Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward
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Posted in Only 3% of UK's TV oglers want more sex
Re: What about adverts
>adverts with boobs in
That's terrible what would small children think ?
dinnertime presumably?
Re: Well, it's a start...
They managed to buy themselves in a hostile takeover and are now shutting themselves down to save costs concentrate on core activities and promote excellence in customer experience.
Re: A Bargain!
I wouldn't mind president@reagan.com for $40 !
Re: This is now beyond a joke
Either way neither of them is much use against a landlocked country or somebody planting bombs in the tube.
Unless Trident was a major reason for the end of the IRA ?
Re: In such a context
Fortunately the cancellation of the hearing didn't affect the verdict
Re: Snoop
Thank you, your position has been noted and will be made available to the new government when it gets in.
titanic storage
Is that really the right branding?
Perhaps it could be made to work - a very cheap and extremely secure storage but very expensive retrieval.
We take your data, put it on a boat and sink it in the north atlantic - certainly safe from hackers
Proper efficent management techniques
The army is just like any other large corporate. You increase the number of senior management and their salaries and reduce costs by replacing the workers with cheaper ones offshore. Shouldn't the army do the same?
We have always done it on a small scale in Nepal but this could open up whole new opportunities for call center workers in Mumbai to pretend to be squaddies instead.
And for a fraction of the price of the new aircraft-less carriers we could employ a large number of Somali marine interdictions specialists.
historical data
"Icelander chaps didn't usually get a chance at fathering kids until they were 34 at least, and the place wasn't overrun with autistic kids or anything"
Although that could be a lack of diagnosis. Perhaps Thorvin Skullsplitter just suffered from hyper-activity-skull-splitting disorder?
It could solve the historic question of why the Scandinavians suddenly became viking raiders. Perhaps it was just a boring school trip to Lindisfarne but after a week at sea with everybody having ADHD they were just a little over-excited when they landed.
Re: Or...
It's a major research interest among young male evolutionary biologists why this process produce women that look like THAT in Iceland but not in Norfolk
Re: Bloody nora!
What would really happen is that they would get a record of all the guys emails, web browsing and Netflix downloads to check how many times he had watched "Showgirls" so that they would have some dirt to leak to the press in case he complained.
Then they would storm the RSPCA office next door because the address was hard to read on the photocopy of the fax of the carbon copy of the form
If intellectual property rights are so vital..
Shouldn't Hollywood be allowed to patent things?
If you can patent rounded corners or putting a rectangular screen on the front of a device - then surely you can patent always having the car explode when it runs off the road or having the girl realise that she really loved the nice guy all the time?
Then increasing the number of patent trolls would decrease the number of formulaic movies!
Well actually it wouldn't but they would have to base them on Shakespeare and Austen instead of last months other blockbuster.
No - because fortunately we have an entire continent where US patents can be widely ignored !
We need cheaper steel
The limit on building nuclear power plants is the application process and accompanying paperwork.
The mass of paperwork needed to build a plant is larger than the mass of the final plant, the mass of paper clips and staples in the paper work is larger than the mass of fuel it will use during it's life.
If we can reduce the cost of the steel used in the paperclips and staples we can make nuclear power profitable again !
Re: Go to it!
Probably overkill when the council get a predator drone
Considering the palace
Was built in 1720, it's quite likely that their enemies already have some idea about the location and layout of the building. However the plans could prove useful to either Wellington or a bunch of revolutionaries should it be necessary to attack France.
No, but the met have already arrested several people in connection with the case.
Re: Very slow retrieval
You might spin them down to reduce cooling costs. But you would need customers with a LOT of data, otherwise you would be constantly spinning up a 3Tb disc because one of the 3000 customers with 1Gb on it wanted a file.
tasked with regulatory compliance
And their SLAs guarantee that the data on this life insurance policy or land deed will be available in 99years time?
That all my data won't dissapear if the US suspects that somebody on Amazon is hosting a pirate movie?
And there is no price rise when I suddenly want to move all my data off their platform to a competitor?
God's a PHB?
So filling a women with sperm releases the chemicals to put her in the mood?
Sounds like those designs cooked up by architecture committees - "the server contacts all the clients and tells them that it's ready for connections"
Like pay-2-pass?
We have this on mastercard, you simply tap the card on the pump, fill up with $100 of petrol and drive away.
But inside the supermarket you simply tap the card and then have to sign the receipt because you didn't enter a pin !
Here in the colonies
We don't get mail delivery to our door anymore.
There is a bank of locking mailboxes at the end of the street and a couple of larger lockers.
If they need to deliver a parcel they put it in a locker and put the key in your mail box.
And because it's a rural area, UPS and Fedex drop stuff off at the post office who know you and give you a call when something big arrives
Re: Cloud...
Or just sign up for a lot of Gmail accounts
Re: True Cost/Efficiency
It's probably less efficenct than battery+charging but it is a lot easier to ship long distance.
So if you have lots of solar in the desert and lots of hydro in the north - it's an easy way of shipping Giga-Joules from their to LA.
Re: "can soak up so much of the stuff ..."
But unlikely, even liquid hydrogen is only 1/4 the density of petrol and i can't see how you can adsorb a material to a higher density than a bulk liquid.
ps Explosiveness of the gas isn't a big deal. It's a lot less explosive than LPG and only risky over a very small range of concentrations. A bigger problem is that keeping it under high pressure needs lots of metal and hydrogen under pressure does nasty stuff to metal, keeping it as a liquid is even worse.
Posted in Sony opens cover on latest e-Reader
Re: e-books and airoplanes
I've had that as well - what's more off than a ebook showing a static page?
You have to start the electronics to turn it off!
Still in a world where a tamagochi can take out a 747 we can't take the chance
Re: isnt this getting a bit silly now
He allegedly fucked some bird with her agreement.
A couple of weeks later after a chat with the police she remembered he hadn't worn a condom
And we are proposing invading Ecuador over this - you don't think there is any political angle?
Re: It's interesting ..
We thought we had a list like that.
It turns out there is some small print which says - unless the US tells us to,
Re: Make Room! Make Room! is not Soylent Green
The book is so amazing that the soylent green is people (spoiler!) is the LEAST shocking thing about the world he describes.
An amazing writer that produced the most shocking future SF dystopian novel, a historical series where cavemen live under intelligent dinosaurs, the first steampunk novel and a couple of the funniest parody series as well as the stainless steel rat
Re: Never thought of myself as "fearless torrenter" before...
The big button thing works really for phones/tablets with a dozen apps.
Install visual studio on win8 and every tiny little exe gets its own button on the start page.
So you get to find all those Jet-DB resource compiler systools that you never used while you are looking for the actual IDE.
Re: Why is it taking so long
Enterprise customers had their own caching solution.
Desktop users that wanted more speed bought SSDs for the C drive
The only customers that needed a hybrid drive were laptop users with only one drive slot who needed speed AND lots of storage = a fairly niche market.
Re: Evil pirates of the high seas!
>The Louvre knew people wanted to see it, so invested in getting it,
Well strictly speaking they beheaded the owner and stole it - just alike a pirate
Re: Cellphones killed the cellulose star.
Even then Kodak made the best CCDs but didn't want to damage their film business.
Ironically they still make the best colour CCDs now that almost everyone has stopped using them.
Re: Hmmm?
Should make a few quid for ICAN as well as Google.co.uk,
We need Google.co.england.uk, Google.co.Wales.uk. Google.co.ni.uk, Goolge.co.Wales.uk.
Then of course if it effects any local bylaws you might have to have Google.barnsley.co.uk
Re: Trumped up...
"Excessive taking of property" = robbing a rich person
Obviously you have to take that more seriously.
Posted in Boffins create 100,000 DPI image
Re: Just who
Playboy granted an exemption to researches for using this image.
Eileen Kent, VP of new media at Playboy: "We decided we should exploit this, because it is a phenomenon."
X-ray specs
So if we had working X-ray specs we would see everyone naked, and allegedly made in God's image.
So lots of naked Gods walking around, who could object to that ?
me too !
If ( is_entering_flighdeck && is_carrying_weapon ) {
stop(bad_guy)
}
Re: Correction
>You offset all your expenses against your income.
So Microsoft makes a loss in the US because it has to pay a licence fee to Microsoft Licencing Inc (Bermuda) for every copy of Windows it sells.
Re: I think it is about time
>This is actually the aim of the Single Market.
So have a single corporate tax rate across the Eu !
The single market was supposed to stop countries keeping out competitors from other countries by unfair tax and duty - shouldn't be too difficult to prevent the opposite.
Re: That's all very well...
Since 97% of the medals came from public school kids that probably isn't a problem.
As long as Eton continues with double dressage on a monday, and the royal family keeps squeezing out sprogs that look like horses the future is guaranteed,
Re: Geo exporting
They do, in the same way that Quebec exports cheap hydroelectric - in the form of Aluminium.
Ship in Auminium oxide, apply shitloads of electric, ship out Aluminium
Re: I've yet to meet a green protester
If living in Houston means you need outdoors AC for the barbecue on the patio then you either need to make fusion work or change your lifestyle.
That's just the sort of cynical attitude that is letting our Olympic team down.
You just have to look at the number of Golds for forward-roll and rope climbing.
Did any of the competitors have to do it in their pants because they had forgotten their kit?
Re: That'll be because
Odd really when a consortium of the big-4 govt IT contractors all collaborated to make this site usable by SMEs
Re: Dame(d)
I wouldn't mind being Helen Mirren-ed !
Military Inteligence at it's best
"Sir Bernard said: "I think I should have been prevented from going to to the Soviet Union because they obviously knew we had been used as a defence centre."
I wasn't allowed to go to a Pink Floyd concert in Berlin in 1990 - a year AFTER the wall came down, because I would lose my security clearance for a very boring project making a telescope to track satellites. And they let a top radio and radar expert go to Moscow at the height of the cold war?????
ps of course it's always possible the vetting people were unaware of the cold war and wouldn't let me go to Berlin in case I let slip the details of our plans at Waterloo.
Posted in Why women won't apply for IT jobs
Re: I must of missed
Sorry - didn't really make my point clear. It wasn't the women that were the problem - it was the policy.
So the government will decide we need more women in IT. Universities will be "incentivized" to get more women through it's programs. The only incentive universities have is entrance requirements and pass marks, so these will be adjusted to get 50% of women passing.
Similarly the govt can't do anything to make private companies hire women, but it can insist that govt IT jobs or govt IT contracts are 50% women.
The result of this is unlikely to be a rise in the status of women in IT !
