Posts by Tom 7

Re: Is the database really that big

So it should be spooned not forked!

Well neither but they wont let me play with knives any more.

I think all Apple devices ceasing to work would not have much effect on them until another brand name can con people into believing they invented everything.

Because in the 21st C its always boat on boat action in an attack!

The wind and waves thing can be a problem but Maryport doesnt face the sea and has a couple of breakwaters which means you can take a ship in in pretty much a straight line and keep the sea swell at bay.

Re: Why?

They've just landed the Grace Hopper cable in Bude - it was in a very large puddle when last seen.

Re: Memories (not RAM)

The scientific lives on forever: http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html

Re: Quieter kids can speak up in chat,

At Uni we had lectures of 60+ and there was no way you could ask any questions without disrupting the whole thing. I found borrowing a mates notes far more educational than just copying what the lecturer said and a lot faster too. My major problem was access to material and only very occasional lecturers. My eldest is going up tomorrow and I suggested a visit to the library to get the course text books (having seen one of my lecturers take all the copies of his book from the library 2 weeks before term started) but it appears everything will be available online. It doesnt take much to organise accessible HTML course work that can be read using a phone or tablet and open document licences and some analysis of what may or may not work for the vast majority of the population to be able to access the best educational information available.

Re: Sill they be armed with…

Round here the youth cycle in the road because the pavement is blocked with parked vehicles/

Re: An alternative

TBF having spent a lot of time looking at patent applications I'd say the vast majority of humans are not capable of doing much that is intelligent either.

Re: Rock the Casbah

Ooooh err missus!

Re: First Launch? And with cargo?

Pumice could be fun!

Re: Don't mess with Dr Prasert

The ones the hackers see on my system are actually 256 bit encrypted /dev/zero files.

Re: Pi Zero W

As far as I can tell the Pi Zero is over 3/4 million MIPS so that's the equivalent of two or three pentiums at the end of the last century. Which was enough to run an internet shop with 300 customers a day, serve 350 in house PCs and allow a few of us to do some quite hefty development.

Re: A week without Aircon!

One place I worked at had the server room on the 2nd floor and the aircon worked fine. Until the admin on the 1st floor got some too. On a hot calm day the hot exhaust from their aircon rose straight up into the intake of the server room and basically cancelled out any effort it made to cool it down.

Turns out its quite a problem in a lot of places though my favourite still remains the portable aircon where the exhaust pipe is hung our of the window to rise back in through said window.

Re: Crime against humanity

The crime against computing was to use the 8088. The 68008 would pretty much have allowed us to get through the next 15 years in 5 or 6. We went from "No one needs more than 640K of memory' to Everything has to fit into 64K segments but with soft boundaries so the brightest and best will be reduced to tear on a regular basis and programming will become disparaged.

Re: Eh?

ISTR back then getting on the internet was difficult due to the internet providers!

Re: re: That it is 8.5 per cent alcohol by volume doesn't hurt.

My local does a pale at 3.2%. Four pints and I'm on my arse and yet down town I can easily do a gallon of a 4.5%. Many incoherent arguments about whether the alcohol levels are made up of whether its the hops (a very close relative of cannabis) or an allergy to the new strains of hops in it.

Re: I wonder

I've seen this flaw before - you are in a directory with a list of files and sub directories, click on a protected directory and it asks for a password. Add the name of the directory to the url and in you go no problems.

Are you sure?

"The only benefit is that jihadi lunatics couldn't get at them." Musk and Branson are getting close and their only motivation is money. Eternity in heaven seems to be a far more effective motivator for some.

Re: Yes but...

AI is going the same way as CPUs went at the moment - throw more devices at it. I think it will change radically over the next decade or so as people look to nature and pull apart animal brains of increasing complexity. Someone has modelled a nematode brain in AI and it used a few % of nodes to achieve similar OCR results. Someone is doing the same to honey bee brains and we will eventually grasp how evolution has achieved necessary and sufficient functions in the wild and this will enable us to make complicated AI devices that achieve what we want with significantly less silicon than we do now.

Re: Most Brits have a fair idea of Germany before, during and after WW2.

My history education in a top grammar school was mainly about civil war battles. But that was 50 years ago now. Fuck me I'm nearly falling asleep thinking of it.

Re: been there done that

A friend found a 25mm Ack Ack shell in the pup camping field. Took some hammering before the concretion on it came off enough to reveal its real purpose. Some evacuation. Of people too!

Its a shame electricity cant be stored in standard containers that can be stored at various points around the country and replaced with relative ease and recharged elsewhere. You know like those little things that make annoying adverts on the TV for drurexcell or whatever. Not a whole car full at a time - just one to get you to where you can charge the rest up.

Re: No!

Brothel creepers! Climbed a cinder cone in a tatty old pair which, on brushing off at the return had returned to the suede to absolute perfection. I can only assume they would perform better on a hotter version.

Re: Your headline reminds me...

Opium poppies grow wild over a lot of east anglia after they were grown for making morphine in WWII. I believe the green seed heads were really useful for calming teething children.