Posts by Aladdin Sane

Terry Pratchett's unfinished works flattened by steamroller

Re: A man is not dead while his name is still spoken ...

And Lester Haines? Exalted company indeed.

Nope.

The turtle moves!

Please

Can we have a Sir Pterry icon?

Re: A man is not dead while his name is still spoken ...

It's this.

El Reg still puts out the overhead I believe.

Re: I'm touched by the weirdness of this request...

His finest work is, for me, a toss up between Night Watch and Thud!

That! Is!! Not!!! My!!!! COW!!!!!

There's a very fine wiki dedicated to his works.

Re: I'm touched by the weirdness of this request...

With Discworld, I would recommend starting with Mort, which is where he starts to hit his stride. Other than that, publication is order is good.

Also, we won't burn you, we'll just hand you over to Vorbis and the Quisition.

Re: A man is not dead while his name is still spoken ...

According to the BBC, the steamroller didn't do all that much damage, so it was put through a stone crusher afterwards.

GNUTerryPratchett

"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"

We're not the 'world leader' in electric cars, Nissan insists

Article on electric cars

Shows the Juke Nismo RS.

So thoughtful. Uber says it won't track you after you leave their vehicles

Uber doing someting shady

The day must end in a "y".

Vodafone won't pay employee expenses for cups of coffee

Time was, they'd just screw the secretaries.

Re: Directors?

Certainly is for Big Blue.

When you're at the office/wfh you can make your own. Buying lunch is your own choice. In a lot of the circumstances described in the article, buying lunch is the only option.

San Franciscans unite to smite alt-right with minefield of doggy shite

Re: Question...

It's always beer o'clock somewhere in the Empire.

Airbus issues patch to prevent A350 airliner fuel tanks exploding

I was always told that an aircraft is a massive collection of lowest bid contractor parts flying in loose formation.

Bombastic boss gave insane instructions to sensible sysadmin, with client on speakerphone

Re: So he knew how to fix it anyway?

He phoned his office to consult with a colleague and instead got stuck dealing with his boss.

RTFA.

Cognitive Services, Clippy? AI's silent infiltration of Microsoft's Office stack

Re: M$ is already way ahead of this-

Turing Complete != Turing Test

Will it use the webcam to spot you making obscene hand gestures at the computer?

I wonder what would happen if you dictated a suicide note?

Asking for a friend.

Re: Oh, wonderful.

It may have helped you select "you're" instead of "your" though.

75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2

Re: As a Canadian

the trees of Canada planted there so the air above their heads is filled with the scent of home.

Excuse me, but the room has just become very dusty.

Elon Musk among 116 AI types calling on UN to nobble robo-weapons before they go all Skynet

Obligatory

XKCD

What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP? How to buy an ATM for fun and profit

Re: What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP?

Lies. My dream robo-girlfriend runs on RISC OS.

Re: What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP?

It's riddled with bugs and malware?

Re: What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP?

But she's totally cool with running XP?

What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP?

Your mum.

British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup

Isn't that part of the job requirement?

Silicon Valley reference.

Not a hot dog.

UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!

Mark of Cain

cursed with a supernatural mark

Subtle. Very subtle.

#destielforlife

Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook

Re: "If I had a pound for every time"

You'd collapse under the weight?

London council 'failed to test' parking ticket app, exposed personal info

Re: Did they throw him into jail?

They've passed the info onto the feds for the next time he visits The Land of the Freemium™.

UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents' mugshots

I never broke the law! I AM THE LAW!

Re: But think of the children!!

So the data can leak overseas instead?

Singapore court awards $2.9m over bad job reference

I'd imagine it depends on the local culture in whatever part of the world you're in.

She's arrived! HMS Queen Lizzie enters Portsmouth Naval Base

Re: gentle ribbing

Dude, phrasing!

Re: Photo of Admiral Sir Philip Jones' Speech

Bow = pointy bit.

Re: Genuine question

The Harrier had to ditch stores, the F-35B won't need to.

Re: Genuine question

Adding cats and traps would've doubled the cost as BAE are involved.

HBO Game Of Thrones leak: Four 'techies' arrested in India

Re: I might watch it sometime

As is generally the case, the books are better.

Antarctica declared world's most volcanic region as 91 new cones found beneath ice

Re: I for one

Funnily enough, pretty sure my current job is counting sand-grains on a beach for the rest of my life.

I for one

welcome the return of the Great Old Ones.

Norway Quizwall experiment ends with more quizzing than commenting

Re: It would be funnier...

@OP - That whooshing noise you hear is the joke flying right past you.

Chap behind Godwin's law suspends his own rule for Charlottesville fascists: 'By all means, compare them to Nazis'

Re: Podium place

Surely the Italians were second, Russians third?

Re: new Bennys

I believe it's equivalent to village idiot.

Internet addict sent to an anti-addiction boot camp is no longer an addict. Because he's dead

Re: Tragic, but what are parents thinking?

On the 4 year old version, there were two children

Sample size too small, not possible to draw any reliable conclusions.

OpenAI bot bursts into the ring, humiliates top Dota 2 pro gamer in 'scary' one-on-one bout

Re: And as usual there's a relevant XKCD for it :

More than one it would seem.

TalkTalk fined £100k for exposing personal sensitive info

£4.76/customer.

Less than the price of a McDonalds meal.

HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD

Re: 'True aircraft carrier'

These two ships between them boast less firepower than the 3 little carriers they replaced. And lets face it the little Hermes was able to fly real planes (buccaneers and later just to prove a point the crappy American Fwhatevers the egits in government had decided were preferable to building our own).

Invincible class air group contained at most 18 Harrier GR7/9s, with a maximum payload of 8,000lbs each.

QE class air group will contain 40 aircraft, with current plans for there to be up to 24 F-35Bs, with a maximum payload of 15,000lbs each.

So Invincible class could deliver 432,000lbs, QE class can deliver 720,000lbs. What's more, the F-35 can land whilst still carrying stores, the Harrier couldn't.