Posts by TheProf

Really?

" the database was vanished from public view"

Was vanished? WAS VANISHED??

My mental gears are making that unfunny grinding noise again.

(Cue thousands of English historians pointing out that Shakespeare used the very same words to describe some bear hastily exiting to the left.)

Zoinks!

I can't see nVidia being too worried about this. They sold all their cards in a few seconds. Isn't that the business they're in?

As for 'fans' wanting to pay £40,000+ for one. Write out 40,000 times 'I must learn to be patient'.

(Yes, there are 21 bids for a graphics card that costs more than a new Jaguar F-Pace.)

Elite: Dangerous

I flew my Viper MkIII out to see the Voyager probes. The game has them farther out than in real life due to it (the game) being set in the future.

Even at many times the speed of light it takes a rather long and boring time to get to them from Earth. Strange to think you can 'hyperspace' in seconds to the nearest star system to save you the bother of the long haul back to Earth.

£300

Three hundred quid? Bleedin' 'ell! That'll get you a decent 8k capable graphics card.

I can't get my head around people wanting to play 8-bit graphics games. I can remember the disappointment of what appeared on screen as compared to the illustration on the box. 'So the red and blue blocks are supposed to be Superman, and that green square is Jimmy Olsen?'

I think I'll give this a miss and spend £200 on a graphics card and the rest on a nice Scotch whisky.

I'm not on twitter

So, here I have a wonnerful offer for all you ElReg listeners.

Send me yr money and Ill dooble it. YES! TRUE!!

Send mnoey to my untrasable offshore accountg and Ill send yoo back dooble.

Dont daly. This gullibility won't last 4ever.*

*Unfortunately this bit is not true.

Presentation

Good job but I prefer the look of the original. This one needs a bit of a steampunk makeover. (Or cyberpunk. Or WWII punk?)

I was going to ask if anyone knew how it came to be called 'bombe' but I got off my lazy arse and googled it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography)

Howdy Partner

I was under the impression that John Lewis had 'partners' not 'employees'. As in 'we all own the company and have a say in the running and the responsibility and share of the profits.'

I guess that all goes out the window when the takings are down.

You can't advertise jobs for just women

But you can still support them in these totally non-discriminatory ways

"More and better internal career development and coaching programs for women

Putting in place resources and opportunities specifically for women, such as reserving training and research money for female scientists, as a way to make jobs more attractive to women."

At a loss

I don't understand this. The author of this piece has spent £40 plus carriage to by an old laptop that doesn't connect to his home network and this allows him to work without interruption.

Wouldn't the same effect be achieved by simply turning off the wifi at home?

Maybe it's

From the people who brought you the movie "Krakatoa, East of Java"

Lucky break

Hell's Tits!

I've just been out for a walk in Liverpool and I only missed, by 3310 miles, colliding with The Empire State Building.

Flip

How did the driver of the truck manage to put it on its side? The road doesn't look particularly dangerous.

I couldn't help it

The explosion looks a lot like the work of Gerry Anderson.

How long before TB1 lands at the scene and Scott starts to organise the rescue?

BBC bashing

Oh heck! The technology was developed by 2- IMMERSE, an EU-funded 3 year collaborative project that finished in November 2018. https://2immerse.eu/

Wait until The Daily Torygraph find out about that. No right-minded Little Br(it)ainer is going to have anything to do with that.