* Posts by Alex 71

6 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Sep 2012

'Conscious uncoupling' of HP 'Ink', HP Enterprise: It's the shareholders, stupid

Alex 71

I was kind of hoping...

... that they will split to "H" and "P".

RED planet, INDIAN mission: Space probe prepares for voyage to Mars orbit

Alex 71

ISRO & spelling - let see if we can make them fix this, :-)

I was wondering if I'm the only one who missed the huge typo in the ISRO website logo. ("Humankind" is spelled as one word; please let me know if I'm missing something here, because I'm not a native English speaker myself).

For the sake of the experiment, let see how many El Reg reader e-mails to ISRO will take to get this fixed. Try webmaster@isro.gov.in & http://www.isro.org/scripts/contactus.aspx. Anybody else with me?

Just think of it: you'll be able to check off the "bother a major space agency" checkbox off your things-to-do-before-I-die list and forever claim that while you might have not helped an orbiter reach Mars, you have helped an orbiter reach Mars in style.

Robot WildCat slips its leash and bounds around parking lot

Alex 71

Re: Value?

Value?! VALUE?! Who cares about value?!

It's friggin' cool!

LOHAN cranks up old-school clockwork failsafe

Alex 71
Alert

Make sure the timer is not based on a fan fly...

Doesn't look like it, but it's worth confirming that the timer does not use fan fly to regulate it's speed. A fan fly mechanism will practically guarantee premature ignition.

Google stokes hype machine over Project Glass robospecs

Alex 71
Alien

The last Sunday while hiking in the Pinnacles National Park in California I was puzzled to see a young lady hiking in the opposite direction wearing the aforementioned device. Probably communicating with the mother ship. They are among us!

World's power-grid cyber breach traced to notorious Chinese crew

Alex 71
Boffin

"[Our systems...] control transmission and distribution of over 140,000 GWh ..." - shouldn't this be "GW", not "GWh"?