Posts by phuzz

I'd only heard Americans using BTUs, I didn't realise anyone still used them in the UK.

What's wrong with watts? (or 'Watts wrong with whats?' if you prefer).

I suppose it partly depends on where Intel's modem team are/were based, and if they fancy moving to Cupertino (or Apple opens an office where they are).

Re: Settlement is BS

Aren't AG's elected in the US though? It seem odd to me that you'd want someone who's effectively a politician, making decisions about who gets prosecuted.

Re: Is this the year

Or for those on Windows, you can use tiering with Storage Spaces, provided you have at least two spare SSDs (they have to be mirrored to prevent data loss apparently). You'll have to do everything through Powershell though if you're using Win10, only the server OSs have a GUI for tiered storage.

Performance is about what you'd expect, fast when it's using the SSDs, slow when using the spinning rust. My use case is so far from the intended use that I can't really comment on how well the prioritisation works (it's supposed to keep frequently used files on the fast tier).

You can also use the SSDs as a straight-forward cache (and in conjunction with tiering).

Re: 11 handsets - not one could I get working.

Why not just buy unlocked phones in the first place?

username checks out.

Re: Do you want a second referendum

"Starwman! Not only is a GE about more than just Brexit"

Officially maybe, but people treated the EU elections as a second referendum, and they'll do the same if there's a general election any time soon.

In fact, I confidently predict that whatever happens with brexit, the topic will have an outsized influence on UK politics (and elections etc.) for at least the next five years, probably longer.

Re: Entertainment is a problem

"then get your revenue from the ads and personal data slurp we all know is the reason for the subscription model in the first place."

Not necessarily. A nice steady constant income from subscriptions makes accountants much happier. And of course, most streaming services don't have any ads, so clearly ad-revenue is not the reason.

Re: 22 years...

I'd assume he started off as a direct employee, got trained and got his security clearance, and then left and became a contractor (and the contracting firm was probably set up by another ex-employee, who still plays golf with his old workmates, and entirely coincidentally gets contracts from them).

Re: So the already exorbitant price of pampers go up...

I think every new parent I know has said "oh, we're going to try using cloth nappies, better for environment you know", and absolutely none</em. of them have stuck with it after the first couple of days.

Also, as far as I can tell, new-borns will start to cry when they've just shit themselves, also before shitting themselves, when they want food, when they've <em>had food, when they want to sleep, when they wake up, and at any other time they feel like it. Hence the usual option of a quick smell test, and then pulling down the back of the nappy to have a look.

Re: Eh?

True, didn't spot Android in the list.

"it does not have to be a black box"

Unlike the BIOS/UEFI, or the CPU microcode, or the firmware on the network card, or the RAID card, or on the backplane, or even the firmware of the drives themselves?

Re: Excellent news

Whack a zero on the end, then we might have a fine that would make Google give a fuck and not just put it down as 'the cost of doing business'.

"[Google's] Total cash and marketable securities rose 4% to $113.5 billion." in Q1 2019 (src)

Re: Redmond Delendo Est

You can buy stuff from their store that you can also buy from a physical shop, so it's pretty easy to put a 1:1 valuation on that. eg if you can buy a copy of Halo for M$20 and the RRP in other stores is $20.

Of course, he probably had to forfeit a big chunk of that value when he laundered it.

Re: WTTW

But currently all the proposed 5G areas are in very large cities, which are already well served by a variety of different services, most offering better performance at a lower price. Which does beg the question, who exactly is this aimed at?

Re: Damage calculation

30m is big enough to cause problems if it comes down over a built up area, as opposed to the (~20m) Chelyabinsk meteor which fortunately came down outside of town, but still caused thousands of injuries.

Sure, injuries from flying glass might not kill you, but it can't be much fun.

Re: Parasitic weight

The Starliner has sort of a combination of both approaches. The thrusters are in the service module, so they're physically underneath the capsule, but the service module is jettisoned before re-entry and burns up.

Re: 2.5MW

There's a bunch of qualifiers to that though.

Firstly, the USAF had got sloppy, and were flying missions using the same routes night after night, so the Yugoslav's had a good idea of where and when the aircraft might show up. Spies outside the airbase helped.

Secondly, 'stealth doesn't mean invisible, it just means hard to see. Typically a stealthy aircraft will be designed to be most difficult to detect from certain directions, and by certain frequencies of radar. Outside of this, if the aircraft is at the wrong angle to the radar, or the radar is using a much more powerful beam, or at an unusual frequency or for some other reason (eg if the aircraft has it's bomb bay open as with the F117 shoot-down), then it might well be detectable enough to shoot at.

Don't forget that most ground to air missiles are designed with a proximity fuse, and rely on just being close enough that part of the explosion will damage the target (think more shotgun than rifle).

Re: I could train 1st line to be fluent in 'user'

I should probably be more sympathetic because I am dyslexic, but some how it makes me less sympathetic.

Re: Space Whales

"discrete flights transport the alien whales"

That would be Janet Airlines. Of course they say it's just carrying workers to the Tonopah Test Range, but they would say that wouldn't they?

Re: (For "nice", read "expensive" - it is Lego after all...)

Sites like Bricklink make it a easier to buy specific parts. You can even upload a model and import the parts list.

Re: If they don't fire him

I'd be surprised if the reputation of the Metropolitan Police could get any lower.

"£571M offer for a company that has 140K customers. So that works out at valuing each customer as £4K."

Isn't it also worth including if the company has any assets that might be worth something? Like, I dunno, a whole bunch of infrastructure? Some offices? That sort of thing.

What's even trickier to find out is how much of their advertising spending ended up causing potential customers to say "these adverts are too fucking annoying, I'm never buying anything from them again!".

I suspect most marketeers aren't interested in finding out that bit of data.

Re: Ah, that really takes me back.

"Maybe if managers were *shot* for allowing break-ins"

I'm sure they are in North Korea.

In Iran, possibly? Can you imagine being the sysadmin who fucked up your country's nuclear program?

Re: RN waives the rules!

To be fair, the F-35B was and is the best VTOL fighter/bomber available to buy.

Mainly because it's the onlyVTOL fighter/bomber in production, (the last Harriers were built in 2003, in the US).