Posts by Tom 7

Re: Could versus should

The only thing I can think of is an in-house blockchain to prevent the BOFH from getting carried away.

Re: first one still chugging away

I've got a first one with RiscOs on it to remind how things could be.

A bit of work with https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/tree/opencl and I think it could come to life for a lot of things!

Re: Lost out again

Too right. I'm guessing from the videos that this coming in would make a rather spectacular firework display and I live in a dark country area so I'd love to watch it burn up.

Re: What about the manifestations?

People did try sticking post it notes and so on - they were removed by the management for 'detracting from the building design'. So much like their products appearance is more important than function.

I'm glad I dont work there - I'd be unconscious before first coffee break.

Re: EUSSR

And companies taking fortunes out of economies without paying tax while they work out how to make a profit while their shareholders get wealthier and wealthier is OK?

Its hard to run a business to make a profit but that doesnt mean the taxpayer should subsidise the company for ever.

Re: Still only 1080 Vertical

The problem of filling in all the vertical space with useless icons and menus is 'Pratkinsons Law' where designer shit expands to fill all the space available to the exclusion of ergonomics or anything useful. Programs that once worked perfectly well on 640*480 now need 4k monitors just to fit on the scroll bars you need to find the menu item you are looking for.

Re: Use the Trump solution

A pellet gun can easily kill someone. It wont most of the time but a shot to the eye or temple can penetrate the brain. Other 'targets' can cause death through blood loss and I dare say hitting the driver could easily kill all on board and several others too.

I've been shot twice with an air rifle and both wounds (boootock and thigh) were about 1/2 inch deep and this was an old lever action rifle. Fucking hurt getting the pellets out (fortunately I had some dissection equipment around as my parents would have killed me just as much as the friend that shot me. However you can get air guns that run off CO2 that are an order of magnitude more powerful, and if you make your own 'shells' rather than pellets its surprising the damage they can do.

Re: Judge by what people do, not what they say they want.

I think you miss the sleight of hand in this. As a driver you will, most of the time be earning what seems to be a good wage. Then for most once a year your insurance and road tax and MOT and large repair bills come in and take away any saving you made. But people are optimists and when you are in profit for 99% of the year you can convince yourself you are far better off than you really are. Its not that people think they are happy on less than minimum wage - they think they are earning far more than it.

RE What does "in parallel" mean?

That may explain the lags I'm seeing .I'm sure a router of some form would be quicker than a team.

Re: Great CGI show, I must admit - but how credible is all that?

"How do hypersonic missiles turn corners? Surely they can be fast or manoeuverable, but not both?"

Manoeuvrable is easy. I'm not sure just how manoeuvrable something can be at hypersonic speeds purely because even in a 100G turn you'd need a second or two to turn 45 degrees and you would have travelled a few miles. I'd imagine the steering fins would undergo enormous ablation at those speeds so you couldnt do a lot of it, But you could do some but it would be more like the M1 than Brands Hatch.

Re: No computer experience in 2005?

My pig movements are managed centrally on the government gateway here in the UK.

Sheep - all paper despite them having to have RFID tags in their ears.

Re: Snappy soundbites

Perhaps they could charge some of them up elsewhere. I'm sure the parking in Mt Pleasant could be sold for a premium and somewhere cheaper used for parking and charging.

Re: ...no one's sure what it's for yet.

putting up prices without affecting the RPI?

Re: I'm sure that, for a price,

Can I just say for government here read party in charge of parliament, The civil service part of the government (and many councils) make efforts to use as much real data as they can. Bless em.

Re: Buffy overflow shirely

Perhaps some fuzzy logic could harden up the data.

Re: I wonder

So you think AI is special in turning into reduced width streets? Round here its humans and cheap sat-navs that require the local farmer to come out and try and tow the buggers out of trouble.

However I would imagine co-operative AI will do a lot better job than the BMW drivers who have forced me to leave my car and walk away in situations like you mention where they could reverse three or four car lengths but seem to think I should reverse 40 or so after having claimed right of way long before they entered the restriction. I frequently reverse far more than that down here in Devon largely because I know I can and townies are fucking hopeless during the holiday season though sometimes people just take the piss and at 6'4" inches and twenty stone dont expect me to always feel like I cant be arsed to wait for you to learn how to use your wing mirrors.

Re: Age limit?

The think is in the US you are twice as likely to be killed by a toddler with a gun than by a terrorist.

If you are stupid enough to have a gun in your house to defend yourself then it needs to be available in case of the imaginary emergency which means everyone in your house (including the intruder) can find and use it.

The facts are there are crazy people and they all have access to guns.

Sorry that's a lie - it turns out the CEO of the NRA, like Trump, is a draft dodger so it seems its really cowards that are in favour of guns.

Re: Expanding Universe

That's normally done through redshift and brightness of some supernova. The redshift is measured by the position of bright and dark lines in the spectrum and I dont think that would be affected by this problem.

The problem seems to exist for 'fainter objects and planets' so I would imagine brighter* objects like supernova where not a problem.

Be fun if it it tho!

Re: Hubble constant is apparently not a constant

It is if you put it into Einstein's equations, well the ones he didnt publish or something, Everything else he played with is accurate to many many decimal points but this one doesnt get to decimals...

Re: If people don't get paid enough money...

"At present the money feeds up to the 1% who avoid tax and hoard their cash generated by the poor."

And the middle classes who pay their way and tax actually pay their employees wages top up and their healthcare, education, roads, police etc etc that the 1% need to make their businesses run.

Re: But there is still little use for laptops.

I spend a few hours a week waiting for my daughters at various sporting events and the most useful tool I have is a little HP mini 210 which runs for 5 or 6 hours on batteries and fits between my belly and the steering wheel comfortably so when I'm stuck in the car up to a couple of hours I can get some work done. Its got a keyboard so it fucks off a tablet by several orders of magnitude. It only cost me £20. At home I live in a beanbag with an i7 8 core 17"laptop jobbie that I occasionally set screaming with some AI, stellar simulation or massive compilation.

I have yet to find a use for a tablet other than browsing that doesnt have me reaching for a laptop because its a far better experience if you're not just in receiving mode.

Re: What really narks

Don't you think sites that ask you to not run ad-blockers are inherently dishonest? I'm definitely not going to buy any of that advertised shit so they would be falsely taking money pushing it at me.

Re: Ah that might explain it

Many years ago I used to suffer bouts of cramping foul smelling potentially projectile flatulence - to the point of clearing pubs of food eating guests. It took many (over 6) years to discover the cause. Buried deep in a dietary database I finally found a link - eating certain things in sufficient quantity over a 3 or 4 day period triggered it which was why it was such a bugger to track down.

I save it for when certain relatives visit.

Re: The OpenGL bits are odd

"MS has been trying to undermine and destroy OpenGL since they released the beast-sphagetti mess that is DirectX."

Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

MS dont do things out of malice - it really is a complete inability to code things properly any more.

Re: "By measuring the escape velocity, scientists have recalculated the galaxy’s mass and size."

TBH the 'escape' velocity of a galaxy is probably not that easy to calculate - given the velocity of stars in galaxies has required the invention of dark matter to try and get the rotational velocities into some sort of agreement with Newton let alone Einstein.

Re: *Shrug*

The thing about FTTP is that once the fibre is in it should be cheaper than copper to maintain and unless we have seriously gone backwards in the last 28 years that fibre should easily be capable of multiple gigabit service if the infrastructure can take it. When I worked at BTRL we could have fitted 2.4Gbit connection for a hardware cost of less than £100 back in 1990. We didnt know quite what to do with it then - and the government wouldnt let us - but what the fuck is going on now?