must be some sort of error
I think they meant to say "Overlooking scenic waterway."
Posts by C-N
75 posts • joined Wednesday 15th July 2009 17:31 GMT
Re: @desk jockey
..."The secret with coppers is not to make yourself interesting to them."
Got it. Don't be black, or Mexican, or Middle-Eastern. Sage advice.
Re: In the real world
Thank you Desk Jockey, for setting my mind at ease! So there's no potential for abuse, and it's for our protection, and, these machines are proven 100% reliable. I guess I am just too excitable.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100317/full/464344a.html
Why AMD will stay alive
AMD will always stay afloat as long as Intel needs someone to hold up to the US DOJ and say: "See, we don't got no monopoly. Honest, it's a competitive market."
Damn it! Out of stock!
Re: Somehow
The force is strong with this one.
Re: having little first hand knowledge of such things.
Thank heavens!
Yes
A thousand times yes.
Re: GiffGaff
They probably wouldn't expect very many; and, watch them closely, after the first few they might try to add a surcharge.
re: penny-sized plastic speakers
Judging by your title, Sir, I'll assume you mean a British penny; and not a US penny, or one from Cananada, or even some lesser country.
I can cook with it too? Or keep my coffee warm? Is there anything these fruity machines can't do?
Good grief people
Lightsquared's plan was scuppered by incumbent wireless profiteers ^H^H^H^H erm, providers.
Re: Maybe it will finally happen
It's crazy that people still pay (anything) to have a new office document file format installed; that will then annoy the hell out of everyone they work with by causing them to need an upgrade. While we're at it, I may as well mention how much us Linuxtards loath people who fling their .docx turds around completely oblivious to how inconsiderate it is.
Here's a tip:
If you want me to edit it, send it in a non-proprietary format.
If you don't want me to edit it, send it as pdf, ps, or other non-proprietary format.
Nothing is impossible?
I think you mean "Impossible is nothing."
ahem...
Can it run Crysis?
The reckoning
They will pay, one way or another.
Posted in What's in the box, Windows sysadmin?
Not a Micros~1 admin, but since one of you requested some Linux comments...
Trinity TRK. There may be better ones out there, but I've used it for years and it has never failed me in my mission (especially when the mission was pissing off a Windows-only corporate admin type).
KnoppixSTD has been handy on occasion as well.
Cygwin (can't live without proper regular expressions, sorry), Python, Notepad++, Firefox, Opera, or Chrome, and Bonzi Buddy ;o)
The banks will fix this, here's how...
It's unfortunate that this identity theft risk can't be mitigated. But! Not to worry! For the low low price of ten dollars per month, we can sell you some identity theft insurance!
Oh boy!
I can't wait to see what they invent next!
It's much safer now
Now that NASA have no hope of hurling anything into space. Okay everyone, buckle in and get ready to make the rocket noise! Ten...Nine...Eight...
I've kind of stopped believing things from the Glorious People's Ministry of Labor Statistics.
That's cute!
Credit card companies pretending to be upset about CC fraud. lol
Intel commercial? boo!
That must have been some good Kool Aid Intel served at their press briefing.
I ought to write a long and scathing flame about the whole decades long now "war" between Intel and AMD blah blah blah. But look just do me a favor and consider yourself flamed. I usually like the stuff you write, but not today.
Posted in HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI
me too
Don't go into my office, hide all my books and shuffle the contents of my desk drawers, and then expect me to be pleased. I'd like to be able to maintain some productivity while I get used to your new menu what-ever-you-call-it.
Posted in HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI
Too late
Thanks anyway, Mark. Mint is doing the job nicely.
Unions
And here I was thinking that companies hated unions.
re: Good Old Conservative NASA
Conservative?
NASA?
I think you mean good-old-throw-tons-of-cash-at-it NASA. Back when our politicians and voters had a proper irrational fear of the Red Menace.
Posted in Nuke support in UK hits record high
re: Thorium reactors aren't magic
You are wrong sir/madam. They are so!
...The plant itself still has the same safety issues as any modern reactor design...
Erm, no, that's wrong. Designs exist for which a reactor can be switched off and it will then enter a safe state even unattended.
...the big advantage of Thorium...
Is that there are so fewer atomic weapon proliferation risks. Hence, cheap energy for the whole planet. Hence a reduced need to go and steal oil from brown people.
...if your country happens to be sitting on piles of the stuff...
Ah, another advantage, almost everyone's country happens to be sitting on piles of the stuff.
Go and watch the Thoruim Remix videos if you can't bother to read. Then you'll be a nuclear expert too.
Posted in Nuke support in UK hits record high
Thorium!
LFTR, or some other modern nuclear reactor design. Especially ones whose output streams aren't lots of waste + bombs.
HO HO HO! You're killing me. Stop it! No really, that was just too funny. What are you? A comedian?
TV watching
Digital television reception is terrible (in my locale) anyway, may as well use it for something.
Naw
Fancy load-leveling or load-randomizing UPS like device. They'll think I watch looney toons and eat microwave popcorn 24 hours per day.
all the engineers who actually understand the problems...
"wet behind the ears engineers."
Cool story bro. Let me tell you how things work in the real world.
Every time any company gets a choice of properly vs cheaply what do you think they choose?
Until the decision makers at the top are taken to task over crap like this, expect the worker bees to do as they're asked / told. This isn't your father's job market so don't expect engineers to resign in protest over a failure to do some job right vs just-good-enough-to-remain-employed.
You may not like it, I certainly don't, but that's the way it is.
Is it April First?
chief exec...attended the presentation... thanked the researchers... promised to fix...
You guys are pulling my leg. You almost had me.
I hope you don't crash someday, while trying to reconcile the graveness of your emergency. How unlucky would that be? Wouldn't want to have to deal with the man from ITU over a radio protocol violation.
"According to 2010 survey data by Dr Dobb's Journal"
Yeah yeah yeah. What's Gartner got to say about it?
The Vampire Squid says sell Apple?
Bet that's not what they're telling their institutional clients.
Posted in HP earns Greenpeace eco-purity snog
Yeah, what he said
Do Greenpeace know about the boxes? I guess they don't read El Reg.
Even though a title is not required it is included out of respect for tradition.
I have tried the food, and I also have one of these tiles. The easy way to distinguish the two is to conduct a little test. Unfortunately, this is not a definitive test. Give each sample a taste. Now, heat both samples up to over 1000 degrees or so. Fahrenheit, Centigrade, doesn't matter. After both samples have cooled. Make a second taste test. The heat tiles taste almost as good on the second test. The heat tiles should exhibit no discoloration, this is not always true for the food. The food may or may not be slightly discolored, and usually tastes much worse in the second test. After you've done this a few times, you'll get an intuitive feel and often be able to identify them upon visual inspection.
But! but!
We can't show him the files! If we did that, he'd have all the evidence he needs to prove how badly we've treated him. Whereas if you let us keep them secret, we can continue to maintain that we've done nothing wrong, and he's just a grief-er.
the alternative
You prefer the much larger manned helicopter for crashing into property/kids?
At least someone is thinking of the children. I'd almost forgotten why we need all this regulation.
Posted in NHS told: freeze all Microsoft spend
re: legacy IT estate, which is predominantly Microsoft -based.
"Blah blah ... legacy IT estate, which is predominantly Microsoft -based... blah blah"
Hey buddy, while you've had your head in the sand, the world has changed. Smartphones, tablets, and an explosion of other devices with ethernet ports have to be supported. The days of the all MS shop are numbered.
I gather from the article though, that NHS merely want to organize themselves and bargain for a better deal with MS. Maybe try and avoid redundant purchases. Nothing wrong with that (other than the pain it causes end-users)
re: nowhere left to shelter.
I, for one, welcome our new Talpidaean-mecha-underlords.
letters and/or digits.
I, for one, welcome our new perfect-pitched overlords.
re: paper-mass
As long as you use it here on Earth, it makes a decent paperweight.
Posted in China takes HPC heavyweight title
You're joking right?
Really? Haven't been to Chiner much have you?
Posted in 419ers threaten terrorism charges
seconded
It's a masterpiece compared to some of the 419s I've seen
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David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
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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