Posts by Chris G

I wonder if anyone has ever produced stats to show the accuracy/failure rate of Gartners ejaculations?

Based on what is reported in the article they are predicting the rise of the nerds rather than of the machines.

Though they do have a point, everyone should be upping their security game, particularly where infrastructure and public safety is concerned.

Re: Oh dear

Me too!

My girlfriend's dad invited me to watch the landing on his new colour telly.

Re: The Lawnmower Man

@Jake

You also have P,G&E who I believe are not keen on basic maintenance around their utilities.

@AC

Cynicism implies that there is doubt about thr outcome, whereas the attitude here is fueled by history, experience and certainty. If the British government is going for any all embracing system involving technology, any successes will be in spite of government involvment not because of it.

@Potemkine!

My immediate feeling on seeing these, is they are designed to capture startup grants and VC money, successful uptake would be an unlikely bonus.

Economically and ecologically, better forms of mass transport make more sense than this rubbish. Electric or fuel cell hail and ride mini buses, for example.

Re: Life without the shuttle

The whole point of reusable craft is to acheive economy, otherwise why bother?

The objective as you point out is to create an economically feasable system that is also versatile.

The shuttle was a start but using tons of discarded metal along with the shuttle itself at each launch could never be regarded as a permanent solution.

Musk has started in the right direction by creating recoverable, reuseable boosters.

Now it needs refining and further development.

Re: Your headline reminds me...

In Spain, although not the law, it is generally accepted that you can grow up to three plants for personal use.

The smell of cannabis is common in the streets but if you are caught selling it or carrying whatever a cop would consider a commercial quantity, you will be nicked and prosecuted.

My mate's son, just for a laugh planted some seeds. A couple didn't make it but the others grew to about 2.5 metres and were covered in sticky seed heads.

A pity I can't stand the stuff!

Ah! But has it been polished and beglittered?

No? Well I expect Mshaft think theirs is.

This is MS's answer to their wet dream of having Apple's walled garden.

I wonder how this will desl with users who need to run instances of software on their cloudy desk tops that MS doesn't have?

The good news is if everyone is virtually in one place, bad lads only need to crack one place.

How many were affected by the 366 breach a couple of months back.

Also, what telemetry can you limit?

Re: $187 million for a "small studio apartment"

So no noisy neighbour parties late into the night but a bit of a sod nipping down to the shops when you have run out of tea bags.

@Iglethal

I think the BO tweet says all you need to know about Bezos and his businesses.

Re: Right to repair is all well and good...

Any Right to Repair legislation must incorporate terms to limit methods of manufacture that are deliberately obstructive to normal repair methods.

That should include the unecessary sealing of components in matrix or the use of specialised tools that ate specifically designed to make self or third party repair difficult or impossible.

Additionally, many manufacturers include relatively cheap short life components such as bearings into expensive sub assemblies that push a repair beyond economical. Those situations should also be covered.

Re: Governing versus Angry Birds

Considering a smartphone is the PDA of the day, perhaps at least some politicians are referring to their notes or making notes.

Slowly but surely, rather than IT freeing us, it is being used by the wannabe Big Brothers of the world to put anyone who doesn't see the world in the same light as them, into a stranglehold.

The Daily Mail (and others), if you are going to make assumptions, make sure they are bad ones.

Re: Optional sensible title here

Fair enough!

But can you go to work on a shark?

Re: IF...

If heaven is the kind of place that would include Litigation Larry in it's membership, I woll be opting for the opposite direction.

Anyway! I'm tone deaf so harp playing is out and I'm not singing praises to anybody for the rest of eternity.

Re: I see no ships

Perish the thought of Boris going out on a boat to shout the odds at foreigners.

He would probably award himself the title of Nauarch and quote old Greek battles at people.

Only one of the carriers is allowed out at a time and has to norrow US Marines and some of their F35s in order to have a full compliment.

Not exactly taking control is it?

Add to that the fact that even relatively poor nations have stand off ship killer missiles and the bigger potential foes have hyper sonic long range nuke capable missiles.

Carriers are virtually obsolete.

Heavily armed, fast gunboats with stealth would be more fun for the navy.

Re: On the go ...

That's not the Spitfire cafe I remember but worth knowing.

I used to like the old Saltbox caff at the top of Salt Box Hill but that was a loooong time ago.

Did you know that Squires Timber was the original Nightingale cafe? A really rocking biker cafe in the 60s.

Re: destroyed another robot vacuum cleaner

"*Dog owners do exhibit some strange behaviours in rural situations. The heap will, if left to itself, be dealt with by the elements as it has been for millions of years and just like the leavings of the horses, stray sheep and, when the neighbours had a milking herd walked daily down the road, cattle. Wrapped in plastic and hung on an adjacent fence it just stays there, the worst of all options."

Yeah, what is that about? If an owner can be bothered to pick it up and put it in a bag what is so hard about looking for a receptacle to put it in?

Re: "Set-dressing" has been going on for ages.

I have never tried it but zoom has virtual backgrounds in it's settings. There must be a market for a customiseable background app so that it doesn't like a generic library/kitchen/toilet.

Even better would be a background app that you could import video scenes into, one day you could zoom from a busy office, next from the top of a bus or from the sea bed, much more interesting.

Watching the first video in the article, I bet that is the only time ever a DPD van has apparently been in the right place at the right time.

Re: Why the obsession with MP?

Sensor size is more important than Mp hype, the more pixels you have the more potential you have for noise, noise is dealt with by processing, so better GPUs are needed, the same goes for multiple lenses and sensors.

I would prefer to see the multk lens space taken up with a larger sensor.

I have a Lumix G3 4/3 format camera, at 16.6Mp I haven't seen anything from these hyper pixel phones that is better.

A phone gives you convenience, the increasingly complicated cameras on them is mostly marketing.

The latest top end Galaxys though have pretty impressive zooms that return fair quity at full zoom.

Re: Asking for a fiend

I assume that satan is the patron saint of all lawyers so you will lose big time.