Re: Not a meterorite@Nigel 11

I hate people who make generalisations about people - them and the Belgians

Re: Conspiracy Theory

God frustrated at Tetris

Re: Mercator

It also has a large east-west extent and since most things flying around the solar system are in the plane they are going to be going sideways on the map

Re: Helen Boaden

When they stopped making programs and started commissioning them from outside companies the only job left was producer (in the movie sense) but since nobody in the "creative" parts was made redundant they ended up making everybody a manager/producer

Re: No i?

And for everyone else who was distracted by the whooshing sound of a joke going over their head

The BBC used to produce serious documentaries, funny sitcoms, expensive drama, decent science programs etc. While the commercial iTV produced cheap bargain-house-price-cooking-with-celebs type crap.

Now that the BBC's 97 channels produces nothing but ....

Re: Why not....

No - a real movie plot would have the french guy from MI/Leon/Ronin hack into the car's computer with a laptop (that oddly has only a 16x4 character display) while dangling from a helicopter

Re: 2 Year Elec Eng Project

Mine was based on flint, we didn't have any of this new-fangled bronze technology back then

Re: Mix Tapes

And where are those bands now ? Gone

No showaddywaddy, no Roxy music, no Genesis (well ok that one was self inflicted, and anybody who made a girl a Genesis mix tape in the 70s was probably going to be dissapointed)

Proof that home taping killed music !

Re: Chickens coming home to roost

And you have a civil service recruitment process that considers "diversity" to mean you invite old chums from both Oxford AND Cambridge to suggest any suitable chaps

Re: Out of work oap

Sorry you fail the vetting because you have a police caution for hacking the school's admin system when you were 11

Re: Smashing Pope

Your opinion of the loving mercy of the mother church might be slightly different if you are gay or a woman

Re: Take them to the cleaners, Benny!

>that's lasted through the centuries

The egyptian pharaos lasted longer, so that's Ra 1 : JC 0

Even the original line-up, Yawheh 1.0, are doing pretty well despite 2000 years of the church trying to wipe them out.

>asking nothing in return

Other than would you mind transferring all your gold to Spain, converting to our new religion and giving us your continent.

Re: Smashing Pope

I assume you are male, heterosexual and live in a rich country then?

Re: The Church is definitely not a business.

>I think he is a Jew

There is a certain precedent for a Jew doing quite well in the christian church

Of course you have to be crucified first .....

Re: Alpha....

But Itanium was designed from the ground up..... - BY A COMPETITOR

It's like Fedex deciding not to continue buying trucks, but accept UPS's kind offer to ship your stuff with them.

Re: History repeating itself?

In about 2005 HP flew us all out to their Bristol HQ to try and sell us this new inhouse cloud flexible dynamic computing clustering concept they had invented.

It consisted of being able to copy a drive image (slowly) from a SAN and reboot to gain an extra webserver or database server machine when you needed it. And this from the company that had incorporated the clustering technology of Tandem, Compaq and Dec !

Re: Good riddance?

> a halfwit without the ability to empathise with people of slightly differeing viewpoints.

Indeed there is no right and wrong answer and always two sides to every arguement.

My point of view was that Li-ion batteries were too unreliable to fit to a 787 but my colleagues assured me that they had prayed and truly had faith that they would be safe - so in a spirit of ecumenical tolerance I went along with their plans.

Now I hope to battle those people in health and safety who believe in this dis-proven "theory" of gravity and insist on safety railing.

Re: Look at our new v9...I mean v10 model!

You make a thoughtful and interesting point sir.

Now what have you done with the real Eadon?

There is a new technology that allows you to burn carbon in oxygen while generating less carbon-dioxide?

Re: twisted Pair...

But at least you could re-use and recycle the tokens. With aethernet everything is just dumped into the aether - polluting it

Re: Linux updates just work?

Of course on VMS we didn't even need to reboot to update the OS

On a VaxCluster you could replace the entire machine without the users noticing

But that's a cute little unix toy you have there ....

now you kids get off my lawn.

Re: Born Again'ers

The puritans left England because they wanted to persecute - they wanted to live somewhere where they could have absolute control over the way people lived and worshipped.

And the first place they went to try this was Amsterdam ????

If that was the IQ they started with - I think America has done rather well!

Re: Alternative title:

>When the value of the shares are down you have to pay some dividends, no matter how disgusting it is

Or you use your cash to buy those shares cheap

Paying dividends says to the market "we can't think of anything productive to do with this money - so we are giving it back to the shareholders so they can invest it somewhere else"

If you are a utility or a life insurance company that makes sense - it normally marks the beginning of the end for a tech company.

Re: Watchdogs with teeth please

But how would you tell if the operators weren't following the rules?

You would have to fit CCTV to watch them .....

Re: " If you hate the place so much, why don't you leave?)"

Can we start a Whitehouse petition to have Eadon repatriated?

Re: ice giants

You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. ...

he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.

George Carlin

Re: 666

>Or have I missed some very subtle trolling here? ;-)

It's not in the original - only the "cash-in" sequel (The one with the upbeat happy ending and all the violence removed)

Re: Good riddance?

> A person showing up at a job interview and stating that he believes that a book written quite some time ago is the words of God, simply does not qualify as intelligent.

Surely the Holy book of K&R should still be revered? - even if you do use C++

Re: Broadcast

It's wasteful to use up all those megahertz sending pointless "celebrity diy house price on the attic" programmes to millions of TVs that are turned off.

Somebody is going to sell the frequencies for $$$$ so they can be used efficently for sending "OMG some celeb just said LOL" tweets to millions of phones.

Re: Must be about time all TV became on-demand via the Internet

Eventually the tv-licence fee is going to go away - along with broadcast TV

Everything will be on iPlayer or iTunes as pay-per-view

Then we will miss the days of $200 all you can eat viewing when we have to pay 99c for each episode of ISIHAC

Re: Now, they can do that in a variety of ways

>The root cause of crime is perceived helplessness in the midst of predicated poverty

Really ?

Politicians steal expenses, bankers rob investors and companies fiddle health and safety rules because they feel helpless about poverty?

Re: "Shatners talks space, acting"

Don't forget TJ Hooker

Re: How to improve the world.

Cheaper solution

1, Build very small health spa

2, ask: Do you really believe any of the rabid, ficticious waffle in the Book of Revelations?

3, anyone who answers no is allowed in.

(With apologies to wonko the sane)

Re: Cameras everywhere

"They grow up to obfuscate and not take any responsibility for their actions."

To be fair, not all hoodies grow up to be politicians or civil servants - many become honest decent crooks.

Re: Let's not take any risk

Same as you get for the 5000euro version

"have you tried turning it off and on again?

Re: Precidence not necessary

Do GW by any chance have dwarfs, elves, wizards, dragons, ..... in their toy collection?

Do not meddle in the affairs of Tolkein heirs - they are quick to anger and not subtle

Re: 4 million pixels?

Sir I give you the Lenovo Ultrabook

UK prepared

Today a solar superstorm disrupted rail transport, caused several mobile phone networks to fail, disconnected whatever-NTL-is-called-today and led to increased rainfall.

Re: Chocolate Teapot

As long as we don't insist Facebook delete our preferences.

It's going to be tricky to have a trade war with America if they own all our weapons.

Or possbly much simpler if they are selling us billion $$ aircraft which we can then refuse to buy?

re: Mechanism please.

Q1, Do you consider yourself an open minded liberal type

Q1a do you view porn

Q1b do you support gay marriage

Q2, Do you consider yourself a conservative christian

Q2a do you oppose porn

Q2b do you oppose gay marriage

Then only publish the correlation between 1a/b and 2a/b

Re: Oh dear

Blame Intel

They should be responsible for filtering out the porn - its their CPU that is in charge

And since they have the deepest pockets - they are the ones to sue

Re: Genuine question

>Intel might go in for predatory pricing just to drive ARM

If Intel could compete on power - otherwise, you can offer a phone maker an Atom for free - it still can't use it.

Intels big problem is that if they did make cheap desktop/server chips to keep ARM out of the market - they would be undercutting their own chip business.

Re: eh?

>I long predicted that MS would go from being dominant to insignificant over a short duration.

I don't think this is a sign they are being insignificant - it's a sign that they are becoming a significant company in the hedge fund business.

If you have $50Bn in the bank, why waste money trying to write software when you can make a lot more $$$ investing in other companies ?

Re: Microsoft picks its preferred OEMs. Biz model EPIC FAIL.

Loan or not - if somebody lends you $2Bn you can bet they are going to offer some helpful suggestions about how to run your business

Re: Duping the public

So the tanking PC industry is due to Obama

Who is behind the booming tablet sales? Reagan ?