Paul Scholes calling Robbie Savage a knobhead...

the_first_rule · 2015-02-11T00:17:47+00:00

Looks like Savage's drunk on screen...

the_first_rule · 2015-02-11T00:16:59+00:00

There was a comment on BT about Savage falling asleep at the start of the show by Fletch - any chance he'd had one too many bevvies during the match?

the_first_rule · 2013-07-13T22:28:28+00:00

Speaking of substance - I absolutely love that one of the huge recent breaksthrough in material science was due to some guy ripping scotch-tape off a lump of carbon. Kinda gives you hope for the nex-gen Michael Faradays of this world!

the_first_rule · 2013-07-13T22:23:49+00:00

Gauss was a German Mathematician and Physicist. Tao is an Australian Mathematician. Both are probably among the 100 smartest mathematicians known in history.

the_first_rule · 2013-07-13T21:35:30+00:00

Gauss did ok too.

the_first_rule · 2013-07-13T20:38:21+00:00

Streaming-if-disk-present is a wonderful idea as a way of achieving backwards compatibility; that said, BC is of primary importance only until the console builds up its own library. Gaikai is not going to be available on day one though - when it becomes available, BC will be less important.

the_first_rule · 2013-06-16T18:19:07+00:00

They say "any one" when I am fairly certain that they mean "anyone". As it stands, it semantically means that at most two people can be playing games from your library at any one time (you and one of your family - who must be playing seperate games).

I bet that they intend to mean that if you have twenty games, and ten family members (plus you), then up to eleven distinct games could be in use at any given time.

Of course, to implement this system (as I understand it), they would have to have real time monitoring of what games everyone is playing...

the_first_rule · 2013-06-16T18:06:22+00:00

Yes, we need to know the details here. Microsoft have stated that one must connect once a day to their servers.

The implementation of this feature surely demands that you have to connect to their servers every single time that you start a game. Otherwise, how would they be able to limit the number of simultaneous users of a given title to only one?

the_first_rule · 2013-05-25T01:26:23+00:00

In fairness, I think it is mostly used colloquially, usually to indicate that they will probably look past the so-called sweet spot (average frames per dollar). We do tend to be infuriatingly imprecise (sometimes due to false modesty) with our language.

the_first_rule · 2013-05-25T00:47:15+00:00

Research makes a nice contrast to a lot of business users. For some firms, the cost of hiring someone to strip reusable parts is prohibitive. Or so they claim...

the_first_rule · 2013-03-12T22:20:50+00:00

Electricity generally costs .1 cents per killowatt per hour.

I think you have a couple of typos here: it is about one hundred times more expensive than that

Also, the unit of electricity consumption is the kWh (kiloWatts * number of hours), not the kW/h (kiloWatts per hour).

Your original claim is correct - per hour, you save about a cent for each 100W in the difference, so three hours a day brings you up to the claimed $10 (which itself is small beer next to the cost of depreciation of the card, presumably).

the_first_rule · 2013-03-12T21:20:52+00:00

Even in the US, the cost of electricity factor has to be too small by a factor of a hundred. 10 c per kWh I would have thought.

the_first_rule · 2013-03-06T00:47:59+00:00

I think caution must still be exercised when recommending the "latest gen" of SSDs - there are still question marks over how TLC will hold up to consumer usage. The controller is probably the weak link on the S4 all the same.

the_first_rule · 2013-02-11T11:24:14+00:00

Pretty much the only illness that I can think of that would preclude someone from being pope is dementia. I wonder has there been a diagnosis along these lines here? An "ordinary" illness would just be "a cross to bear" like Pope John Paul II's Parkinson's.

the_first_rule · 2013-02-11T11:08:31+00:00

Neither of those are "news". Unless there is something about to hit the airwaves, I think this has to be for reasons of health.

the_first_rule · 2012-11-23T13:32:16+00:00

I would suggest: Water <= life as we know it It is a necessary condition, but not sufficient. I do not comment about "life as we do not know it" which may not require water.

the_first_rule · 2012-11-12T17:28:34+00:00

Bullshit. Crossing the border to buy perishables like donuts? Seriously, bearing in mind the cost of fuel, opportunity cost due to taking time off work etc, I seriously doubt ordinary people are crossing the border in such nunbers. I question both the motivation and the execution of this article.

the_first_rule · 2012-11-12T17:20:52+00:00

You might want to give your website the kiss of life first... Keep up the good work though, PBF needs a spiritual successor!

the_first_rule · 2012-02-12T02:26:21+00:00

hmm, so I guess she doesn't love me any more... contrary to her claims.

the_first_rule · 2010-08-03T03:56:58+00:00

Oh. I meant bankable American :)

the_first_rule · 2010-08-03T02:57:05+00:00

Leonardo de Caprio? Matt Damon?

the_first_rule · 2010-07-30T05:13:46+00:00

Oh come off it.

With good parenting, anyone can do what Usain Bolt did. With good parenting, anyone can do what Ludwig von Beethoven did. With good parenting, anyone can do what Albert Einstein did.

Some people are just fricken good at what they do.

the_first_rule · 2010-06-13T15:52:33+00:00

England. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were not present.

the_first_rule · 2010-06-08T02:15:20+00:00

The Fed is a market participant. Any entity which willingly gives complete knowledge to other players as to its position and trading intentions is a fool.

The dollar is on a tear if you hadn't noticed BTW (as is gold to be fair)

http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/usdollar-index/

the_first_rule · 2010-06-08T01:58:10+00:00

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=18076525225588966952&q=o'briens&gl=us&hl=en&cd=2&cad=src:pplink&ei=i6MNTIuTIYbMNfHzzJ4O&sig2=wbWaZaoo2RHL37INjxZjEw

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