Posts by T.a.f.T.

Not doing much at all

I think the authors point was that Google have not really done much at all that will stop pirates, which is not great news as far as the content producers go. Hence the authors opinion as to why this news was aired on/before the weekend when everyone in the US is having lazy Monday prior to returning to work (not wearing any white).

<- That is what the author was trying to do... I think... but being anti-Google & anti-MFIDIAD (whatever the letters are) in the same article did water down the point a bit as he was not up in arms about either side and ended up being rather... meh!

Logo

But is has Apple's logo on it! So that would really be a Trade mark violation which is usually much easier to make stick.

using a word not a symbol

ml not m litres

if it is an abbreviation of million it should also be m' to indicate where the missing letters are as in couldn't and you're.

C

> where did it all go wrong

You didn't learn C which gives a reasonable level of control but leaves enough time at the end of the day for girls & alcohol (just don't say any more about your job than I am a programmer for X(applciation) and your odds of getting laid stay about par with the average man on the street).

TweetDeck

I use twitter a lot more once I realised that TweetDeck would not only Tweet but also Buzz and Facebook for me... so as Buzz is already rolled into Google+ (I think) I can keep all 3 in Sync with the existing Apps for Android/Chrome et. al.

I wholly agree that my output at the least should be from one post and if at all possible the replies should be aggregated. I don't use TweetDeck instead of any of the services it has worked more as a feeder causing me to use all three a lot more and I think that should be the goal.

8 just a recompile?

Other than working on ARM what else is new in Windows 8? Will it basically be Windows 7 service Pack (insert relevant number) that they have also cross-compiled onto an ARM core?

If 9 is all voice and touchy then I can see that is like a huge GUI update... so perhaps we should wait for WinX when they have split the Windows 10 GUI system out into some separate server like lump; all we need is a catchy marketing name for a GUI server/client system possibly related to the number 10...

It was off

That was the problem... the on button is in space and there is no way to reach it! Last time they let the work experience kid fault find using the help guide.

Frostycrack

Better known as Frosty Jack is the best thing we found while I was at Uni; big old blue cider bottle at about 9% and less than £2 a litre :-D

Slight problem in that it was like drinking fizzy apple juice so you quite often finished a bottle before realising you could not feel your face; happy times :-)

<- bit of a hangover the next day

Earthing and a good seal

I am sure you have to earth a cage if you want the transmitter to be blocked; you will get some attenuation from just having a metal/water/fleshy object in the path but not enough to stop a mobile broadcast. If you earth it you give a new direction for the magical photon/electron waves to head; down into the ground so you can get a bit more attenuation.

I would say that a tin strapped to the central heating systems or some other earth point with some copper tape around it should be OK. Then you put the tin in a microwave and the microwave underwater in a large bucket... no problems there?

FLOPS

Look at you showing off with a console that can run a game and NIC (I have one too, great arnt they :-D)

Small amount of uranium vs lots of coal

There is but you could use electric tools (many mining rigs are electric so they dont have to get exhaust fumes out). Most importantly Coal, Oil or Gas plants needs many many tones of fuel all the time that they are running; Nuclear plants can have one patch of fuel last a very long time.

The biggest energy cost of a nuke is the concrete to make all the walls; but if you powered the concrete factory on Nuclear power that goes down quite a bit (I think making concrete outputs CO2 direclty on top of the huge amount of heat & power it needs).

Nuke - Better than fossil fules even if it is not perfect; even kills less minors...but only coz there are less of them needed. Not a perfect world but maybe a better one.

.<foo>.<country>

Sounds like a good idea to me but I see no harm in allowing plain .<foo>. if the applicant can provide resolvable proof of international business interests. google.search.uk and google.search are both OK.

I did wonder if you could just register .<word> and host your side at www.word?

I agree that this could quiet easily lead to a name explosion where even less logic is involved in a domian then there is at present!

Finger is good enough tool

I have done this before; I was surprised just how easy it was when having a blind feel behind a machine to toggle this switch. Fortunately the fact that nothing came back on as I expected alerted me to the fact that I may not have just flipped the black power switch and I took a good look before powering things on.

No tool needed, just a bit of a fumble in the dark.

Just not trying

Underground nuclear explosions should take care of letting in air and setting fire to it all.

There is probably no way to burn all of the commercially accessible coal in a a useful way is probably true. We can run out of oil and gas super fast if we try hard though :-P Well there are oil sands but I am sure my injectors will clog up if I put sand into the fuel tank.