Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
"Based on current form; given that Google have taken baby steps into phone production and that they have all those partners to keep sweet, I'd say that they'll make a point of breaking things for Blackberry on the next release."
The old MS strategy of "Windows ain't done will Lotus won't run?"
Surely not.
The trouble with a lot of the DMCA is it was written by and for Big Media, like AFP and Getty., often the content "copyright holders."
It's good to see some of the actual content producers (you know, the actual creative types, who in photojournalism may well risk their lives to get a shot).
Thumbs up. I hope he fights the appeal.
Doesn't everyone deserved to have their work (whatever it is) be paid for their work?
"...because, generally speaking, they tend not to have a couple of Rolls Royce jet turbine engines strapped to their undercarriage."
A small detail that appears to have been overlooked.
Now putting a soft porus downy coating on the leading and trailing edges of the drive turbines.......
Our companies get to buy the raw materials they want at the prices they want to pay
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Our companies get to sell their goods to anyone they want at the price they want to charge
Anyone remember the huge markup shrub slapped on foreign steel for building the 9/11 memorial?
"How dare those dirty furriners (what was the Anglo-Dutch Chorus group IIRC) sell the US cheaper than steel than we can make it ourselves in 50 YO furnaces, blah, blah"
Funny how "free trade" stops being that free once the US is on the loosing side, is it not?
"These are the good folk who drove the word "use" out of American English, replacing it with "utilize." Only the crude, unwashed working stiffs of America would "use a tool"; an educated person will "utilize an appropriate implement.""
I think the rot set in with "mode" and "task" as vertbs.
But I learned most of my grammar studying compilers
"Sending a couple of human beings to orbit around Mars and return is a waste of resources even if it is private money"
Not really if it's private money that's people's personal choice.
But when it's "Oh by the way Congress, could you get NASA to let us have an SLS for this little jaunt? Thanx"
WTF's that about?
"Personally I'd be happier if they bundled Sage instead, which is not only Free Software (in the important sense), and thus is far more suitable for an educational environment, but is also written in Python, the programming language that was supposed to be the Raspberry Pi's entire raison d'être in the first place."
You want them all to learn an Accounts package?
Remember why people bought mini computers, then micro computers?
Availability
My cycles driving My terminal with My bandwidth on My schedule.
Now it looks like Amazon, MS etc can sell you truly huge chunks of processing power, but I wonder for the real cutting edge stuff is it big enough.
Thing is though people don't seem to understand that short term should be handled by industry it's the long to medium term that's a problem.
So the question is will Motorola release the specs for the various interfaces in the design and do other mfgs (or other 3d printer designs) allow parts to be made to those tolerances?
The implications are a)3D systems have done significant development work on printable parts tech in terms of resolution, ink properties etc. IE no one else can make parts this good, and you can't buy or make a printer to do so currently. b)They will let others use the tech to make parts but not parts to plug into the Motorola design or in fact any mobile phone design (until the agreement expires)
Of course if you come up with a neat idea and then tell the community of makers "Nah, nah, you can't play with our platform" you're likely to p**s them off quite a bit.
Interfaces can be reverse engineered.
Once it is known that it's possible to make parts of certain tolerances and properties it's possible to find other ways to duplicate those properties.
TBH the design might be ok but the planning behind it seems kind of dumb.
"Also, it seems to send what appears to be each button push of the remote, for example:
GET /bravia-e/l?cid=0804020703040E0F07090C01050200030807030C&v=CTV1.0&r=1300&i=0483A52C&I=0E155040&s=PKG3.901EUA&c=00524247&l=00676E65&t=0000000000000000&T=0000000000000000&e=1029&d=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: bravia-e.dl.playstation.net"
Every single button?
And this s**t does not have that.
Translation "The civil service has rumbled we've been making s**t up for years and even I cannot cover this up. Still I've got a nice fat pension and plenty of cash in the offshore accounts, and with the contacts I've got I'll soon be starting up another nice little earner. Fat cats like me don't like to go without the cream for long."
I thought you needed 20 at least.
Seriously some very "anonymous" characters have made a serious amount of cash in both the education and health services as the relevant "Sir Humphries" try to "prove" free markets deliver better service (or get their own fat handouts by playing one provider off against another).
Cynicism aside there approach sounds better than those UHV systems (the kind where a fingerprint contaminates the chamber for a week).
So thumbs up for getting it (sort of) out of the lab.
But it's still a long way from ordering it online at <etailer of your choice>
"Rather proves that the ancient Athenians had the right of it."
Careful, people might say you're an elitist (or you've read a lot of Heinlein)
Actually it could be argued that the US is an Aristocracy as it's looking as in "The best rule."
By "best" I mean
Well connected
Well inherited
Well financed.
"If you include in that farmers and everyone that works in the defense industry - then yes."
I think quite a lot of people in Colorado could also be described as "Welfare Queens"
Mine's the one with a copy of "Interface" (by the guy who wrote The Diamond Age and Snow Crash).in it.
"A 250 watt nuclear reactor would be quite a sight to see, as you'd need a self-sustaining fission reaction with far, far, far, far less fissionables than the laws of physics allow."
Actually IIRC NASA's 1st test run to connect a live reactor to a Stirling generator was (IIRC) about 20W, done in < 6months with a shoestring budget.
And yes it was reported in El Reg and was not too long ago.
This was of course just a proof of concept. BTW you forgot the #1 way to shrink reactors is to increase the enrichment.
IIRC the SNAP design ran about 97% U235.
"Is that true?"
Yes.
Reactors put out a distinct radiation signature that is just too awkward to shield. That's how the US knew the Russians were running them for their "ocean surveillance" radar sats.
I'm quite sure if the US were running some "black" reactor powered sats the Soviet Union (as it was) would have been keen to expose the fact.
"Or are we talking about the difference between a Reactor and Radio-Isotope source?"
We are. At one point the US was keen to ship a couple of Soviet Sat power reactors over to test run them. Trouble was the agency most interested (The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization) had sort of lost it's reason d'etre when the Berlin Wall came down.
"Nonsense, young man! Chinook Mk3 proves that they can get malware written, documented and installed. Admittedly only on their own aircraft, but they can do it."
Indeed.
A fine piece of "development" work. Yet another example of the MoD's "Oh we can't use anything off the shelf because our needs are so special."
Still got to keep the (what is it?) 14000 staff in MoD procurement Bristol employed, eh?
"You assume it's BS. Thing is, for the most part, it's not. We've really become the Global VILLAGE (And I mean that in the sense of a small, tightly-knit community that can easily tell who's doing what. IOW, Villages have no expectation of privacy)."
Funny yous should say that.
I think it's also like a village. Actually I think it's like The village, as in The Prisoner.
Complete with the pandemic data surveillance.
Nobody asked to have their privacy taken from them.
It was merely taken.
So if they did not ask to take our privacy, why should we ask to take it back.
"Re EMP, if that were still a worry, perhaps there's nothing better than Strowger. As you say it's unlikely there's any of that left for that purpose. (Even if EMP protection were a requirement, I can't imagine the modern-day telecoms engineer not brought up on the stuff ever contemplating its use.)"
Actually the ESS computer was designed to survive WWIII.
An old James Martin book describes the hardware as using punch card sized metal sheets with magnetic "dots" for RAM and ROM functions.
And yes they were tested to survive nuclear explosions.
No. The UK is a small country with broadband access to every medical practice.
The truth is this sort of massive central data repository is simply unnecessary unless you want to flog off all medical records to whatever drug company wants it, for peanuts
This is a data fetishists wet dream. Anonymity is at their discretion.
Britards. Tell your GP's,
Do not want. Do not need.
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