Posts by Tom 7

But the inefficiency and waste in the NHS is because the private companies parasatising it make money doing just that. Evidence is rarely on the side of private enterprise in public services. I say rarely just in case.

Re: We have multiple redundant gigabit fibre connections...

I've got 4G via EE. Did manage 70+Mb/s, now lucky to get 8 Mb/s. Cant really understand why as in a scattered rural community. Every fault seems to result in a 3 to 5 hr support call which gets a new SIM and a random large charge.

Re: 200K for a law firm is peanuts

Sounds like 'the wine bill' on a pre-xmas lunch stress-test.

Re: Nobel Prize Winning Stuff

What evidence? That its the same composition as comets. Now there is a surprise. As for planets being hot then I guess the massive reservoirs of water found in the hot sub crust of the earth dont exist? The water that came from comets would have evaporated - the stuff a 100m or so under the surface would not have.

Re: Choices

I thought the thing about Visio was the code you could add to the components. Does Inkscape do this?

Re: Nice

Only if your deliberately making your grid unsuitable for the renewables that could be providing us with more electricity than Hinkley C will ever produce for a lot less.

Re: actually....

A bit like saying I will be jumping a red light at such and such a time. Telling people when you get to fuck around downgrading other peoples experience is not really any part of a co-operative arranmgement.

Re: South don't work in the North

Had one for seemed like for ever and gave it away when we moved house but it seemed as good as the day it was bought. The programs were shitter mind.

Re: future of apt on Ubuntu?

Or how about a package that includes the software and a list of packages that may need installing and calls apt to do that. I reckon I've got about 30Gbytes of duplicate packages in various Snap crap and another 50Gbytes or so for various Python VMs. Its getting back to the good old days like brexit does.

There's a joke about that but some might find it offensive. Snowflakes!

Re: That's funny...

I do wonder sometimes about the hunt for quantum gravity. Electric charges are quantum, electromagnetic fields are continuous. Mass comes in quanta, gravity* is continuous. Shouldn't we be looking for quantum mass theory to unify everything?

*is the dark energy field orthogonal to gravity.

You've obviously not spoken to artist about their work creation. They frequently cant explain it either.

My mum used to intervene and do my ironing. Fortunately someone invented non-iron shirts and I dont have to hope to play that game again.

Re: Time to toss them a few more bucks for a software suite I use on Linux, Mac and PC.

Have they updated the Base wizard which was written in Java and, when I last reported a bug, was told no-one had a clue how it worked.

Re: "It's... actually kind of funny, though"

I always thought someone was having a laugh when they called Seinfeld comedy. They'll be saying the same about Friends next!

Re: So in conclusion

More importantly the AGW inspired instabilities have enable wind to produce record amounts of power this winter.

A bit like the output from an MBA

or privately educated person going into industry. Vast reams of documents to show they're busy and important but when you actually have time to read them....

I've often wondered if the purpose of learning to write essays and papers is to hide lack of knowledge.

Re: "finding a way to do more for customers at a lower cost"

But the customers are ultimately being fucked over. The service is getting worse and worse and overnight delivery to a nearby back garden is not good enough. I dont think they are very far from a tipping point they'll have difficulty recovering from. Just a few more cost savings...

Re: Mature

How can proprietary designs be included in the OPEN RISK V standards?

Re: Judge on results, not appearances

I've always worked with the expectation that from time to time extra hours will be required and TOIL or extra money will be provided for work above and beyond the normal hours. I think it would be dumb to risk the possibility of both jobs requiring those extra hours simultaneously causing massive problems for you and your employers.

Having said that I think the idea of basically turning yourself into a zero hour contractor will only result in further collapse in management capabilities and hence your dreams of big money,

Re: Very interesting

That will run Fuzix which has internet code. Not sure if its got SIP but it shouldn't be too hard to knock one up from other versions.

Re: Risk?

I do wonder if the risk to China is as great as it is to Taiwan. After all a few bags of flour can render a whole chip manufacturing facility for a long period - and I'd guess very fine sand could write it off completely in the sense that by the time you've rebuilt it its totally redundant and the people require to run it have drowned in rubber dinghys trying to get to silicon glen!

A two or three year silicon drought due to Taiwan calling MAD on China would destroy China.

And most of the West. Its some serious pissing in your chips. I'm not saying it wont happen but its something logic and 'common sense' is not going to stop.

Re: "investigate the validity of the company's patents"

Used to have a kitten we name Leper cos it made bits of you fall off. One morning I was making breakfast in my trollies (underpants) and had a piece of toast in my mouth and a pot of tea in one hand pouring into a half full cup of tea in the other other when Leper saw his chance and climbed all the way up my bare skin (seemingly knowing I couldn't hit him with either container of near boiling tea) easily took the toast from my nearly screaming mouth, climbed back down and legged it. Only ever come across such sharp claws when a squirrel caught in our chicken shed did several rounds of wall of death via my face before remembering the pop hole it was quite close to when I stepped in. There's something about very sharp points and human flesh that some things in nature (nettles, blackberries) have somehow learned to evolve to stop even pissed humans jumping into them. I've seen videos of people diving into cacti but never a bramble patch or bucket of kittens or squirrels!

Re: Laser ignition fusion

And if we listened to the fusion mob we'd have vaporised all the carriages and still be working out how to get energy generated!

Re: Flanders and Swann - The Gasman Cometh

For some reason our chemistry lab at school had no u-bends in the sinks. The end result of which was you could fill the sink with gas, wait a few moments and fire flame out of most of the sinks in the room. I repeated this experiment on mains drainage several years later to discover our towns and cities are really not safe!

Re: a CEO who seems to have actual technical knowledge

It would be nice to see someone who knows what they are talking about technically at the top of an technical organisation. Could be extremely disruptive in a good way.

Re: Hmmm...

HTML can do it better - and fit on your phone, your PC etc.

Re: Worst code I ever saw...

I did experiment with writing code in HTML documents so the code was in between verbose comments and yet the build process stripped out all but the code before running make. Some editors now can call a URL so you can just add a URL in the code comments to take you to the bit in the documentation related to the following code. I still feel there is some option for hypertext in code so documentation (from sketching out the projects to completion) allows easy jumping to the right documentation is worth exploring but teaching old dogs new tricks is often counter-productive.

Re: Atmosphere for life

Life was around for 800 million years before oxygen started to be produced. I'd imagine its possible for life to evolve considerably without oxygen photosynthesis.

Re: A CEO being held accountable?

Actually he did exist - its just he did nothing attributed to him. There was a Robert Hoode from south Cumbria who was probably executed in Lancaster 1292 (records from that year suspiciously missing - Nottingham visitor?) All of it was part of Yorkshire at the time and they do like to big themselves up still.

Re: The hot coffee lawsuit...

The mouth is a different kettle of fish though. Sipping tea at 80C without problems here. Not putting it on my genitals yet though.