Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
In 150BC the Roman politician Cato held up a bunch of fresh figs in the senate and said "these came from Carthage within 3days , therefore Carthage could attack within 3days, therefore we must invade now"
The only difference between that and the 45min Iraqi WMD is that Cato was telling the truth, had a somewhat logical argument - and he got to eat the Figs.
Stopped carrying my laptop and have an HP-mini instead
Keyboard is almost fullsize and apart from the silly touchpad button placement it's great.
Going to pick up another one for when this dies.
My boss replaced his laptop with a new MS surface for only $1000 more, and I can run proper Office!
The reason for Galileo was that ArianeSpace/BAe/Astrium/Thales were looking like they might need a bit of help in the absence of any nice wars that were going to destroy lots of expensive fighter planes.
And it allowed the French to demonstrate their natural superiority over the Americans.
In the first Gulf war the Selective Availability (ie the signal position poisoning) was actually switched off.
There weren't enough military GPS units to go around and so most troops were using civilian units.
It was pretty obvious to the US than the Iraqis hadn't yet developed their own invisible, 45min to London, GPS guided, WMD carrying, cruise missiles.
The other reason ICBMs do not use GPS is because the way you know you are in a shootin' war toe-toe with the Russkies - is when all your GPS sats are shot down.
GPS is very useful for the submarine to know where it is when it launches and it does save time sitting on the surface while a bunch of navigation officers with sextants take sightings, that;s why the predecessor to GPS was invented by the Navy.
Should produce some interesting marketing suggestions though when Saxon and kylie get fed into the Ad-men's neural net.
I once bought a particularly gruesome pathology textbook (for a work project) and a bunch of Hello kitty stuff (niece brithday) and got some very weird recommendations. from Amazon
> They just want applications that work
As in click in the Ubuntu app store
Or, go to Best buy
decide if you want Office, Office-student, Office-Home, Office-pro, Office-Ultra-pro, Office-Ultra-pro-Premium
get a box with a DVD - discover your netbook doesn't have a DVD drive
attempt to enter a 128 digit licence key
spend 10mins on the phone to "kevin" in Mumbai trying to get the licence code accepted
It's now not only easier to install Ubuntu than do a Windows update.
It's easier to install free or paid apps than it is on windows.
Not quite, GPL3 doesn't stop you using DRM - you can use GPL3 code to develop any system you want.
Apple's problem with GPL3 is that it prevents you using code signing to block users from installing modified code. Apple was using SAMBA, giving you the source, but banning you from using your own modified version
>then why don't they do what they usually do the countries with dictatorships?
Fund their military to kill any commie guerillas who want their land back?
Sell them weapons to fight the aformentioned commies
Lend them "voting advisors" to kill any upitty nuns who complain
Arrange for them to ship their drugs into the USA without any police getting in the way and for the money to be delivered safely to Switzerland
Unfortunately NK's only mind-expanding export is kimchi - and even Hollywood starlets won't inhale that.
So don't enable "install form untrusted sources" unless you are testing your own kernel builds
It's up there with: never fight a land war in Asia, neverplay Poker with anybody whose middle name is "the" and don't take your trousers off and bend down in a confessional
>Unlike the good old, traditional Post Office service
The point is that the banks log all the emails/web and phone calls their dealers make.
With this you will have two phones on your desk an official one with the deals that lost money and a PAYG phone topped up with cash for all the deals to your freinds that made money.
This way we won't need another of those expensive inquiries into rigging the LIBOR.
Germany did a major fiddle to slide the Greeks into the Eu so that they could run up huge credit card debts to buy BMWs and Bosch washing machines.
Germany just forgot that when they could't pay the German credit card companies back - it might be Germany on the hook for it.
A better punishment would be for their opening pitch to any new customers to include the line "We have made a business model out of conning customers just like you and we are likely to do the same again" alongside the "investments can down as well as up" small print
Like all those chumps who sold a useless shiny metal for $2500/oz when our highly intelligent and highly respected chancellor had sold all ours for $200/oz
It's not a question of idiots investing in an IPO - it's as if the Racing Post wrote that Dogmeat in the 2:30 at Doncaster was a cert to win, when they knew it had two broken legs and agrophobia and were using that to lay off their own bets
>I'm going, you can stop hurling relativistic gold nuclei at me!
Hmmm, the LHC gives a relativistic mass boost of about 5000x
So if you did put some gold in there it would be worth 5000x as much - assuming you sold it while it was still in the beam. I think this could be an opportunity for some relativistic, high speed trading.
