Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Birdemic - Shock and Terror
Seriously, this is a really dreadful movie.
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M-Class...
... Star-freighter?
Skiing
This is a planet where you can go skiing every "month"!
Posted in How to tell if your biz will do a Kodak
Po-tah-to
Who ever says po-tah-to? Anyone? No? Dust?
You don't mess with the Lohan
That is all.
For those mobile fails...
And Apple with a worm coming out; a Window with a broken pane; and an Android in "kill all humans" mode.
Indeed..
"However, a student of history can tell you that it has been warmer in past times than it is now, and human burning of fossil fuels has had nothing to do with those periods."
Frustratingly enough, archaeological evidence & primary historical records are dismissed as "anecdotal" and "unscientific" by those who wish to play down pre-industrial climate change.
If I was a historian or an archaeologist, I'd be royalled peeved by the way the scientists treat evidence which they *should* be using to sanity check their models & theories.
Check out this 1999 article from the Independent - before it was anathema to say the olden days were warmer. How much more fun it was when you could just think it was neat that the Romans grew grapes in Lincolnshire, without getting shouted at by angry people!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/veni-vidi-viticulture--remains-of-roman-vineyards-found-in-uk-738723.html
Climategate
"If I recall correctly, the whole 'climategate' thing was started by a Daily Telegraph journo deliberately misrepresenting a scientific paper on a blog"
Nothing to do with a bunch of emails exposing crooked science practices then?
This pleases me...
"The blue glowing engine exhausts in Star Wars are actually quite realistic, it turns out"
...Immensely.
Do not want...
.. no, please, no.
Seconded!
*A lot!* +1
There really is no alternative to the JVM - it is the most ubiquitous platform going.
We really do write code on Windows PCs and deploy it to Linux servers, and it works great. I can only imagine how much of a pain it would be to have to cross-compile and worry about all that platform specific crud.
Sure, the Java language has some annoying features, but Java also has some of most comprehensive, well-tested and well-understood libraries of any programming language *ever*, and all the tools & community help you could ever want.
Java is the only industrial-strength cross-platform option.
If all you want is the industrial-strength part, then yeah, you *could* use .NET... but you'll have to junk it all when Microsoft decide it's time for you to move to "Visual-C# @Cloud", or whatever comes next...
Posted in Ofcom okays Derren Brown psychic-baiting
Dead people
Do people end up dead shortly after you speak to them?
Shoreditch...
I'm going to need a smaller hat.
Posted in 419ers strip lonely heart mum of £80k
I feel sorry for her
Poor lady - even now you can tell she is more upset about losing the bloke than she is about losing the money! The disappointment and loss of happiness must be truly crushing.
Never underestimate the frailty of a vunerable human spirit, nor the cruelty of others.
There but for the grace of science, go I.
Thank goodness though!
Seriously, I know £400k seems a lot of dosh, but frankly I am still so glad that they are getting rid of this whole sorry system that I don't really care. We came damn close to being card-carrying members of HMP Britain. Phew!
Posted in Boris bikes for all from next week
At peak times..
.. at the busiest stations etc, you will find that there are attendants who empty the rack (and keep an eye on the bikes by the side of it), so there are always free slots there.
The system isn't perfect, but they are working hard to make it function well, and so far I have found it great. As always with these things, you get to know the quirks.
Also, time is never critical on a bike - because if it was, you would pedal harder and get there earlier, right?
Mmm...
I can't believe it's not physics.
Posted in Airport screeners go for the groin
Well..
We've already uninvented Concorde, so it's only a matter of time before we uninvent the rest of the planes. Steadily backwards....
Creepy
Yeah, this is just plain creepy.
The guy obviously is a little unhinged.
B/S
I call bull on this.
Genius
You only live once! :)
Posted in BOFH: Little ups and downs
Careful, son.
You're not making any friends in the East End, mate!
Homes and cars and phones
Off topic, but it appears to me that the technology in homes, cars and phones, has been ramping up at quite different rates.
Phones are massively high tech compared to the ABS ring-diallers of the 1980s - they have no wires, they have touch screens and on-board computers with hours of battery life in a few hundred grams. Similarly, cars have come a long way - they are now snug cocoons of comfort and safety, with a great deal of self-tuning intelligence & environmental control on board.
On the other hand, houses haven't really moved forward at the same pace. Which is a bit poor really, when you consider how much they cost.
My house has sash-windows for "environmental control", and the "self-tuning intelligence" is a thermostat (and even that is a bit faulty). The boiler clatters and bangs. The drain is a plastic pipe, and, er.. there isn't any other technology to talk about.
OK, so my washing machine kicks ass, but that's not really part of the house, right? And it's not networked :)
Why do you think this has happened this way? Wouldn't it make more sense to have our homes as a cocoon of comfort and safety (not that I'm advocating having 1980s cars again :).
Are we viscerally opposed to this kind of interference in our "cave"... or is it just that we want to have somewhere we can go were things won't "go wrong".
Did the Victorians feel this way too, and turn down amazing advances in the 1860s? Like the Electrochronotransmotivator - a device which sets the colour of your wallpaper to soothe your mood.
Stirling engine
You could perhaps use an air-cooled stirling engine with that design.
No need to boil water then!
Well and good, but...
I want one with anti-gravity pods that crackle with static! And gullwing doors!
Oh my god....
...we've all gone to war!!
↑↑↓↓←→←→BA♠
OMG Zombies! Wait a sec.... 30 lives! **BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA**
Sweet.
Sweet.
Their problem
"If you travel to a country where you are required to have your national ID card or passport on your person at all times, then having a card as opposed to a passport is a significant benefit."
Not really - it's still a document that you have to carry, and makes you into a crook if you lose it.
At any rate, all your are doing is pointing out how flawed and unreasonable these laws are.... I'd like to say I'll never visit these authoritarian regimes, but there are a lot of them!
Worth it just for this...
"modified B-52 bomber test mothership"
Get in!
Bees
Bees are fucking awesome!
Posted in No refunds for ID card pioneers
Boohoo
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Posted in Clegg promises liberties restoration
Fair dinkum
I don't think Thatcher and Major were ever quite so bad from a civil liberties perspective -- I mean, at least Maggie bust Argy chops fighting for British Liberty in the Falkland Outpost.
That said, I am 5 years younger than you, so the reigns of Mrs "Get some Nuts" T and John "Peas be with You" Major are all mixed up in a haze of Transformers, Boglins, and Hero Turtles...
Posted in Clegg promises liberties restoration
Yes..
You have just woken from a 13-year nightmare.. never forget this day! ;)
Posted in DIMENSIONAL PORTAL INCURSION AT THE LHC!
Foolish to attack Switzerland!
That little country is armed to the teeth!
That said, wasn't the last assault on Humanity launched against the formidable might of Victorian England? On foolhardy martians would mess with Steampunk Wokingites packing pre-Edwardian bio weapons!
Yeah!
Toads are awesome.
Nothing to hide....
All the non-crooks have got their cards then :D
Posted in Stargazers spy super-Earth waterworld
I for one...
I, for one, welcome our new ... er .. steamed fish overlords.
Posted in Acer embiggens server and storage range
In the current market...
... this is a cromulent strategy.
Software patents are rubbish
Software patents are rubbish. Imagine if C. A. R. Hoare had been allowed to patent quicksort, and we were all stuck using bubble-sort, unless we paid him a licence fee. Even in a small program, the number of royalties and licence fees needed would soon get silly .. and if you used the Java lang libraries, good luck there. Oh my god, I used the "?:" operator... better send some cash to Dr Richards.
A very good friend of mine, who is a patent attorney, tells me that you cannot patent laws of nature, or discoveries, only inventions. However, I get the impression that most people are dense enough about software and computing to not know the difference.
For example, quicksort would probably have been given a patent, even though it is a really just one formalisation of the fastest way to sort a list, which is a natural limit - it is (debatably) a discovery from nature.
Generally "patents" == "big money for the big guys", though, so unfortunately I expect to see software patents becoming more prevalent rather than less. Oh my god, I used the "==" operator..... cash to K&R.
Gah...
Now we have even fewer principled politicians!
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Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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