Posts by Parax
482 posts • joined Friday 27th July 2007 10:14 GMT
Re: Where's Eadon?
"Dogged -- there is no fail, but Eadon would find some claim it was."
There I fixted it.
even taking time to lampoon Redmond for its restrictive policies.
Since its not linked in the article Here it is.
so presumably the US DoJ would have an easier time starting its data-deletion campaign there,
No.
US law applies in the US, the DoJ would be liable for its "Advice", especially if it related to destruction of evidence for a US trial.
US law does not apply in Holland, it would be easy for the DoJ to say "do you want to be involved in this protracted and drawn out case? if you do preserve the evidence for us, but we can't force you..."
Re: Hire peanuts, paid monkeys
this > thing .. oh for an edit.
Re: Boffins and 3D Printers
Yes, we are still at the pre-porn stage with 3d printing.. which is of course what will happen now the boffins have given us 3d printers.
Re: Did you say you looked El Reg?
In this case what door? this content was 'published' to the web.
Of course that probably won't stop your average Joe from getting his collar felt.
Re: Hire peanuts, paid monkeys
There's only one this worse than an untrained monkey who doesn't know what he's doing; An untrained monkey who thinks he does know what he is doing.
Re: The study was based on a non-rotating black hole
fair enough.
The study was based on a non-rotating black hole
Is that even possible?
Why on earth(or in space for that matter) would you assume that the black hole was not rotating? there are infinite positive spin speeds and an equally infinite number of negative spin speeds so why choose the one zero state?
Would you always bet on green at roulette?
It's the same reason why a straight line is so unnatural, there are an infinite number of curves either side. (try walking unaided in a straight line whilst blindfolded, its not possible.)
Re: Nothing New.
^ the NEW Air.
Re: it's a chimney
Complete with warmed cup holder insert in the top.
Re: FAIL!
yup I agree.
Timeline is clear to understand.
Names of companies are easier to understand than logo's like the speech bubble... also if you don't recognise a name you can note it down and google it, if you don't recognise a logo you're screwed.. what are you supposed to do? sketch it scan it and ask google image search? Let me know how that turns out for you...
The only thing he has achieved is to invert the tones, dark background with brighter forground is sometimes easier on the eyes than the white background...
But, I wouldn't pay him a penny for that.
Re: WTF?
These words would have been said whether it was a man or a woman playing. The context of these words is not about rape, but about beating the opponent. There is a big difference between someone who looses a game they choose to play and a victim who does not choose. The fact that she was beaten in a game does not mean she was beaten in real life.
Rape is a very serious thing, we should respect and understand what it really is, not degrade it by using the term about gaming, saying 'she was beaten in a game' is accurate saying 'she got raped' is the wrong usage. saying that his gaming talk/banter is akin to rape talk is likewise wrong usage.
Re: Pint sized?!?!
What, they come in Pints too?!
Power lead on the front? what are they thinking?
At least its got a heated cup holder.
Bandersnatch is good as Sherlock, But I don't think he'd bring anything interesting to Who. I like the Idea of Ayoade though.. that would be an interesting roll for him to try, I think we've seen all his daft characters, would be interesting to see if he can do a straight and deadly serious.
Academic Disgrace.
I've put in a complaint to the OED, absurd omission.
Re: do you really want that smell wafting around a small, sealed space station
Yes, but what is scrubbing? the ISS scrubbers are CDRA units. which is a 'Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly'
Converting Carbon Dioxide to Oxygen does not really do much to complex aromatic hydrocarbons (or non-complex ones either!).
Disturbing.
But does it do more good than harm?
Re: But note it's only 2x better than Li ion.
Could you cite a source for that "2x better than Li ion" the Oak Ridge National Lab is stating 4 times energy density here.
Re: Voltage?
Yes another story has the crucial missing detail. Seems they are achieving 4 times the energy density.
So the cell voltage must be about ~2.0V
Four times the density is actually a pretty good start. will keep an eye on this.
Re: Biggest Clue of all:
This quote: "enabled the ORNL battery to maintain a capacity of 1200 milliamp-hours (mAh) per gram after 300 charge-discharge cycles at 60 degrees Celsius."
Re: Voltage?
Exactly what I was thinking It would have been much more appropriate to have used Wh instead of Ah.
Without cell voltage the whole 'discovery' is meaningless.
This could just be some wonk's attempt to get his 15 minutes.
Posted in How to spot a coders comment
How to spot a coders comment
So you can spot a T-SQL coder's comments because he uses 'single' instead of "double" quotes.
A TCL Programmer uses {Braces} instead of (Brackets).
I'm wondering how many other good tells for other languages are out there?
Re: A good thing in small doses,..
That should be the second 'with' not the first one.
I'm still asking:
Why is Apple so happy to shower money on to lawyers, yet wont pay dividends to it's shareholders?
Re: Nothing can stop a Hekaton transaction
and a metric fuckton slaps that hands down..
Re: Question...
SQL transactions only commit if the log is physically written. You will not loose data if you crash.
Log writing is 'synchronous write' hence the reason you'd put it on a separate physical volume (preferably mirrored not raid 5 - no data processing overhead is fastest)
There are many ways this will be welcome, you can build fast access tables, separate to your main data, ie Contact search fields could be held in memory whilst all none-searchable data can reside on disk. This would result in faster front end searches.
It would be even better if you could specify which columns of a table were to be memory resident rather than just whole tables. like having memory resident indexes for a table held on disk.
Seems Playmobile is just not up to the job. Must be time to get a Lego man suited up ready.
Re: A lotta donuts
Whether its 170, 21, or 13 its still far too expensive! At most you are requiring 4 persons onsite (its a small building!) and one situational commander. 3x 8hr shifts +cover = 20 persons, at a generous 60k per plod and 100k per command person that's 16x60+4x100 = 1.3 million. No helicopters, No fast-pursuit cars.
I suspect that what we are seeing is also a bill for a certain amount of espionage/intelligence.
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Hash Prompt, (Pass the Dutchie/Kouchie)
and that's it....
So who knew drug culture and PC's didn't have many cross over references.
Re: "Have you tried flying a quad"
One simply does not fly a quad, one sets it's gps and altitude, and leaves the rest to the computer.
Of course these days it would be trivial to design an optical target bolt for automatic targeted mating.
In fact I'm sure the navy would be very keen to purchase such a system for other ship to ship/shore requirements.
they are doing it all wrong!
Since the islet is already bolted, you just need to clip on... Which could easily done with a bit of British ingenuity and a Quad copter with first person video and a detachable carabiner clip with fishing line. then once clipped on pull over a wire then decent rope. then traverse all the kit.
Not the cheapest method but probably cheaper than many round trips to keep trying to land.
Actually
I think you'll find it's Pronounced H462
Re: if only
Technically that is exactly what it is...
It would be a better experiment if the did not use the 'A' beam as the trigger, but instead split the 'B' beam to be both trigger and detector. This way the control filter (input) on 'A' beam is remote to the measured 'B' beam (output) and could be further away.. not requiring the electrical trigger link between the two.
Re: Well done, you missed the point
@Richard 12
Exactly.
Using any kind of fullscreen interface makes Multi-tasking impossible. I often have 3 to four apps open at a time, sometimes I may have Video or TV playing whilst I am researching and writing. Now a simple click to launch another program blocks out everything on screen, it's utterly stupid, and very poorly conceived, by a bunch of amateurs with no user experience.
@Lusty I'm sure you have misunderstood somewhere. the new start-menu thing is full screen and not a partial popup like the old start-menu. ( win95 - win7 ) changing that damages usability. I understand that the old start-menu was fine for 'search' but the new style is still terrible. 'love the changes' is the last thing that's going to happen.
Posted in Samsung plans new R&D centre in Finland
Sounds like a good idea..
lots of decent technicians and developers to poach.
it will keep Nokia/Microsoft on their toes, and make them not so keen to lay off staff at the drop of a hat.
Re: @Parax
Last time I checked the ISS still had a good amount of oxygen.
If a fire does not spread, it will starve itself of local oxygen (no convection to replenish), but Fire spreads so much more easily as it is so much hotter in the localised burn area (no convection to cool) so radiates much more heat. Even when a flame goes out the gasses in the burn area remain immensely hot (no convection to disperse heat) and invisible hot areas 'bubbles' of gas are a significant danger to astronauts.
Re: I want my...
all of those are mythical, you can only reanimate what once existed.
I like it.
but is there a neater solution? there are many network to wireless access point boxes available.
And what about wifi-wifi, running via hotel/other/public wifi to your own wifi hotspot?
Re: reduced the travelling time from earth from several days to a few hours.
Also In case you didn't notice Soyuz TMA-09M was using the fast rendezvous profile:
Launch took place at 20:31:00 UTC on 28 May 2013.
Docking with the ISS occurred at 02:10 UTC on 29 May 2013.
That is less than six hours.
Saying it's orbit height or shuttle limitations is BS.
Re: ????
Wouldn't it be easier to just write a more secure OS?
There I fixted it.
Re: If it is not a Penalty Charge Notice...
Private parking is covered by Contract Law, it is enforceable through Civil Court.
In order for a Private ticket to be legally valid, the Contract must be clear, ie unambiguous clear signage must be displayed. and their must be evidence of the contractual offence taking place.
It is possible to issue tickets to people who park in disabled spaces, without displaying a blue badge if there is an appropriate sign indicating it is not permitted.
But
What happens when the cement sets?
Re: now that there is no Space Shuttle anymore, the ISS could be brought into a higher orbit
Where do you get this stuff from?
The shuttle could go very high, go look where Hubble is.
The ISS is as low as possible to reduce radiation exposure.
If the Russians prefer higher orbits why did they launch Mir so low?
