Posts by captain veg

Re: Careful!

I miss American Pi.

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Re: Ceramic?

Yes. And the hideously expensive brake disks on some exotica.

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that's gross

90 90 90 in hex would (according to Bing translate) be pronounced "ein hundert und vierundvierzig" (x 3).

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Re: Rightwards Ho

Climate science is hard. Actual climate scientists are smart guys who have had to wrestle difficult stuff.

You are an Anonymous Coward.

Your opinion, for that's all it is, is worthless. Nothing to debate.

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Re: So I can get £100 each?

I suspect you're out of luck with the old laptops, especially if old enough to be running ME. The offer doesn't apply to anything over 6 years. And it has to have a working battery. Contradictory?

Even had I some qualifying kit worth less than a ton, what would prevent me from going for it would be the requirement to supply "personal details". This is just another data slurp.

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Re: More to It

Another consequence of the "must be a saint" naming rule is that people often picked by looking at a calendar. Some people plumped for the national day (Fete Nationale), and named their sprog Fetnat. Really.

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FTFY

Fúck That, Fúck You?

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Re: Who is going to be the brave soul who...

There is a difference between marketing and advertising, but leaving that aside (and the big party), it does happen. The clothes retailer Zara, for example, does not advertise. Heard of it?

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Re: Primitive tools?

Ever tried edlin?

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Re: "a Nissan Infiniti"

See also Proton Lotus, Volkswagen Bentley, Fiat Ferrari.

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Re: Diesel != Fossil Oil

There may well be concrete advantages to running your diesel engine on vegetable oil, but I fail to see how low NOx and particulate emmissions can be among them. The NOx comes from subjecting the N and O *from the air* to high combustion temperature and sub-stoichiometric fuel quantity. The particulates are just soot, which you get from burning anything that's got carbon in it.

I'd prefer to be proved wrong than downvoted, by the way.

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substandard monster, crap animations, looked like it was made from sheet paper

I thought that was rather clever. It was, after all, supposed to be 1980.

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Re: Now with call recording!

> Have they done anything since WP7

Sure. They've changed the name to Windows Mobile. Again.

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Re: Danny Blanchflower has been consistently wrong about everything

He was right about QE.

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Re: Dieselgate

And the NOXious emissions are waste, so just wastegate.

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Re: I've read the article three times

Read it again. He is worried that they are using predatory pricing to kill the competition. Once in a quasi-monopoly position they can then gouge as much as they like.

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Re: Utter rubbish.

I liked Wordstar too. I still forlornly expect Ctrl+Y to delete the whole line in code editors now. And I have yet to encounter a better electronic thesaurus than the one shipped by MicroPro.

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Re: Value relations

"I take this to be proof that Marx's labour theory of value is wrong and Smith's theory of use value is right."

I refute it thus: Gold. Air.

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Re: Rain, Rain, Go Away

The next place I worked (c.f. my comment above), the "server room" was "air conditioned" by leaving the window fully open. In summer, a strategically positioned freestanding fan was added.

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Re: Allow me to say...

My (limited) experience with Apple devices is much less "it just works" than "your buggered". Perhaps it's a mistake on my part, but knowing that they are actually general-purpose computers I expect them to work like general-purpose computers.

In mitigation, at least on a Mac you can get a shell.

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Re: Outlook

Some people have the unfortunate requirement to connect to Exchange at work. Well, there's OWA, but Outlook is the obvious fat client.

I have had some success getting Evolution to work with the MAPI provider, but fast it ain't. And a server update could break it at any time.

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muppet ads

I had reason recently to purchase some items of swimwear online from Marks and Spencer. Now on the rare occasions I use a browser without ad blocking, all I get is ads *for those exact same items*. What kind of fuckwhittery is that?

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Re: Ubuntu boot results?

Indeed, why isn't this a requirement for Reg reviews, given the readership?

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Re: No number row?

Consider yourself lucky not to be French. On AZERTY keyboards the top row is accented characters. You have to press Shift (or Caps Lock) to get numbers.

They're hopeless for coding, too. Common symbols like \ need use of the right-hand Alt key.

Now you know why Philippe Kahn had to move to California.

Re: I'm so glad..

> Wow....what browser did you use to post here?

Heard of the Mozilla Foundation? Some people have been known to use its FireFox browser.

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Re: Typewriters with backspace

As a student, I got myself a secondhand IBM Selectric, since no one could read my handwriting.

It consumed correction ribbon *much* faster than the ink one!

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priorité à droite

In france it still is the case that those entering have the right of way, unless signage explicitly states the contrary. It is a consequence of the ridiculous principle of giving priority to those approaching from the right, that has people driving towards junctions staring out of the passenger door window instead of at the road ahead. Possibly the most entertaining place to observe the phenomenon is the Place Charles de Gaulle - Etoile (surrounding the Arc de Triomphe in Paris). When traffic is heavy, which is most of the time, the only part actually moving is the inner ring. The rest is a gridlock of those trying to exit having to wait for a gap in the traffic of those coming on. And there are no lane markings, but if there were I reckon it would be about 15 across.

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