Posts by Chris G

Re: Its the Will of the People!!

@Len

I think you can add MBAs to that list.

I have yet to meet a freshly minted MBA who a. knows anything useful in a practical sense and b. isn't overly impressed with their shiny degree.

It seems the title; Master of Business Administration, makes them think they are going to go straight out of Uni and into a top manglement job.

Re: We need a backup system

Nah! It'll never catch on, loads of metal tokens will ruin the hang of your suit.

Re: Return Samples?!

Don't worry!

It's a million to one chance that anything infectious could come back..............

Re: Combustion point for beach towels

With the correct aiming method the British can use the 'Bouncing towel' to get their towels across the pool in front of the Germans:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIJqF8av6I

Re: centigrade

Count yourself lucky, it could have been in Fahrenheit.

I would have thought Mars being so dry that caking would be unlikely, unless Mars dust has some odd properties.

Shirley the rover is more likely to be sand blasted and very shiny after the storm?

Re: What is it about Reg readers?

Yeah! But what does Google say about you?

Re: Who's your daddy?

You may be right there.

I only install the updates I want, the rest are ignored.

Re: Trumpkims

Were they 'proven' to be a threat or was it more that they are close to the Chinese Government and have been busting American imposed sanctions?

The US doesn't like anyone whittling down their big stick, that's a No No.

The rest of the bill, as is most of what the US is currently up to, is to improve the US's economic power at everyone else's cost.

This bill, like most of them, is driven by lobbyists, that's why it is including all Chinese telcos.

Re: Yeah but...

Well, that had nothing to do with IT or the article subject but definitely worth an upvote.

On the subject of the article, I am increasingly of the opinion that many researchers need a daily slap to wake them up and make them think about the possible consequences of their research.

Fortunately in my house because of condensation problems all the walls are lined with tin foil.

So far I can't find an argument for condensation on my head.

Re: "The US president claims he’s a negotiator"...

"Hey, how are things going in North Korea?"

아주 잘 !

Re: Disturbing

I wonder if the researchers tried correlating the numbers with alcohol and drug use amongst the same teenagers?

Maybe they're too stoned to go out and nick a car.

Re: Three Monoliths just down the hall,

Hans. You do know that cricket has nothing to do with sport?

It's an old British weather control system.

Re: Adventures in a NEW Android 6 Phone

Make sure to disable Google assistant as that records all of your voice and audio as well slurping from just about every other app, also Google calendar another large drain hole, Simple calendar is a better app that needs nothing from you.

Re: +1

Genesis back when they played good music.

The video played the right track as far as I could tell.

Re: AI can't handle managers

While unlikely to be smart enough to fully understand fuzzy requests, I am sure AI will develop the wherewithal to be able to defenestrate fuzzy managers.

It occurs to me that although automation may not be about to take your job in the near future, it may well run you over with one of it's developmental models.

Re: Cracking Up.

Eggsactly, it's an eggsasperating attack on freedom of eggspression.

Re: Surely the presence of Martian mud should be the headline?

The article mention mudstone, so it was mud once but is now a lot less muddy and has dried out.

Courtesy wikipeadia; Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. Grain size is up to 0.063 millimetres (0.0025 in) with individual grains too small to be distinguished without a microscope.

Xeon was great. So was coal.

I was wondering if that was also a slight dig at the Trumpster.

Re: Choice of words

I think Jupiter's atmosphere is large enough that many features are persistent,take the Great Red Spot, a storm that has been observed for nearly two hundred years,with it are many other associated features. I would image what passes for terrain beneath the gaseous layers which I would guess is liquid or frozen gas would affect the atmosphere above enough to produce feature that are related to position. So mapping is probably correct .

Re: 20 years??

Interestingly Naval Group among other things are developing Marine Thermal Incline energy generation, That would seem to go hand in hand with this tech.

They also build a lot of fun Naval things including nuclear subs.

Re: False positives

Tai chi might fool the system right up to the point where you give someone a smack in the gob, there is no way you can really disguise that.

All of the 'floaty' stuff is about concentration, contemplation, building muscle memory and strength, stamina and balance.

You could probably get away with some of the joint locks and throws though.

Re: @Milton

@ShelLuser

Allow me to make a small adjustment to:

"I'm starting to get the impression that these things simply can't operate all that well in bad weather."

It should read:

I'm starting to get the impression that these things simply can't operate all that well in the air.

I'm sure in reality the aircraft is actually not that bad but the ridiculous cost, the lengthy delivery time for the full number, having them serviced in a third party (decidely dodgy) country and all of the other argy bargy surrounding them, makes it difficult to take them seriously.

If the UK were to go to war on it's own with 15 F35s in the UK who could it beat in terms of airpower?

Re: full circle....

Indeed, bashing things is the basis for all technology, bashing rocks together gives you sharp edges for cutting and sparks for fire, bashing other animals stops them eating you and gives you food.

Bashing other people gives you whatever they had before you bashed them.

Bashing a keyboard gives you ...........Facebook!

Re: Good. Lyft, Uber & their ilk suck arse.

"Nonsense. Most mini-cab and taxi drivers are also self-employed. No different to Uber, etc."

Most minicab and taxi drivers have to comply with more rules, higher insurance and standards than the average Uber 'ride sharer'.

When ride sharing is a main source of income it should be redefined to... Oh I don't know, say, cabbing.

If it's cabbing it should be subject to the same rules as everybody else.

I did some mini cabbing for six months, many years ago, not an easy job but one that should protect the driver and passengers with the correct insurance and safety laws.

Just because Erdogan is a nutter doesn't make Uber any better.

Re: NEWS ROUND UP - June 2020

In Japanese toilets, it is the seats that are smart so I assume in Japan there will be a need for a different database to recognise users.

Re: As predicted (again)

"Of course, for the tinfoil hatters, for the 5-Eyes there is now the tantalising possibility of a lifetime tracking device in your neck."

FTFY

Such a thing would be a boon for the TinLady as it would solve at minimum the problem of verifying ID and age for all sort of things. And it wouldn't be an ID card.

Re: I presume that public money is spent on this.

"Money doesn't just disappear from an economy."

It does however, 'Just appear into an economy' that's the wonder of fiat currency.

Probably more batshit crazy than quantum weirdness.