Posts by Norm DePlume
54 posts • joined Thursday 4th October 2007 12:07 GMT
Re: I am not happy
I think all the guy is really saying, re mathematics, is that we need a Faraday for modern physics. If so, then I agree with him.
Will they be able to make _proper_ white LEDs?
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Dear me
These NIMBYs are everywhere now.
Don't be evil enough to get caught?
Perhaps?
"Acorn worms – enteropneusts – are studied because they provide hints at early vertebrate evolution (unless, of course, you take the side ..." of those who believe that Republican Paul Broun is a more likely example of early (in?)vertebrate evolution).
Re: Sadly though
To be honest, the proportion of Americans taking the gospel as gospel is worrying enough.
Posted in Emotional baggage
My school did this to me in 1988. Turns out that the other people in the year all wanted to do Chemistry in conjunction with their A-levels so my Computer Studies option, which had officially been available the previous day, was kicked into the long grass. All but one ot the other pupils dropped out of their chosen combination of subjects, leaving one guy previously from another school and me. So my sixth-form career was diverted for a bunch of quitters and a guy from another school.
Am I bitter? No! It turns out the Computer course might not have got me into Cambridge for CompSci, so ironically I did better without it, as Cambridge is precisely where I ended up.
Re: Soooo...
They're serving the people who fund their masters' political parties. Who were you expecting them to serve?
They're doomed.
Posted in Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs
Acorn etc.
Brazil was the ARM1 co-pro OS, I believe.
For some projects, a STR9-comStick might do the trick. Not a full PC (and therefore not eligible for inclusion in the main article), but has many of the capabilities.
Erm .. Vodafone are not unlikely to have to pay the tax they've been let off in Britain. No court has yet decided. Any previous court cases will be small change by comparison.
As for the Indian decision, like the HMRC one, isn't it even vaguely possible that it owes as much to pragmatism as to law. It is, after all, something of a reversal from the lower courts. Did they know nothing of law? I think probably they knew it well.
Posted in Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman
Sigh
But using the word 'effing' is a way of avoiding profanity. Maybe we should just brand it Effbook.
Average
If I join Facebook and have no friends: that's an infinite number of hops. I contend that there must be a least one person on Facebook at any one time with no friends. People on Facebook, therefore, are, on average, an infinite number of hops away from everyone else.
Or do you have to name friends to get an account?
Logopolis was huge
I'm not surprised a die size reduction was attempted.
Datong?
Datong Detong, Detong Datong, let's call the whole thing off.
Me too (!) - no need to upgrade
it's not just CPUs, either.
I bought a computer 3 years ago. I do a lot of gaming, so I bought a lovely ATI 4870X2; a pretty powerful GPU at the time. When it failed recently, I actually bought an nVidia 460 and I'm pretty sure from benchmarks that the latter is less powerful. There was a time when a mid-range graphics card of today would trounce a top-range card of three years ago. Not today.
Posted in Videogames caused riots says plod
History repeats
We see the same sort of behaviour after the initial introduction of home computers in the 80s. Indeed, it is a little known fact that the original riot act became necessary in the 18th century after several rather violent board games became available.
Inverness
Google "Inverness population" and it comes up with a best guess of 6789.
This apparently was the population of Inverness, Florida in 2000, admittedly, and, even then, it looks like some one just ran their finger along a row of the keyboard.
Precedents
Very slightly different, but Ronnie Barker - Rindercella. Standards were clearly very different back then.
(I don't think it was the only time he did dodgy spoonerisms either.)
"junk messages"
There are messages on Facebook that aren't junk?
Posted in Apple bashes 'gay cure' app
That bunch of half-witted creationists don't control America after all
Great stuff.
@Shaggy Dog: you mean there are apps out there to cure heterosexuality?
Yes, but what do the people who like balanced journalism think?
Ah!
Those who do not learn
In the late 80s Apple was riding a wave, successful despite numerous incursions into its markets. However, it then got bogged down in a series of lawsuits. Simultaneously, ttheir platform was neglected by many (developers, users etc.) because of the locked-down nature of its products.
Of course only a complete idot could make exactly the same mistakes again and give away their hard-earned return to success?
£73 per box of printer paper
Is this an usually large box, or does it come with platinum crown watermarks?
Bad news financially?
Hell no, we'll be saving on pensions and health care.
Sigh! Here again.
Didn't Acorn have to stop calling things pods because someone else had rights to use the name? That would have been back in the 80s and I bet it wasn't Apple that had those rights.
Suprised no one has mentioned
That The Sims is hardly a good counterbalance. Probably was rotting their brains from the inside.
Posted in More choosing maths A-Level
Amazing isn't it?
What a recession does for people's academic choices.
"literally frozen to death"
Are you trying to get into Colemanballs?
About time...
they owned up to being about IT and not the wider field of computing at all.
Bold claims
A force spokesperson stated that "everything in the Times is true".
Looks like the police are also making unlikely and unverifiable claims.
Dark Satanic Mills shock
They were in London. Blake was writing about London's mills. Nowt to do wi' us up 'ere.
Populatation Concern
Population Concern is a charity with exactly this sort of message.
Problem is you don't hear much about it: it's not well funded. The reason is simple: people give to charity to salve their conscience; helping people out works far better than avoiding the problems in the first place. Prevention may be better than cure, but curing is makes you feel better.
Next time you give money for farm implements, drinking water projects, sponsoring donkeys etc. feel guilty about it, 'cause you should do: you've just made sure an enlarged future population will endure even more suffering and given an extra job to our descendents to try to alleviate it.
Posted in Sony and BBC clash over PS3 problems
Some rebuttal
One half of one percent of 2.5 million? That'll be around 12500 then, as the BBC said.
What happened to Proxima Centauri?
If Alpha Centauri is the nearest star?
Erm
When I was a lad, swim short were banned in our local swimming pools. Swimming trunks were de rigueur.
Enough of the penis size war
In the bigger picture, the Fit / Jazz is probably going to be the more important car, tell us about that next time, please.
Posted in BOFH: A spot of bother
Has any one noticed the ads by google?
They seem to have taken on the theme of man's best^H^H^H^H just good friend.
Register investigation?
...Into how they're getting this information. I'm on it multiple times and I don't give permission for my mobile number to be passed on.
Posted in eBay says Skype worth $2bn
But you should never pay full price
on something bought from eBay.
Cat
What about the breed of cat, or at least its colour if it's merely some random mog?
Posted in Beeb names new Doctor Who
Dream Combination
This could be almost as good as teaming Peter Devidson with Bonnie Langford.
Of course it will work
Radiation will induce lots of simultaneous mutations, and out of every 10 I'm sure 9 will be useful. This is similar to the way in which when people are exposed to fairly low quantities of radiation, most of their children become superheroes and the parents don't ever die of cancer.
Damned
If the ministers did know, then any action they took whatsoever would be interfering.
I still think going after the recipient, not the originator, of leaked information is barmy.
Posted in Nvidia concedes SLI for Nehalem chips
The enemy of my enemy is....
I suspect they both want to see CrossFire relegated firmly to second place.
If it were not for Intel's decision to enter the performance graphics market, I suspect these two would be in bed together. As it is we can look forward to a three-way battle in the top-end of the graphics card market. Let's hope that leads to ultimately greater competition and not just the usual sue-fest.
Most retailers can't find fault even if pointed out to them, report finds
The number of times I've had to explain in depth what the problem with the device is, and then go round the loop again when I get 'no fault find'.
I've had a clock that had 12 hours in am and 10 in pm. The mouse that couldn't go rightwards and many more. Essentially obvious faults that have not been found. I wonder if the report accounts for the number of false negatives likely to occur?
The mouse was from W*tf*rd El*ctr*n*cs and they never did refund me for it.
Pedantic, I may be
But the highest resolution for the two colour mode 0 was 640 by 256.
Posted in Sky must sell off ITV stake
@Gav
Whilst I can see where you're coming from, that could be a pretty hollow victory if Virgin ultimately picks it up cheaper later on.
