Posts by Chris G

Re: @Pascal "First American strongly disagrees"

Not only the designer, who was probably nailed to the floor on price but also the idiot who signed off on the project.

If you have that responsibility, you ought to make an effort to understand exactly what you are responsible for.

Insurance companies are all about avoiding payouts of any kind that don't go to the C suite.

Re: Barr

The British, French, Germans, Japanese and Americans built the first railways in China so not too much IP theft there.

I wonder, if China was able to charge royalties on the invention of gunpowder how much would the West owe them now?

Re: Time for change

The Rendering Process

Are you suggesting Capita should be boiled down for the fat it contains?

You know, that might just work!

Re: 50 quadrillion kg...

I would have thought Megajubs would do the job, shirley?

Re: ICANN...Therefore I will

It does sound like a dodgy buyer waiting in the wings scenario.

Re: Another One for the Mad Comic ......

I assume from your link that prior to 2015 any hacking and IP theft was ok then?

I find it difficult to believe that any country or organisation who has or can source the wherewithal to engage in IP appropriation and industrial espionage is not not at least strongly tempted to have a go.

After all, with modern methods compared to the past it is a relatively cheap way to find out what your competitors are up to.

Re: Chanting your invocation of choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GVZXvBvd-w

Black Widow '70s

Re: Timetables matter

I think it is more about capitulating to the Postulating Primate and those behind his actions while trying to cushion British telecoms a little and providing potential wriggle room for the possibility of the sanctions against Huawei either easing or going away completely.

However, that is not going to happen, the US has always dominated the business previously and wil not stop until they think they have total control again, which probably will never happen, China has gone too far down the development road to stop now, Japan would love to have a resurgence, India and Pakistan are trying to develop their electronic industries etc.

"Hmm, sounds like a lot of work, luckily we know people who say they'll do it for us."

I am sure Capita or Tata would be willing to lend a hand for a reasonable consideration, if that goes titsup then there is always a possibility the UK could ask that nice Mr Trump to come to the rescue with a trade deal.

Re: Simpler than I expected

Since having had money taken from my account after cancelling a contract as well as the DD with Vodafone (companies can do that in Spain), I had to go and get the money back and shout at my bank.

Then I had to go to a Voda shop which is only a franchise here, I spoke to the drone on the shop who assured me everything was good, so I pointed out that I had recorded the entire conversation.

The drone was a little upset as, as far as I know you can use a recording in court here, now I record everything when dealing with people who could take my money.

Five to ten EARTH masses

Not solar, so relatively far less impactful gravitationally but according to Hawking's research, shorter lived than large stellar collapse black holes. When they have lost sufficient mass through Hawking radiation, they will rapidly deconstruct with the force of millions of hydrogen bombs.

The fun fact in that scenario is it could happen before our sun pops it's clogs.

Re: He's not an imigrant

One of the absurd things I come across as a Brit living in Spain, is the number of British 'immigrants' here who harp on about immigrants and slag off the Spanish who have welcomed them to come and live in Spain.

Some of them become quite upset when I inform them of their status as an immigrant.

Being of a swarthy disposition, there are times when I say nothing and don't let on when I hear British accents, I just let them think I am local.

It will be interesting to see what uniform DC has designed for him.

Re: WTF ....... Is the service demented and infiltrated?

Christopher Steele seems to write whatever he is paid to write, the question is, who is paying him now?

Re: So what happened?

It certainly looks to be a near terminal infection of bean counters, corner cutting wherever possible and relying on the too big to fail mantra.

I bet one of the main reasons they are still innthe running is the size if the Boeing hole that NASA has already thrown money into.

It says a lot about Boeing that they are unable to even make 'traditional' docking programming work.

It occurs to me that she may be on an internal reconnaissance to see if anything there is compatible with or will add anything useful to hololens and then possibly reccomend a sell out to Microsith.

Re: race or class

I have been to a couple of interviews in the past where part of the opening blarb from the interviewer explaining 'Who we are', they have said' We like to think of ourselves as one big family here.

That would be my exit point. When I used to go to interviews ( now retired), I always considered the potential employer had to succeed as much with my questions as I with theirs.

I have never had to listen to someone talking about 'culture fit', a good thing as I would have laughed in their face.

High Price Tag

Could it be there is already a player in the wings?

Re: Ban TikTok...

Considering the multiple, convoluted levels where you need to opt out of Google's 'helpful' monitoring on an android phone, you likely more secure on a new Huawei non android unit.

It may be that China would like to be the Borg, but Google, FB etc have already beaten them to it in the West.

I get the impression the UK government (and others) are relying on somebody eventually coming up with a vaccine that works and is hopefully affordable.

In the meantime a cheap functional testing program in broad use would go a long way toward mitigating the spread of Covid19 as would some decent education of the masses.

By now the military must have some cool eye tracking kit.

Way back in the seventies, I was at an arms fair where a four barrel 20mm AA rig attracted my attention.

The whole thing was slaved (yes I know) to a helmet that projected a cross hair in the sky so thst you just had to follow an aircraft with the cross and the cannon would follow.

The sales drone was telling a Middle Eastern looking gentleman that they were developing an eye tracking version so that the gunner didn't have to move his head quite so much to track a target.

Can't remember the maker but may have been Lockheed.

Re: Matters arising

"Is criminal mastermind oxymoronic like military intelligence?"

No, the criminal masterminds own the internet and most of everything else.

Re: Toys for the scallies

"And good for spare parts but deliberately trashing and scavenging these useful providers of handy organs will surely be the last thing on anyone's mind!

Re: Blame...

The argument that 'people want' is not strictly true; much of the time they are fairly happy with what they have got if it performs well and is value for money in the eyes of the owner.

Where the thinner, lighter, faster comes in is the constant drive to sell more product by introducing new kit, it's marketing.

So, although Apple's expensive kit is good value for money, they will still push the public to buy buy more and more new kit by planned obsolescence thereby consigning older kit to the tip.

Marketing hasn't really changed since detergent ads on TV in the fifties, every year, a new, improved formula will be rolled out that washes whiter than the competition, phones, cars, TVs and everything else is still soldvthe same way.

"Obvious troll is obvious."

That would be why I didn't bother with an icon, given the rest of the post it should be clear enough.

Re: Clearly I've missed something but

Exactly my thinking, when I first got W10, finding so many basic functions that were still in use but moved to obscure locations and a naming convention that is anything but bleedin' obvious, took me some time to overcome and produced some choice language.

Gradually and grudgingly, Microsith goes back to to some of the better functions of prior incarnations but not often enough.