Posts by Roj Blake

Re: Xenon

The problem with Xenon CPUs is that it's hard to contain all that gas.

Re: Flatterers!

He always reminds me of Baron Harkonnen in the film version of Dune.

Re: Uisge Beatha

It's life Jim, but not as we know it.

Re: Babelfish

Rostrum camera?

Was the legendary Ken Morse involved?

Re: PE

Cadfael didn't.

Re: Whitman does not know how to grow a business...

Sounds like she's perfect for Uber if you ask me...

Re: Impressive analysis but

I can tell that you're just going to love serverless computing...

Re: Solexit

Extragalactic immigrants, coming over here with their vital transition elements. It's a disgrace, I tell you!

Re: Towns again....

HMS Cockchafer, now there was a ship with a great name.

Re: SImplification

It's different and it takes a bit of getting used to, but there is a logic behind the new system.

Re: Trihydrogen...?

IIRC dilithium's HOMO (highest occupied molecular orbital, no sniggering at the back) would be anti-bonding, meaning the molecule would fall apart before it's been formed

Re: Three degrees

You beat me to it!

Re: My God! You're a machine!

"My wife often tells me I'm artistic. Funny thing is that I hate painting."

You're definitely somewhere on the artistic spectrum.

Re: I'm surprised the interested agencies don't register as advertisers

Please don't give them ideas!

Re: the pride rainbow generally only has six colours

Even Newton had trouble with the number of colours in a rainbow. He could only actually see five but decided that seven was a better number.

Yesterday dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of local storage guys had their storage go down on them. You won't have heard about it though because the individual events were too small to be newsworthy.

Re: A classic

A journalist at the Daily Express did something similar when Richard Desmond bought the paper. It was his final piece.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jan/08/uknews

Re: How about if we stop making more terrorists in the first place?

According to the acclaimed documentary Rambo III the Mujihadeen (AKA the Taliban) were indeed goodies.

Re: 'front bum'

Not as fun as the name of the street at the centre of London's red light district prior to the Great Fire.

Yes, I know they didn't have lights then, but you know what I mean.

Re: Hmmmm

You're forgetting that these people don't go into business to make money for the business. They do it to make money for themselves.

Re: IoT vs Users

"Only fools would buy them" until such time as there is no alternative. By then, it's too late.

Re: the Morissette Scale?

The SI unit of irony is the kilospoon.

Re: As Yoda said, "There is another...."

You wait a century for an eclipse, and then two come along at once...

Re: Sounds like some politicians and crooked civil servants are getting a bit nervous.

Being a data fetishist and being crooked and corrupt are not mutually exclusive things.

Re: a magic flavour-removing spoon for coffee?

Easily done - simply coat the spoon in CoffeeMate.

Re: A very narrow-minded bureaucratic point of view

Isn't New Zealand also a part of Australasia?

Re: What about now?

RAM and SSD prices have gone up because of a global shortage caused by demand outstripping supply. Everyone and their dog are currently building new factories which should mean that by the end of the year supply is again greater than demand and prices will fall after that.

Of course, if you're in the UK prices have also gone up because of the Pound's collapse against the Dollar.

Re: Tough choices

A lot of the time we have a single Trident-carrying submarine at sea. That's a single point of failure and so can't be relied upon.

Also, Russia is big. Really big. You may think it's a long way to the chemists, but that's nothing compared to how big Russia is. So even if that single submarine did fire its nukes, it wouldn't be able to completely depopulate Russia immediately. And of course, Putin will have a fancy bunker somewhere.

Re: "a court-appointed "special master" will make sure the order is followed."

In Waymo's defence, claiming ownership over the laws of optics is no worse than a certain other company claiming ownership of rounded corners.