Posts by TRT 9611 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2009
A confounding factor may be the applicant's required qualifications. If you can't get the entry level jobs, then you can't get the experience to apply for the higher level jobs - there's a filter on applications as well as a result of that. There's a temporal component to the workforce availability. Point is definitely taken, though. This is a crude analysis.
Our Apple lab had 44 iMac CRTs ranged on the benches. Apple Remote Desktop used to have a lovely "play sound" function, as well as the capability of turning the microphone on remotely. We could eavesdrop on suspicious looking groups of students lurking near the back of the lab away from the technician's windows, then play machine gun fire from all around them.
a favourite cry was that the keyboard or mouse had stopped working in the PC lab. Never happened in the Apple lab, oddly. But the usual cause was that the lazy buggers had slouched further and further back on the chairs, stretching their legs further and further under the desks until their toes had caught the excessively long USB keyboard/mouse cables hanging down the gap at the back of the desk and yanked them out of the rear of the machine. The iMacs were of the all-in-one CRT design, and the USBs plugged in at the side, so it was obvious when they started pulling loose.
Stingy old estates wouldn't buy us the properly designed cantilever desks with cable management trays and toe boards - we had to use the solid oak 4 leg tables that had served the design department for the last 50 years since when the college buildings were finally finished off after the end of WW2. I secretly didn't mind plugging the keyboards back in if it meant we could keep all the oak tables, the wainscotting, flock wallpaper, cat 2 suspended billiard hall style lighting, oak window shutters and gilt framed portraits of former principals on the wall - it made the place more like a cut price country club than the late 70s / early 1980s drab office, vertical blind, plastic potted plant, room dividers open plan labs in the newer building extension.
How do you enforce it so that the required identification beacon is carried? Well, in a similar way to how you ensure that cars have their registration plates? You see one, you check for a beacon. Is it the correct one? Well, I guess that's kind of hard. Same as policing anything else really. But at least having a digital registration device makes it easier.
If there's a two-way communication built into the drone anyway, then it should be possible to do it without a separate transmitter module. I thought of a separate module because then it gets delivered as part of your drone pilot registration return and it's standard for the country it's operating in. There's no reason I picked 10g and a separate module other than it's a small amount of payload which seems reasonable to pack in enough electronics to produce a signal of the required strength to always be detectable a little bit further than the range of the vehicle's operation - line of sight.
require any drone over a certain size to carry an operational identification transmitter, say a radio beacon weighing 10g, emitting a unique digital registration code on a standard multiplexed frequency which could be read by a smartphone user for reporting of privacy infringements? A sort of digital permit for the pilot, or like a registration plate on a car? Or both, even. Micro-SD card carrying the pilot's registration ID.
Chihuahua x Great Dane is possible but unwise due to physical issues such as size of the birth canal, the teat etc. Genetically they are compatible. Ass (Donkey) x Horse do NOT produce a fertile offspring (mule) - their offspring are infertile due to chromosomal number incompatibility (64 vs 62).
Oh, and the vast majority of organisms on the planet are bacteria and they DO reproduce 'sexually', in a fashion. They also reproduce asexually, and it's this bit that's taught up to O level biology - they leave out 'conjugation' until A level.
that for speciation to be considered complete, it required genetic incompatibility, not simply habitual mating practice. My tutor was of the opinion that so-called 'lock and key' mechanisms were obviously strong contributors to speciation, but because populations could re-converge and re-hybridise, they did not satisfy the proper conditions for speciation. The 'lock-and-key' hypothesis is best exemplified by reference to the erm... 'physical' compatibility or not of the erm... anatomical components required to effect gamete transfer. Indeed some of the videos I've seen on the internet would suggest that can happen in Homo sapiens as well. As for the IT angle... have you ever tried jamming a USB cable into a Firewire port?
The professor I had for Evolutionary Biology was John Maynard Smith, by the way,
Last night was a gruesome schedule. The Apprentice. Peaky Blinders. I'm a Celebrity. Lifers Behind Bars. Raped: My Story.
And on the plethora of other channels:
Something about Jamie Bulger, something about getting back with your ex, something about Death Row, something about The Zodiac Killer...
It makes me wonder if there's a reason to live anymore? I didn't get as far as the music channels, but I'm willing to bet there was a 12 hour homage to The Smiths on one channel, and My Music:Tracey Chapman on the other.
Pilgrimage? Crusade? Peregrination? Ah! The Peregrine. That's one model name taken care of. Yes... that's a marketing wet dream isn't it?
Here at Apple, we looked around and thought, "You know, there's lots of technology companies making self-driving cars, and electric vehicles", but at the end of the day they're all still little tin boxes who's purpose is getting you from A to B. We weren't interested in that, we'll leave that to the others. We thought, "You know, wouldn't it be great if we could take the functionality of a car and get rid off all the hassle of ownership - all the maintenance and insurance..." that'd be great, wouldn't it? But for us at Apple, that's not enough. The car is like a little home away from home for the duration of your journey, right? So, what if we were to add to that journey all of the really great things that people enjoy when they're at home. And what if we took all of the things they enjoy when they're moving around too? Woah, that'd be really hard, right? I mean how would you make that work, eh? You want to combine people's cars with their houses and their phones? Come on... you can't make that work, can you? Well, let me introduce to you a new concept in land based vehicular transportation... the iVoyage Odyssey.
*mirrors and smoke effect*
*Applause*
And for the more budget conscious individual...
*mirrors and smoke*
The iVoyage Peregrine.
You're probably looking at these babies and thinking, "How do I get to own one of these?"
Well, let me answer that by telling you now... you don't.
Introducing... iVoyage Freedom. A subscription pass that gives you affordable access to a fleet of iVoyagers tailored to meet your own requirements at the moment that you need them. They will come to you, wherever you need, whenever you need. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
I think they'll ditch the reference to car or auto, because 1) it doesn't create a worldwide brand and 2) they'll want to redefine a concept.
It'll be short, snappy and descriptive of the look. Like a Pod maybe, but they've already used that one... it'll be the iCraft or the Vessel or something. The Voyager. Yes, that's the one... the Apple Voyager.
that Uber did not suffer a data loss event. Uber formed a strategic alliance with a data handling and penetration testing organisation, and the payment to them was a contractual obligation reflecting the level of service provided. As a result of this perfectly normal business relationship, it was not legally required for the company to disclose any breach or data loss because there was no such loss. Thank you.
Do you think they bought it? Wha...? Huh? Oh shit, the microphone's stil.... *click*
man breaks automated tests at 00:30
Dark Star is arguably the most important film ever made.
During the screening, Dan O'Bannon and John Carpenter went round theatres and the feedback they got, because it was supposed to be a comedy Sci-Fi which just didn't really exist at the time, was along the lines of "Was that alien supposed to be scary?"
The pair then thought to themselves "If we can't make them laugh, we'll make them scream".
Dan O'Bannon went on to write Alien, and John Carpenter... Halloween, The Fog etc etc. The rest is history.
Silent Running is my all time number one weepy. Sod chick flicks.
Watching the callous deprivations of humanity trigger Lowell's descent into madness, his having to confront the consequences of his own actions before finally committing the ultimate sacrifice as Dewey heads off into the infinite blackness... that gets the waterworks going every time.
I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
Conversion of energy from one form to another - if we can convert renewables into energy rich hydrocarbon fuels in an efficient and sustainable manner whilst spreading our energy needs across an array of different sources - each the most appropriate for the use case - then we might, MIGHT, just be able to continue as a species without choking our own life support system.
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