Comment Re: What an idiot. (Score 1) 233
He's modded funny because it's a (slight mis)quote from the Blues Brothers.
He's modded funny because it's a (slight mis)quote from the Blues Brothers.
We do, the Eurofighter was a mind bogglingly expensive project and a fleet of Boeing aircraft would have been a much cheaper option but we went for the locally grown one.
how racist Limey society is
And people say Americans don't get irony.
So it's like a plasma screen tv?
Not any decent quality plasma made in the last 5 years or so.
It really doesn't matter hugely if you can put the connector in first time without looking. It saves the user only a few seconds at most.
You can do that with every USB cable too, the USB logo is required to be embossed on the cable and always on the side facing the user. Ports are required to be aligned to accommodate that. Even a blind person can put a USB cable in the right way round every time, sadly most people don't know this.
public key cryptography (invented in the 1970s, mostly down to the RSA authors) was not among this work.
--Freddie Widgeon
It was actually invented over a hundred years earlier than that, and GCHQ developed an RSA equivalent with Diffie-Hellman key exchange several years before RSA was created or before Diffie and Hellman published their work. Occasionally the UK does manage to keep something secret
it's because he's entertaining as hell to watch
Exactly, and in his own words to Alistair Campbell, "I don't believe what I write, any more than you believe what you say". Clarkson plays a character, and it's a lot of fun to watch, but I don't for a second believe he's like that in real life. At worst he plays a caricature of himself.
It cost 910k to repair Rowan Atkinson's after he drove it into a tree and that was still cheaper for the insurance company than replacing it.
I didn't even know you COULD make money as a cellist. Nobody is going to pay money to listen to a cellist at a concert
Yo-Yo-Ma makes millions playing the cello, you might want to re-evaluate your definition of "nobody" a little.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein