Comment Re:Did Glenn Beck steal 9 million dollars? (Score 1) 86
On the basis of this post, I propose a new IM-style abbreviation: COL (Chuckle Out Loud).
As in, I just COL'd (because I just did).
Good form, sir!
Comment Re:Things I have found helpful (Score 1) 1354
...and most of all simple complements.
I agree. As always, attentiveness is key; if you consider all the angles acutely, none of your complements could possibly be obtuse.
Comment Re:Ars Technica System Guide (Score 1) 296
Heh - without having read the Ars guide, I recently built a system including either the recommended parts or a mentioned alternative from their Budget Box spec. The parts I got came to $1080 Australian, which is ~$850 USD. Not bad at all.
Comment Re:May I be the first to say (Score 1) 198
Your weight is directly effected by your intake.
Randall, is that you?
Can Mobile Broadband Solve the UK Digital Divide? 113
MJackson writes "Lord Carter's interim Digital Britain report recently proposed a new Universal Service Obligation (USO), which would effectively make it mandatory for every household in the UK to have access to a broadband service capable of 2Mbps by 2012. Since then there has been much talk about Mobile Broadband (3G, 4G) services being used to bridge the UK Digital Divide, but is that realistic? The technology has all sorts of problems from slow speeds and high latency to blocking VoIP, MSN Instant Messaging and aggressive image compression ... not to mention connection stability."
Submission + - Australia to get $43bn fibre-to-home network (apcmag.com)
KrispyConroy writes: "The Australian Government has announced a $43 billion fibre-to-the-home network that will provide 100Mbit/s Ethernet to 90% of premises in the country. It will be one of the largest FTTH rollouts in the world because of Australia's vast geographic size. Despite many private companies bidding to build smaller-scale fibre networks, the Australian government decided to go it alone, because it didn't believe any of them could actually stump up the cash in the global financial crisis. The network will be supplemented by a wireless (probably WiMax) and satellite network to reach the remaining 10% of far-flung premises."
Comment Metric (Score 1) 505
An ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has snapped.
Having trouble visualising... Seriously guys, we've already established Libraries of Congress as the arbitrary measure of choice, why introduce the size of Jamaica now?
Comment Re:NewYorkCountryLawyer (Score 1) 393
Gotta wonder if that's fair use of the NewYorkCountryLawyer brand... Heck, I know I was looking for it, being an out-of-NewYorkCountry-lawyer myself...
Comment Re:The horses are upset by this (Score 1) 305
I bet you were champing at the bit to say that.
But seriously (to remain on-topic), this really is a tail of woe. I can see the PRS riding this poor woman all the way to the bank. If the shoe was on the other foot they'd have to act differently.
Comment Oblig. grammar nazi (Score 2, Insightful) 130
I will miss there little maze trivia game whatever it was called. But then again, I guess I haven't used encarta in years, so maybe I won't really miss it.
I think I can confirm your guesstimate...
Comment ASLR? (Score 5, Funny) 160
... 24/M/Australia/Jedi?
Comment Re:Just me? (Score 5, Funny) 105
I kept thinking about derailing a car, before I realized I was on the wrong track.
I was going to reply about mixing metaphors, but then I lost my train of thought.
Comment Re:Fonzi'd (Score 1) 798
Changing a name because that's how someone would text it?
Next up: Slashdot changes its name to
Oh, right.
Comment Re:Small english/metric error, I believe (Score 0) 171
> Geosynchronous orbit is 32,000 miles...
Geosynchronous orbit is 22,236 miles.
Surely the refutation is no more helpful to the reader if it's just your word against GP's...?
Comment Re:Hope (Score 1) 449
Apple has been so disappointing as they have repeated Sony's mistake about obsessively locking down their products. The iPod on its own is a great product. The software support for it is horrible and Apple has made it incredibly difficult to use anything but iTunes to manipulate the music stored on MY FREAKIN DEVICE. iTunes does not offer the features and abilities I want and I have always found it to be unstable on every system I have put it on.
Have you used iTunes? Have you used Sonic Stage? I have used both, and in comparison with Sonic Stage's depths of hell, iTunes is blissful heaven filled with nubile servants.
However, my opinion is but an anecdotal contradiction to your anecdotal evidence. Meh.
