It'll still be susceptible to viruses.
Do NOT install penicillin.
Posts by TRT
648 posts • joined Friday 11th September 2009 14:49 GMT
Posted in Sunshine nudges asteroid into odd orbit
Re: I'm surprised you didn't know...
No. You only get an "Oooo!" with Typhoo.
Posted in And the worst film NEVER made is...
Re: Hedgehog Crisps
Whilst they were a brand, the brand came about as their first creation WAS a hedgehog flavour crisp. They apparently asked a gypsy to be their taster in order to get an authentic experience.
Posted in Sunshine nudges asteroid into odd orbit
I'm surprised you didn't know...
The correct unit for force acting on a grape is the Francis. It is a derivative unit of the "Stu", which is the force required to crush a grape.
Re: Reader Question
I worked at Radio Shack in Canada. On my first day there I was warned that the 'nuks refer to their remote control as "the convertor". It's something to do with cable TV set-top boxes, apparently.
I remember...
the clicker remotes. We used to hide on the staircase when I was visiting my friend who had one of these sets and clap loudly to annoy his parents or siblings who were trying to watch TV.
Of course, I now want one of the old ray-gun style remotes retrofitted with a modern IR all-in-one remote.
Re: iDub thee...
Sir I
Why EE?
Why not Orange T? Pekoe?
Ah!!! I noticed this on an old and shaky machine. Coupled with a failure of McAfee to re-install and oddities with the Microsoft Audio Device driver, I decided a wipe clean and up-haul to Windows 7 was required.
Very clever, M$, very clever.
Annoying things on the Underground
Those damned wheeled bags. Not that the bags themselves are bad, but the people dragging them around... when they turn 90° straight across your path especially at the top of an escalator... RAAAAARRRRRR!!!!
I wonder which officer is going to be the first to get done for sneakily slurping the contents of their girlfriend's/ boyfriend's/ husband's/ wife's phone, now that it's been made so easy and self-service?
Paris, because of the potential for a ruinous affair.
Oh jeez... I guess he's changing his name to Chan then, rather than lumbering her with the tongue numbing Priscilla Zuckerberg?
I'm surprised that they didn't use any kind of special security screws on the casing. Also, it must take a lot of power to burn up those chips, so there's no way that the drive can have an integral battery to enable the physical destruction completely autonomously.
Posted in BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One
Of course. Because thanks to the government you can no longer get into the school at the end of the road any more, only one five to ten miles away.
Posted in BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One
Re: @Asgard - Ignore the Blue Peter angle for a moment....
@frank ly
Did you see Charlie Booker's guide to making an episode of Horizon? I was ROFPML.
Re: I hate "deadbeat"
Very true. Thatcher and her spin-team sold the CSA to the voter with such phrases as "dead beat dads" and "jack-the-lads bed hopping around the council estates breeding like rabbits without a care for the cost"
All well and good until they ACTUALLY put it into practise and went after any father with a job where the mother claimed any kind of income benefit whether they were paying for the child or not, forcing the absent parent to pay not only for the child, but 100% of the mother's outgoings as well. Hence my pay packet of £800 a month suddenly having £650 a month taken out of it before I saw it and could use it to pay my £480 a month mortgage, food and bills. Letters from the bank about not paying the mortgage etc etc.
Just don't get me started.
Posted in BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One
Re: John Noakes was the dogs bollocks
Konnie Huq. Hmmmmmmm!
Posted in BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One
Re: Austerity Measure?
"On BBC1, they replace it with a re-run of some blithering daytime TV classic - zero cost"
Oh noes! More "Crap in the Attic"? Pass me the remote.
Posted in BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One
Re: Peter Duncan in Flash Gordon...
He reported from Treasure Trap (Peckforton Castle) too. I polished his helmet for him.
Posted in BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One
Relaunch Blockbusters!
There's not much for the 15-19 sector. They should take a leaf from Challenge's book and relaunch the 6-formers version of University Challenge, Blockbusters. Plus points if they dig up poor, dead Bob Holness to host.
Posted in Button batteries BURN KIDS FROM INSIDE
Hearing aids
Doesn't help that sweet manufacturers devise ever more ingenious boiled sugar dispensers, some of which look like those rosette hearing aid battery dispensers.
Ah, reminds me of that old nursery rhyme.
Ding dong Dell,
Re: Pirates
*snigger* yeah, I know. Maybe it's just musos... mind you, they failed the practical test as well. They could tell a guitar lead from a headphone lead, but failed to identify the TOSLINK and XLR cables, and had variable success identifying the ISA sound card.
Of the three older candidates, one was a 32 yr old female who just about passed the practical but failed on the classical music theory test, the 35 yr old man couldn't tell what any of the cables or cards were and the guy we did employ in the end was just 25, the only one trained in the USA, he knew what e.g. legato and adagio meant, could restring a guitar (he even asked left or right handed), knew Reason(tm) inside out, a total f***ing musical genius. I jumped through hoops to get him into the country - thankfully the evidence I could provide to the home office, including the offers to install pirated software on college PCs, proved that there were no suitable UK candidates for the post. I was well pleased to have him on the team.
Pirates
I once chaired interviews for a music technician at a FE college. 12 candidates rolled in, 9 of them sat there and told me how they could get their hands on e.g. Propellerhead software for nothing, "which would surely help our budget 'cos colleges don't have much money, right?". The interviewer to my right was busy making notes with his FAST pen he picked up at a recent conference...
These 9 were all under 25; the other 3 were older, by the way.
Surely it'll need to Roam?
I mean, does it advertise itself as a roaming network able to accept all UK carriers? Won't that mean a SIM upgrade? How will this work?
Is the Oyster site...
centred around Perl?
Posted in Solving traffic jams with maths
Re: Interesting.
It's odd the effect a ring-road blockage has around Watford. Backs up all the way onto the M1 and the M25 if Exchange Road is closed for more than 30 minutes. But how do you fix Bushey Arches?
Yet another chocolate factory fail...
at providing an enterprise service.
That would be...
illogical, Captain.
Apple OS naming convention.
Use 'em to feed the leopards. Throw 'em in the arena to go up mano-e-garra against a lion or a tiger.
I'm just glad...
that the BBC have stopped making Spooks. I mean, one of those tasty, tasty MI6 lady agents sneaking a data stripping virus into a hostile embassy party dressed as a maid or a stripper...this could have given them ideas.
Remember Rik's party in The Young Ones?
I hope it's waterproof.
Re: worry
Is the base-pair spacing compatible?
Re: I tried reading about it, via the link
I understand it perfectly. But then, I do IT in a biomedical research laboratory.
Posted in Battlefield Earth ruled worst film EVER
Possibly you are. Other commentators are quite right - for the die hard fans of the series, the whole thing was too fast paced, too many changes to the text were done (that's where much of the humour is to be found) probably because some Hollywood rulebook decreed that a 2 second pause is too long in a movie whereas you need that pause to let the audience get the joke about "What's so wrong with being drunk?"
For a fan of DA, this movie is just bad bad bad. Imagine the cast of Glee performing a dramatisation of Terry Pratchett's "The Colour of Magic", directed by M. Night-Shamalamadingdong.
Blasphemy!
Mine's the one with the Kaled mutant in the pocket.
Re: How do we determine....
Flares are still in fashion in Noo'cassal, man!
Wrong deployment...
Direct power generation from wind was never going to be a good solution. They should be using the wind turbines to pump water into storage dams for hydro-electric generation.
Hey guys, guys, guys; back up a second...
when was the last time you saw a 5V battery, huh?
Posted in The best April 1 gags … or were they?
Re: One you missed ...
And you missed Jessop's "Hover Pod" flying tripod.
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Jessops_in_hover_tripod_April_Fools_prank_news_312061.html
Posted in Vote now for the WORST movie EVER
Re: Wedding video
The wedding video, in order to qualify as worst film ever, should be called:
"For Vow and For Never"
Crew:
Producer - Ed Wood
Director - Jonathan Frakes
Costume - Tim Burton
Cinematography - M. Night Shyamalan
Score - Danny Elfman
Cast:
The Groom - Mos Def
The Bride - Gwyneth Paltrow
The Matron of Honour - Tilda Swinton
The Best Man - Jack Black
Re: I've drilled the aerial out of my cards.
And they may find they end up with one less customer. I don't care. Banks are ten a penny.
I've drilled the aerial out of my cards.
And I don't care if I get downvoted for doing so. I don't ever use that facility, and I don't want to.
25Km per node???
That's just mental!
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Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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