Re: EU Political Correctness / Communism / Fascism

An Eadon comment is automatically ironic. It has nothing to do with his intention. Does he actually have intentions. In fact, I'm beginning to suspect Eadon is amfm release version. It's a pity though, that the coders have substituted breadth with (superficial ) coherence.

Re: Or worse?

I don't disagree with you but isn't the problem more fundamental than that? Analysts get paid to say stuff. They'll still get paid if said stuff is inane or obvious or misleading. They only only don't get paid if they don't say anything at all.

Re: tiny ?

That's what I thought. Some (unfortunate) men are not that well equipped.

"extremely slow (19-15hz), massively parallel, "analogue", self-repairing and self-adapting, poor compartmentalisation, with pattern detection bias and high error ratio"

Sounds like the US Army. (OK , any army.) May be you should contact the Call of Duty and ask them how they did it.

Who needs an exciting name

When they're "extremely large".

I thought you meant the vapour trails

then I remembered I came here to do a CMP joke.

Re: Why revel in things someone else has decided are waste of time?

Because from a third person point we learn much more from failures than successes. Sure if you want to make an Oscar-winner by all means study Oscar-winners. But if you're not in the business you watch good movies and discuss bad ones.

Re: Looks like a Nexus 7 clone...

I'll certainly be considering it. I've been umming and aahing over a Nexus but I'm on a budget and the AU$200 plus price keeps putting me off. Basically all I need is decent battery life, reasonable build quality, and the ability to run a browser. If I can get that for $30 less than a Nexus I'm interested. On the other hand, there's the poorish screen and the HP liability . . .

Re: John Sheridan, eh?

Most of the savings come by adopting Minbari technology but when you see the UI you'll be longing for the return of the ribbon.

Re: java?

That episode?I remember all of them and to be fair most were down to flash vulns.

International pretend to be a space traveller day

is next Thursday.

I'm interesting

You're an oddball. They're batshit insane.

Re: Sign of the times?

I was going to demand Klingon but a true warrior. . . . No, I don't have the strength to go on.

Since we're restricted to the classics

surely that should be "Doug and Dinsdale".

Re: Marines?

They were all called Kevin, just to keep it clear.

I'm happy to wait two days

for the puns.

Are you trying to get them to multiply

or will you supply condoms?

Re: Tomorrows El Reg Headline.... Today

Anyone can create a streaming video service. It takes a Google to make money out of it.

Lots of flashing lights

Now that was a computer.

A lot of people are going to be disappointed by optronics.

I see your Whoooooosh

and raise a Poe.

And I thought they were just going to use

frikken lasers.

Re: It's not all good though

Have you considered a stimulus package.

Because

the US doesn't have to prove anything to the Norks and they don't want China cutting off the supply of ipads.

Re: I'm taking my pitchfork to the University of California, San Diego next week

The Daleks?

Is it April 1 already?

Re: NorrisSpeed USB

The Hilton is indeed a unit of speed - unfortunately it only applies in one direction.

Re: Each paragraph of your post is untrue.

That which is asserted without evidence . . .

Stop the presses

Anonymous person on the internet comes to "conclusion".

You're in the right area

It's like one of those Japanese combining robots. Never underestimate the power of a few hormone fueled teenagers in a group. The lampposts didn't stand a chance

CorelDraw is a vector illustration/page layout tool and a powerful one at that. No image editing program can be expected to do what it does. You probably don't need it. Most people don't need it any more than they need, say, a CAD program but that hardly justifies the bizarre hate its getting here.

+1 for "Astrotheiving'

Minus 10% for misspelling 'thieving' but you'll have to owe that to me.

Re: Comma

I see you're new here. Actually, I see you really are new here, so for your information the Register's unofficial motto is something like "Supplying the internet with its daily dose of good old British double entendre since the 1990s".

It's David Irving thinks Wikipedia has defamed him

he should try suing for libel.

Re: Speaking of perspective,

from the about page of Apologetics* Press:

The entire material Universe was specially created by this almighty God in 6 days of approximately 24-hours each, as revealed in Genesis 1 and Exodus 20:11.

Well, that's the big bang disproved then.

*The name was a giveaway but the I'm a bit of a masochist.

Re: Go on....credit Stellarium for the pic!

"If I want to look at Venus and Saturn from an Earth-centric perspective, I need only go outside of an evening".

Lucky you. Around here it's all tower blocks. (Oh, for the key to the roof.) Of course for the view from space it's Orbiter all the way for me. Nothing like a good docking, now and then.

Re: What's in it for the AIs?

Let's hope sorting out it's own space program doesn't involve realising project Orion.

Re: Not exactly a shock

"This ability would need to spontaneously appear in a large number of the species for it to thrive through procreation."

In 1860 that argument might have some plausibility. After Mendel it's just silly.

is that when it comes to spaceflight, mass is everything. Energy can come from solar or nuclear (there are no clouds or neighbours in space or indeed on Mars) but fuel (specifically reaction mass) is the real cost since every kilogram you bring with you has to be subtracted from your payload. Certainly the process would be technically complex and possibly dangerous, but what about spaceflight isn't. And yes, producing enough fuel for a return journey is likely to to take time but given the journey time to Mars it likely you'll want to stay there a few months anyway. Especially if the alternative is to stay there forever.

Backronym

of course.

No

but I couldn't find an acronym for Vegemite.