Posts by David Nash

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Yeah dongles dangling from our phones, that's what we need!

I remember when I had a Sony phone with an extra add-on camera.

"Who wants a camera on their phone?", I thought.

Re: Well at least

Last time I was in there, last week, I was asked about 4 times by staff members if I needed any help. I was clearly holding something I wanted to buy and was browsing elsewhere. Ask once, if they must, but 4 times in 10 minutes is over the top.

Re: Anti-GMO "GMOs ...The fact is we need them to feed the world "

GMO studies...you could start here:

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-gmo-controversy/

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/questions-on-gmos/

https://www.skepticink.com/smilodonsretreat/2012/10/24/a-survey-of-long-term-gm-food-studies/

Re: Front

It seems *any* type of snow is the wrong type. Even hypothetical not-yet-fallen snow.

Re: don't 'iCloud' anything

SD Card in iPhone?

I think that was one of the points. Use a different phone, store stuff locally.

Misunderstanding of how the tech works

"...can easily understand when someone is angry, or terrified or in pain"

I would doubt this very much. They are only machines. They don't actually "understand" anything.

Re: Electrons

Well there are many analogies between electricity and fluid flow. From "current" , "valves" (rather obsolete in the main, I admit) to one of my favourite ways to explain voltage (or EMF) as water pressure from a raised tank. Which is gravitational potential energy, hence "potential difference" etc. etc.

Re: MDM & Android

"the overpaid and inept make big mistakes"

And Google get blamed for being "slurpy".

Re: policy direction "Do renewable stuff. Don't ask us how, we don't have a fucking clue."

"This seems quite sensible...very few politicians would be qualified"

True, but also very few politicians would be qualified in the area of data encryption yet they still feel they can have a policy of "make a magic backdoor that only we can use...don't ask us how"

Re: Wait... What?

It's not working "for free". It's that compensation for variable hours is included in the salary.

All the people who think that time over and above standard hours which is not explicitly paid for must be those who are hourly paid or can't get drop the notion of accounting for each and every working moment.

Many salaried workers are handsomely paid and are happy to work reasonable hours that might sometimes (or frequently, depending) go over standard 9-5. It's when this is abused that this becomes a problem, as it sounds like it may be in this case.

Re: Print button? Customer asked. This was my life.

...if they'd pay for it.

Of course. That's what we're in business for.

Re: Any news on whether the BBC pays their side of the bargain?

"Personally, my sympathy is zero for the top 1% of earners who have dodged tax "

I agree with that sentiment but in this case it sounds like she simply did what she was told by the BBC and her accountant, rather than having "dodged" tax. It's not illegal nor immoral to pay the tax due and no more. And if she believed that is what she had done, it's not fair to suggest she was a tax dodger.

Re: Father Ted time?

Closer - or just VERY big.

Re: We don't need no education

NASA teaching space science is not "the elite deciding", it's those with relevant experience passing on the knowledge gained from it.

By the way what do you possibly think you are achieving by using the word "gummint" except to make yourself appear childish?

Re: Snipping Tool etc

On the one hand, many uses would not have resulted in a sale anyway. But on the other hand, Getty don't want to encourage the view that all images on the web are freely available. If people get used to copying images for personal use, they may do the same when they should be paying for it (eg. small business website, etc).

Re: Is spreading

No icon so not sure how serious you are but it seems to me that it's a technical problem rather than one of racism.

Re: 'a bare minimum would be forking'

"What do you do with your forked dependency's dependencies? You fork them too? And *their* dependencies? And their dependencies dependencies? And..."

Yes. That's the point that is being made.

spectrum games tapes

Also on most tape players the read head was mounted on two screws, one of which was spring-mounted, providing some adjustment of the angle of the head through a hole that you could poke a small screwdriver into.

Adjusting this was often necessary to get it to load, in my experience.

Why would you keep your paperwork in such an insecure place as a car glovebox?

@Hans 1

Obligatory "you must be new here" comment

Re: "Curvature" proves nuthin!

So please provide an experiment that will show, one way or the other, that the earth is flat, or (approx) spherical.

ie. not "it looks flat, so it's flat" but "X can't possibly occur if the earth is flat" and conversely "Y can't possibly occur if the earth is not flat".

That's how science works. Not on opinion and "it looks to me like.."

As an example, physicists repeatedly attempt to verify relativity by performing experiments that are consistent with it, and which have the ability to disprove it. Not because they don't believe it but because they are seeking to confirm what appears to be correct. So far it's held up every time.

Re: Was filling the truck with diesel ...

Doesn't even need ANPR. simple CCTV would work, I doubt there are so many fuel thieves that it needs to be automatic.

Re: He simply takes the kettle, opens the lid, shows them the lead inside the kettle,

This is apparently common. My Gaggia espresso machine came with the lead inside the water tank. Took me a while to realise too.

it could have reported the backlog sooner

Irrespective of their [lack of] contractual responsibilities, did nobody at Capita think, "hang on a minute, this could be important stuff, we better tell the NHS"

Re: Massive dwarf?

See also Neutron Star...Black Hole...etc. Lots of mass, but relatively small.

Re: This place has ****ing had its day

"So Jodrell Bank is rather key to the SKA"

I *think* that was AC's point although it's hard to tell.

Re: Yeah, right!

Many people probably think they are signing up to a "log my training routine" rather than "share my training routine".