Posts by Annihilator

Re: 25 people just to lift it...

It's a natural reaction when describing the size of any aquatic creature to exaggerate....

Re: Before joining the European Union...

I'm trusting you were being ironic in criticising their sexual attitudes, then scoring the "boobage" and the "babe"?

"Can anyone recommend any other films to watch for this weekend?"

The Bridge on the River Kwai?

Re: Rand Paul

"Blimey, I didn't think an intelligent Republican actually existed!"

There are plenty. I had the pleasure of seeing Rand Paul filibuster over the drone policies when I visited the US and it was impressive.

The difference between the Democrats and Republicans seems to be that the crazy Democrats never seem to run for office, or get very far if they do.

I note Michael Habel is trolling and offering Harry Reid as an example of a crazy Dem, who "obliviously" hates cancer kids. Nice spinning, but you've handily missed out a line from the 3-person conversation which changes entirely the context:

Bash: “But if you can help one child with cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, to Bash, “Why pit one against the other?”

Sen. Reid: “Why would we want to do that?”

Reid was in effect saying the idea of running piece-meal budget bills was nuts, and to quote him in the same question "what gives them the right to choose which parts of the government are funded?". There's a cruel irony that this healthcare that is currently unfunded, is due to a Republican congress that wants to unpick the healthcare reforms brought in by Obama.

Re: labor prices in different countries

Erm, what?

Re: @AC 06:09

"How many Brits died of tobacco, fat, sugar, alcohol, and salt in the same time-frame?"

One suspects the US managed just as impressive a rate as the UK, but regardless, they didn't die due to someone else's burger. The only product you mentioned that could possibly harm someone else is tobacco and regardless of your view on 2nd-hand smoke damage, public exposure to that has pretty much been eradicated.

The only risk to you is if they fall on you.

Re: Only now?

Are you reading about a different Curiosity? From that very link:

"As established by the Mars Exploration Program, the main scientific goals of the MSL mission are to help determine whether Mars could ever have supported life, as well as determining the role of water, and to study the climate and geology of Mars. The mission will also help prepare for human exploration."

I've also never said Curiosity is looking for life. It's looking for whether life could have existed.

Re: Stats Pedant

Even more so, 50% of iDevices, but not all of these iDevices will be capable of running iOS 7, so it's yet another meaningless stat. For all we know, 50% of devices are capable, meaning that it's a 100% conversion rate. Or all of the devices are capable (unlikely - 3GS and below will still be out there) meaning it's only a 50% conversion rate.

So all we know, it's definitely "more than half".

Re: Planning

"Which makes me think its deliberate so they can create free headlines about shops selling out."

1) You'd think they would have done that for the 5C if that were the case ("ooh, look how popular this one is too").

2) Stock control and supply chain management says that you shouldn't operate to try and fulfil demand on day 1. To do so would be to start stockpiling models for ages, and tying up capital in your warehouses. Say they can sell 100,000 on day 1, and can make 1,000 per day (all made up figures). They would have had to start producing them over 3 months ago and stockpile them all as the levels get gradually larger. Stock in a warehouse is an utter waste of capital. Using those figures along and averaging the value to be around £600, they'd have £60m tied up in a warehouse, doing nothing but waiting for launch day.

In reality the figures will be much higher.