Posts by TeeCee 9435 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
Remember here that one of the hot topics amongst the chair-polishing fraternity is "how do we use this social meejah thingy?". This in turn leads to a Policy Decision which says that future IT purchases must have "social meejah thingy" in them somewhere.
The correct question here is "do we need this shit?". That never gets asked 'cos the tech pages of the Financial Times are busily crowing the virtues of the "social meejah thingy" and how its bound to make millions for everyone, leaving those not involved as busted dinosaurs.
"The firm acquires patents and provides the rights to its clients.". For money.
So it's a patent troll with a slightly different business model then? Presumably anyone not stumping up the protection moolah will be pushed to tell the difference between RPX and an old skool patent troll though.
There are two massive advantages to the Osprey that no pure chopper can ever compete with in level flight.
Having a chunk shot off a wing is an inconvenience. It doesn't matter how many engines you've got working if you lose a piece of rotor.
When it all goes completely pear-shaped, having a gliding angle better than that of a rucksack full of rocks is a big plus. Ok, you can autorotate a chopper to a soft landing, if you know what you're doing, but if you didn't want to land on what was directly beneath at the time you're a bit stuffed.
That would be true were the Public sector to actually have funds, managers et. al. They do it by paying their pensioners out of current tax revenues, there's no investment of contributions to provide a pension later going on here. This works by having an infinite supply of money that's scalped from the taxpayer rolling in.
You don't have to be a financial genius to figure out why this is unsustainable long term and why there's such a drive to raise public sector retirement ages.....
"...advanced radiation-resistant alloys...."
Well, there's that or you could just sit in your isolated bubble of spacetime inside the warp field while hydrogen atomic carnage occurs outside same in the rest of the Universe.
Maybe this is the "warp signature" that they're always tracking? Like a contrail with enormous and highly radioactive knobs on. Science of Star Trek 1, party-pooping boffin 0.
Bit nasty for anyone you happen to pass by at speed though, shades of the Queller drive there.
You have an analogy problem there. It's not the petrol that's important (that's like the "bits 'n bytes" side of it) it's the distribution side that's more like the networks.
Now if every petrol station were the cheapest, most basic, unattended card payment type, serving only base-spec 95 RON* you'd have a point. Unfortunately for your analogy the fuel companies reckon there's money in the "added value" side, hence the shops, coffee bars, attendants, car washes, vacuum cleaners, graded fuels et. al.
Maybe data networks are like vehicle fuel and there's a world where both dumb and "value added" offerings can coexist. Certainly round here, the fact that the unattended, "dumb pipe" stations serve your fuel somewhere between 5 and 10 cents a litre cheaper than the attended ones has not driven the attended, "value added" ones out of business. Sometimes people are prepared to pay a bit more for bells and whistles.
*Oil-burner drivers? STFU and take it as read there's another nozzle pushing some DERV blend there too.
I suppose that since they need to ensure that seamless scripting across google, analytics, 1e100 (is that right?), Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all works without any issues, they're always going to have to leave a few doors open that would be far better slammed shut and heavily bolted.
Or am I missing something here?
Surely when in zero gee, nothing's suspended from anything and thus the torque required to remove whatever it is should be lower?
Personally I think NASA are playing fast a loose with terminology and that these bolts were not "torqued" (i.e. tightened to a specified torque setting) but just "done up tight". The torque level associated with "tight" would certainly be affected by whether or not the bloke with the spanner can rely on gravity holding him down while he applies the oof.
I've just held a quick straw poll in the immediate vicinity and everyone thinks that the German fun-poking here is both amusing and entirely justifiable.
Then again I am English and sitting in a Dutch* office at the moment, so I may not have surveyed a representative sample of the population as a whole.
*Special request. My colleagues would like their bicycles back if it's not too much trouble.
Hmm, even Abbey Road's own website says that the building was originally bought by EMI in 1929. That would seem a tad difficult, since EMI wasn't created until 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Gramophone Company and The Gramophone Company (who owned Abbey Road).
Interestingly here, the Wibblepedia says that The Gramophone Company aquired Abbey Road in 1931.....shurely shome mishtake?
They can't have the troops talking informally to the public and possibly finding out what they think now, could they?
The lads might start to ask some difficult questions. You know, like whether cuffing photographers and hauling them in for, er, taking photographs aids good public relations? Or whether taking orders from Richard Brunstrom rather than treating them as the inane outpourings of a small-minded fucktard makes you a good Police Officer or just a prize tit?
Don't buy a pricey known-brand WinMo phone, where what you're paying for is the lovingly crafted, less-computer-more-phone interface anyway. Shop around and source a cheap as chips, unlocked, basic WinMo only unit bereft of bells, whistles and other OEM crap. Then add the third party UI of your choice (which you can then shut down if you happen to need all the hardware at your disposal and restart when you don't) and an application base to suit.
This also has the advantage that when you're adding stuff on you don't run into incompatibilities with OEM O/S customisations or deliberate hamstringing by the network operator.
Best of all you get (and only pay for) what you want rather than what some Twitbook-fixated marketing arsehat in Korea or Taiwan thinks you want.
An old chestnut and untrue. It wasn't trying to land, it was trying (and successfully at that) to prevent a stall. This is what happens when you shove the throttles open from idle and pull the nose up on a plane fitted with large turbofans that have a 30+ second spool to thrust from idle time.
Try reading the conclusions of the investigation rather than the comments section on Wingnut Central. There's a reason why those aircraft are still flight certified despite that little pig's ear.
There was I thinking that the reason that Neil Young refused to play with Crosby, Stills and Nash for so long was because of Dave Crosby's excessive coke habit, which Neil disapproved of. Also that the reason that Neil was limited on studio time and appearances for reasons of illness was because of his epilepsy and not due to booze or drugs as is more usual in the industry.
Nice of you to clear that one up for me.
I'll agree that it looks more "right" like that, but since the whole word is spelled "flabbergasted" (and I did check that) I think it's more likely correct as is.
Put it this way. I thought carefully over whether or not to include an "h", it wasn't an unconsidered decision. If you feel that I took the wrong choice here, then that's your opinion and I respect it.
Given BMW's legendarily god-awful integrated phone/bluetooth functions, if you did drive one you'd probably still need an earpiece if you wanted it to do anything useful. Like make a phone call.
If you really want something that actually works reliably, get any car without and fit an aftermarket Parrott system. Cheaper too.
The linked MS thread has info here. Seems that the problem may be due to the TDSS rootkit. Replacing the infected atapi.sys that this POS puts in place with a kosher one on affected machines seems to fix the problem (as does uninstalling the "dodgy" patch - for which instructions are provided).
This would explain why those machines affected don't seem to have anything else in common by way of configuration.
If this does turn out to be the root (hah) cause, I don't think we can blame MS......well, not for this particular cockup anyway. I'll keep the flamethrower on standby 'til a definitive answer turns up.
"...thanked McAfee for helping it sort out the confusion..."
Let me guess how that went:
"<Ring><Ring>Hello? McAfee? Mozilla here. We've got a bit of a problem. Your tool says this piece of code has the 'l33tboispwnn00bs' virus in it, but the bloke wot wrote it says it's kosher, any ideas? Oh. Right. Your bad eh? Right you are then. Yup, thanks. No, nothing else. Byeee. <Click> Fucking arsehats....."
A quick snoop in Opera's Mini forum reveals that Mini lacks Flash support.
So that's the one killer feature that might entice the faithful to ditch Safari for something else missing then. As a result, any shenanigans over Mini's acceptance by the Apple store will be a storm in a teacup, as nobody'll* bloody want it anyway.
*Or perishingly close to nobody anyway. I'm assuming that the subset of Apple fanbois who are also Opera fanbois is a fairly small number of people in the greater scheme of things.
Really bloody awful that and worthy of the icon all on its own. The iPad costs were for components, not raw materials (probably down to a few pennies there).
Your car though. Look up the price of each component and add 'em all up to get the DIY cost. Costs quite a bit more than buying a bloody car, doesn't it? So, in that case at least, the cost of assembly, marketing, product design etc is somewhat more than outweighed by the advantages inherent in mass production and bulk purchase.
Ok, your car manufacturer isn't paying even trade rates for components, but I'll bet a sack of cash that Apple aren't paying manufacturer's quoted bulk prices for 10,000 units for their bits 'n pieces either, so iSuppli's "costs" will probably be on the conservative side.
Apple are coining it.
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