Posts by TrickyRicky

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

Soon won't be...

There's a good chance that Florida (and Mar a Lago specifically) won't be real in about 25 years as the sea level rises...

London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale

Re: Good news....

I've always wondered why a hard hat seems de rigeur when at a very high point where, by definition, nothing is above and able to fall on you. Also where the fall is going to be a spectacular termination, regardless of headgear.

Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high

Dr Freeman! Dr Freeman!

Or a resonance cascade...

Google teaches robots to serve humans – with large language models the key

Re: "going over to pick up the can, throwing it into a bin, and getting a sponge"

Never mind the business of throwing the can into the bin. The robot seems to upend everything it picks up. There'll be a trail of drink all over the floor on the way to the bin.

NASA's Lunar Orbiter spots comfortably warm 'pits' all over the Moon

Like a bad club...

The Moon is the pits, it's got no atmosphere

China says it has photographed all of Mars from orbit

Progress?

Ooh look! Pictures that aren't as good as those from MRO a dozen years ago.

Japan's asteroid probe reportedly found 20 amino acids

I, for one...

welcome our prebiotic overlords.

That time a techie accidentally improved an airline's productivity

Re: Everybody knows...

"Error handler entered. Exiting now. OK"

<OK>

No, it's not fsking OK

In the graveyard of good ideas, how does yours measure up to these?

Re: marsupial

This is how the Highland Haggis is caught.

Beaters are employed to chase the left or right-facing Haggises (Haggi?) the opposite way around the mountain so that the poor beasts topple over and roll to the valley floor where they are swept up in nets.

Apple aptly calls its wireless over-the-ear headphones the AirPods Max – as in, maximum damage to your wallet

The Future Bites

How much do you want these? We know a song about that...

https://youtu.be/sX22dFMSNcg

Brit uni's AI algorithm clocks 50 exoplanets hidden in Kepler space 'scope archives

Re: EVE online Project Discovory

That's called a pantrymime. Walking around making scissor-motions while looking for the scissors.

Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs

Re: Maximum Password length

My problem with the 'enter the 4th 8th and penultimate character' sites is that you've got to remember the place value of each character or resort to counting on fingers.

Quick, what's the 9th, 13th and 18th character in correcthorsebatterystaple (without resorting to fingers)?

Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019

I thought that in Malta they don't drive on the left or the right; they just drive in the shade

iPad Mini vs Nexus 7: inch makes all the difference, says Apple CEO

Too wide

At 135mm wide, if you've got small hands like mine (no sniggering at the back) then the combination of aspect ratio and screen size will make the mini too big for single-handed edge grip. There's next-to-no edge bezel to make room for a thumb grip.

If you look at the photos that are all over the place, you can see that its either a one-handed fingers and ham balancing act in portrait mode or the usual two-handed controller grip in landscape mode (unless you're one of those octave-and-a-half freaks).

Apple obviously don't think of the children?

Snap suggests Apple out to 'screw' hardware hackers

Fake

I call fake.

Just think of the impracticality of actually mass-production assembling anything with screw that has only 1 degree of rotational symmetry.

And that thread... it won't thread-form in plastic or thread-cut in metal.

Review: Raspberry Pi

Won't somebody think of the mechanicals?

I cant see any mounting holes; and with connectors round all four sides it's not going to be easy to box-up one of these.

Descriptive Camera develops text instead of images

What do you want to do now?

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

There is a small mailbox here.

Poynt

On a tankful, my car would get the last gallon for free if there was a 10/litre difference. That's good for about 53 miles. It might mean that I'd fill up near work rather than near home...

Amazon Kindle 4

Keyboard?

Personally, I'd miss the keypad; but at least the on-screen version has numbers in the same set as the letters. Unlike the Kindle 3.

Make your own guitar with a 3D printer

Wot? No neck?

The tricky bit of making a guitar is the neck.

He didn't make the neck on a 3D printer.

Dell Venue Pro WinPho 7 smartphone

pointless keyboard

Aha! I see what they've done... By not Fn mapping on the comma and period keys, they've had to forgo a + and a _.

Numpties.

Geeky gifts for Valentine's Day

not a good choice

Wildfire+angry birds= frustration

Motorola Defy Android smartphone

Not as tough as it makes out to be...

I bought one (T-mobile £10/month - £115 upfront: 100mins) for my daughter for Xmas.

Unfortunately she has already managed to craze the screen glass by dropping it (allegedly) from 'knee-height'. I suspect that there may also have been an element of forward motion as well... :(

Now that its working OK I'm impressed with the screen quality and general zippiness (compared to my Wildfire).

The new screen was a £40 repair.