Posts by Steve I
257 posts • joined Tuesday 29th May 2012 13:08 GMT
Re: ICL VME
"emulation tucked away in the corner of a SLES box".
Probably even a SNES would be enough.
Re: there are alternatives
"Wouldn't it be easier to make a hard/software PDP-11 emulator that was power plug and I/O plug compatible with the PDP-11? It would be a lot smaller for a start."
Brilliant idea. There must be a good use for the space saved, and if it wasn't 100% compatible, why - what's the worst that could happen?
Re: It just costs money
"the same reason why the computers and processors on deep space probes are frigging ancient by today's standards."
and they are difficult to get to for an upgrade...
Jeez - some of these "flaws". It's like complaining that the avalanche alarm for your ski kit doesn't work on the beach in the Carribbean...
Re: Only a few minor issues to work through
"Only a few minor issues to work through"
Damm - you're right! So many insurmountable problems, all of which happen to almost every car several times a day and would make the system unworkable. Why, to get around these you'd have to:
1. Do nothing .- how often does any car get exported?
2. Why would anyone clone the eCall system and how would that affect *your* eCall system phoning in your GPS location with an accident report?
3. No GPS signal? WTF are you - In a tunnel? Use last known position.
4. You've just had an accident - you had battery power a few seconds ago.
5. Not sure why which side of the road you drive on is relevant, but see 1.
Re: Define "crash"
"I will be out of the car beating the shit out of the prat who drove into me whilst talking on his phone.
On second thoughts, perhaps he'll be needing the ambulance."
I assume from your attitude that these injuries will end up being self-inflicted?
Re: Cause and effect?
A friend of mine never understood the difference between 'causation' and 'correlation' until I lent him a book on statistics. Now he does and thinks the book is the cause, but I'm not certain...
Re: Actually ...
"...we tend to shun the video game set". Funny that - I tend to shun the "we actually fire real-life bullets" set, who think it's something special. (yes, yes . range firing etc - done all that. Just would never say "I actually fire real.life bullets").
Posted in Google inflates BigQuery AaaS
Where's the girl?
I clicked on her picture - that's the only reason I'm here.
Re: Well....
But if you don't need huge amount of external storage & silly amounts of CPU, perhaps a high-end iMac is more suitable?
Re: Well....
"As someone who does still need FireWire (for my film scanner) and a LOT of storage" - $30 for the TB<->FW adapter and a pro external RAID array?
Re: Mindbending
"no reception area" - reception for what? You mean someone where the wi-fi's being jammed? You DO know how AirDrop works, right?
Corporation tax seems silly.
After all, the money a company makes eventually gets distributed, either into dividends or salaries of the employees or by purchasing components etc. Each time it gets distributed, it get taxed.
What the governments want is for money to be taxed at every conceivable point - when a person ears it, when they spend it, (crafty one this, as tax ends up being paid twice in the same transaction - sales tax on the price of the item and corporation tax on the profit the company make by selling the item), and back to the beginning when the company pays their employee.
I prefer to think that he has...
...sublimed.
Re: EVOLUTION of IT
"Every time I think there are no children on this forum, stamping their baby feet, pouting and throwing their toys out of the pram..."
When's that, then?
Corporation tax seems silly.
After all, the money a company makes eventually gets distributed, either into dividends or salaries of the employees or by purchasing components etc. Each time it gets distributed, it get taxed.
What the governments want is for money to be taxed at every conceivable point - when a person ears it, when they spend it, (crafty one this, as tax ends up being paid twice in the same transaction - sales tax on the price of the item and corporation tax on the profit the company make by selling the item), and back to the beginning when the company pays their employee.
Rocket Science...
Rocket Science is easy (put fuel in a tube closed at one end and set light to it), but Rocket Technology is hard...
Re: A question for rocket scientists on El Reg...
"Because making rockets is hard to do in any age, We understand the physics, but making the many components all work together properly so the rocket flies is hard."
This is why Rocket Science is easy (put fuel in a tube closed at one end and set light to it), but Rocket Technology is hard...
Where the hell is....
...the picture of the girl in the pool? that's the only reason I'm here.
If I invented a real cold fusion machine ...
...anyone who didn't believe me could just take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I'd be busy flogging it to the energy companies for more money than I would know what to do with.
I didn't know there was a debate...
...I've always pronounced it 'jif'.
A pain, but just go and DL the film from somewhere. You've already paid to see it so where you get it from is irrelevant.
Re: People who want to store this much want faster drives
Yes - your HD video stream will really struggle when the transfer rate is a mere 990Mbs....
Seems bizzarre...
"You have $100bn which is non-taxable. Do something with it so we can take $35Bn off you".
Next they'll be demanding that anyone with savings goes out and spends them, so that the US government can benefit from the sales tax, whilst implying that not doing so is unpatriotic.
Ummm,
this is an article about Apple yet there are not enough downvotes. Was the link from the front pages actually phished and this is not El Reg after all?
What was the question?
It'd be interesting to see which one of these the question actually asked was:
1. Do you mind being tracked
2. Would you agree to be tracked for a small insurance premium saving
3. Would you agree to be tracked for a large insurance premium saving
4. Would you agree to be tracked if it meant you could get car insurance?
Re: Understandable
"even if they drive a 15 year old piece of shit Corsa or Saxo or something"
Correction:
even if they drive a shit Corsa or Saxo or something
The corner shop near me...
... Has some brand-you've-never-heard-of cheap mineral water older than this.
I thought the economic benefit of HS2...
...was all the fees and payments made to the various consultants, upper-ranking engineering-company-bosses, technicians etc who are friends of the people spending the(our) money and who will, in return, invite said spenders to dinner, golf, holidays etc?
Not to mention that the consultants, architects, engineers etc will save an hour a day on traveling, which they will put to good use by spending an extra hour at home, rather than in the office earning the fictitious money on which the whole cost/benefit thing is based?
They could at least be honest about it.
I think the logic is..
...that because you've rejected their fair offer of compensation and then ensured that everyone has to incur yet more costs (which is YOUR choice), then these extra costs are your responsibility. And if they come to more than your compensation, then that's your lookout.
So your pint gets spilled and the offender offers to buy you 3 pints and pay to have your trousers cleaned (i.e. pay your costs). But no - you reject this and hire scientists and brewers etc to try to prove that your trousers are ruined and need replacing and force the offender to do the same. Eventually, when all is said and done, you only get awarded the cost of your pint but all the scientists etc need paying. The offender shouldn't pay as they offered to settle in the first place (and they weren't trying to weasle out of paying, as they offered more than you finally got), which would have avoided all this.
The brewers and scientists aren't to blame, either - you hired them.
Now we want
the hand-held version.
They what-whatted a what-what?
Re: Who are they kidding?
"A remote control for the price of a small TV."
Absolutely. So there you are, needing an advanced remote control, and you see this. "Ridiculous", you say,"I'm not paying that to control my £10,000 home cinema setup - not when I can spend the money on a small TV".
One small TV later....
"Bugger. I now need a remote control for my £10,110 home cinema setup which now has an extra, redundant, small TV and an extra remote control."
Re: Needs to be housewife proof
"It was there! On the side! Just like I said!"
Beats me...
I couldn't picture that much baked beans, until I calculated that it was enough to fill one of the new breed of super-sized container ships.
Re: Well
But if the camera was EyeToy, then the tablet should be StrokeToy or FeelToy, not EyePad...
Shocked...
...simply shocked, that there's a search term that causes Google to return with links to porn...
Prior art...
I had a watch 40 years ago...
Posted in Electric cars stall in USA, Australia
Re: utter bollocks
Ummm, are you thinking that the used batteries get thrown away - i.e. they're used once? I don't think they're using lots of Duracells, but big battery packs that get removed, swapped and then recharged at the swap station, to be swapped for the empty battery o fthe next car that comes in. The only overhead that this would have over a 'conventional' recharging station is the battery-swapping facility.
Or was this just a ill-informed rant at electric cars in general?
Telling the customer what they really want...
...only works if you're right.
Wasn't it Heny Ford who said "If I'd asked the customer what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse."
The crew mustz have had several minutes warning - must have been terrifying as they would have known the only possibel outcome.
"It's made Apple look like dicks for patenting a rectangle."
It's made other people look like dicks for thinking that Apple were patenting a rectangle...
Re: Terrorists?
".......Arabic has given more to computing than most cultures." Like what?
Those funny squiggles we use to count things? you know, numbers?
Real scirnece:
When asked the question "How do the Heisenburg compensators work?" on a program about the science in Star Trek, a representative of the show replied "Very nicely, thank you".
Terrorists...
...ship their source code?
Re: Why would you ever want to do this?
Got to agree - Objective-C syntax isn't *that* different from Java and the hard bit is learning all the API's and what they can do, which you're going to have to do to take full advantage of the platform, not matter what language you code it in.
Could be usefull though if you've 1,000s of line of core application Java code (the 'model' of your MVC) which would just be a pain to recode in Obj-C.
Is one Japanese 'We-changed-our-name-so-you-don't-realise-we're-Datsuns-in-disguise' car company more classy than another Japanese 'We-changed-our-name...etc, etc" car company?
I once wwnt into WHSmiths...
...and bought a copy of the Daily Mail and a copy of Viz.
I was a bit embarrassed to be seen with such a childish rag, so I hid it inside the copy of Viz.
Until I read the Daily Mail...
...I thought that the 'Saville Row' was where clothes were made.
Scary news story..
...about some guy who apprehended a burglar with a shotgun he kept at home: he said that it was "the moment he had been waiting for", which speaks volumes for the attitudes of some of the gun fans - I bet he was overjoyed at the oportunity to use it!
