Posts by AlistairJ

Sod London

I want one of these in my village. Speeding isn't necessarily dangerous but it can be highly anti-social.

The irony

All of this oppressive policing is coming to you from the generation who grew up in one of the most liberal regimes in human history.

The future is black, comrades.

Great work Sarah

Love your instant self-portraits, but what you really want for creative serendipity on film is a Holga.

What a wonderful instrument

You can almost see the glow from the Andromedan's chimneys.

I applaud this great mission.

Let me be the first to say

Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side!

Anyway, these particles only appear briefly in high-energy events. Looks suspiciously like a billiard ball getting briefly airborne, for that moment its no longer a billiard ball, its something else, not on the green baize of 4-d space time, but it soon returns to a natural state. Either that or embarrassingly you have to retrieve said ball from under someones bar stool. But I digress. Sooner or later our inter-dimensional neighbours are going to get fed up with all of this particle-flinging and send in their portal-ready shock-troops, equipped with broken off cues and smashed beer bottles. Potentially nasty.

Units pedant alert

The Tesla is a unit of magnetic flux density, not magnetic "field" or even field strength.

Shame on you El Reg!

I do the math, you read

That's a wavelength of about 0.45 mm in free space. Infrared starts at about 720nm, so there's still three decades of sub-optical spectrum available for the galaxians to use, should they need it.

I for one would welcome the galaxians.

When galaxies collide

I pity the poor aliens who once inhabited these galaxies. Or, if you will, the galaxians.

Have no fear

Flight officer TJ Creamer is on the case

Holby City

Future episodes to be more dull?

Naughty!

In all seriousness, I hope you are not going to have that mobile switched on when its off the ground, are you?

Live long and wha ..?

Have you seen his photography? I recommend a quick gahoogle for it, unless you are easily offended by pictures of bare naked ladies of a large-waisted persuasion.

The alternative finding

Is that, subjects in psychological experiments tend to behave the way they think they are expected to behave.

Recruitment agents, is there anything lower?

Title says it all really. To these people, your career is merely raw material. Your future is their sales target. They like to call themselves "recruitment consultants" in the same way that bookmakers like to call themselves "turf accountants". A grubby and shameful business, conducted by uneducated spivs. Our company no longer deals with agencies for recruitment, thanks to their own activities.

Hey you, out there in the cold with your freshly formatted CV, think carefully before dealing with recruitment agents.

Just a question of timing

Now isn't the time to be spunking huge piles of cash on grandiose schemes, especially not ones dreamt up one hot Texas afternoon by your predecessor. Better to have a rethink, and do some domestic political bitchslapping while you're at it. Once the megarecession is over, assuming it does have an end, start spunking the green like a good 'un.

There seems to be several mistakes in this

Firstly, this research seems to ignore the fact that the galaxy size and black hole mass are closely correlated. They have found that each galaxy has a supermassive black hole of about one thousandth the mass of its parent.

Secondly, even if the galaxy was too hot for star formation for some period of time, all that gaseous hydrogen does not just disappear, in fact it stays there, in warm lumps presumably. Once the galaxy approaches "death" as dramatically reported here, it will again be cold enough for star formation.

A low-quality research finding of dubious accuracy.

Executable content

Why?

Who the fuh?

FAIL

Doner card

I would like someone to help themselves to my kebab after my death.

Not a story

Firstly, 30 or 40 cases a year in a region the size of Teeside could be down to a single promiscuous individual. Secondly, facebook is clearly not to blame, unless you are looking for an IT-related story.

Greatest living Briton? Pah!

It was I who first had the idea for the WWW, way back when. Only I quickly decided it was going to be used mainly for spreading filth and falsehoods. So I decided against.

3G fail

So why was the 3G TDD spectrum never used? The big mobile operators paid gigabucks for the spectrum, which came bundled with their FDD allocation. Was it simply a case of the 3G standards process not delivering a network architecture that anyone could make money with?

Is it just me

That finds the name TJ Creamer a bit hilarious?

Something of a chimera

How strange, a mobile telephone that is actually a computer that uses a wireless network designed for computer data traffic, used to make ordinary telephone calls over the public switched circuit telephone system.

I suppose the marriage between powerful pocket computer and mobile OFDM-based telephone makes sense, as you can devote all of those power-hungry GHz to making the telephone work when you're making calls, and make it run eWidgets when its not.

A applaud this man's stance

Against heavy handed and to be quite frank, moronic policing.

I expect this important testcase will establish whether posting something on Tw?tter is considered "sending" under the terms of the charge concerned. And well done Doncaster Airport for the complete sense of humour failure.

That is feet and not inches?

One is reminded of the rather small Stonehenge that featured in the Spinal Tap stageshow.

Hmm that makes it about the size of a small double bed.

I'll have what she's having

As long as I don't have to put up with USA corp. bovine waste product for decades just to get there.

McAfee = sh!te

That's all I have to say.

Well I never knew

That Beverly is so open minded.

Beam me directly to sick bay, Mr O'Brien!

That's great!

All we need now is a way of actually un-installing it from our computers.

That's great!

All we need now is a way of making Stella Artois drinkable.

Thank goodness that never happened

Because if it had, they would have got about 10 miles inside the Russky air defences at best.

Micro changes in air density

That's what you want to key off. None of this weak electric field nonsense!

We have a vacancy ...

Is there no depths to which a "recruitment consultant" will not sink?

Hit me again

I for one welcome our new grog-swillin' bitchslappin' cheerleadin' underachievin' female undergraduates.

Welcome, etc

Let me be the first to say that I for one would welcome this outbreak of sensible planning from our space-faring overlords.

The pathetic attempt by the previous administration to recreate the golden age of Apollo programme without even understanding why or how that was such a success, or even funding it properly, had to fail sooner or later. Just another example of how Obama is having to spend his time cleaning up their mess.

An ode to the wandering spirit

Rest now wandering Spirit

Your wheels have done dust bit

It seems your lengthy Martian flit

Was the interplanetary chiznit.

Sickest dude out there

Sounds a lot like those fake "bomb detectors" they are selling so many of in Iraqistan. Would it be effective against jetski-jihadists?