Posts by bill 36

Australian PM opens SYSADMIN-KILLER data centre

Re: Just supposing...

Cos nobody in their right mind would try to run a computer, far less a data centre, on solar power alone.

New hottest-ever extreme temperature records now easier to achieve

This should be amusing

a new world record...sooner

Tut Tut Lewis, surely you're not suggesting.....................

Error found in climate modelling: Too many droughts predicted

Careful Lewis

You'll get your Embassy trashed

Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE

drool

As a northern Briton living abroad i can't get the ingredients easily to enter the competition.

Nevertheless, when i get home, the first thing i do is grill some best quality back bacon, butter some fresh "plain loaf", preferably the heel, sometimes lightly toasted, and then lightly spread some English mustard on it.

Heaven!!

Apple's iCloud goes titsup, email evaporates for unlucky 1%

Re: Cupertino's idiot-tax outfit

If El Reg was on the telly it would be called "Have i got news for you"

Its a satirical look at the world of science and technology and all the better for it in my view.

its probably spin

1.1% is probably the amount of all iphone users which translates to 100% of all icloud users!!

Or am i being cynical?

Profs: Massive use of wind turbines won't destroy the environment

essential reading

If we don't react, our grandchildren will need to learn Mandarin........poor pun i know.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8393984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.html

Airbus predicts catapult takeoffs and formation flying by 2050

Would you like to explain that?

although the graphic of the takeoff angle suggests a lot of spilled drinks and freefalling cabin crew.

No it doesn't

UK ice boffin: 'Arctic melt equivalent to 20 years of CO₂'

meltilicious?

Are they serious?

Climate denier bloggers sniff out new conspiracy

Re: El Reg

Yes and only ranked three behind RBS one of the biggest banks in the world.

Statistics are good eh?

Re: when i meet a moon landing denier

"Because he "reported the story" which was utter nonsense"

And you don't get the irony in that? Never mind eh!

The Register is the satirical publication of the technology world and advertises itself as just that. Even the logo is a clue along with its slogan.

Its full of fanbois, androids, chocolate factories, ink companies, online tat bazaars, you name it and its all the better for it.

It often hits raw nerves though doesn't it, especially when the stick is being poked at your particular nest which for me anyway, makes it all the funnier.

I don't think that i need reminding that the nightly news is indeed is full of crap, no argument from me but if you want your technology world dumbing down then Computer Weekly is the answer.

when i meet a moon landing denier

I point out a simple inescapable truth,

You can bet your bottom dollar that the Chinese and especially the Russians were tracking the Apollo missions as though their lives depended on it, including listening and measuring the radio traffic.

If either of them even sniffed a fraud it would have been front page news.

As to this article, the author is simple reporting the story and i dont read any bias in it.

Why are you attacking him?

I ask the question as a CO2 skeptic and not as a climate change skeptic. The difference is important.

LOHAN poses for sexy wide-angle vid

A Special Projects Bureau production in association with

I can't believe you missed the opportunity to put a small "re" in front of one of your suppliers.

Good luck

Organic food offers basically no health benefit, boffins find

Have you ever wondered

Where the soil originally came from that we grow our food in?

Anyone with a compost heap can tell you

Radio arse tags solve modern-day TV musical chairs dilemma

Kids competing for money?

No wonder they need arse tags.

The parents would sue if little Chuck was pushed off his chair and the umpires got it wrong.

What a fucking sad world.

Low sunspot activity linked to rivers freezing: Mini Ice Age on way?

Nice One

keep them coming Lewis

Windows 8 Storage Spaces: Can you trust it with your delicates?

What did you expect?

Software Raid 5 is simply hopeless for any kind of performance and since it is striped parity it was bound to default to the lowest sized spindle.

Although someone seems to have made a gaff and given the whole volume the size of one spindle.

Ice core shows Antarctic Peninsula warming is nothing unusual

Hands up

Everyone that has ever read a journalist who did not have an agenda or a hint of bias.

Why do you expect lewis to be any different? He is sceptical about the given reason for recent global warming. And why not?

Why do some of you commentards attack him personally for reporting a different set of facts.

I think its quite refreshing to get an alternative point of view.

I live in the Alps and the people here can tell you stories going back generations about huge dumps of snow and how it long it lay on the ground.

None of them claim it was any colder. More snow certainly but what does that tell us?

Scientists find safer way to store hydrogen

Re: True Cost/Efficiency

"There are lots of people who simply commute from their house to the office every day, a journey that's well within the range of an electric car. For these people such a vehicle would be perfect."

How do you know that? I suppose you are talking about "semi-detached suburban man with 2.3 kids and a conservatory are you?.

He already has the perfect solution, its called a 3 cylinder turbo diesel made by VW which is proven cheaper and cleaner than any electric car

I have yet to see the "commute" mileage of any electric car thats been stuck on the M25 on a freeezing cold and wet January morning with the headlamps blazing, wipers going and the heater....heater? what heater? going full blast, meanwhile wondering if you can make it the office before you have to push.....misery!

Electric cars are a solution to problem that does not exist.

Hybrids on the other hand are more honest in that they offer a solution to the ever growing demand for fossil fuels by attempting to increase the mpg and therefore reduce the commute cost.

Boffins say Vodka Red Bulls make you sensible

Flying Hirsch

or Jaeger Bombs certainly do what it says on the tin. Never tried the Vodka variety,

I call it liquid coke because it has a similar but less dramatic effect and its legal.

Don't get sued or cuffed on Twitter: Read these top 10 pitfalls

Two Tweets

Make a Twat

Apple pounces on Samsung doc as proof of 'slavish copy' claims

Surely

Copying happens in every industry?

When Dyson invented his "cyclone" vacuum cleaner, Hoover had to ditch its dust bags or go bust.

The Japanese stripped european cars to their component parts to learn how to make them better.

They also copied the Scotch whisky industry and made a reasonable alternative.

Competitors have to thoroughly analyse each others products to remain competative and it has always been so in the IT industry.

I'm struggling to see why Samsung would not analyse Apples products.

There is no doubt that the Iphone was ground breaking in many ways but so was the jet engine. (no pun intended)

Nah, for me, Apple will use every trick in the book to suppress competition.

God-botherers burst onto IPTV Freeview: The End is Nigh

A decade or two?

Its mostly crap now so you could switch it off tomorrow for me.

50 years in SPAAAAACE: Telstar celebrates half-century since launch

unashamedly plagarised from Youtube

Released on August 17th 1962 just five weeks after the launch of the AT & T communications satellite that gave the record its title,

Written and produced by Joe Meek.

Telstar won an Ivor Novello Award and is estimated to have sold at least five million copies worldwide

Great!!

RIM delays BlackBerry 10 launch, bins 5000 bods

Re: Excellent

I have a golden rule.

Any of the suits that use the phrase "going forward" are not to be taken seriously.

Climate scientists see 'tipping point' ahead

There are too many people on the planet

IF it is true that climate change is man made.

So as all good problem solvers know, fixing the root cause and not the symptoms, is the ONLY way to fix a problem.

The trouble is that there are far too many people who do not want to face up to this unpalatable fact. Scientists included.

Lawyer up on your way into the cloud

worrying

That senior management and especially directors are following the herd and buying into "cloud computing".

If they are serious about saving money on hardware and duplication, they could have gone the "thin client" route years ago but few understood it!

'Europe two years late' to the US cloud party

Re: Europe already opted out of competing on the Internet - it's too much work

I was going to write a detailed reply to this bullshit but "its too much work".

Lets just say that Europe is a way more civilised place to live and work and leave it at that.

Man's car warns of AIR RAID OVER LONDON

Thanks for the Friday grin

" Angela Merkel intends to resolve the eurozone crisis in the time-honoured local tradition."

Very funny, top marks from me for the quote of the week

Vulture 2 trigger triggers serious head-scratching

I'm with you

And since i'm no boffin i have to make some assumptions.

You want to ignite the rocket at or around a pre-determined height and you want to launch before the balloon bursts. You already know the temperature and the pressure and i assume you must also know the time. If thats true then you only need a timer. If its not true then a maths expert could surely work out a rise time given various wind speeds and balloon trajectory and that would get you a "time" window where you are guaranteed to ignite the rocket before the balloon bursts and at the height you want.

Couple of quid all in including the timer chip?

Samsung shows 'designed for humans' handset

watch it on yootoob

eleven

hilarious

China goes green with rare earth plea

kettle calling pot

You have to hand it to the Chinese. They learn quickly from their political peers.

Gaia scientist Lovelock: 'I was wrong and alarmist on climate'

shock, horror, probe

You mean we don't need electric cars?

I think we should have an enquiry

Apple flooded with iPad 3 wireless connection complaints

Its not just Aple

To be fair and talking from years of experience, anybody who queues up to buy any product from an IT company on the strength of some slick marketing must be insane and deserve what they get.

But since this is consumer land and not professional territory, we shouldn't be surprised.

Wireless issues across the board have been around for years now so it should be no surprise that some devices work better than others in a given environment.

There are a multitude of wifi issues out there, most of which the fanbois will have little or no knowledge of.

30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on

Re: But how many 1980's papers were wrong?

I agree with you and its interesting to note that over the last 60 years, the temperature has risen by about 0.6 C. Hardly surprising when the worlds population has doubled in the same period.

This is the problem is it not? If we go on multiplying we are bound to produce more and more CO2.

Mammoths, sabre-tooths MURDERED by second giant space boulder

Re: Where's the crater?

The sediment layer under Lake Cuitzeo

Did you not read that bit?

Daniel Craig like Connery, Skyfall helmsman suggests

pushy galore

I musht be dreaming!

great !!!!

Sir Paul McBeatle to offer free iTunes concert

I agree

way past his sell by date.

Lennon,Mcartney brilliant!

Frog song and Mull of Kintyre..trash

Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan

let your house breathe

best, cheapest and healthiest way to heat your house is to install a pellet or woodchip oven, turn the heating down to minimum and kit the family out with ski suits that you can buy cheaply at any charity shop on the high street.

Job done and very reliable.

Facebook's Googly IPO delivers on Sun man's vision

Mcnealy

Was also famously quoted as saying, "remember your first shot of heroin is free" referring to Microsoft.

How right he was because the modern analogy is Facebook and Google.

agreed

but you missed Copyright, Getty Images springs to mind.

SpaceShipOne man, Nobel boffins: Don't panic on global warming

hmmmm

10 apostles of the apocalypse didn't get the joke!

Frankly i'm more worried about how it is that people can become ardent believers in any subject without absolute proof the of the theory.

Even the scientists admit that man made global warming is still a hypothesis, albeit a likely one.

And since our breathing population is in an ever increasing trajectory, could someone please explain how we are going to reduce CO2 emissions. I've yet to see any published figures on how much CO2 is produced by living breathing creatures on this planet.

the climate is definitely changing

Many parts of Austria have reported almost 4 metres of snow since December.

They call it white gold.

Temperature forecasts for this week are to get to -20c below.

A few weeks ago it was also below -24, only the fifth time in 45 years.

So i think many people are happy with "global warming" :>)

ps

summer sucks!!

Surprise: Neil Young still hates digital music

you aint heard nothing

until you've heard an old Quad 22 setup with a pair of ESL55 speakers and a matching Quad FM tuner.

Frightening clarity and so good that they still demand high prices 50 years later.

iPad Fleshlight lets fanbois express their love

with windows geeks bringing up the rear

ha ha ha

you owe me a new keyboard

Pope praises Twitter and your 'profound' tweets

Is Hell exothermic or endothermic?

Many of you will have seen this before but for those who have not...enjoy

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid term. The answer was so profound that the Professor shared it with colleagues, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

"First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa Banyan during my Freshman year, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you." and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze."

business is bad

So they have obviously decided to start marketing themselves, 21st century style.

Too late i think.

Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds

computers can easily cope with leap seconds

Oh really?

But the devil is in the detail. Many Unix machines used to have their hardware clocks set by counting the elapsed seconds since, i think, 1st Jan 1970! Then the software clocks were synced by atomic clocks using NTP or the likes. I'm not sure that this still holds but nevertheless

this is important because time must be tracked even when the kernel is not running.

Not sure that i agree that they can easily cope with leap seconds. That has to be only a maybe.

Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN

@"The reaction also spews #

Not acid rain.

Snow....8 metres of it in some parts of Austria, so far this winter.

At 0700 this morning it was -20 C. Fact not fiction.