Posts by AlgernonFlowers4
59 posts • joined Thursday 30th July 2009 11:36 GMT
Mars ain't the kind of place
Let's aim for Uranus instead!
Mean What You Say
This way we can all have unlimited fixed price contracts which are capped with variable costs
Re: Chasing its tail (and no, not the aformentioned cat...)
Keep it simple - just smash two particles of cod in a large haddock colander and count the number of Higgs Bosun's produced!
Re: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>Haven't we already got one AManFromMars?
MenFromMars have advanced technology such as mobile hard knotted light holgramatic projectors, the Holly Hop drive, whereas MenFromEarth are still peeling their own potatoes with their metal knives, boiling them for twenty of their minutes, then smashing them all to bits!
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I once dreamt that I was an iBod device with a hard light projector connected to a cloud based server running a copy of my last brain dump. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality?
Re: The Spirit of compromise ...
Does it matter as long as it's not Uranus?
Re: If we are no alone
Or they could try getting hold Culturally Bounded Rationality by S Kaur (http://www.opengrey.eu/item/display/10068/457498) where applying Gödel's incompleteness theorems finds that "higher beings" are simultaneously both more rational and irrational than "lower beings." Much as say, chimpanzees would see human actions as being more rational and irrational at the same time.
Re: How about discrimination?
If the sign said "Mongolian all you can eat" wouldn't that exclude all non-Mongolians?
Going Postal
Where is Moist Von Lipwig when you need him?
Sent via the Clacks Network
Who Needs Computers!
Just give them a copy of Computer Programming Techniques (A TutorText Book) by Theodore G Scott and those that want to learn programming will.
Satire is Dead
And Irony!
Perfidious?
Stop trying to rewrite history(?) It was the perfidious humans who attacked first. What happened next was just self-defence!
Giff Gaffe?
Why would I read GiffGaffs T&C's when I'm not even with them?
Forked Tongues!
Why is El Reg labelling paying GIffGaff customers Freetards?
Failing to understand the meaning of the word unlimited is no excuse for GiffGaff or the author of this article!!
Hang on PAL!
Except those of us in the uk with our "We're so superior" 625 lines.
What do nuclear scientists eat for Dinner?
Amazing - who'd thunk it, that by colliding two large haddocks together they would end up finding the cod particle!
You calll that a Gamma Ray Stupendo-Explosion DEATHMATCH?
Don't make me angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry......
The Empty Set contains nothing (ie 0), So it is Not Empty!
Einstein defined things in mathematical terms and whilst a mathematically defined vacuum is truly empty, a physical vacuum is not as it contains quantum particles popping in and out of existence.
Einstein based his theory on equations that work beautifully in accordance with the underlying mathematical assumptions and until the Opera people can physically conduct their experiments within that mathematical framework or break one his underlying assumptions, I'd say Einstein wins!
Take That, Brid-Aine Parnell
Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light which he defined as c. As far as I can remember I don't think he ever said what the particular numerical value c takes. It varies with the medium in which it travels e.g water, atmosphere, vacuum, void space etc.
The people at Opera can bang on about their measurements like veritable pilgrims but the ultimate clash at demonhead won't occur until they measure the unimpeded speed of light in void space and until then the register should not let them get away scot free with their claims!
Shares May Go Up Or Down In Value!
Nobody forced anybody into buying Northern Rock shares.
Heads you win, tails we lose.
Yes they did!
From Bloomberg Business (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-17/u-k-treasury-takes-loss-on-northern-rock-sale-to-virgin.html)
'Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Money Holdings U.K. Ltd. will acquire the company for 747 million pounds ($1.2 billion). Osborne’s predecessor, Alistair Darling, spent 1.4 billion pounds to recapitalize the Newcastle, England-based lender in 2008 and split it into two units. Government loans totaling 26.7 billion pounds are underpinning the bad bank, which is not part of today’s proposed sale.'
And we get to hold onto the 26.7 billion pounds of negative equity - wow!!!
Has El Reg Sold Us Out!
Really surprised that the reg reporter didn't disclose the fact that the Treasury paid £1.4 billion for Northern Rock, It was really good of the government to shower such largesse on the rich by selling it for for £747m. And as usual this generosity to the rich will have to be made good by the poor through taxation.
Pleeeaase!!!
Playmobil erection or it didn't happen!
Deadeye Dick!
Sing along now - "She don't eat meat but she sure like the bone"
Damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Having bought one from the US and paid the exorbitant shipping charges because there was no reports on El Reg about UK price cuts, El Reg finally really did it. You maniacs! You posted this today! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Global Warming is a much bigger problem
than the noise from these giant fans that we have to run in order to keep cool!
No Use in Crying Over Spilt Milk!
The important question is not how the Universe started but what to do as the final curtain is about to come down.
Do the evolved beings around at that time side with Hawkings and simply accept that they cannot meddle in the affairs of the physics god and the fate of future universes is left hanging on random events and pure chance.
Or do they rebel and seek to recreate the universe in the image of the existing one so it too is as optimized for life as the current one once was.
Please note the evolved beings referred to in this post are not supernatural beings but are based on existing life forms and extrapolations of technological development over the intervening millennia.
Intelligent Designers?
When it gets close to that point, hopefully there will be sufficiently intelligent designers around who will simply reboot the universe so that we can all get back to arguing whether the universe arose by chance or not.
Posted in Chinese teen flogs kidney to buy iPad
Bargain at half the price
Should really have cost him an arm and a leg!
Cobol Like No Other!
In the early 1980's the Cobol environment I used, had a Data Dictionary System which held all data definitions in common, including screen interfaces with company standard defined validation rules which were all checked for in Cobol by the Validate verb so you only had to do was add in the logic,
Does it Matter?
Let's just get on building a Skylon/Vasimr hybrid so we send up a task force to sieze the valuable stuff from those Selenites and their mega-brain ruler!
Send Vulture 1!
A lot of people would probably pay good money to see PARIS mooning!
All donations gratefully received
Once I have enough to buy an ipad and airfare, I for one would happily travel back in time using the LHC and plantt the ipad on the tomorrow people set. Send money now or history will start to unravel and you wouldn't want that on your conscience, would you?
Posted in Ofcom okays Derren Brown psychic-baiting
Talking to the dead is easy
Talking to the dead is easy, the hard part is hearing what they have to say.
That's not to say it's impossible just very difficult as sometimes the same thing happens with the living as well.
Where is Lewis when your need him?
I thought Lewis Page sorted this out last Wednesday!
The only way of deciding if something is science or not, is to ask the ASA.
The only way of deciding if something is boffinry or not, is to ask Lewis Page.
As indian astrology consists of extremely hard sums and difficult calculations, what's Lewis's verdict?
Posted in Watson beats humans in Jeopardy! dry run
WTF?
"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
42 base 13
Posted in Apple iPhone 4 vs... the rest
Objective Testing Please
What happened to the "which phone makes you most attractive to the opposite sex" test?
Posted in PARIS concocts commemorative cocktail
Experimental Lightweight Scale High Altitude Glider
El Shag!
What happens when...
the children of these immigrants who settle here want jobs?
Does this meant that.........
in the future the toilet will be as paperless as the office?
Posted in Oz journo pokes PARIS
WTF is happening?
Jokes about Paris! Boa Constrictors Virgin Births (http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/11/boa-constrictors-born-by-virgi.html)!!!
Just what have you done??
Preserve life?
Having read about 'old' people dying because they couldn't get a glass of water and having seen at first hand the caring professions attitude to 'older' people I am not surprised that baby boomers are opting for suicide instead.
Posted in Steve Jobs death-grips iPhone 4 reality
Ingrates
You try and help your fellow human beings and this is the thanks I get!
From what has been written, obviously posession of this devil phone with it's changing bars is driving people to the brink of insanity. So concerned about their mental wellbeing I very generously offer to take this demonic object off their hands to restore their sanity and they start to quibble about the postage!
I am prepared to pay the mental cost of living with variable bars in different locations so you don't have to and you go on about the cost of a stamp! Ingrates!
Posted in Steve Jobs death-grips iPhone 4 reality
If it makes you happy
just send me your iphone4
Thanks in anticipation
Quantum Compters at Rock Bottom Prices!
I have quite few of these boxed up and ready to ship in my garage - no reasonable offer refused - will ship but can't be responsible for contents of box when opened!
Software Error?
If it doesn't work will it be called a boob?
