Posts by Thomas 18

Rumours abound

That scientists exposed to the raw signal have started behaving erratically, twitching uncontrollably and compulsively building small sculptures out of nearby electrical components.

Power comparison

Why is the benchmark compared to a £399 laptop when this one is £999. If you are comparing 'entry level offerings from various companies' you should at least include price.

But can it run custom ROMs that's the question?

Im hoping for a rapid port of CM then I'll get one.

Surprise inspection next Tuesday

Everyone prepare to be appropriately surprised

"platforms would collapse under the technological weight of crawler-bots"

The internet is like a series of tubes you see.

I'm guessing Richard Mollet has never heard of a captcha

AI woken up

My bet is on a sentient AI probe that is planning its next move having escaped the clutches of its meat-bag creators.

"The cunning trick is that it calculates where the camera is positioned in relation to the object"

So kind of like:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=323810&tag=1

Does 18 years count as prior art? How come I can find prior art in 10 seconds and the USPTO cant find it (or their own arses) in the 3 or 4 hours it takes them to decide to award a patent.

End to tyranny

Glad to hear they are distancing themselves from the old helmsman. Maybe now they can start to do something with their giant pile of cash instead of saving it as extra hit points in the patent slugfest.

Glasses

Good work techies, now can we get some advertisement cancelling glasses and a pair of Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses please.

Race 2 particles

Why don't they race a neutrino and another particle that definitely does go at light speed and see which arrives at the destination first.

performance

I think dehydration would improve performance if we make the measure 'how fast can you get from here to that river over there'

Also its about bottled water specifically. Drinking a litre of tap water in the morning and a litre in the evening is just as good (if not better) than sipping of a plastic bottle all day.

Guesses

1. Rocket

2. Rocket

3. Missile

4. Rocket

5. Rocket ship

6. Missile launcher

7. Bomber plane

8. Passenger plane

Amirite?

Cheaper flash thats still faster than magnetic disks

That's what consumers want too! At least this one does.

Fantastic game with a couple of bugs

Loving this game too but had one quest NPC who had no dialogue and had to re-enter a room a couple of times in order to reset some stuck animation/interaction.

For some reason I also have to equip a dagger in my right hand then remove it again before I can change my right hand spell. I think this might be something to do with my rebinding right and left triggers so right hand spell is right mouse button.

It's also annoying to have a random event as you walk out a shop, die during it and then reload the auto-save only to have it not there when you walk out again but I guess it's just the price of death.

Hopefully its the kind

With a wire you jack into your brain.

fission for fusion

Stack those nuclear reactors to the sky and lets get those fusion boffins some more funding. Everyone is so scared of nuclear it's ridiculous.

Whats the point of having 100 senators..

if they just vote for their own policies.

Dear blogspot

It appears one of your bloggers has posted a criticism of our noble leader. This story is clearly not in the public interest and we politely request you to delete the blog and provide us with all information on said blogger so that we might find him and break his legs.

Statistics

How about expressing it as a percentage of the number of phones/computers used by the department.

Also why do they not track broken/damaged devices separately from lost ones. At the very least there should be a disposal policy with a paper trail.

AI in game is terrible

The AI of units in this game is terrible,they just walk right off cliffs and other environmental hazards like they don't even see them.

Think of the children!!!!

Big surprise they are using this tired old line again. How about empowering parents and teachers rather than trying to legislate good parenting.

lightweight bullets

Why not just make a lightweight plastic bullet that's compatible with current weapons.

If dopamine makes you happy

what's the problem? Except for the fact that your eating cat crap.

In other news

A police officer has been charged with "inappropriate receipt of payments for confidential information" a crime with a maximum sentence of being politely asked to retire.

Correlation != Causality

At least they acknowledge it though.

Sequel

Good luck getting that funded.

Natural balance

Does seem like when there's an over-abundance of something nature finds a way to exploit it and absorb it back into itself. I think we should be tapping into that potential with some geoengineering rather than fighting an unwinnable battle against CO2 emissions.

Attention

I saw the title and thought 'ooh that sounds exciting I was thinking about getting a big graphite kindle for comics'. Then I read £49-a-year and only 5,000 books and came crashing back down to earth. Something for free? fat chance.

£12bn = £192 per person

What a wonderful project.

How about we just order 65 million of these at £45 each:

http://www.thenaturalstore.co.uk/product/efergy-elite-real-time-energy-saving-smart-meter/14094

Or we could go nuts and get one of these each. I'm sure they could manage a discount :

http://www.vesternet.com/index.php?p=product&products_id=1042&cid=11

Actually it's more than that since 65M is the population, not the number of households so go ahead and multiply that figure by two.

Retarded warmongering

So now we are saying it's ok to go to war because someone exploit our crappy security. Worse yet there's nothing stopping us sending a couple of agents to a web cafe in Iran and having them hack one of our power plants. Instant mandate for war!

Who needs weapons of mass destruction when we have hackers of mass distraction.

"the magnetic media afterlife"

There is no silicone heaven

Vampires

In the early years of vampires (10,000 BC to 1950AD) they were horrendous savage predators from the wilds. Today they are sexy aristocratic rich paragons who live life with no consequences.

I feel this represents the change of humanity from a bunch of oppressed Luddite apes into carefree, enjoyment seeking individuals filled with entrepreneurial spirit and an aspiring desire to live forever.

Can I be a sociologist too?

"collaboration" of operating system manufacturers...

Could be just the boost Linux needs.

Oh and "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!" this clichéd tactic is so god damn old.

"unprecedented volume of traffic"

like with a DDoS

Jurors

Not sure how they will find impartial jurors. Who doesn't know who Julian Assange™ story and all the accompanying media hysteria that accompanies him?

Also can we have a count of the remaining appeals and appeals against appeals and higher courts left to go before he runs out of legal chances.

Logic

I can see the logic, green power generators are more expensive per unit of output so have the government and electricity companies cover the extra cost plus a little incentive. The idea is it leads to lower carbon emissions and more green R&D (lowering production costs etc).

The problem is that the people who are getting the bonuses are the people who can afford to stump up the initial cash for the panels and own a location to put them. And everyone else pays for it.

We could achieve the same end result (lowering CO2 emissions) if we just ploughed the cash into nuclear power plants and fusion research and slowly converted all car manufacturing to electric.

Probably Brotherhood of Nod

I hear they do that.

More countries

= More cases = More lawyer, More money and More Judges

Shocking to think of Judges making rulings that drum up additional business.

If you learn a skill on the job

Apparently you have to leave it at the job.... retarded. I'd have the prosecution lawyer charged with contempt of court for wasting everyones time.

Battery

Doesn't it waste battery power constantly copying stuff around in memory.