Posts by Simon Harris

"but where's the question mark?"

5 and 6 kept theirs on their shirt collars, 7 on his jumper.

Maybe this one has it on his underpants.

Re: Keep buying disks

c) when they end up in the bargain rack.

Re: Pay?

Don't forget, professionals have homes too.

Re: er, the opening bit

At least this time it was being used to do something actually sonic (although a cheap walkie-talkie might have done the job just as well!)

Re: What's the real capacity

And what is the example given?

Photos.

The size suggested (3-5MB) is generally about the size of a JPEG from, approximately, a 12MPixel image (depends, of course, on the quality settings chosen and complexity of the original image). These are already compressed and won't compress much more, so for this example we're back to the raw 6TB limit.

Re: Low-res

"Sure, but it's hard to have 0.6660026534 of a pixel"

If each pixel is made of RGB sub-pixels, I suppose 0.6660026534 of a pixel could be one with one of the colour components broken (give or take the odd 0.000664013... of a pixel).

Re: So, Ad Age thinks I'm a "thief" who's "interfering with business"?

And as for those ads that try to sell me the thing I've just bought...

If I just bought a washing machine from you, what are the chances that your advert is going to convince me to buy another one right now? I've already given you my money, so now you're just stealing my time and interfering with my business.

Re: Not on a Galaxy Note 4 (I think!)

Similar for my Sony SP (Android 4.3, and they're not updating it) - doesn't seem to be any copy/paste on the emergency screen - I'm not sure it limits how many digits you can type though, I gave up at 100.

Re: Long long ago, in a waist-measurement far away...

"I once left a large breadboard covered in components and wires on a seat at the train station near my trade college."

Back in the 1980s on my way back to university, I had to spend a freezing hour or so late at night on Doncaster station. In an attempt to pass the time (and in the futile expectation that a 15W soldering iron might keep me a bit warm) I soldered together one of the boards for my final year project. Nobody raised an eyebrow.

Re: If your sex robot has achieved actual self awareness

"Wasn't it a pig?"

Ameglian Major Cow

although it did have rather a piggy nose in the TV programme.

Re: Watching paint dry

"The problem is that the programmer who looks as if he/she is making loads of progress might be concentrating on User Interface elements which look really good"

How very prescient! I just took a look at the site, and the front page had someone writing CSS code.

Re: Just thinking...

"But they don't work at 16:55 on a Saturday night watching from behind the sofa."

... and you don't get the same anticipation at 17.25 after the cliffhanger waiting a week for the next episode.

Re: Not in my lifetime... or yours, probably

AI is hard.

Predicting how mischievous/evil/stupid people can be is harder.

Re: Dark side of the Moon ...

Of course Pink Floyd acknowledged in Eclipse

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

which was borne out by the recent DSCOVR image sequence: “It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon," said Adam Szabo

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

Re: "or the Austrian village "Fuck"."

Pussy...

presumably that's twinned with Twatt in the Orkneys, or Twatt in the Shetland Isles - take your pick!

Re: That picture

"that next time we refresh the fleet, our most expendable staff member get's a flight to the nearest easily accessible active volcano"

Precious, precious, precious! My Precious! O my Precious!

Re: revenue stream

So, at no point in the New Shepard design process did anybody suggest not making it look like a giant cock?

Re: Surely the solution is ...

"But then squirrels would nest there :("

I'm quite happy with any solution that lures squirrels away from our garden - this year they ate all the sunflowers and all the plums.

Re: Fascist?

"At least no other national anthem is heavily nationalist..."

err... isn't that the point of them?