Posts by the Jim bloke

(pleased to note my phone doesn't believe that is a word)

.. finally..

Something worthy of being called a smartphone

Re: Some submarine!

.. just a short flying-car drive round the corner, past the cure-for-cancer shop, but still a couple of blocks closer than world peace.

Can vegans be far behind?

If the volcano environment had a bit more architecture and some pitchfork-waggling pedestrians, they could call it home.

Depending on what flavour of vegan you're talking to, some do have a point ( and others are just pricks).

Its not whether they are trying to save the world, or just think animals are 'icky', it is how much misery they try to inflict on other human beings.

Re: Foldables

I am not interested in a foldable phone, my 6.2" phablet is adequate for phone use.

Where I do want to see the technology deployed, is in laptops.

15" seems to be becoming the standard, but even 17" screens are becoming harder to read as I age.

Plugging in a 2nd monitor is the default response, but that brings in the same issues of dragging multiple pieces of hardware around or doing without, if there is not a free monitor available at your point of use.

Re: When a baby cage doesn't solve the true problem

sounds great.

Where is the playpen to put management in until they have demonstrated mastery of potty training and the ability to play well with others?

Re: Hang on ...

If the water being removed from the atmosphere -actually- was being removed from the system, say, by being put into a pipe and sent a hundred kilometres away, then it could be a problem, but pulling it out of the air and feeding it through a human is but a temporary detour on the grand adventure that is a water molecules existence. There are probably water molecules floating around that have existed since before life developed.

Efficiency achieved will vary with the relative humidity, so drought conditions will still be a crisis, especially as temperatures increase, but it is a form of recycling... - the 10 million litres your city of 2 million inhabitants consume in a day will be exhaled and sweated out to be available again tomorrow, less any piped away in sewerage -( maybe keep your treatment plants nearby and upwind for maximum recovery)

Hydrogen as a fuel replacement will synergise with this technology, so win win there.

From a civic planning perspective (so ignoring poor people) providing urban water features such as ponds and fountains will improve the efficiency of these, and reduce the amount of services needing to be connected to each building (sewers still required).

Even poor quality water could improve the local humidity, as you are basically using the atmosphere to distil the water.

Re: "We will not rest until the periodic table is exhausted"

"Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."

WTF (ium)?

Jet?

Diamond?

Steel?

Sapphire?

Somebody is demonstrating that their degree is in marketing...

Re: "Pack your bags"

What we need is a short, victorious, war....

Re: Ummmm, no...

Charles Bronson was the guy from the Death Wish movies. I have a vague memory he had some role with the NRA.. Spokesman? Talking head?

Mel Gibson was the guy from the Lethal Weapon movies.

neither have the same credibility now they had when those movies were blockbusters.

Time moves on.

Re: Various Comments.....

..so.......banks, credit card companies, the military, and so on......all using "encryption before messaging"................and all proving that they are guilty of something?

yes.

we all know this.

The benefit to the various institutions is that we dont know what, exactly, they are guilty of, so under the laws of the land, they are free to continue.

Whose side are you on ?

That sounds like some kind of user-friendly heresy.

Next you will be saying that buying the hardware gives some kind of rights for control over it.

Microsoft,

Just because they arent facebook, doesnt mean they are your friend..

Hot water system in our apartment failed/needed replacing.

Turns out it was a custom size from a manufacturer who has vanished.

The old one had a spot in one of the apartment built-in wardrobes, with basically a plywood box around it to hide it from view.

the replacement is narrower - but taller, so it has a lot of space around the edges, but protrudes through the top of its enclosure, and we have just left the top panel off in a totally half-arsed failure to complete the installation.

Thinking about it, it would be a relatively easy DIY project to fix... if the apartment had any space suitable for doing any hardware projects..

Re: I guess I'm too much of a navigation geek...

I perfected my navigation skills playing the original Wizardry computer game..

I could tell exactly where I was from 3 perpendicular white lines, identical to every other white line, on a blank field.

This is actually based on a similar principle to the fallback system for when GNSS loses lock - most have some sort of inertial tracking that calculates your new position based on last good position and measured movement...

Re: Apples faceid

.. but apparently can have trouble recognising people first thing in the morning - which suggests an inability to do facial recognition WITHOUT makeup.

just throw faceid and morning into a google search...

Re: Am I the only one

Does an anti-pope hold a negative mass?

Re: "a key aim of the NIF is researching the design and maintenance of thermonuclear weapons"

If you think nuclear weapons need a point, you have missed the last 200 years of weapon development...

Re: Sumption is wrong

making these people "attention whores" and not protesters.

As a side note, I object to the negative association of whores with these people.

Whores provide a useful function in society, and have a credible claim to the 'the worlds oldest profession'.

While village idiot may come pretty close to the same antiquity, it wasnt until social media took off that they have managed to unionize...

Re: The UK needs power most in winter,

we're running it to Singapore instead, at least they can afford to pay for it.