Posts by TRT

Re: Older staff, or staff with long tenures?

Their skills and training programme. Invest in training for someone 5-10 years from retirement or 30-40 years from retirement?

Re: Metadata

Is that red-um Indian information about 1970s clichés-um?

Re: Crazy

Just put in a NASA project to build a hotel on the moon, with golf course, and it'll be funded immediately. All the preparatory work is where it's important of course. And best of all, the moon is effectively "air gapped" from Mexico!

Re: But seriously though...

It's kind of like pykrete, but made of poop. Poopkrete.

Re: SKY Recording

It's true it's a pain in the butt. HDMI CP for example. Not present on the hardware for H.232 video conferencing kit, for obvious reasons, but it means all the video switching gear and stuff in between it and the source has to be set the same and it's best to lock the CP settings in memory because one device in the chain gets it wrong and it's black screen o'clock. Macs hate it, and having, say, an Apple TV hooked up so you can watch HD films in the UHD-laser-Atmos-equipped lecture theatre after everyone's gone home... you've got to swap cables around to get it to work.

I believe it's still the same twisted pair though.

Re: Lower end

I had one of those! I found it most amusing that they simulated an analogue device using digital technology. In the end I replaced it with a dual display watch - proper analogue hands with an LCD display behind it.

Like Jurassic Park's use of SGI's IRIX button fly interface and a 10 year old kid gleefully rubbing their hands exclaiming "This is a Unix system. I know this. It's like a phone book - it tells you everything."

Re: People stil falling for the fake email.

Microsoft Outlook's ability to effectively render obvious email links as nearly gibberish doesn't help users who are educated enough to try looking at the target URL.

Re: Dumb 'Follower' learns life lesson ....... yet again !!!???

If you're going to stick your neck out, then selecting a moniker containing the word "giraffe" seems appropriate if you're going to make a massive target of yourself.

Eric and Ernie

Re: Imagine a smart bomb that refuses to explode

Or see that there Timelord bomb. It must have taken about 1 week to design and build the explosive itself, but 300 years to develop an AI interface that could argue you down from using it.

Re: Imagine anything as efficient

Indeed. Lightwave & Maya, I seem to recall. But that was all offline rendering. The live video graphics overlay ability was an eye-opener for me.

It was used, I gather from the context, as an affectionate nickname, and these can easily mutate.

For example I had a classmate with the surname Dodd, who became known as either Doddy or Kenneth. Which then became Kenny of course, because many playground nicknames ended in a -y sound; Speccy, Whitey, Nobby, Chalky...

Re: May contain nuts

Was it crunchy or smooth peanut butter?

Re: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Nothing wrong with automation.

RAIB report 19/2018 Collision at London Waterloo.

A test desk had been added to the signalling control room in order to simulate inputs into the signalling system during major works on the track there. Someone at some time later added an extra wire into the system without the correct procedures being followed because the test desk no longer reflected the works they had just carried out. This provided a current path that shouldn't have been there to a point motor which deflected a passenger train into an engineering train.

Re: Shoot it down?

Buzz'droids.

Re: Access Denied

I'm surprised URLs containing the keyword BBC don't get banned more often.

I think we've totally buggered our chances...

Down from zero to absolute zero?