Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
It seems there is no real consensus on just how fast the core is cooling as there are too many unknowns regarding not only the actual composition but the physics at those pressures. At the moment there is nothing like a definitive answer. https://eos.org/features/earths-core-is-in-the-hot-seat
I worked for an outfit where redundancies were rumoured to be on their way. My immediate line manager went around the entire crew telling each one they would he on the stay list and not to tell anyone.
What he didn't know was I had contacts way above him and I already knew who was on the list, so we all knew!
HR? Human Repression.
The moment Personell Managers were renamed with the touchy feely description of Human Resources, they ceased to be any help to the personell because a resource is just something to be used by the company, much as beans or fabric or any other material resource would be used. Human is the least part of the description.
Diligence often oly happens when investors have some idea of what they are looking at, a lot of them have some spare cash, no technical knowledge and want in on the next big thing
Put Free energy, sustainable energy, green transport etc into a YouTube search qnd see how many scammers are flogging ideas that will never work, thee are so many there must be enough mugs with money to encourage them.
My 4 year old Armor 2 has 6Gb and 128Gb, cameras are 8 and 13mp respectively, water and dust proof to IP 68 at least. I get two days still out of the batteryand so on. I paid €198 for it, the newer versions are even better and go for about the three hundred euro mark for the top end last time I looked. The Armor is heavyish but worth it to me for its hardiness.
Is 5G really about an apparent step up in phone utility? I think the premise is more about the 'things' in IoT talking to each other and phoning home either directly or piggy backing from thing to thing.
Yes of course there is all the blarb about greater bandwidth and faster downloads but I think where the money is (in the dreams of the promoters) will be IoT and machine to machine networks.
The fun bit is no-one as far as I have read, actually has anything that needs it yet and by the time they have, the marketing wonk will be bleating about the upcoming 6G.
The US DoD are hoping that private telecomms are going to develop the systems so that the military can use it for large scale data transfer in battle domains, in other words they want us to pay for it so that they can use it.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/communications/article/14177558/5g-military-telecommunications
I am quite happy with my (most of the time) 4G.
It's worth losing a few billion to show solidarity with the UK's friends in the White House and to help make America great again?
I found this line in the article interesting "It also wishes to see judges empowered to backdate rental agreements for cellular sites and to grant broader rights to infrastructure owners." I would like to know what broader rights infrastructure owners ought to have, are they thinking that these owners should be able to erect towers willy nilly regardless of objections or is it something else?
The coil of stiff nylon or fibre glass used by electricians is called a mouse in the UK, so I guess a cat is a step up.
A friend of mine in the UK specialises in building extensions, he had s similar problem running a cable quite some distance under a floor.
He solved it by borrowing an RC 4x4 toy from the house owner's son, tied some cord to it and after two or three goes got it to the right spot.
Spite may be a better word, if justice was involved, there would be some facing up to and apologies for all the wrongs that Snowden's whistle blowing revealed.
Of course American exceptionism means that they must police the world and their own population in any way they see fit and those who don't toe the curvy, constantly moving line, will be dealt with.
What can you expect with a leader who has the mentality of a spiteful child?
On a side note, has anyone been reading the transcripts of the Assange hearings and weak arguments made by James Lewis and others? All based on spite.
That last thing I can imagine wanting is a driverless car that depends on its connection via any fecking mobile phone provider.
Can you imagine the 'Driving plans' they will come up with?
That's aside from the signal suddenly dropping out at the most inconvenient moments. I can see that connected driverless cars must must have a great deal of appeal for moby companies but not for thank you very much.
I am inclined to think that for major cities and population centres, a central control would be better so that overall traffic management can be incorporated into the system, punch in your destination and the system will produce the best, most efficient route and then take over.
What could go wrong?
AAh! but they are teeny tiny chips made with alien nano technology so they fit through an ordinary needle, and they are not for tracking, it's for mind control.
Forget about using a tinfoil hat too, with this technology it will just act as an amplifying antenna.
All those anti-vaxxers who won't be responding to the mind control when they throw the switch, will be the first ones into the food processors.
I have noticed that YouTube are now playing full ads on Android before starting a video, before it was always with the option of only seeing the first few seconds then clicking 'Skip ad' now they are forcing the whole piece of irrelevant shit on to me. What Samsung is doing is even worse and arguably unethical or possibly even illegal in some jurisdictions, I hope everyone stops buying their goods if that is an indicator of their regard for the customers that enable them to exist.
Many years back I worked for a part of the TV ad industry, a lot of the people were arseholes and years later, I can see they haven't improved.
From my experience, I don't think YouTube auto captions can translate English speech into English captions, let alone any foreign language into English.
I tried watching a Spanish film using captions to try to improve my Spanish, I nearly drowned on a mouthful of beer when I read one translation, the community captioners mostly provide a good service.
If Google and FB were to pull out or reduce their services, perhaps the Oz action could be considered to be a way of breaking their monopolies.
Thereby leaving room for smaller companies to move i and offer services. As things are the two have far too much power and do more or less what they like.
"Get a real security system"
If you like dogs get a Rottweiler, it will probably allow the intruder to enter but will not let him leave.
Rotties don't bark much either, unless the baddy is trying to leave.
I'm not much of a dog lover but a Rottweiler comes a long way before buying this Amazon crap, plus it will keep your data to itself..
I have no problem with a stand alone system but connected? No thanks.
You misunderstand, banks are robbed digitally on a daily basis just based on reading reports here. Keyboard criminals attempting to steal money from banks digitally are far more prevalent than criminals attempting to stick up banks and armoured cars or break in to blow safes in previous times. I said zero about anyone hacking personal accounts.
Free from regulations and free from oversight?
Seriously, how long fo you think that will last as digital currency supercedes cash.
Most of the central banks and many mainstream commercial banks are looking at their own bit coins.
My previous post was in reference to governments and world banks all considering going digital, something many of them see as the future for two main reasons, cash costs money to make and maintain and it gives almost total control with all digital payment.
When you think about it, banks are robbed on an almost daily basis, compared to the days when a bank robber had to get dressed, nick one of his wife's stockings then go outside the house and either blow a safe or bang on the windscreen of a rolling piggy bank to get his hard won loot.
Now all they need is an internet connection and a pc.
I am no fan of the notion of digital currency, for a number of reasons.
Aside from security, privacy is likely to go right down the drain, unless there will be guaranteed methods to provide anonymity, I'll be trading veg, almonds and figs for my shopping as I grow them anyway.
Having worked in banks, including actually inside some vaults, breaking into one if you have the tools is not difficult but doing it rapidly and getting away with it is not trivial, whereas cracking a digital system requires no personal presence and can be carried out at leisure.
I find a good percentage of Spanish drivers go at or just above the speed limit including the cops but in general the driving is not bad.
Spain is the 4th safest country to drive in apparently.
The worst driving here is in Ibiza, the locals including foreigners who live there, are apalling.
If there was some way to monetise or add value to space junk, someone will find a way to get the stuff. Considering the potential cost of damaging funtional space craft there must be a value to collecting or dumping the stuff into atmosphere, it's a case of balancing cost and benefit.
Perhaps Muskie can develop a reusable space going scrap barge.
" they've taken back control, after all."
Taken back control of what exactly?
This particular item looks as though the control is to produce a throttling of trade, what is the point of preventing trucks entering Kent when what is really needed is a method to get them all on their way faster.Preventing them from getting to where they need to be will screw up trade and if they are not delivering goods to Europe or bringing goods back in will lead either to shortages or people looking elsewhere.
At virtually every step, regardless of whether or not it is related to Brexit, the UK government (left, right or centre) seems to concentrate on poorly thought out mitigations to problems that they should not have caused in the first place.
'Now the customs have to check trucks leaving and entering the UK, what do we do?'
Nothing to improve the functionality of the customs that would cost money and involve critical thinking, no just throw a dysfunctional online form filling exercise at everyone and claim it as a solution.
Should stand for Higher Power because thats the only thing that could fix my last HP inkjet.
It was less than a year old, if not used for a couple of weeks it would jam up so the print head wouldn't start, the simple remedy was a tap on the side, that quickly became a routine.
Adding to the sticky print head is that HP ink cartridges dry up if not used in a Spanish summer, even cleaning them with alcohol will not get them going again. After the second time of new cartridges drying up and the head not moving I guess my percussion exceeded maintenance levels as the platen shattered and the casing split.
Never mind the threats from Chinese social media platforms to the sanctity of American teen's data, it seems one of the biggest threats to American national security is homegrown Feacebook, followed closely by wassapp, instagram and not forgetting the damage to democratic government caused by Twitter.
Beyond human muscles is why servo systems like power steering were invented, although they can be operated by fly by wire they can also be operated by a pilot, so as I said anything that can be operated by a pilot should have an override so that in the event of Fly by wire/AI failure a meatbag can take over.
Based on every I read and hear from the UK, there is no second wave, it is still in the ups and downs of the first wave.
Two friends have just returned bto blighty and tell me that nobody makes an effort to wear a mask or distance themselves from others and are against be told what to do.
They mostly seem to think a vaccine will fix everything, which it won't.
Where I live everyone wears a mask in public, sanitise their hands going into and out of shops and we all live a fairly normal life. Locally the only new surge was when a family had a visitor from Switzerland, the whole family group of 9 caught it and the village locked down for a fotnight, nothing since and that was a month back.
Consult a road range of scientists, techologists,engineers etc, get them to look at the cuurent curriculum to see how to incorporate stem items into existing classes.
A simple example might be, in art classes introduce the tools for art, why do we use a brush? How does a brush work? With capillary action and the flexing of the bristles...
In reading comprehension use passages that include stem content at the relevant level.
As a ten year old I had a teacher who was an ex armourer on WWII aircraft, he taught us how and why a machine gun works, that brings me to the key to teaching anything, make it interesting to the audience you have.
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