Posts by BristolBachelor 2200 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2009
The difference is, shadow copies keeps copies that you SAVE. Versions on Mac just decides to save every now and then, even if you don't want it to (say you open a picture & crop it a little to print one bit; yup, it's just saved the crop; hope you didn't want the rest).
As for options (what are options?), no you can't turn it off.
What difference does it make if you know someone's real identity, if all you want to do is sell them stuff (or sell someone else advertising)?
I can go into thousands of shops and buy things without any need for anyone to know my identity. If BristolBachelor says he wants 100 widgets and pays you what you want for 100 widgets, what difference does it make who BristolBachelor really is? (I am ignoring the sale of guns and rocket launchers, because that is just silly!)
At the top it says: "terabyte-per-platter drives"
Then it says: "have 250GB to 1TB capacities"
How does that work? They are fitting ¼ of a platter?
Doesn't that cause vibration problems? :)
Seriously I'm not impressed; just ordered a bunch of 7K3000 and am still waiting for them. Should've waited!
So please jake, tell me how I ought to organise my library.
When I have a file, say "2011-09-06_MG_2342.CR", where do I file it? Myself, I'd file it in 2011-09-06, I'd then use software to find it when I want it.
What would you do? Would you copy it to the directory "Portrait", and also copy it to "Fashion", and also to "Red_dress", and also to "Iman", and also to "AM1178" and also to "Cibeles"......
However, it still only indexes (or searches in) files that it thinks that you should look in.
If you are looking for a netlist (or text schematic) that contains certain terms, it won't find it. Even if you restrict the file extension to the ones you want, it just says none, without even telling you that it didn't look because it doesn't like .net or .asc files! Of course if you have permissions to roger the registry, you can change a setting, but then that's more work than grep!
And actually Playmobil is very big in Spain (In fact there is a set with 18" high characters!), so I don't know what his excuse is recently (Playing with Paris & Lohan?)
I think the last one I saw was a parody video of Joy Division, but I don't get to El Reg as often as I'd like.
"...you can't put them into the DNS without control of the domain [or compromising the DNS provider ;])"
Of course if this certificate was cut for man-in-the-middle attacks, it means that they already compromised the DNS provider to point blah.google.com to their man-in-the-middle server. But I assume that you already knew that, and hence the 'solves' and the ;]
a) So if the browser is talking to blah.google.com and receives a certificate issued by a CA, how does it know if any other servers in google.com have certificates from a different CA?
b) The certificate is created by doing some maths using the private key of the CA, the name of the CA, the servers name and the public key to talk to the server. The maths doesn't know or care anything who the server says it is or if it should. Once you have access to the algorithm and the private key of the CA, you can cut any keys you want.
Reminds me of my last company, when the tape drive broke on the software production server. Someone decided that we couldn't buy a new one, because the new SAN took all the money and it had an excellent new tape drive in. I was instructed to run a cron job each night to copy the source code repository to the SAN which was in a different building (The backup software couldn't backup to the SAN).
It took just over 25 hours to copy the entire repository over the internal network, so the next night the job started before the first had finished. I can't remember how long this nonesense went on for before they decided to buy a new production server and just connect it directly to the SAN. Whatever, it certainly saved the cost of a tape drive :)
I can see a use for WebOS:
The quick to start OS on a laptop so you don't have to wait for Windows to read War & Peace
before you can surf, read emails, etc. (more suited to the PC division)
The main OS on a netbook. Linux didn't go down that well on netbooks because it wasn't windows that people knew. However now that smartphones / tablets have iOS and Android that are not windows, and now that more is being done using cloud apps, maybe, just maybe it can work. (more suited to the PC division)
Alternative for a lights-out processor. Only needs a puny ARM processor, but can still do quite a lot. (more suited to the PC division).
WebOS in a HP that just sells software services that normally run on big iron or racks of servers? I must admit I'm a bit lost.
Yeah, the big people may have centrally provided route plans that could take this stuff into account, but everyone else will be doing what the sat-nav in their cab says. Or are they suggesting that the lorry drivers have a laptop on the dashboard to use their web-based service while they drive?
I can understand the problem in LEO; there are lots of different orbits in different planes, different altitudes, different amounts of circularisation, different inclinations, etc. This all means that things that com into contact can be travelling at very different velocities (leading to spectacular events).
However in GEO, everything runs in a flat plane level with the equator, and at a fixed altitude, so they all go around together. Old things get pushed out to a higher altitude. Anything left un-powered at the normal GEO altitude will gently drift to one of a few dead-spots. I don't think that there is much chance of things coming together up there.
To the first poster; it isn't the government buying all these things; it's YOU! If you don't want things made there, don't buy things made there.
The problem is this though. If everything was made where you are, you would find that you no longer have enough money to buy all the things you want; what you would be able to earn wouldn't cover the now increased prices of everything. Things are made in places like China because YOU, the consumer insists on having everything as cheap as chips.
As for the 2nd poster; China is still doing this. They dictate the minimum wages; in Shenzen where I had stuff made, it shot up 2 years ago. Oh and they also permanantly shut down a battery making factory of Panasonics when it was shown how badly polluting/poisonous to the workers it was.
I was mugged once; it involved CS gas, so I couldn't see to use it as a weapon; however the low-lifes that did it didn't want it because it was an "old brick phone"
I also remember a flight attendant saying that it was a very big phone and me opening it and saying that no it was a very small laptop :)
So all Google UK has to do is pay Google Ireland £5.9bn for "services" and it's profit is much less. It can then pay corporation tax on that profit.
And that's how they do it, "Jus' like that"
Now here's the other thing. I think that the £6bn counts towards the UK GDP, but the £5.9bn also counts towards Irelands GDP, even though it's really the same money. You could create a system (call it infinate loop) where you just pay money between companies for "services" and get any GDP you want, no?
Or for £36 you could have a real number keypad with real moving keys that actually attaches to the blutooth keyboard to make it appear as a proper keyboard (as-in with numbers!)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Numeric-Keypad-Apple-Keyboard-Bluetooth/dp/B004EFL22C
Yeah, I'm sure you can find others, or cheaper, but I just happened to see this one.
If you really don't like the "magic" touch pad, sell it for a lot more than the £36 that this costs!
When you manufacture things in the far east, you sometimes consider that the 6 weeks or so on a boat is a part of the manufacturing process (sometimes things will be ordered Delivered Duty Paid). Apart from the possibility of part manufactured items, maybe there are some in the pipeline somewhere already.
Possibly someone in HP with no idea at all (so it could be everyone in HP!) didn't realise that they would sell out like hot cakes once they put an even less than reasonable price on them, and no-one considered them all selling out before the next batch arrived.
...not bad at all.
Now the zoom on Google Earth seems a triffle limiting.
Is there a laymans page that explains the mimimun dimension? Is it that dimensions quantize? If not then you can't have 1.5 times the minimum, becuase you can't say how much bigger than 1 it is, no?
Also why is the minimum / quanta so much smaller than any physical thing? Do the physical things move around on a grid of that size? or do they move around gridless, but if they get closer than that minimum then something weird happens?
After thinking about that, my worst case analysis has just got interesting again :)
I seem to remember reading that Rare Earth Metals aren't really that rare; although they aren't easy to separate and purify.
As with most things, you used to get them in lots of places (including America), then everyone decided it was cheaper/easier to buy them from China and stop doing it themselves. That was great until people wanted China to make everything, so now China use most of the REM that they produce, meaning that it's harder for anyone else to buy them.
America and other countries could start processing them themselves again, but it's far easier to just bitch on about China (who are only in that position because everyone put them there; also to be honest if you only had enough food for you, you wouldn't go selling it to others, now would you).
As for reducing the need for REMs, not much. The lasers that you want to use for the transmission end will want a little Nd. Plus all the magnets for all the windmills to power them want loads more Nd, plus there's no point in having fast internet without screens etc, more REMs...
I stand back waiting to be flamed because I've totally misinterpreted the state of things.
Graphene is very good in pencils. It slides off the graphite very easily and then sticks to the paper, allowing you to see the path the pencil took.
Although according to my wife, you can't decipher anything from the shapes I leave on the paper (Engineers' writing is almost as bad as doctors'), so in my case it doesn't help.
Previous experiments have looked at this in microgravity. If you go to the UK Space museum in Leicester you can even see some of the early kit. Basically you put it on a frame and spin it slowly. Otherwise yes, the plants end up looking like the cables in your switch rack.
However if you don't care what your food looks like (or are already used to eating quorn), then organisms that don't have roots and leaves would seem better. Just pump them through transparent pipes and give them sunlight.
To be fair, the food the rest of us eat now (frozen microwave curry) is hardly on a par with what it was when Yuri Gagarin went into space.
As far as bioregeneration goes, I'd have thought that a tank that processes human waste and turns it into food using a collection of microbes would be a lot easier to implement. The microbes could be selected to also remove CO2 from the air, produce O2, and hopefully not produce too many other gasses.
Of course adding in some yeast to provide alcohol wouldn't go a miss too.
Apples gripe is that Samsung has made a device with is flat, rectangular and has rounded corners, which are all new things that Apple has given us and has exclusive rights to.
Also Apple are not happy that when you ask the Samsung device to list the applications, it does so using a grid of icons; something that only Apple should do (Windows Program Manager or Windows Explorer excepted)
"intended to benefit Google, not Google+ users"
Well of course. Everything Google does is to benefit Google; to expect otherwise is at best naive.
And most of the arguments I've heard about Google+ real names policy is that their "real names" doesn't allow real names; you cannot use letters that Google doesn't like, you have to have a firstname and a second name, your name cannot be more than x letters.....
The ISS has always had Soyez docked for emergency evacuation. You cannot use a shuttle for that because it needs too much pre-work before undocking, and can only re-enter at certain times. The crews have no problem of needing to leave, only that it is unfortunate if it happens before the next crew arrives.
As for crew rotation, that isn't done using Shuttle because it is recognised that the Shuttle doesn't have a perfect track record (It's also very expensive). The Shuttle was only used to ferry parts that were too big to take up by other means.
I think that this is the first loss of a progress craft after a LOT of flights, so it can generally said to be OK, although the recent trend is worrying.
As for US / Nasa launches, do you forget the recent loss of the Glory satellite that occured because the shroud did not separate? And it was a repeat of the same satellite on the same rocket, with the same failure even after an investigation into the first failure, and clearance to launch again.
" NASA's ISS manager Mike Suffredini said..."
Now if the ISS can remain on orbit indefinitely, why will it need to be de-orbited in (choose a date 2015, 2020, 2025, 2028...)? If it can remain on orbit indefinitely, why do we keep sending fuel up to it? Can it really stay up there indefinitely without Progress going up all the time?
Did someone from Nasa really say that?
I thought that they didn't scrap their server product line. They just got rid of the rack-mount version with dual supplies.
Instead, you can use the new one; it's flat, rectangular and with rounded corners.
If you want to mount them in a rack, you can buy special (expensive) trays from 3rd parties, because we all know that it doesn't matter how you hold an iDevice, it just works :)
You read the description of the phone on the comparison site and suppliers pages, you order it.
First time you switch it on you find that the background is Barbie PINK and cannot be changed. Oh and the menus seem to have been translated from Chinese through Russian and Urdu on their way to English, and that's even if you get the touch screen to respond properly and can wait long enough for the options to load.
Now why is it that I want to look at what I'm spending my money on again?
It seems that often there isn't a legit reason. They just want to collect it all and try to fit it all together.
The judge said that they can have the data, that's no problem; they just have to justify it ("I was curious", or "I wanted everybodies data to mine" just doesn't cut it)
It is unusual to see a major phone maker with a dual-sim phone (after all what network is going to supply a phone designed to let you use it on someone elses network!)
Normally you have to get a dodgy adaptor to take 2 sims that doesn't fit inside the phone, and you have to turn the phone off/on to swap SIMs, you can't have both registered at the same time and receiving calls from either one or make calls on whichever you want)
The other option is one of the no-name chinese ones on eBay with no/badly translated manual and zero support.
Give me a decent smart phone with dual-SIM and I'll buy it at the drop of a hat. (At the moment I just have to carry around several phones; the £10 LG GS101 being one of them)
I think this is a bit of a coincidence. I'm not going to suggest sabotage like other commentards might, but these things have normally been quite reliable, and I think that this is the 6th launch failure this year for the Russians.
Normally after a couple of failures everyone is on their best behaviour and trying to not make any mistakes lest someone cut their nads off (or out, can't be sexist!).
Even more suspicious is that these failures are not all on a common platform...
"And the Apple Cube... "
I don't know about the Cube, but the horrible blue iMac case was copied from the Dyson DC03 clear. Sir Dyson even has a letter to prove it which he will show you if you get too close.
Of course they are not competing for customers, so it's all nods and smiles rather than laywers at 12 paces...
I'm not that sure that I trust the US with nuclear more than I trust North Korea. Not only did they use a couple in Japan to show what they can do, or that they considered the use of them in Iraq, but they keep building more technology for the simulation / improvement of nuclear weapons. They also seem to be addicted to warefare.
Also whereas the Russians are deactivating their warhead stockpile and converting it into fuel, the word on the street is that the US are just removing the warheads from rockets and storing them.
As for power from nuclear fuel, I think that the more the better.
I think that the UK's (relatively) poor technology record is the failure to invest in it. In Cambridge, there are a lot of companies doing tech, and getting investment there is OK, but in lots of other places, the banks or others will not lend. The UK has become more about finacial markets (gambling the money in the stock market, rather than investing it in technology).
It seems strange to me that they won't invest in anything ultil it is planned to the last atom and has a risk factor of 0.0001%, but betting millions in buying/selling currencies/bonds, etc. doesn't even turn heads.
The UK certainly has people who a bright enough to engineer the products, certainly there are people with the right ideas of what to engineer, it just doesn't seem to happen to the same degree as in other places.
I love the eBay search (and also agree that Amazon's is the worst search EVER).
- In ebay, it only returns items containing the words you say (better than Google!)
- You can add - modifiers (e.g. drain cleaner -rice)
- You can search for alternative words; drain (cleaner, unblocker)
OK it would be nice to search for terms in the title and separately terms in the description, or for things like "ships to Spain", but otherwise it's all good. Hope it does go all Google
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