Posts by TeeCee

Re: Baked

Thats rich even by duke standards.

And the rest. The upper end of that's more than a ruddy Honda NR750 cost new......and those were considered eye-wateringly expensive, as you'd expect of a hand-made, limited production machine.

That one never made it into the Bible, but the earliest known reference to an ice-cream manufacturer did:

Walls of Jericho.

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There's also a passage that states "Moses came down from the mountain in his triumph.". This has caused long theological arguments over whether it was a 2500pi or a Dolomite Sprint......

Re: Misleading

Damn. There was I expecting the announcement to be a range of Jony Ive signature edition Macs, with his fingerprints cast into the aluminium casing and a huge price markup.

Re: No signs of competition yet

Actually what'll be really interesting is to see what sort of power consumption and grunt can be had from a 64-bit ARM processor with a die-shrink or two from the current, conservative levels.

Maybe Intel will have something in 2015, but I suspect that the major ARM players will have moved the goalposts a fair way by then.

Re: I can think of one possible use case

Or you could just buy a Philips "Ambilight" TV which does exactly that, only without the overly complicated poncing about with a mobile phone camera.

Re: Poll

Dunno about retarded, but the 1970's called and asked for their shirt and medallion back.

Re: Trusting ANYTHING plugging into a USB port....

>> It doesn't mount as a mass storage device till it's told to

Do tell. Every one I've used looks like a mass storage device on plugging into A N Other machine. No intervention required. NB: Does have to be unlocked on connection, but then the article doesn't say whether or not this "fake charger exploit" works on a locked iPhone.....

>> J. Random User doesn't even know the USB debugging setting exists, let alone how to turn it on

Some come with it on by default. Acer? I'm looking at you here.....

Re: Slightly off the wall

Just looked up Siddiq on IMDB for the hell of it, as I reckon he'd be a good candidate for the job:

Birth Name: Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi

Nickname: Sid

I couldn't read the rest, the surreal contrast there reduced me to incoherent giggling.

Re: interviewing former employees

Bodes better than spitfire hunting in Burma.

Why? They too had people who were there when it happened and who could say with confidence exactly where the things were buried. Unfortunately, a hole dug in that spot didn't have any Spitfires in it.

There probably are some somewhere around there, the RAF has form for digging a hole and sticking unwanted stuff in it. I remember one bloke telling me that they were doing an audit of an RAF base and found a Norton motorcycle/sidecar combination, still in its crate, that didn't appear on the books. The solution adopted was to dig a hole, as that was rather simpler than sorting out the paperwork.

Re: Wibbly wobbly pebbles!

Only you'd get through a shitload more ice cream before the tide comes in.

Re: Not sure I get this

....the UN may be referring to re-usable craft rather than fire once.

So the idea is to keep countries that cannot afford to chuck robotic missiles away out of the autonomous warfare business?

Re: Save us from the bloody Puritans

I reckon it's about time that we had another round of stuffing them into ships and sending them off across the Atlantic.

Re: “Waiting for certainty will fail as a strategy,"

The last two parts are actually very dangerous, as it may trigger overpopulation woes (demographic transition is not an instant process...)

The problem here is that we're already going balls-out on 4, courtesy of that well-known justification; "Oh noes! Think of the children!", while letting 3 go to hell in a bucket. Hence the rather obvious lack of demographic transition.

The trouble is that starving babies and kids' schools make great wallet-openers for a TV campaign, while infrastructure projects and higher education programmes do not.

Re: Quality online isnt as good

The problem I find with FLAC is that support is still terribly limited outside of some phones. My fleet car has a rather nifty hard-disk based system in it which plays digital files, but no FLAC support of course.

I have to confess[1] to using WMA lossless by preference, which more things seem happy with, for this reason.

[1] Yes, it is that embarrassing.

Re: The battery is only one part of the problem

That's an issue for longer trips,

Or just "an issue" full stop. When it comes to efficiency and eco-friendlyness building and running two cars, when only one is really required, is beaten out by using a steam vehicle fueled by burning old tyres.

And one of the few things in the world that presents less of a credible threat than the Syrian non-electronic army.....

Re: They're a bit old aren't they?

That explains a lot.

Most of us discovered girls instead.....

Re: Fired in Anger?

I dunno. Assembling the launching system would seem to provide numerous opportunities for trapped fingers and there's always the possibility of some arsehat driving the delivery transport over your foot.

So it's quite possible that a few were fired in anger.....

Re: I think he holds both patent and prior art ...

You beat me to it. I was just going to suggest that we start referring to him as "Kim Bellend" around here, seeing as his last name is a bit of a moveable feast anyway.

Re: Long intro statements

Or there's this approach:

Re: Was it an OS?

Speaking as one of those involved...

Let the blamefest begin!