Posts by Tim 154 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Apr 2007
...I've worked and visited a lot of IT departments, not one of them looked like a comic shop or a batcave or any permutation of the two! Of course every geek who ever worked in any IT department certainly wanted such a set up, but with the exception of the BOFH, not one of them had power to make it happen.
If the 3rd season of "The IT Crowd" featured an office that resembled a comic fans batcave, it would cease to be a comedy, it would be the new ISO guide to IT.
3 have cut me off, not because I haven't paid them, but because I won't use a direct debit and they can't control the payments. I have some old pre-pay sims but my phone is locked and I don't want to scupper my chances of using the 3 network once they relent. This would let me use my pre-pay sim without the traditional method of unlocking.
...that we are all going to be spandex clad superheroes, in the near future?
Wearable gadgets could mean chameleon type clothes. There's also that gecko type textile that lets wearers scale tall buildings. Electrical manipulation can give a temporary boost in strength... etc, etc.
Just remember, with great power comes great responsibility, may the force be with you!
Mr Chief of Staff, shall we go public with the discovery of Autobots on Mars?
No!
But they know we're excited, I wet myself on my way here and left a great big smelly puddle!
Just tell them you found some weird chemical on Mars and it might be important but it might not!
Oh, ok then.
Why would anyone relinquish control of their house to their computer? ROTM? Anyone? Granted if I was a quadriplegic it might come in handy, but so would a trained monkey.
If you want to improve light-switches, you want to improve the motion-sensors so they switch off when the room is empty and a manual over-ride for sleepers.
TV remotes can be improved upon by improved speech recognition.
"As a child Tom poached salmon from the same spot on the Boyne where it is said the Salmon of Knowledge was caught."
If this is true, Tom must have grown up near the Boyne, I'm pretty sure there are no Gaeltacht areas in the vicinity of the Boyne, so his knowledge of the language is probably as bad as mine so this explains everything. I was going to blame the British, but that would be whining, especially since most of Ireland speaks English as a first language regardless of the politics. So sad!
We've got this personal flying machine, we've also got an exoskeleton lifting and carrying machine (albeit quite recently) we've got gps and satnav and carbon-fibre structure to lighten the load! Why can't we put all this together and mass produce to reduce the cost?
The end-result should be a machine that will fly us on a pre-determined route with 'on-the-fly' error correction and look totally awesome while we're at it.
Have you any idea how hypocritical your post is?
1. To start with, you are criticising people on the via reg comments for doing exactly that. (Granted so am I but it takes one to know one. So there.)
2. You criticise office workers for being "petty dicks who make big issues out of trivial nonsense." and yet you become an office worker who writes 17 lines whining about a blog comment.
3. You accuse blog commenters of being nadless.. in a blog comment.
4. You served with the British Army but you refuse to be recognised as British, yeah Scotland has an independant goverment but as I understand it, they are just as British as the part of Ulster unlucky enough to be north-east of the border. That's like not recognising that you need air to breathe, its true wether you recognise it or not.
5. It was only your job to go because you joined the British Army, you were not forced to join, you chose to. Deal with it.
I agree that the para's were big enough not to take the abuse of the childish seriously but you assume that you are criticising a republican, how do you think the loyalists felt about their beloved government sending in para's against them?
I'm with you on the sentiment of braking free from strangling dogmas.
One other thought: Is it more foolish to put your life on the line for the sake of your soul (even if your faith is misplaced) or to risk your life for the materialistic goals of H.M. Government?
.. now that we have a new scale, anyone reading old history and novels will need to do a bit of math everytime they see acres, inches, or farthings or anything of that ilk. Shouldn't all that brainwork develop our British craniums and give us an edge over the euro-trash?
It's bigger and the pilgrims will need to develop bigger muscles. Imagine what they'll be like when they return to earth after a few years! Everyone will want on the bandwagon after that!
Anyway, undersea cities are a little more realistic than moonbases.
... Is a religious first person shooter....hmmm actually I think there is one( Left Behind: http://www.religioustolerance.org/hatevgame.htm !) I wonder if anyone blames evangelical video games for anti-social behaviour in yoofs?
I would emigrate if I could think of a country that isn't affected by this idiocy.
..can't be arsed reading 60 comments, although I'm sure they are very entertaining... anyway it seems to me that the government is moving toward a society where they can abduct...er arrest anyone and spend the next 24 hours thinking up a passable reason why. It will take mere seconds while their accusatron is operational.
Trust? The legal world destroyed it.
It's getting to be a "pick yer witchunt" kind of world.
So... seeing as we no longer have trust... or privacy for that matter, is it too much to ask that my records are used to recommend me for my ideal job? If I was the ideal candidate I should be paid handsomely? Yeah, I know, pie in the sky, but I thought I should put the idea out there, maybe someone will pick up on it.
...this technology would be perfect for big, "smart" wigwams! At least in places like Arizona. The conical shape would have excellent surface area proportions and there's lots of solar energy to be had. Plus they could get back to their traditional way of life.... ^_^
Also, isn't this a great excuse to bring cloaks and capes back into fashion? Think of the possibilities!
... should be tased, repeatedly. I pity the pooch! In my eyes, keeping animals as pets is a form of cruelty. Then again, I reckon we should bring back hunting, but only for food; and we should even the odds so there is a 50/50 chance of killing or being eaten.
Tarzan only hunted for food.
... no swinging blades. Then again, I'm more interested in the article I read this morning about the flying saucer experiment. No moving parts and the propulsion works with or without the atmosphere. Now where did I read that....Reuters? Wired? New Scientist? Science Fiction Theatre? It's conspicuous by its absence from my RSS feeds now!
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