Posts by Dr_N

Toyota and Joby complete Japan's first air taxi flight test

Re: Save Our Soles?

Downvoted for "chillax".

Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

Re: Psion's vu-calc anyone?

Don't know about the Spectrum, but Spreadsheet on the Series 5 was probably the first spreadsheet program I really had a use for.

EV sales hit speed bump as drivers unplug from the electric dream

Re: not a solution for all

Quite right. These Internal Combustion Engine fan-boys dismissing electric vehicles when clearly they are the misguided ones. (For not sticking with readily available energy sources like coal/wood/fuel-oil to run a steam-engine/ECE.)

Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan

Re: Stupid is as stupid does

Nope. Not when flying in Japan. They've had mini Victorinox off me at Haneda. Twice.

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

My First Laptop ...

An Epson PX-8 running CP/M with Wordstar that was on a PROM, on a plastic chip carrier, you inserted in one of two chip slots in its underbelly.

Probably the most/longest used piece of kit I owned.

Until the Psion Series-5 rocked up.

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Re: Related?

The Casey Jones egg, sausage & bacon breakfast buns were a treat though.

IcedID henchman gets nine years in clanger for abusing malware to drain bank accounts

Re: A second bite at the cherry

Bravo.

IcedID henchman gets nine years in clanger for abusing malware to drain bank accounts

The Soup Dragon won't be happy.

Stop installing that software – you may have just died

Re: Strangest?

"He took a duck in the face at 250 knots."

Will Windows drive a PC refresh? Everyone's talking about AI

Fondue: The lazy person's raclette.

Re: RE: 3D TV's

No, 3D TV failed because it was dog poo.

Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger

Re: What the hell is a meter?

No, The Metron was Dan Dare's nemesis from Venus.

Can a Xilinx FPGA recreate a 1990s Quake-capable 3D card? Yup! Meet the FuryGpu

Upvote for iRiver.

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

Re: Dr Emu & The Deadly Dustbins

Don't get your scarf in a twist. It's only a TV show.

Dr Emu & The Deadly Dustbins

Nuff Said.

Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden

Re: Came to say the same thing

I hear there is already a club for the BYD Seal.

Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders

Re: This is almost bibilical

Gibson, "The Peripheral" reference.

Re: This is almost bibilical

It's so dystopian Luke 4:5 comes to mind.

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground

100 billion to 1?

"ULLA!" ?

'Repeal hate crime laws for free speech' petition passes 14k signatures

Re: TimeMaster T My view

Welcome to El Reg comments! Way to make a splash.

UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis

Re: Or They Could Just Pull Another Rwanda

Isn't 22/7 already Pi-Lite?

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

I got a severe case of the Tribbles on the C64. Sprites all over the screen.

The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128

"The New ROM antics.."

Kudos on that one.

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

Seems this pineapple pizza thing is really triggering. I'd hate to think of the anguish anchovies in trifle would cause.

I bet he wears shorts with sandals & white socks too. The wrong 'un.

Re: I don't understand...

Pascal Monett > I think everyone knows for who that is intended

People from Alsace. The mingers.

Re: Having grown up in Hawaii

Next Christmas it'll be turkey with kale, sweet potatoes, and Guacamole at your house? With piña coladas I'm guessing? Mmmmmm. And Hot Cross Buns for afters?

Wow. Someone really doesn't like the No Pineapple on Pizza viewpoint. What's your take on Marmite on sushi?

Re: I don't understand...

Next people will be supporting ketchup & mayonnaise on their chips. The savages.

Power grids tremble as electric vehicle growth set to accelerate 19% next year

Re: For many of us, hybrids make more sense than BEVs

Jeep have a small network if off-road chargers in the US:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/jeep-to-deploy-solar-powered-stations-in-remote-areas-to-recharge-electric-off-roaders-198997.html

Magento shopping cart attack targets critical vulnerability revealed in early 2022

Mutants

Read this headline as a supermarket assault by The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

RIP Bram Moolenaar: Coding world mourns Vim creator

Too young.

But he leaves an outstanding legacy.

NASA 'quiet' supersonic jet is nearly ready for flight

Re: As much political as technical

The Galaxies taking off from Moffat sound horrendous. They scream to get airbourne.

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

"Threads"

Just conjures images of a UK nuclear apocalypse.

[Edit: I see others already noted this.]

Hacking a Foosball table scored an own goal for naughty engineers

"Foosball"

NO.

Fujitsu admits it fluffed the fix for Japan’s flaky ID card scheme

Re: Spanish motorhome park example

Yup. But Brit tourists mostly don't have those.

Re: Spanish motorhome park example

Passport for any accomodation is de rigueur in most countries.

Suica/Pasmo seems to work ok in Japan, for ticketing.

And I'd love a digital identity car. Is that one with vanity plates?

German finance minister says nein to more Intel subsidy cash

iron> I wonder what that is in real money?

69,607,760,176.017 groats.

UK government proposes legislation to regulate umbrella companies

Re: Umbrella Companies

That is only after they become incorporated.

NASA's electric plane tech is coming in for a late, bumpy landing

Over Complex Solution

What about using rubber bands!!!

India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

Xiaomi will be happy ...

... FM radio and IR remote as standard on mozt of their models, I believe.

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

Re: hmm

Lars > Regarding "Can't be trusted any more."

That is a very good/fair point in that discussion.

But there are some quite unsavory/untrustworty Brits too.

Normally it's the ones who refer to themselves as "Expats".

They normally have some hustle on, to get round tax/residency rules, in my experience.

Japan's NTT claims it's built 1.2Tbit/s optical comms that sip power

Re: Progress

I guess I should have used a Joke Alert instead of Troll Face. My bad.

Progress

This will speed up fax transmission rates for sure!

EU proposes regulations for tablet battery life, spare parts

Potentially ambiguous perhaps.

But it is absolutely clear that a Gendarme cannot ticket you for not having a box of bulbs in your car.

Which is what cross-channel ferry companies, car-part shops and motoring organisations in the UK try and intimate.

Guess what they all sell? (It's BigBulb!!!)

Re: Dippy Cops

How would having a spare lamp have helped in this apocryphal corner case?

If he couldn't "fix" at the side of the road they would have impounded/immobilised his bike. Which the Gendarmes have the power to do in such cases.

Or, for newer cars, you'd need to keep 2 LED headlamp units in the boot.

At €1000 a pop.

I think we can all see it's a nonsense.

Not in France it isn't. But people (especially Brits) have been led to believe it is. Probably by BigBulb.