chronosynclastic infundibulum?

I read the same story months ago. Did it result in anyone changing pronunciation?

He might as well write an anti glacier book instead..... (or a pro-jlacier book).

Love it

For two reasons

1/ it gives me a chance to dig my Speccy out

2/ there is no way Eadon can comment FAIL MICROSOFT from his spittle flecked screen.....

Serious questions.....

.... Not ironic, rhetorical or sarcastic.

Is the fizzing rate of code changes very different to those of other kernels?

If so, does it mean that it is evolving faster?

If so, what are the main characteristics that are evolving (not thinking a feature list here, but a sort of trajectory that is different from the competition)?

Grave potential

As I read

"STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}

The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xC000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000).

The system has shutdown."

... It suddenly occurred to me that this would be a pretty good inscription on a gravestone. I might just change my will. Until now, I had specified " E16-10-06 10:36:16|SETI@home|Unrecoverable error for result 09my03aa.866.9600.884652.3.79_1 ( - exit code -4 (0xfffffffc))

Writing in Korea Joongang, Chae In-taek said:

.... They can't cope with attacks from miscreants with a rigid and bureaucratic mindset? What, sort of like a whole Nation of people with Asperger syndrome?

Maybe Gary McKinnon was a NORK spy under deep cover.

But surely.....

...my screen wouldn't be blood red-with Orifice 365 ads if it wasn't a Good Thing?

Rock & hard place

Previous posts, too true, too true.

However, you haven't identified the hard place on the other side of the equation. What the organisations need is a fleet of foot, responsive, collaborative partner to evolve an IT system at a reasonable price.

Just how should local authorities or indeed the NHS set about identifying such companies? From the glowing examples elsewhere? By commissioning an independent expert report?

And even if they luck onto a good provider, how do they then make it play nicely with everyone else's 'solutions'?

Wafa drive

.... Still got mine somewhere.... And talk about recovering ancient data, the sound of it came back to me reading this article. Sort of 'shuffa-shuffa-shuffa chuck-chuck"

Oh yeah! An my GF at the time insisted on pronouncing it "waffer" drive.

Not just tape that still stores ancient crap eh? Brain 3.7.2 -

Can't help with the rocketry

...... But I would like to formally apply for the post of team psychologist.

Come on now. Everyone knows you guys need one. And there is the possibility of complete mental breakdown during a critical stage. There may be casualties too. SOMEONE has to manage all that PTSD.

(Was going to put a joke alert on this one, but I think I might be a bit more than half serious)

The point is not 'cost money', it's 'cost minds'

I am the proud possessor of what is possibly one of the first secondary level qualifications in IT. We did CESIL, a bit of ALGOL , some flow charting, and an introduction to FORTRAN. The examination included reading a section of paper tape.... by eye.

The fact that none of these specific skills are a direct value to me now is irrelevant. The education was catholic, and meant that my understanding and use of IT evolved with the technology and needs. I don't think it matters that my kids have all learned to use MS products under the flag of computer science. They are smart enough to adapt to a different Office suite if you plonked them in front of it. The problem is that they are really restricted by not doing much other than MS Office.

I suspect that things may be changing though. The two eldest achieved GCSEs without ever doing anything remotely non MS. However, the youngest (12) recently showed me some LOGO he had written, and when I squeaked in recognition he asked "did they have LOGO back in your day dad?" So. No history of programming taught either, eh?

But back in the days of Brylcreme....

Presumably the dearth of signals would be easy to disentangle.

Hope they don't turn up to destroy earth / catch the last episode of Here's Lucy or Single White Female Lawyer.

We may be at war with Oceana

...... But the chocolate ration is up

$100

...desktop?

Why thank you my good man, I'll take three.

The upvotes and downvotes

......have spoken.

You're all over complicating it

The manufacturers are in alphabetical order.

No Platform For Racists

Was scrawled on a bog wall in Leicester, in 1984.

Underneath wags had added:

"No platform for trains"

"No platform for Oil Rigs"

and, most of its time,

"No platform for shoes"

The whole thing descended into chaos at the 1986 NUS conference where one group screeched “no platform for Zionists"; and there was a ban on a badge rather unwittily equating Zionism to fascism.

Thank goodness for the white rectangle

..... Otherwise I would have never known what to look at....

Nevertheless, good show. A deeply implausible procedure immaculately executed.

Enough with the geekery, already. Whodunnit?

Oddly and ironically enough. One candidate not listed among the 'targets' might be Syria.

13 comments and nobody has mentioned Romulans, Borg and whatnot?

El Reg must have upped its demographic!

Y' see there's the problem....

" Redmond recognizes that people want their phones to look pretty and was aiming for that target group"

No. It isn't about "pretty". Most people don't want "pretty*", and if Redmond thinks that stylish, pleasing and functional design is "pretty", Redmond doesn't get it and never will.

* My 16 year old daughter excepted.

FW800?

Well, D'Uh. Its so you can buy an adaptor and connect all your FW400 devices.

Mt Nintendo DS obsessed 10 year old said 2 things:

1/ The problem is that the PSP screen is too wide. A DS would be fine, because you would see the drop round the side

2/ What was he playing?

He He He.

@ Solarian

"but he is a modern guerilla a la Che Guevara, whose self-righteousness gave him the excuse to murder thousands of men, women and children in cold blood and with great gusto"

I haven't laughed and snot came down my nose since I was 14 and Billy Sangster put Nitrogen Triodide on his fly zip. .... No but really. That is dumber and more laughable than Billy Sangster's exploding zip.

Now I have to wipe my keyboard.

Pendant alert

"Mobile's were banned in hospitals"

Mobile's whats were banned?

OK. That's enough now.

When I first browsed, there were already 170 comments. I nipped out for a bit, and there are now 288.

What are the top ten scores for comments on an El Reg article? At what point do most readers decide they can't be arsed to either read or contribute, and leave the field to those with spittle flecked screens?

Do I actually have anything to say about the iPad? Mmmmmm. Nah. Let's just see how it goes, eh?

Not so much a butterfly.......

.......as the impression of a butterfly.

Not so much a service.........