Posts by Tom_

Re: Stormtrooper turned good guy?.

I thought the Stormtroopers were supposed to BE the good guys. It's been a while since I saw it, but weren't they the ones being attacked by a terrorist cell in ... well... all of the films?

Re: What Mister Musk needs...

That's getting very close to an oats-and-the-odd-apple fueled car.

Also known as a horse and cart.

Re: Where are the Register's servers located?

"And the response times showed not enough time to be in the US, unless lightspeed was violated"

You can't rule out the possibility that they go via the US embassy, though.

Re: *shakes fist*

"Am I the only one that just wants to punch that thing it its stupid smug face? (I'm pretty sure that when I'm an old fart I am going to be spending a lot of time yelling at robots and demanding to speak to a human being.)"

More likely you'll be like the rest of us nerds, desperately yearning for a bit of the robot's attention, but continually spurned.

Re: Shark Jumped!

WTF are 'paedophilic manuals'?

They're the things that used to be called family photo albums.

If you know your enemy is listening to your communications it's much more advantageous to feed them false information than to make a fuss about it.

Re: ummm right....

You just need to make your balloon secrete baking soda, like your stomach lining does and you'll be protected from the acidity. As for the winds, stick windmills on the side and use them to generate power.

Mushrooms will also grow well in the warm, dark, damp conditions. :)

Re: Moving at 800 m/s

There isn't really any such thing as absolute speed though, is there? I mean, the ISS is travelling around the galactic centre at a lot more than 32,000km/h, for example.

The best bit is he's actually working on Godus 2, the sequel to the copy of Populous...

Re: The App Store Con

No, where it went wrong was in providing a time period where purchases can be made without re-entering the password and making that be the default setting for devices.

Re: WTF is a USB "encrypted slot"??

Maybe it's an upside down one.

Re: ITs going backwards

"Working within a department that deals with govt. data means we need a secure means of transferring data between systems"

I know this one! It's called a train seat, right?

Re: Milankovitch and the Galactic Year

"the collision that formed the solar system"

What the blazers?

Re: Wow

The explosion that happens behind the progress bar.

Re: Man and machine in perfect dis-harmony

I did a degree in AI in the 90s and my professor shared a cute story with us about Marvin Minski going to view his colleagues table tennis playing robot. The claim is that when Minski walked into the lab, the robot immediately started doing it's best to smack him on his shiny, bald noggin.

I have no idea if there's any truth in it, but it still makes me happy.

Re: "It’s hard to comprehend...

It's even harder to overstate it.

Google's Big Dog retaliatory strike imminent.

Re: By Gove! I think he's got it!

It's worse than that. He's come in and kicked all this off now, but in a couple of years he'll either be in opposition or he'll have been moved into health or sport or something else he's shit at instead.

While schools are trying to train up teachers to be good at teaching programming to five year olds, he'll be off being an arse biscuit somewhere else and he won't have to deal with any of the difficulties everyone in education is having with the whole scheme.

Re: Ten pound note of pressure

But did they mean a £10 note or a 10lb note?

Yeah, but so would he once you had his notes.

Re: Wow....

Oh come on, mate. Ofn't you ever written anything that makes you look dim?

It seems that it is more profitable for them to plug them in and use them themselves, but only for a period of time. After that period, they start to be too slow to be profitable, so then they're sitting there with piles of stock that's making them no money and for which there is no demand.

That means they need to sell stock on while it's still considered fast enough that other people can see profit in buying it for mining. The people making them must find the right time where they can give up any future profits from mining and balance that by selling the device.

Anyone buying from them must therefore automatically be looking at a thinner profit margin than the people making them, but then I guess that's just how life works.

At least when everyone was doing this with graphics cards, there was still some inherent value in the kit once it was no longer profitable to mine with it. Well, I hope so anyway. I wouldn't mind picking up a bargain graphics card just for gaming.

Question: Is there any use at all for these ASICs once they're retire from mining?

"Smartwatches and wearable devices have proved the key theme of the show, with lots of folk jumping on the bandwagon to try and get a piece of the action early, now well-known birds like Fitbit and Pebble have been enjoying."

"Smartwatches and wearable devices have proved the key theme of the show, with lots of folk jumping on the bandwagon to try and get a piece of the action [that] early, now well-known birds like Fitbit and Pebble have been enjoying."

Better? :)

Re: 147 inch eh?

Even knowing that, it was more fun to say 148.

Re: Simple sounding and clever

That's fine. Just use a mains adaptor.