"We also have a tube of lube to hand if required – Molykote 33 low temperature grease, which works down to -73°C."
As my other half could be described as frigid, and KY jelly doesn't work for her at room temperature, can I try a bit of that, if you've some spare? "To hand" is a nice way to destroy another keyboard....
Surely some kind of ASBO (Assisted Stratospherically Barometrically Operated) heating system would put the worries to rest.
Just thinking about a couple of iMac lap-warming batteries, strategiatrlly placed, and shorted out when the ASBO comes into force, might see off the ice before release of LOHAN...?
If you've still got your source code in the loft, it aint readable any more. My 5-floppy DooM set went the same way.
Always wanted a jupiter Ace, because of the FORTH. Had to build FORTH on a CP/M logic analyser over the weekend, for fun, once. Over 48 hours without sleep, the bugger worked!
OK, I guess you can fondle your kindle on a train (try that when it rattles through Clapham Junction!), but the kudos I got from having Spycatcher (bought in US, before legal here) and Satanic Verses on my coffee table was more than geekworthy...
"the sooner Elop is booted out the door the sooner that might happen."
Dunno. Simon Beresford-Wylie was the 'architect' who created Noka Siemens Networks. Once he saw that the light at the end of the tunnel was an imminent train-crash, he jumped ship (train?).
Elop will do the same. My prediction is October, based on his history. He has a reputation of being a quitter, not a sticker.
Leaves Rajeed whats-his-name to sort NSN out.
Jorma Olilla - we desperately need you to take the reins again. Nokia's fuc*ked if you don't.
Anyone you could name on a company board. (For a moment, I thought of Steve Ballmer as a comparison, then I remembered I need to eat my dinner soon).
Seriously, worth a google for (ok, I know...) but significantly impressive lady. Doubt if I could think of a dozen like her. (As an avid reader, I love reading about great achievers - inspirational).
A real H/W bug fix was discovering the setup-and-hold times of a D-type were violated sometimes. The D-type flip-flop would possibly go metastable, i.e., both outputs (Q and !Q) going to the same level, or even half-rail. The stupid fix (that is still suggested in some textbooks ) is to put another D-type before the original...
OK, Fixes the original D-type's problem - except it has no clue what to do about it's new friend when it goes metastable...
I've three portable timepieces. my N8, a wristwatch called a "Fossil", and a 120-year old Waltham gold pocket watch, strapped on a lanyard from a USB memory stick. Guess which keeps accurate time (within a couple of seconds)?
ALL OF THEM!
(Oh, did anyone else notice all 3 watches in the piccie are displaying different times)???
What a puzzler! I won't get close, but my input - which folks'll have to exceed detail to win
Piccie 1) Bag of ECC83 Dual triodes.
2) no idea.
3) That colour's got Data General written all over it
4) for the same reason, "Isn't every computer a DIGITAL computer?" PDP 8 or 11.
5) Can't name the DEC machine.
6) 'Cor', blimey! I had 128Kwords of that! Read, Write and sense are the 3 wires through each toroid.
7) Boot ROM on a PDP?
8) No idea which backplane this is.
9) Remember having to do this kind of work. Did it once, by hand on the back seat of a car (ooer, missus) as I was being driven to Faslane. It was a prototype, we had to design and build it on-the-fly, before we got there! Used a small hand-wrapping tool, and pre-cut wire. Battery had run out of my power-wrapper, so I was envious of my mate, whose machine was good. My wrist ached like buggery after 6 hours of that!
The rest? Can't help, but piccie 10 looks strangely familiar...
No, the contracts between MS and Nokia will be written in United States' Industrial-strength Legal steel. As we have learned, such contracts are nuclear-proof.
Once Ballmer and co. signed up, no hope. Put April 19 in your diary. If you're a Finn, call in sick that day.
I live in Finland, and (OK, I'm on welfare) but haven't seen a real 'sea-change' to our economy.
The idea that towns are closing (Salo? still OK) is preposterous. Like the rest of the world, we're in a recession - saying it ain't so doesn't make it go away.
(Oh, at Illgaz, Finland has a very good secret service. Ever tried talking to a Finn? Paint dries faster than they reply...)
Erm, well, I must've been excluded from the hive/borg/whatever.
After the article I read on Bloomberg, thanks to a previous poster's link (Which I can't find), my attitude to him has changed. Basically, he's got a shit job. A bit like a sewerage worker, whose only chance of success is to shine every turd.
Nokia Symbian Belle is bloody brilliant. (On my N8, it's superb). If only that had come out at the time, iPhone and Android would be hanging on the ropes, calling for the towel to be thrown in. But, as others have said (and as an ex-Nokia employee myself) the beaurocracy was fatal. Ollila was very smart, but I don't get why he didn't see it coming, 5 years ago. Most of us did. Now, thanks to Beresford-Wylie, they've another millstone to drag them down to the Deepwater Challenge.
Nokia Siemens Lossmaking Networks Incorporated.
Once the timed (next year, I think) weight-holding wires to this dead elephant corrode in the seawater near the burning platform and the weights fall, freeing the ship from the abyss and allowing it to rise again, can we expect some progress.
In short, unless and until NSN breaks apart, or is sold to Huawei, expect stagnation.
Re: errr "Discovery aboard the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft when it still had a job"...
Yep. Enterprise. Saw it fly over the UK. Warwick, in fact. I screamed on the company's intercom something like "Look out the fuc*king windows!!" (only faced in one direction) when I saw it.
Disagree. 'Allure of the Seas' (Worlds biggest LINER) isn't designed to scrape her bottom (ooer, missus!) on the seabed. Neither is her sister, 'Oasis of the Seas'. They're bug. Really big. I mean, fuc*k-me-sideways BIG!
So, sorry, but your statement "and why the worlds largest Liner is smaller than the largest Cruise ship..." is in error.
..weren't we assured that XP was all a business would need?
So, I'm sorry, but I can't see why I'd need to 'upgrade' (Vista requires the sarcastic quotes) to Windows 8. Has a business need suddenly - and coincidentally with the launch of a Microsoft-pushed (soon to be forced) release - unexpectantly changed?
Are businesses driving the Microsoft development program, or is Microsoft driving the business direction?
I thought it was smegging brilliant! Is it really that long ago? Yep, I had 2 meg. of ram, and (IIRC) a 2 gig. drive. It was a real (not 'quantum' - that's really tiny) leap forward. I ran mine - not on MS-DOS, but on DR-DOS for a bit more memory usage.
I think that 100 meg.(ish) processor opened files quicker than my mate's 3Gig. Vista machine...
They'll ban him from writing letters next....Or postcards.
(Does anyone still own a fountain pen, by the way? Lost my 'Cross' gold about 20 years ago. Yet, I was 'Ink Monitor' - to fill up the inkwells for the entire school when I was about 10 years old. Mum used to beat me to a pulp, get me to lick 't motorway* clean (etc), if I had a tiny drop of ink on my pristine white school shirt)
* Actually, I think it was the cattle-grid. Not sure we had any motorways then.
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Talking of tubes...
"We also have a tube of lube to hand if required – Molykote 33 low temperature grease, which works down to -73°C."
As my other half could be described as frigid, and KY jelly doesn't work for her at room temperature, can I try a bit of that, if you've some spare? "To hand" is a nice way to destroy another keyboard....
If the rod was heated somewhat before release..
Surely some kind of ASBO (Assisted Stratospherically Barometrically Operated) heating system would put the worries to rest.
Just thinking about a couple of iMac lap-warming batteries, strategiatrlly placed, and shorted out when the ASBO comes into force, might see off the ice before release of LOHAN...?
Re: Ah, happy days.
If you've still got your source code in the loft, it aint readable any more. My 5-floppy DooM set went the same way.
Always wanted a jupiter Ace, because of the FORTH. Had to build FORTH on a CP/M logic analyser over the weekend, for fun, once. Over 48 hours without sleep, the bugger worked!
What kind of LOSER sits in front of a PC...
Er, Journalist??
Meant for ONE person?
This statement could've been misinterpreted by the word "all", which can be construed in two ways...
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and wish you all the best for the future."
Worst NEVER made?
That'll be me starring in a porno movie. Unfortunately, the 'script' is much too short for any use...
Oh, well. Another can of tramp-juice.
Didn't any of you folks get married???
Absolutely vital wedding prezzie is a slow-cooker. It's a MUST-HAVE! (I love mine, use it weekly. Not microprocessor-controlled hence lack of IT icon)
After a few years, you'll also need a small child to assist.
This'll explain:
http://peasandthankyou.com/2010/04/08/defeating-the-purpose/
(It's excellent food, by the way - one of my hobbies)
What's wrong with the 'dead-tree' version?
OK, I guess you can fondle your kindle on a train (try that when it rattles through Clapham Junction!), but the kudos I got from having Spycatcher (bought in US, before legal here) and Satanic Verses on my coffee table was more than geekworthy...
Nah, can't beat a REAL book. Shows educashion.
Wonder if the real reason for turning phones off in flight...
...so that passengers' phones don't nick all the capacity if, in an emergency, using a mobile is the only way ATC can talk to the crew?
Just a thought.
Re: Challenging my arse
Disagree...
Rename Nokia's WinPho7 to "Izal Medicated", and you've a real challenge....
Worse than a vindaloo when you go to the loo.
Re: Elop or Nokia
"the sooner Elop is booted out the door the sooner that might happen."
Dunno. Simon Beresford-Wylie was the 'architect' who created Noka Siemens Networks. Once he saw that the light at the end of the tunnel was an imminent train-crash, he jumped ship (train?).
Elop will do the same. My prediction is October, based on his history. He has a reputation of being a quitter, not a sticker.
Leaves Rajeed whats-his-name to sort NSN out.
Jorma Olilla - we desperately need you to take the reins again. Nokia's fuc*ked if you don't.
Ghetto Blasters?
God, your sooooooo '90's
Theyre called a "Third World Briefcase" in this century
Re: Better reception?
Think I might see a gap in the market for tinfoil hats here....
I thought I read earler...
That 4G was 100Mb/s unless one was stationary, in which case, 1Gb/s....
Oh, Ray, stoppit! "how to integrate a third network into O2's back end"...I'm running out of my Foxconn keyboards to give to the pub!
Only an hours drive to the nearest Swedish IKEA...
Think I'll check it out, but IKEA always reminds me of...
http://funnypicturesplus.com/ikea-job-interview-please-have-a-seat.html
Re: Phenomenally (relatively speaking) quick from conception to now.
My bad. I meant months, not weeks.
Phenominally (relatively speaking) quick from conception to now.
I read they're knocking the dragons out at on every 3 weeks, the Falcon's the same!
My God, it's gonna be like a scene out of 'Battlestar Galactica' up there in a few years!
Raise a pint to a succesful mission. (I'll stick to my tin of tramp juice).
She looks a lot better than...
Anyone you could name on a company board. (For a moment, I thought of Steve Ballmer as a comparison, then I remembered I need to eat my dinner soon).
Seriously, worth a google for (ok, I know...) but significantly impressive lady. Doubt if I could think of a dozen like her. (As an avid reader, I love reading about great achievers - inspirational).
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Re: Post in goddam £!
Post in €'s. We know it's stable. Just ask Greece, Portugal, Spain...
...support around here for the new Nokia devices is actually quite high...
Around here? I'm assuming you're referring to the cobbled streets of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
Re: Brilliant
My answers' were hints, rather than the real answer. The majority of the others were reminisces, or good guesses. So, sorry, you get the logo.
EPIC FAIL.
Re: Is this some "Comouter Purity Test"?
Almost all!!! (Exception: Drum card)
H/W fix?
A real H/W bug fix was discovering the setup-and-hold times of a D-type were violated sometimes. The D-type flip-flop would possibly go metastable, i.e., both outputs (Q and !Q) going to the same level, or even half-rail. The stupid fix (that is still suggested in some textbooks ) is to put another D-type before the original...
OK, Fixes the original D-type's problem - except it has no clue what to do about it's new friend when it goes metastable...
Re: What happened to women?
Remember - or forget at your peril!
It was a woman who found the first computer 'bug'....
Re: Too Easy?
Grief! Reminds me of the BBC's "VERA" (Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus). Went out with a girl called "Vera" once - just as big.
12AX7?
Rubbish! Invented by Mullard, I'm sure. (Not Arfur Mullard, however). Raytheon just did a 'Chinese copy'.
Titter!
I've three portable timepieces. my N8, a wristwatch called a "Fossil", and a 120-year old Waltham gold pocket watch, strapped on a lanyard from a USB memory stick. Guess which keeps accurate time (within a couple of seconds)?
ALL OF THEM!
(Oh, did anyone else notice all 3 watches in the piccie are displaying different times)???
What a puzzler! I won't get close, but my input - which folks'll have to exceed detail to win
Piccie 1) Bag of ECC83 Dual triodes.
2) no idea.
3) That colour's got Data General written all over it
4) for the same reason, "Isn't every computer a DIGITAL computer?" PDP 8 or 11.
5) Can't name the DEC machine.
6) 'Cor', blimey! I had 128Kwords of that! Read, Write and sense are the 3 wires through each toroid.
7) Boot ROM on a PDP?
8) No idea which backplane this is.
9) Remember having to do this kind of work. Did it once, by hand on the back seat of a car (ooer, missus) as I was being driven to Faslane. It was a prototype, we had to design and build it on-the-fly, before we got there! Used a small hand-wrapping tool, and pre-cut wire. Battery had run out of my power-wrapper, so I was envious of my mate, whose machine was good. My wrist ached like buggery after 6 hours of that!
The rest? Can't help, but piccie 10 looks strangely familiar...
Anssi Vanjoki??
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/23/anssi-vanjoki-on-quitting-nokia-i-didn-t-become-the-ceo-it-is/
No, the contracts between MS and Nokia will be written in United States' Industrial-strength Legal steel. As we have learned, such contracts are nuclear-proof.
Once Ballmer and co. signed up, no hope. Put April 19 in your diary. If you're a Finn, call in sick that day.
Re: Once upon a time
Have to disagree here.
I live in Finland, and (OK, I'm on welfare) but haven't seen a real 'sea-change' to our economy.
The idea that towns are closing (Salo? still OK) is preposterous. Like the rest of the world, we're in a recession - saying it ain't so doesn't make it go away.
(Oh, at Illgaz, Finland has a very good secret service. Ever tried talking to a Finn? Paint dries faster than they reply...)
Forgetting the article...
Isn't that the much-loved Sarah Bee in the headline piccie, deciding whether or not one if of my posts get past her evil glint?
I found the article...
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_24/b4232056703101.htm
Thanks to whoever posted it.
"The Reg hive mind clearly loathes Elop"
Erm, well, I must've been excluded from the hive/borg/whatever.
After the article I read on Bloomberg, thanks to a previous poster's link (Which I can't find), my attitude to him has changed. Basically, he's got a shit job. A bit like a sewerage worker, whose only chance of success is to shine every turd.
Gotta agree.
Nokia Symbian Belle is bloody brilliant. (On my N8, it's superb). If only that had come out at the time, iPhone and Android would be hanging on the ropes, calling for the towel to be thrown in. But, as others have said (and as an ex-Nokia employee myself) the beaurocracy was fatal. Ollila was very smart, but I don't get why he didn't see it coming, 5 years ago. Most of us did. Now, thanks to Beresford-Wylie, they've another millstone to drag them down to the Deepwater Challenge.
Nokia Siemens Lossmaking Networks Incorporated.
Once the timed (next year, I think) weight-holding wires to this dead elephant corrode in the seawater near the burning platform and the weights fall, freeing the ship from the abyss and allowing it to rise again, can we expect some progress.
In short, unless and until NSN breaks apart, or is sold to Huawei, expect stagnation.
Nokia will be well chuffed..
Thought I'd mention it in passing...
(Oh, @ Big Dumb Gay 555 - it's the key on the left that turns the CAPS LOCK off. M'kay?)
Re: How low can you go....
Elop's first three words of the statement....
"Our disappointing device..."
must've been joy to Red (mond) ears...
Re: The company will push out a patch
I wondered why I got a square 5¼ inch square envelope in the post this morning...
Re: errr "Discovery aboard the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft when it still had a job"...
Yep. Enterprise. Saw it fly over the UK. Warwick, in fact. I screamed on the company's intercom something like "Look out the fuc*king windows!!" (only faced in one direction) when I saw it.
Remembering J.Edgar.Hoover....
The FBI are angels..
They sit on 'clouds'....
Re: Not paying attention
I'm possibly wrong - sorry :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_ship
You determine.
Re: Not paying attention
Disagree. 'Allure of the Seas' (Worlds biggest LINER) isn't designed to scrape her bottom (ooer, missus!) on the seabed. Neither is her sister, 'Oasis of the Seas'. They're bug. Really big. I mean, fuc*k-me-sideways BIG!
So, sorry, but your statement "and why the worlds largest Liner is smaller than the largest Cruise ship..." is in error.
He's right, you know!
Typing "Google" into Google barfed IE6 a treat!
'Course, it might have been just a coincidence....
We're sometimes forgetful...
..weren't we assured that XP was all a business would need?
So, I'm sorry, but I can't see why I'd need to 'upgrade' (Vista requires the sarcastic quotes) to Windows 8. Has a business need suddenly - and coincidentally with the launch of a Microsoft-pushed (soon to be forced) release - unexpectantly changed?
Are businesses driving the Microsoft development program, or is Microsoft driving the business direction?
One wonders.
Seems "Skunkworks..."
...works!
A wag just told me...
"Independence Day? How did Jeff Goldblum disable the alien spaceship? Simple. He uploaded a copy of Windows-ME to it."
(OK, I thought it was quite good...)
Win 3.1?
I thought it was smegging brilliant! Is it really that long ago? Yep, I had 2 meg. of ram, and (IIRC) a 2 gig. drive. It was a real (not 'quantum' - that's really tiny) leap forward. I ran mine - not on MS-DOS, but on DR-DOS for a bit more memory usage.
I think that 100 meg.(ish) processor opened files quicker than my mate's 3Gig. Vista machine...
Fuc*k everyone in the redneck state of Arizona!
Now, can I get extradited First Class? Please?
"HMRC `upgrades' from Microsoft IE6 to Microsoft IE8 "
OK, I must be being VERY stupid.
I thought that was what the "Windows Upgrade" thing was for.
Re: RTFA
They'll ban him from writing letters next....Or postcards.
(Does anyone still own a fountain pen, by the way? Lost my 'Cross' gold about 20 years ago. Yet, I was 'Ink Monitor' - to fill up the inkwells for the entire school when I was about 10 years old. Mum used to beat me to a pulp, get me to lick 't motorway* clean (etc), if I had a tiny drop of ink on my pristine white school shirt)
* Actually, I think it was the cattle-grid. Not sure we had any motorways then.
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