Posts by Tom 7

Re: Does Nature Publisinh Group (actually Springer?)....

To survive yes. If they dont prevent AI from coming up with far better replacement that has no interest in profit, only science, then they have to control it.

Re: Re Taunt

It could have been available within a year. We had tested devices using the same process that were far more complicated and the simple point to point fibre was a reality - we'd done TAT8 and PTAT already. The tories killed it in BT and once they'd done that it was impossible to do it outside - can you imagine trying to develop a product that BT would just say they owned whatever we did.

BT could have had it working within a year - we had everything that was required.

Re: OpenBreach Competition

Went to a council meeting last week and it looks as if we're getting some wireless broadband by the end of the year 30Mb apparently. What is interesting is BT didnt even bother to bid for the public money available - which given openretch has already laid the fibre on the quiet is a bit strange. However it looks like decent (?) BB is now available to pretty much all of the farmers etc living outside of the villages which got FTTC upgrade a year or so ago and went from very fast ADSL to not much faster FTTC. Only one business went for the 70Mb option from what I hear.

I think the new wireless BB will more than double the properties with fast broadband at considerably less cost than BT/Openreach not really speeding anything up for their FTTC setup.

I might see if I can get some of the wireless modules for PTP stuff with some neighbours!

Re: "How difficult can it be?"

Useless rich kids used to be sent into the army or the church. Now they get MBAs.

Re: Missed a trick here

I would have thought they could have at least ordered 32 Titans for processing the block chains and then written them off once not required a la BOFH a couple of weeks ago,

Re: "Embattled bank TSB"

I think it will pass straight to bankrupt - if I can get in to my account I'm shifting the whole damn lot the minute it comes back.

Re: Crowdfunding blunder

Or you could get a job picking your nose that is more in your capabilities.

Laziness and incompetence and

being in a job that doesnt give you time to find out what you need to confirm your current conspiracy theory.

Unfortunately I know people who ask some of the most fucking inane FOI type requests. Entertaining down the pub but shouldn't be allowed near info.

Re: The blame lies firmly with SABIS, not TSB.

I'd imagine it would lie with the Director whose bonus required the job to be completed soon.

Re: High End Audio

But most isnt any higher end audio than the stuff you get from richard III sounds.

Re: Just had a look at the paper

If they are just looking for patterns in the colours and rough shape evolution then that's probably all you need to get something 'useful'.

RE "Microsoft’s advice for effected users [both of them, LOL - Ed]"

effected means to do something so he was probably right, most users dont do anything with the product.

Re: ...mirrored armor

I would bet some total internal reflection device could give nearly as good as it got

Re: Dig

I still have some that I tie onto strings to hang over my brassicas as bird scarer's. They hate AOL almost as much as me!

Re: "But apparently that wasn't to the liking of companies such as TalkTalk, Three, Vodafone"

'Given how much control they were asking BT to give up?'

What we need to do is set up an organisation with the power to tell BT and other providers what to do. We could call it the Office for Communications or OFCOM for short.

Do BT vet OFCOMs HR choices FFFFS!

RE couldn’t believe my eyes

If I got a begging letter from the tories I'd do a quick check on all my bank accounts in case some Russian oilygark was using an account to launder a vast sum and redirect it and follow it to a sunny tax haven and spent the rest of my life living in fear.

Re: Well ...

There is no evolutionary answer to a nuclear holocaust. If we suffered a nuclear holocaust/Carrington there may still be humans left but there are no evolutionary advantages to be gained from this - the people who will survive will survive by luck not some skill or advantageous protein. There may new evolutionary pressures then but human development is far more meme than gene these days.

Re: Blame the Tories (and Lib Dems)

I'll let them off a 1/2 inch of the mile of crap they've caused - a farmer round here pointed out we've not had more than 4 dry days since September. Water in potholes causes them to grow 1000 of times faster than when they are dry.

Re: Ballistic Delivery

Ballistic delivery of real ale is possible, With practice the english pint can be swung underarm and thrown and caught up to around 20' away with 'acceptable' spilling after a few minutes practice. Alas after a couple of hours practice it starts to go wrong again and can require repairs to catching arm and oral interception is to be avoided at all times.

Re: Jobbs wounded Flash, then Adobe drove the stake into it.

And yet still people keep using it! I found a flash video that was 43MB - all it was was a flash video someone made of an animated gif running for a couple of minutes ffs.

We dont need high speed internet connections - we need to kill Flash and anyone who uses things that reduce effective bandwidth to that of two tin cans and no string.

@Tony3 re testing

Testing needs testing too.Sometimes the first time you meet a failure mode is when it fails - a computer can exercise a lot of things very quickly but spinning rust can slow it down considerably, as can the wrapping to ensure you know what's going wrong - which as anyone who has spent time in gdb will know that simply doing that will hide a multitude of sins.

Re: @Killing Time

But, I've heard, every $ spent on NASA adds $18 to the US economy. I'd bet the space shuttle kept the US afloat in more ways than one!

Re: When "off duty" and out & about with the Wife ...

@jake - 'to your knowledge' I think you will find if someone learns a language its amazing how the brain can pick it up amongst background noise. My uncle learned morse during WWII and was forever hearing bits of morsey things. You'll find being close to someone a low voice is far less likely to be intercepted as it is too similar to the general mele to be discriminated.

Re: Outsourcing cheaper

Cheaper? I think I've yet to hear of one that actually was cheaper.

Re: Sub orbital

Not quite - rubber is in a compacted powder form with a hole down the middle with and igniter and N2O is blown down the hole as the igniter is lit and then the rubber burns in the gas stream. You could replace the rubber with almost anything that will burn in N20 (which is used because it easy to liquify at room temp). I've seem a video of someone who made a hole in a frozen sausage and set that off. It seemed to work quite well but IIRC virgin sausages probably wouldnt smell that good.