Re: CONGRATULATIONS!

Four of fish and finger pie?

Death by Electric Chair?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney

I enjoyed 'Hugo'.

Re: It's all about the service.

"No buffering issues as with streaming services."

Mind you, if a movie only has a handful of seeders, you could effectively be 'buffering' for 48 hours before you can watch it.

...or if you include references to work written by Little Bobby Tables.

Re: iphone liquidmetal

@Pierre: Whoooooosh!

Re: Momentus

"Pray". 'Prey' is what animals do to the other creatures that they eat to survive,

Re: Is it too soon to launch a preemptive strike?

Perhaps, instead of chicken soup, we could send them a Pot Noodle.

Re: It's not the porn he should be embarrassed by, ...

"What does God need with a starship?"

Re: BBM Kids

Nah, when teens in the UK first started getting mobiles, they all wanted a Nokia. That brand loyalty didn't stay with them when they started getting jobs.

Re: copied from somewhere, but appropriate

I've ALWAYS used the "ignition" key to shut off the engine. That particular Car vs Windows joke has always bugged me.

Re: no gaming needed!

I bought a sub-£350 laptop just after Xmas 2011. It has a very similar spec to this machine (Core i3, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium, DVD rewriter, big feck-off hard disk, USB 3 port, HDMI). It is an utter JOY to use and has replaced my previous XP-based desktop completely.

Windows 7 was a pleasant surprise, particularly when I plugged in my HP all-in-one printer / scanner and it just grabbed the drivers via Microsoft.

The most demanding tasks I use it for include video transcoding for an iPod Touch and running Propellerhead Reason. Both tasks piss all over the old machine. Transcoding takes a fraction of the time and Reason rarely climbs above 20% CPU usage, even with loads of tracks and modules running simultaneously.

I also use it as an HD video player over HDMI and it never breaks up or skips frames.

It's STUNNING what you can get for your money these days. Cheap Vista machines just weren't up to the job in hardware terms, but yer average entry-level Windows 7 box in 2012 gives you a pretty slick user experience.

Re: Can we have

James Clerk Maxwell (though there's already a very nice statue of him in Edinburgh).

Re: Incalculable?

"Did you catch the reference to the halting problem as well?"

I didn't at the time, I'm ashamed to say. A double-whammy! Good work fella, and an honour to meet you (Virtually, at least). Let me buy you a virtual pint.

Re: Incalculable?

Oh, well played indeed, sir!

You know, I hate to ask...

...but are "friends" electric? Are they?

Praying with the aliens.

Re: Won't someone... ahhhh you know the rest.

"OTOH, it's also a bit reassuring to check on their location if they're late and just find out they're en route, just held up. People missing their scheduled rendezvous tends to make people worry."

Or you could just, you know, phone them and ask where they are.

Re: 6809

Best. 8BitProcessor. Evar.

Re: Jazz music

Jazz music sucks and I don't think I'll ever come to like it. I'm trying to educate myself by "reading the articles" in jazz magazines, though.

Re: Real pi's tomorrow - not pre-orders

"My next laptop will be a (Pixel Qi LCD) + (Pi or FXI) + (keyboard) in a suitcase."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMS_Synthi_AKS

Polished Meteorite? Pah!

Everyone (including Apple) is thinking too small. The key caps on my cheap generic USB keyboard are made from material that came from the core of an exploding star.

Re: Give me more stickers!

http://www.paninionline.com/collectibles/institutional/bt/uk/

Shoe size range?

What does your post even mean?

UK shoe sizes start at Child's 4. Goes up to adult 13. SNR = 4:13

US shoe sizes start at Child's 5. Goes up to adult 13. SNR = 5:13

Euro shoe sizes start at 22. Goes up to around 49. SNR = 22:49

Sounds like pretty good content on an internet forum.

Re: Re: AN ALARMING ITEM TO FIND ON YOUR TWITTERSLURP

> from the people who brought us Microsoft Works

“The goal is to catch trends as they are accelerating and capture them before they hit the mainstream, in a way that is captivating,” said Microsoft Bob

Squirrel Hunting?

Really? They pose such a threat. Glad there are people like you protecting us out there.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio is the best piece of software ever to have come out of Redmond. And the best IDE in the world, bar none.

What about the other three designers?

"All Jobs did was to make the Designers the most important people in his tech company - not the Techies, or the Suits, the Designers. Bingo."

What about Fleegle, Drooper and Snork?

The correct SI unit of capacity:

Station wagons full of tapes per double-decker elephant.

Reaching an audience

"That's huge. That's a game-changer; it creates a system whereby the marketplace of ideas suddenly is vastly larger than it was, and a person with a good idea but not a lot of money now has the ability to reach an audience."

Personal Blogs allowed the "person with a good idea" to reach an audience. The marketplace of ideas is /already/ vastly larger than it was.

Oh, wait...

Sometimes, barriers to entry are a blessing for the consumer.