Posts by Thecowking

Yes, it does. I just checked.

Still has trouble with "Thruppence Ha'penny" though. I assume that'll be added later.

@the BBC comment

The British Broadcasting Corporation using a .co.uk address?

What next, other corporations doing the same? Barbarians at the gates I say!

On the other hand

It could have been Nobbs.

It's in pencils

If I recall correctly, it was discovered using a pencil and some scotch tape.

If they'd used duct tape instead we'd have a space elevator by now I'm sure.

Lovefilm also streams

I'm watching one right now, 3:10 to Yuma as it happens.

So the UK's not without movie streaming by any means.

You had a spoon?

We 'ad te coax passing squirrels to gnaw through the card at the right place! And that were 'ard right, cos we didn't have cards and we couldn't afford squirrels.

The same thing...

... That happened to the first nine Bens.

Eaten by pygmies.

I can see a use for it

You'd use it when putting forth statements you weren't sure were true or not and seeking verification.

"Today is the deadline for that report?,"

I mean yes you could just use the normal question mark and everyone would know what you meant, but where's the fun in that?

But what to you might be the change from one energy level to the next

to someone else might represent the chance to put right what once went wrong.

Tianan

Men means gate.

So Tian'an would be the correct name.

Personally I'd go with tian shang (above heaven) for the symmetry with tian xia (Below heaven, often used to mean the world or China.)

Etch it into metal

and then strap said metal to a space ship and blast it off out of the solar system.

Voyager will most likely still be whizzing through the stars when the Earth is a blackened cinder. Of course it's mainly a write once read never mechanic, so you can achieve the same end by just melting the metal after you've written to it.

I think it's beta.

Technically "wrong"

But let's face it, an error of a few days out of 3652 or so really isn't going to massively impact the data is it?

Unless of course everyone changes their circumstances massively over this weekend, it'll still be pretty valid data. A few people dying, a few more being born, out of a population of millions it's not really going to change the actual results drawn from the data.

Nor did it work

For Freddie Mercury.

Nor even Butters' dad in South Park.

It is available on PC

So you can use your own keyboard and mouse.

I wouldn't, but hey, you could.

My Kindle charger

Will charge my Nokia N97 and the Nokia charger works on the Kindle. So as far as those two are concerned, they definitely do work together.

You surely jest?

Everyone knows that beans, means Heinz.

It's El Reg code

Boffin = proper scientist who does important things like explode stuff or look at stars.

Trick-cyclist = The kind of person who calls themselves a scientist and then produces reports like this one.

The sun's only in the way...

...If you're on or near the ecliptic.

Presumably this will be a bit above or below the plane of the ecliptic and so we can get a signal from it.

Tsingtao, really?

Surely Tsingtao Black if you're going to drink a Chinese beer, or maybe Harbin.

Anyway, real ale is also very nice, but different. Personally I'm hankering for some fursty ferret right now.

Bud is that bad though, it's like Fosters or Carling, carbonated battery acid.

According to my H2G2...

We need the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional tense so:

He wioll haven met his daughter and he willan on-take her to be his lawful wedded wife.

Much easier when you have the language for it.

@Paul Murphy

No one said this was the finished product mate.

Scale it up by building it into a mountain by the equator, use high temp super conducting coils, bit of the old liquid nitrogen, and a 3km long shaft, slap a nuclear power station at the bottom (you'll probably need a lake or sea too, for cooling and whatnot).

Then you've got something which you can use to give a bloody good boost to your payload, even that might not be enough to get it into orbit however, but you can certainly get it a damn good way up, at which point you'll need less chemical fuel to get it over the edge of the well.

Who's reggie?

And why does he have a real goose?

And that's where it belongs

There's only one type of weather we should allow in glorious Blighty and that's rain.

These vulgar, coarse things like sunshine and snow should be relegated to the colonies where they lack our refined appreciation of the glories of that gentle watery kiss from heaven to earth that we call rain.

It's probably a reflection on me

That I read "sort out a bit of hash" as referring to a hash check in some code.

I then sat there wondering why a programming problem would be something you'd want to hide.

Oh well.