Posts by Enno15 posts • joined Thursday 19th April 2007 05:52 GMT
really, you need to go back to the source... the greatly missed Kenny Everett who long ago on his program on the telly observed that the answer to question 3 was in 2 parts. Part A was 8 1/2 inches and and part B was Tom Jones. And now, Hot Gossip topless!
'nuff said.
Merry Christmas all from the antipodes.
Enno.
Yes a few girls going commando for $50 in drinks... that'll be "an invitation to sexual assault"... The prostitutes wandering the streets in this corner of Melbourne or the kerb crawling lowlifes who use their 'services' are no problem though.
St. Kilda is one of those areas of town where the night life gets a little wilder than average. We all know it and the problems there are not that the pubs run risque promotions but that all levels of bureaucracy still insist on policing the easy/mostly irrelevant laws rather than the ones that matter. And as has been noted, if the pub had broken any actual laws, plod would have been right round, rather than just making vague hand wavy threats in a national newspaper.
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Ah yes, speed of light... and IBM in one article. Made me flash back to the "jokes file" from the 70's which featured this gem (all over the net. Just google for OSVU if the link gets moderatrixed...).
http://ldworen.net/fun/osvu.html
"...IBM, through its wholly owned subsidiary, The United States of America, is working on a program to upgrade the speed of light and thus reduce the overhead of extraterrestrial and metadimensional pageing..."
Ahead of its time I say!
This is most commonly a sign that the people you are dealing with have a load-balancing/failover product that does DNS redirection from site to site as well as the more common intra site redirection. Its hardly the sort of thing an admin chooses to do for themselves...
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It was my impression that the whole list was bollocks anyway, revolving around the provable (often paper) assets of these folk. The world has richer people, various oil sheiks, the Sultan of Brunei and so on, its just their real worth is less tangible until its all been dug up and until we know whether the western world will collectively pay $100/litre to visit aunt peg next decade.
Remember that old joke: "If Ken Thompson designed a car it would have just one light on the dashboard which would light when there was a problem. The experienced motorist would know what the problem was". Yes the early UNIXen had to squeeze down into an early PDP-11's memory space (64k code and 64k data?).
- In order to not affect (i.e. load down) the circuit being measured, voltmeters are very very high impedance. The tiniest parasitic capacitance can result in seemingly lethally high voltages when driving a 10Mohm load. The voltage/current they deliver into a much lower impedant human earth path is closer to mV and uA.
- the real reason this happens is of course the modern, two pin (i.e. no earth connection) 'floating' switch mode power supply has no way to earth the case and protect the user. Should really only be used with plastic cased goods though and ideally a plastic that doesn't hold charge very well.
Not wanting to sound like the tinfoil hat brigade... but I seem to recall an article in New Scientist in the last year or so that suggested that as few as 25k-30k DNA samples taken from a (say longitudinal?) cross section of the UK could allow the police to zone in on family and together with a few other forensics clues allow them to essentially identify anyone from a crime scene, without actually needing a sample of that person's DNA. (i.e. because the uk has been a mostly closed genetic pool for thousands of years they can leverage that.) So who was paying for this study and what limits were being placed on the information? Yes. Thats what I thought.
On a lighter note... its been 2008 for a couple of hours down here already... Happy New Year everyone.
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Well the Dell laptop I'm using now was pretty much bought the way the guy in the article wanted (an Inspiron 9400). When ordered on the web site there were a whole list of memory options including details of how the memory was provisioned (e.g 1Gb with 2 DIMMS, 1Gb with 1 DIMM, 2Gb with 2 DIMMS, etc).
As I recall it cost me about $10 extra to choose a single DIMM config.
So Josh is re-making Joe 90... Ooooh, original. Mind you I read elsewhere that he claims it was all Eliza's idea and she mesmerized him over lunch one day... easy to imagine with that lass!
So you guys realize that concept cars are not about getting new ideas/models out first right? They're for exploring design concepts... "If I build a podule putter with robo distractor on the dash, how many extra airbags will I need for the extra crashes?"
Man and I worry about postits on my monitor distracting me and causing eye strain! ;-)
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(Oh and to the anonymous twat who said the French did it in 60s/70s... you do realize that Renault bought Nissan back when they were flirting with bankruptcy right? So still a French company technically. ;-)
How can you go past the glory that is... wait for it... the USB pole dancer!
http://jaycar.com.au/products_uploaded/productLarge_10142.jpg
My guess is NSFW by the way...
Lovely article in New Scientist a few months ago about the nature of genetic diversity in the British Isles. It seems as 90% of the populace has been largely trapped on the islands until relatively recent times (about when the modern jetliner brought travel down to the price all of us could afford) that there is enough genetic overlap in the population that as few as 15k samples and new techniques for tracking genes across family trees will allow police a good chance of determining family name of a random offender who is not (yet) in the database... maybe not enough for court, but likely enough for a search/questioning? In fact, the only people who escape that net are the recent arrivals whose genes will not have spread far enough through the populace to be present in the 15k samples. Of course the sample set is already much larger and growing daily...
But still, lovely thought. Plod at the door: "excuse me sir, someone with your name committed a murder last night. Where were you at 9pm sir?" Adieu presumption of innocence. We barely knew you...
The only problem is that 2nd paragraph, "Just three of the past 15 bull markets..." reminds me too much of that old joke about economists having "sucessfully forecast 15 of the last 3 recessions...". ;-)
The other obvious difference is that last time round with publically traded stocks a lot of the unwashed got burned by unscrupulous companies. This time round its private capital thats out there buying and then raping and pillaging corporate assets. Often their acquisitions are saddled with the debt they incurred borrowing to buy the companies in the first place (allowing the private capital to extract itself from its debts along with a 'modest' profit) and many it seems may never recover from these acts.
Not sure how the bubble plays out in this circumstance but I suspect as ever it will be best to be observing from some distance away with your assets safe in a bunker with you. Hopefully you don't depend on the companies thus 'invested' in or the economy they support... oh wait.
By the looks of the scale model Itanium (with the Segway booth babe) Intel may be on board with El Reg's Itanic moniker. It certainly looks like the chip is sinking from here!
