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Re:ants 'smarter' than einstein/man'kind'? by jackharrer · 2008-05-15 00:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas

amanfrommars?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=amanfrommars+site%3Atheregister.co.uk&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Re:Why this is a freaking bad idea by TheThiefMaster · 2008-05-12 21:42 · Score: 1 · on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta

and why a query *1*2*3* does not bring back any meaningful results (Google treats it like an arithmetic expression and gives you a '6' while many users expect '*' to be a wildcard). No? Google does treat it as a wildcard expression, though it's not much use. If you mean 1*2*3, then there's a link on the page for "Search for documents containing the terms 1*2*3 ." for when you don't want calculator interfering.

Re:Why this is a freaking bad idea by TheThiefMaster · 2008-05-12 21:42 · Score: 1 · on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta

and why a query *1*2*3* does not bring back any meaningful results (Google treats it like an arithmetic expression and gives you a '6' while many users expect '*' to be a wildcard). No? Google does treat it as a wildcard expression, though it's not much use. If you mean 1*2*3, then there's a link on the page for "Search for documents containing the terms 1*2*3 ." for when you don't want calculator interfering.

Re:Why this is a freaking bad idea by TheThiefMaster · 2008-05-12 21:42 · Score: 1 · on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta

and why a query *1*2*3* does not bring back any meaningful results (Google treats it like an arithmetic expression and gives you a '6' while many users expect '*' to be a wildcard). No? Google does treat it as a wildcard expression, though it's not much use. If you mean 1*2*3, then there's a link on the page for "Search for documents containing the terms 1*2*3 ." for when you don't want calculator interfering.

Re:Someone care to estmate by somersault · 2008-05-09 08:56 · Score: 1 · on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today

Posted as AC to avoid being labeled as a recist/bigot. Found you!. Recist must be a fairly uncommon mispelling? :P I don't think you were being racist anyway, maybe a bit unrealistic..

The good news is... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-05-09 00:27 · Score: 0, Informative · on US Lawmakers Propose New Net Neutrality Bill

That Google are apparently now stepping up a gear in their fight against these ridiculous NN issues.

Re:Typo in TFA by sm62704 · 2008-05-08 06:44 · Score: 1 · on Stupid Hacker Tricks - The Folly of Youth

They already know about it

Re:Typo in TFA by jimthehorsegod · 2008-05-08 06:12 · Score: 0 · on Stupid Hacker Tricks - The Folly of Youth

Hmm.. I'm not sure about that. But, I'll concede it's at least a word. Now you have to tell google...

Re:Stupid idea by xaxa · 2008-05-08 05:50 · Score: 1 · on It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane

Google search for site:news.bbc.co.uk "light aircraft" crash england OR scotland OR wales returns 17,000 results. Even if there's a couple of stories for each crash, that's still loads.

Some UK statistics from the Civil Aviation Authority says about 25 people a year die in small (5700kg) planes.

Re:Another obvious Answer? by neokushan · 2008-05-07 07:28 · Score: 1 · on CCTVs Don't Work in the UK

Oh and this is just so people have a better idea of what I was talking about:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=BT36&ie=UTF8&ll=54.654318,-5.93061&spn=0.000639,0.001891&t=h&z=20

This is the bridge I'm referring to. You can clearly see the motorway below it. The estate to the east is the "highly catholic" estate, while the one to the west is the "highly protestant" one.
If you look, you can clearly see the mast where the camera is. What's more, you can see that there's a bit of a hill on the protestant side, facing the bridge, where they all used to hide and throw things from (and there was a big fence right in front of it - a perfect little fortress).
You can also see the inlay just beside that where the police used to have to wait nearly every day, for most of the day.
If you look EVEN closer, you can still make out some of the markings on the road and footpath from old paint bombs.

Re:Why call Dan Marlin "overzelous employee" when by Anonymous Coward · 2008-05-06 07:28 · Score: 0 · on Google Pulls Open Source CoreAVC Project Over DMCA Complaint

Patents pending is on the website, which in itself is odd since I've never seen that before on a website page

7,720,000 hits. It's not odd, you're just inventing reasons to be suspicious because you can't find any legitimate ones.

then not replying to the query was telling.

Sure is. You know what it tells me? That he's fed up of feeding trolls.

From my perusal, corecode does seem like a couple or few guys who got together with some open source code and decided to form a business.

And? I don't see what you are getting so outraged about. You do realise that "a few guys who got together" is how practically all companies start? And that using open-source to do so is perfectly fine?

I give it another year before it goes tits up!

Remember, at one point, Google were just a couple of student who got together with some open-source software, and then went on to patent stuff they came up with themselves. If you applied your criticism equally, you'd be calling a great many legitimate people scammers for no good reason.

It's Wyoming, by the way. I don't know of any/many businesses incorporated in Wyoming but it may have low tax.

Now look at you. You're casting aspersions about an entire state because you are desperate to believe there's something fishy about their incorporation.

The pretend attoney is kind of sad

It's "attorney", and what makes you think they are pretending?

Now, given that you have so many questions of your own, turnabout is fair play - answer one yourself. Why the grudge against them? Because it's obvious for everybody to see that you have an axe to grind specifically with them.

Absolutely. by Anonymous Coward · 2008-05-01 19:09 · Score: 0 · on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players

A Giga is 1000000000. Always has been. Lookee here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3Agiga&meta=&btnG=Google+Search

Re:Product reviews? by RiotingPacifist · 2008-04-28 14:33 · Score: 1 · on Google VisualRank for Image Search

I have to agree, there are much more important things that google could improve in its product search, would it be that hard to remove accesories unless the user is clearly looking for one.

e.g "Mp3 player" sorted by price doest show anything but deliberately mis tagged headphones and ipod cases.

Re:What's worse? by Tim+Browse · 2008-04-24 10:35 · Score: 1 · on Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil

First you need to get your terms straightened out. Pedophilia is the love of children, like a foster parent who loves the children he/she is caring for as their own. O RLY?

Re:Is there any chance? by caluml · 2008-04-23 04:14 · Score: 1 · on MSN Music DRM Servers Going Dark In September

Or a thimbleful of diesel. £1.19 a litre! Sheesh. I'll let some American work that out in $/gallon. Then they won't grumble about $3/gallon. Here's something to help you on your way.

Re:Makes me nostalgic too by xaxa · 2008-04-23 03:06 · Score: 1 · on Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive

The submitter shouldn't feel like I'm targeting him specifically. I just wish more people would take advantage of the fact that people on this site should have a basic understanding of things like SI prefixes. It would just be a nice touch to make things that small bit more readable. Just be glad there aren't any pounds, ounces, cubic feet, miles or Fahrenheit in the submission.

I don't mind so much if the English/Imperial quantity was the original, but when metric is converted into eng/ing for the article and I have to then try and work out what it was in the first place I'm annoyed! One recent mainstream (in the UK) example was the extension to a high speed railway: "Now running at 186mph!". 186mph? A strange number. It's 300km/h! Even worse is when people converted it back and got 299km/h, especially someone like Reuters!
(And for that example, I'm not sure why they didn't advertise with 300km/h in the UK. Personally, I think it sounds faster than 186mph.)

Prior Art by Anonymous Coward · 2008-04-22 04:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on An IM Patent for the iPhone?

Err... Hate to break this to apple, but I've been using various IM on my n-gage for years and years. linky It's good stuff.

Re:ada sucks by jmccabe · 2008-04-16 02:26 · Score: 1 · on The Return of Ada

Before continuing down the path of an argument on "Ada sucks for embedded systems", I would suggest reading the following thread that I started around 12 years ago.

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/751584f55705ddb7/8d598713f676abe9?hl=en&lnk=st&q=ada+useless+embedded#8d598713f676abe9

As a result of all the replies I got (well, most of them, apart from a number of Robert Dewar's offensive comments :-) my view on Ada totally changed. I had been writing C for the 2-3 years before that, as well as Occam, and had been using PASCAL a lot before that. Funnily enough, at the time, I was working on the control system for an instrument to be installed on a satellite.

As far as typing is concerned, if you are spending that amount of time looking up definitions, then I would suggest you have an excessive number of types, or a design problem; it may be, for example, that your system is not partitioned properly!

From what you say about unit testing, do you use AUnit?

I thought unit testing was pretty simple in Ada, it certainly was when I was using it, especially as (as far as I remember) you could do things with child packages and stuff like that.

Re:What about storage and transmission? by xaxa · 2008-04-15 02:14 · Score: 4, Informative · on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power

Has anyone even read the summary? It says plants. That means more than one.

Solar thermal plants covering the equivalent of a 92-by-92-mile square grid

There are some pictures of the German plant here.

Re:Right... by im+just+cannonfodder · 2008-04-12 05:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on UK ISPs Could Face Government Broadband TV Tax

they do have large pay checks and bonuses. regardless of the statement being incorrect the links are an interesting read. i have noticed many top stories missed by the bbc including anti war demo's the destruction of our civil rights.

what the bbc are good at is the scaremongering of paedophiles, terrorists and pirates, just to make sure we will all give up our rights to protect our children.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/396197.html

great documentary exploring the rape of our civil liberties over the last 10 years by the labour government.

FTA: TAKING LIBERTIES is a shocking but hilarious polemic documentary that charts the destruction of all your Basic Liberties under 10 Years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair's departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal people who's lives have been turned upside down by injustice - from being arrested for holding a placard outside parliament to being tortured in Guantanamo Bay.

THIS IS WHAT YOU DON'T READ IN THE PAPERS! THIS IS WHAT YOU DON'T SEE ON TV! AND IT'S HAPPENING TO YOU!

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3351275215846218544&q=Taking+Liberties&total=235&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Better Intersections? by mutube · 2008-04-10 02:43 · Score: 1 · on MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams

Birmingham already has the best intersections in the world... That's a city centre you're looking at.

Of course there is the obligatory reference to Spaghetti Junction.

I love this city.

Better Intersections? by mutube · 2008-04-10 02:43 · Score: 1 · on MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams

Birmingham already has the best intersections in the world... That's a city centre you're looking at.

Of course there is the obligatory reference to Spaghetti Junction.

I love this city.

Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi by Alain+Williams · 2008-04-07 18:09 · Score: 5, Informative · on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who

But he's only famous/infamous for his atheism He has published a set of highly readable books on evolution over many years.

He certainly wouldn't be invited to be on "Dr. Who" if he wasn't an Atheist. Where is your evidence for this statement ? I find it sad that those of religious pursuasion are prepared to make definitive statements without the facts to back them up.

Theists do better in society, Again: evidence ?

Re:But at least the first one by RockDoctor · 2008-04-04 02:24 · Score: 1 · on The Real MIT Blackjack Mastermind

*there shouldn't have been a club, because the theory is what's interesting at the MIT level, and that was well known. All that's left is the practice, and the practice was potentially very dangerous.

By extension then, there shouldn't be an MIT BASE-jumping club. How about cave-diving? Bungee-cording? Big-wall alpinism? Polar travel? Off-piste skiing? Technical diving? Motor racing? Standard scuba diving? Swimming? Walking? going to bars in the more "interesting" areas of town (around here if my beer-fuddled memory is good).

Almost all clubs and societies are built around things that have a well-understood theory but which require practice ; many are significantly dangerous. Where do you draw the line? For students who are, let's not forget, adults. (It's a very different argument for minors.)

Re:An alternate interpretation by RockDoctor · 2008-04-03 04:00 · Score: 1 · on Excavations at Stonehenge May Answer Questions

I have a friend, Dr. Arizona Gleason, who learned knapping while getting her PhD in Archeology, and now does it for a living.

The link appears to be broken - I time out on http://www.obsidiandesigns.com/ but I get a webpage from obsidiandesigns.com/ .
Modern-day knapping is interesting, but you can't beat the fascination of finding stone-age artefacts. I was holidaying in Russia a few years ago (at Lake Zuratkul, in the southern Urals between Chelyabinsk and Ufa) where there was a Neolithic knapping workshop/ village eroding out of the shores of the lake (since the dam raised it's level). Lots of flint fragments and broken pieces on the shore line, once you get your eye in practice.

A few days later I was trying to open up a CD case to back-up the various photos onto. No fingernails and I just couldn't get the damned plastic coating to rip. Then I thought a little, dug out the flint tips and lo and behold - one opened CD case. tickled my funny bone that did.

Someone might as well point out that a flint knife wouldn't show up on a metal detector. Neolithic terrorists - 1, security guards - 0.

Hardly unique by Mike1024 · 2008-03-29 01:07 · Score: 4, Informative · on Creative Goes After Driver Modder

Just today Creative has decided to put a stop to this. They removed all links to his modified drivers, and banned several users who were posting links to the now banned drivers. It's worth noting that Creative is hardly the only company that deletes posts they don't like in their corporate forums.

Hmmm - I smell something... by goldcd · 2008-03-26 04:51 · Score: 1 · on The Coming Digital Presidency

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ranjit+Mathoda+obama

Oh yes.

Re:There is a difference from free as in beer and by One+Childish+N00b · 2008-03-24 02:24 · Score: 1 · on Google Patents Detecting, Tracking, Targeting Kids

I can find dozens of online map services. I'd say pretty much every single map service out there is free and ad-supported, and most were around long before Google even dreamed up Google Maps. Same with email, free banner-supported webmail has been around since long before Gmail was dreamed up.

Google aren't changing or manipulating any markets, they're simply providing an alternative. If a few for-pay map services or webmail providers went out of business, then the blame lies with them for not being competitive, and even if we are going to point the blame at other places willing to give their services away for free, the finger has to be pointed at Multimap, the RAC mapping service, Hotmail, Inbox.com and hundreds and hundreds more before it points at Google, because they were far, far from the first in either arena.

Let me explain this in a way we can all relate to: Slutty girls force prostitutes out of business by giving the same product away at no cost. Does that make slutty girls bad and requiring government intervention?

Re:There is a difference from free as in beer and by One+Childish+N00b · 2008-03-24 02:24 · Score: 1 · on Google Patents Detecting, Tracking, Targeting Kids

I can find dozens of online map services. I'd say pretty much every single map service out there is free and ad-supported, and most were around long before Google even dreamed up Google Maps. Same with email, free banner-supported webmail has been around since long before Gmail was dreamed up.

Google aren't changing or manipulating any markets, they're simply providing an alternative. If a few for-pay map services or webmail providers went out of business, then the blame lies with them for not being competitive, and even if we are going to point the blame at other places willing to give their services away for free, the finger has to be pointed at Multimap, the RAC mapping service, Hotmail, Inbox.com and hundreds and hundreds more before it points at Google, because they were far, far from the first in either arena.

Let me explain this in a way we can all relate to: Slutty girls force prostitutes out of business by giving the same product away at no cost. Does that make slutty girls bad and requiring government intervention?

Re:Well DUH by xaxa · 2008-03-17 03:14 · Score: 1 · on The Net's Effect on Journalism

Neither were reported outside Illinois: http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=Klutzo+clown -- but as you say, it's very local.

The location search on Google News doesn't seem very good, unfortunately: http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=tornado+location:uk&scoring=n I can see the story on the BBC News site, and Google News returns it with an advanced search just for BBC News, but it should really be on the UK results page (I tried 'England' 'Britain' 'United Kingdom' 'London' but nothing returned the BBC result).

Completely unrelated, but there's a clown^H^H^Hpolitician in London, and he wants to be mayor. The Times says "It's always been difficult to imagine Boris running anything more complicated than a bath" which is pretty accurate...

Re:Well DUH by xaxa · 2008-03-17 03:14 · Score: 1 · on The Net's Effect on Journalism

Neither were reported outside Illinois: http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=Klutzo+clown -- but as you say, it's very local.

The location search on Google News doesn't seem very good, unfortunately: http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=tornado+location:uk&scoring=n I can see the story on the BBC News site, and Google News returns it with an advanced search just for BBC News, but it should really be on the UK results page (I tried 'England' 'Britain' 'United Kingdom' 'London' but nothing returned the BBC result).

Completely unrelated, but there's a clown^H^H^Hpolitician in London, and he wants to be mayor. The Times says "It's always been difficult to imagine Boris running anything more complicated than a bath" which is pretty accurate...

Re:Bigfoot is pratically unknown ouside the US by mlush · 2008-03-17 00:36 · Score: 1 · on What's Your Favorite Monster?

Its pretty well know in the UK well know enough for 'The Goodies' to take the mic. Arther C Clark has a lot to answer for:-)

Re:FYI by Mike1024 · 2008-03-16 00:27 · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Joy of the Flash Drive

I wonder how Dell and Apple and everyone else can provide 64 gig SSD options for their notebooks for less than 1000 dollars. None of the brands had any info on the specs of the drives easily locatable, and I am worried these are the low end SSDs that are much much slower Well, one option is economies of scale - Apple could get 1,000 SSDs at $1,000 (total $1,000,000) but it's unlikely 'Rocketdisk' has that much spare cash to spend. Rocketdisk might keep 5 in stock at $2,000 (total $10,000). Also, if SSD supplies are limited Apple and Dell and IBM might be buying up the entire supply - big contracts tend to get preferential treatment compared to small contracts, for obvious reasons.

Fortunately, you don't have to worry about not knowing the performance of these SSDs because there are reviews aplenty comparing the macbook with and without the SSD. Here is one such review. Here's the summary: a bunch of benchmark bars showing the macbook air SSD outperform the macbook air sans-SSD; but being outperformed by the macbook and macbook pro without SSDs.

The Good:

* No more entire machine slowdowns! (well, most of the time...)
* Speedy boot, disk read, and build times

The Bad:

* The moderate gains in everyday use aren't worth $1,300 And now you know!

Re:It would be good... by x_MeRLiN_x · 2008-03-15 11:51 · Score: 1, Informative · on The REAL Reason We Use Linux

You seem to be implying that is satisfactory, but those are exactly the times I'm talking about. I do like the way the Ubuntu forums are administered in that newbies are accommodated and not mocked for failing to spend hours trawling through Google results - that does seem to make them unusual in the Linux world. I've only ever had one problem with Windows that I was unable to quickly solve by myself and that was a minor issue with hibernation (which I don't use).

The first issue I encountered with Ubuntu was the fact that it wouldn't allow me to select a sensible resolution without editing xorg.conf - despite the fact that my monitor and video card was identified correctly by name. The next issue I came across happened minutes later and was even more serious - the title bars and borders of all windows disappeared so you could not move or resize them. This is not all that uncommon.

I need to use to a lot of Windows software and WINE just doesn't cut it, not to mention (as I said elsewhere in this thread) the fact that hacks like WINE are the exact type of unnecessary tinkering people doing real work don't need.

Another problem is editing grub.conf to change the default boot order, but this is only marginally better on Windows. I would however expect a higher percentage of Linux users to be utilising more than one OS.

This mess concluded my latest attempt (it was the shortest trial yet - progress indeed) to use Linux as a desktop OS. I still use RHEL on my dedicated game/web server although every distribution insisting on having their own commands is very annoying when searching for a particular solution.

Re:Wikipedia is amazing by julesh · 2008-03-09 22:26 · Score: 1 · on The Battle For Wikipedia's Soul

Strange. I normally find this totally unnecessary, as for practically any subject on which wikipedia has an article, the wikipedia article is ranked on the first page of google results anyway...

Oooh! Google calculator! by MrNemesis · 2008-03-03 06:41 · Score: 1 · on Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?

Not that anyone will see this comment, but I've just found out that google calculator is a brilliant way of measuring the actual time cost of one, two, three nines:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&client=opera&rls=en&hs=8ZF&q=0.01%25+of+1+year+in+minutes&btnG=Search&meta=

Re: Google filters mobile search results... by Jamie+Lokier · 2008-03-03 01:01 · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Hitting 'Brick Walls' Getting Firefox on Phones

Are they still filtered if you add &safe=off to the end of the URL?

That's a really good question.

So I've just been to have a look, and...

Ooh.

The mobile provider's links page has "Search Google". When I go there, I get the restricted Google page with limited results, and preferences that don't mention SafeSearch. There is no indication that you can go to another Google page. The "Google Home Page" link goes back to that limited page.

When I go to http://www.google.com/ or http://www.google.co.uk/, however, I get a "mobile-optimised" but unrestricted page. That one has mobile settings which do include SafeSearch options, has an option to turn on mobile-optimised HTML or not, and offers the choice to show "Classic" view instead of "Mobile" view, serving the standard Google pages we hope (apart from the option to switch back to "Mobile" at the bottom" :-).

I'm sure I tried the standard Google URLs 2 weeks ago, and got the super-restricted mobile page. Maybe I didn't, or maybe Google and/or 3 (the mobile network) have changed their policy in some way since then to allow the standard URL to work.

Big improvement. And big surprise to me, right after posting my comment :-)

Re:Tough Interview by hairykrishna · 2008-02-28 11:02 · Score: 3, Informative · on Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk

For all you non-brits, this is a reference to a famous interview where Paxman famously asked Michael Howard exactly the same question 12 times in an attempt to get a straight answer: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5983432841587892898&q=paxman+howard&total=10&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 (3 minutes or so into the video).

It is one of the finest pieces of political TV ever.

Re:I ran into this with my roommate yesterday by jrumney · 2008-02-27 22:17 · Score: 1 · on Correcting Misperceptions About Evolution

4.how come we cant speak monkey

If that is relevant, how come we can't speak Englisc?

Re:Memory leak? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-02-27 15:16 · Score: 0 · on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost

Until 'everything is a handle' replaces the modern 'everything is a pointer' in modern languages and the runtime defragments memory while the program is running

There are plenty of garbage collectors that do just that.

(at a scandalous cost in performance)

No.

I tried Firefox 3 today by celardore · 2008-02-27 11:35 · Score: 5, Informative · on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost

To be honest, I hate it. WTF have they done with my handy URL bar? It used to be a place where I could type "slas" and get the slashdot URL come up. Even worse for "news", as it "handily suggests" all the pages in my history that have "slas" or "news" in my history.

Heads up for all those trying Firefox 3 is Oldbar. I suggest you get it if you don't like the new 'innovations' by Mozilla Corp.

Re:And now... by julesh · 2008-02-25 08:53 · Score: 3, Informative · on Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit

Imagine the little record label suing Sony for re-listing their catelog without permission, and Sony simply out-spends them, then forces them out of business by having them pay for the legal costs?

Funnily enough, you don't hear about this happening very often in the UK, which has a loser-normally-pays system (rather than loser occasionally pays, as in the US). Now this could be because UK law has a substantially different culture to the US (although I'm far from convinced that this is true) or it could be because the threat is blown up out of all proportion by those who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Here's a suggestion: google tort reform astroturf. I highly recommend the first link that comes up, and some of the others are good too.

Re:It can't possibly work either by Maddog+Batty · 2008-02-20 22:59 · Score: 1 · on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize

Try again with that. You are only a factor of 1000 out in your calculations. Remember google is your friend when trying to work these things out:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=22700+grams+*+9.8+m%2Fs%5E2+*+1.5+m+in+watt+hours

Re:'Riced-out' is racist? by Cederic · 2008-02-15 12:25 · Score: 1 · on Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes

Written uses? I guess I could trawl the main newspaper sites.. hang on, Google News to the rescue:
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ned=uk&q=niggardly&btnG=Search+News

It's in common use to describe bowlers, at least on Radio 4's Test Match Special.

I fail to see how I'm hiding behind language. I admit to a childish delight in using unusual words at time, and I get similar delight when someone uses one I haven't seen for a while. Last week I used the word 'countenance' in one of its more obscure forms, I was happy for days.

Other people have encyclopedic knowledge of rock music, and I let them answer those questions on pub quiz machines, but it's not for me. Are they hiding behind musical knowledge?