Posts by Captain TickTock
419 posts • joined Tuesday 15th September 2009 12:17 GMT
Re: Techies and geeks
Anyone technically minded wouldn't have an Aga...
But if I were you...
... I wouldn't start from here.
Like certain rear-engined sports cars, a lot of engineering has gone in to trying to make a bad idea work ;-)
Re: "made a close pass within 1.5 miles of the station"
You didn't watch the launch, then. They were using the appropriate units throughout - metric.
This is the 21st century after all.
Angry Birds...
Catapults.
Pork.
As the headline suggests...
Should the new planes be called...
the F35U ?
And...
they've got all that money they saved scrapping the Nimrods burning a hole in their pockets...
Radar opportunity....
... wait for it.....
V22 Osprey!
Google Founders...
Reading this headline really surprised me, until I read the 2nd half of it...
WORSE fuel economy than the normal diesel 3008
Apparently. driving a hybrid economically is not quite the same as driving a plain diesel economically.
I've read that drivers are not 'getting' it without a bit of education, which is down to the design of the car.
Re: Peugeot and Electrics...
Unless you take the extended warranty, but that won't cover dual mass flywheel clutch (grr) or rear window demister.
I'll wait 3 years to see how this gets on on the road before even thinking of buying into it.
Quarter High...
Sheesh.
2.5U would have been easier. What is the standard El Reg unit of server height?
Triple Orb Configuration...
Awesome!!
Indeed...
he should have invested in aerospace instead of pickles...
Get in line...
I've been waiting 25 years ;-0
But you can have my place in the queue for a pint.
Well...
if the Vatican uses Wikipedia...
Did any of them...
... pen "Reach" for S Club 7?
wouldn't that be grand?
if by gas you mean petrol in liquid form... yes
however, petrol vapour, which is a gas, can surely be ignited by a lit cigarette.
Who in their right mind would call a liquid "gas" ? ;-)
now that's..
a scary thought.
Full marks
for use of "Strap-on" in a headline
Hey guys!
- I know what we can get to replace the Harriers!
gnome 3 doesn't like my graphics card?
I think it's not so much Gnome 3, as Gnome 3 on Ubuntu.
The Fedora 15 live CD looks lovely on my laptop (AMD/ATI radeon) although it has broken apps, maybe the fedora 16 live CD will be better.
While Ubuntu 11.10 fully updated with Gnome3 (installed) has awful font and graphics problems in the top bar
(strangely fine everywhere else)
Come on Canonical - show willing!
Shouldn't that be...
Gnobuntu?
Silicon Graphics Workstation?
Now there's a budget production
Can't afford anything remotely new!
It's not like..
..Star Wars didn't rip off the plot lines of other films or anything.
Secret of its success.
Icon...
...says it all
Stone Tablets...
... that's Rabbi humour for you. Tablets... geddit?
Analysis piece idea...
I'm sure it's been asked over and over, but I must have missed it.
How did the production of just about all the world's HDD's end up in a flood plain in Thailand?
Wrong icon...
there. fixed it for you. No dinner for you tonight ;-)
Shtop - this desktop is not ready!
I've just upgraded my laptop to Natty first, which had a perfectly workable Gnome 2 fallback (for me anyway) and I've just upgraded it to 11.10, and now I wish I had waited.
Not because for me Gnome 3 or Unity intrinsically suck - they're just neither of them finished - there is still a lot of stuff to put back in -screensavers, customisation, etc - but at least there's the tweak tool. My big disappointment with Gnome 3 in 11.10 was that the font rendering varies from bad hinting and anti-aliasing to being quite broken, which I'm sure will be fixed with an update soon enough. In the past I've waited at least a month before updating, I should have waited more this time, that's all.
Meanwhile, the Gnome 2-ish "Classic" fallback in 11.10 is not as pretty, but is good enough for me. And Unity has improved over 11.04. Seems to take a long time to start up, I'll give LXDE and/or XFCE a go, and wait before upgrading my desktop to 11.10.
I'm finding this whole Unity/Gnome3 thing quite interesting to follow.
For all the problems, it's still worth far more than every penny I spent on it.
Be grateful for what you can still get for free, I say.
Mine's a Grolsch
I must be missing something...
I've developed Java Applets, and Java Web Start apps, and I thought they did run in a sandbox, and could only do something dangerous if it was signed with a certificate backed by a trusted CA (ok, ok, recent events makes this somewhat less than meaningful) and the user accepts the certificate when prompted.
And what to do when https certificates for your company's webmail, and even some sun/oracle sites throw up warnings. You get so used to saying yes because you know the site is ok, that one day you'll be caught out by another site...
Agree about the anti-java rant. It would have been more meaningful if it had been backed up by examples.
Works so well for telephony...
doesn't it?
Passwords?
I doubt that the characters would appear on screen in clear text as you type...?
That only happens in the movies...
Or...
Are You Being Served?
or...
the trolls weren't paying attention..?
Then they'll think...
we're a civilisation of sharks..
Wait til I build the Alan Parsons Project!
DC
If Edison had had his way, we would have had a DC distribution network.
(HVDC distribution is becoming a reality in some applications)
I find...
your lack of revenue disturbing...
Dixons are better...?
...than Argos and Supermarkets? How?
The bastards
Nice little pop (rivet) at Boeing in the bootnote
before or after ...
burping..?
The budget airlines would beg to differ.
They don't have to pay the pax to load their own bags.
I've heard something like this before
Must happen all the time in Zimbabwe.
They must have prescription beer-goggles...
To paraphrase a book on US politics:
We have the best trust money can buy.
Grand Theft..
thus spake one proud of shamelessly stealing ideas:
3rd party apps,
applications,
oh and that little idea from Xerox
Exactly the point I think...
More than 1.21 Gigawatts for a real car???
I know american cars trade muscle for refinement, but isn't that a little OTT, even for them?
Translation: We can't make money out of it...
So we'll kill it in favour of something with which we can....
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