Posts by AndrueC

Not forgetting to ensure that you have gold plated connectors on your TOS link cable.

I don't think 'we in the west' is accurate in having this man on the moon folklore

Most of Brazil is below the equator so I'm not sure you'd see the Man's face anyway. Not sure how that works - perhaps he'd be on his side for some rotating to upside down for those further south?

Re: I don't want to know

I now suffer from meteorophobia

It's not the meteors you have to worry about. It's the meteorites.

Re: smiles for the 'goto'

In this case they are basically being a poor man's exception. I don't have a problem with that in moderation if exceptions are not available. It's when gotos jump around inside a function that I get upset - jumping to the 'get me the hell out of here' code at the end is tolerable.

Re: God help us

and an SMS will be sent to the local thieves guild.

What's no to love?

Not a problem if you're up to date with your guild payments. It's the assassin's guild you have to watch out for because they accept higher bids.

Re: No Junk Mail

So any address with "No Junk Mail" on their box won't get these

Not my experience. I have just such a notice (a proper plastic plaque with embossed printing on no less) attached to the flap but it makes no difference. I've even seen leaflet toting wags stop, look at it, then go ahead and put the crap through my letterbox anyway.

Re: 49 factorial?

Isn't the magic number 69?

You're right. I blame my mistake on senility :)

Re: Most dangerous animal in Aus?

..anyone ever been killed by a budgie?

Re: typical analyst

It's very restrictive in its use cases.

Very true. I'm in Birmingham at the moment and my phone is easily accessible. My car on the other hand is at Banbury train station so not much use right now.

I suppose the Twitter brigade will enjoy automatic updates as they pass every landmark. Facebook users can allow people to '+1' their destination or choice of journey(*). If you're going to throw away your privacy you might as well automate it. Anyway I agree with the first poster. A dashboard should tell me the basics with a small number of lights for warnings. Anything else can bugger off.

(*)Or manoeuvre. If you liked the way I negotiated that roundabout '+1' me :-/

Re: Bring out your jpegs! Bring out your jpegs!

Poor jpeg, why not bring out a new format to herrald the death of GIF instead?

Beware of geeks bearing GIFs.

Is this the same company that bought Clueless and Witless?

Changed that for ya :)

Amusingly the deal went through on April Fool's day. Make of that what you will :)

Re: Go China!

Or perhaps the odd golf ball or two.

At least there's little chance of them being hidden in long grass. Still - I wouldn't put it past the buggers to find something to hide in. Anyone wanting to understand stealth technology could do worse than study a golf ball :(

Re: Leonids

How long do you think it would take me to hitchhike to Australia?

By car? Quite a long time I should think and it might involve getting wet :)

Re: Cool..but also oddly disturbing

You walk down a path. You see a snail, slowly crawling across the concrete. Lost. Unaware of where it is going. So you pick it up and place it down on the far side.

I'm a gardener. I am not going to help a snail cross a path. I suppose we just have to hope there aren't any alien gardeners out there.

Re: Target Practice

Call me suspicious

Hello, suspicious.

Re: Not Sure

They can even have a motion activated recording ordering the Human discoverer to "Take me to your leader"

That's not very plausible though. One assumes visiting aliens would monitor our information networks for a while before landing. After that why the hell would they want to be taken to our leaders?

Thanks for that Charles, you learn something new every day :)

As for kids, well I think some of it is relative to experience

My theory is that we sense time passing according to the extent of changes within our brain. The higher the rate of new links forming the faster we think time is passing. That would explain why time appears to slow if you are sitting with nothing to do and why it appears to accelerate when you are busy.

As regards age relate changes to the perception of time I think that children, being new to the world, experience more rapid and extensive mental changes. As an adult the number of truly new and unique experiences you have per day is a lot lower.

Whatever the cause it is definitely true that time overall seems to pass quicker as you age. As another commentard wrote: Summer holidays used to last ages as did lunch times when I was a child. To me, now, at age 46 I barely notice days passing and even a week doesn't seem to register. A year is no big deal either.