Posts by NXM

Re: "the BBC faces continued financial pressure"

The world service used to be funded by the foreign office but a previous government made the BBC itself pay for it, despite it being a powerful piece of soft power and a huge benefit to people who need news instead of propaganda.

Short sighted stupidity is what we have come to expect from our "leaders".

Re: laserdiscs

Yes, laser rot.

I think (vague memory, may be wrong) that the first laserdisk players had a helium-neon laser, and the helium would gradually escape.

One "investment" I made was a recordable dvd which died after a couple of years because it's semiconductor laser snuffed it! Thanks Philips, it was bloody expensive too.

One last thing: isn't porn on this format a LaserDick?

Re: Working at a US 3 letter agency

Tell us more...

Re: "panic spreads faster than Wi-Fi"

I read that as 'I'll get me goat'

Re: idiots

@Contrex - I added that to the spell checker but can't claim to have invented it.

"Charge capacitators!"

Captain of War Rocket Ajax, Flash Gordon (1980)

Well spotted though!

cabbages

I'm my country we awarded a former prime minister a lettuce for saying really stupid things

Threatening to kill someone is an offense all on its own in Blighty. Very bad.

Hated heater

That's the spec for car dashboards if you ever have to replace the fan. Took me all weekend.

Re: Obviously...

Kaboomed with a stick of illudium Q-36!

Re: Users and printing devices...

Rob Dalglish, I had one of those Minolta Colormasters. It was enormous, heavy, had an oil reservoir for no reason I could see, and it made rubbish prints.

Re: Pity the poor journalists who have to listen to this demented ranting

Washed down with covfefe

Re: 40% of the workforce are paying attention & give a damn

A long time ago when I worked for a large aircraft manufacturer there was a bloke who would start at one part of the site, carrying a clipboard with important looking papers, and mozy across to another part of the site chatting to people on his way. The next day he'd start somewhere else.

No-one knew what his actual job was.

Re: "there may yet be a plucky British alternative"

I always fancied Sandra off Space:1999. Sadly no longer with us.

Re: Blimey!

How are you still alive?

I ask the same question of myself, bearing in mind some of the stuff I did and miraculously survived when younger.

what a load of bull

Was the 1000kg bull still attached? You'd struggle to put that in the car, never mind your pocket.

Re: BS

I used to know someone who was bombing along on his Kawasaki Triple (death machine) when a passing pigeon hit his knee and caused considerable damage. To the pigeon, as well.

Re: V2 ?

Point totally taken. But as a starting point perhaps?

13A plugs

Not always true. Kettles and heaters quite often have overheated plugs because said plug can't always handle 13A for extended periods of time. Sometimes it's the fuse holder, whose clips don't hold the fuse properly and warm up. Or as Anonymous John points out, the fuse itself warms up because it has to have a resistance, otherwise it wouldn't ever blow.

I dislike those bits of card you get on new plugs telling how to wire it (from the days when you didn't get a plug on new kit and had to put one on yourself, which many people were incapable of doing properly). If the plug overheats, the card catches fire.

Re: Ironic considering that just yesterday The Register had...

Couldn't agree more, but as an assembler programmer I'm a bit biased. Used to do C but that job wasn't nice. Now I do everything in assembler in PICs, because they're cheap (1). Very little code space and less ram (2) so you have to achieve more with less. It's only recently the cheaper ones have continuous ram instead of paged for goodness sake.

(1) If I used a more expensive chip it costs me money because I manufacture the product as well.

(2) In an early design for someone else I resorted to putting text strings in external eeprom to save code space.

Re: Proper Pasty

Merkins apparently have pasties, but they substitute rutabagas for turnip. And they probably weigh at least 2kg. Therefore totally different and the Reg Standards Authority should not consider them.

Alan

In an interview years ago, Gerry Anderson said they discussed whether they should bring Alan back during plot development meetings. The general feeling every time was they should leave him there to wank himself to death.

cooking

As a qualified Pot Noodle chef, I resent that.

Re: Things that didn't happen

That made me laugh so much I had to buy a disc of it.

For similar fun, try Black Sheep or Brain Dead.

A brand new car

Let's hope it's a 6000 SUX with a Blaupunkt and really shitty gas mileage!

watches

I have a 20-year old Mondaine Swiss Railways watch because it only needs "charging" once every year or two, and I can tell the time even without my glasses.

I too am getting older. It comes to most of us, so just roll with it.

Re: "Lasers"

Wikipedia says yes, there have been several HMS Shark ships. Quite a lot met a bad fate.

Maybe name the laser flagship Sharky McSharkface?

Re: Who, me?

Quite similar to a whoop of gorillas or a flange of baboons then.

(Not the nine o'clock news, appx 1981)

Re: One place I used to go

I love Dessert Island Discs on Radio 4.

near squeak

I almost got hit with this when I was staying in Broadstairs and could only get an intermittent signal from France. I turned roaming off pronto!

(For those who don't know, Broadstairs is on the South Coast of England down a steep hill and the UK mobile service there basically didn't exist at the time)

Re: Customer loyalty

For more information please re-read this poster.

(See Scarfolk)

Pure Silicium

Is this only found in Silicy?

Are we at war with Silicy??? Should we be?

Re: BT

Yes, I was weak. Or more exactly, very overworked, and lacked the time to really give them a kicking via the direct debit guarantee and the small claims court.

I'll get my revenge when the voip and broadband contract is up.