Posts by Stuart 18

Ahh, yes, but

Some of us are hunky (please see icon) and liverpudlian babes swarm us! All offering naked videos with the filename 'payload.exe'. I was a bit suspicious when some old bird 'Cilla Black' started giving me the glad eye:-) though.

Re: This is ridiculous vendor pimping nonsense

--Optane delivers this today.---

Umm yeah RTA Optane is SCM.

Rant on forever more your Dabbsiness

Title says it all...

--There is no conceivable reasons for any discontent currently, eh?

Definitely nothing to stop us taking the piddle :-)

Love it <B

Re: Another way of looking at automatic braking.

@jake

Hmm... Are we proposing Eugenics using automobiles??

Will there ever be a Godwin's law corollay referencing Henry Ford??

Sure, I'd love to see a bunch of t**ts bumped off(1), but there is WAY too much collateral with motor vehicles:-)

1. I'm only joking: death is too extreme - sterilizing is the transport method of the future:-)

Re: More testing needed

Ahem "wobbly" & "leftover bits"!? Neither the icon or Mechanical Engineering qualifications are needed to form a link between those :-)

Lo and behold the spurious leftover bits look like corner reinforcing triangular plates! Methinks from pure logic they belong at the top inside of the legs performing anti-wobble reinforcing functionality.

Just a pure guess:-)

Re: Why?

...Or... A big one pushing a button!

Before I get offended down votes "big one" infers celebrity or star as opposed to what was just flushed down the loo.

I agree

Saw that quote in the article and was immediately thinking the same thing. I mean what kind of prat tries to exagerrate a perfectly great analogy of FAILURE by FAILING to understand the analogy. It's a basic mathematical concept that the greater the number of equilateral sides the better the fit of a similarly sized object within a circle if fit is defined as the exclusion of spare free space as is understoodbya general engineering perspective. This guy is a triangle of the first order:-)

Re: Will people be able to sell their labour, though?

^Horse unemployment^above^

Forget evolving opposable hooves - they need to soften and taste optimise their flesh:-) It's disgusting how Tesco's recalled all those lasagnas that were aiding in maintaining the horse population;-)

Humanity will be fine once our robot overlords evolve a power unit for converting human bodies into cremation ashes....

I've got one of the many, soon to be created, jobs as an ethics co-processing unit for my 180 IQ tin buddy. I predict he'll be placed in the ethically challenged compound:-)

Re: Heathrow?

Yes it is an AGL (Airport Ground Lighting) control system from Heathrow. A little bit misleadingly labelled as NATS ATC. Although this system is the interface between Ground control and Air Traffic Control as it incorporates the runway services in addition to the taxiways. Thus ground and air teams both have access to it.

Of course you could steer planes into each other on the ground similarly to in the air. Also similarly: as the two human (for now :-) ) captains are in charge of visually steering, with just auditory recommendation / control from the tower; there is more than adequate redundancy to prevent danger to life.

The big danger, as has been mentioned, is the reduction in capacity - all pieces of the system from check-in to baggage handling are meticulously engineered to maximize throughput. Of course in the legally mandatory failsafe backup conditions throughput is sacrificed for safety.

It could be wildly feasible to imagine a loss of life procedure where every possible dodgy shortcut has been taken: inexperienced pilot, poor plane maintenance, skimping on fuel load for savings, too many fat kids on their mother's knees - then the traffic control falure could perceivably lead to a fuel starved incident.

Otherwise this may explain the lack of visibility to terrorists vs. just blowing them up in the air. Of course there should be a zero possibility and that justifies the FAA raising this issue.

Stuart

The selfish rule all??

The person above fits the bill for the ENTIRE problem with motoring worldwide,,,selfish, my journey/strreet/vehicle/penis is more important than yours, drivers. It is they that cause ALL the problems from: aforementioned dead stop braking harmonics to failed zippering.

This is why it's ESSENTIAL for driverless cars to be introduced. The only question is when the number of driverless cars will reach a ratio to exceed the 'threshold of auto-stupidiy' (© Stu 2015:-) below which the selfish people exploit driverless car's programmed safety protocols under the illusion of their own faster progress, causing additional delays - for all.

-it will be interesting to see the inevitable data for this ratio broken down by country! We could then produce a league table for national twatishness:-)

It is apparent to everyone that the efficiency of any transport system is heavily affected by CO-OPERATION. Whether that be with actual laws, lane protocols. speed limits or general courtesy, etc(road maintenance is also a co-operative issue). It is also clear that driverless cars will enable an increase in this co-operation apart from the aforementioned willful disruption by jealous selfish drivers,

As an aside: is the previous respondent aware that:

a) What they propose is possible now. It's just the aforementioned selfish attitude diminishes the success rate. Plus another extension of selfishness - into anger will earn him a broken nose.

b) This behaviour is illegal - now and for the foreseen future. The IoT will enable instant reporting of unplanned roadworks to local authorities.

??

What a dick.

(both of us)

Re: 2.5 kWh? Over what period?

This could be an annoying confusion / mistype of units as: KWh = Kilo Watt Hour which seems to imply an hour???? BUT a Watt is a rate unit with a rate of joules per second ie. 1j/s multiply by an hours worth of seconds and Kilo to give 3,600,000joules x 2.5 = 9million joules of energy saved over this test period which might be 1 hour or could be the expected lifetime of the unit in the style of typical inflationary marketing speak. Who knows???

All thanks to my old engineering tutors who said: "look at the units":)

Re: Looks like many are missing the point

Ho Hum as yet another 1/2 Scot [something must be said for the virility of Scottish males and the constant downvoting by sassenachs:-)] I'm pro union i.e. 'No' for independence. I like to consider myself as the UNION of two BRITISH people, strangely enough who met whilst both in the RAF - question: as independent Scotland has affirmed support for the Queen, how do all institutions with the 'Royal' get repositioned / split / shared??

Anyways, in response to the blog link above about disregarding Scottishness: I gave it a quick read to be confronted by a travesty! This reputedly Scottsh blogger used the term "whiskEy". As explained earlier, in this commentary, this is the Irish dialect and further reading revealed this blogger's history of being termed, in his words, a "fenian"; again an ill informed misuse of the term 'thenian.

I classify the entire post as a rude misjudged diatribe of a person who by rejecting Scottishness shouldn't be permitted to maintain any Scottish identity or right to vote. A forced passing of a basic Scottish history test should be mandatory before permitting any cvote on national identity.

But...

... you can Irish one;-) Poles are way too smart/hardworking:-)

Lawsuits?? Class action?!?!?

Okey dokey, as per guy above I reserved one -16GB- yesterday evening at the Bedford PCWorld 32GB was showing out of stock but 16 showed as available and successfully completed. Confirmation E-mail also received within ten minutes.

Went to the store at 9:15am to be informed it was sold out just right before a guy showed up with notices for hanging on the door! I received the usual attempt at blame transferal with the business manager saying he'd tried calling me and had left a message. Logically enough I'd put my home number into the ONE SINGLE mandatory phone number field,which the manager latched onto criticizing the lack of a mobile number.

Turns out they'd only bothered calling at 8:30 am, when I was out progressing toward PCWorld via gym and Costa. I didn't receive until just now. Even then the message only said it was about my order, not stating anything about lack of availability! Big FAIL on so many counts.

I calmly (no really) addressed all these issue with the two in-store managers explaining my wish to escalate until a satisfactory, touchpad possession, conclusion. All contact details exchanged ( wouldya believe they claimed my E-mail, submitted on same form as phone number and actually checked as still only showing positive order confirmation five mins before proceeding to store, wasn't available to the store, due to some online business separate crap!) All to gain some flannel that there is a further stock shipment due and I only had one guy in front of me!?

Long story just to conclude that there must be a dropped legal ball on their part and would love to know of such ramifications that may apply. I do not recall 'visible' small print or any check boxes / notifications that "reserved" only applied to your new random lottery ticket for the product you'd jumped through hoops for!

Cheers Stuart

I know. They need to create a vulture WTF icon, but hey!?

You are excused, Sarah.

I read that first post as a comparison of this fair site, that is almost as beautiful as it's moderatrix, to the Grauniad. A most unfitting comparison and I immediately looked for Miss Bee's incisive witty comment below. I was heartbroken to find her out on beer break (just like a ciggie break but less cancerous :-) I decided I could provide no better service than to muster my meager wit; stating that finding all the legal loopholes was not a requirement for either the Register's great news article or even moreso for the Graun's lesser standards.

I'm certain, though, that three centuries one score and maybe three quid would find someone willing to give all the advertisers another plug. In the meantime I'll just work my magic for improving my moderation pass rates. I do avidly read all Miss Bee's comments and oft debate compiling a scrapbook of them; but that's way too creepy and a lot of work.