Posts by Pigeon
113 posts • joined Tuesday 8th December 2009 22:40 GMT
Re: INTERNET SCUM
Is Big Dumb Guy 555 tampering with your keyboard? Screen lock is advis(z)ed when getting more beer from the fridge.
Re: -1.4142 or 1+1i,
Remember your BODMAS from early schooling. Brackets, Powers(Of), Division, Multiplication, Add, Subtract. The Bing result is correct, and interprets it as - (4^(1/4)), which is a +/- real result. The other interpretation gives +/- Root2 +/- Root2 i (there are four roots, with evenly spaced arguments. By the way, I'm a little rusty too. The unary minus is interpreted as (-1) * 4 by Mathematica, so I can see the confusion here.
U Bend
Before you go, I would like to mention that toilets have S bends. There was a lovely lass at my university with that nickname. (No malice intended, of course.)
ECT
Oh, go on then. Electro-Convulsive Therapy. I'm just waiting to see if we can score eadon, bazza shitpeas, and obviously! like earlier.
Re: "...damped by gravity..." ???
I wondered about that too. Strings vibrate initially in a plane, but then the plane rotates. Maybe the speed of the rotation is affected by gravity. This would affect the sound produced, say by reducing the rotation.
Re: All this presumes...
Someone I knew (?) told me that his band sang "Ten days of felch" instead of "Ten days of hell", just because they were bored. (btw felch is a silly rude word).
Re: Dad was Right After All
My dad would listen to football on an earphone, watch the news on the telly, and snooze at the same time. If you changed the channel on the telly, he would wake up and say "Hey, I was watching that". Is that multitasking?
Re: I try to write clear code
You won't get 100'th downvote from me. You could have written some rubbish. Good luck in your quest.
I didn't read it fully, but...
Does this have to use the Completely Underground Network Tunnel?
--Basil Brush
Re: "... a battery anode, which is the negative (-) terminal of the device."
The OP is right. My old chemistry teacher taught that "oxidation occurs at the anode", which is equivalent to removal of electrons. Batteries are the other way round to electrolysis cells.
Windows 200
I grant you copyright. It's cool
At least I understand it a bit.
My ancient Sun Workstation runs CDE, and most of the software is Motif (I run Motif MWM on my laptop too). It's clunky, but no-one has pointed out that it has a good facility for sysadmins. You can install menu items at user-level, server-level, and network-level. It's still pretty primitive, though. I've got used to the consistent button-press behavior, hints, and shortcuts of Motif (missing in many other desktops for Linux).
And my favourite application is xteddy :-)
Don't despair
There might be a selection box at Guns R Us
That picture is worth a thousand. Anyway, what about pickled onions? I just ate a whole jar.
The strength of carbon fibre comes from the absence of fractures. Often rockets etc. are wound with fibre, and then embedded in epoxy. Once you chop it up, it's useless.
Some folks don't care
I told a chap that his ip address appeared on the cbl blocklist, even though the router got a different ip address each time it rebooted. He just didn't care. It's good business for the spammers. I don't know whether port 25 is used, and could just be blocked, but many PC owners aren't going to do anything about it.
Posted in Ten... mono laser printers
Hey, you stole my rant
Agreed. I thought I was the only one who thought that. The industry gangs up against ignorant customers, inventing new things that don't need to be invented.
Flies
If you hung corks on the front, then you wouldn't have to keep stopping to wipe the flies off.
Posted in US radio evangelist: Apocalypse now
I'll take the title option
I haven't been paying enough attention to this thrilling story, but I thought he died recently. Duh.
Posted in MPs: 999 HQ revamp FAIL cost £469m
I think it was bike sheds
I've never seen so many people in agreement Depressing, isn't it.
Re: Static pages
I worked for Yahoo 10 years ago, and they had 12 home-page servers dedicated to delivering the static home pages. The engineers mandated it. I look at it now and despair. Obviously, the engineers do not run the show anymore.
Posted in Sea eagles menace Scottish children
+1 Oscar, or something
You are a lucky chap. You don't need a god when you have this experience. I have been close to a deer that zipped off in a flash. It doesn't happen very often.
Posted in Yahoo! reads! your! emails!
How is yours idle?
I only stopped using Yahoo mail because they deactivated my account every time I didn't use it for 3 months or so. I got fed up of adding extra digits and creating new ones.
You can't escape
This reminds me of the dumbed down world in the Ben Elton book, "Blind Faith". The Government cross-correlate data on every tiny thing, to home in on the 'dissidents'. The populace are kept in an uneducated Facebook existence. Most amusing was an observance that their computers held more data than there were atoms in the universe. Needless to say, there are plenty of folk who don't understand the logical impossibility of that one He has a government mole with a whole team to fabricate a bogus profile.
Sort of
I read something today which said that the carbon is only captured until the plants die and rot. Woody trees will store carbon for longer, but even they rot, unless they become peat and coal. So some forests aren't even long term carbon sinks anyway, unless they become waterlogged and fossilised, like good old Scottish peat bogs.
There's a superinjunction on a song about Gordon.
Asgard is the new Shakespeare. And why can all the commentards spell on this article thread?
This has been done.
Humans have shared their shelters with cows since the bronze age. It's a bit smelly. I wouldn't want to spend more than 5 minutes in a house with a running automobile in it.
Damn, You all got there first.
Malthus observed a basic truth. All life produces more offspring than will reach maturity. He also concluded that doom will fall on humanity soon, which didn't happen. This does not mean that his observations were wrong. Seedlings shrivel. Children die. It's life. And that is what influenced Mr. Darwin greatly.
You might be right
I used to do most of my computational stuff in a macro assembler (under Primos). When I disassembled compiled code, Fortran77 compilers were almost as good as assembler. Other compilers produced utter tripe (especially C). The Fortran model is good, although I really didn't like using it. F77 was far enough: all the guys with problems could still present me with non-indented (etc) POS's and ask whats wrong with them.
A previous post mentioned orders of magnitude. This is my recollection. I haven't got the hang of assembly programming in unix. It just seems like too much work.
Down with complexity, I say.
EDLIN
Real men use EDLIN. It did not edit filesizes over some arbitrary limit (which was very small).
I wonder if it still ships
Posted in Gordon Ramsay menaced by enormous TURKEY
I've no idea either.
I went to a internet cafe after work, which have these plug-ins, and the video shows one frame saying 'This bideo has been removed by the user." (My niece calls them bideos). Hot dang!
My Toshiba workshop manual
must have been collateral damage. All the important words are 'gibberish', whatever that means. It looks like a severe kerning problem, with the letters overprinting. Maybe the publisher used the wrong point version of their pdf distiller (if that's what is's called). At least it didn't start with "Lorem ipsum...". Blame Adobe.
Appendto[Case,<post]
No!, new icons cool.
Anyway, I went to a small claims court in UK once, and it did'nt have a jury. Good ol' Cook county take their courts seriously.
I kno where you live
or used to live. Hmm... which icon
No Handgrenade
Oh, yes,1. You have to blow the whole village to hell now.
Posted in Billionaire Zuckerberg kills to eat
Ian S, I hope you stay at 0 - 0
I have had no issue with your previous posts. Just go and kill something/someone. We are all edible animals. Even pigeons eat meat, they just don't have the ability to catch and kill prey.
Posted in Billionaire Zuckerberg kills to eat
You just wanted to use the new icon.
No offence intended!
Yeast extract is tricky to make
I kno, cos I saw it on someones telly. I think the salt breaks open the yeast cells, or osmosifies their innards out. The chef tried the product, but wasn't too keen. It might improve the flavour of cheap lager.
B12
I only started eating Marmite for the B12, which is supposed to be rare in a vegan diet. This news prompted me to pop round to Jim Sainsbury's emporium, where I bought a Marmite 'XO' (extra old). While I was at it, I got Branston, Colemans mustard, and hot pepper sauce, just in case of a shortage. I bet dogs would eat it.
You saved us unrighteous ones
Even though only 7 signatures. Is voting closed after the date?
I'll make sure my underwear is clean tomorrow.
Argh, I'm on a tangent, Not Exactly
I don't identify with 'Band Aid', maybe it is a US brand. It reminds me of the unshaven musician guy. Elastoplast sticks in my memory, so I just rooted about and found 'Fast Aid assorted plasters' - quite catchy, and Porous wound dressings. Seems like I've been down the Pound Shop(TM). I also have Clotrimazole cream, at 1/4 of the price of Canestan, but not so catchy. Ok, I'll try to be serious next time.
Pity the lawyers
The lawyers do their best for the clients, even if it is madness. Therein is the difference. They didn't start it, and are part of the system, like soldiers, etc. I won't downvote you for the title, though. After reading some of the learned posts on here, I can see the fun + money in the whole thing
Thanks, mate
I Can't spell areal anymore. Maybe that is the right spelling?
Wachu talkin about
I'm sure you've done a bit of research, but a 2.5 W supply will not charge a device using 24W. You Don't have Watts/Hour. 24 W seems quite a lot of power for a small device to use anyway. You probably got it nearly right.
I did that
Yes, You can't just stop. After two weeks of not drinking at all, I started imperceptibly. As long as I can go all day without a drink, I won't get sacked. Although, my friendly security guard tells me that I still stink of booze in the morning. Bummer.
Resistor
Good post, but don't be too hard on CSI (which I have only seen a few times). A resistor would be essential for delaying the charging of a capacitor, if detonation would occur when the cap was fully charged. Only surmising, though.
uh?
I lissen all ur comments. I used to have a fm aerial on the roof, to get good vhf reception.
I've moved, and have a portable dab/fm receiver. There were one or two times when I resorted to the fm button, and just decided not to bother after all. The dab is fine. And I don't have to remember 93.4 MHz, or whatever it was (is that not a service supplied by dab?).
I don't know anything about external aerials for dab, and where to point them, but the coordinates of tm transmitters were conveniently listed in the fm radio manual I once had. Maybe a uhf tele antenna would work.
So. I getting am poor reception. Glasshopper. Get a roof aerial you plonker. Its a broadcast.
Conspiracy theory
The earth is flat. This is the same Navel orange as in the Mercury messenger photograph, but kicked about the office a bit, and sprayed with colours, instead of the grey hammerite.
Wasser difference?
I thought there was 'Astronomical time', which is different from UCT in some miniscule way. I can't expect to remember, since my Nukes have been Fongled. Maybe there isn't any leap-second stuff.
