What we really want to know is...
Who would win in a fight, a Robot Grizzly or a Real Grizzly?
Posts by Rob
13 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Nov 2008
US game plods deploy robot enforcement menagerie
Police charge suspected Craigslist murderer
Report: Legalising drugs would save UK plc huge packet
Tuesday 7th April 2009 13:33 GMT 
Sounds like lies, damn lies and statistics to me
"dangerous alcohol and tobacco are regulated but permitted, and comparatively innocuous substances such as ecstasy and cannabis forbidden" - where do they come up with these things? Sure tobacco is dangerous but then they reckon cannabis even smoked pure has the same carcenogenic effects. And as for ecstacy well considering the increased heart rate, blood pressure and effects on the brain I fail to see how that has no dangers either.
Microsoft claims Firefox- and Chrome-whopping IE8 speeds
Developers more 'satisfied' with PHP than other codes
Thursday 5th March 2009 12:05 GMT 
To everyone harping on about Java, C#, C++ etc
The survey was about scripting languages and while most of the above have add ons or builtin scripting components they are more fully fledged languages.
You can write fantastic code in PHP and make it as neat and as OO as you like (see things like Zend Framework, Symfony, Code Ignitor, Magento), you can also write messy code because there is a very low barrier to entry (OScommerce and the code of a number of companies I've worked at). However the community is huge and I believe the main reason for that is how easy it is to pick up and run with.
Prime Minister out-nonsensed by Conservative Wikifiddler
DARPA seeks Hitchhikers Deep Thought program
Wednesday 3rd December 2008 21:15 GMT
I might be sprouting philosophical crap here but...
The workings out of an answer are probably more important than the answer itself so the machines results would probably make very little sense to anyone, just like the #42 answer which is, incidentally, the correct answer. You just have to look at how it was worked out or something...
Apple tells Mac users: Get anti-virus
Tuesday 2nd December 2008 15:17 GMT
@Everyone on at Steve Adams ...
"I use Linux... and as we all know.. there have never been and there aren't ever going to be any viri/worms/malicious code anything for *nix systems.... ;-)"
I think it was sarcasm, they really need to invent tone of voice in ascii. Sadly though I think alot Mac users actually beleive this statement.
IT departments VAT-whacked
Wednesday 26th November 2008 12:29 GMT
Mistake...
"Such firms have effectively been hit by a 2.5 per cent cut in revenues." - Not true they have also updated the flat rate payout schemes, I am in my first year of trading as a contractor through a limited company I now only need to pay out 10.5% (I used to pay out 12% so have lost 0.5%)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
