Posts by John Gamble

I'm not certain what there is to question. Yeah, the Reg could have used an alternate headline from "A Confederacy of Dunces", but that doesn't change the facts of the case. It doesn't matter how big a nitwit the victim is, he was still attacked.

Re: @Titter

Pizzeria Uno hasn't been Pizzeria Uno for a couple of decades now (this is true of all of the formerly great Chicago pizza places, as they got bought by "entrepreneurs" and immediately lost all of their individuality and unique recipes.

Plus, deep dish pizza, despite being introduced in Chicago, is hardly what I would call Chicago-style.

(Currently buying my pizzas from Apart, FWIW).

Re: Oh, and pay us?

Shrug. I don't get paid for the contributions to the I make to Open Source software now. I imagine that here, as is true elsewhere, whether you get paid is determined by whether you were actually hired to do a specific task.

Re: HARRY LIME

Hmm. It looks like Welles had to improvise a line for timing purposes, but he got the comparison from someone else (possible source: James Abbott McNeill Whistler).

Re: Merit doesn't care about "diversity and inclusiveness"

"Any business owner or manager wants to hire the best person for the job, regardless of sex or color of skin."

Historically untrue, and you'd have to be living under a rock to to make this patently false claim.

Re: Thats nothing.....Named meat costs extra...

Because they're said to be quite tasty?

Re: Organ payments

Yes, I did. The situation need improvement.

Now, how does setting up a kidney market improve things? Can you demonstrate that there'd be an uptick in donations, beyond a money-solves-everything wish fulfillment? And how will your market will treat the people who aren't wealthy who need kidneys?

Convince us without resorting to libertarian fantasies.

Re: Shit

Depends on what you use it for. Mine is strictly for 1) being a watch, and 2) notifying me when my phone is set to silent. It works fine for me.

But I imagine there are applications that might leave some disappointed owners.

Eh, the only memory I have of Earthlink is when they came in and bought almost all of the local, independent ISPs. Their wannabe-monopolist dreams went nowhere, fortunately.

In fact I would have sent a FAX out a couple of months ago (first time since 2007) if the connection hadn't failed. After calling the person who was getting the document, I finally went with an encrypted PDF sent by e-mail, with the recipient calling me for the password when she was ready to read it.

I didn't ask if they printed these things out, or just read them electronically.

Re: That reminds me...

"... we started competing to see who could intentionally make the biggest crater."

Wait... your handle is "Marketing Hack". Are you sure you're not an engineer?

You're describing the Physical/Digital media problem which still hasn't really been solved, ...

Oh, it's solved, but it requires hiring someone with a Library Science degree, which companies and firms are no more willing to do than they are willing to hire a system administrator who can handle backups competently, not that I have any bitter experience with either situation, he said glancing over his shoulder to make sure no one is listening.

One of the best places I ever worked at had both, who made sure that decades-old documents were still readable, and who converted said documents when a software or hardware dependency was about to vanish.

I think there was even one situation where a file was actually printed out (diagrams that needed to be referred to).

Re: Replace tape

Or, perhaps because the negative comments on the alleged sacred cow are about as dull as the "will it play Crysis?" comments?

Here's a clue: if the commentard actually uses the term "SJW", you can safely assume too many drugs were consumed during the commentard's fetal development.

Re: What about Rosemary?

The Secretary of the Navy has the responsibility of assigning names to ships.

The Secretary can rely on many sources to help him reach his decisions. Each year, the Naval Historical Center compiles primary and alternate ship name recommendations and forwards these to the Chief of Naval Operations by way of the chain of command.

Re: USGS manipulating data --

"Will this do to start?"

No, that won't do.

He has a BS in geology from Arizona State University and a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University.

One of Goddard's earliest writings, an article for The Register, asserted that the National Snow and Ice Data Center's (NSIDC) data underlying a chart depicting 2008 Arctic sea ice loss was incorrect and that NSIDC seemed to demonstrate "a consistent pattern of overstatement related to Arctic ice loss." Ten days later, however, Goddard acknowledged that the data on which the graph was based was accurate.

I'd like something from a real scientist please.

"...except they spelt it right."

Glad to see the sub-sub-sub-editor is on the job.

Re: One for the Electric Universe

"One for the Electric Universe crowd."

What?

[performs web search]

Oh good grief. I note that the originator and the primary advocates are people who are working outside their specialty, which is not irrevocably damaging in and of itself, but it's not a good sign either.

Re: Take a dip

"He subsequently wrote a not bad comic novel about a latin professor unappreciated by his not very bright students."

That actually sounds interesting. Any chance you remember the title?

Re: WTF kind of idea is this anyway?

You do recall that the B Ark populace are the ones that survived, yes?

Re: Design flaw

But opening the door to exit and opening the door to let someone in are indistinguishable. If you're security-minded, you want to track comings and goings.

But everything else... yeah, the lack of safety standards is appalling.

Re: What date is good for you?

"No, Thursday's out. How about never? Is never good for you?".

Re: Lack of critical thinking, methinks ...

Having now read your correction to a famous quote in the history of computer science, I look forward to your edits of Defoe, Darwin, Newton, Ruskin, and Shakespeare.