt they make an engine then? A simple 2 stroke maybe."

Coz 3D printing half a weapon gets you way more free publicity than 3D printing half a lawn mower.

Re: Oh boy

"His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. ~ W Gibson, Neuromancer"

Which is why the women are all over me in Second Life. Anybody can be super sexy at the click of a mouse in Second Life, but I decided to be a reasonable replica of my ugly real life self. So super sexy got boring, and ugly me was considered hot.

Re: ARM dreams of being in a laptop?

There is also this ARM based laptop - https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/ runs Linux or Android.

Re: How hard is it really?

"IMHO, the consumer-friendly approach is monopoly infrastructure based on defined standards. So that could be FTTH based on say, 1Gbps Ethernet or VLAN to each property. Competition would then be on services offered over that infrastructure from PoP to consumer unit.. Which would be technically simple(ish), but would also need regulation and legislative support. One can but dream though."

That's kinda what the Australian NBN, er NBN MTM, um nbn was supposed to be. At least until our Prime Minister Tony Abbot, er Malcolm Turnbull, um Scott Morrison, or whoever it is next month*, got their grubby fingers on it.

(* Was Peter Dutton PM for a few seconds, and we all blinked and missed it?)

Re: 89724102172714182892114I755167034974309673434677347864...

If you have been paying attention, that really long number changes sometimes, even though the puerile Uranus jokes don't. So I don't think it ever remembers their "name". It could just be some web forum equivalent of a numbers radio station.

Re: I have a "Smart TV"

"TV doesn't have to have smarts, why build something in that a $30 dongle can do just as adequately and can be replaced/upgraded when the time comes rather than wiping out the whole set,"

So that when the time comes that it needs to be replaced/upgraded, they can sell you a new expensive smart TV, instead of only selling you a new cheap dongle.

Re: 'My hosts file is currently 12,492 lines long'

"Go down to your local shop, like you've always done, up until recently, and buy things in cash. It's not difficult."

It is if none of the local shops sell what you want to buy.