On a busy night out, we’re all at the bar getting a round in and a drunk balding man I’ve never seen before gives his card to pay for it all, before wandering off without putting his PIN in. I get the round and try and find him, asking all the balding men in the pub for their names. Finally find the guy, ask him what his name is and present him with his card.
His reply?
“You’re not a fruit, are you?”
…

Nirvana – Nevermind

Merciful to enemies.

Finally got the FiiO D3 DAC delivered, so far so good. Doesn’t sound as good as my more expensive USB DAC, but it’s certainly good enough, and better than TV speakers / Home Cinema for music.
I’m wirelessly streaming Spotify from an Ubuntu Laptop (via Rygel) to the TV across DLNA, then out the DAC to my amp.

If anyone wants a similar setup, give us a shout if you need pointers.
Thanks!

Brilliant! 🙂

kaesae:…this creates energy…

WOW. Kaesae just solved the energy crisis, and no one noticed?!

I take issue with how Apple hid the off button in the place you’d usually find dedications to coders’ dead dogs, labeled it ‘yes’, with the word ‘limited’ in the thing you are opting out of, making it unclear what your new ad regime will be.
I mean – they could have done it any other way, yet they decided to present this face to their consumers.

Also, how are the adverts for TVs I receive after I’ve bought a new TV relevant? Adverts are only relevant if the provider knows why I looked at a certain page. Aside from generalisations, the data required to ascertain this is far more invasive, and is a path I’d prefer corporations not to walk down.

Are you local?

The PC clearly had an un farad vantage…

Beware, a lot of the information in the NYTimes article is, well… dubious. Indeed, energy consumption is huge per unit of compute/storage, but steadily decreasing. It’s (obviously) a very active industry, and no one really wants to pay to air condition the heat equivalent of the power consumption of a small town.

Safety using miles traveled as a factor is misleading. Using that data air travel is way safer than car travel. But judge apples to apples, and air travel is actually three times riskier than car travel, and cycling is riskiest of all.

The only data that makes any sense is comparing ‘per journey’ statistics.

Travel Risks
I’ve been trying to find the original source for those numbers (they’re on Wikipedia too) and it simply cites ‘DETR study’, as published in a magazine. Can anyone find anymore info on this?

How many manufacturers will be happy using a 3D printer that sends their design to a 3rd party for authorisation?

I don’t support this.
I do support this.

They couldn’t hide the fact that the ornate winding mechanism for his veranda didn’t work. On the test run there was someone using a ratchet strap to aid it going up. When it was lowered for the party he pantomimed turning all the wheels but all the weight was being supported by a chain on the other corner. The one he was winding was slack.

I noticed that too – I find it funny that he couldn’t fake it correctly, surely just offering a little resistance would’ve tightened it…

The cake is a lie anyway ( nerdy game reference)

She made me murder my best friend with fire.

Errrr right, can the shop I bought it from sort that?

Yes; You shouldn’t even need to take them a cake.
(Actually, if you bought it from Argos you might not be in luck, I’m assuming it’s a guitar shop equivalent to a LBS)

Scuzz, buzzes wherever selector is. Could be earth? Says dad

Aye, your dad sounds about right. Does it buzz more when you’re touching it or touching anything metal on it? That’s well fun. (Of course, single coils buzz anyway, but it should be wired in a way that stops the buzzing for a couple of selector positions)
If you’ve got a new set of strings, a screwdriver, a soldering iron and some solder, it’s an easy enough fix. Let me know if you can’t find a guide.

Does it still buzz when the pickup selector is in the second position (where first is pointing at the neck)?

Ahhh, intermission…

Does anyone else find him really arrogant?

also the US is so against any relaxation and would place a huge amount of pressure on any government, anywhere, relaxng the laws

How about, I don’t know, Portugal?

But on hitting the ground, now where is all the energy?

His parachute dissipates most of it, imparting his momentum upon the air, causing swirling eddies which dissipate into smaller and smaller eddies. Ultimately, as the momentum of each eddy lessens, the kinetic energy in the eddies gives into viscosity, generating small amounts of ‘heat’ which itself dissipates into the atmosphere.

Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity,

and little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity.

Depends if you’re a **** on downhill fire roads or not really, don’t you think?

Classic STW, fantastic! Take a bow!

Erm…

It gets a lot less scary if you just say “Unnecessary radio”, since that is what it is.

Careful, now…

Unnecessary radiation = bad (let’s leave it at that for now)

Better turn the lights off

If you were to make two journeys a day of the same mileage in both a plane and a car, it’s far more likely you’d have an aircraft accident than a car accident.

That’s funny, I’m seeing stats here which indicate:
Plane: (1997) Air fatality: 1 for every 2,000,000,000 person-miles Wiki source
Car: (2012) 1.1 for every 1,000,000 vehicle miles Source
Granted person and vehicle miles aren’t the same, but that can only make the car stat. worse. These are US stats.

So, travelling any distance, you’re more than 2000x more likely to die in a car?

Disgusting. One of the few off road bits shows him skidding down a hill!

in a Boeing the co-pilot would have realised that the junior pilot was holding back the control stick in a blind panic causing the plane to go nose-up and stall.

777s and 787s are fly-by-wire, but (coupled?) control yokes (as opposed to side sticks with no clear visual feedback) militate against this.
I’m not familiar with the control law of the 777 or 787, but in my opinion the Airbus crash was due to the junior pilot’s lack of experience with alternate law.

Wow.. is your “mouse-mounted back button” that much easier to press than the middle button?? Either way it’s one click

The mouse mounted back button doesn’t need me to move the mouse – it works on the active window no matter the location of the cursor, whereas the middle button requires you to move the mouse over the tab.
You need to take this into account, it’s very important
🙂

The media is owned and controlled by the same people that own the global banking system and control most sectors from the arms trade to the pharmaceutical corporations.

That’d be me, then.
I was going to make a wordpress website saying ‘Scuzz owns and controls the global banking system and controls most sectors of the arms trade to the pharmaceutical corporations’ and link you to it as proof, but I can’t do effort like I used to…

Just seems like a painfully slow way to browse when there are much faster easier ways.
(it should still work though!)

Do you have to middle click your thread-tabs to close them? Or do you leave them open and ctrl+tab between a thread and the index? Either action requires more effort than a mouse-mounted back button.
But then again, I guess you require three presses of ‘Back’ to return to the index, seeing as you post everywhere 😉
O NO HE DI’ANT

Let’s generalise – thinking about things is too hard

Fashion is for poo brains

Americans will see car-less suburbs as a good idea when they have no need for a car. Likewise, we see stable-less towns as a good idea as we have no need for a horse.

Nudge seems to be about small behavioural changes for benefit where there are few (if any) detrimental effects. How does this link to corporate agenda and government coercion?

Guys, stop attacking Edukator. We get the point. At least some people have attempted to discredit him by relating his behaviour to the thread, retaining some semblance of topic.

There are suburbs in the US that have no pavements. I think this is an oversight more than a ‘nudge’ born from collusion between developers and car manufacturers.

If a message sent is grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing or false it is irrelevant whether it was received. The offence is one of sending, so it is committed when the sending takes place.

What constitutes a message in this context?

Thanks for that grum 🙂

The fact that Boris won says more people voted for him

The rest is just conjecture

“comments were so serious and abhorrent that he deserved the longest sentence they could pass”

That Judge needs to get to work on Sikipedia.[/sarcasm]

If I create a Facebook account, lock the privacy settings right down, have 0 friends so no other user can read what I write, is what I post on it ‘private’?

The data is being sent through servers, it is stored, there is no guarentee that it will remain out of other users’ view. A facebook employee could potentially take a printscreen of my name next to a sick joke I posted, and post this image on the official ‘Hunt for April’ facebook page in full view of her family.

However, I intended it to be private.

Do my intentions count for anything in this situation?