Posts by Arbee
24 posts • joined Thursday 14th April 2011 13:39 GMT
Re: Containerising
No - he means containerising. He's talking about putting applications into containers.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3Acontainarising
Re: Stupid question
> (sorry I haven't figured out how to link to a specific time)
It's actually really easy with YouTube.
You just need to add a "t" parameter, giving the number of minutes and seconds you want to skip, e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsytnJ_pSf8&t=0m50s
Re: Gloss kills it
"Small screen"
Small laptops necessitate a small screen. The success of netbooks and the Macbook Air, as well as Intel's massive Ultrabook push demonstrate that this is a compromise lots of people are happy to make.
"lack of resolution"
The resolution is 1080p (i.e. 1920 x 1080). What the hell resolution do you want on a 13" screen!
Re: More marbles
I think it's a simple clerical error. The answer is (3*3)/(14*15), or 9/210. This simplifies to 3/70, but I think they've just simplified the denominator.
Re: giant warrior's helmet
Ummm - I don't think it would matter. A giant warrior would have a large helmet for his giant head.
Re: Tandem
Actually, Tandom (or HP NonStop as it is now called) is still in wide use. At the institution I work at (UK) it's the backend to the ATM network. I went to a seminar about it and was told their last outage was in 1991!
Re: I miss space combat.
Happily, as mentioned in the article, there is hope coming in the form of Elite:Dangerous (and surely the success of that Kickstarter campaign should tell the industry there is still a demand out there).
More importantly, what about the massive success of Star Citizen (the new game by Chris "Wing Commander" Roberts) on Kickstarter? From memory he raised 6 million quid (although he also has a number of private backers, so definitely has the money to produce a proper AAA title).
Also, she says Tannhäuser like a Canadian: Tannhoooooooser.
It was very impressive, but still not a patch on Rutger Hauer...
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
Re: Demand has been phenomenal.
I'm pretty sure it's the Intel Inside jingle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VIITf_iLoE
Re: A wise check to make
This. THIS!
A THOUSAND TIMES, THIS!
I remember one interview (which turned out to be the best job I ever had), we were talking about university, and I mentioned in passing that I got a 2:1. The interviewer was very surprised, as the recruiter had removed the grade from my CV so he had assumed I'd got a 3rd!
Re: int getRandomNumber()
Ah dammit! I spotted that but couldn't work out the (obligatory!) reference.
Classic. The blue water she is drinking is a particularly nice touch.
Re: Hahahah. Dick.
I think his point is that it is not a stereotypical Jewish name. When someone states their name is Steve, you don't instantly assume "must be Jewish".
Re: CIA?
Larry Ellison?
Re: But to the locals...
Do they have pigs on Mars?
For the northern markets, especially Yorkshire, it could create a portemanteau of it's 2 brands : t'orange.
Re: Not just Tesco
And yes, I am aware that you could link them directly to the password reset form, but that is pretty much exactly the same as emailing the password - it's just that the URL to the password reset form becomes the secret, rather than the password.
Re: Not just Tesco
How exactly would you know what your replacement password was if they *didn't* send it plain text?
And 5 characters is absolutely fine - it is assumed you will be changing it on your next logon (most systems will enforce this).
Re: Not entirely true
The TiVo box is actually much nicer than the V+ box from a UI point-of-view. It's much faster and more responsive, navigation is easier (fewer button presses to get where you want to go, dedicated Home, Guide, and Recorded Shows buttons), and it's got lots of little bits of polish (if you scroll back in the TV guide, you can select programs and it will load them from iPlayer/4OD/etc, is one example of that polish).
Features like watchlists are good too - just add a watchlist to "Record anything directed by David Lean" and it will.
When I got it it was also £3 a month cheaper than V+ (although it cost me £50 upfront).
However, it won't do streaming, DLNA, or anything cool like that.
Re: The marketing people will be happy.
That's correct. The rule they put in is that if you recieve a windfall on demutualisation, you have to give it to charity (Nationwide have a charitable trust that it will go to - you don't get a choice).
Doesn't meet the criteria.
Darwin awards are for people who improve the gene pool by removing themselves from it.
I don't think the sort of guy who plays Diablo III for 2 days straight was ever likely to be contributing much to that pool.
"Female students had typically had 11 partners by the time they were polled."
And 12 after they were polled?
Hur hur.
/get your coat love, you've pulled.
Math fail.
FTA:
'"I am somebody who if I believe in something, I give it 180 per cent."
That's an impressive 70 per cent improvement on the best efforts of professional footballers'
No - it's a 70 percentage <b>point</b> increase on the effort of a footaballer. It's clearly a ~64% increase.
I trust that the Reg put this in purely to generate vitriolic comments, because otherwise I WEEP FOR HUMANITY.
