Posts by DuncanL

Re the built in power switch, the KS2 Nexts at least have an inline switch on their power cord, right?

Yes, they do.

Re: simple requirement

Use Everything for searching - fast, unbotrusive and actually works.

They become taxi drivers on the Biro planet

Re: I want manual DOF control

Can probably get a good setup for only about £1000.

Only?.....

Re: Some of those...

Given that it seems from the evidence they're likely to win; they've gone for a massive claim and hoping that Capcom will just payout at a lower level to avoid the cost of lawsuit.

Re: "they exclaimed, 'How did you do that?!'"

And that was in the days of tube displays - so his desk must have been huge!

Re: Its very easy to detect ground based broadcasts

Have you got a license for that half bee?

Re: Exactly...

That's the point of the "offloading to the cloud" part - the app says, "get me a tiny version of this picture" and FBs server farms do the work to send a picture the device *can* cope with.

Re: Same boat

$1000 dollars is cheap?... Blimey, I'm in the wrong job.

Re: Why no colour video?

The actual reason? It's not worth the trade-offs in scientific data to spend the extra effort on colour. And most of space is very dull anyway!

https://www.straightdope.com/21344181/why-are-images-from-space-probes-always-in-black-and-white

Re: Meester Fawlty!

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it...

Re: Of course it was going to hit the boat!

That's not something to be proud of. Rememberr that when he has a fractured eye-socket from falling off (as I did the one time I thought "I don#t need a helmet for this quick trip....") - or considerably worse.

Re: The dirtiest four-letter word...

The problem is that for his one specific use case - it probably is "just" a little change and "only" needs five minutes... Then there's the umpteen other things he's broken because he didn't check or care beyond that one case.

I have no idea what the heck you're doing with that sort of data - but I think you must accept that you're so far outside the envelope of "normal use" that you're on another planet. These drives aren't for you!

Re: With shades of Banks' space ships

Not really - if so they would be called things like

Faster Then Your Mother

Look At The Bandwidth On That

or

Not Compensating For Penis Envy At All

Re: Soup Dragon

It's the Clangers planet's equivalent of lava - the Soup Dragon has evolved to mine it and bring it up to the sub-surface caves.

Re: And of course the sky crane they used for landing

That wasn't flying - it was falling... with style!

Crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside - armadillos!

Re: Can we have pinball back next?

https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-how-to-bring-space-cadet-3d-pinball-back-to-windows/

Re: Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger.....(alltogether now...)

Snake! It's a snake!

Dropping the Z

I foresee a lot of confused kids when going to the "oo"...

The main question...

Crispy or crunchy sprouts?

And "Hello!" to Stephen Fry and Jason Isaacs...

Re: Time is an illusion

The problem there is that you've invented a binary time system - it's either beer o'clock or it's not... Great for beer, not so good for planning beer related meet ups?

What? Right out? Dorking?

Re: Hilp!

Officer Crabtree, your French is improving...

Re: GVFS sounds super dumb

@JLV - You've evidently never been forced to work with Rational Synergy...

Re: Lineac 3?

"Lineac 1, Lineac 2, Lineac 4..."

"3, sir!"

"3."

Re: Betamax vs Betacam

lpcollier - Thanks for concisely summarising what went through my head as I read the ACs post!

Re: The download rate is basically set by the power supply

Wikipedia is your friend...

"Plutonium 238 must be specifically synthesized and is not abundant as a nuclear waste product."

Re: even worse...

Gosh darn mummy funster?....

Re: Bixby?

BIXBY SMASH!

Re: Each one will earn you 5 seconds in the dome...

Start the fans, please!

Re: 20% is not noticable

20% of anything generally is a rounding error for me. 20% faster, 20% cheaper, 20% more efficient.

Can I have 20% of your pay cheque please?...

Re: So much for fixed...

And still semi-broken today - most sites seem to work but the odd one or two still fail (request timed out in tracert)

Re: "that microphone won't be the first to go to Mars"

The microphones that have gone before didn't make it or were never turned on...

http://www.astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2016/06/sounds-from-mars

Re: La Grange

Well, I hear it's fine if you got the time

Re: Brightness

Looking at the relative size of the white blob that is BEAM to the rest of the ISS and its shiny solar panels; theoretically, yes - in reality, no!