Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Huge

The odds of getting it at least to orbit are pretty good, the Ariane 5 only blew up the first time (IIRC)

Re: Progress

> The shroud jettison and transfer stage ignition are solved problems

Except each new payload is different so these seem to be the parts that go wrong the most often

- although in the case of Hipparcos with beneficial results !

Re: Shipping Label

> Ariane Space, France

Hopefully not.

Although I've had smaller telescope instruments go missing because everywhere discovered by Spanish sailors is called some variation on "Palma"

Re: Progress

>It's the minutes on top of Ariane that are the most scary.

No, it's the shroud jettison.

Or the transfer stage ignition

Or the sunshade unfold.

Or the mirror deploy and alignment.

Re: "Less than 5 per cent of lithium-ion batteries are recycled today"

Doesn't change the fact that only 5% of the Li-Ion ones are recycled.

The problem is that it's very expensive to take apart a 1000 different size and shaped custom batteries embedded inside smartphones or power tool battery packs. Each of which contain miniscule amounts of useful material amdi all the plastic packaging.

Recycling standard already separated 18650 cells might be easier - and automatable - but isn't going to be worthwhile economically unless there is recycling fee.

Remanufacturing existing Tesla battery packs might be worth it - especialy if the price of raw materials is going up.

Re: Wot no Wi-Fi?

>Perhaps there'll be a glut of them on the market and the price might come down a little?

My web browsing laptops are all $99 used chromebooks running GalliumOS (ie Linux+XFCE)

Make sure you buy 4Gb ram, but 16Gb SSD is enough

The Lenovo ones are mostly child proof = totally indestructible

Re: Check mate

Or China annexes Fulbourn because NVidia doesn't

- I for one welcome our oriental overlords to the Fens

Re: Check mate

So SpaceX has to do whatever President Zuma says ?

Re: Check mate

China, Taiwan and Nvidia are all foreign and therefore are all the same

Re: British!

By that logic a lot of great British businesses are Bahamian or Virginal

Apple, making user repairs difficult since the Jurassic

(Yes I know the triceratops is Cretaceous - but Jurassic is easier to spell)

Do you have to say who signed it ?

Or can you just list a "signed Mac Classic" ?

Re: Did I get this right ?

Or look at it in the extreme.

You have accurate 3d position and pose of all the players through a match.

You then replay that position information through CGI figures with their "publicly available" faces textured on and you show the entire match like that.

You aren't "broadcasting" the match , you are merely replaying publicly available statistical data

There is, at least in the Eu, "database rights".

If you have gone to the trouble and expense of collecting and organising "public information" you can have copyright on that collection - but other people can still collect the same facts and publish their own identical list.

Re: A customer dilemma

Could they send a secret commando unit to steal a Shuttle back from a museum ?

Then all they have to worry about is a rather aged Roger Moore tracking them down

It means that any costs on Starliner, instead of being paid to Boeing on a cost-plus contract will be paid to Boeing as R&D costs of an unspecified classified contract that we can't talk about to this committee

I'm sure all patriotic members of the committee can see the necessity of the Motherland's major aerospace company remaining profitable

Re: Factory

No, but it's a calibrated aviation -grade space-certified hammer

Re: Pro Tip - -> WD40

Has anyone considered a WD40+Oxygen rocket motor?

At least it wouldn't squeak

> I propose the new name should be Constellation.

You are unfamiliar with getting Congressional funding for quasi-defense projects

It will be called the "Patriotic Flaming Sword of Jesus Hallelujah(*) Rocket"

*=possibly not - it's hard to spell and sounds a bit foreign

Re: Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance

She is a wonderful role model for kids.

Children - work hard, stay in school, achieve mastery of a subject and you can be sure you won't become Baroness Dido (also beware of middle aged men with weird hair making strange offers to you)

Re: Please don't call it NHS track and trace

The important point is that NHS track and trace failed and we can all come together in blaming the NHS and leveraging synergies with the dynamic private sector.

Re: What is wrong with a 404?

>DNS queries? You're lucky.

We did actually used to email copies of /etc/hosts to each other.

Back in the 90s (which we all know were only 15 years ago)

Re: What is wrong with a 404?

In our case it resulted in lots of people wandering upto my desk and asking if the IT overlords were blocking Whatsapp

Re: Dear Companies, don't be stupid.

Yes but imagine how much higher Boeing's share price would be today if it was illegal to mention any possible flaws in their MCAS (tm) system

No simply have all posts referred to the Lord Chancellors Office for approval before publication.

If they can't keep up that's surely a sign that the crown is infeasible

Re: These are the Beginnings

We were promised murderous all powerful AIs (HAL, Forbin project, WOPR) - we got predictive text and youtube recommendations

Re: These are the Beginnings

>By regurgitating bits of other books that it can already scanned and read.

So the AIs have been running the philosophy dept for years ?

Re: maturity

Native = born there, from the latin for boring christmas play put on by nursery kids.

The PC term is first nations, to emphasise the fact that they are merely the penultimate nations - having wiped out any previous nations that were there before and so on back to the now extinct first lot to arrive.

Does the HMS Oneself have guns ?

I suppose we could throw the F35 invoices at them and have them die laughing