""Sir William Cash piled in, suggesting that the UK could simply knock the Galileo £1bn off"
We don't call him "Dirty" for nothing.
Money talks.
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You missed out Jacob Rees Mogg.
I think you'll find Somerset Asset Management (both the London and Dublin branches) will definitely have been making investments to increase the family fortune.
The more I look into his behavior the more I think he's in it for the bucks rather than the beliefs.
At least with Gove you could predict you were in trouble when he stands behind you.
A Brexiteer without the balls to sign their own name.
My prediction
By the time the transition period ends the number of people who admit they voted to Leave will be as high as the number who admitted they voted for Oswald Mosely on VE night 1945.
Not fu**king many.
The thing is once you need maximum precision (maybe because you want to build something very big, or very small) it turns out that a lot of physical "constants" (like the length of an Earth day for example) actually aren't.
Very impressive.
I'm trying to think of some sensible, meditative comment on Teslas development of "intelligent" driver aids.
But I can't.
Although "Software shuts down while car is in motion" sounds pretty worrying given how deeply embedded software is to the cars function.
So they delivered the speed (which users can measure easily) and hoped no one could figure out
a) They'd relaxed the boundaries between running processes and
b) No one could find a way to exploit the relaxed separation.
IOW the illusion of security without actual security.
I wonder how many process crashes over the years could also be traced to miswritten code influencing another process and crashing that instead? No way to know I guess.
The shortest, most distinct description of what Brexiteers actually offered and what "The People*" voted for
IOW the perfect political "product," as any different group of supporters could read exactly what they wanted into the "proposal"
Bu***hit detection. It's quite a valuable skill.
* 13/25s of the 72.21% of the potential electorate. The rest either believing they had no chance of winning or the benefits of EU membership were self evident. Either felt actually voting would therefor be a waste of their time. Both groups were wrong.
Note the fact they felt it important to mention this.
When it should be SOP for any development effort where there is a fixed time limit that has to be met and resources are limited (as IRL they always are).
What you might call a "Management design pattern."
F**k me sideways. Someone had to actually congratulate them for doing something properly. :-(
Are these patterns of code never, ever, seen before in the 70 year history of software development?
Are they f**k.
And yet near the end of the 2nd decade of the 21st century we still make them.
Here's a legal question.
If you released a de-compiled version of a corporations software, that let anyone look for bugs in it, would it be illegal. Not "Violating the EULA, " which I understand is basically BS, but actually illegal?
Indeed.
The classic "Use in a well ventilated area" is put on stuff for a reason.
People should be aware it's the size of particles from some Diesel exhausts that makes them dangerous, just as Asbestos is. In big lumps, not so much.
Likewise a big lump of plastic may only be a hazard if it falls on you. But in particles you could snort up without realizing it?
"Encrypted" is putting it a bit highly.
The GPS standard dates from a time when processing was very expensive. Consequently it incorporates lots of tricks designed to simplify the processing task on the end users processor (this is at a time when the Z80 was considered pretty impressive, if you couldn't get an 8088, and the 68000 was still on the horizon).
This results in lots of "funny" units for different parameters, like fractions of the Earths diameter, or the eccentricity of the Earth as an oblate spheroid. The */ operators in Forth are a similar device.
Fast forward 40 years and few people have any idea how to use this stuff.
As to where the multi path problems that's where phased array techniques with multiple antennas come in handy. On Sounding rockets and ELV's they have also been used for attitude sensing.
Now, where is/are the key(s) to allow you to lock to the Military grade code? I'd guess anywhere marked in the standard "reserved," or possibly not.
Which is good.
Yes it needs to shrink several orders of magnitude.
Yes it needs to operate in 3 dimensions.
But it'll still be a damm sight cheaper than the UK launching it's own GPS system, which is basically post Brexit willy waving.
Correct.
IIRC the Civvy chipping rate is 1024 and repeats about 1024 times a second (easy to lock) and the mil spec is a whole different beast, which is sent at 10x the bandwidth and cycles over a time of something like a week
Military cycle lock is achieved by clues hidden in the "Almanac" that is downloaded at 50bps, probably (but necessarily) in the stuff that's repeated on every 300bit long "page."
During a series of articles on a Transputer based GPS system the author said the trick is to design a "Synthetic" common chipping code from each of the ones used on the GPS sats so when you run it against the incoming data it pull all the visible GPS sat signals at once. They were very vague on wheather this should be a sum, an And, an average or what this code should be.
Should make an interesting study for someone, given processors with 10MIPS are very much more common than in the late 80's.
That should of course be Glenford Myers
past executions to work out which subset of the test suite to run first."
Oh really.
Developing minimum test cases for maximum fault coverage.
Wow.
4 decades on people rediscover the work of Glenform Myers.
How exciting.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Not going to happen.
You are correct. Amdahl's law has not been repealed.
The ICL1900 series had a small register set, each with specific tasks, which were "shadowed" or cached. AIUI higher performance models had deeper caches. Because of the specific tasks for each register this gave a very high hit rate. It's a strategy Intel could consider, but it'll probably be tough implement.
That's what you get for learning your "facts" from the Daily Heil.
IRL it's the rest of the EU who think they've been getting f**ked by the British deals (on opt outs and rebate) since Margaret Thatcher.
Thatcher was no fan of the EU but she did seem to care about the UK and understood its real position in the UK, unlike the delusional f**kwits of the current Conservative back bench, who either don't or anticipate making a great deal of money in the chaos Brexit is causing.
Au Contraire, very much the will of the people.
If by "The people" you mean the will of Vlad Putin and Lynton Crosby.
If you wonder why Russia would bankroll such nonsense it's simple.
Divide and rule.
The EU is weaker without the UK and vice versa, making both easier targets for Putin and his cronies to lean on. Putin, Trump and Rupert Murdoch all supported Leave. People should have asked "Why?"
I'm not sure we even know this.
For a start children have multiple input channels. We don't say "you" we point at them and say "you."
Likewise we know how primitive the brains hardware is, yet we don't think in those terms. "I'm learning algebra, I must reinforce the link weights of the cluster about 3cm in from my left ear."
We think in much higher, abstract forms.
So, somewhere between a lot of neurons with up to a 10 000 to one fan in (human brain) and "I am a person" is an intermediate level. Because artificial NN's make pretty good classifiers and filters they don't have to evolve beyond how they were designed, so why would their designers include a mechanism to evolve their internal representation?
IOW unless someone actually designs it in ANN's won't suddenly develop intelligence because there are no evolutionary pressures to do so (the architecture does the job well enough already) and no evolutionary mechanisms within the architecture to restructure it even if there were. I'm not talking weightings. I mean actual structure.
Where is the the virtual machine hiding in the neural network?
WISARD did facial recognition at 30fps using lots of small digital neural nets (excellent hardware, not very good business plan).
Carver Mead's CalTech group used CMOS transistors in analogue modes (Voltage controlled current switches IIRC) to give the massive dynamic range that human hearing and eyesight have. "The Silicon Eye" and "Nano" describe his group, and some of the events that may have ended it.
Sadly just old books on Amazon now.
BTW I'm not surprised the FPGA stopped working at a different temperature. Analogue systems are quite sensitive to "drift," usually ageing but also temperature effects.
PHB "Test port. Who knows what a test port is? Let alone where to find one. It'll be fine."
PHB "It'll save a ton of money and months on time to market. No one will notice."
Until some one does.
And if your marketing this to people with serious security issues you should assume that they have serious enemies who will go to nearly any lengths to get their data.