Posts by JassMan

Re: Remind me

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-06-11/softbanks-arm-ltd-says-china-ceo-fired-for-serious-irregularities-101565410.html

Yes the parent group is owned by the Japanese but I believe that ARM China is a semi autonymous company. Something that many of the people who keep downvoting me seem to have conveniently forgotten. All chips licenced by chinese companies are designed in one of the ARM China design centres in Beijing, Shanghai or Shenzen. If the Chinese gov doesn't have any influence in those centres then the downvoters must be living in an alternate reality where Beijing has granted independence to HongKong

Re: Switching on the "monitor stand"

The small shiny bits that make up tinsel and other decorations are inside out compared to your understanding. The plastic which provides the base colour and physical strength is on the inside. Aluminium is then sputter coated on the outside in an almost mono-molecular layer, thus making it almost transparent. The result is as you have noticed, reasonably conductive at higher voltages.

"stupid students. I love feeding wild animals"

Stupid AC - kangaroos are herbivores. They should never be given possums which are made of meat even if served with a side order of peach stones which are also toxic (being full of prussic acid.)

@Allan George Dyer

Not one of those biscuits has passed my lips since the day (at the age of 6) my uncle told me they were squashed fly biscuits. My father not only agreed with him but said "look, bite the end off, and you can even see the little legs". They they then continued to regale me with stories of Australian Aborigines eating witchety grubs (a very large underground caterpillar which you have to swallow whole) and Africans eating grasshoppers. It only took a week or so to realise it was a ploy to make sure the grown-ups had more biscuits for themselves but the damage was done, and I have never had the courage to taste one again.

Re: @ Iglethat & "since hes proven that hes a gullible idiot"

@veti

Not much research required, just answer 2 simple questions.

1. If any object with gravity more than 10% of earth could exist why are all planets and stars visibly round? ie. not displayed as the edge of a disc.

2. list the countries the countries you can fly to where everyone and every thing is visibly leaning (Pisa excepted) because gravity always acts on the centre of gravity and for a disc that is the centre.

Re: Makes you wonder about Dragon.

My argument is that there are orders of magnitude more satelites outside the ISS than there are inside. Ie. the ISS is in an orbit which is low even for LEO. It is so low that it needs boosting every year to ensure it doesn't fall back down because of the drag of the atmosohere. VLEO has only been in general use since 2017 because of the problems with drag.

You also say that navigating to the moon is no more complicated but it relies on an automated system being able to do astral navigation (by taking sightings and comparing to starmaps) rather than just using GPS which is how Dragon knows where it is.

I have to assume most of the downvotes are because of stupid word prediction on my phone putting toast in the middle of minimal and screwing up the spelling of trajectories.

@phogan

totally agree. The mistake made by WPL was to not set up a shell company to buy the software copy before realising they could do the job a lot better themselves. Presumably they originally had no intention of bothering to write their own.

This is always a problem with software. You never know have poorly it lives up to expectations until you try to use it, and by then it is too late. You can't even rely on online reviews 'cos most of the time they are just copypasted from the publishers own blurb otherwise its a journalist who sees it runs on his own pc, that it has some pretty screens and doesn't crash within the first hour of prodding. By definition they don't have access to terrabytes of easily transformed data to push in, in order to test the software to destruction.

The big difference difference between the EU and the US is that European laws are designed to protect the customer and to create level playing fields. US laws are written to protect the vendor and help those who have the deepest pockets. OK massive overgeneralisation but most articles about legal stuff end up giving this impression.

Re: Australian Gov legal team can not read it seems

There is only one thing more stupid than plagiarism and that is telling everyone your software is based on that by another author, then removing the original license, not crediting the original author, then putting in your own license.

Actually there is one thing more stupid and that is to set the archive flag so that when you get taken to court, you cannot erase the evidence of theft.

I expect the coffers of the Singapore Gov, the FSF, and possibly GNU will be swelling nicely.

The terms of GPL V3 are very simply stated with lots of info about the purpose and use of the license. The Ozzy lawyers are either shysters or the most illiterate people on the planet.

Re: The wolf enrobed in penguin feathers.

OK Slightly shorter:

the Penguin feathered Beast of EEE.

This brings in the fact they are trying to appeal to penguinistas, but underneath they are more like the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal and that their philosophy is Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

And in a rarebit of non-science, pundits have decided that Wales is actually a piece of moon which fell back to earth. You need to tread Caerphilly amongst cheesy puns on this site.

Hard cheddar if AC has no sense of pun. Probably no sense of irony either.

Re: The Modern UI/UX

Yup. I think UBports (Ununtu)Touch would have a wider acceptance if wasn't for its Suru theme. It is very nearly a direct take from HHTGG with black buttons on a black background which light up black to tell you it has been pressed. OK it is actually light grey on mid grey with dark grey ”highlights”, but combined with extremely tiny fonts, it does result in serious eyestrain.

Who needs access to CAN to change tyre status

My peugeot regularly tells me I have a flat tyre. Usually after clipping a pothole. You stop and measure all 4 and find they are identical to within .05 bar. The one time I needed it to tell me a tyre was flat, it didn't make a peep. At car park speeds it didn't affect handling but by the time I had stopped (about 35 m), it had completely shredded the tyre inside - the outside still looked ok, just flat. I actually stopped because the noise it made was exactly the same as having previously dragged a small wind blown branch in the wheel arch.

Re: Where on earth is that handle?

Presumably, the caption saying 4 lives saved with that particular suit includes the old geezer, in spite of the fact his life wasn't in danger till he pulled the handle.

Re: A point of order seems to need clarifying.

Just as well its not Windoze otherwise it would bring a whole new meaning to Blue Screen of Death.

Re: The service animal scam is about to come to a very abrupt end

Simple answer: service animals travel free, support animals need a paid for ticket.

Re: "Maybe the current outage is a sign"@Dz

Ithink youwill find that multi-engined helis have separate fuel tanks for each engine, in the same way as multi-engined planes. Often more than 1 tank per engine. There are valves and pumps to allow the pilot to transfer fuel during exceptional circumstances. eg if one engine stops the remaining engines use more fuel so you can transfer fuel from the stopped engine to the running to complete the flight safely. You don't transfer it all at once otherwise it affects your trim

Re: Tears in my eyes.@EVP

Just like self-certifcation fror airworthiness, that is bound to end well.

Re: The Mad Hatter Principal

Don't forget the peanuts. And a babelfhelp might help.