Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Is this Standard WhatsApp?

The original deployment as to take snatch landies from N.I. and paint them sand coloured while making smug statements about how their experience in Belfast meant they knew how to deal with Johhny Terrorist

But don't take my word for it, there is rather a good display at that bastion of hippie communism - the imperial war museum. The high court recently allowed group of families to sue the MoD for negligence in not equipping with the same level of armoured protection other forces had

Re: Apollo 13 anyone?

The real challenge for Apollo13 was having the air filter fix performed by astronauts from 51 different congressional districts and involving majority first nation, minority and veteran owned companies, while also ensuring Boeing, Grumman and Rockwell made a profit on it

Re: 2009 called.....

> stimulating the economy or stimulating votes

There's a difference ?

Re: @Snake - Microsoft shooting itself in the foot?

>Companies had at least two decades to explore the world of a free and open source OS

And they concluded that swapping Word for Emacs+Latex, Excel for R+Fortran and Powerpoint for Ascii-art+screen wasn't really viable.

Now they are exploring swapping Office365 running on a chrome based browser running on an OS they pay for and has to be totally replaced when Redmond decides to end support - for running Office365 on a chrome based browser on a free OS with permanent support

Re: It's easy to break regulations legally in the US

You can also label devices as meeting electrical safety standard iec60601:2016 for Europe and be out of fda compliance because the fda still specify iec60601:2014

Re: Just goes to show that

If you don't vote for the lizard, the wrong lizard might get in

Re: Hang On A Minute...

And decades before the Kobe earthquake took out the one chemical plant in the world that made the plastic that encapsulated chips.

The problem is that it's expensive to have multiple suppliers. Having a copy of your multi billion $ fab in another country and buy half your wafers/reagents/etc from the more expensive supplier.

Re: Language pedantry alert

Can we extend this useful discusion to other languages?

Is there an official German word for WindowsBlauScreenVonTodes ?

Does the Welsh word require an extra widescreen monitor ?

Re: e e

Testing parachutes before launch ?

No need old chap, we will just muddle through when we get there - that's the British way

Re: Isn't that agreement with HP...

With a new role visiting all former HP engineers who worked under Bill and David to gather their thoughts on the current state of HP management

Bail-out oil companies - the only sensible reaction to a virus

Re: Oh My!

I can't answer that, it's classified

Re: We know where this is going

The difference was they were at least following instructions from the chain of command

This new system will ultimately just be a red flashing dot on their Google glass and they will shoot on reflex

Re: Not right now, at the moment

That is at least honest.

The normal politics is to promise they would never do something (die in a ditch, lay in front of bulldozer etc) while waiting for the opportunity to announce it

Re: Additional forgotten items ..

But DisplayPort is so boringly predicatable with none of the rich heritage of high-speed, super-speed, extreme-speed, ludicrous-speed (and plaid) claiming cables that makes connecting any HDMI displays such a rewarding experience

Re: Cynical is what an optimist calls a realist...

Programmer: The glass is half empty, maybe if I turn it upside down and back up it will refill

Re: Perseverence Devs Engineer AI To Perfection

African or European dinner tables?

Re: Droopy Anglepoise

Obviously a Watt is just kg⋅m^2⋅s^−3

Now electron-volt,that's a sensible unit of energy

Re: Down Under?

Australia, the place where the mice are 2m tall and hop on giant legs while keeping their babies in a pouch? Where every spider can kill an elephant with a single bite? Where it is all desert but burns down every summer?Where there are 1000s of kms of perfect beaches but you get eaten by a shark / stabbed by a fish if you set foot in the water?

No that's a totally real place mate, defo .....

Re: What exactly are we simulating?

Same thing ultimately, but more configurations and with fewer simplifying assumptions

Re: Conversion error?

New British austerity era feet are smaller