Posts by Not_The_Droids
42 posts • joined Tuesday 4th October 2011 12:30 GMT
The big news here
The big news here isn't that 61% launched a TIFKAM app less than once per day... but that it implies that 39% launched a TIFKAM app once or more a day. To a marketdroid, that's a number that will be on the upswing. Just wait until we have 45%! 50%! wOOT wOOT! The glass isn't 61% empty... it's 39% full.
No really, I don't live on another planet.
Posted in Bing uncloaks Klingon translator
Maybe now I can work on my pick up lines for Lursa and B'Etor. Rowwr.
I'm the one with the cloak..ing device.
Last single platter drive I worked with was an RL02. I find this new fangled stuff quite scarily fragile looking.
Re: News from NK
You scraped that from Wikipedia, didn't you?
Star Trek Did It.
It's called Pon farr. Blood fever, violent, sex-crazed mania. Battle to the death.
With great music in the background...
Re: There are multiple complex roots
Hey now, we electrical engineers are just keepin' it real...
Re: @Moeluk "store Apps and things on those SD cards"
As a "tablet" though, movies come to mind. It doesn't take long to fill up 23GB with movies if you're not fond of heavy pixellation. The movies on my tablet are 1-2 GB per.
Posted in Why you need a home lab to keep your job
Re: Alexei Sayle
Never heard of a computer killing their operator. Or getting your hair caught in a computer ending up in a video on Youtube. Lathes, on the other hand, can be quite vindictive if mistreated...
I have two... An old South Bend, and a newer Grizzly. So I suppose my shop is a proper "workshop", but I don't do as much work as I'd like out there these days. Oddly enough, my shop has no IT kit in it, but I'm working on that (about to put up a tower to pass a network connection via radios from the house to the shop).
Saw an article that mentioned that Pinterest is something like 94% (or 97%?) female users. I know my wife, and a number of her friends, are users, but I don't know any guys that are. They pin pictures for one another, my wife gets artsy-craftsy ideas from there (the loft bed I built for my daughter came from a picture my wife saw on Pinterest). No real use for guys though.
I'm here for the beer...
Our Wii is still used just about every day. Once or twice a month for games, every day for the rest of the month for Netflix. I'll admit, it's got a good Netflix interface (for the SD TV in the kids' playroom, of course). My kids are masters of Netflix on Wii these days.
My wife has been happily using Office '97 for many years (still using it today). While Powerpoint feels a bit long in the tooth, and she doesn't use Access or Excel, Word 97 does all she needs to do - unless she needs to open a .docx or convert to PDF, and then she'll lean on conversion programs.
Re: "Am I the only one that finds this just a little bit disquieting?"
Not very pleasant, especially for the good looking princesses who probably get chatted up at least 20 times a day by dorks like me. Jasmine and Kim Possible were quite cute last time I went to WDW... Wife doesn't appreciate that either, BTW.
Duh, with $40M worth of waffles. Can't sell dry waffles. Oh the humanity! I was eyeing the Belgians for this job.
Re: @ AC
In the books (post-ROTJ), there was a clone Emperor...
Sounds like I'm in trouble...
We have the chairs issue at work... any chair labeled a "Manager's Chair" on the box is unacceptable for normal workers.
We also have a phones issue at work. Majority of employees are only allowed an analog handset with a LED voice mail light. Digital phones (with displays) are reserved for managers and above. Caller ID is not available at all (company does not subscribe to it from the telco).
Coffee is free, but I've heard rumors that may change in the future.
Desks with overhangs are reserved for higher-ups as well.
Re: Wot no C64?
We weren't a rich family, so we couldn't afford a C64. I did talk the parents in to buying me a Vic-20 though. That's how I worked on my programming skills... guess that $99 investment back in 1984 or so did pay off eventually. I still have the VIC-20, tried to power it up last year. Alas, the power supply was completely dead (and epoxy filled, so no troubleshooting available), and after figuring out an alternative, the video did not come up. Poor thing...
Re: Choices.
I agree, Glocks are ugly guns, but my 27 is about the biggest gun my smallish frame can conceal. I lust after an elegantly machined full sized 1911 in .45 cal, but think "what practicality is it? I can't carry that monster.". My G27 isn't anything I want to show off (like said 1911 would be)... but for cost, reliability, simplicity, weight, and available aftermarket accessories... it's hard to beat an ugly Glock.
I had a PPK at one time (traded it away)... it tended to jam a lot, but that may have been the ammo I was feeding it.
How times change
Seeing all this US vs UK gun argument...
I'm currently reading Churchill's book series on WWII (fascinating read, I'm on book 4 of 6). Seems that in the late 1930s / early 1940s, GB was begging for every firearm they could get their hands on, because of the seemingly imminent German invasion (which, fortunately, never happened, because of the Air Force superiority). Part of me wonders - what happened to those millions of firearms that were shipped to GB in the 1940s and distributed to protect against invasion? Were they collected up? (I somehow doubt the answer is in book 6.)
Black helicopters, because we have plenty of those around here too...
So which is it...
"She takes up 25 square feet of space"
Or the ITV article: "The machine, which measures 20ft by 22ft,"
I have room in my cubicle for the first...
Not so much for the second...
So where does this leave
MythTV? I was a heavy MythTV user until earlier this year... Would the layering of the software upon a standard PC hardware platform exempt it from the steamroller, or would its features encumber it and make an open source project a target? I used an Athlon 3200 with a Happauge tuner card.
Re: Actually, Elmer ... (was: Pints!)
Yes, and the 22 oz is a 'bomber'. So, bomber > pint.
Now, how about the forty? That's fine livin' right there. Grip & sip.
Re: 4x2
A 2x4 is actually 1-5/8" x 3.5" - err, 41.28mm x 88.9 mm.
And the last 4x8 x 20mm sheet of MDF I bought wasn't 48" wide either. I don't recall the exact width, but I do believe it was slightly larger.
Re: Typo
No, accountants are useless for plenty of other reasons. :)
{But I'll lay palm leaves at the feet of my CPA around tax time, thanks...}
Whew, I'm OK.
Glad to be a beef-eating 'merican, our cows aren't shrinking. You Brits might lose some weight due to your shrinking fishies, but we won't be. Whew.
Fishy, fishy, fishy, fish, that went wherever I did go...
Count me in...
My Sprint Galaxy S2 running ICS popped up with the IMEI number. So I s'pose I ought to surf carefully... though the Sprint network is so slow, surfing is nearly worthless anyway...
Surely
Facebook already has a patent on this, and now California Court Hilarity will ensue.
So what's he expect MR to be doing?
So, if the Republicans can't have their convention while a storm is going on, what should they be doing? Hanging around Louisiana in a bucket brigade? News flash, life goes on, even during natural disasters. Life is not all about Louisiana. Not everyone can join in the fun and try to "help" those who are stuck on their roofs in a flood (aka "not having enough common sense to realize that they built their house in a flood zone and should have GTFO while they had the chance"). Honestly, at this point I have little sympathy for anyone who was unprepared for this. You live in southern Louisiana, possibly even below sea level. You KNOW what is going to happen. It WILL happen again.
Life goes on. Mod me down, I don't care, but the world will keep spinning.
Or a big sword?
Since we're talking Apple in the same sentence...
"There can be only one".
Con or Mcloud... you decide!
Re: good job
My son's of this minecraft generation. He'd play for days straight if we let him. The saving grace of that game (for me) is that it allows you to run your own server. I set up a VM on my machine, taught him how to do remote desktop, poked a port in the router, and said "there ya go". He's now admin of his 'own server' for him and a few buddies, and he's got it running pretty well. So he's not just playing a game, he's learning how to run a box. Little steps...
Of course, now he wants me to move it to a real box with lots of RAM... Thankfully I don't have any nearby elevator shafts, large safes, or raised floor rooms... he's a bit of a PFY right now, but one day...
So why not combine the two... Haggis ranchero? Kinda like a Haggis quesadilla. That's generally how we eat leftovers at home. Darn near anything tastes good in a tortilla with cheese & fresh salsa.
Aliens, because some of the best Tex-Mex is made by...
Change Places!
Bit of a Futurama-esque activity, eh? http://fchangeplaces.ytmnd.com/
A Slashdot poster did some digging on "Pegasus Holdings", seems it's 1 guy that's dreaming big. Interesting reading.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2846347&cid=39986399
Reeks of "monorail-syndrome" / money wasting boondoggle to me.
Posted in New iPad can't get its Wi-Fi up
Overheating, Charging Problems
One morning, as I was taking my Galaxy S2 off the charger, it was quite warm and the battery was at 10% - after charging overnight! How could it be that I purchased a complete piece of junk like this? How dare it get hot, and how dare the battery not charge on a 2 month old phone?
Well, as it turns out, I'd left my security camera software running, and it had been streaming video (behind the locked screen) all night (on WiFi). Streaming video chewed through the battery and caused the CPU to warm up.
I have a feeling that a lot of these are growing pain problems; getting used to how the apps are handled on the devices. Leave a CPU intensive program running, and duh... it's going to get warm.
Sounds Familiar
The Board of Directors for the company I work for was issued iPads to "cut down on paperwork".
3 months later they were back to distributing binders for board meetings. Seems the directors couldn't be bothered to figure out how their shiny-shinies really could work for them in meetings. So the company purchased 30 iPads for naught, but the directors got new toys.
Oh wow...
Double tsunami, man. Double tsunami, look at that. Wow, man. The colors are so beautiful...
Good to know...
My son's birthday is tomorrow, he's getting Skyrim (PC version) - and a new video card. Is the PC version OK to patch, or should we hold off on patching it?
Yellow fizzy drink, because he's also getting an 8-pack of Mountain Dew for his video gaming marathon tomorrow night.
"They could always talk to Microsoft to make sure SQLServer is up to the job for Itanium."
Somehow, I think that Windows isn't the primary platform we're talking about here. We've purchased a number of Itanium boxes running VMS. They can run UNIX as well. Oracle has databases for both OS's. How much effort would it take to port SQL Server to VMS? Probably more than MS would want to exert.
This is the scout
For the Hyperspace Bypass. I, for one, welcome our new Vogon overlords. Can I interest anyone in some poetry?
Ditto.
I bought my daughter a charger and an A/V cable for her iPod Touch - both non-Apple variants. With the charger, she gets an annoying message on her Touch, and the A/V cable doesn't work at all with the newer firmware. Like you, I'm done with Apple products. I'm not paying $50 for an A/V cable so we can watch videos from her iPod on the big screen. $5 I would, yes, $50, no.
My Archos 43 (Android) is quite promiscuous, it'll take and work with any old plug. It's not picky at all.
Movie good?
For a movie that tries to be a story about a war, it requires the viewer to suspend all belief in reality in order to watch it. Unfortunately, "the best" war movies are somewhat realistic (see Band of Brothers). The things done by actors in this movie simply aren't done in the field. I'd love to see a solitary bomb disposal person heft and move six 100+ lb artillery shells with a few pairs of 14 gauge wire - like they did in this movie.
