Posts by TeeCee 9435 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
Funny, I can't see any Arabic characters there, what do those look like in Nokia Pure?
Or is he confusing Arabic numerals with the full Arabic character set?
It's times like this that I wish I knew the Arabic for: "What a load of cobblers.". Could some commentard oblige with the necessary please?
".......at which point the Honourable Member for Wavering-Under-Clegg rose to state that a researcher had sent a most amusing film clip of a skateboarding dog to his tablet device. Proceedings were suspended while sundry Members gathered to view the footage. All agreed that it was indeed a most excellent entertainment and superior in every regard to the cat falling in the lavatory viewed in the morning session."
I can't see that being too tricky. Put strain gauges in the fuel tank mounts.
When you apply thrust, the strain gauges will measure how much force is being exerted to push the mass of the tank around, a quick calculation from the applied thrust* will tell you the mass of the thing, subtract mass of tank assembly, rest is fuel.
Ok, doesn't work when no thrust is applied, but you're not burning fuel then** so the reading at the end of the last burn stands.
*Engine vagaries can be catered for by using an accelerometer and the known mass of the spacecraft to calculate actual thrust rather than relying on "engine does this much".
**Unless of course, the spacecraft is fuel cell powered. But you can either meter fuel use there and subtract this from the last tank reading to get an accurate answer or just take it on the chin as insignificant compared to what the engines burn.
"...the second most populated apps market..."
Hmm, I've never heard of "apps market" as a generic term, did you mean an "app store"?
As far as I am aware, Google are the only ones calling their app store a "market" so that would mean that it's actually the most populated "apps market", being the only one.
"...anybody who wants them, will know what they are, and tick the damn box themselves."
Unless of course you were ever looking to the O/S becoming a mainstream product punted to the Great Unwashed. I suspect that if you ask Joe Bloggs in the pub what "Third Party Software" means and why this concept is important to the Ubuntu installer, the most likely answer would be "WTF?"
I reckon it's that sort of evangelism that's the main obstruction to Linux ever becoming a mainstream user O/S. Grunt users want YouTube to work. They don't care how it works or why it works and they certainly don't give a rat's arse about who wrote whatever it is that makes it work. If Canonical are serious about Ubuntu becoming Mac-like, all this sort of thing has to "just work".......
It doesn't matter about the roadmaps or who's right about the Itanic future here.
While, as others have pointed out, this will likely make little difference to the current HP shops in the short / medium term, although data centre refresh cycles are key here, what it will immediately kill off for HP is any large scale new business or poaching from competitors. What's the point of choosing HP for your big server strategy if you know damned well that their Oracle roadmap has a big No Entry sign within sight on it?
Everyone of any size has *something* important (more usually lots of somethings important) on Oracle. Porting databases is hard and you really don't want to do it if there's another option. Even then you are still SOL on the Oracle applications.
As I see it, HP need to do something and they need to do something quickly. I see four options, none of which are pleasant.
1) They can give up and become another commodity x86 player. That'll hurt.
2) They can go cap in hand to IBM for Power processors. That makes sense, with two of the major players on Power, the likelyhood of the software lads doing the dirty on it benefits both HP and IBM. Also here the Power chips have a habit of turning up on time, removing one of the main Itanic gripes for HP customers.
3) They can go cap in hand to, er, Oracle for SPARC processors. It not being wintry in Hell, I can't see this happening.
4) They can resurrect PA-RISC or come up with something new and hope the software lads stay / jump on board. Dodgy.
The elephant in the room is that in HP land, they haven't yet completed the move from PA-RISC to Itanic and even on the Itanic chips a lot of what's running is in PA-RISC emulation mode. Having to perform another architecture change while the last one's still ongoing would be something of a pain for them I am sure.
"...people will get a 20 per cent low-cost loan for new-build homes."
So yet another reason to build new rather than renovate / refurbish. As if the fact the latter is subject to VAT and the former is not were not enough incentive here already.
The Law of Unintended Consequences says it's time to invest in demolition firms. Also letting it be known that you are the sort of person who can make a listed building "go on fire" could be highly profitable.
"A further five have filed briefs supporting neither side - they include IBM."
I didn't realise things were quite that bad. Litigation is now so important a side of the business that, even when they don't give a toss, they think it's worth getting a load of lawyers to translate "We don't give a toss" into legalese, transcribe that onto parchment and file the results in court?
Why do I get the impression that if the lunatics were to take over the asylum, they'd do it by filing for title in court?
Windows is more multicore friendly and keeps all four occupied. (You can read this as "Windows has loads of unnecessary cruft running in the background" if you prefer).
Using Windows on the hotter i7, it doesn't get the thermal leeway to boost with all four cores in use. MacOS keeps the thread count down, allowing it to turn a core or two off so it can.
That's my guess.
If hacking the router is legal, is keeping a copy of anything you might happen to see passing through it while you're in there also legal, as the concept of "storage" would seem to apply to the device itself rather than what you nefariously attach to it?
I've just read the small print on this can, it says: "Warning: May contain worms."
No need to cast aspersions. This could be easily explained if he holds a goodly chunk of investment in gas, which will skyrocket if the world buys into his tripe and cans nuclear.
There you are, ticks all the boxes for credibility while maintaining necessary amounts of self-serving editorial control and pure evil.
Er, neither 3.1 nor 98 were "gems", as both had significant problems which were ironed out in 3.11 and 98SE respectively, both of which qualify for the "gem" tag in my book. You have to call both of 'em seperate releases rather than patches or SPs as they were paid for releases rather than free upgrades on existing licenses.
At least with 3.1 / 3.11 they could sort of justify this as 3.11 had the "Windows for Workgroups" crap in it, a.k.a. the ability to connect to something else without crashing all the time. I guess they had to fix 3.1s network problems in there to make the whole "Workgroup" thing anything other than a sick joke with a really bad punchline. As far as I can make out, 98SE was no more than 98 SP1 in new money and the upgrade cost there was just pure thievery.
I reckon you can upgrade 7 from "Apparently this one does work" to "Gem" meself.
You don't do sarcasm then?
I was trying to tap into the "OMFG EVERYWUN WILL DIES" hysteria elsewhere (I see you got that bit) while contrasting it with the rather OTT the other way "Keep calm and carry on" message from Lewis, which even I (as a bit of a fan of nuclear power) am beginning to have trouble taking seriously.
Personally I reckon the real truth will end up being somewhere in the middle, toward the "nowhere near as bad as it could have been, but not great" end of things.
I thought the tone should have flagged that firmly in the "heavy sarcasm" category of things. Sorry if that didn't come across well, I never guessed that there were people round here who thought that Alien fungi and Godzilla were ever likely to crop up as actual reported events in a serious news piece.
Also note that I never even suggested that there might be a nuclear explosion. It turned out to really be a giant alien, remember?
Huge mushroom seen over Fukushima.
Lewis writes an article for El Reg pointing out it's nothing to worry about, it's actually an invasion attempt by giant alien fungi and Godzilla's been called in to sort it out.
Icon, 'cos this is all Web commentardary on croudsourced news fluff and we'll only know who's really right once the dust settles. Ideally non-radioactive dust at that.
Depends on what you reckon the feedback from the Great Unwashed would be.
If you reckon it would be: "I know what's going on. Google haved moved to the enlightened WebM codec which is of great benefit to me and I will replace my browser with a WebM supporting one immediately.", then the answer's; "Yes".
If, on the other hand, you believe it would be; "OMFG WHICH COMPLEET BASTURD B0RK UTOOB!!111!!! I MUST SHOUT AT INTAHTOOBES AND FACEBUM AND TW@THING ABOUT EVILL GOOG PEPLS!!!1111!!!!", then the answer's; "No".
I've attached the icon for "No", so you can see which one my money's on.....
As the AC above has pointed out that this is a "core component" and Google have it "built into its OS", that should probably read: "Don't install Android.".....
Unless of course you can be sure that Google will never use it to track you* and only apps will.
*Define "evil". I suspect that "improving the end-user advertising experience" is considered to be on a par with puppies, love and soft-centered luxury chocolates at Google.
Probably worse than that.
I reckon that the more likely it is that you don't want someone to track you, the more likely it is that they'll ignore it. This rises to 100% certainty of the really nefarious bastards ignoring it regardless of any "legal teeth", which you can pretty much guarantee will have no relevance in whatever jurisdiction the SOB's have their stuff in anyway.
Then again, if your diesel generator or pump has been recently submerged under umpty-something thousand gallons of seawater, getting your paws on a few 55 gallon drums of fresh diesel for it is the least of your problems in getting it going again.
Once it's sucked seawater though it's fuel system, it's pretty much screwed. You'd be looking at a complete strip and clean of the fuel system as a minimum here. Oddly enough this is one of the places where an old skool carb fed petrol engine wins. I've personally started up petrol engines after complete submersion after nothing more than emptying the carb float chamber and then spinning it over with the plugs out to spit out any water. It helps here that the petrol engine will stall as soon as water reaches the electrics, whereas a diesel will keep running 'til it gets water instead of fuel and / or air, or "way too late" as we like to call it.........
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