Re: @Arnaut the less & Vic
It is neither a transportation or racing machine. It is a Suicide Machine.
Do you ride it through Mansions of Glory?
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Ferraris, Zondas and ... er, a bike with a 500hp V10 under the saddle
Monday 8th September 2014 18:27 GMT
Re: Viper-engined bike is not so strange
To top it off, it sounded like you were taxiing a F-16 down the road...
I'm after one of these
There used to be a rather better video of it, with less "inspirational" music and more swearing - but that seems to have gone AWOL...
Vic.
Saturday 6th September 2014 13:20 GMT
Re: fugly
That motorcycle though...just no. Motorcycles benefit from removing complication and adding lightness
There was something a few years back called the Boss Hoss. It was basically a Harley Davidson frame with a Chevrolet V8 crowbarred inb the middle.
It performed rather well in a *very* straight line, but the first hint of a side-wind meant a lean into it - with a resulting loss of the read end :-(
There comes a point, in motorcycles, where lots of torque is simply a liability.
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Data entry REAR-END SNAFU: Weighty ballsup leads to plane take-off flap
Friday 5th September 2014 22:10 GMT
Re: "That meant the pilot had to get the jet into the air without scraping the tail on the runway."
It's easy to have fine motor control when you're doing things well within your physical capabilities, but as you get towards the edge of your comfort zone, your accuracy will be diminished.
He was flying a 737 - it's got dual hydraulic controls. He would have been aware of the elevator being heavier than normal, but it's nowhere near the limit of his ability to pull the column, unless he is extremely infirm...
Vic.
Friday 5th September 2014 20:36 GMT
Re: Computers
Having a computer take over as many of the boring pre-flight checks as it has instrumentation to perform is likely to increase safety. A computer will do the same thing over and over again with almost 100% reliability.
I disagree. The computer will only process the data it is given - so it won't be able to do the sanity checks that a pilot can, because the pilot has additional information (e.g. he can stand at the door and watch the SLC do its stuff). The computer just doesn't have that data - so if there is an error of data entry, it is likely to go unnoticed. This can only reduce flight safety.
I agree about actually flying the plane
The nen-route section of the flight is the one place I am perfectly happy for the computers to do the work - as long as the pilots keep an effective watch and have the option to switch off the AP.
Vic.
Friday 5th September 2014 19:02 GMT
This is the sort of thing that the plane's computer should do
No, absolutely not.
De-skilling the pilot's job is what leads to accidents - Air France has several crashes that are entirely because the pilot(s) decided to put all their trust in the computers (and then failed to jnotice that the computer was telling them not to).
Weights and balances calculations are a simple operation; all that's needed is for the check-in staff to *check* their passengers in properly.
Not having any instrumentation so the problem can't be detected until the plane is halfway down the runway, is crazy. That may well be too late
It isn't too late. The take-off procedure allows for this sort of error, and will leave the pilot plenty of room to abort the take-off if the aircraft cannot be flown. Aircraft designers aren't *all* idiots...
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Friday 5th September 2014 18:55 GMT
I'm stunned they're not already doing this.
It was first introduced on the Boeing 707. Airbus also have a similar system.
I'm told it's not that useful on account of wind blowing over some large aerofoil surfaces attached to the fuselage...
Airbus aircraft can measure the performance in flight and determine aircraft loading that way.
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The BNP can rip off your works for ‘parodies’ – but only if it's not racist
Don't buy that phone! It ATTRACTS CRIMINALS, UK.gov will tell people
Wednesday 3rd September 2014 17:13 GMT
Re: Here's an idea....
How would they do their usual "you're walking funny in a hoody, so I'm going to drive alongside you at walking pace for the entire length of the street just to fuck with you" move if they aren't in a car though?
The last "interaction" I had with the Police, they stopped to see if I was dead. When they found out I wasn't, they gave me a lift home.
It's good to be an old fart sometimes[1].
Vic.
[1] Especially when you've been on the sherbert :-)
Jimbo tells Wikipedians: You CAN'T vote to disable 'key software features'
Wednesday 3rd September 2014 16:43 GMT
Re: There's a simple solution - fork Wikipedia
If every content writer* left WP all the WMF needs to do suck up their content from wherever they happen put it.
You're assuming that the new content repository will have the same licences as the old one for all material. This is not necessarily the case.
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Our Vulture 2 rocket spaceplane crammed with more power
CNN 'tech analyst' on NAKED CELEBS: WHO IS this mystery '4chan' PERSON?
Govt waves stick at pirate-friendly Google search
Virgin Media blocks 'wankers' from permissible passwords
Monday 1st September 2014 10:24 GMT
Re: Racial slurs
Chink still has a legitimate use in language - the others do not (and lets be honest, never really have), other than to offend.
On the contrary - the term "wog" was originally intended as a compliment - it was a statement that the person in question had achieved the lofty state of "westernised", despite his oriental origins.
Now, of course, the attitude that "western" is somehow better is obviously crap in and of itself - but it was prevalent at the time. The term "wog" was simply an arrogant and self-important society saying that someone from without their ranks had become one of them.
The meaning did change over time, of course...
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Boiling point: Tech and the perfect cuppa
Kaspersky backpedals on 'done nothing wrong, nothing to fear' blather
Saturday 30th August 2014 11:30 GMT
Re: When you accept that terrorism trumps privacy
an average of five people a year over the previous decade died in terrorist acts (most on July 7th 2005). An average of five people a year die from bee and wasp stings... an average of three thousand a year died in traffic incidents over the same time in the UK.
Indeed.
People seem to believe that some putative "War on Terrorism" is in their interest, yet the figures quite clearly show that a "War on BMW" would be both much more effective and much cheaper to prosecute...
Both "Wars" are nonsense, of course. It concerns me that we're letting them get away with waging one.
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BOFH: The current value of our IT ASSets? Minus eleventy-seven...
Mozilla's 'Tiles' ads debut in new Firefox nightlies
Friday 29th August 2014 08:28 GMT
How would you do it?
Not like that.
Firefox is Free Software. It can be forked.
This Sponsored Tiles idea is *so* bad that we will see large-scale adoption of IceWeasel. And then Mozilla will get *nothing*.
There will be a U-turn. Mozilla usually comes to its senses eventually (albeit usually way too late...)
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Oz fed police in PDF redaction SNAFU
IT blokes: would you say that lewd comment to a man? Then don't say it to a woman
Tuesday 26th August 2014 07:47 GMT
Re: Sceptical.
The only way I can imagine a normal IT person acting even remotely like this is if they were totally smashed, but who drinks like that at a conference (or workplace?)
I agree - as geeks, we may be socially inept, but we tend towards the introverted.
But conferences are different - a large percentage of the people there are not geeks; they have but a passing interest in IT at all. They're sales people,
I've spent quite a bit of time with sales teams over the years - a lot of them have strange ideas about acceptable behaviour, with or without alcohol...
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Monday 25th August 2014 19:33 GMT
Re: Surprised..
In my entire career working with many women, I have never seen this kind of thing and I hope never to have to witness it.
I was thinking much the same.
Perhaps it's a Left-pondian thing, because if that sort of thing happened over here, I'd expect someone to get a proper slap...
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The police are WRONG: Watching YouTube videos is NOT illegal
LOHAN Kickstarter bid IS GO: Back our Vulture 2 spaceplane launch
Sunday 24th August 2014 08:29 GMT
Rumour has it that the States is a no (good) beer zone.
Although it's good to take the piss whenever possible, some of the best beers I've had lately have been from the USA. There *are* excellent brewers over there.
That said, the amount of good beer available pales into insignificance alongside the vast quantity of undrinkable horse piss they usually sell :-(
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BBC goes titsup: iPlayer to News websites down – Auntie working to fix it
Fast And Furious 6 cammer thrown in slammer for nearly three years
Sunday 24th August 2014 17:22 GMT
Re: Sir
Copyright and patents exists to avoid to "steal" ideas
No they don't. Infringing on copyright or patent rights does not deprive the original holder of that property, and is therefore not stealing. That doesn't make it right - but it's no more stealing than it is paedophilia.
Or do you imply that industrial espionage in not "stealing"?
I don't imply it - I'm outright stating it. Industrial espionage is not stealing, nor is it arson - it is industrial espionage
Copy-right exists exactly to rule about rights of copying someone else work.
Correct. No argument there whatsoever.
Because in this case you can steal without actually removing the original
No you can't. Stealing would deprive the original copyright holder of his property such that he can no longer exploit it. So you *could* steal his (copyrighted) manuscript, but you cannot steal his materiel by way of copying it. It's just not possible.
You all try to absolve yourself
No. No-one is trying to absolve anyone. Copyright infringement is wrong, and there are few more vocal about that being wrong than I. But trying to claim that it is "stealing" just makes you look ignorant - it isn't stealing, it isn't treason, it isn't GBH. It is wrong, but it isn't tax evasion.
Vic.
Sunday 24th August 2014 16:09 GMT
Re: Sir
don't try to assert it's right and those people who steal for your downloaded should get little punishment
The phrases "it isn't stealing" and "it's right" are entirely different and mean different things.
Breaching copyright isn't right, and is punishable. But that doesn't make it stealing. Stealing has its own definition, and this isn't it.
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Saturday 23rd August 2014 21:10 GMT
Re: Civil --> Criminal
I still don't quite get how what is surely a civil offence at its heart is handled as criminal by the courts?
He was charging for each copy - that means it's a commercial endeavour, and so covered by the notorious Seciotn 107 of CDPA '88.
That makes it a criminal offence.
I've offered my vote to any politician who will repeal this legislation. None have taken me up on the offer...
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True fact: 1 in 4 Brits are now TERRORISTS
TRANSMUTATION claims US LENR company
Microsoft refuses to nip 'Windows 9' unzip lip slip
Friday 22nd August 2014 12:02 GMT
Re: WIndows 8, SP2?
but there is a reason that no one invented the sausage-interface-wand before now.
We tried it in the '70s. We called it a "light pen" back then, but it's functionally little different from a touch interface (aside from bing necessarily single-touch).
It wasn't very successful because it's ultimately not a very nice interface except for a few specialised situations...
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Friday 22nd August 2014 08:55 GMT
MS is not exactly competing with an iOS device through a version of traditional Windows
They're competing for cash.
Contrary to the beiief of many marketroids, punters do not have infinitely deep pockets. Whilst the overlap between iPhone buyers and W9 buyers might not be as large as for certain other combinations of stuff, there will undoubtedly be some people who are the targets of both marketing campaigns.
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[ Who isn't the target of either campaign... ]
Carbon tetrachloride releases still too high, says NASA
What a pain in the mass! Euro craft Rosetta to poke its probe in 10-BILLION-tonne comet
I don't see dead people: Twitter to nix some images of deceased folk
Kate Bush: Don't make me HAVE CONTACT with your iPHONE
'Leccy racer whacks petrols in Oz race
Tech patent hoarder Intellectual Ventures to lose a fifth of its trolls
Steve Jobs had BETTER BALLS than Atari, says Apple mouse designer
Wednesday 20th August 2014 14:40 GMT
When swapping from right to left hands you generally reverse the buttons so you can still use your forefinger for a primary click - which is now a right click, not a left click.
When I damaged my right hand some years ago, I had to learn to use a rat left-handed.
It was actually easier than I thought it was going to be.
The hardest bit was moving to a rather smaller office some months later, when I would frequently grab my neighbour's mouse bu accident...
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