Posts by MarkB

Apple's 'shoddy' Beats headphones get slammed in lawsuit

Re: hearing

I thought the post was rather short of exclamation marks actually...

UK prof claims to have first practical blueprint of a quantum computer

Re: Each chamber is 4.5 × 4.5 m2 large

Surely if you multiply 2 2-dimensional values together, you get a 4-dimensional one.

The object will be a 20.25 m4 tesseract...

Super-cool sysadmin fixes PCs with gravity, or his fists

It goes back a fair way...

My father did national service as a radar fitter in the RAF.

He claimed that "the apprentice knows it needs to be hit; the engineer knows where; but only the fitter knows how hard"

Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?

University Hall of Residence late 1970s

Two huge pots of tea on each table in the dining room.

Both contained a catering tea bag, hot water and milk.

Pot at one end had sugar, pot the other didn't...

My group of friends used to aim to be in for meals fairly promptly, so that we could drag the tea bag out of our pot before it stewed to undrinkability.

Good thing this dev quit. I'd have fired him. Out of a cannon. Into the sun

"Isn't the rhetoric 'always use {}' the same as suggesting that we do not make use of operator precedence and 'always use ()'?"

No - why do you think it is? Not that I'm averse to additional parentheses to improve (my perception of) clarity of code.

Bracing single statements in "if", "while" etc is an aid to readability, and (probably more importantly) gives some protection against bugs introduced by the inevitable addition of further dependent statements.

Blood-crazy climate mosquitoes set to ground Santa's reindeer

Surely it's mind-controlling parasitic wasps <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortitude_%28TV_series%29> we need to be worried about, isn't it?

Viper sinks fangs into unwary Indian farmer's todger

May not be totally misadventure

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34173532 - workers on tea estates might not have much choice where they relieve themselves. Quote - "Many families have no toilets and say they have no choice but to defecate amongst the tea bushes."

Sorry, Californians, you can't have this: Asus to build WATER COOLED notebook

It's so fast...

That it's got into the news a full 7 months early - it was planned for April 1st 2016...

Google's new parent Alphabet owns abc.xyz – and, yup, there's already an abc.wtf

Just for completeness - alphabet.com is owned by BMW as Alphabet is their leasing company.

Psst.. Wanna Android all-in-one PC? We have the chip tech, says Intel

Pricing?

"such systems will ship for between $300 and $400 (£189-£253) "

Surely you mean "such systems will ship for between $300 and $400 (£300-£400) "...

Google buys parcel storage service for Christmas

Crucial question

Who has the patent?

Windows 8: An awful lot of change for a single release

Digital Research?

I thought Mr Cutler came from Digital Equipment Corporation, where he'd been developing DEC's VMS operating system...

Adele's Skyfall poised to fall from sky

Just tell me...

that she's not letting her robot pianist play on it...

'Unnamed' HP biz unit developing mystery object storage

> "For particularly sensitive data, you may choose to encrypt data prior to storing as well"

"We know ROT-13 isn't very secure, so we apply it twice".

Next-generation materials for post-Christmas repairs: Reg investigates

Re: The fumes are/were also used...

Watch enough episodes of CSI and you'll know about superglue for fingerprints...

Attention swingbellies: Pizza sauce is a healthy vegetable

as any fule kno that the tomato is a fruit

But everybody hated it when I put some in my fruit salad....

Shock movie upset - Daniel Craig still James Bond 007

@AbortRetryFail

"the only connection that "Quantum of Solace" had to anything Fleming wrote was the name of a short story"

That surely supports rather than refutes cloudgazer's position..

New Yorkers battle giant blindness-causing plants

Double Darnit

Beaten to the Genesis reference and to complaining about being beaten to it...

Farting death camels must die to save the world!

Other opportunities to profit?

The new green safari tour, charging mugs^Wcustomers $$$ to come to OZ to shoot camels.

PARIS team to tackle the ultimate post-pint snack

Low(er)-fat alternative

We bash our chicken breast, pork tenderloin or deboned pork chop flat with a rolling pin, coat with egg and panko crumbs, then bake them. Serve with griddled courgettes or baked sweet potato chips - Yum!

(Badgers, because that would probably be delicious too)

Welshman attempts to board train with pony

Am I first with a Commitments reference?

Young kid holding a horse at a block of high rise flats in Ballymun. Jimmy Rabitte is standing beside him.

Jimmy says "You aren't taking that in the lift, are you?"

"I have to," the boy replies. "The stairs would kill him."

Sony Pictures opens wallet for Bond 23

Whoopie Doo!

As far as I'm concerned the franchise has hit the buffers.

Both the Daniel Craig films were pretty dire - I got very bored with the card game in Casino Royale, and I couldn't find any point in Quantum of Solace. Craig is poorly cast as Bond to my mind, as he seems only capable of playing a thug - Bond needs to look smooth and sophisticated in a dinner suite at a swanky hotel or a casino, Craig just looks like a thug in a suit.

Complete waste of celluloid^Wdisk space.

Christian group declares jct 9 on M25 cursed

People were supportive...

"People were waving and shouting and beeping their horns, the whole atmosphere was great."

Omid Djalili (Holding up a queue of traffic): "Honk if you want cheaper car insurance"...

Renault DeZir: 'leccy sex machine

Duty cycle

So I can drive for around 2 hours (@ 50mph) and then charge for 8 hours?

Sign me up!

Singapore nightclub offers booze for boobs

Entendres

Man walks into a bar and asks for an entendre.

The barmaid asks "double or single". The man says "double".

The barmaid says "Right, yours is a large one".

Thieves help selves to PCs from Office for Digital Inclusion

Insured?

I very much doubt it. AIUI nothing governmental is insured. The cost of insuring everything compared to the cost of replacing what is lost/broken/stolen is such that insurance doesn't add up.

I'm prepared to be proved wrong, of course.