Posts by Ralph B

Nevermore?

Sic

I suppose you meant "Who's the bitch now, suckers?"

However, even when grammatically correct, the idea makes no sense since no one called Zuckerberg a bitch except himself.

- http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Inc-company/Whats-the-story-behind-Mark-Zuckerbergs-fabled-Im-CEO…Bitch-business-card

@JohnMurray: Nonsense!

Of course you can apply for your own CRB check:

- http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Startinganewjob/DG_195811

@The other down-voters: My bad for daring to suggest that the Police might have more of a need to check the background of potential partners than the rest of us. Obviously I was wrong. I guess when everything is on Facebook such checks will be unnecessary anyhow.

Huge Man Easting Sharks

Was this huge man eating sharks the same guy that took up two aeroplane seats in the other story?

TECO

"TECO, which is easily The Single Worst Piece Of Software I Have Ever Used, and possibly The Single Worst Piece Of Software Ever Written."

Until Lotus Notes arrived, maybe.

(I preferred EDT (or was it EDI?) to TECO.)

I wonder if this will even get published... ?

Of course it'll get published. This is The Reg. Only directly criticising Orlowski will get your comment pulled here.

I too get a wee bit irritated by the constant rumour and speculation about shiny new toys. But we know why it's done: It's because people thinking about buying product X want to know if they should wait for product Y to come on the market, either because Y is better, or X will then drop in price.

Naturally it would be better still to just settle for X now, if it's good enough for your needs, or take a long hard look at your life style and realise that X, Y and even Z are irrelevant distractions of the consumer age and you'd be better off just reading a good book.

But that's not going to happen, is it?

Swearing *at* officers?

As far as I can see, he never even swore *at* the officers. He merely swore in their presence. Swearing *at* would have been something like "Fuck you, you racist fucking pigs!" rather than the mere colouring of his own language that is reported - i.e. "Fuck this man, I ain't been smoking nothing."; "Told you wouldn't find fuck all." and "No, I've already fucking told you."

@Ian Michael Gumby

Jeopardy's USP is the A&Q format: The contestants have to find a "question" that matches the "answer" given by the quizmaster i.e. "5,280" ==> "How many feet in a mile?" Note that the question here is correctly formed for the answer.

Now, "Its largest airport was named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle" =/=> "What is Chicago?" The question is NOT formed correctly for the answer. That is what Destroy All Monsters is "going on about".

When asked "What is Chicago?" no-one _could_ ever give that answer. To match the question's form that answer would have to be something like "A city whose largest airport was named for a World War II hero; whose second largest, for a World War II battle".

Testing Skitt’s Law

@Brian 6: You're just too stupid to spell "you're" correctly.

A Message to the Friends of Sellafield

While you're downvoting me here, maybe you should also making some "corrections" here:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Radiological_releases

It currently reads: "Between 1950 and 2000 there have been 21 serious incidents or accidents involving some off-site radiological releases that merited a rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at level 5, five at level 4 and fifteen at level 3. Additionally during the 1950s and 1960s there were protracted periods of known, deliberate, discharges to the atmosphere of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particulates.[42] These frequent incidents, together with the large 2005 Thorp plant leak which was not detected for nine months, have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the managerial processes and safety culture on the site over the years."

Trekking in Nepal

My Samsung YP-MT6 gets 42hrs out of an AA. Assuming 12hrs/day walking/listening, then I'd need exactly 4 AAs to get me through 2 weeks of trekking. I think I could manage that.

Of course, I'd be listening to the same 1GB of music the whole time, so I'd have to choose wisely.

Re: Re: Odd

No, it can't be a browser thing, coz I've tried it in Opera, IE, Chrome and Firefox. I get the same set in each browser: none, thumb_up, thumb_down, stop, go, wtf, fail, happy, meh, unhappy, angel, devil, flame, mushroom, megaphone, trollface, facepalm, holmes, headmaster, paris_hilton, coat, joke, pint, coffee_keyboard, alert, black_helicopters, boffin, pirate, alien, terminator, big_brother, childcatcher, linux, gimp, windows, it_angle.

(Extracted that lot from the page source!)

No Guy Fawkes.

Better Than

This NTK tablet has a "Bateria Recambiable" - a replaceable battery. That is a wonderful thing. Do you think it is hot-replaceable?

Motorola's promises?

Surely the coming merger with Google makes it somewhat more likely that the updates will arrive in a timely fashion ... ?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/15/google_buys_motorola_mobility_wtf/

Re: The G Apps Acc Mob G+ App Login Prob

Of course, Google do know about the problem ...

https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/google-plus-discuss/mobile/6492u5ar1XU

"If they can leverage the Playstation brand"

Yeah, like they leveraged their Walkman brand.

> if you're going to use numbers, at least make them refer to something...

I think they refer to the number they expect to sell.

I know you're joking but ...

It really would be nice to have a remote control without 50+ tiny buttons on it. The current Apple TV remote has just a 5-way, a menu button and a play button. That's it. And it does everything you need and more.

The TV-equipment industry really missed out on their usability classes.