Posts by John Smith 19

The other half of the puzzle is now available.

Desk top fabricators have been around for a while now and have steadily improved. Fine if you're designing something from scratch but what about copying something?

That's always been the problem and now someone's done something about it.

While the whole spinning table/lights/cameras may remind you of the original John Logie Baird TV system it is fairly simple and probably uses mostly off the shelf parts. The software to calibrate it is likely to be very tricky.

Thumbs up for ingenuity. It's the first affordable coordinate measuring system, but I doubt it will be the last.

The kind of arrogance only really large corporations are capable of.

The other play is to bury the other side in paper and give them all the documents.

But note, either play is a means to hide facts.

Which means that there definitely is something to find.

But also note. Due process separates a law abiding society from a lynch mob or a dictatorship. When these lying b***ards have finished showing just how much they will wriggle and squirm to avoid trouble they can't turn around and say "The trial was not fair" because the documentation condemned them, not the plaintiffs.

Thumbs up to the judge for not putting up with Apple's corporate BS.

Amazed that does not happen already.

Sounds very sensible.

Getting adopted is going to be the tough part.

Sounds like a clever plan.

Give people the experience and get a jump on the process of migrating.

If this takes off I hope they have the ability to scale up.

The question is if you remove processor availability as a problem what other barriers exist to porting an application to a new environment.

Turning the question on its head.

Why is the US so bad at securing it's PC's?

So many as a percentage of it's population?

No one running AV/out of date AV/unconfigured firewalls?

I also think it would be very interesting if you could pin down a geographical spread. Do most of these botnet PC's live in say Arkansas, Palo Alto or Berkley?

Let's be clear nearly 1/5 of all this crap comes from this 1 country., and that's over 2x more than its nearest competitor.

So update policy like a computer mfg or update policy like a mobile phone mfg?

That said so far embedded software for control on cars seems to be built to a higher standard that that of either the average PC or phone in the first place.

So mfg can't be a**ed to do the system tuning necessary

So with the word on how good or bad a handset is getting round pretty quickly why would anyone want to buy a seriously rubbish one?

If it's expected to sell in the 100s of 1000s (millions?) surely a few thousand spent on a better tuning of the system would be worthwhile?

Interesting to see if this changes models with this small area, highish density data points array

Thumbs up for getting out and taking real data over a model and providing something for the model to be calibrated against.

But man, look at some of those maximum rates.

More than 39mm/hr for at least 50 mins is more than 1 inch. And this data is about the minimum about of time that could happen for at that location (0.01% is about 52 minutes).

People who live (or expect to visit) those areas had better plan their wardrobes accordingly.

How many phones could be adapted to this with the right app?

Touch screen goes to big buttons (IE pre-programmed numbers).

Auto speakerphone . Got to be an API call for that.

GPS tracking. Well GPS chips seem fairly common in touchscreen phones anyway.

Accelerometer to detect falls, shocks. More or less common than GPS?

Should be a huge market for elderly and infirm codgers relatives.

Lots of negative AC comments.

<- Is he laying Astro turf ?

Oh darn, now I'll have to start paying for your prose.

My subscription will arrive real soon now.

However I will wish you every success in your new role drinking work colleagues.

Compare that to the past.

brain chips

Have we really come very far?

Probably another ex-CEO who thought he'd just help himself to "his" data

Sense of entitlement?

You bet.

Thumbs down for this behavior.

Dodgy sales types doing dodgy sales type things.

Who knew?

Still probably better than that report about the 11 Adobe Sale bods who (when asked what they'd like to do by their female boss) replied "Let's go down the best pole dancing club in town."

But would you bay $11Bn to these guys?

Hmmm.

TBF they've also demonstrated video playback on eInk at 10FPS.

Which was pretty clever.

"Data short fall" means

<- He does not know everything about everybody in the UK forever.

Guess what.

He never will.

No damm reason to ask, no damm reason to know.

So take note of when new Windows DLLs turn up on your system?

Hard to believe anyone would need reminding about this.

Well it's not unlike the convicted frauster being put in charge of the prison shop.

Couldn't happen?

You think not?

Note that had it had people on board the pilot would have probably tapped the thrusters anyway

Diagnosing a problem based on a limited number of symptoms available by telemetry is pretty tricky.

There are various possible scenarios that caused this. The obvious one is some kind of contamination in the He line but there could be ones based on Dragons exact thermal environment EG this is happening in Earths shadow, it was cold and this changed some hardware properties.

It does serve as a reminder of what John Carnack has called troubles with "Things with springs," which have always been problematical and all real space vehicles have lots of these components on board.

As for "consistency" Spacex have flown 2 missions which have seen serious thruster use. This is the 2nd.

Spacex have something like 12 cargo missions before they are even thinking about carrying crew and that should resolve of the questions about wheather a difference between their simulations and real flight is significant.

Note that Cygnus has not taken off at this point, won't be upgradeable to crew carriage and any other winner of the crew carriage contract will have to begin their reliability record from scratch, at which point Spacex will have 12 f9/Dragon combos on its list (plus however many F9 launches take off for other customers).

It will be good to finally see Antares launch, even without a dummy Cygnus on the top.