Posts by John Smith 19

10-50 seat commercial passenger aircraft are a thing.

And BTW NASA (well the first A) has been looking at way to simplify regional airline operations and make regional airports (of which I believe the US has quite a number) more useful and active (y'know increasing economic around the US, something close to the heart of the D himself).

Thumbing through an old Popular Mechanics for (IIRC) 1975 I see a blurb about the first flight of an all electric light aircraft (2 seat) with an endurance of 15 mins. Obviously knocked up by a home builder who took the statement "building a human carrying electric aircraft is impossible" as a personal challenge ( the dad of the guy who built that pong game from discrete transistors?)

4 decades later and behind all the massive hype batteries really have improved quite a bit, as has the generator and power electronics technology (so you can directly connect your generator/alternator to a turbine without a gearbox and then dial in whatever voltage and current you want from the battery pack output).

The question of course (which being at home with the Kumars failed to answer) is wheather the technology has gotten better enough to built a flying Prius.

There is a fine line between spotting when all the pieces are available to carry out a truly bold piece of disruptive technology and selling the idea that their might be.

Time will tell if this is John Carncac's old company or if this is the Oculus Rift of aerospace.

Did anyone hear the name "Caspian Sea Monster" and think.

Great name for a porn actor?

I also move in "ground effect" mode.

"they do keep me informed of new and upcoming mining and development projects"

So handy if you deal in shares in that sector.

The OED

Which given Sweet Pai's record so far will be known internally as the Office for being Economical with the Data.

But this guy is clearly not sounding nearly compliant enough to "earn" the sort of high paying with a cable company he so clearly craves.

Need to practice your tongue skills more.

"They can be used only if a judge is prepared to issue a warrant, "

Sounds like Canada actually has a parliament that doesn't respond in entirely knee jerk fashion to the terrorist-de-jour threat and OMFG still has an independent judiciary.*

*Canadians may not think so, but compare it to you neighbours down South.

Sounds like reasonable hardware let down by one or more software problems

On the upside software can be fixed easier.

If they care enough.

Highly entertaining.

It's the sheer "love of the game" aspect that's impressive.

Various magazines had TV games in the 70's and 80's. The discrete logic ones probably taught the builders a massive amount about what you can and cannot do with TTL although later on they seemed to have been built around General Instruments games chips. Not sure if they were custom logic, gate array or can what we would now call a pre programmed PIC inside them.

I'm guessing such games are close to the point where you could just build a TTL processor using LS '181 ALU's (no idea how expensive they were in the 70's) and write an instruction sequence (or "program" as I call it ) to simulate such a game.

annual revenue of $184.5m,..net loss for the whole year of just over $251m.

So another company that can't quite manage the whole making a profit for their investors thing.

It appears to have massive invisible costs for what would seem to be a consultancy business, which is essentially having a team of smart people.

Well who'd have thought it.

People can't get in through the front door so they hit the Tradesmen's Entrance.

And why hit one company when you can hit the company that supports multiple targets.

Wasn't one of the touted benefits of using an MSP that it can justify decent security, proper patch management, comprehensive backups?

They may sound like modest goals

But they're a start.

I'd like to think crypto implementors will study the tests and use them as a guide to make better stuff from the ground up.

Crypto is probably the smallest, but most demanding, software most people will ever be asked to implement, and in truth most smart people would prefer to not have to in the first place.

But sometimes you simply have no choice.

So it does pay to have actual journalists on site

Can't see this being found in a scan of the documents. Thumbs up for real journalists.

It's interesting that Uber's behavior towards its staff seems pretty toxic and now it turns out it likes buying up companies whose owners are as (allegedly) sneaky as it is. :-( .

This is astonishing.

Phase shifting at rates of 1ns is very impressive.

And let's be honest, who expected this from the land of the midnight Barbie?

One day

Law enforcement types will realize Person of Interest is not a documentary.

Although technically OS/2 is still around

As EComStation

In hindsight (always 20/20) IBM's mistake was to seek to start making money off of MCA ASAP. Had they had been much more reasonable they would have had a little bite of every board (through licensing) made and MCA would have dominated.

BTW let's not forget what a PoS Windows 2.0 was or how the 286 was so retarded that the MS tech who worked out how to switch it from real to virtual mode and back was hailed a f**king genius.

"EU justice commissioner Věra Jourová"

So will that be done by the Justice side of the EU or the Data Protection side of the EU, or both?

No I don't think the US idea of "data protection" is anything like that in Europe, but then they've not lived through several regimes which were active police states and the citizens knew it.

Con-gress gives NASA about $3Bn a year to build SLS

But gives it nothing to build actual payloads (except Orion) to put on it.

Is this a possible architecture to get to Mars? Yes.

Will Con-gress hand over that much money to Boeing (the company that redesigned ISS 3 times and made a profit on every one) to do so.

How dumb would they have to be?

On the upside it is a niche player.

While all it's major competitors seem to want you to sell you a whole package and way to look at the world.

IOW you wo with them you go with the Amazon/Google//Microsoft world view and you're pretty much stuck with it.

For many people that will be fine.

For some a more independent view will be preferred.

remind me again what systems come with remote access enabled as standard..

Oh let me guess....

"There's a lot of hype, and the reality is..the technology is..very raw and difficult to implement "

Could have been written in the 80's

Or the 90's

or the 00's

And as we come to the end of the 2nd decade of the 21st century.....

Wasn't it Merkins who insisted on this in the first place.

Because that way if your account is ripped off it's your fault.

IIRC there were ad campaigns in Europe for what was called "Chip N Pin" about 15 years ago.

Really. US retailers (or rather their banks) are running with 15 YO software?

Who knew.