Posts by phoenix

Cars

"it would be terribly unwise to allow average members of the public to operate powerful machines carrying a frightful amount of kinetic and potential energy" . I agree there are a lot of car drivers let alone pilots that fall into this category maybe they should be driving

@video of one flying

Which may have been so much more constructive if the tank hadn't have been so small. If you were to repeat this on Earth it would be similar as the insect hasn't enough room to gain proper flight. And this is what passes as science these days?

Nope

So we need to tack on the cost of bunding to protect the environment from spillage - bloody great oiltight wall around the servers. What is the flashpoint of this oil if the coolers pack up and it starts to boil?

Could use dimineralised water (should carry a current) then you would only get wet feet with spilage. Dammed CFCs letting us down.

I would laugh

at his if it made any difference. This world is so arse about face it is hard to image it could get much worse.

Slim anyone

They must have preordered from Sony ahead of the Slim's launch. I managed to get one too (not being a gamer and having one all ready) after I found out Sony were pulling the OS ability. The change of heart is not good for the science / education community which make large use of these boxes to learn about super parallelism.

@By Muscleguy

But gatorade is full of other crap like vitamins, minerals and marketing hype. Will these be an issue as opposed to real nectar?

Time for 3 dimensions

to increase storage by a massive factor. How to get there is another problem some kind of crystalline structure that is laser read and written to. Should be good for severel petabytes.

The Red Rectangles

Just a guess but they appear in the space in and beyond the yellow (stand well back line). They will be warnings to show that there is an object (human brick etc) in proximity to the train and liable to be a threat. Clearly the system isn't great as the driver is unaware until the bystander convinces him to leave the cab and the train did not halt in the tube or apparoach at caution.

IT issues - Bootnote

Sorry I have to make the observation that has been done many times before. This is in the BOOTNOTE section of the site. No IT angle needed it is light haerted refreshment from the smell of hot silcon.

@AC 03:43

Nope we don't like that much either over here. Protectionism we leave to the US. Look at all the DoJ rullings that went MS's way.

MS

I understand the issues surrounding not supporting 2007 on 2008R2 but it has made a lot of people stop and think twice about how to go foward from here. I am fairly neutral on this as I am only a small scale user of Exchange but for bigger players I can how this is a big headache.

I think there is a good arguement here to switch away from MS and chose GNU/Linux / Unix option for less bells and whistles type users, who just want their mail to go to and from with a choice of clients, MTAs, MDAs to modify if they wish. MS have a habit of overcomplicating certain aspects of their products and also leaving out some very useful features that other free systems have in them.

@By Jonathan White

I humbly apologise. That is the bane of e-mail and other text based communication that wording can confer the wrong intention. I misread your comment of 13:14 as harsh off handing remark it obviuosly wasn't meant to be as you have come back to me. I guess it is Monday and my brain isn't working too well getting jailbreak mixed up with BSD jails and that got me to start all this mess in the first place. I merely mention Apple in the fact that they have done some much work in darwin modifying the orginal BSD code. I think I will go and lie down now as my head hurts. Au revoir

Be afraid. Be very afraid

or horrified , sick , to your pick. Might burn well

@By Greg J Preece

No with those security star bolts it's a HP / Compaq / EDS, whatever they have become now.

Our old Sco boxes (many moons ago) used to live in coal depots and they almost looked like they ran on coal when you opened then up (no pictures though). I guess the added carbon actually lubricated the moving part s though.

Ultra-violet

"I'd like to point out there are many different ways for non-Earth-like life to not use light or chemical energy but use some other form like radiation energy, wave energy, or ultraviolet energy," said Baross.

Clearly Baross is unfamilier with the photosysnthesis reaction in plants which actually uses the UV part of the light spectrum.

@By alyn "According to the "god squad" humanity is only 6000 years old. And we're all guilty of in-breeding as Adam and Eve are our ancestors"

and according to genetic research across the species human there is very little genetic diversity amongst us - sounds like in-breeding to me. I not making a point just balancing the scales.

Of course being contraversial we used to think the world was flat. So maybe in a couple of hundred years we will look back at current evolutionary thinking and go "how silly of learned people to think it came about in that manner".

and there was me

moaning only today about having to pay a line rental on a landline instead of having it billed into the call charges I guess I haven't lived.

@Sir Sham

Thanks for the advice, however scathingly it was given. Arrogance comes from those who percieve not their own short-comings. As it was I read the article and I still don't see where the energy came from to create the singularity but maybe I am a dumb ass who missunderstands such things having only read 10 pages of Hawkin's book.

As for school and university hmmm they tend to close minds a great deal of the best business people gave that a miss. Also I disagree having spoken to and see in TV sceintists who dismiss people even when they have read up on a subject as they have not the paper to back it up be it a bachelors, masters or phD.

We agree to disagree afterall it would be a boring, unexplored, misunderstood world if we all thought the same would it not?

Why wasn't the 35mm film camera on the list?

I know that is sort of two inventions the film and the camera. But I would argue photography by this method is the most important as it has informed public opion, caught heart stopping moments (JFK, Twin Towers), brought the horrors of war and the acts that insue (WWII, Vietnam, Gulf) has allowed people top see things they would not nomally (were is X-ray without film). It is accessble to many (who can afford it). Film with the 35mm camera way more life changing and important to more poeple than any on the list.

Yes and No

One machine upgraded flawlessly the other two one a laptop, the other 2 year old hardware snapped. I am not too hurt by this as we had some cracking OSX borks on upgrading. Generally it is better to go from a clean install I think as less chaff gets brought foward froim the earlier incarnation. As AC05:41 kernel is 2.6.31-14 so maybe the author's machine has borked. Happy days.

@charles9

You must be American with you love of garmin over here in Euroland we back a company that has done that for a while now. The sound of drums.

Damn there goes secret gaming at work

The pointed haired bosses will love this. Whichever way round the screen is there is no hiding the fact you are smacking some zombies up instead of unbreaking some carp code

@connor

That would would Charles de Galle, "I'm right behind you France" as he sat sipping a fine cognac in deepest London. Wasn't recently a Frenchie, may have been old shorty himself that said of the D-day remembrance that it was for the French and Americans. Convienently forgetting the British, Polish, Canadians et al. who were also there. Bloody republicans all the same eventhough the French claim to detest the Yanks. Weird world.

Heh

and you thought having a monarchical autocratic on the throne was bad. Cromwell we need you now.

@AC 12:29

Agree in part though most people outside of metropolitan ares cannot reasonably live without a car. So the extra factors of finance, tax and the like are not factored into the equation. Weirdly it is cheaper often to fly to say Edinburgh and surely the airline is not a charity and their operating costs must be in excess of say train operator.

There is no strategic planning in this country that is the major fault. Some county builds an extra two lanes onto a major link road that crosses two or three other counties and their expansion is non existent or lost in years of planning tape.

The other big problem especially where lifestyle, health and the environment are concerned. is current economic theory and practice vastly undervalue these assests so the true cost of any planning adventure is never born out in the misery, loss of irriplacable habit and general fealing with all be had.

@Captain TickTock

The sentance is a bit missleading. The ships mentioned are amphibious vehicle cariers that have a rear opening wet hull area to deploy the landing craft. Anyone know otherwise please correct me.

@Jim59

Halarious as we happily leave videos and tv s on without a thought. Weirdly in Germany I have never seen a smoke alarm in the domestic setting - maybe we are just crap in this country.

Flood more like!! I bet more homes have been burgled and flooded than burn't and yet we don't live in water-tight bankvaults.

Windows Port Anyone

That 's is what we need to port windows over to the BSD kernel. I might work then.

@magnetik

Agreed but I would like to clarify why:

I have tried a Mac - good machines. But need to compare like with like. Taking the power mac( Intel) for instance one motherboard one processer type one type of RAM and now at least, in theory, options on graphics cards. With such limited hardware options, at least internally, how can they not be stable.

The Open architecture of the IBM clone (no not PC both Apple kit and none Apple kit that is of a certain size =PC personal Computer) leads itself to a level of instability due to too many compinations of hardware mix, that and poorly written drivers, leads to most of the instability in windows, plus lousey installers that fail to remove their crap from the registory after unistallation. I could go on.

I don't have a preference for either windows, GNULInux or mac OSX on the desktop. They all have their good and bad points but so do other tools and too many times a poor worker blames his tools rather than accepting he cannot work with them.