Posts by Simon Harris

Re: Gotta tell me wife...

The point was made, an example in better taste might have been chosen though.

Re: Hope the cruise continues

Dawn should be using 3 of its 4 reaction wheels to stabilise it, but it's lost 2 of them, so it'll be relying on its hydrazine thrusters as well as the 2 remaining wheels to keep it pointing in the right direction - running out of hydrazine will most likely signal the end of its mission.

Re: The Apple iCar

"You will, obviously, only be permitted to travel along Apple approved routes."

Apparently it's only allowed to drive in Apple's walled garden. It squashed all the flowerbeds and ended up ditching itself in the pond.

Re: Valence

They look like wiggly hexagons to me, with 3 atoms in each slightly above the level of the plane, and 3 slightly below.

Re: Good work MS

I wonder if it'll be a port of the full version, or like Windows XP embedded (minimum footprint ~40MB) and Windows Embedded Standard 7 (minimum footprint ~500MB) where you can tailor it to include only the core components needed for the application.

@ Phil W: Re: "campaign leveraging the recent Adobe Flash zero day vulnerability "

It's always best to ensure that you're using words correctly when commenting on the correct use of words.

Re: Not a happy ending

Oy Ian, shut it!

I don't want to know anything about the ending until I've seen it!

Re: Soak the ... over night!

I think the 'heating it up in the microwave' is the bit you do after the pub.

Re: Legal?

What if you fly two RPAs together, each fitted with a camera, so you can always be looking at one from the other?

Re: I was thinking...

"At least he's not spending tax dollars on this enterprise."

With all his spacy projects, he must have though about building an Enterprise.

Re: Bladder control

You may want to see a doctor about that - urine that smells of ammonia may indicate a problem.

Re: Martians are inteligent

"They don't have starbucks"

What? Neither Katee Sackhoff nor Dirk Benedict?

Re: WELL DONE

"Just a pity that it isn't funny."

I don't think all satire is supposed to be funny.

Re: Tongue not gone

Cooking a whole one...

My mum always cooks a whole ox tongue for Christmas - boiled and cold pressed, a bit like this one from Delia...

Recipe.

But for post-pub nosh, I wasn't in any state for anything needing so much cooking last night - bacon sarnies were about my limit!

Re: rover's flight software

Well it was designed by the Jet Propulsion Lab!

"Relying on the code writer to test his own code is just about pointless."

At the last place where we did Agile development, for any given module we'd split into pairs - one would write the module, the other would write the tests from the module specifications, ideally without knowing (apart from the interface definition) how the module was coded.