Posts by PhilBuk

Re: How Far Is Progression On AI Doctors

There was a recent article in El Reg:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/25/ai_in_medicine/

- about why this doesn't really work. One of the main reasons is that experts are really bad at explaining why they came to a particular decision. So, if your expert system training is no good - the system makes incorrect or low-confidence decisions - not something you would want for a medical diagnosis.

Phi.

Re: Great article

@ Kristian Walsh - Managed to get a second-hand Lenovo T60 with the 1400x1050 screen for £100. Great for program development and general texty type stuff. Even with a SSD, it's getting a little slow these days.

Phil.

Re: Bah!

Kodak also had a starring role in developing digital cameras and held a lot of the patents for the technology. They made digital backs for Nikon, Hasselblad etc. that were used by NASA and other high profile organisations. However, ther own cameras and their marketing of said items was shit.

Phil.

Re: if it ain't broken

There was also a rudder problem with a servo causing the rudder to go hard over at low speeds. This caused a couple of accidents and fatalities. The problem was around for a few years But could be negated by raising the minimum speeds in certain configurations.

Phil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues

Re: Millennium Falcon

To fix the Millenium Falcon you just use the same technique as the Russian guy in Armageddon - "Empire parts, Rebel parts, all made in Taiwan!"

Just keep hitting it with a bloody great spanner.

Phil.

Re: Cyberattack on the nation's electricity grid...

@Black Rat

"the FBI can tell you how many other incidents have not been made public for security reasons."

Did you mean "the FBI can't tell you..."; otherwise they would be able to tell us???? Or do you mean they can tell you the number but not the specifics of the incidents.

Phil.

Re: "modern-day Che Guevara of digital"

Great. Now that I've got a citation to prove it, I'll just go in and re-write the Wikipedia article.

Phil.

Re: I can't help but wonder something.

Oops. I meant prequels.

Phil.

Don't forget RT-11 and there was one that started with OS (OS-11?), similar to OS-8 (which also used PIP).

Phil.

Re: Food intolerance?

With Coeliac disease you can have a reaction within 10 minutes. I know.

Phil.

First post I see. Hmm...marketing speak...couldn't give a shit about ordinary people ... I see a pattern here.

Phil.

Re: Starbucks top?

I'm seeing Starbucks and coffee in the same comment - what's the relevance?

Phil.

Re: First Flight Challenges

Seeing as it was flying around near the Pyrenees, going up to 28,000 ft would have been advisable as most of the big peaks are 10,000-11,000 ft!

Phil.

Re: Déjà vu

Agreed. What they need is the 'Emergency Flush' shown in MIB 2. In would preferably include the C-suite crowd, all of Marketing and the Licencing Division. The destination would not, however, be a safe haven. Cue rotating knives, boulders running down the corridor, etc..

Phil.

Re: It! Hurts! To! Read! These! Titles!

...or when people stop being annoyed by it.

Phil.

The stags and cows have two heads. The bears only have one.

(In 3, New Vegas and 4 anyway).

Phil.

Re: What's their excuse in the South East?

I presume it's the same excuse for my sister's non-functional VM service - they're crap.

Phil.

Re: Chlorine.

Seawater + Lead-acid batteries don't need the electrolysis bit. Just add sulphuric acid to a salt solution and watch the sulphuric displace the chlorine.

Phil.

Re: At least it stops the hackers setting invisible forwarders

No email provider is getting my mobile number.

The tyres are not replaceable.

Phil.

Re: Bah!

The Death Star is Charon - Pluto is just the power supply.

Phil.

Re: How to sell hardware

Agreed. It seems to want to install an Active X thingy. Could you explain what this does before I bork my functioning Win 7 System.

Phil.

Re: Ah yes....

The lead shielding didn't help either.

Phil.

Re: Pass an interview?

They're interested in music, not IT.

Phil.

Re: Station TV announcement: The 5:17 to Doncaster....

At the moment, it's colder on the Wirral at 6C.

Phil.

Libraries

First thing I do on a Win 7 installation - disable libraries. Goodbye explorer green bar.

Phil.

Re: @JB: It's Worse Than That

I assume (I didn't check) that the DVD was the Steam client, the installer and the game program binaries. The download was probably updates and game data. OR the online version was newer so it just overwrote the DVD version.

I've seen similar behavior with a Mass Effect 1,2 & 3 boxed set (3 DVDs). It ignored the DVDs and just downloaded the games. 16Gbytes total with a later 4.5 Gbyte update for ME3.

Phil.

Re: Will the Czechs change their name to Czechians?

Wales is not a country, it's a principality.

Phil.

Re: Alternatives to FF and Chrome?

I find Pale Moon to be quite nice. It has it's own version of ABP - Adblock Edge and manages to run a fair number of FF add-ons. Switched some time ago and I'm quite happy.

Phil.

Re: @Dwarf

What was the name of the paranoid personality that they created about the same time? (Google, Google) Ah - PARRY. Anyway, I believe ELIZA and PARRY had a really good chat together.

Phil.

Re: The question to ask to answer the question related to worth and future cost overruns

Using the hydraulics to move the wing surfaces exposed the fact that the engines were not powerful enough to power the hydraulic pumps and power the props. Hughes ended up in the situation where he could lift off without flight surface control or have flight surface control but not enough grunt to get off the water.

Phil.

One of the reasons I like FreeBSD is the Handbook which provides fairly decent post-install and admin documentation. A few Linux distros could take note and not just fling noobs at the forums!

Phil.

Re: Who wrote this rubbish?

Fast page zero access was used on the PDP-8 architecture - a few years before the 6502 appeared. Goes to show that there is nothing new in computing - just new names for the same old stuff.

Phil.

p.s. Got my PET 2008 in 1979. Still have it but scared to turn it on in case the electrolytics decide to expire.

Re: Those chicken snacks are nasty

I think he means the dish 'Scouse' which has a bit of beetroot in it.

Phil.

Re: "SCO code" in Linux?

Bollocks - Streams were introduced by AT&T into their version of Unix. SCO were extending a system that originally started out as Xenix.

Phil.

Re: I want that

Pronounced "sodder" .

Phil.

Re: Name change needed...

Just logged in to see if it was any better than when I last used it - at the first showing of beta. The bastards seem to have removed any way of configuring the view of the site - I used to have a really nice pre-2000 setup with the max amount of text info per page and no web shit - everybody gets the same garbage web 2.0 crap now.

Used to be my home page. R.I.P.

Phil.

Re: As an ex-employee

Ditto - took my pension and went after a similar situation. Your description of "excessive bureaucracy internally, poor rep externally" took the words out my mouth. My contacts still left recount a rather grim existence.

Phil.

Re: 30+ years with my clock radio

Got my LED clock radio for a birthday present when I was 16 - I'm 61 now so 45 years of constant use. Had to clean the contacts on the buttons once but it still soldiers on.

Praise the lord for lead solder!!

Phil.