Posts by Tom 7

Re: "The Ashley Madison files – are people really this stupid?"

Sue the company? It will go into Chap11 and fritter away any assets.

Re: The IoT Crowd

It really depends on what the Things are. Most of them wont need anything as powerful as the current Linux kernel - you'd be amazed what you can do with a PIC.

As for things with slightly more demand if this Micro:bit thing works - well there's room for a kernel on that IIRC. Then it may not be long before someone makes a SOC of the Pi and that is more powerful than the average desktop of just a few years ago.

Re: "The combined thrust will be sufficient to lift 70 metric tonnes"

You'd need 45 of them to get a Saturn 5 off the ground!

Re: Redmond's not been super-responsive of late.

Well they have just upgraded to W10!

Re: Woah. Thank $DEITY for $REDACTED Freedom of the Press

A lot of people got hauled of to re-education camp for attacking horses hooves with their bodies after Orgreave.

Re: Personal responsibility?

You dont buy an Apple device and then do personal responsibility. People pay through the nose so that other people take care of the complicated stuff.

I know that sounds glib but that's why a lot of people by Apple - they believe its so tied down they cant hurt themselves.

too right

I taught myself to type on my mums old typewriter when I was about 17 to around 70wpm. Went to big school and spent hours typing in punch cards at about 70cpm. Then got to work on a PDP11 with some form of stock keyboard for a while. Once in the real world DECVT100 terminals. Back to around 70wpm but then started using all sorts of obscure custom keyboards and slowed down to around 30wpm - which is quite good for coding! And as for tablets and phones...

However I think it was learning APL that ruined my typing for good!

Wonder if I could find a vt100 keyboard and type more of this shit....

Re: Your house belongs to the Oracle

Perhaps because there isn't one.

Re: I'd buy one

Whatever calibre the police use?

Re: People slowly realise how much of a problem it is

¿Who thinks of region coding toner?

The same people who will happily insist that because someone in outer Mongolia can sell a pint of milk for 11p that is what they will pay here.

Lemon juice and oil makes a fine dressing.

Nice to see they're following Douglas Adams with the lemon scented wipes!

Re: Windows as a "service"

Something to do with beer to - cervesa

No point in dimming the street lamps if Facebook fill the skies with internet!

Re: Pointless?

You've never read Viz have you? I can see this appearing in a Royal Loo complete with video soon!

Re: Low cost DAB

If you can transmit from a RaspberryPi then i would have thought you could make a receiver with one which would be low cost (compared with the retro shit everywhere) that could stream happily round the home - assuming it doesnt just gurgle like all the dabs I've tried.

Low cost DAB is here - so give it two weeks and a new format will pop up to cream the listeners.

Thank Cthulthu for the internet so we dont have to buy this shit.

Tektronics 4002 storage scopes

Very bright green on dark green fading to reasonable green on dark green. I used to design chips on these things. A long days work and it was 10 pints before you couldn’t see little transistors being formed in space in front of you.

@Paul Shirley

You wont forget to declare that will you!

Re: Today at the Macumba Night: IT ladies coding shamelessly

When I worked down the pit it was still illegal for women and children to work down the pit. I've a feeling it still is.

Re: Carbon not Kevlar

Kevlar - so the internals can be ground to dust but the case will be fine!

Re: UK comparison

Free enterprise is illegal.

Re: More Plutonian mountains

I'm inclined to think the relatively flat bit is an impact crater - there appears to be its ejecta to the 'east' and 'south' and I'm wondering if the mountains are in fact large lumps of ice that were deposited by a kind of tidal wave that was washed out of the crater.

I'm guessing whatever hit it came in relatively slowly so it was all a mud bath splash rather than lots of vaporization.

Re: Releasing Grey Squirrels

I caught one in my chicken house. Little fucker went apeshit and jumped off my face a couple of times so I let it escape. Sharp claws on the little bastard too.

Re: Well, that's it then......

Errr wrong again. A recent study suggested that whales actually modify their environment too - by pooing at the surface. They bring nutrients up from the depths and fertilise the surface waters. When there were 2 million or so blue whales and god knows how many others fertilising the surface waters there must have been plankton blooms aplenty - and the fish to eat them. If we hadn't nearly wiped out the whales we would probably have an order of magnitude more fish to safely slap on our plates.

Yup Fermi could always bring things down to his level....

Sorry!

Re: Astroid with 90 million tons of platinum..

Free for the taking - until it ended up in speaker cable!

Re: How does the barrier defend against heavy rains?

I think a listening too of an old Goon show might be in order!

Re: Dwarf planet?

Bigendian a bit sooner?

Re: What does this mean for PV?

Michael - the worst case for the Maunder minimum was 0.5% reduction in energy reaching the earth's surface. That was assuming no volcanic effects etc so it may be closer to the 0.1% of a normal sunspots.

Hope the astronomy kit gets use - my kit makes clouds!

Re: White fibres stuck to its skin?

They're sea lice. The lice itself is a little bump on the skin and the two trailing fibres are strings of eggs and the end one hatches out a live baby louse.

Re: Swap the spam for corned beef

Should point out - always have some pre-cooked rice around for emergencies - if you are lucky it will have some bacillus cereus ( as opposed to frivolous) which can really make overeating and drinking part of an effective calorie controlled diet.