Posts by Silverburn
1562 posts • joined Tuesday 24th May 2011 18:59 GMT
Aaaah, that's better...
...an MS article, and EADON is out in force.
His posts are like popcorn for the soul.
Re: Eadon's theory of Techie "Waves" - TWO types
And yet I am right.
...just like Robert Metcalfe (3COM) was.
Re: Eadon's theory of Techie "Waves" - TWO types
At least he managed to avoid slating Microsoft and using FAIL in the last sentence. Maybe he'll be able to graduate to secondary school in September afterall...
Re: Oh S*&t! - point of order
What would have been better is that all the robots are kept in sync over TCP/IP, which meant that all would be in tune, but none of them were actually in time.
Use a BT homehub, and frankly some of them will be on a different verse of the song, the network would be so crap.
It's telling that I don't know who you're referring to - Google or the politicians.
Re: So who will be flying these drones?
Not sure why you were downvoted...piloting skills will still be required to fly these. You won't be recruiting from my local RC club, put it that way (who's vehicles lifespans are usually measured in seconds).
Maybe not in the same way as conventional piloting, but skilled all the same. Less balls and "into the danger zone" shit, more brains I like to think. Especially to overcome the lack of "situational awareness" inherent in remotely controlled craft.
Re: Swiss shouted at for hiding stolen gold.
You can shout all you like, but if you were sitting on a gigantic pile of gold (ill gained or otherwise), would you listen to someone complaining about it...?
No...they're (most western governments) only targetting the "Tax havens" now, because post 2008, everyone now realises how skint they are, and persuing the "tax dodgers" is popular.
The actual revenue they'll get back won't really make much difference in the grand scheme of things, but hey ho, "saved pennies make pounds", and it's popular...
Re: it's not only companies
He is legally evading paying his fair due of taxes...
No he's not. He's "legally avoiding paying more tax than he needs to". Everyone does this. Even you. It is your moral obligation to your family to pay only as much tax as you have to pay, to help provide more money to your family.
Rich or poor, only paying the amount of tax you are due is what everyone does. It just so happens, the rich have more efficient means of doing so. You buy a "to go" drink from Macdonalds, and drink it outside, saving the VAT. They channel large sums through offshore accounts, or pay themselves $1 salaries, and the rest in shares, saving hundreds of thousands by paying a different tax rate based on how that "income" is declared. It's all the same...just at different ends of a perfectly legal scale.
So enough with the hypocracy.
Re: Can anyone with experience comment on compatibility
My experience is that there are multiple compatibility issues between Office 2013 and Office 365. Can anyone else with experience comment on compatibility please.
I think you meant:
My experience is that there are multiple compatibility issues between Office X and Office Y. Can anyone else with experience comment on compatibility please.
Replace X and Y with any versions you want.
Re: it's not only companies
Evasion != avoidance.
One is illlegal, the other is either financial efficiency or immorality, depending on your point of view.
Re: Yes yes yes, but
...and my holographic-without-back-glass-and-yet-still-haptic computer interface that holywood keeps promising me?
Pic on page 2...
...Now that's an unhappy looking fish.
Re: They have created a reason for a Linux virus
Does it involve guess the password in 3 attempts while some sinister action music plays in the background?
Price
Personally, whether it's up front "buy" or ongoing "lease", I don't care. Suits me fine either way.
It's the massive, wallet-gouging prices Adobe charges in the first place I refuse to pay. One off or on a subscriber basis...a shit load of money is still a shit load of money.
Re: Hole, money, pour
4D routes?
That's funny...because when I program a route into the GPS, I always arrive within a minute of the ETA. And I alway keep left on our UK motorways. It's recommended in my Audi user manual I'm sure, if I ever chose to read it.
<-- observe before pressing red button.
The Popping sound..
...is Eadon's head exploding with rage at all the positive points going to MS.
Posted in China: Online predator or hapless host?
Re: Oh yes?
Hacking state systems only really benefits the ones who are "behind" in any specific criteria.
Once China has Stealth tech, nanotech, pharmatech, biotech, insertothertech that is superior to "ours", then there will be strategic advantage for us to hack them.
Until then, it will be surface surveillance only and a generous helping of plausible deniability.
There's no mention of or link to MS, so he's probably not bothered.
However, it's never stopped him before...
Dilema...
...eat 200,000 MacDonalds Cheese burgers and die from a heart attack caused by cholesterol poisoning, or eat one £200,000 burger and die from a heart attack caused by imminent bankruptcy.
Decisions, decisions....
I guess it comes down to whether you get fries and "diet" coke with the lab-burger.
Critical "mass"
I'm a firm believer that one low-power rx/tx device (which all phones/tablets are) is not going to crash a plane.
However...would 10? 100? 500?
500 devices (not unrealistic) all pumping out 0.5w each = 250watts. That's a lot of RF noise, even if it is limited to a particular band.
On the upside, general RF noise from the electronic components will be tiny, especially by the time it reaches the flight electronics and sensors.
Re: @RogerThat - Sweet Jesus, dude...
That's the responsible thing to do! You won't have to spend days setting everything up again, will you?
Lets gloss over that bloated pile of turd that is itunes for the moment...and recall that it does actually allow you to restore the last backup of your old phone (usually made automatically when you plug in the phone) to your new phone. Time to setup new phone...30 minutes tops, and most of the work is done for you. Use icloud for various settings, and it's even simplier. You're hardly going to be spending "days" getting everything back to just the way you want.
Whether you like iOS or not, the restore-old-to-new process is actually quite painless.
Re: As always, the victim would need to fail the Java user IQ test
Java's assumption that a security dialogue is the resolution for their shortcomings in security is, well... meh.
+1. Breaking out the sandbox via API - biggest fail of Oracle, regardless of what muppetry the user tries to inflict apon themselves.
Re: As always, the victim would need to fail the Java user IQ test
Java user IQ test?
Does it involve the response to only one question: "Double click to install Oracle JRE - YES/NO"?
I dunno...there's a bit of substance to it this time though.
- No new compelling products
- Misread the market; witness success of Samsung vs iphone 5
- Massive recalls for iphone
- Cook isn't Jobs
10bn is still a fair whack of wedge, but an 18% slide is still 18%...
Re: Uh-Oh
Siri says where....Go there at night
FAIL...Siri would direct you to Maps...whereapon you chances of finding said location approaches the same odds as being struck by lightning. Fifteen times. While working in a coal mine.
Posted in Ants have careers; you don't want them
Bugger me, all of these sound like a considerable promotion. Where do I send my CV?
Re: iBeetle?
Given the fashionista nature of the prospective buyers, they won't have one of these longer than 3 years, so they won't care.
Recalls
Given Apple's penchant for offloading blame for defects (and the resulting $bn's of cost) on it's suppliers, VW better watch out.
Not to worry - it's a VW, so the driver will at least be familiar with the recall process and has probably memorised the trip to the dealers already - probably for the oil consumption.
$1.6bn of rejects...ooooh.
Regardless of the reasons/blame, that's gonna sting a bit. Looks like the rumours of hard-to-manufacture was true afterall.
Maybe Sir Ives would like to consider manufacturability over obsession with "eyecandy-ness" for ver 6...? 1mm of thinness and micron-levels of fit and finish is worth jack shit if you can't reliably manufacture the damned thing.
From what I read, full control needs local access and thus out of scope, whereas hacking the autopilot only needs piggybacking of ACARS. Given how prevant autopilot is used in flight these days, it's not insignicant.
Only snag with this, was - as I understood it - it could be ground-based as well, since the link has two end points.
So banning of all electronic devices within a 5 miles radius of the airport is the sort of proposterous outcome I would expect.
Re: Missing Windows 8 User
Re: Eadon...
..does anyone else get a flashback to Star Wars - TESB - and the light saber scene on cloud city?
Eadon has just had his hand chopped off, and Bill gates issues forth in a sinister voice...
"Eadon...*I* am your father..."
Re: ObJoke
I'm surprised nobody has mention politicians yet. Is that because Baboon levels of intelligence are too high to form a valid comparison...?
Re: The US Navy has a better idea...
...further development of the Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor...
I knew Futurama would come into this somewhere. No mentions of the Farnsworth paradox yet tho'...
Smooth ride?
Obvious question - won't the constant on/off shunting of thrust every minute give you a splitting headache or make you seasick?
Even smaller charges but at subsecond internals (1500-2000 per minute, say) will surely provide a better ride for the occupants and any sensitive equipment onboard, while providing the same rate of acceleration.
Naturally, I'm completely ignoring the practicalities of getting this to work...
So much FUD here..
1. Drones != RC quadcopter or even UAV. Drones are unmanned military platforms. RC quads and UAV's are not - the human is in control. Even with APM doing waypoints, the human is still in the loop - just like cruise control or autoparking in your car still requires you to be the driver. Please stop calling them "drones".
2. Privacy. We do not need new privacy laws for RC quads etc, simply because they have a camera attached. Sticking a gopro on a broomhandle and filming your neighbour doing strange things with furniture and vasaline in his bedroom is already illegal in most countries. Attaching it to a RC quad does not make anymore more illegal.
3. Using a UAV or RC quad for commerical use is fine, but adding a camera does not make it so. RC quads used for agriculture, mapping, IR body heat detection (in collapsed buildings) etc, are all commercial and must be licenced, and you must be qualified to operate, and do all the paperwork. Whether it carries a camera or not is academical.
4. The farmer has a point - this RC was trespassing. End of. No point bleating about it. But lets not drag this into a debate about "drones", because that's a dark path. Both are at fault here, but unfortunately, the RC operator is the one who could be prosecuted - the video evidence was obtained "illegally" so the farmer is in the clear legally (though not morally). Just because it was obtained using a quad is irrelevant.
Re: Fingers crossed...
But the norks must know that targetting Seoul does notthing to really dent SK's military potential.
Yes, wiping out the capital city might be a good fear factor / propoganda trick, but unless you first hit the military airfields, fuel depots, ammo dumps, mobility stores, command structure and the troop barracks, your advantage will not last long.
Well duh
oooh look, a construction job that overruns on cost.
Pope is catholic, bear in woods, etc etc.
If you want to gouge customers and watch them beg for more, forget Apple...get into construction.
If naming convention applies, a "iSpaceship Mini" or "Nano", shurely?
Pints!
Re: richard.cartledge@snc.ac.uk
I just use my own handwriting. It's a form of encryption all by itself, unreadable by anyone but me. And even then, after apply my strongest cypher (ie 6 pints), even I struggle to read it the next day.
Beer! Friday!
Monkey poo probe reveals secrets of middle-management brains
There is so much you can read into that catchline...
Re: What this study mainly proves..
Does it matter?
Posted in Review: Renault Zoe electric car
Re: Renault and electronics...
I concur...damn, it's a nice looking wee motor...
But you know you can't. Because it's a renault.
Re: It's all in the eyes
I dunno. I think Ira works for HMRC. As an Auditor. Which would explain *everything*.
Carrot Top
I clicked, and now I need the Mind bleach please.
Re: What is this article supposed to be?
Is it supposed to be funny? Is it being 'irreverent'? It's a load of old bollocks, for sure.
It is. It was. It's not.
Cheer up and have one on me.
Half-life wife
I might have to get back into Half-life - at least it retains the "wife" title arrangement.
Switch to black ops, and "wife" becomes "soon-to-be-divorcee". The additional costs this title change entails is not mentioned in any of Activisions T&C's, and users should be made aware. Maybe if they introduced it as an ingame purchase...
Re: Maybe GoPro should
Or rig your own.
It's not pretty, but GoPro runtimes = massive. Use one of these: http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__20689__Turnigy_nano_tech_2200mah_4S_35_70C_Lipo_Pack_USA_Warehouse_.html
And one of these:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__24405__Hobbyking_Lipo_to_USB_Charging_Adapter.html
Plug in the USB as normal, and bingo.
