Posts by AceRimmer1980

Blighty's Bloodhound 1,000mph rocket car unveiled ahead of record attempt

so there I was, driving at 1,000 mph across the desert

and I *still* had a white Transit sat an inch from my back bumper, flashing me to get out of its way..

V. R. R. Stob's magnificent saga A Game Of Dog-and-Bones

WinTen is coming

whether you want it or not.

Prof Hawking cracks riddle of black holes – which may be portals to other universes

There's only one bit of 'information' I want from another universe

and that's a complete box set of Firefly, seasons 1-9.

That's a big 4Ker of a cosmos: 3D planetarium to open in Bristol

144 core fibre ducts?

A bus network Bristol can be proud of, for a change

NASA primed for 9-minute live test of mighty rocket motor

To the moon..and beyond!

Not quite the same ring to it, but it's a step in the right direction.

Brassiere belays boob-bound bullet, begetting bruised breastbone

Was it made from

Titanium?

World-beating TWO-QUADRILLION-WATT LASER fired by boffins

We're gonna need

a bigger shark..

Three-mile-high pyramid found on alien dwarf world, baffles boffins

Does anyone

remember where we parked?

Hawking, Musk, Woz (and others): Robots will kill us all

Re: Excellent

*Hawking.

Boffins go to FUNGI town: Riddle of 100-year-old HAIRY, ICY dead wood finally cracked

Frozen hair ice?

Let it grow.

Galactic BIRTH: ALMA peers 13 billion years into Dawn of Time Itself

Re: I'm definitely not suited for astrophysics

This is not maddening. This is star pore.

Universal Pictures finds pirated Jurassic World on own localhost, fires off a DMCA takedown

Was it a Unix system?

cos I know these.

The Empire Strikes Back: Disney tractor-beams StarWars.co.uk from Brit biz

Hive of scum and villainy?

Rise of the Machines: ROBOT KILLS MAN at Volkswagen plant

Spooky

The FT reporter's name is: Sarah Connor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-33363155

DUCKCROCZILLA 'alien' dinosaur could emerge from THE SEA

Duckzilla

vs Megapenguin.

Go for it, Asylum.

Bloke hits armadillo AND mother-in-law with single 9mm round

That bloke's a nutter.

Oi! Nutter!

Cross-dressing blokes storm NSA HQ: One shot dead, one hurt

10 seconds

to trans mission..

Mystery Russian satellite: orbital weapon? Sat gobbler? What?

Re: or...

Expensive?

I'd say, about A MEELION DOLLARS!

Can't touch this! Microsoft joins OpenGL 3D graphics group

Re: Put OpenGL ES onto Windows Phone

For the same reason that other Microsoft products support cross-platform industry standards. Kind of like why IE is *so much better* now (CSS3/ACID3 etc) why Unreal Tournament runs better when using OpenGL drivers.

If MS want more WinPho8 games, lack of OGLES is what is scaring developers away (Y'know, both Android and IOS has it)

(OGLES, because, well, Paris)

Put OpenGL ES onto Windows Phone

then I'll be interested.

Famous 'Dish' radio telescope to be emptied in budget crisis: CSIRO

This.

My Grandad was working at Honeysuckle Creek at the time. I have a piece of the Eagle.

Smartwatch sales off to a very slow start

+1 for the battery

Timex, reintroduce the Ironman USB (and give it bluetooth), you were ahead of your time.

Software needs meaty cores, not thin, stringy ARMs, says Intel

Was it written in Occam?

Good guess :-) but no, we had a parallel-C compiler (I'm guessing this linked to a similar RTL)

Obviously not suited to every problem, but still, if you could express your algorithm using what must've been some sort of Map/Reduce paradigm, you could do your development on a single TRAM and then run it on the departmental beast when ready.

auto-parrallelise code?

20 years ago, I worked for a company which made image processing boards based around Transputers. You could have as many chips as your wallet could stand, and the code would indeed auto-parrallelise, and scale nicely. If the principles were well-known then, why can't this still be done?

Boffins measure 27 quantum states of light

27 States?

3 cats may have been harmed during the course of this experiment.

Brit boffin tests LETTUCE as wire for future computers

Lettuce upgrade?

All fine and dandy, until Carrot becomes the new standard.

If this doesn't terrify you... Google's computers OUTWIT their humans

The Sergeybrin Project

There is another:

(Microsoft) Guardian..

Hyenas FACEBOOK each other with their ARSES: FACT

Were they really doing serious experiments?

or just going through the motions?

Watery asteroid discovered 150 light-years off hints at habitable worlds

Re: Ceres is 26% water? Hmmm...

Wrong kind of water. Ceres County Council have a hosepipe ban anyway.

Brew me up, bro: 11-year-old plans to make BEER IN SPACE

Blackthorn?

Dark cider the force.

Google's robot army learns Spanish

Worf, at Khitomer

sharpening his bat'leth..

Want FREE BEER for the rest of your life?

The Culture's favourite fight juice

How can I learn to gland 'Special Brew' at will?

Canadian family gives up modern tech to live like it's 1986

Re:80's?

+1 on the CD's, they were prevalent in the early 80's.

And in 1986, you could have a C64, Amiga, Atari ST, 386 PC with EGA running Windows, dial into a BBS, have an analogue laser disc, drive a Sierra Cosworth..

There was Internet in 1986, just no WWW. And the GSM standard was ratified in 1987, not far off.

Screw you, Brits, says Google: We are ABOVE UK privacy law

Showing results for 'Scruples in Mountain View'

0 results found

Tell me, professor, what is big data?

Re: Signal to noise

"It is now possible to scan the sensor data looking for temperature and vibration patterns that are characteristic of an imminent component failure and get the part shipped and fitted before it fails."

Dave, the ooo-arr-35 inside the combine blades is about to fail, I suggest you pop down and take a look.

Mystery object falls from sky, area sealed off by military: 'Weather balloon', say officials

' initial contact with the landed object was handled using a robot'

Klaatu, Barada Nikto..

US Navy robot stealth fighter in first unmanned carrier landings

Re: So "Tinman" is a go.

It will prove itself undefeatable in air combat, but will be busted by the RIAA, when it downloads every MP3

Voyager 1 'close' to breaking through to DEEP SPACE - boffins

Huge vacuum pump in space?

V'Ger will become one with the creator. Just having a bit of, erm, difficulty.

30 years on: Remembering the Memotech MTX 500

I had one!

An MTX512, the 64k edition. Bought in 1984, still worked fine when I (very reluctantly) had to let it go last year.

Ah the good old days, when the *user manual* for a computer listed all the hardware registers (this) , or the CPU opcodes (Spectrum)

But not as shocking as when I met someone who had not only heard of it, but had written a game for it!

Where are you now, Gremlin?

Boffins create tabletop ANTIMATTER GUN

Unlicenced nuclear accelerator?

Don't cross the streams!

You've seen the Large Hadron Collider. Now comes the HUGE Hadron Collider

That's what they're *telling us* they're building

It's actually 'The Machine', from Contact.

Author Iain (M) Banks falls to cancer at 59

Re: A sad loss...

"We'll never know; if you're reading this he's long dead; had his appointment with the displacement drone and been zapped to the very livid heart of the system, corpse blasted to plasma in the vast erupting core of Chiark's sun, his sundered atoms rising and falling in the raging fluid thermals of the mighty star, each pulverised particle migrating over the millennia to that planet-swallowing surface of blinding, storm-swept fire, to boil off there, and so add their own little parcels of meaningless illumination to the encompassing night...Ah well, getting a bit flowery there."

'The Player Of Games'

Beer, cos I can't gland Crystal Fugue State.

Euro PC shipments plummet into bottomless pit of DOOOOM

It Lives!

I've had many PCs for the last 20 years, but I can count the number of ready-made systems on one hand.

Most of mine have been FrankenPCs, put together from parts. As bits get upgraded, bits are left over, and eventually there is a big enough pile of bits to make another machine </circleoflife>

If you add in motherboard sales, how many's that? I doubt my purchases would've been logged as PC shipments.

Ten ancestors of the netbook

Re: DIP

I had a Sharp PC3100, very similar to the Poqet, and it was brilliant. You could underclock the CPU down to 1mhz, to use it as an ebook reader, and the batteries would last for ages. The particular LCD technology used didn't need a backlight. People even managed to shoehorn Windows 3.0 onto it!

<misty eyed>Turbo C 2.0, LIST.COM, Borland Sidekick..

I guess the spiritual successor would be something like the Vaio P-Series, and as the trend for content consumers is PC->touch device, we may never see their like again, as the market for content producers is just too small.

NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days

A rep warp civilization?

So, the spacelanes will be full of FTL white van men. It's theorised that as objects accelerate past c, they lose mass. Hence, contents may be lost in Transit.

Paying a TV tax makes you happy - BBC

and in other news

"Turkeys love Christmas", says a recent survey from Bernard Matthews.

Drunk driving: No more dangerous than talking on handsfree mobe

Re: possibly one of the dumbest things i've ever read

5th Gear did something like this in the UK. Not on a track, but at a training centre designed to simulate public roads, while being well away from public roads.

There was a drunk driver (illegal), a driver stoned on weed (illegal) and a sleep-deprived driver (legal). The metric of 'better' was quantity of accidents, near-misses, and general driving precision at normal road speeds.

'Quantum fridge' gets close to absolute zero

This will go next to the DB9 fridge

for the LaFerrari.

Another new asteroid-mining firm: 'First commercial space fleet'

It's been said

that the first *trillionaire* will be made, from space mining.

By the way, you've been woken early cos we need you to check out a distress signal.

Latest exoplanet discovery is a virtual CLONE of Earth

Re: Fine, but does it have a large moon?

Yes, it does. Oh wait, that's no moon.

Where'd the planet go?