Posts by Chris G

Since I was a kid watching the original Dr Who William Hartnell, I have always found it to be a bit too cheesy and the effects amateurish. The best series was the first with Roger Delgado as the Master otherwise I can take it or leave it.

Maybe they should get some input from any of the excellent British Sci-Fi writers to bring it up to date and I am talking about from a sci-fi perspective not a pc perspective.

For Space Opera, Peter Hamilton would be interesting, for whacky and bizarre fantasy, China Mieville could put a whole new slant on it.

Re: Well duh!

There are good reasons why evolution went with ears or similar organs on most higher life forms.

Light is perceived in a mostly linear fashion whereas sound goes round corners and through things, being able to hear as well as see increases survivability. IIRC up to 60% of a cat's processing power is used in interpreting the world as a compound audiovisual map. That's why cats are curious and poke around any change in their environment.

Re: "Unacceptable risk", eh? - let me guess

I'm sure reasoned thinking is involved but it's from the Aijit Pai school of thinking. This has nothing to do with National Security beyond securing a few of the nation's bank accounts.

I am just wondering when the Jaffa will get round to identifying National Threats in Europe and puuting the thumb screws on us.

Re: Cost?

I think an occupied base on the moon is something that has to come sooner or later and with thoughts of sending manned missions to Mars, the Moon will offer the opportunity to gain a lot of experience and knowledge regarding long term stays beyond the Van Allen belts.

It makes a great deal of sense to gain that knowledge relatively close by than to stick a team in a ship and cart them off to Mars hoping for the best. The alternative is to stay on Earth looking out at the Universe like a race of curtain twitchers, too scared to leave the house.

Re: Isn't this all bollocks though?

This AI bollocks is being driven by the usual suspects trolling for research money to get it off the ground

Generals nowadays may be more tech savvy and than previously but not enough to know when they are being sold a pup.

Re: Allow me to remind you

"There's your problem. You've done nothing to improve the local suppliers, instead you've dumped them altogether without even letting them know you exist."

I live in Spain, where to get basic car spares or electronic parts will involve a week or weeks of waiting and then paying at least double what I would pay ordering myself from the UK or other parts of Europe, Spanish workshops have their systems and won't change so they lose my business.

For some items nobody can compete with Chinese (or indeed US) goods on value for money so I buy there, why would I buy locally and get goods that are either overpriced or inferior?

Any business worth the description ought to be aware of it's potential and actual markets and have some idea of where it's successes and failures are, if they want my help in supporting their business they need to provide the customer with what they want not rely on patriotism.

Re: It is Art

I didn't say he was any good at it, for a start he seems to be a one trick pony and not particularly artful.

The American economy seems to be doing quite well at the moment but I think that is in spite of his policies not necessarily because of them.

Most of the seemingly positive things he hs done for the American economy like deregulation of many aspects of banking, product testing and environmental protection may encourage businesses to invest in more projects but are going to be relatively short lived in effect.

I think he wants to make enough friends in the Billionaire's club that runs the States(World) in his time as President so that he can live of the benefits for the rest of his life.

He's a sociopathic egotist he only cares about the first person he sees in the mirror each morning not the American people.

Re: up 49 per cent on first estimates.

Has anyone calculated the percentage increase overall since the beginning of the millennium on all government IT projects?

I would also love to know the figure written off as a loss over that period, of tax payer's money.

Re: Dabbs has been told right

There are languages with vocabularies of less than 500 words which seems to be the general direction of English in some quarters; that would make 'AI' journalism a doddle.

Aside from that did anyone else read "Nigerian probate lawyers" as Nigerian prostate lawyers?

I know lawyers like to specialise but......

If you're on top on the back seat of the original Mini, take your shoes off. If you don't, they squeak on the window glass.

Re: "which will be open to government employees and armed service members."

"Fire, Aim, Ready"

The FAR doctrine.

Fire first.

Aim to have a reason.

Be Ready to give the reason.

An example of a reason would be " My life was in clear and imminent danger, he was standing with his hands up in a threatening manner".

Otherwise known as Savage policing.

Re: Occam's belt sander says-

None of the category descriptions match the category name very well.

I don't think this outfit has any idea of what it is talking about, they seem to be on a par with all the list makers that turn up on YouTube and in the dailies.

Re: The Azure Blockchain Workbench

Blockchain while holding promise certainty seems to be at least as much buzzword as solution and undoubtedly there will be more than a few tripped up in the coming Blockchain World.

As for Cognizant Services, I bet the release is as much to expand the research base using client input, as providing a new service.

It's a station, it has trains in it, ipso facto, train station.

A 'rail way' is a route, road or way using rails to guide the vehicles, so at the station there may be more trains than rail.

Re: Aluminum

No, no, no, Umm should be pronounced eeumm.

Re: The USA wants Assange for what he did

Somebody downvoted you for not supporting the shooting of innocent people.

You know airing the truth about government's wrongdoings is frowned upon these days.

You would be amazed at how many girls love a LandRover with the top down.

LandRovers are for people who do things, Porsche and Ferraris are for those who need a substitute for .....stuff.

Being a LandRover driver I could provide valid reasons and purposes for the alternative use of knicker elastic.

Re: Paralysed with fear

You can generate the need for a change of trousers much closer to home. I have had a play on the Trainasium at Aldershot, a training course for the Para's I worked on it and was not a Para and thankfully didn't have a staff instructor screaming at me.

I think it has moved to Catterick now.

@ Sir Adam-All

I have worked as an Airframe engineer, from what I read here there are many commenters who have sufficient engineering knowledge to have a valid opinion and that's not to say other opinions are not valid.

Much of this boils down to common sense because we are talking about the potential to lose lives.

Are you qualified well enough to criticise these comments?

@Boeing C'mon 'fess up you know it will make you feel better to tell the truth.......................might upset your shareholders though.

Re: Not Exactly

" rubbing against the fishing vessels"

Sooo, it's a HumpBoat Whale then?

Re: 1903 / 19H1 / "April 2019" / May 2019

" If 10 is the "last version of Windows""

Let's hope it hurries up and fucking dies.

It may be that it is the largest OS in commercial use but what does that doubling of necessary OS space mean for businesses worldwide? That MS is going to shove Win10S the cloud based crap onto the entire World in the near future?

People will be really stuffed when their broadband goes down or the cloud has a brainfart.

When my Win 7 passes on next year I'm getting a Minty Penguin.

Re: Spies, spy

A majority holding is less necessary than the holding of the short and curlies of the requisite persons who can disseminate information relevant to their required outcome.

Re: New and shiny but practically pointless

I live in rural Valencia (nearest village of 2400 souls is 5.5Km) I have 4G over 95% of the time wherever I go, the country is hilly and lowish mountains, occasionally the signal drops to 3G and this is with a relatively young company called Yoigo.

Oddly, with Movistar who own and built most of the infrastructure I would be lucky to get a signal if there is a cloud in the sky.

Expert help in getting around things

Definitely that.

Nothing to see here, just a worm creating wriggle room!

Re: Giving up nuclear weapons? Not likely

To add to the mix the fact that the F35 is planned to be able to deliver the new. B61-12 tactical nuke within the next couple of years, makes battlefield nuke use a lot more likely. I can't find the reference at the moment but the US air force has described it as the ' most usable nuke so far'.

That outlook combined with the Jaffa allowing commanders in the field greater autonomy regarding tactical nuke use makes for the big hand moving even closer to midnight.