Posts by 0laf 1973 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2009
From a politicians point of view he's probably doing a great job. Being seen saying the right things without actually committing to do or spend anything. Meanwhile he can continue the work of his corporate peers back at home.
Excellent work really, next stop congress. I'm sure he'll get plenty of corporate sponsorship.
I guess most glider pilots would be pretty pissed to have their rather expensive toys* damaged by some plonker flying his toy where it shouldn't be.
*I say 'toy' because there isn't a lot of commercial use for gliders but I've been gliding quite a few times as a kit and loved it. I'd thoroughly recommend taking an experience flight to anyway.
I'm not so sure. There is a still a very strong strategic push to move stuff into the cloud. And that push is happing irrespective if cloud based services are the right choice or now. The marketing guys have done very well in selling cloud to execs, they've sold the expectation that cloud, is cheaper, faster, easier, betterer in all cases.
I've nothing against cloud if it's the right choice, it's just that often it isn't. It's been sold on the 'prices from' model that infests domestic purchasing.
This was the closest I ever got to chucking some cash at a start up. But the failures of others and just the basic fact I really wanted a new Psion but didn't need one stopped me.
The V1 sounds a bit rough for me but if they get things ironed out and especially if they get a Linux dual boot on it (hell I'd even take W10 on it) I think I'll have me cash out for a V1.5 or V2.
Best wishes for the development team and Planet to keep going.
I would have thought (naive I know) that since it cost such a colossal amoutd of money to get the rover to Mars best value would be to use the damn things as long as possible.
Every day this thing lasts (and does useful science) must present a massive cost saving over sending another robot to do a similar task.
Even if it is mostly done doing useful science again I'd have thought that even staying switched on as no more than a martial weather station it could presents pretty good value as a PR stunt.
Friend of mine is a tax specialist account and and a straight one. He can tell many tales of former customers and friends of his own who left his business to go to other accountants that told them what they wanted to hear i.e. they they don't have to pay tax, that they can get cars for free etc etc all the accountancy myths. Almost like an accountancy version of a 419.
Several of these people/businesses are now in sequestration after audit by HMRC and will be bankrupted.
It's almost like the accountancy version of a 419.
A new phone appears that is not very innovative, cheap, expensive, faster or bigger/smaller than anything else in the incredibly over saturated mobile phone market and it get a universal "meh!".
Whodathunkit.
Shockaroony.
But I'd really like to get the guy that sold this to the venture capitalists and extracted millions out of them. That guy has some skillz.
That's some real "ice to the Eskimos" selling there.
I only have a land line to get broadband. If I could drop it I would but on investigation I can't, not yet anyway.
After Cock-wombles Plusnet took six weeks to turn on the phone line, and after they had issued me with no less than six new numbers in those weeks the very first call I got (FSM's honest truth) was "We understand you've been in an accident".
And since then I'd suggest that very nearly 100% of calls have been either accident claims scams, green-deal or PPI. The the rest have been wrong numbers bar 2 calls from my Mum.
There is probably more chance Elon Musk will achieve all these things than NASA. They are projects that are all longer than one or two election cycles so they are doomed to be cancelled change or otherwise interfered with by politicians at least once in the project lifetime.
But sad really.
On the surface, back to the moon and on to Mars sounds good.
The end of the ISS is maybe inevitable. I don't know if it's getting towards the end of it's life anyway.
Would be nice if they could build a large habitat with a life of maybe 50 or 100yr. That's maybe not even possible.
They should have just treated it as an extreme test. If it caused panic and people didn't run to the shelters then the planning has failed and but the test was successful.
Clearly that sort of testing is high risk but it produces the best data to refine the response plans.
Someone who creeps around with Teflon shoulder pads might have said something like that.
No he'd be right. They don't need to retain that data to provide the service he has contracted them for so in fact they would not be permitted to retain it in the first place without consent.
And that consent must be informed and freely given and just as easy to remove as to give.
For the consumer and the citizen the GDPR is a very good thing indeed.
GDPR is the pork barrel and the W2k bug of today.
Honest truth is that if you have been acting reasonably under the DPA (or European equivalents) you will probably manage just fine under GDPR. Ok you've got a bit of work to do but you're not likely to get dragged out into the street and shot by your regional ICO.
If you've been playing fast and loose with data taking the £500k fine as an operational risk then you're probably deep in the shit and best start digging hard.
This is possibly why I've heard of some banks paying mad money for consultants to do GDPR work.
I have a strong longing for a landrover defender despite knowing them to be pretty crap.
I fear getting one would simply feed my addiction to gathering odd tools and widgets and add odd car parts to it.
Saying that I've a washing machine, fridge and tumble drying in me garage, just in case. I need to get them to a charitable concern
I still have and regularly use the Texas scientific calculator I used at school in the early 90s. It's at least 25yr old.
Until the last house move I also had boxes of Pentium II processors, some mobos and assorted bits. In my parents loft I have a P1 200MHz MMx with a Voodoo 1 card I bought in 1996.
Sprouts...
Par boiled then roasted with pancetta and Parmigiano.
It's wrong to work in IT in any way and not gather a wide collection of shite that might, one day, be needed.
We've all got stories of needing that one weird cable and just so happening to still have it. I like having old gadgets around, especially PDAs for some reason.
TBH I'd still use a b/w LCD Palm / Psion as a calendar if the software would still work.
I had a thought that started out silly - "ha, no you want automated Segways"
Then got serious.
Automated wheelchairs. Person who can't control a chair but could control an adapted app could set a destination, "Take me to Argos / the pharmacy / Waypoint 3/ somewhere accessible for lunch". Chair has all the automated car mcguffery but can also go in pedestrian areas and can use your big company AI to take the client where they need to go.
Could update 'things' in shops too, "Mr Smith will arrive in 5min, he'll need some help to pack his prescription", "here is Mr Smith food order".
One of my less stupid ideas I think.
Wow so the court didn't believe that she banged her head before dismembering herself and hopping overboard.
He's a nasty piece of work and hopefully he won't walk the streets again.
We're lucky he just wasn't very bright, but I wouldn't be shocked to find out he has a bad record of events of which this is just the culmination.
Welcome to digital. Where you need to use your finger to dial a number to go on the phone to fix a problem with the badly designed, probably never maintained website.
But don't worry and don't bother complaining. The Contractor who was employed to deliver the site no longer works for us so you can't ask for him to be sacked. But no one else who know anything about it works here now either.
But it's in the Cloud so it must be safe. The salesdroid told the director who told the manager and he told me.
Nothing ever goes wrong so why would I ever need a backup or worry about an SLA or a contract or any of that nonsense. Or data protection, or hacking or...
It's not like clouds are gaseous ethereal structures is it?
AKA "The Dilbert Principle".
"The Dilbert principle refers to a 1990s theory by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management (generally middle management), in order to limit the amount of damage they are capable of doing."
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