Posts by Fizzle 93 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009
...and stop all this buggering about with English and stuff (Yee Haw, avast there be harties etc).
What I really want to know is why the hell haven't we got a jolly decent party like this to vote for here in't UK?
I can even forgive them for the cod wars of the seventies, cod bless 'em!
Lang may ye rool, me lads (O hell, I'm at it now, must be infectious or summat).
I once had a conversation with what seemed to be a reasonably savvy lady in a Doctor's surgery. She had rung to ask a question about the icons on her desktop. I narrowed down the problem to someone before her having set up Windows to respond to one click rather than the standard two.
I told her to try double-clicking the icon. It took her a while to work out what I meant. She had been told, when she started working there, that one had to "left-press" on the icon - double clicking was meaningless to her.
That's when I learnt to speak in single syllable words to users - bless 'em!
OK I accept your synopsis!
I don't understand why we are searching for life outside our planet. My point was, I suppose, let's spend those billions on getting to Mars sooner rather than later, and not worry about contamination at this stage: let's get established first and worry about protocols later.
We do far more damage to the Earth's atmosphere etc., launching things into space, to worry about a few microbes in some corner of a Martian plain that was forever Mars.
IMHO!
I am a bit confused by your statement:
"We do not want to ruin the scientific discoveries of the next mission that goes travelling past our mission..."
with reference to Mars.
My logic goes thus;
1. We are looking to the future to colonise a new world
2. Mars appears to be favourite and feasible (at some point in the future)
3. We will end up contaminating the planet anyway
So, doesn't it make sense to allow a few earthly microbes to land there as part of the eventual in-habitation of said planet?
All this talk about "maffs", as my teacher lithpilly saith reminds me of two of my favourite sayings of his:
1. Do NOT use the quadratic equation formula all the time as it's like "getting the air force to shoot down a fly", and,
2 An erg is the amount of energy a fly uses doing a push-up
Happy memories from 1967 Mr Cajetan. BTW he was also a good billiards player who delighted using geometry to calculate angles for canons.
Do they still make teachers like that, I wonder?
"If there is one thing high-paid suits cannot stand, it's looking ridiculous. Gestures ain't helping on that point."
You haven't been to any London Pub of a Friday evening to see many business suits-type people behaving stupendously ridiculously together over bottles of champers then!
It''s twoo, it's twoo!
After the update my machine runs perfick (with SSD as boot), no discernible differences, programs run at least 50% faster and it looks better-er than before...
Oops sorry, dozed off there in a daydream.
Other than that, it seems OK (at the mo'), but my firewall is going berserk as it is treating the whole thing as a brand new install - which by the look of things, it is!
The pilot in the glider cockpit (Martin) is holding the joystick with his left hand. Martin in the picture is holding the tankard in his right hand but..it's a left-handed tankard!
This confuses me so I would be grateful to El Reg and friends to correct or explain this om nom nom anomaly please.
Well certainly after a good belching from the insides, there will be a sedimentary wet bottom, and it's understandable that bits will be clinging on. Hence of course, the extra strong winds of Mars will help whistle through the vitals and cleanse said debris away.
Now that ain't rocket science either, or is that eether? Whatever, sigh..I'll leave quietly now before anyone comments.
I'm puzzled!
Where does Curiosity keep the cones, metal rods and bits of red plastic telling pedestrians to "use the other footway"? I've looked carefully at the pix of the machine and I just cannot see how they fit on it.
And how does the Council worker get there, where is he/she hiding?
"There I was digging this 'ole
'ole in the ground,
square and sort of round it was...."
When up came a bloke in a bowler...
"You can't dig there, dig it elsewhere,
you're digging it round and it orta be square.."
Always wondered how Bernard Cribbins could see into the future; now I know!
4AM?
Yeah thanks guys for setting a precedent that everyone from Steve Jobs to even the most sedate and boring sysadmin now expects programmers (and fixers) to be available all bloody night.
Example: Work 60 hours plus on a failing network in Birmingham. Take a well-earned break for a couple of days back home 200 miles away, drive early on Sunday morning to see the kids for once. Halfway home get a call to say something else has gone wrong, "and if you don't come back right now, don't bother coming back at all".
Such happy days.
Still, I love my job, innit.
I was very careful NOT to tweet (oh dear that's a noun (sorta) becoming a verb far too quickly and without the benefit of 200+ years of Oxford Professors humming and hawing over it.
I put the comments on El Reg, of course, because no self respecting plod would bother to look at it, being a bit erudite and out of their league.
Gotta run now, there's this rather loud knock at my door...
Whilst I hate evil megalomaniacal firms as much as the next person, I have to say that there are 3 reasons why I recommend Sky - at least for me.
1. I live in an area of piss-poor TV reception, but with my SKY box I get perfect pictures everytime and a built-in record facility to save faffing around with video etc (yes, I have still got a video).
2. SKY broadband has proven to be ultra-reliable and considtent with good customer support (actually I only used it once and the girl at the other end knew what she was talking about)
3. The SKY + Phone package costs peanuts compared to some
4. The unlimited broadband option IS truly unlimited (handy for those pesky Linux distros)
Yes I know that's 4 but who's counting?
So say what you will about Murdoch - his firm delivers and, without it, I'd be kaboozled!
Just my tuppen'orth.
Actually I'm more worried about their fundamentalist, religous fanaticism! Wars have been started over this.
Special relationship? Keep it, I'll take my chance with the French - at least we can keep them under control with our archers.
Paris - because, no doubt, her French is exemplary..
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