Posts by CT
70 posts • joined Thursday 16th April 2009 13:47 GMT
...network run by you
Is this the bunch that advertise themselves as the network "run by you"? I'd prefer a network run by people qualified and/or experienced at running a network.
"We do have a treaty which is called the Treaty of Lisbon and in this treaty – and maybe not everyone has understood this – there are no more pillars as there were before, where [for instance] you had a pillar for security and that was completely in the hands of the national states and where the rules of the protecting of the individual, which had to be adapted to this pillar, were a little flexible.
There's none of this anymore since December 2009. Now the rules are horizontal."
That was described as an insight?
Pillars? horizontal rules?
Posted in Sitting down all day is killing you
I was going to comment...
...but I've drunk so much tea I need to visit the euphemism.
Posted in Ten... FireWire 800 hard drives
Bus-powered?
Handy to have drives powered by the firewire connection, saves yet another cable and power sockets are in short supply in my "office" (2-bed Victorian terrace). Any ideas which of these might be?
Posted in Ten... e-cars and hybrids
Re: MPG?
"Up to about double" - is that like "unlimited" broadband?
I meant comparing between the models listed
Posted in Ten... e-cars and hybrids
MPG?
For a comparative round-up, why no comparison of MPG figures (at least for the hybrids)?
Re: Re: "repeated digits"
yes, for 4 repeats, but what about only 2 repeats, abbc, acbb etc. That's a far bigger pool of PINs potentially eliminated. Perhaps the original article was referring to all 4 the same rather than just 2 repeats within a PIN, but I didn't read it like that.
"repeated digits"
The article mentions "repeated digits" as part of the "not-so-random" codes. Why? Surely random codes would occasionally* lead to repeated digits, and forbidding them would reduce still further the available pool of numbers.
*someone with better stats than me can work out the frequency of occasionally.
Pretty sure that the signals fail safe, i.e. default to red, like a lot of other things on the railway are designed to.
But yes, the disruption is enormous, and "something must be done"
Posted in Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for him
To be honest, I'm not sure it does.
As a Reg-reading bloke, my reaction was a bit meh.
Lifelogging a dead horse...
after the stable door was bolted in mid-stream, to mangle a few metaphors
sample of 2,002 in fact
A footnote at http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/media-centre/news-releases/2011/identity-fraud-continues-to-rise-with-4-million-victims-in-uk-alone-65446565446
says "For this report, quantitative research was carried out with 2002 Great British adults aged 18+ as part of an online consumer omnibus survey"
and it was weighted for sampling deficiencies.
Still don't know what it actually asked though
and another thing...
how do you adjust for the probability that it's the more gullible/susceptible to fraud who will fill in surveys and the paranoid who won't?
Isn't that what the banking home page is for?
or whatever you call the page you get to after logging in?
Surely better to remind people when they log in, as my bank repeatedly does (we haven't got a mobile number for you...).
"quite reliable"
puts space travel into perspective against other kinds of travel when "quite reliable" is used to describe a rate of ~1-3% catastrophic failures.
(using the figures from earlier posters in these comments)
Minor point on the pie chart...
it asks "Are you planning to buy one this year" and **all** the answers are variations on "Yes".
Credible?
translations
"bit like reading a book in a language you don't speak by looking up every single word in a dictionary.
It works, and with a good enough dictionary, you can understand it – this is how online translators like Google Translate work"
I beg to differ. You can look up every single word in a dictionary and still be none the wiser.
Re: "You didn't have to go on the day to write the review."
Yes, did consider some kind of exposé, but too much effort. Ended up just reporting the job offer to the site admins.
And to clarify, no, I don't write reviews for payment. The job alert just came through under a much wider category that I subscribe to.
Source of freelance income
I subscribe to a freelance job marketplace site which has had jobs posted to write reviews. Best one was for "experience days out" - hot air ballooning, drive round Brands Hatch etc.
You didn't have to go on the day to write the review.
Posted in Best Buy gives big boxes the boot
We have to reduce square footage with our existing stores by shrinking the footprint
... or make the shops smaller?
Posted in 8m health records go walkabout
policy, procedure, implementation
"our policy is to manually delete the data from laptops after the records have been processed"
"The machine was one of 20 lost from a storeroom"
It was in a storeroom, waiting for records to be processed?
How did he get a signal underground?
Should London Transport investigate?
French letters
"with French letters on the keys" - that's not where they're usually most useful.
"...a problem occurring in men as they get older."
Who says baldness is a problem? Next they'll be telling women they can eradicate the visible signs of ageing or something. Oh wait...
happy, shiny idiots laughing
Excellent phrase.
The happy, shiny idiots laughing are taking over the world (at least if you look at TV ads, posters, displays in opticians)
Hair on mices' backs -> human heads?
Or will the this just cause any remaining hair in humans to grow, like those annoying bristles coming down your nose and out of your ears?
Speaking as a translator...
...who makes use of google translate to look words up when I can't remember them, one thing to worry about is the implied assumption that there's a one-to-one correspondence between words in the source and target languages.
They only suggest one answer, when in fact there could be many answers, some subtly different, some very different in meaning.
Posted in In defence of Comic Sans
Bizarre Comic Sans sighting no342...
...labels on the on-screen buttons of the industrial control system for the hydraulic jacks used to launch the 1000s of tonnes of bridge deck for the Millau viaduct (source: Channel 5 documentary last night).
I make no judgement.
Playmobil operator?
Does it need a playmobil figure to operate it?
Want to know more about the dust
How harmful is that dust when working with it? Where does the residue end up after installation? Any danger of more dust if you want to put up shelves?
Posted in PARIS in 89,000 ft climax
Inky blackness of space
Liked the glimpses of the inky blackness of space as it spiralled down.
Posted in Vulture 1 sprouts wings and a tail
glueing together three sheets of bog-standard paper
... happens to me the morning after a curry
Posted in Seat in sexy e-sportster shock
2+2 = ... 2
Is the car industry the only one where 2 plus 2 equals 2, for all practical purposes?
Posted in Recession drives pies sky high
Pie chart?
The BBC teletext version of this earlier this morning had beef pies with 56% of the market and sausage rolls with 53% (or similar figures that add up to over 100). Either they're taking into account the amount of air in the pies, or they need someone to put that on a pie chart.
Grammatical gender ≠ sex
As per title.
Posted in New 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' demand £50 a day
Might only be 2 hours a day, as...
... "The court and cells are open from 2 August – 31 August with tours at 2pm and 3pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays)." (http://www.dorsetforyou.com/387120)
There, I'll do some "research" for you. Took all of 2 minutes. Can I have a pay rise?
Monty Python flashback
"Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) Chairman Lord Rupert Redesdale"
sounds like an interviewee on a too silly Monty Python sketch. (Nothing personal Lord Rupert, I don't suppose you chose the name)
Posted in eBay whacked with giant patent suit
names
"Why do ALL American computer people seem to have weird names? Wozniak, Kernigan, Zimmermann..."
Suspect it's not just computer people. Many people emigrated from all parts of the world to America.
Or get Visit London involved?
they have a "complaints" page at
http://www.visitlondon.com/complaints/
where they say "At Visit London we are committed to promoting London as a world class city that provides you with the best possible tourist experience. However we understand that mistakes can happen. If you are unhappy with your experience in London please send us your comments by using this online complaints form."
Power supplies?
You didn't tell us which of these are bus-powered and which need a power brick. Makes a big difference to portability
unless...
unless the sentence "Users of desktop computers too like their bus-powered plug-and-go convenience" means they are all bus-powered. Doh.
Metaphor overload
"The DHS vid-quilt tech is called the Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance (ISIS), and uses a "discreet, chandelier-like frame — no bigger than a basketball" holding an array of HD cameras pointing in all directions with their images seamlessly "stitched" together to form a single mighty goldfish bowl style image"
quilt, chandelier, frame, basketball, goldfish bowl - sounds like a road accident with the removals truck.
Anyone know what this is about?
Font managers?
So if I've got a font manager, often turning them on and off for different clients' projects, does that make my ID change every time? Or does it only see the relatively static non-managed fonts?
transliteration
re president vs prezident - you pronounce both the English and the Russian word with a voiced S (English Z) sound, so the Cyrillic character is right. Give 'em some credit.
So I can't be altruistic then?
and offer my wifi connection for passing users?
How do you pronounce it?
Seriously. F sharp or F hash or something else
