Posts by Ralph B

Re: A couple points ...

> Side note ... One of the most ill-handling supposed "sports cars" I've ever driven.

I was a snotty-nosed teenage car nerd at the British Motor Show when the DeLorean was launched and I remember sidling through the crowd to ask the large American salesman why they had decided to put the engine way in the back where it was terrible for driving dynamics. His reply has stayed with me:

"It's because of the design of the motor car."

As unanswerable now as it ever was. And generally re-applicable to any poor product design.

Q. "Why have you made such a sub-optimal use of technology in your product?"

A. "It's because of the design of the product."

Thank you. Of course that's the reason. Silly me for asking.

Re: LOHAN

I don't know why you don't combine LOHAN with another Reg hobby and launch the damn thing from Rockall?

Re: No big deal

> Let's just hope that someone can accept that it was meant in jest

Sure. I can imagine that the horse penis bit was indeed meant in jest, but the there/their mistake deserves at least 3 years in the slammer. (Let alone "intension"!)

Re: Footnotes

> No I bloody well do not! I'm no purrv...

I'm betting you love a glimpse of pussy.

Re: Lesson learned?

Maybe he's been a bit of an arse.

Re: Either the Surface Pro or my colleague has not been assembled correctly.

Microsoft's version of 'You're holding it wrong' would be 'You're holding it. Wrong!'

Re: Proof of nationality

> Back in his snowboarding magazine days, a freeriding Australian colleague claimed that he only had to utter the word “bottoms” to make an Englishman snigger.

Oh, "Australian" ... I read that as "Austrian" and thought I might know the reason for the sniggering.

Re: £5 for a box of popped corn?

The cake is a lie.

Re: What's the point?

> No doubt there's a name for the psychology involved. Is there a technical term for empty headed delusional twats?

What about "massclickbaiters"?

Re: How many will buy a second Watch?

> The iPhone is a success because a lot of customers replace iPhones with iPhones. We've yet to see how many people will buy a second Watch.

The Apple Watch's battery will have an approximately 3 year battery lifespan, just like the iPhone. When the battery dies people will buy a new Watch for the same reason they buy a new iPhone. If they thought the price/performance was OK the first time, likely they will think the same next time. Just like with the iPhone.

Re: This would be interesting

Hmm, "at least three years of related, progressively responsible professional experience" ...

"related" - Your work was related to your degree. OK.

"professional experience" - You got paid for it. Right.

"progressively responsible" - What's that again? Does that mean you climbed the corporate ladder?

Damn. I thought I might be in with a chance.

Re: But but but

> How do I gold plate my wifi

Well, it can only be a matter of time before 802.11gold turns up. (Probably after the IEEE next have their favorite meal.)

Re: Agenda 21

> Read as much as you can about agenda 21.

No links? I guess the document itself (1MB PDF) might be a good place to start.

Re: Don't confuse

> Don't confuse You Tube Red with RedTube

It's easy to do, as contributors to both are getting screwed.

Re: Multiple rooms?

There is a $30 "Voice Remote" that's supposed to help with that sort of thing, but don't ask me any more details because I live in Yoorp and we're not allowed to have access to your highest tech. Yet.

Re: lack of self cancelling indicators?

I was more concerned by this sentence:

> The Atom has a dreadful steering lock, and some hairpins needed two bites to get around.

A sports car of that size can't negotiate a hairpin?!?!

I think I'll stick with my Mazda MX5 for this and MANY other reasons.

Re: Somebody In Management Had To Know

I think the "rouge software engineers" may be red herrings.

> Several times I've recounted this tale to various levels of dis-belief and mockery, now maybe the reaction might be slightly less incredulous...

Or maybe not.

Re: Fantastic engineering

>What it is, looking at the layout, is the fastest Reliant Robin in the world.

Bloodhound does have four wheels.

Re: Darwin Awards Equivalant

> Is he hurting anyone?

Well, given time, he exponentially threatens to exhaust the resources of the Universe!

Re: The five biggest wastes of tax money (In no particular order)

> I'm not sure who said it first but the gist is: If you want to be in a political office you have to be crazy.

You might have been thinking of Douglas Adams who, in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, wrote:

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

Re: My friend did take a bomb to (primary) school.

>hot air balloon rigged with bombs sent over by the Japanese

They were hydrogen balloons, rather than hot air balloons. But otherwise, you have the story pretty much right.