Posts by Asylum Sam

But ...

Did they spot any Dwellers?

Test it?, nahhh, we'll know if it works when we switch it on.

Looks like...

it's either been pulled or has sold out. Still, I was happy to see that they have a 'vodka standard' of cables, once I'm appointed global overseer, they'll be the ones for me!

{wonders if he could slip 50 meters or so through the company IT budget,,, for the good of the company, obviously}

So, can we assume then,

that the FBI aren't going to bother investigating kidnappings any more, since it's now ''impossible to save children from kidnappers''?

Where do I sign up..

for a holiday to Nu-Earth??? The Quartz Zone sounds Idyllic...

I must be the only person in britain who

has never had cause to complain about my VM service. Been with them since 1998 (NTL) and the only time my internet hasn't worked is when I haven't paid the bill on time. I do have 8.8.8.8 set up as secondary DNS on my main PC, though we use mobiles over wifi a lot and no one in teh house has mentioned any issues.

EDIT - Correction, i lost internet for a few days last year when scrappers stole the aluminium cover from my local junction, and the kids ripped all the wires out, and all teh local dogs peed against it, but that's hardly VMs fault

Im confused, ,

is it a flock of wifi equipped cows? or a High-speed Herd of fibreglass cows? The article fails to distinguish, and the difference could be substantial, i mean, if it's a flock of cows, and said flock chooses to roost in a tree, then that tree is gonna be a dangerous place to sit under,,,,

Management types wearing freshly laundered Stay-White lab-coats over sharp suits need not apply. You are NOT a scientist.

He's climbing glass because...

it's the best surface to prove the tech works. Ever see a gecko fall off a rock? No, because it works on most surfaces, it's small scale surface interaction, so doesn't require the surface to be smooth. Nice flat sheets of the stuff on nice flat stiff boards that can have hand holds attached is just the simplest way to work with it.

Permissionless assault

I once got hit twice in quick succession for permissionless drinking, which would have been fair enough, had it actually been my arm that snaked through the crowded bar and took the Peoples Pint in the first place.

Nothing to see here

I remember seeing NATO handouts from the 80's proclaiming the pulse bomb the next imminent big thing to come out of the eastern block,,,,,, if anyone was going to achieve it any time soon, it would have been during the cold war. The climate is only just warming up enough to warrant serious development into it.

tripple?

''the size of the local e-commerce market would triple from £0.9bn in 2011 to $10bn ''

0.9 trippled = 10?

doesn't matter

It's not that big a deal, the two versions, , most people are going to use it for faceschtick, youtube and a bit of music and video. Just like mobiles, most of the average users daily tasks are available on any platform.

Anyone that uses some software that isn't available in one form or another on all the platforms probably already knows the difference, or is at least very likely to go and find out the difference before they buy.

use the scoop to create a small hole, extend the built in hand brush, sweep said detritus into hjole, cover, label as 'martian landfill No 1', job done, out of sight out of mind.

Did you hear the one..

...about Virgin media sending out a mass email yesterday stating that 'Good News', the recipients were to be receiving an upgrade from 100Mb to 120Mb, regardless of the recipients actual package? Quickly following that with a retraction email, and then sending out the SAME good news email again the next day?

No retraction mail this time, perhaps they ARE upgrading my 10Mb line to 120Mb, , but I suspect not.

I envisage a warehouse somewhere with a thousand monkeys typing randomly at a thousand customer support desks.

its not just the maps that screw lorries

I spent 2006 to 2009 selling Garmin and Navman, often to small fleet delivery firms, and we had calls almost weekly regarding a vehicle getting into difficulties down a narrow road, or offering bizarre , impossible routes, and it was almost without exception, that the device was set to car, bike or pedestrian and not 'truck'.

other handheld

a second portable device that can show flash websites would be an essential 'extra' if i accidentally owned an ipad.

blimey

From the time stamps i think we can scientifically confirm that there is indeed one born every minute, , well, every two minutes at least.

Now if only we can find an internet version of a cliff to have them all drive off following their sat nav.....

OOOO fear the pagans!!

It wos the pagans wot did it, break out the faggots and lets get a'burning.

Stupid sod, he must be a christian, they're trained to be anti pagan, and they're far more scary. (I know a few pagans, my mum n dad are pagan, and I guarantee they have never plaited a horse)

@Buzzby

I can't beleive we got this far down the page before the similarities of that picture to the broken CPU from the Terminator classic were raised.

Looks like nothing less than the dawn of total mechanical domination to me.

@Craig 28

I agree with you completely, however I see no need at all for them to be anything but civil legislation issues. Its the act of defining discrimination that I have issue with.

By defining an 'act of discrimination' we create the discrimination it rules against.

Before the definition, Company A refused to hire Person B because of their disability/race, whatever. Surely there doesn't need to be a whole seperate set of rules to cover that?

Having an actively anti-discrimination society leads to a society where positive discrimination (the great oxymoron of our time) becomes desireable.

To discriminate is to favour one over another. Give the job to someone who may be doesn't quite have the same skills as another candidate, but ticks the female/handicapped box.

Thats fair enough, you might say, but is it? Why, in a fair and free society, should the job applicant be discriminated against?

I just think it unfair that some people live with a whole different rule book to protect them.

(The road laws are another example, kill someone by running round after a few pints waving a big piece of lead pipe in the park, its murder/manslaughter, take a corner badly because you've had a few pints and cripple a child and you probably get dangerous driving. Not fair)

Whilstever there is one rule for one person, another for someone who is different there will never be any equality, the very fact that there is a difference, and it is noted in law, will always create discrimination.