Posts by Roger Varley
122 posts • joined Thursday 17th May 2007 11:12 GMT
Priceless
"No, it's statistics with a very high margin of error" - brilliant! I *will* be using that line at some point in th enear future.
Re: What?
Actually, Berwick is the end of England, not the start of Scotland
What?
Walking from Scotland to Stonehenge twice a year must be the earliest known example of the phenomenon known today as "Painting the Forth Road Bridge"
Re: Pah!
>> I used to love adding a "cheat", such as infinite lives/ammo to character 1 or removing collision on a certain wall, for when I played multiplayer with a friend
I had fun with "Snake" - programmed the shift key to reverse the left & right keys of my opponent. Provided much hilarity until he realised what I had done.
Re: "The Pi Shop"
And here was me thinking old Chris was from Genoa.
Re: @ Michael Luke
Nah - we'll be OK. Most yanks have never heard of the UK, and of those that have, most of them think it's place near London.
Re: What happened to the 'Most Read/Commented' list of articles on the front page?
Yes - +1 to bring it back. I too used it as a major navigational tool - particularly the most commented.
Re: Brazil
What is it that our gubberment keep saying ....? Oh yes, 'If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear' .
>On another note, when I was young I used to have some lego-like construction bricks which belonged to my >dad, which were made of a type of rubber, rather than hard plastic. Anyone else have anything similar?
I remember those - one of my friends had a set. Buggered if I can remember what it was called though.
Posted in Santander's banking website craps out
Re: Santander, Royal Bank of Scotland.
That's because nobody expects the Spanish Aquisition.
Re: Long past time
Other way around I think. I'm pretty sure we had MP's before newspapers.
Posted in Cockfighting Reg hack cursed with cancer
ROFL
Yet another good day for keyboard manufacturers. Nice one Lester.
Hardly the most successful scam of all time ...
all that time and effort to net, on average, a tad under GBP 27 per sucker.
Unbelievable! One law for them ....
A US defense contractor breaks US arms embargo by selling software designed for miliatary use, lies to the US government about it and gets fined. Christopher Tappin gets extradited, locked up and faces 35 years for allegedly selling batteries that *might* be useful in a missile.
Why do USAians wonder why the rest of the world hold them in such contempt.?
More Excellent Reporting from El Reg
If the author had actually bothered to do some research instead of simply scraping the front page of the raspberryPi.org homepage - you know, something radical like going to the homepage of the FishPi project everyone would be aware that the boat in question is simply a proof of concept to see if it can be made to work and will be spending its life on considerably smaller bodies of water than the Atlantic - such as the local boating lake.
Posted in Turing Machine brought to life with Lego
What a job
To get paid to build things like that!
Almost as good as being Quality Controller in a brewery.
Re: Would use of such a service be seen as an attempt to pervert the course of justice?
>One thing I did notice - they mentioned something along the lines of participating in an online forum on >your behalf using a crude AI.
They've obviously been testing that bit in here. Would certainly explain AManFromMars
Posted in Linus Torvalds drops F-bomb on NVIDIA
Re: Great now we have a child
>> (BTW you're talking crap about Live Aid "being wiped out").
AC - I think you've got your sarcasm detector switched off.
Supply problems
Why is it El Reg seem to be unable to mention the raspberry Pi without getting in some snarky remark about being able to get hold of one. We all know that there were problems early on due to huge demand. We all know that the situation is improving. So give it a rest El Reg it's starting to wear thin.
How the hell do they work that out?
I can see how access to the data will show when the property is occupied and, by extrapolation, I can just about see how you may be able to infer the number of people in the property - but how in the name of all that's holy do they manage to work out your TV make and model?
What else could you extract from the data?
Re: hitsorical record
Damn you sir. Just hope no one from Hollywood saw that otherwise there'll be a film next year. And the Mericans will win!
Re: Lewis biased, again
@DaWolf. You forgot to include or read the quote which immediately follows the conclusion you object to;
"It does not follow, however, that nothing can be done ... Effective strategies include use of culturally diverse communicators, whose affinity with different communities enhances their credibility, and information-framing techniques that invest policy solutions with resonances congenial to diverse groups. Perfecting such techniques through a new science of science communication is a public good of singular importance."
So - it does rather look as if a equals b in this instance.
Posted in Indiana cops arrest violent 6-year-old
>>What's the age of criminal responsibility in Indiana? -9 months?
No - that's the age when you can legally marry your cousin.
> and the Stephensons got railways working properly.
and probably the first & only time they did.
Posted in Game of Thrones Blu-ray disc set
Re: Best ever?
I think you will be very pleasantly surprised when you get a chance to see the TV version. Martins style of writing it in chapters from the viewpoint of a single character makes it particularly easy to translate to the screen. Series 2 started transmission last Sunday, so they'll be on a torrent near you soon.
Brilliant
> We will, we will fine you.
That made me laugh. Now I can't get the chorus out of my head - damn you.
>That said, with my phone (10 quid Asda special) if I wanted to know the weather I would have to >phone my wife and ask her to check on her laptop.
Wouldn't it be quicker to look out of the window?
Posted in BOFH: Dawn raid on Fort BOFH
Re: Cynical; moi?
Mine had floppies in as well. Not your modern 5.25" jobbies, but your original 8.5" floppies. Just wish I had something to read them with - just for curiosities sake.
The problem with this sort of thing is that yes, it does remove the more irritating and mindless cr@p, but you do miss out on the occasional gem of outstanding fsckwittery
Posted in LOHAN to straddle meaty titanium rod
Re: Two comments
Why would you need to monitor the tension on the balloon anchor line? Surely it would be enough to detect that upward motion has translated into downward motion?
Posted in Tourists follow GPS, drive into sea
Nothing changes
Lindisfarne was near my childhood home. The causeway came complete with "The Refuge" (think large garden shed on very long stilts) for those who could neither tell the time or recognize the difference between an incoming or receding tide..
Job Titles
What is a Benefits and Business Change Lead and what does he/she actually do?
@Metavisor
You might think that directions to a hospital might be a bit over the top for a simple "stomach ache" but I can understand why Siri thinks it appropriate.
You are an intelligent human being. You can tell the difference between a touch of indigestion and something potentially more serious. Siri cannot. A stomach ache could be the result of an acid attack due to over indulgence, appendicitus or god knows what. Given the propensity of Joe Public to believe whatever a computer tells them despite evidence to the contrary (see the idiots who drive into fields because their sat-nav told them to) you can see that anything that hints of a medical matter should be directed to the nearest health professional, if only to cut down on lawsuits.
Re: Price of e-Books already gone down
So, has any one got a list of Luxemburg proxies?
Nostalgia ...
You are in a confusing labyrinth of counsel websites.
It is dark.
You are likely to be eaten by grue.
Posted in Asteroid could SMASH INTO EARTH in 2040
Re: @BilboBobbins
Well, there's not much chance of the world governments getting their acts together by twenty to nine is there?
Posted in El Reg appoints Special Projects Burro
Re: Asstronaut...
Well, LOHAN would have to be a tad bigger than I suspect, is currently planned. Could be interesting though
Posted in Raspberry Pi signs big-name sellers
Re: Re: @Bin Yin
According to the RaspberryPi twatter feed, the Farnell price is higher than the advertised price of the boards because it includes shipping.
Re: I read that as.
“What we’re really looking for is the velocity of trending topics – what’s boiling to the surface,” Visse says. “The goal is to catch trends as they are accelerating and capture them before they hit the mainstream, in a way that is captivating,”
What does that *actually* mean in English?.
Re: Why is anybody surprised?
It's been going on for years. Whitney just looks like being the unfortunate recipient of the 41st "Annual Jim Morrison Worth More Dead Than Alive" award this year.
According to Mozilla, most add-ons will now work by default
Same thing here, except in my case, it was FireBug that was going to be disabled.
I too, declined the offer
Is it too late to change the name?
As soon as anyone builds a pi-Phone (or any kind of a pi-app), Apple will sue their @sses off.
How long until....
anything between 1 and 365 days!
Hmmm ...
Sort of like a galactic Basingstoke?
crying for days after the incident ...
You take young children to a store to buy them the latest shiney shiney and then walk out without one ... no wonder they were crying.
Retarded
Why on earth does this merit 2 thumbs down? (at the time of writing)
Dr Who started off so well with Chris Eccleston ....
No it fscking didn't. It started off brilliantly with William Hartnell.
Yoof of today <humph>
Giant Wasps
You're probably thinking of the Zarbi, around 1965
