Posts by Julz

Re: Destroy another nation state's satellite?

Operated not by the NSA but the NRO which only recently de-cloaked. They have a very interesting web site...

Re: Company cultures

I would also like to add Sun Microsystems to that list. Well, at least in the early days...

Re: the British people

Or even be British.

All

Referendum in the UK are non-binding.

Re: Industry-standard software applications

Is that going to be before or after we get fusion power?

Re: Incompetent IT leaders in GSTT

Fixed it for you:

NHS have brushed problems under the carpet for many years and the entire set of leaders are not fit for purpose. They make everything overly complicated, refuse to change and that's how they end up with multiple agency providers. They willingly sign up for this mess for the money.

Re: "the UK remains open to association"

Exactly. Shame I can only up vote you once. I do recall getting a storm of down votes a while back for suggesting that the EU institutions would take every chance that they can to be arses.

Whoosh...

There really ought to be an irony icon.

Re: Shields up!

Or just orbit a sail to absorb most of the hits in it's direction of travel.

Re: Seeing back in time

Well assuming your not joking.

By definition, if you can see something, then the light you are seeing has reached you. Things will appear as if they did when they emitted the light. That is, as far as your concerned, some time in the past, as the light has taken time to reach your eyes, as light travels at a speed, it is not instantaneous. The longer the light took to reach your eyes, the further back in time they will seem.

Since it takes time for light to reach your eyes from an object, then that equates to some distance, as light propagate at a speed. Objects further away will be appear as they did before objects that are closer, as it has taken longer for the light to reach your eyes.

Light travels at a sort of set speed. So, given a few assumptions you can take a guess at how long in the past the light started its journey to your eyes, and therefore how far away an object might be. It's almost as if there is a close relationship between space and time, with the speed of light as a determinant.

So how did you get in front of the light? You didn't. You are always here and the object is always there. When the light left the object, your relationship to it meant that a finite time would pass before the light would reach your eyes. Indeed, light leaving you would also take the same finite time to reach back to the object. When the light left the object you were older by the same amount of time that the light takes to propagate to you. From your perspective anyway, others may have differing opinions.

Now, I guess you thinking something along the lines of, well I didn't exist x billions of years ago. Well that doesn't matter. The bit of space time that you occupy now did. It's relationship to the object then was such that it has taken x billion years for light to propagate from the object to your eyes which just happen to occupy it in your now.

That's one way of thinking about it anyway.

Re: Daft

Why not use a gas powered heat pump?

Re: Sacking is not enough

Because the documents in question weren’t secret.

Re: Hmmm.

It hasn’t and it doesn’t lead to the sea. That said, doesn’t mean that it can’t leak into the sea…

Re: Wow

You forgot the 'benefit' of not using any potentially Oracle IP :)

Re: Particularly idiotic

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MQLU3ZM/A/usb-c-to-apple-pencil-adapter?fnode=72809a32b7a2b6eeddbd50ed6007105bc1effd0acdf4c7f77b36ecb5695a0d6f96591e830ba986ac4ed30d94b8ee288df487112b44b462f4b59ce5284ce866f6262bdd39f8bf6d26f428c4d7d9e86637ee0e8ec94dfd6648ef4d3da714aaf908

Re: funnel household spending on essential goods and services

gas.

Re: The very definition of an omnishambles.

Stop being sensible. One has to overreact and catastrophise everything nowadays. Oh, and if you can ignore doing any real analysis and just repeat the current perceived wisdom, all the better.

Re: Makes you wonder

Hum, M982 Excalibur amongst others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur

Re: Should we be making lots of airplanes ?

Our warming planet is sorting that out...

Re: You see? Typical foreigner taking our jobs.

In the UK you do not need to be a UK citizen to be voted into parliament. It just might be hard to gae anyone to vote for you.

Re: Got an Echo

So how many spy devices are too many?

Re: Python--

Have a million upvotes!

Re: Amazon's sorting algorithm

Median

Re: ChAOSIC thinking?

Well it's a start I guess but given the amount of code that is either statically, dynamically or optimized in or out off you code during it's lifetime I'm not sure examining source code gets you very far.

Re: Just as the internet 'routes around damage' ...

If you look around at the various abortions that have been in common use for quiet a while, I think you might come to a different conclusion.

Re: The real world as it is, or as you'd like it?

Was about the make the same comment.

In my world, flight attendants are normally female, well look that way anyway. Builders constructing the hundreds of boxlike houses on the fields around the village, are, to my eyes, all men. So, what exactly is the problem with the software reflecting the world as it appears to be?

Just what I was about to say. So what here is new other than it's done in the USA?

Re: Indecent Business Model

Well, maybe plan for being made redundant and get the cash on offer. Was my mo when I worked for such shit holes.

Re: Geosynchronous?

All orbits are elliptical unless your passing through.

Re: Modula 2

Hum, Modula 2 was Pascal done proper. Real I/O and the ability to pass functions (and other stuff) as arguments, plus a whole load of cleaning up of the syntax. One of my favorite languages. What do we (almost) all use now, Oh, yes, pathetic Java script and PHP; the twins from hell. Now there's progress...

Re: China takes resources

If I was Xi the price would include Taiwan and the South China Sea.

Re: it's 2022

Inside the USA judicial areas, US laws can be applied. Outside of USA judicial areas, they can not. This seems to be something that various governments of the USA have had difficulty in understanding or at least pretend that they do.

Re: So, two people in their spare time

"Sometimes it feels like the Internet only works because of a dozen people . . ."

It is as always has been.

Re: Tit for tat.

Ever though of being a politician?