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* Posts by AlgernonFlowers4

48 posts • joined Thursday 30th July 2009 11:36 GMT

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FAIL

Satire is Dead

And Irony!

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Alien

Perfidious?

Stop trying to rewrite history(?) It was the perfidious humans who attacked first. What happened next was just self-defence!

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WTF?

Giff Gaffe?

Why would I read GiffGaffs T&C's when I'm not even with them?

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WTF?

Forked Tongues!

Why is El Reg labelling paying GIffGaff customers Freetards?

Failing to understand the meaning of the word unlimited is no excuse for GiffGaff or the author of this article!!

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Facepalm

Hang on PAL!

Except those of us in the uk with our "We're so superior" 625 lines.

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What do nuclear scientists eat for Dinner?

Amazing - who'd thunk it, that by colliding two large haddocks together they would end up finding the cod particle!

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Mushroom

You calll that a Gamma Ray Stupendo-Explosion DEATHMATCH?

Don't make me angry.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry......

AlgernonFlowers4

The Empty Set contains nothing (ie 0), So it is Not Empty!

Einstein defined things in mathematical terms and whilst a mathematically defined vacuum is truly empty, a physical vacuum is not as it contains quantum particles popping in and out of existence.

Einstein based his theory on equations that work beautifully in accordance with the underlying mathematical assumptions and until the Opera people can physically conduct their experiments within that mathematical framework or break one his underlying assumptions, I'd say Einstein wins!

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Take That, Brid-Aine Parnell

Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light which he defined as c. As far as I can remember I don't think he ever said what the particular numerical value c takes. It varies with the medium in which it travels e.g water, atmosphere, vacuum, void space etc.

The people at Opera can bang on about their measurements like veritable pilgrims but the ultimate clash at demonhead won't occur until they measure the unimpeded speed of light in void space and until then the register should not let them get away scot free with their claims!

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Shares May Go Up Or Down In Value!

Nobody forced anybody into buying Northern Rock shares.

Heads you win, tails we lose.

AlgernonFlowers4

Yes they did!

From Bloomberg Business (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-17/u-k-treasury-takes-loss-on-northern-rock-sale-to-virgin.html)

'Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Money Holdings U.K. Ltd. will acquire the company for 747 million pounds ($1.2 billion). Osborne’s predecessor, Alistair Darling, spent 1.4 billion pounds to recapitalize the Newcastle, England-based lender in 2008 and split it into two units. Government loans totaling 26.7 billion pounds are underpinning the bad bank, which is not part of today’s proposed sale.'

And we get to hold onto the 26.7 billion pounds of negative equity - wow!!!

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Has El Reg Sold Us Out!

Really surprised that the reg reporter didn't disclose the fact that the Treasury paid £1.4 billion for Northern Rock, It was really good of the government to shower such largesse on the rich by selling it for for £747m. And as usual this generosity to the rich will have to be made good by the poor through taxation.

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Paris Hilton

Pleeeaase!!!

Playmobil erection or it didn't happen!

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Paris Hilton

Deadeye Dick!

Sing along now - "She don't eat meat but she sure like the bone"

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FAIL

Damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Having bought one from the US and paid the exorbitant shipping charges because there was no reports on El Reg about UK price cuts, El Reg finally really did it. You maniacs! You posted this today! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!

AlgernonFlowers4
FAIL

Global Warming is a much bigger problem

than the noise from these giant fans that we have to run in order to keep cool!

AlgernonFlowers4
Devil

No Use in Crying Over Spilt Milk!

The important question is not how the Universe started but what to do as the final curtain is about to come down.

Do the evolved beings around at that time side with Hawkings and simply accept that they cannot meddle in the affairs of the physics god and the fate of future universes is left hanging on random events and pure chance.

Or do they rebel and seek to recreate the universe in the image of the existing one so it too is as optimized for life as the current one once was.

Please note the evolved beings referred to in this post are not supernatural beings but are based on existing life forms and extrapolations of technological development over the intervening millennia.

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Devil

Intelligent Designers?

When it gets close to that point, hopefully there will be sufficiently intelligent designers around who will simply reboot the universe so that we can all get back to arguing whether the universe arose by chance or not.

AlgernonFlowers4
Childcatcher

Bargain at half the price

Should really have cost him an arm and a leg!

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Welcome

Cobol Like No Other!

In the early 1980's the Cobol environment I used, had a Data Dictionary System which held all data definitions in common, including screen interfaces with company standard defined validation rules which were all checked for in Cobol by the Validate verb so you only had to do was add in the logic,

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Alien

Does it Matter?

Let's just get on building a Skylon/Vasimr hybrid so we send up a task force to sieze the valuable stuff from those Selenites and their mega-brain ruler!

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Paris Hilton

Send Vulture 1!

A lot of people would probably pay good money to see PARIS mooning!

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All donations gratefully received

Once I have enough to buy an ipad and airfare, I for one would happily travel back in time using the LHC and plantt the ipad on the tomorrow people set. Send money now or history will start to unravel and you wouldn't want that on your conscience, would you?

AlgernonFlowers4

Talking to the dead is easy

Talking to the dead is easy, the hard part is hearing what they have to say.

That's not to say it's impossible just very difficult as sometimes the same thing happens with the living as well.

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Where is Lewis when your need him?

I thought Lewis Page sorted this out last Wednesday!

The only way of deciding if something is science or not, is to ask the ASA.

The only way of deciding if something is boffinry or not, is to ask Lewis Page.

As indian astrology consists of extremely hard sums and difficult calculations, what's Lewis's verdict?

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FAIL

WTF?

"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

42 base 13

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Paris Hilton

Objective Testing Please

What happened to the "which phone makes you most attractive to the opposite sex" test?

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Experimental Lightweight Scale High Altitude Glider

El Shag!

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WTF?

What happens when...

the children of these immigrants who settle here want jobs?

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Joke

Does this meant that.........

in the future the toilet will be as paperless as the office?

AlgernonFlowers4
Alert

WTF is happening?

Jokes about Paris! Boa Constrictors Virgin Births (http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/11/boa-constrictors-born-by-virgi.html)!!!

Just what have you done??

AlgernonFlowers4

The Next Impossible Project?

PARIS to Uranus?

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Preserve life?

Having read about 'old' people dying because they couldn't get a glass of water and having seen at first hand the caring professions attitude to 'older' people I am not surprised that baby boomers are opting for suicide instead.

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Welcome

I for one...

welcome this new os called Galapag

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Ingrates

You try and help your fellow human beings and this is the thanks I get!

From what has been written, obviously posession of this devil phone with it's changing bars is driving people to the brink of insanity. So concerned about their mental wellbeing I very generously offer to take this demonic object off their hands to restore their sanity and they start to quibble about the postage!

I am prepared to pay the mental cost of living with variable bars in different locations so you don't have to and you go on about the cost of a stamp! Ingrates!

AlgernonFlowers4

If it makes you happy

just send me your iphone4

Thanks in anticipation

AlgernonFlowers4

Quantum Compters at Rock Bottom Prices!

I have quite few of these boxed up and ready to ship in my garage - no reasonable offer refused - will ship but can't be responsible for contents of box when opened!

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Software Error?

If it doesn't work will it be called a boob?

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Pleas Don't Scrap DAB Just Yet!

Because I have just bought a very expensive Yamaha Y40D surround sound bar with in-built DAB tuner and it sounds awesome!

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Paris Hilton

Paris Angle?

Wot no mention of Paris? Where is the schedule for the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space project?

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Go

I for one...

welcome our free wi-fi, summer holiday loving bustard overlords!

AlgernonFlowers4
IT Angle

Microsoft?

A better iPod than Apple? Just think of the fun they could have with a BSOD people carrier system!

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Go

Probably just some 'armless fun..

He was probably just wanting to tell someone - look no hands!

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Paris Hilton

Knobs bigger than the Yanks!

If the Americans are only 1 TeV and ours is 7TeV surely our knobs are bigger than the yanks!

And just to stop them from catching up, ours should go up to 11!

Paris for obvious reasons..........

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Paris Hilton

@Man Outraged

But it might be a Quantum drive so that when you open the box, all you find inside is a dead cat!

AlgernonFlowers4
Alert

Live Coverage

There has to be live coverage of the event. There'll probably be lots of wannabe Dan Dare's who will want follow the whole mission with their joysticks, starting from the moment Paris mounts El Shag's mighty erection (the launch tower), to when El Shag starts rising and thrusting upwards until mission climax nears and Vulture Control announces to the world that Paris has cleared El Shag for re-entry, at which point it all begins to deflates and El Shag returns back to earth.

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Boffin

@Cheese Fan

So far the only recession proof business is the Pizza industry. If Britain can develop a space based delivery system whereby the pizza is cooked to perfection by the heat of re-entry and targetted to the recipients address via GPS co-ordinates launched from a helium balloon, just think of the carbon footprint reduction. No only would Britain save the planet from global warming, melting ice-caps etc but we would also have enough money from selling pizzas to build a Skylon Spaceplane! How could we possibly aim higher than that?

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