Comment Ian M. Banks (Score 1) 201
This is a neural lace from the Culture series by Ian M. Banks.
Comment Link to Original Source (Score 2) 104
New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/ar...
Comment Re:UK EU more problems than solutions? (Score 1) 341
There are 1.8 million British people living in the EU according to this article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5cd6.... It would be much more complicated for them if the they were not EU citizens.
Comment Backgammon (Score 1) 669
Playing backgammon a lot. More relaxing than chess. Backgammon NJ is the strongest on Android as far as I know.
Comment Guess where I'm reading this (Score 2) 221
From the article:
"The story was that Steve wanted a device that he could use to read e-mail while on the toilet — that was the extent of the product spec".
I had no idea I was taking part in such an important use case.
"The story was that Steve wanted a device that he could use to read e-mail while on the toilet — that was the extent of the product spec".
I had no idea I was taking part in such an important use case.
Comment Re:Steve Jackson seer of the future (Score 2) 41
Paranoia is great and so is Steve Jackson. However, it's not one of his games...
Submission + - A spreadsheet is blamed for UK rail bid fiasco
Bruce66423 writes: As a sometime computer programmer who was always very sniffy about the quality of the stuff being knocked up by amateurs aka power users, the current claim in http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/05/west-coast-civil-servant-transport that it was a messed up spreadsheet that caused a multimillion pound fiasco is very satisfying. 'The key mechanism... mixed up real and inflated financial figures and contained elements of double counting'.
Those are dangerous toys we've let the children have! [Full disclosure — I didn't leave the industry because of redundancy]
Those are dangerous toys we've let the children have! [Full disclosure — I didn't leave the industry because of redundancy]
Comment Re:Oh the irony... (Score 1) 258
... your community (village/city/stage/country)...
