Posts by Tom 7

Qwant does nothing then.

People who dont drink have more of a drink problem than people who do!

Re: Wrong end of the telescope

I'm just disappointed internet analogies done involve flying cars yet.

Re: Not equivalent

And at least with car windows some get their own back,

Re: So...

The SI Indigo would be on the accountants desk of course.

Re: Scalability buzzwords

It does make you wonder if he has a clue about what he's talking about. I always worry when people say you cant do things I've been doing for decades.

Re: He filled hard disks

On the TV program I saw on the evening of the release they said that it was incredibly difficult to back up the drives. If you consider that a drive may fail on downloading the data then its as likely to fail when making a backup so that gets you nowhere* and costs a shitload more**.

*unless you have an MBA in the loop who (by definition) doesnt understand the process.

** and the backup disk money would have been spent on the MBA anyway.

Re: Nothing to worry about ...

The next Carrington event will be interesting. We'll be able to talk about it but only a few radio hams will be able to do it over more than a few feet.

Re: But if its a smart meter

My PV has been in for 5 years now. I get FIT and even in one of the wettest and hence darkest parts of the SW it will have paid for itself this year. I've looked at hive and other management systems but I've got a remote control for the immersion and storage heaters that cost about £25 which just needs a look out the window and you turn it on if its sunny and leave it on the dinner table to turn it off at lunch when every things warmed up.

Cheap laptop is a lot less than a business class flight.

Or the first night in a hotel at that level.

Re: Can you go to the pub and get shitfaced?

A work friend of mine had a pony and trap and she and her husband frequently woke up in their stable having been taken 5 miles home from an absolutely cracking pub by the pony.

Re: 4000 IT people? WTF...

That's around 30 people per project. So that's 2 programmers, 10 people to defend them from the 18 MBA when they get back from a long lunch with AWS.

Re: Why?

Its a bit like calling yourself a Data Analcyst.

jaw rattling speaker?

I was under the impression it was illegal for a BT speaker to produce notes below about 150Hz. My daughters got the ones they'd been begging for for xmas and yet they still come and use the jack socket to connect to my antique hifi which has two more instruments in the bass!

Re: and not a single window we can open

You'd be surprised how tough windows are in tall buildings - they are designed to stop people 'accidentally' falling out. Office chairs bounce off normally hitting someone other than the thrower!

Re: a write-once, run anywhere binary

What's a write-once run anywhere binary got to do with Java?

Re: Could do with that in a laptop.

If I was dumb enough to put windows on it I'd need one with 32 Wifi cards so it could report home!"

Re: Statistics

It does make you wonder. If you look at our solar system from Pluto and just tilt things a little bit nothing goes in front of the sun!

Re: Nearly ordered a Jetson Nano!

I lied - I did. Though on Nvidia it says there not out till June mine just arrived and now I have to work out which SSD to sacrifice for it! Or go and get another one while the download is running.

Not when travelling at speed. They tend to stop rather quickly but that's because they cause a lot of damage to everything they pass near.

Its a bit like driving an F1 car into a crowd - the bodies fly quite high!

Re: The problem with poorly located buttons

The thing about EPO buttons is the E part. This means they have to be somewhere accessible in the dark and that means near the door. Fortunately a shroud can help identification in the dark,

I worked for one company where the ERP DB was 'owned' by a supplier. They demanded shit loads for changes to the DB that our company was normally happy to pay. I realised that most of the changes in the pipeline where just to improve reporting and dug around and found I could write a few stored procedures that would do a few tens of thousand pounds worth of changes. It took me a few hours to learn how to write them and another hour or so to get them to do what I wanted. The suppliers response was to try and re-write the DB to stop me working out how to do this sort of thing and they really caused themselves a few problems keeping ahead of me as they seemed incapable of realising some of the side effects! They even offered me a very good package to go work for them in the smoke but I hate commuting and I was having a lot of fun doing what I was doing!

Re: Remote areas

I live in a fairly populous rural community. I cant get a phone signal in the house. Plans for upgrading the area come and go. I may have to get satellite BB to keep our holiday cottages full - people are starting to complain they cant watch anything other than 100 channels of freeview!

Re: Been waiting...

You've got it all wrong. YOU dont wear the goggles! Give them to a friend and then all of you sit there and watch them as they are attacked by zombies or blasted out of airplanes/spacecraft etc etc. It took me two hours to recover when my daughter flew over the Colosseum as part of her history research.

Re: "Vote Leave Ltd"

You are assuming the people who set up Vote Leave Ltd are only making money out of VLLtd. Many companies set up loss making companies so the liability dies with that company and not the momey making side. If you look at a lot of open cast coal mining in this company you would be surprised to see the legal liability for landscaping the open cast pit has somehow been sold on to other investors who can no longer be tapped for the money.