Posts by Crazy Operations Guy

Re: I Wish I Was an Artist

I see two possibilities:

An Astronomer decides to take up drawing and art as a hobby.

-or-

Some artists might pick up Astronomy as a hobby and end up making friends with the professionals (who then ask form drawings based off of observations)

It'd be impressive if they could actually print a gun (Even on the ground) rather than a ridiculously expensive IED with an ammunition cartridge as an explosive element. Anything that is far more likely to kill the person holding it than even hurting anyone it is pointed towards is nowhere near being a gun.

Re: Would this mean that...

By that logic, the British museum is also owned by the Architect who drew up the blueprints, any satellite imaging company, and anyone that has ever taken pictures.

Also, you can't trust the British, always going to other countries around the world; stealing the shiniest stuff they can find and sticking it in their Museums; and then when anyone complains: claim 'Finders, keepers'.

Truer words have never been spoken. It should be tattooed to the hands of every programmer and written along the top of every developer's monitor.

Re: 3D Printers in SPAAAAAAACE...

I wonder what the labor laws are in space... Next thing you know, the Chinese will blast hundreds of children into space to make things while paying them slave wages. Perhaps that is what their doing with their space station....

Re: Hardware

The problem with Microsoft's attempts at making a DB-based file system was that they wanted to do more than just store a database on it, what I meant was not a file system, per se, but of just taking the data out of the database itself a slapping that crap right onto the disk itself

My intention for the processor design was to have a heterogeneous processor architecture, there'll be a couple standard chips in there to do some management, but a huge number of SQL-specific cores thrown in there too, similar to modern supercomputers and using GPU to do the heavy lifting. Also, hadn't heard of teradata, I'll go give them a look.

Yes, Linux and Solaris have 45+ years of OS expertise, but almost all of that is on things that aren't databases. I mostly mentioned ditching it since the GPL would cause a huge legal clusterfuck. AS for drivers, you;d only need a very small number when designing new hardware (with proper hardware design, the drivers could be pretty tiny). Network stacks aren't all that hard to write (I've built a few myself to run on controllers) especially when you know what is going to be sitting above it.

In fact, if everything is set up correctly, it wouldn't be so much of an OS, just enough code to:

take in a packet,

verify permissions,

pass the command to the processor

verify results

Pass the packet back to the requester

It'll all be a walk in the park if they hadn't layed-off all the smart people they got from SUN.

Re: HealthKit

Ah that brings me back to my childhood... I loved spending weekends assembling their kits. They made a much more beneficial impact on humanity than Apple can ever hope for (Mostly because the Steves developed their talents to the damn things).

Re: phrasing

For me, its a bit ambiguous in that is it an *additional* 150% or 150% of what was seen last year. EG if 2013 saw 1000 requests, did they see 2500 or 1500?

Re: In God's Name

I always thought that fighting in the name of your god is huge insult to that god, like they are too weak and cowardly to do it themselves.

Re: Kerching!

Yes, because typing 'java minecraft.jar' is some real elite hacking...

"So who *was* it made by? I happily pay a premium for domestic appliances that last a very long time."

A couple different brands: mostly Bosch and Siemens, but other times it'll be a Maytag or other brands that aren't selling well (but their cheaper counterparts are).

@ Mr C Hill / @ Ol'Peculier

Let me re-phrase: the professional photographers I've worked with.

They tend to be on the younger side and have developed their skills when cards started becoming really cheap where a card that'd last you a whole shoot would cost about $15-20.

Re: We need a good backup solution - so back off

I assume by 'one brand of software' you are trying to say 'Windows'. But there is no reason why a Crypt-locker variant couldn't be made for Linux, OS-X, Android, iOS, etc.

Re: Why no tracking device?

My thinking is that Governments are run by people; people are idiots; therefore governments are idiots.

Re: So...

"Who in their right mind is going to click on a link in something that they can't read?"

Quite a few people if you preface the link with "Free Phone/tits/games/celebrity tits/money/sluts."

Now if someone were to come up with a game where you win money, women, new phones, or pictures of nude celebrities by navigating a pixellated bird between obstacles, we're all screwed...

Re: Is there an option to have more than one partition?

"What distro is that?"

The one that rhymes with Dead Rat...

Many were made and several are already in Museums (There are two or three in the Smithsonian, one has a hand-made case)

Besides, its not like Woz can't just whip out the ole soldering iron and make another; the technology isn't lost, the Apple 1 didn't use any custom parts, and when the device was made isn't so important for a museum, just the historical significance of the original device.

Re: It's FAR too early to judge

So Apple TCO is really just an idiot tax.

@Charlie Clark Re: Don't shoot the messenger!

Does it work offline?

Yes, and selecting what is and isn't can be configured on a per-file and per-machine basis

Can you mount it as a file system and, therefore, encrypt it yourself?

Not directly, but you can create one or more VHD files and store them on there and mount them on your machine and use whatever file system you want.

Re: Get used to it. It's the future.

I've found that, in government, the people who want the job the most are the last people that should have it...