Posts by GitMeMyShootinIrons

Re: Its not windows as people know it - Change the name...

Call it Microsoft Doors. Like Windows, but with knockers, shiny handles and a bit bigger.

Re: I thought it was the North Koreans?

"Alas not, Adobe is a Californian company and they brought us flash."

But... Flash is the saviour of the universe.

Re: Spinal Tap (inspired) Airways

The late model Convair B36 had 10 engines, six props, four jets - hence the line crews used on engine start of "six turning, four burning".

Re: "F-35 software development will be finished by the end of this year, "

It'll get done - meet our new Chinese outsourcing partner...

Module Protector.exe killed process Inhabitants.exe to protect village kernel.

Please reboot. If problems persist, please contact support@porkbarrelldeathmachinemaker.com

Re: Shades of Jurassic Park?

Adolf had more convincing hair too.

Re: I regret to announce

You need more fibre in your diet.

It burns, burns, burns...

Token Ring of fire.

Re: What about heat dissipation?

There's probably a few reasons why the CPU isn't merged with the DSP as you suggest. Firstly, it's developer kit, so it isn't quite product optimised for mass production - an all-in-one SoC would be more expensive and take a little longer to develop (though cheaper down the line when mass production occurs). A separate CPU and DSP means if their maths were wrong, they could change the CPU for something meatier without too much redesign. The marketing drones also have the opportunity to offer more powerful models for those who want to splash even more cash. Though dissipating the heat from a 24-core Xeon might be an issue...

Re: To quote an earlier commetard

Sounds like there's plenty of pork being pulled here...

Re: Quick Release or build it like it is in my head

Too bulky. I remember removable car radios (or facias in many cases). Often left in place or stuffed in the 'secure location' of the glove box.

Needs a DNA reader - a nice big needle stabs into your hand, drawing half a pint of blood....

Re: Payment and iris recognition

"I'm not sure why a payment system that uses iris recognition is any better than one that uses fingerprint recognition."

Easier to damage your fingerprint (or at least temporarily render it unreadable) than your iris.

Re: Gaping chasm

"Left leg is called "wealthy London" and right leg is called "rest of the country" ?"

I guess that means that some of the towns around the periphery of the M25 would be the gaping chasm. A fitting description for Slough or Watford...

Re: Swings and Roundabouts.

"one single hyper-efficient completely automated combination slaughterhouse and pastry smelter somewhere near Slough "

I've been to that Greggs too!

Re: But... but... they did it too...!

"But it still doesn't change what the Mail published, does it?"

You rather miss the point - You're basically punishing them for the sins of past generations of editors and journalists based on your present day political bias.

Remember also that many media outlets were rather keen on Stalin's Russia in the mid 40's when they were doing a fine impression of a steamroller over the remnants of the Nazi hordes - do we accuse them of being Reds-under-the bed too?

Re: Bah!

I was just thinking that the Mickey Mouse outfit planned to build a city of tomorrow which became EPCOT.

At EPCOT, you don't trap the mouse - the mouse traps YOU!

Re: Tesla a greencar, really ?

"That would seem to be missing out the production costs of the fossil fuel and its distribution to filling stations?"

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of the electric car (I remember electric milk floats as a lad), but before you start the high-ground moral willy-waving, if you want to bring fossil fuel manufacture into the debate, out of fairness, we should bring in the impact of:

- Rare-earths used in the necessarily larger electric motors.

- Cost of manufacture and transport of somewhat heavy batteries. This is not cheap tech here, sadly.

- Cost of running and maintaining nuclear power stations (including decommissioning, nuclear waste goodness), wind turbines (tend to be in lovely, scenic places that are conversely expensive to maintain), coal and gas power stations (say no more!).

Electric really isn't as green as you'd like, but it's an improving compromise.

Re: what happened to the tactical nukes?

"A new shiny F35 + Trident carefully joined together with copious amounts of BAE gaffer tape should be one hell of a replacement......"

Well, that's one way to get the F35B off the deck vertically.

Isn't this how Skynet started?

Should I not be digging a deep hole and bulk buying 7.62 NATO rounds and Heinz Beans?

Re: Fat, lazy and stupid

Big corporate mentality. Get smaller, more controllable entities to do the work for you and then take all the credit and profit if it works. If it don't, blame the subcontractor in an expensive legal case.

They're far from unique - how many western IT hardware manufacturers make all of their kit in their own factories? Many even outsource much of the design too.

Re: Solved the real problem

The EU referendum divides opinion whether on the left or right (Good examples - Tony Benn and Enoch Powell both opposed the EEC in '75 - against the Tory and Labour party lines). So, in the interests of impartiality, let me edit the last line for you. given the same could be said of Comrade Corbyn's New Old Labour (after all, the once anti-EU activist is now towing the pro-EU line).....

Whatever all these silly businessmen and workers think, the main thing is that the referendum has prevented Labour voters choosing UKIP, which is the reason we are having it.

After all, what's more important: keeping delirious left-wing EUtopians in parliament, or the UK economy ?

@ Richard Plinston

Actually, I had an Orange SPV back in the day. I omitted them on purpose, which, perhaps I should have clarified. These were stylus driven PDA operating systems with phone functionality stuck on - so more a PDA that you could make phone calls on than the modern Smartphone. While useful, they were very much a sign of the times (ah, the iPaq, HP Jornada - all good fun). MS had that much of the (very business oriented) market at the time because it was they and Blackberry - no retail user friendly Apple or mass market Android to steal their thunder. No easy to use App Store. No 3G data. Need I go on?

7 was a true Smartphone implementation with a finger (rather than stylus) derived touch interface, an App Store and all those media and messaging apps 'we love' - so a whle different world to the early era. Unfortunately, for the reasons I stated earlier - it was too little, too late.

Don't get me wrong, if my phone went bang right now, I'd probably risk Windows 10 - mainly on the basis of better the devil you (partially) know.

Re: Oh, poor Lily...

Astoundingly, turning a profit from Unicorn Steak has been tried (well, in a *very* loose sense) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_Steak