Posts by Kyle Matthews

  • Hard News: Quantum Faster,

    Re the Highest Office - wouldn't Moore have that as DG of the WTO?

    Seriously, Mike Moore was job sharing that position. Which I'm sure applies a 0.5 multiplier to his 'highest' rating.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Cracker: In Which DC Becomes a Twat,

    Cunliffe says, twitter has been notified, it was done by a 'right-wing blogger'

    Who apparently should have told the PM before he ended up looking silly.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Quantum Faster,

    100Mbps= theoretical top speed of the offering (ADSL2?)
    7 seconds= 700mb file
    700mb file= Xvid DVD rip feature film
    Xvid DVD rip feature film= illegal download
    Ah, good on ya JK, the free market rules, eh?

    Internet speeds are measured in bits per second.

    Files are measured in bytes.

    So 100 Mbps could never lead to a 700 MB file after 7 seconds, even theoretically. It would be 56 seconds.

    ADSL2+ has a theoretical limit of 24 Mbps.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: Copyright Must Change,

    Once again Rob you're arguing in circles, misconstruing and just being silly. Really, this is going nowhere again.

    73 pages and you haven't yet taken your bat and ball and gone home?

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  • Hard News: Quantum Faster,

    The PAS readership: being reluctant to give credit to Tories since 2006.

    I think you'll find we were doing it a long time before that.

    That's just when we started doing it here :)

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  • Cracker: In Which DC Becomes a Twat,

    That guardian article is great. Much better than the ODT's "plans to build a floating parking lot in Lake Wakatipu".

    A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include "1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!"; "OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5x6e for more"; and "JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?"

    Currently, 17.8% of all Twitter traffic in the United Kingdom consists of status updates from Stephen Fry

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: Copyright Must Change,

    Please tell me they don't still deduct for breakage.

    "Those newfangled digital bits! Always breakin'! Don't rightly understand it meself...."

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Imagining Auckland: no…,

    I'm guessing that when the ballet, NZSO etc go on the road, they spend some money out of Wellington.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Imagining Auckland: no…,

    You're not a fan of the Louvre, then?

    Dunno. If someone would fly me there I'll give you my unqualified opinion :)

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Imagining Auckland: no…,

    But does he go see the art?

    Art? Man, you haven't met my son.

    (I find museums having vast collections of art bizarre, as I think that's what art galleries are for, and never the two should meet. But I recognise that I'm a little unusual there.)

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