Posts by Purlieu

Same time

Indeed, towards the end of the Man U - Man City match the other day, which became time-critical at the end, the commentator actually mentioned on air that satellite viewers would be up to 10 seconds behind terrestrial (and not just because of the distance before some clever arse chips in) so given that, you are actually not watching in real time.

re: The 1970s are coming back

Good, maybe we'll get some decent Prog and EM instead of all this incessant identical rap rubbish

facebook

you won't be typing www.facebook.facebook it will be www.yourname.facebook

Rough and Smooth

Efficiancy might be better in the lab, but stick one on your roof and the rough one quickly becomes gunged up with dust and sticky stuff, which simply slides off the smooth one. Efficiency gets compromised. There, you didn't need a professor for that one ...

7 hours

Since it took 7 hours to find a body, it might have taken a lot longer to find an SD card dropped from a height

One more reason

... were it needed, why I will not have Apple products in the house. I still haven't recovered from Apple breaking their agreement with Apple not to use the Apple name in connection with music, that was evil.

Mickey Mouse

Disney already have Mickey Mouse trademarked etc so why on earth did they need to extend copyright c.f. Sonny Bono and all that. At least I expect they did, and not just the worthless TM thing (equals "we can't be arsed/can't afford to register this as a trademark) yes worthless even in the US .... look it up

Erm

Asteroid is the term you are seeking, Astroid is a mathematical thing

Felony ?

I don't believe we yet have such a thing here in the UK. Perhaps if you wnt to the USA you might find one.

Oil

I wonder who "sponsored" this research

Clearly since heat is allegedly being released into the turbine-rich area, it is not being released elsewhere. Total global change = 0

BASIC

Originally it was "Interactive" not "Instruction" and in fact "instruction code" is a bit of a tautology. Interactive in the sense that you could type something in and run it there and then, without having to compile/assemble/ whatever it first. Those days on the PDP11 were not wasted.

nag = bag

doh

Cherish

"I cherish my hunting time and relationships with the people and the wildlife of Alaska, and killing it"

Lossless

Guys,

CD isn't lossless, FLAC isn't lossless.

It's digitised therefore quantised.

Only analogue is (almost) lossless.

Sound in space

Contrary to popular belief space is not enough of a vacuum to _totally_ prevent sound propagation. Look it up.

Lawyers, lying lawyers, and more lying lawyers

"The law says that unless you protect your trademark it becomes diluted and you can lose it." whined SZC as though trying to extract actual pity and sympathy out of the situation, like as if they are the victims

"all it ever wanted was a nominal $100 fee" - perhaps if you'd said that up front, all this adverse publicity might have been avoided, but hey whatwould I know

Convert

Convert methane into CO2 that should be worth seeing

Funny

Funny how SZC didn't get touchy about this until the film was due out. Twats.

Now I know

.... what US extradition etc is

Example 1 = gut in the UK sets up a website that links forward to copyrighted media, not a criminal offense in his country, US extradites him

Example 2 = guy in Afghanistan kills 16 civilians including children, a crimilan offense worldwide, US flies him out

You'll be waiting

a long time for 31 April to come around

perhaps whistling a Rick Astley tune would while away the decades,

4 digit years

you're gonna be so sorry in 9999

Re: Transformers blowing up

Did you hide under a satellite dish to prevent your Globotech X-1000 chip from frying ?

So what if

an IP address found to be downloading shedloads of films etc unlawfully turns out to be, say, Honda head office, since someone on their network is abusing his hospitality. Are they going to pull the plug on a major manufacturer ? My breth is not held.

VCR

In fact the movie industry has already suffered the same fate - VCR killed it stone dead in the 80's/90's

Oh wait

It didn't do that, though they very vehemently (more so than now) fought to ban VCR, in the end it saved their businesses. Did they learn from that ? Hahaha

I, for one

welcome our new 200km algae overlords

Banks

I thought the banks used a ZX81 for clearing, which is why it takes 3 days

@ John Riddoch

Like Apple never sued anybody ever

I remember

that regular phones were taxed back in the late 90's is this still the case ?

Sensurround

"Earthquake" (1974)

Groan

At this rate they'll flood the market in 3 months

Macs

who cares

Looks to me

exactly how a music keyboard works

Ok then Opera, Cern

Now that you've "fixed" your kit, please do the experiment AGAIN

Oh dear

This is so full of issues that I don't know where to start. Suffice to say "what could possibly go wrong"

ATM's

It's 10 tries on an ATM

Zzzzz

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find it was Andy Coulson

Re: A fool an their money

Good job this place is free, then

Re: Re: Rich

which is why I said "famous"

doh

ITV

Isn't ITV already a trademark ? You remember, a large commercial channel in the Uk.

Oh wait

What did it for me

was bloody Cliff Richard whining on about how 50 years was not long enough for him to benefit from his "works" .... I mean, mate, if you haven't made enough in the first 50 years, what do you think is going to happen next ? Really ?

I agrre with the commentard above, who suggests 20 years, though perhaps 25 is better.

Actually Motorola would only need two "buttons" close together

Open the pod bay doors, iPhone

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that