Posts by Bill Fresher

Re: Not exactly a shock

"Even a difference in survival of 5% would mean the survival trait would be dominant in the population within a couple of generations."

Yes --- when you propagate the 5% difference through the whole species. But, unless it's a super-power, it means f-all for an individual.

Re: You're updating it wrong.

"For example, the update promises to fix a bug that prevents iPhone 5s from installing software updates wirelessly"

Presumably not on the iPhone 5.

As an olympic event, boxing must involve some 'talent'.

Re: bite?

The designer of the logo calls it a bite...

http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_designer_apple_logo

Re: Bah!

From the BBS news website, the co-owner said:

"They muck the buffet up for everyone, they push and shuffle people from the barbecue area and it's pretty sad really, because you can eat all you like over five-and-a-half hours - it's not an issue, you don't need to rush."

If they're spoling other diners' meals then fair enough to kick them out.

Re: There is no standard for such measures

Depends what they mean by "standard measure" --- eg. for chips they just scoop a bunch into one of the chip packs: how standard could the weight of a medium pack of chips be?

.. also, a sprinking of well fried bacon bits over the pierogi works a treat.

Re: Awesome! I think..

"Cool but can we communicate with the future yet?"

Yes, we can send ourselves a message now and be amazed when we receive it in the future.

Re: "Not pleased"

Why did he need a doctor's letter? I can't think of any medical reason for needing to have video recording spectacles attached to your skulll.

Perhaps it was a letter from his psychiatrist.

To Whom it may concern,

This man is disturbed. Treat with caution.

Best Regards,

Dr.

As a first step it should sense if someone's pooped on it -- pooping in the urinal being a sure sign of excessive alcohol intake.

Re: Space Elevator

Maybe if we made a transporter before we made the Enterprise...

People are working on it...

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/02/13/s_week_cupidtino_inside_the_world_of_fanboy_dating/

Re: Some of these people should have done maths and not engineering

"I'm currently looking to make gold plated loo roll"

I'll buy 3 nine packs.

Cheers.

Re: Internet service is like water/gas/electric etc.

"Your water service doesn't advertise up to 600 gallons/s.."

.... but If you have low mains water pressure entering your home, due to, eg. inadequate pumping facilities, water mains that are too small, reduced pressure from the water main as a result of leakage, equipment failures or blocked service pipes then it's the water companies' responsibility to fix these to ensure adequate flow.

Re: Only 30 lightyears ...

"Relativity says that the traveller will not experience that time... so assuming they can travel at just under the speed of light, it'll seem like the journey took less than 1 second."

Good point.

Relativity also says the mass of an object increases as its velocity increases so whoever's making that journey had better have a big appetite.

Re: Auntie is hardly giving it away

" Time to tie in access to iPlayer via the tv licence number"

Completely agree with that.

iPlayer programmes should be free for license fee payers, pay-per-view for everyone else.

"From what he stated in the video he had punished her previously for similar actions and said if carried out again the punishment would be worse."

So instead of, for example, blocking access to Facebook on her laptop (he works in IT right?) he decided to go for the violent, destructive, solution.

@jake:

I gave it a go once, but I didn't inhale.