Posts by Spoonsinger

Re: Fascinating!

Bet it's full of ASDA shopping.trolleys.

Re: radius will be in the order of 10km.

or 9.65606Km because it's more accurate. (just look at all the digits after the dot).

Re: but which one is it

Cribbage - so they can shout out "and one for his nob!" during meetings with whatever committee or group they are infiltrating.

Re: You're slipping, El Reg

You are right. I was totally milffed.

Re: Try that in PowerShell.

The term '/mnt/c/Windows/System32/systeminfo.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, oroperable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:1 char:39+ /mnt/c/Windows/System32/systeminfo.exe <<<< | grep -i "System boot" | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/,//' + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (/mnt/c/Windows/System32/systeminfo.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

All looiks good to me :-)

Re: "countless studies...showing that employees would prefer praise to a raise "

I think it's the difference between

"Please Sir, can I have more?" & "Consider yourself at home, consider yourself one of the family"

The former are more than likely to get a firm no, or kicked out, while the latter with their cheery little tune and smiles to the front will be happily robbing them blind around the back.

Re: While I agree with all Dabbsy's points

Nah, He's just wanting to invent some nostalgia so he can flog that big hole filled with ET cartridges he's got in his back garden. (ET cartridges get everywhere).

Re: "The only ingredient you may struggle to find here is garlic and ginger paste."

Lidl sell Garlic and Ginger paste in one jar.

Re: English Idio.....

However I'm of similar 50 year standing to the above but only ever heard it as 'Comp'. The additional 'o' probably allows the speaker to emphasize their supposed barrow boy roots to their target audience.

Re: Where's the master list of passwords kept ?

Flimsy Backdoor Industries will keep the list. You know they can be trusted.

Re: Well....

Umm, smashed avacado sandwiches seems to be a step backwards in the general state of the sandwich. I remember, in the late eighties, the "too your desk" sandwich lady used to deliver Avocado, Bacon, Brie and Red Current Jelly sandwiches. Maybe the late eighties was peak sandwich and everything that followed is just a bland pale interpretation of those times. Maybe there is a phone manufacturer which exemplifies that blandness?

Re: we see that programming strategy into a statistical analysis machine is not an easy thing to do.

Then the AI got bored and went off to make a cuppa tea and invent a cure for cancer - but didn't tell anybody because...

Re: Because... they can fly?

But unicorns can, (erm could), fly.

Re:Alvin Toffler seems more and more prescient with his concept of 'Future Shock'

and Gillan.

(Just remember that there is no laughing in heaven).

Re: Spelt?

spelt - past and past participle of spell

Re:- Not even Bing Crosby?

Especially Bing Crosby.

Re: Blockchain. AI. Cloud. Cures Cancer!

You missed Devops

You missed out "test code"

Pah!

1) Write Code

2) ????

3) Profit

Re: so am I one of the few who thought his writing is rubbish ?

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” - Harlan Ellison

Re: What do they expect?

Shops? err Grandad is that you?

Actually.....

Anyways when you, (and I), were a lad people all the time invested in things that they wanted but didn't exist. That's why you have variants of such wants in those, erm, shops. I think it's probably nowadays people have an instant platform and somewhat encompassing platform to voice their discontent when those things which don't exist still don't exist which brings such things to short term prominence. Now where are those spandex helicopter jet pants I ventured an interest in back in the day?

Re:- What’s it expanding into?

elasticated old man trousers

Re: Planning Consent

Re:- "So who is raping the countryside, the council as 'custodians' or the corporations??"

Councils are municipal corporations. Therefore the answer to your question is corporations are raping the country.

Umm shirley.....

Heavy Metal (the film), intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyfInT1y0c

Re: "Maybe he meant chess."

I think probably more Mouse Trap. Build a big edifice through random events and are somewhat annoyed, (but not surprised), when it's you who get end gamed.

Re: " wouldn't be worth MS fudging the tests because of the backlash should they be found out."

Erm, this is Microsoft you are talking about right?

Re: Must be the end of the world

They hoovered up a current notional 'worth'. But that isn't the same as real value.