Posts by Chris G

Heart age

There are so many factors at work including genetic predisposition s for contributing factors.

Personally I consider a major factor for me in keeping my 'heart age' low is the old saying ' You are only as old as the woman you feel'.

My current and first wife are both 18 years younger than me and few people believe I am the age I am.

Over four decades of martial arts helps as does not drinking to excess, when the bottle is empty I rarely open another.

Another major factor is not having a phone number for a doctor, so no home visits for me, those guys are dangerous!

Re: “maintaining simplicity while enhancing functionality is critical to usability,”

“maintaining simplicity while enhancing functionality is critical to usability,”

Being in his position, I would be unable to keep a straight face while saying that; Opening Sgripe on my Win7 takes 6 pages just to sign in, the functions that bloat it seem to work when they feel like it and quit when they are bored.

It's clear this guy is responsible for Outlook too as it shows a similar lack of basic functionality and over- complication along with similar recurring faults that should have been seen and fixed well before the release of each incarnation.

Another upper manager that can't manage.

It might be a blessing if someone could arrange as lahar from Mt Rainier to visit Redmond.

Re: Unintelligent design

Cue ' The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent' courtey of Kurt Vonnegut jr.

@ 45RPM Just these two;

"* Eradicating homelessness

* Investing more in Africa than any other country (in the wurrrllldd)"

Currently the UK is about 3.91 million homes short of a full set.

In Africa according to the FT; China put £10 billion into Africa in 2000. By 2014, that had risen more than 20-fold to $220bn

Match that Ms May!

With that kind of money the UK could have catapults on it's aircraft carriers and even aircraft.

Re: The elephant in the room!

@Herring "(e.g. cordoning off pedestrians) which just isn't going to fly."

Without cordoning off pedestrians, there is a good chance they will fly, two impacts for the price of one.

Re: Where are the local tech hype-sters?

" LAW ENFORCEMENT as a solution?"

Going by a lot of recent articles LAW ENFORCEMENT probably would eliminate the problem, as in ELIMINATE with a gun.

Police unless they are specifically trained to deal with the problems that often go along with many homeless people, don't really know how to deal with them, cops usually don't want to get down and dirty with smelly homeless types so they'll end up shooting them.

I suppose that is a kind of answer if they're all dead there won't be a problem.

Perhaps SF could modify a couple of garbage trucks, then go for the Soylent Green option. Then they would have a source of food for the remaining homeless.

Or maybe they could try caring?

@ Charlie Clark

"Oh, and the next time the government gets to appoint someone to the BBC Trust"

The government shouldn't be appointing anyone to the trust, there is enough criticism of the Beeb toeing various lines and it's reporting being biased. No government no matter their apparent beliefs is going to make an appointment that is truly non political. That's why governments shouldn't be able to appoint judges either.

To be honest I don't see much independence in the majority of the media, they are nearly all allied to some cause and biased, which is why I like the Reg, you get the odd article that seems to have a bit of a flavour but by and large it is allied only with itself.

Re: Balls

You are critising a government not a people, much as they like to think so the Israeli government does not speak for all Jewish people. At least not judging by conversations I have had with one or two Jewish friends who disagree with a number of policies.

Kudos to Israel though for telling Microshaft to poke it.

Re: We need to strike back

In addition it should click on every ad hundreds of times, it would make the data meaningless and cost the advertisers a fortune. Maybe they would give up and go away.

Re: Mr Universe Makeover too?

Wasn't Arnie a role model for that working as a nanny?

Perhaps we could see muscle bound midwives or buff bunnies?

The real answer is in a combination of upbringing and early education,stupid discriminatory competitions are not going to change society

Re: Why

Well maybe MS is less than keen on the jaffa (they are pro dreamer) so publishing the fact they have taken down fake anti Trump sites set up by the Russians adds fuel to Russian support for Trump.

Re: Railcard Head Orifice

It has been upgraded from cards punched with a pencil based on telegraph tape received.

Re: let's go back to the good old days... oh wait!

You haven't thought this through very much have you Tim?

Or for that matter, have been paying much attention to the article or comments.

Re: Not just location data

I was under the impression that GDPR did staye that opting out should be simple.

As for the web activity and apps thing; I have looked everywhere on my phone and can't find it (android 7). Google can be useful but it is not your friend.

Re: Oh no!

As a space saving exercise you could just put the arse in, it's been seen enough times to be recognisable.

If the Tories would like to include audience participation, then may I suggest a pantomime format;

May stands at mike:

Audience shouts " Bojo's behind you with a knife"

May: "Oh no he's not"

Audience: "Oh Ye...."

May runs off stage with a rubber (possibly) dagger in her back.

Most party conferences are like pantomimes; people on a stage acting badly and not very funny.

Re: 4G

I live 5.5 Km outside of my village, when it rains the 4G and 3G disappear quite often the signal goes because nobody can be bothered to wind it up. For something like a major airport all comms other than ground to air should be multiple redundancy hard wired.

If I flew regularly I would use the Flight Board app.

Re: Add this book to the pile

A positive and helpful suggestion would be nuking everything from space, if there's nothing left there won't be any problems. First on the target list should be all of the slurpers. Including Building 8 where the zuckerborg is developing mindreading tech, how about that fot an app?.

Re: So, why don't we still have dinosaurs?

There's no reason why new life isn't making a new start every day but unless it is sufficiently isolated to evolve a little and develop defence mechanisms, it won't survive for long.To develop defence mechanisms will also require something to predate or compete with it, that takes time so one of our pre-existing and hungry organisms will likely find it before is gets far enough.

Expecting alternative routes for life forming at a later stage in evolution is for the reasons mentioned above, unlikely.

Re: Just add wireless charging

An upvote for the SA tape, I always have a couple of rolls in the house, my work shop and a roll in my antique Land Rover.

Re: The Holy Trinity

"the government wants to apprehend terrorists, paedophiles and organised crime"

I don't know why but I keep reading that as 'wants to apprehend Tourists' , maybe I have watched that Oz Customs show too many times.

Re: Skype - what is going on

"By all means, bring out new vesrions and fill them with bling ridden shit, but don't force this onto those who are perfectly served by existing arrangements."

Unfortunately it is standard MS practice to 'evolve' everything whether it needs it or not, the free Outlook had a beta option for yonks, suddenly they just changed my email to the beta and called it the new shiny, apart from it not loading, not deleting old emails ( or should I say the old emails kept coming back after deletion). Now of course the new version is more cluttered less useful but we must have it.

I can't be arsed to change as so many contacts know this one including many who are no longer on my contact list, (Thanks MS).

Re: I wonder why it always comes down to money?

Perhaps that's the answer for all elections, put all candidates in an arena with a bayonet each, by default last man standing is the new official. Isn't that how politics started anyway?

Re: How High?

In Canada and Siberia, bears and moose are known to get drunk on berries, not sure if they eat them fermented or they ferment inside the animal.

I think I would prefer to deal with a couple or few p8ssed wasps than a bear or a moose.

Many decades back some mates and I stuffed the blackpowder from several penny bangers into a cardboard tube, inserted it into a wasp nest, lit the blue touch paper and retired, not far enough though. The wasps were quite annoyed at what we did to their nest, I was one of the fastesy runners and had half a dozen stings, a couple of the other lads had more. After that we were a little more responsible in our selection of demolition targets.

So, Mr Ferret, or may I call you Fursty?

To which complex subject are you referring? Oncology with regard to brain tumours or ML/AI?

Both are assuredly complex but I doubt these researchers were fully trained in both.

My feeling is that many researchers are looking for high profile or attention grabbing subjectet to apply their ML projects to rather than simply trying to make these systems work.

Why not teach a system to diagnose faults in sewing machines and teach them to fault find all of the problems that can occur in sewing machines both industrial and domestic, it's a massive market with millions of machines worldwide, also unlikely to result in a horrible death for someone.

Of course sewing machines are not quite the headline grabber as brain tumours. Maybe you don't appreciate the complex job of being able to write about a broad range of isuues in an engaging way that also questions a subject as much as reporting on it.

Re: It's Devon, they probably think spell check is the work of the devil.

When oi lived in Norf Deb'n in the late '70s we 'ad the largest number of witches covens in Britain. You tek the piss outta Devon, oi'll get Granny Greep ter turn you inta a turnip.

Oi blames the spellin' on Taunton natrul droi!

Re: Surely there's a better venue for the next conference?

North Korea seems to have a positive attitude towards hacking, perhaps some arrangements could be made for next year.

Re. NSA employees

What do they put in their Linked in profile?

' I develop and expedite projects and technologies for spying on my fellow Americans'?

Profile pic from Spy vs spy.