Posts by Code Monkey
1456 posts • joined Thursday 16th October 2008 09:53 GMT
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Re: Re: Re: The real problem ...
You seem to be confusing "global climate" with "the weather where you are".
I'm not making a comment on whether or not climate change is genuine (I'm yet to be convinced by either camp) - just on your straw man argument.
Posted in Scroogle unplugged for good this time
Seeing as we're splitting hairs...
Enter keywords, get search results. It's a search engine, just not one with its own index.
Posted in LOHAN's flying truss: One orb or two?
Re: Maybe
IIRC the PARIS release mechanism froze and the bursting of the balloon freed it. A happy accident.
I'd say they have a bad rep because a lot of people don't understand probability. So if they say there's an 80% chance of rain, then if it doesn't rain people say they're wrong.
Re: NHS 24 is fine
But this is 87 louder </spinal tap>
Posted in LOHAN flashes fantastical flying truss
Re: Warren girder
Tried, tested and (IMO) rather pretty retro.
Re: Dear world at large
"I have just unlocked the telling the burglars I'm not in badge on 4square"
iBuddy
Good grief.
Re: Re: Re: Aren't ALL Darwin Awards posthumous?
@darkmage0707077 very true. Also true for the posthumous awards.
Re: Aren't ALL Darwin Awards posthumous?
No. You can receive one while alive by losing your ability to reproduce.
Posted in Paper PCs design rolled out
Re: environmentally friendly?
Agree on the recycling point but the "cut down more trees" argument is bogus. They do replant commercial forests aferwards.
They're doing it wrong
We need to get some Wombles in space suits.
They say tiny chameleon, I say MASSIVE FINGER!
Posted in Black Ops has best videogame ending ever
Being strictly honest I never completed it "properly". I just did the poke to reduce the number of items to collect.
Who are these people?
I bet it's a million bots.
But this is Apple
People will overlook shoddy software if it comes in a pretty enough box.
Posted in TicketWeb coughs to email database hack
I received a couple and smelled a rat. Not that difficult a rat to smell. As you say, Ticketweb asking me to update Acrobat Reader is odd. I am a bit miffed about the deulge of spam I can now expect.
Fessing up to the breach (and quickly) is to Ticketweb's credit, though. Keeping quiet about it would've been a lot more helpful to the spamming basts wot done it.
So a qualified thumbs up.
[applauds]
Fookin ell that was a quick liftoff!
Posted in LOHAN lifts skirt on 3D printed parts
Shapeways
I've had a couple of "off the shelf" bits from Shapeways and they did a very good job indeed.
Sitting on the fence
"Everyone is wrong" is all too often the right assessment
Hapless animals
The MPs have to be involved. That's the point.
"if Britain is to haul its sorry ass into the next century"
Let's run before we can walk. How about dragging its sorry ass into the current century?
No way are they letting mobile phone users on my open air smoking platform. I want to enjoy a cancer stick in peace and quiet thankyouverymuch!
"but it'll only be available from Carphone Warehouse"
That's a shame. Roll on when my contract's up and I can ditch CW.
Uncovered wickets, Chris Tavaré, etc. and so on.
I was hoping for something like Lord Beginner's Cricket Lovely Cricket. Imagine my disappointment!
Posted in Printed jaw lets woman swallow again
c) never want to travel on a plane. If they're touchy about 101ml of toothpaste, they'll really have a sense of humour failure about adamantium claws
"medical staff quickly discover just where he's hidden the shovel he intended to use to disinter Marilyn Monroe"
I'm torn between the keyboard and beer icons.
Have a Friday beer on me Sr Reg!
Supergiant shrimp
The question of how they taste has already cropped up. As they're built to survive at a depth of 7km I reckon they might be a bit chewy.
Posted in Facebook IPO: Boom or bubble?
El Reg's readers might block FB's ads. The majority of users don't.
Not arguing they're worth this ludicrous valuation but their business model isn't complete arsewater.
Maybe that's why so many people voted for the shittrumpet, then.
It'll be like WWII. They'll spend years denying there's a problem then show up late.
Publishing an RSS feed or similar costs time and money, but not much.
People competent to use Dropbox also use IE? Does not compute.
"96% of Americans without passports"
It's more like 63% but your point is valid.
Me too. I really don't understand the last line about abolishing the TV licence. Quality programming costs regardless of the transmission medium.
So on average it's still pretty damned fast!
RIM Jobs
Aonther story featuring adolscent smutty giggles. Naturally I approve of this.
Yup
Folks are already getting prototype enclosures from shapeways, just waiting for the boards.
@lurker
I really, really like the Lego idea.
DIY
An anti-static bag and some gaffer tape?
Posted in Toyota teases next-gen Prius styling
Speaking not only as a driver, but also someone who often crosses roads I agree 100%!
Posted in Lenovo pitches two-CPU ThinkPad
+1 for not making it silver.
(A self-confessed Thinkpad fanboi)
Small Hadron Collider? http://sascha.mehlhase.info/physics.php?open=atlaslego
Post-Christmas I appear to be made of cheese.
Black hole fanboi? Guilty as charged, though I don't feel the need to attack, say, pulsars and quasars in internet fora.
"pint-sized"
It's a figure of speech, meaning small.
For example jockeys are larger than a pint but referred to as pint-sized.
