Posts by graeme leggett

I thought the Stalin and Churchill drinking session was well known. This is just the first time we seen the verbatim report rather than a précis.

Extension to existing device or device in its own right

What does the market acutally want?

A watch that does more than just time functions?

A watch that generically interfaces with another system - tablet, phone, PC, Home Entertainment system, building automation?

An alternative display/interface for your phone that displays the time?

Intriguing. Personally I haven't worn a watch in years. a) I'm always around devices with time displays (PC, deskphone, wall clocks, mobile phone b) diving watch broke, replacement proper watch had dodgy metal strap that I never replaced, cheap and cheerful holiday watch fell apart c) didn't want to risk watch near the strong magnets in our analytical instruments

Good explanation of the technical side

I now know how it works...

though I'm still unsure as to what it's for. Unless you attach some real money/goods to it

thanks be to my local library's subscription to the OED

I can reveal that the pronounciation is recorded in the lexicographer's literature as

Brit. /dʒɪf/ , /ɡɪf/ , U.S. /ɡɪf/ , /dʒɪf/

which I understand to mean that it thinks we Brits say "jif" rather than "gif" and our north American cousins say "gif" rather than "jif". (which I doubt)

Apparently there's also a conjunction "gif" last heard somewhere in Yorkshire meaning "if".

and theres "Giffgaff - the mobile network run by you" (damn those adverts in the middle of The Big Bang Theory.

Forgot to ask

Is it Kosher? Meaning the food, not the legitimacy of the project itself (on which I have my own ideas)

Online chat from O2 - where's that done

used this earlier today when fishing for a deal on going from Pay as you Go to Monthly. Chap ("Hamilton") on the other end was quite helpful and thanked me effusively at the end for being pleasant to deal with.

Slight quirk in his typing "Do you've" for "Do you have" so I wondered if it was off-shored, or a new invention in the English language by young people.

other factors

quality of image is being able to keep the camera still long enough for the photons to be captured.

A DSLR has a certain inertia from its larger mass that must aid stability - plus stabilizing lenses. Is this little fellow quick enough to take the snap that it can get the advantage or does it do it post capture processing

Quality of publishing

If the letter of complaint Beale received from the company is indicative of the quality of their work then I wouldn't trust them to proof read my shopping list (or publish it to Facebook).

Phase IV

when they start attacking your home by overloading your aircon, it's too late to worry.

true scale of the problem?

With a million transactions of all kind, 100 misapplied NFC transactions in the same period although a significant error in each customer's case is quite a small percentage overall.

Perhaps a bigger sticker on the NFC reader to remind people not to get their cards close unless they mean it. Like there used to be a warning near tills not to put your magnetically striped cards near the machine that disabled the security tag.

What would be really scary would be tills taking payment from someone who wasn't buying anything...

so whadya do?

You have a mature enterprise environment with a mixture of XP desktops that are imminently going unsupported and all those Windows 7 desktops you bought to replace broken XP machines, or during that last expansion you had.

Do you, replace the XP with Windows 8 (with all the planning and checking necessary) and give yourself another heterogenous desktop setup

OR

Replace the XPs with Windows 7 - which has years in it yet - and take advantage of all the work your IT department has already invested in 7.

Mmmm, tricky......

Am I the only one

who had assumed they had accounted for shifting of the rock itself, or that it wasn't an issue in this case?

The small print

As one who never reads the small terms and conditions on games, is there anything in them (whether enforceable or nor) that seeks to prevent the user from using it commercially; in the same way you're not supposed to use a rental or shop-bought DVD to put on your own cinema?

Interview without coffee? - if only it were true......

the reason we have Select committees

is to ask these questions and make ministers, policy-wonks, special advisers, industrial plutocrats, and financial lizards stumble, extemporize, mis-speak, and err-and-hmm in front of the public gaze.

Would help if the public gaze did look that way more than it does at Britain (allegedly) Has Some Talent.

High costs predicted because....

they mostly aren't up to speed on current law/requirements (and so have further to go to meet the draft) ?

TFX?

The impression I get from reading the online archive of Flight (Flight International) is that the 20s and 30s and then the 50s and 60s were periods when everyman and his dog was turning out designs. Light planes that could take off in little space on small engines, designs for home builders, inventive (though probably delicate) creatures of spar and tube and fabric. Several VSTOL ideas, many of which were heard of no more.

I think most of the designers probably understood there was some element of walking before they could run. Its good to be thinking of the next design, but not to put too much effort in before the first is at least mostly finished. Is this some form of pyramid scheme, the punters investments on the first model being used to fund the development of the next, or marketing to build up the company image?

Talk up bold ideas for the next design but get it running on fossil fuel first before transitioning to a something involving electrical power. In the past new aircraft designs got developed in parallel with engines they would hope to power them ( RR Vulture and Avro Manchester, not the best example I know) but those were at least iterations on existing ideas.

PS - sorry bit rambley, cup of tea not yet done its job

PPS -TFX always makes me think of the General Dynamics F-111.

have I understood correctly?

Fwd.us is formed to encourage changes in US policy on immigration, and increase in attention spent on STEM education.

Fwd.us pays for campaign commercials for two politicians which has nothing to do with the above mentioned purpose.

From where I'm sitting, that looks so much like bribery, it beggars belief.

wrong comparison

the iPhone delivered what Apple thought people already wanted to do (make phone calls) with what they also wanted to do (listen to music, watch videos, play games) in a better combination than existing phones. And now most all smartphones do something similar.

Google glass delivers what Google think people might want to do but aren't doing at the moment. And people aren't doing it or asking for it because it's a rubbish idea for the vast majority of the populace.

"Instagram did not reveal further details of how a dog might take photographs and then edit them"

In the words of First Officer Douglas Richardson..."Badly?"