Re: How rapidly were the cans opened ?
Stab the side with a biro and open the throat.
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Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing
Oh noes! Half the NHS runs on Windows 7! Thankfully, here's Citrix with a virty vaccine
Wednesday 11th December 2019 12:28 GMT 
I had an expensive piece of kit. PC Connects via USB, and the software was updated to give Win 10 compatibility. The drivers were updated too. Yay! But when we bought a new micro-form factor PC to connect it to, that was the point we discovered that it had an issue with USB 3. Very different chips in there to give that function, and even if the chips offers a USB 2 emulation mode, it doesn't work for some kit. The only solution was to stick a USB 2 hub on the USB 3 port.
We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory
Tuesday 10th December 2019 11:36 GMT
Re: The unions will be up in arms about this...
Just supporting our brothers in the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Professional Thinking Persons. After all the Minor Deities Personification and Manifestations Guild represent the guards working alongside and protecting their members. I shall be consulting with brothers Majikthise and Vroomfondel this afternoon, and we shall have to put the matter to our combined membership.
Tuesday 10th December 2019 08:57 GMT
The unions will be up in arms about this...
Its just blatant management interference to reduce the staffing of transportation services for Buddhist monks embarking on dangerous holy missions. These are valuable members of any entourage, and combining safety-critical escort roles in such a fashion is a simple cost-saving exercise at the expense of the safety of the travelling public. Coupled with this, recent attempts to shift the mission so it makes 100% use of The Cloud is utterly undermining the entire principle and rationale of undertaking a journey to Ghandara on foot.
I'll take your frame to another dimension, pay close attention: This AI auto-generates 3D objects from 2D snaps
Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit
Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS?
Tuesday 3rd December 2019 16:26 GMT
Re: Interesting
Hm. It derives its clock by exciting caesium molecules using a pair of lasers, though. Some sort of clever feedback system which keeps the laser excitation frequencies tuned very tightly to just either side of the critical resonance frequency of the molecules. So it is a genuine atomic clock.
I'm not explaining it well. Hang on...
It says "The SA.45s CSAC employs coherent population trapping (CPT) to interrogate an atomic frequency. A laser illuminates atoms in a resonance cell with polarized radiation at two sidebands separated by the atomic resonance frequency. The atoms are excited to a non-scattering coherent superposition state from which further scattering is suppressed. The small size and low power of the CSAC is enabled by a novel electronic architecture, in which much of the functionality of conventional atomic clocks has been implemented in firmware rather than hardware.
The SA.45s electronic hardware consists of a low-power digital-signal processor, a high-resolution microwave synthesizer, and analog signal processing. The microwave output is derived from a tunable crystal oscillator and is applied to the laser within the physics package to generate the two sidebands necessary for CPT interrogation. A photodetector detects light transmitted from the laser after it passes through the cesium vapor resonance cell. Based on the measured response of the atoms, the microprocessor adjusts the frequency of the crystal oscillator."
And then there's a whole lot of other stuff about how stable it is and why that is. It's all bloody clever, mind you. Still not accurate enough to calibrate the timing circuit of a Type 40 TARDIS though. For that you need beryllium.
Internet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really?
Astronauts brave razor sharp edges and fiddly pipes to bring joy to boffins
Buy Amazon's tiny $99 keyboard so you can make terrible AI music for all your friends
We strained our eyes with Lenovo's monster monitor: 43.4 inches for price of five 24" screens
Brian Eno's latest composition: A giant Christmas card with Julian Assange on it
Monday 2nd December 2019 10:21 GMT
Re: FAIL
OK, OK. An apameatarium then, if you must be ultra pedantic, but (1) people are more likely to recognise the term Lepidoptera and (2) a moth breeding facility is also called a lepidopterarium. So I don't see what the problem is. Is it Christmas jumpers that caused offence? Would you prefer he was wearing a Nordic pattern sweater instead? Plenty of those in Sweden.
Internet Society CEO: Most people don't care about the .org sell-off – and nothing short of a court order will stop it
RuneScape bloke was wrongly sacked after reading veep's salary details on office printer
Friday 29th November 2019 16:20 GMT
Re: Personal Usage
Funny, my previous employer went ape shit when I used their printer to run off a few personal notes for home.
Curse you, De La Rue!
Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors
Wednesday 27th November 2019 10:58 GMT
Re: This May be Apocryphal...
Having watched a removals company engaged by the bean counters at the closing down sale of a world renowned college of printing (I'm not bitter - much), rather than them using the company we specified, I can well believe it.
Standard 5 tonne forklift under the frame of a 7 tonne Windmöller flexo... the forklift goes up in the air, not the press. "Patrick... I think we'll be needing a bigger forker for this one." Bodgitt and Scarper we named them as we watched with tears in our eyes as our beloved machine printing classroom was slowly gutted. God knows what state the equipment was in by the time it reached the buyer. They managed to drop a rotogravure press from about 2 metres up when some straps broke. Left a sizeable dent in the car park, probably fractured the frame.
Wednesday 27th November 2019 10:47 GMT
Re: Details
B2?? Small posters, then. It is probably capable of running SRA2 as well, thus with an automated print finishing unit also capable of A5 and A4 booklets.
Nice machine, if the truth be told, but Japanese, not one of the "gold-standard" German presses. Heidelberg have lost a lot of ground to the competition, I'm afraid.
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: A quirky investigation into why AI does not always work
Tuesday 26th November 2019 17:12 GMT
Re: Nature
Ah. The Freudian concept of Id. We are born with this; the unconscious mind, driven only by the satisfaction of base, animalistic desires. The conscious Ego, rational, logical, able to direct the energy and motivation of the Id: the Ego develops later in life and continues to grow and refine itself through experience and learning. And then there is the Super-ego; the morals and ethics derived from one's upbringing and from society, operating across all levels of the conscious and the unconscious.
As pressure builds over .org sell-off, internet governance bodies fall back into familiar pattern: Silence
Tuesday 26th November 2019 11:27 GMT
Re: Outrageous
Well, it is possible to have ethical capital... it's called philanthropy, but it needs a healthy wedge of cash derived from other sources to exist. I don't think Ethos Capital HAS any other income stream to divert a proportion of to their philanthropic endeavours supporting charitable and not-for-profits, does it?
Close the windows, it's coming through the walls: Copper Cthulu invades Dabbsy's living room
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