Re: Change Management

>Nail - meet hammer head

Unfortunately it's more like "that's a thumb"

"Yes but we are required to hit something 99.99% of the time"

"But it's a thumb"

Well we could escalate a "not hit a thumb" request to the new 6levels of change management but in the meantime keep hitting the thumb - we don't want to trigger a failed to hit something incident.

Re: > trend towards pigeonholing folk

It's not just pigeonholing people but companies

Even when the job isn't outsourced there are so many different divisions/subsidiaries/competing business units/etc all of who are at each others throat then if some other dept asks you to do something that will destroy the company it's better for you to do it - and meet your SLA - than say no that's wrong.

It may even be a legal requirement to "your" shareholders to destroy the bank rather than fail to perform your contract tasks !

Re: So they didn't build a gun with a 3D printer at all

No the article is more important than that. It's not about making a gun at home - that's easily down out of metal.

It's that the government decided that this particular component is impossible to make (it's a complex shaped cast+machined part) so this is the component that they would serial number/track/register etc - this is the licence key to the gun. The poster has shown that this isn't a valid assumption with 3D printers.

Re: "You saying you don't think it's a bad word?...."

I think the bigger problem is making all the crews American and moving the dams to Iran

Re: No it wont...

Remembering that for leap years don't count.

So it's not being 18 years old - it's being the 18th calender anniversary of their birth that matures their brain.

Re: No it wont...

>It's common sense really.

Would you buy your 13ear old son a comic where people are killed because of their race?

No - Well that's all the war comics we had when I was growing up.

Re: Hubble

> they simply can't focus on something that close

The moon is still 250,000,000m away - that's not terribly close for something with a 57m focal length.

Your cell phone manages to focus on things 25km away doesn't it ?

Re: Hubble

>but we can't take a fu****ing picture of the damned thing

I believe there there is an English mission to make a brass rubbing of it

Re: According to the policy on their website

>they require a warrant

Or just a quiet word from somebody in a dark suit from a 3 letter agency.

After all we are all on the same side here, and it's a matter of national security - no need for all that paperwork.

Re: Simple solution

>* "Say Paradigm again - I dare you!"

Fscking genius!

Re: What do you mean

Yes it's always been like that.

The technical brief, "put one less rock on each layer until you come to a point" - became in management speak:

Bird with squiggly line, man walking sideways, man with dog head ....... and so on....

The cricket bar, an elegant weapon from a bygone age - not as clumsy or random as a shotgun

Re: Great, but...

"well bugger me!" - or would I get done for soliciting ?

Re: They fell for it?

I'm beginning to think the deer tick inspector who just visited and had me run around outside naked to dislodge - might not have been genuine !

Re: @LinkOfHyrule

> what is the US equivalent of "shall we have a nice cup of tea" or "shall i put the kettle on"

Shoot something ?

Re: Duh! @Jim Coleman

Windows8 will be installed on 95% of all new desktops sold in Walmart.

It isn't going to be on any corporate seats.

Or are are going to make a living from home desktop users (if there are any left) buying widgets ?

That must be were all those screen-saver billionaires came from.

Re: re: So you write an app now and it works on WP7.5 & WP8

I think there is a reasonable assumption that if you buy a $500 smartphone less than a year before a new version of the OS is out then the customer could reasonably expect an upgrade to be available.

If there aren't going to be any upgrades in the WinPhone world then people will wait for 8.1, or 8.2 or 8.5 or 9 .... or buy a competitor.

Re: Phew what a shocka

Most of the leaks about politicians (sorry deep background information for context) is from other politicians trying to do them in.

At least we can all be relieved that it was only a few journalists and one private detective.

No police officers or civil servants were handing information to the tabloids - so all of us, and our data, have always been well guarded by trusted public servants.

Re: @NumptyScrub

@politi - "stability" is diplomatic language for brutal dictatorship that is going to stay in power.

"Vital ally in the war on terror" is code for brutal military dictatorship that is more scared of Al Queda than he is of us.

Syria and Libya didn't suddenly surprisingly turn bad in 2012

Re: What could go wrong?

The only difference being that in this case - that would be a good thing

It's often been said that the only thing that stopped Britain becoming a fascist dictatorship is that we couldn't have organised it.

Re: Be multi-cultural and inclusive in your allegations...

So we are going to be left with just Norfolk?

At least they have been careful to preserve their genetic identity from any foreign invasion

(or from anyone outside the immediate family)

With only a change of sign that would work perfectly.

On the other hand the deportation of everyone inside the M25 would simultaneously solve the problems, of high unemployment, high house prices, Westminster, phone hacking tabloids and the Olympics

Re: Money doesn't matter.

The arguement is that current BBC is crap precisely because it is entirely done by independents.

Instead of people who have been in the business for years able to match a screenwriter from coronation street with the director of Reggie Perrin and the camera crew from Life on Earth. You get a small company that needs to make a product fast, that needs to maximise returns so must have a global market and it must be fashionable enough that it will get good media coverage now - because all you have to care about is the current quarter, because thats all the funding you have. And their purpose in producing the drama is to be noticed so they can get a job in movies.

Re: Is this really what matters?

It's the surface are for weight/volume. This stuff is so porous it has an vast surface area for the electrical reaction to take place on - and it's conductive so you can get the electric out

It wouldn't matter if it was 10x heavier, but the same area of copper plates would be enormously heavy

Re: (Not a) Daft question

>The FSM gave us Sugru and hot glue guns for a reason.

At least these days you don't need the milk carton to stop it overheating.

Now what I really want is a combined CPU cooler / coffee pot warmer.

Re: Daft question

intel don't seem to have done too badly selling you a bit of silicon that's useless without a motherboard, ram, PSU, keyboard cuddly toy drinks trolley......

Re: Gah

Especially because the Microsoft Lync app is simple, works great and is everything Skype used to be before they improved it.

On the other hand if this means that they will keep dancing kitten icons and facebook buttons out of Lync I'm all for it.

LLNL's Titan laser did PetaWatt back in the 90s but it's pulses are much shorted and so carry much less energy. Power is energy/time so if you make time small enough you can make the power very very high

Re: All in one go

From a child hood spent studying the literature and cinematic output on this topic - it's obvious that any German submarine technology can be countered by an officer that looks like the captain out of TinTin and a couple of chirpy cockneys that unaccountably speak like an upper class dick van Dyke.

Re: Only the Foveon concept isn't particularly good

Not from a purely RGB data you can't

Imagine an object on the reddish end of green.

In a bayer chip the filters overlap, just like your eye's response, so it will record say 80%in green and 20% in red.

In the foveon (or a 3chipper) it will show up in the green data only - you could add some of this signal to the red, but you don't know if this object was blue-green, pure green or red-green so you don't know what percentage to add to simulate the leak.

Re: NVIDIA, Again

Or perhaps just any developer using the site.

Download anything, need a devzone sign up, which needs them to 'approve' your use.

Then download CUDA and that's a different cuda-zone signup, some feature needs the unreleased beta of NSight so you need to sign up for the parralels preview zone site

All these sites look identical - NVidia only have one web designer - but they all have separate logins AND the security rules (one uppercase, three klingon chars) are all different.

Re: An important point missed

Somebody in the US govt had a quiet word with VISA etc and had them drop wikileaks.

Next greenpeace is objecting to some oil pipeline, better have them block greenpeace donations - the country needs that oil, and the ACLU is always causing trouble.

Ultimately "that democrat party isn't in the nations best interest" - so you end up with the next govt being decided by who Visa is supporting.

Re: Here's a clue

And the country in question decides if those terms are reasonable. Especially if the companies are effectively a monopoly, that's why we have a monopolies commision.

Suppose for instance that Easjet, BA and Stena ferries decided, completely on business grounds, that they weren't going to carry any catholics from NI to GB - perfectly reasonable?

Re: Ridiculous

I suspect it's becuase this is a separate system aquired when they bought the company, and the only way to connect between them is to have Yahoo's server login to this server with your username/passwd.

Not an excuse but possibly an explanantion

Re: Playing to the crowd

Tomorrow he is going to be at the association of washing machine manufacturers telling them how kids should be taking apart washing machines in school to see how they work.

Politicians are quantum - they only exist when they are being observed by the media