* Posts by Philip Lewis

991 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2009

Crash this beauty? James Bond's concept DB10 Aston debuts in Spectre

Philip Lewis

Re: Just wondering

Either way, I predict the anti theft device is a moddern interpretation of the electic chair!

Philip Lewis

The Italian Job

The original, began with the demolition of a Miura, follwed by 3 Es, 87 minis and quite a lot of Fiats. The tone was set a loooong time ago.

Bacon as deadly as cigarettes and asbestos

Philip Lewis

Re: WHO cares?

As a snuff snorting Swede once remarked;

There is a difference between living, and being alive!

Philip Lewis

Re: I think they're all missing the point

And I thought it eas just me who just loves the diplodicus!

Philip Lewis

1980s

When I were a lad, some bright spark discovered the 'added extras' in bacon + coffee = wickedly strong carcigen. So obviously, we need to go back to drinking tea for breakfast!

Australian boffins say Quantum Pentiums are on the horizon

Philip Lewis

(TM)

"Quantum Pentium"

Surely that would be a "Qantium" (no "u" because we don't want the word to ever hit the dictionary"

NASA deep space scope serves up EPIC Earth snapshots

Philip Lewis

Re: Bah!

IIRC NASA did allocate a bit of Hubble time to photograph the surface of the moon. Since the resolution was still greater than the size of the objects (lander, rover etc) they were not visible. However the Rover tracks in the dust were visible.

Of course I may have dreamed all of this.

Top boffin Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more

Philip Lewis

Only under a very narrow definition of "majority"

As for Elon, he has a great deal of money invested in tech companies that exists because of the issue - it is hardly likely he would have a differing opinion.

Philip Lewis

Conflation 101

" Pollution is quite separate to the climate problem: one can be solved, and the other cannot, and the public doesn't understand that."

Here in Europe Connie Hedegaard conflates these two things every time she opens her mouth. She is despicable in my opinion, a duplicitous weasel.

It is hardly surprising that Joe Average is doesn't understand, he is being lied to on a daily basis by people exploiting the situation (politicians) as they drive blindfolded, headlong into their New World Order of Global Government.

/endrant

Apple iPhones, iPads BRICKED by iOS 9's 'slide-to-upgrade' bug

Philip Lewis

Re: Worked for me

Sample space increased 100% to 2 with addition of 1 iPhone.

Still 100% success

Philip Lewis

Worked for me

Sample space of 1 Air2

Upgrade to 9.0

Worked fine

'To read this page, please turn off your ad blocker...'

Philip Lewis

Re: Downvotes

Whielist the site in your adblocker. I have,

BAN the ROBOT WHORES, says robot whore expert: 'These AREN'T BARBIES'

Philip Lewis

Re: zero fucks given

Ex Macina is a great flick, and I would have poked ALL the Fembots in it.!

(Finally an Austin Powers reference)

Sierra Nevada snow hasn't been this bad since 1500AD

Philip Lewis

Re: Reg commentard confused by hypothesis again @Mahatma Coat

Warm+dry = n

Warm+wet = o

Warm+wet+low solar = p

Etc ...

Am I making a point about vegetation growth here? Do you see why a single factor is with absolute certainty never acting alone? Tree ring studies are dubious best guesses, an ever will be, which is why LP went to quite some lengths (with links no less) to point out that tree ring studies seem to point in all directions supporting neither side of the AGW discussion

Apple iPhone 6S: Same phone, another day, but TOTALLY DIFFERENT

Philip Lewis

Re: iCloud storage is much cheaper, and that is what Apple want you to use

A down vote from someone who clearly never gets out of a city on a major continent (try Buttfuck Idaho or back of Bourke) or ever paid for data in Australia or had his "unlimited" plan suddenly not be so unlimited after all ...

The facts remain that data is expensive in many countries, "unlimited" often isn't, and coverage still sucks outside cities. Visiting a major event in just about any city just about guarantees zero data coverage as people actually try and post to FB etc. Mobile data is still a long way from usable for anything but unimportant things, and not even those.

Philip Lewis

Re: iCloud storage is much cheaper, and that is what Apple want you to use

True, but that implies that one has a free and unlimited data plan (in the dictionary sense, not the marketing sense) and further, one is willing to tolerate the inconsistent coverage and quality that we currently have.

Windows 10 blamed (partly) for stalled PC sales recovery

Philip Lewis

Re: IDC previous predictions fail...

"Cubs having won the World Series in 2016."

Sadly, just in our dreams

Dead device walking: Apple iPod Touch 6th generation

Philip Lewis

Lunatik

It's been done. Worked OK too (I have one still). I think they stopped selling the nano-5 watch band now though

Mathematician: sunspot could mean mini ice age from 2030

Philip Lewis

Re: This good be good news or bad news.....

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/radiation/

Pan Am Games: Link to our website without permission and we'll sue

Philip Lewis

Quick, someone who is too bored to have a life read this and give me the tl;dr version.

http://www.pga.com/other/terms-use

Microsoft SLASHES 7,800 bods, BURNS $7.6bn off books in Nokia adjustment

Philip Lewis

Re: I'm starting to lose track of this

NOKIA got really big in mobile phones in a different era and it is very unlikely that their previous 50%+ market share position could ever be re-attained.

That said, I guess they could start from scratch and try some niche markets. They were always good at the phone cameras and they had good production quality and OK designs. There may be some useful and profitable areas for them, but a major global player in mobile phones generally is probably not one of them. This belongs to the hordes of Chinese manufacturers forever more I suspect.

It seems with this announcement previous predictions that MS would quickly get rid of the dumb phone part of the business have now been realised and the destruction of all NOKIA handset division value is now almost complete. After a suitable amount of time, the Lumia will be buried and MS's foray into the mobile handset market will be at an end.

Oh, and how is that 8Bn purchase of Skype working out for MS financially?

Samsung ousts Apple as top US smartmobe biz

Philip Lewis

It's all relative, except when it is not

"Samsung is unusual in that their devices always have a longer life."

For the life of me, I cannot deduce to what this statement refers .

Why OH WHY did Blighty privatise EVERYTHING?

Philip Lewis

Re: English translation please...?

Well Tim, I think I know what you meant to write, but I am unable to reconcile my thought with what you did write and with what you might have written to indicate what you clearly thought. geddit?

Australian government demands signoff on telco network designs

Philip Lewis

"... indication that the laws won't be used against specific vendors"

yep, that is totally believable, not?

Phishing gone: eBay patches to block session-jacking Magento holes

Philip Lewis

@ Six_Degrees

My conjecture is ...

a) The score range is 1..5

b) That in this case, the direction of "scoring" is irrelevant

YMMV :D

Why is it that women are consistently paid less than men?

Philip Lewis

Re: Request line

... or a band

Beats loudspeaker silenced by Apple after $3bn buyout, report claims

Philip Lewis

These might be cool though

https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/od-11

How much info did hackers steal on US spies? Try all of it

Philip Lewis

Re: Lots of people have to fill this out

Actually, first pet is the one i always choose. there are only 5 living people who know the answer to this one.

Inside the guts of Nano Server, Microsoft's tiny new Cloud OS

Philip Lewis

Re: Seems like a good idea to me.

Isn't .NET currently needed in order to use powershell? Probably enough reason not to use it actually ...

What is Apple's idiot tax on Watch these days? 'About $265 or 80%'

Philip Lewis

Re: R. A. E.

if were able to upvote from this app, i would do so!

I am reduced to tears.

$17,000 Apple Watch: Pointless bling, right? HA! You're WRONG

Philip Lewis

Re: Hear him! Hear him!

I am reliably informed that a Citation IV will remove the panties of even the most difficult wench!

Philip Lewis

Re: Hear him! Hear him!

No iPhone 6 for me, for that reason alone! And here I was thinking that I was the last guy in a 3 piece suit!

I am hoping Apple come to their collective senses and release an iPhone7 mini around the time I need to upgrade my current version

Are virtualisation and the cloud SNUFFING OUT traditional backup software?

Philip Lewis

Re: Business/corporate cloud backup is a fraud and a shame.

Joerg. True, but after one presents the bill for the hardware, software, human intervention time etc. it transpires that the stuff is not that valuable after all, and lesser solutions are acceptable. That is, until the shit hits the fan, at which time new jobs must be found.

Philip Lewis

Re: Not Likely

Crikey, my compressed save sets are approaching 1TB a day on average ... and I limit my first tier recovery options to the past 15 days, simply in order to manage the storage space.

Getting this data across the net to some cloudy end location while possible, is hardly a viable solution, especially when the inevitable recovery is necessary after SQL Server borks another multi-TB database.

Apple design don Jony Ive: Build-your-own phone is BOLLOCKS

Philip Lewis

Re: chavmobile

wicked!

Lightbulb moment for visible light networking: 200 Gbps without a fibre

Philip Lewis

Re: What's the use case for 100 Gbps wireless?

never underestimate banwidth of a utility van filled with disk drives

Accused Goldman Sachs code pilferer sues FBI for 'wrongful arrest'

Philip Lewis

Re: For More On the Story

Flah Boys is not Michael's best book, but well worth the read anyway. I hope Segey wins, it was a all totally bogus.

Skin colour's irrelevant. Just hire competent folk on their merits, FFS

Philip Lewis

Re: How to accurately measure diversity?

race=human

QWERTY-tastic BlackBerry Classic actually a classic

Philip Lewis

Re: Square the circle

Slide keyboards are a mechanical weak spot, an accident waiting to happen. I've had 2 from different tier-1 manufacturers and both succumbed - the keyboard was the problem. YMMV

My past history included many years where almost everything I did was recorded on my PSION 5mx. I have a personal preference for keyboards still, but my experience in the past was not good, and pretty much everything after the PSION was second rate for serious use. I only scrapped it when the screen became too weak to read - RIP to the best PDA I ever tried or owned.

Apple in 2007: Who wants a stylus? Apple in 2010: We want a stylus!

Philip Lewis

Re: @ AC Inertial Guidance I think

This comment inexplicably, or not, reminded me of this ...

Aircraft Inertial Guidance:

The aircraft knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is the greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.

The Inertial Guidance System uses deviations to generate error signal commands which instruct the aircraft to move from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, arriving at a position where it wasn't, or now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position where it wasn't; thus, it follows logically that the position where it was is the position where it isn't.

In the event that the position where the aircraft now is, is not the position where it wasn't, the Inertial Guidance System has acquired a variation. Variations are caused by external factors, the discussions of which are beyond the scope of this report.

A variation is the difference between where the aircraft is and where the aircraft wasn't. If the variation is considered to be a factor of significant magnitude, a correction may be applied by the use of the autopilot system. However, use of this correction requires that the aircraft now knows where it was because the variation has modified some of the information which the aircraft has, so it is sure where it isn't.

Nevertheless, the aircraft is sure where it isn't (within reason) and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it isn't, where it ought to be from where it wasn't (or vice versa) and intergrates the difference with the product of where it shouldn't be and where it was; thus obtaining the difference between its deviation and its variation, which is variable constant called "error".

And a thanks to the poster where I read it first, whomsoever he/she might have been.

SpaceX six days from historic rocket landing attempt

Philip Lewis

Re: In world where news is mostly Celebs..

What has Nigel Farage to do with any of this? That really is just a bit too left field for me. Explain, please.

Internet Explorer 12 to shed legacy cruft in bid to BEAT Chrome

Philip Lewis

Re: Bugs please

I was just thinking the same thing!

It's nearly 2015 – and your Windows PC can still be owned by a Visual Basic script

Philip Lewis

Re: It could be worse

Every bank in the country of denmark, and most of Scandinavia I think requires. Further, the national secure identity system (nem-id) used for access to government sites requiring secure identification is Java based.

Java is alive and well, and required if you wish to interact with the government.

Apple on the art of the deal: 'Put on your big boy pants and accept the agreement'

Philip Lewis

Re: Sapphire will happen

"Sapphire-screened mobiles will happen sooner or later. "

Vertu already have them, but they are hand assembled and in no way mass production. At the present time they exist only as a very expensive option.

UN: Fossil fuels should be terminaated 86 years from now

Philip Lewis

Re: It's time to grow a pair

"either they're ALL in on it "

This is completely unnecessary.

It merely requires that sufficient number of climate scientists to have independent but similar interests and act according to those shared interests. The climate science community as whole, and the individuals within it specifically, have the same interest ... funding and continuing funding, and within their respective academic or other professional communities, recognition and for some, empire building. If the path to these interests is to promote AGW, then that is what will be promoted.

I would posit that these conditions exist, in a provable sense (follow the money and measure its growth over the past 15 years) and observe the ris in prominence of "climate" faculties and the fact that research grants pretty much require the climate card these days to have a shot at the h(m)oney pot.

You do not need a conspiracy. This is a false argument.

Hans Neij of Pirate Bay arrested in Thailand

Philip Lewis

Hmm, 17 months in detention for a transgression that the court valued at 6 months. Welcome to Scandinavia. I thought it was just Denmark (absolutely the worst place in the world for time in prison awaiting trial) that was like this, apparently Sweden also.

OFFICIAL: Fondling of Apple's slab declines – iPad sales DOWN in Q3

Philip Lewis
Headmaster

Re: IDC Proove they are useless

Oh dear, first it was loose and lose, now will it be prove and proove?

Samsung says teaming up with mobe-maker Microsoft could violate antitrust law

Philip Lewis

IIRC Samsung stopped selling Windows laptops here in Europe (we have one in the office - not bad kit). Maybe the rest of the world too (or soon).

Perhaps they have decided to dump everything MS associated and figure that taking some pocket change "in advance" by failing to pay their contractual dues to MS is the right way to exit.

Stupider strategies have existed in the past.

Remember, Samsung is a multiply convicted cartel operator and IP infringer (we can exclude Apple in the list for to save trolling) with a habit of bleeding competitors dry in court. This play from Samsung is not exactly an unnatural act for them.

Just don't blame Bono! Apple iTunes music sales PLUMMET

Philip Lewis

Re: ITunes?

Newsflash.....

I personally know a lot of people who do not find iTunes unpleasant. They use the 1% of the functionality necessary to get their tracks onto their device and that, as they say, is it. They do not know what mp3 actually is, or any other music format. For them Hi Fidelity is a book written by Nick Hornby and a pretty good movie, and is only peripherally related to music. These people my friends, are the vast unwashed masses, who do not sip lattes together sharing their hispster experiences and waxing inteligently on trends in fashion, these are the people who are ARE Apple's customers. In some circles, these people are called consumers.

Disclaimer: I personally think iTunes is an abomination, but I am in the software industry, so my opinion is only relevant in the sense that I evaluate it differently from consumers. If iTunes was perceived as badly by consumers as I (and everyone here I think), then I suspect that Apple would never have been as successful in the music delivery business.

Jony Ive: Flattered by rivals' designs? Nah, its 'theft'

Philip Lewis

Re: "Flat" design

Wow, down voted for terse, 2 word observation and an emoticon.

In the name of Apple inspired minimalism, I am gunning for down votes for a one word post sans smiley - stay tuned.