Re: FUD
Okay, stop it now.
It's turning into a Two Ronnies sketch.
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"Learning Latin teaches you Latin. that's it."
Learning Latin instills linguistic reasoning, induction and deduction. It teaches the phonetic, grammatical and syntactical building blocks of five other majority languages spoken worldwide. It develops ones ability to communicate and understand by using language.
Some of those for whom it seems important believe that everyone should be made to learn it.
However, it is not everybody's forte.
It should be available to learn, but not compulsory.
Thanks for the working link.
My opinion is that the study has some flawed assumptions.
1) People will exclusively use EITHER physical media, OR streamed media.
2) Physical media will only be watched once.
3) Physical media devices use more energy than streaming ones.
Generally, none of these assumptions will be true.
And also the study is incomplete for not including the retained downloaded electronic media model.
Also those kind of figures are like a fart in a hurricane compared with food production energy usage.
The mileage will depend upon the wind direction since that maximum 45mph is air speed.
You're absolutely right though. For that kind of money I could get an ultralight, a Hayabusa and a Landrover with plenty of change left over for various types of mind-altering chemicals if I ever got bored the previous three things.
I thought they chose the New Mexico desert in the misguided hope that nuclear weapon testing would vaporise their stockpile of toxic waste. Unfortunately they were ill-informed about the chosen test sites subsequent to completion of the Manhattan project. So now the offending articles are being exhumed and shipped to North Korea with the promise of molecular-level annihilation some time soon.
I wondered about this.
If they're going for a geosynchronous SV, just have the one with a footprint pointing at Japan. Ahh, but then it's not at the zenith from Japan and you don't get cen-ti-meee-terr accuracy, (cos that's soooo important for your average user). I would hazard a guess that they'd need to use inclined elliptical orbits so the SV is wafting North and South of the equator on a daily basis, hence the need for 4 of them each with the inclination axis offset by 90° longitude to ensure there is an aggregated link overhead all the time. That's why they call it "Quasi-Zenith" I suppose.
Zero / minimal phase >distortion< perhaps? That'd be a Finite Impulse Response filter then...
Oh, but they don't want to be using such a negative word as "distortion" in marketing bumf.
Maybe try "maximum phase fidelity" instead of just avoiding the "D" word + sack their marketing dept + pay me a F.O. huge commission. (yeah, right).
Nothing to see here I'd venture, however a definite whiff of snake oil / BS. Oh, the smell of it.
Here's interesting though.
Found this from the annals of the Salzburg Konservatorium, circa 1800
Regard: the new UberKlingen.
Guarranteed to be nicer than your current StuckSheize in a manner that is not clearly defined or objectively measurable in any way.
Endorsed by Ludwig Van-Beethoven.
Only 5x the price of equivalent apparatus not carrying said endorsement.
It has been mentioned, but I'll always remember him as the unhinged cafe owner in this Comic Strip classic.
Keep calm, Marie.
That's an awfully big bus. There could be six people in there.
Jesus! If they only buy coffee, it'll be enough to pay the ground rent.
Condolences.
Legislate that it is prohibited for anyone under the age of 25 to learn about computers or to write and implement computational algorithms.
Suddenly, the topic acquires a mysitque and subversive caché.
Teenagers throughout the land will be clamouring to learn and understand the forbidden knowledge.
It can't be worse than the current, ham-handed deployment of besuited politicos endeavouring to be "down wiv da kids" which is naff at best and seems to be quite counterproductive from what I have heard. Buuut, maybe that is their ultimate intention.
My nearest Amazon "fulfilment centre" (sounds more like a fancy name for a brothel if you asked me, but anyway...) is Swansea, a full 80 miles away as the multi-rotor-crow flies, assuming it can make it over the Brecons. Even if the pick, pack and pre-flight process is >instant<, that thing will still have to pull an average 160mph to get my Chinese-crapola to me in 30 minutes. I would not want to get in its way.
Every generation has their crop of these. I have very little time for them. Many a true word spoken in jest (vid circa 2:03) He is in the employ of the ruling elite, massaging away potential revolutionary ideas. The buffoon is made the most earnest face and voice of ideas which have gained traction recently amonst disenfranchised erstwhile capitalists, thereby eroding the credibility of such ideas for the wider populace. A most elegantly deployed weapon, (if in a somewhat inelegant guise this time round).
Are we going to get a re-telling of this same story every year now?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/28/janken_robot/
Could have saved a bit of server space by just posting a link to the article published last year.
Thought there would have been new information.
Turns out there wasn't.
Symmetricom just came back with a quote for their CSAC:
$2000 each, (MOQ of 10).
A rough calculation for the remaining parts:
machining that fugly f'ckin case: $500
That fugly f'ckin dial and hands: $100
Clock mechanics: $10
The electronics to mount CSAC and interface its 1PPS to mechanics: $10
Total BOM cost: $2620.
Down the pub with the remaining $10,000 then?
Woo-hoo, party on!
I expect they're using Symmetricom's heart-of-gold for this fugly timepiece:
http://www.symmetricom.com/products/frequency-references/chip-scale-atomic-clock-csac/SA.45s-CSAC/
module size approx 40.5x35x12mm
No mention of battery life for this chronometer.
All very well to have a watch that keeps time to +/- 1 second every thousand years, but if it only runs for 15 minutes at a time...
In a syllable: MEH.
Spectacular piece of trollery there, old chap.
Hats off to you, indeed.
Not that I wish to encourage such stuff, but some people really should learn to
NOT FEED THE TROLL!
I'd venture there's enough troll food here to sustain your average Ringlefinch for about a year.
I'm with you on this one dajames.
Ubiquitous electronics, such as mobile phones have become, should be like wristwatches insofar as you shouldn't have to worry about them if you get caught out in a downpour without a brolly. They should be as impervious to the elements as the human body. A quick towelling off and happy happy once more, not like my poor old 3110 which caught a fatal cold and died a week later. I have been more careful with my mobes since.
The following documentary is FACT.
There is absolutely no evidence to support it but it is a fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GyRz_lOQA
So based on the scientific study thereby conducted, if you so much as clap eyes on a farm in the UK, you >will< die one of the horrible, grizzly deaths detailed therin.
My scienceings are now concluded.
Give me my PhD immediately.
"Delve special". Series 2, episode 1: A rocket for defence.
or for the more visual amongst you
"This is David Lander". Series 1, episode 5: The rocketing cost of defence.
Both as true today as they ever were. Truer, even.
Trouble with parody these days is that it's difficult make fiction more absurd than the reality it is mocking.
Those least assured of their own convictions are the harshest critics of others'.
Besides which, Haram implies volition. Unwillingly ingesting that which is not Halal, is not itself Haram.
Forcing someone to do so is though.
So the perpetrator of forced or unwilling ingestion will of course, burn in the eternal fire of perdition but since the fine folks intent on deploying these meaty munitions are already infidels there is little or no change to their supposed fate.
I keep coming back to this:
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, 1759, (or about tea-time).
A gentleman who, by today's standards would almost certainly be categorised as a terrorist.
Flying a kite in a thunderstorm? Why sir, that is madness!
Beer, because of the alcohol reference:
"Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy"
Benjamin Franklin, 1779.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
But now the government has been unmasked as the biggest hobgoblin of all.
Whatever are we to do?!
<headless chicken dance... ooh, ooh, Mister Peevly >