Posts by Measurer

In space, no-one can hear you giggle uncontrollably and fall down (or in my case on whisky, get a bit punchy)...

Phrase envy!

Most of us can only dream of being able to say, in all seriousness, in a room full of our peers, and I'm sure while staring into the middle distance whilst assuming a hands on hip stance....

"That paradigm has been overthrown."

Who said boffins can't do drama

AWESOME!

CAD Portability

AT a previous employer, the CAD engineers were upgrading to hefty (Dell I think) certified laptops back in 2006 ish. The ability to actually model on the fly (as opposed to just review lightweight cad models) when at a customers / suppliers site, or when on the shop floor and engineers are looking at how prototype assemblies are going together is a massive benefit to any company.

You don't need the internet to do truly effective 'collaborative' development, if you have the tools at your fingertips and are prepared to travel and sit down with stakeholders to get the job done effectively.

....and in other news

Quis custodiet ipsos custodies

Self perpetuating industry

Yawn...

I'd be happy...

If they could get the desktop app. to shut down elegantly when you shutdown windows (7 that is).

Lets hope that none of Clyde's ashes find their way into the dust analyser by accident, eh....

Hazard!

Although clearly tuned to different frequencies, I wouldn't want my wireless charging phone to be in the vicinity of my induction hob when hob turned to 11, as some current will be induced in the receiver coil of the phone etc. (depending on Q value of tuned circuits etc.).

Itanium hardware emulation version?

'So what's getting in the way of landing the stars and stripes on another planet? It's the economy, stupid.'

No, as Elon Musk is proving, its the leaches who see the NASA budget as a gravy train.

I'm really Losing my Religion over this one! Where's Henry Rollins when you want some heads banging together (to Mike Watt playing a funky baseline in the background).

RIP D. Boon

F1.....!!!!

Judging by the lap times and reliability from Jerez, the best way to watch F1 from now on (Jonathon 29 etc.), regardless of how you get it, is at 2 x SPEEDED UP! Seriously, are SKY etc. going to be able to charge so much for 'The Pinnacle of Motorsport', once people realise that half a dozen other racing series are now just as fast and probably more entertaining?

I did this...

With industrial control system Eurocard PCB's (motor drives, motion controllers, I/O etc.) back in the 90's, had a nice floating backplane too, so the first pcb which went in lined up all the DIN41612 connectors on the backplane pcb to the card guides on the 19" rack. Was sweeet...

An OS function?

Is it getting to the point where a request to enable AV input devices (microphones, cameras, fingerprint readers etc.) by any application should be caught by the OS, and a confirm dialog be presented to the user followed by a system tray icon or more obvious visual indication that things are being recorded?

Guantanamooooww.......!!!

Here he comes

Amateurs!

When I listen to stereo music, I bolt myself in to a seismically isolated frame with head clamp and automatic ear canal aperture amplitude calibration (or AECAAC! for short). One Direction sounds FANTASTIC!

Jason Leonard would laugh in the face of James Bond's petty drinking efforts!