Posts by A Non e-mouse

Re: Didn't know they have an office in my town

Is Virgin's announcement aimed at offices, engineering depots, or both?

It's even funnier when you reallise that GiffGaff run on O2's infrastructure....

Re: Here are some free ideas

6. You're going to have to get energy out of the reaction at some point. Have you figured out how to do this? I suggest making the reaction happen inside a cavity within a large tank of water [aka 'boiler']. Steam systems would then attach to it. the rest is kind of obvious.

It still surprises me that nuclear power generation still relies on steam technology. Has there been any research on improved methods for converting energy into electricity? We got ride of steam trains for a reason.

@tony2heads Re: Eat this, Dorothy Dietrich

I really think that a CEO's pay should be directly connected to growth in income of the firm.

That, and other metrics such as share price or profit, typically encourage short-term gains over longer term growth & stability.

Something like X years profit/income/etc could be a better metric as it would make short term fudges less rewarding.

But CEOs won't go for it as they won't get their quick buck/pound.

Re: TV License

And that's just during the TdF.

Is it me, or does ITV4's coverage of the TdF seem to have adverts every five minutes?

Biology

Just because the rest of the animal kingdom has managed to survive for millions of years by sexual reproduction without Internet pr0n, the UK Government have this crazy idea that if you don't tell children about sex, they won't discover it.

Re: Out of sight ...?

Star Trek/Wars/whatever are not accurate depictions of celestial mechanics.

You can't just "turn to the sun". You have to change your orbit, which requires energy. Just like getting it into its current orbit took a shed load of energy.

Re: bad controller

In the Cisco UCS servers I've played with, they just threw a lot of third party components in a box, put a "Cisco" sticker on the outside and add a nice fat margin to the price.

@caffeine addict

On the flip side, if I saw one of their vans, I'd have no bloody clue what they did...

It's a long time since logos reflected what a company or product is/does.

Re: 8 addresses, or 6?

You're assuming you use the /29s as traditional subnets. There's nothing to say you can't use it for 8 loopback addresses or /31s for point-to-point links.

Re: BBRs are go!

I suppose it depends on whether the customer is willing to use a cheaper, second hand rocket. One careful owner....

Being serious for a minute, I think SpaceX are waiting for the Block 5 Falcon's to roll off the production line. The design tweaks of the Block 5 variants are supposed to make reuse much easier.

@sarahhart Re: This is gonna suck.

I think the most important point you missed is that disabled people* generally don't want to have to depend on other people. Independence is something very powerful and precious to them.

*Not sure what the correct phrase or terminology is here, sorry. No offense intended.

Re: Oracle "Recycle bin"

So you ask the database to delete something, then you have to ask the database to *really* delete it. And if you forget to ask the database to *really* delete it, the system will eventually crash as it fills up.

So what's the point of the first delete request?

Re: How would Storm know?

Where I voted this time, the people queuing to collect their ballot papers could look over the shoulders of those voting. Definitely NOT a secret ballot.

Re: If a chick wants to get with me, she needs a big pair of swinging balls.

It looks like A/C's post has been removed by a moderator....

Re: The problem with 360 VR

Also remember that the resolution of the human eye, V1.0, is highest in the middle and decreases off to the sides.

Plus there's this hole just below the center, from where the optic nerve runs, which some clever image processing algorithm compensates for.

Re: @Drew Spurious Blank lines at end of comments

If someone at El Reg wants to, they can email me and I can send some screenshots.

Re: Look

I recently read (or heard) about someone who has been suggesting such a scheme for a while.

I do wonder, though, how the smaller ship returns back to Earth after having caught up with the larger ship.

Re: Bah!

Kicking out the students involved was not an intelligent way to go about this

Harvard's first priority is its reputation. If it doesn't have a good reputation, donations, rich parents sending their darlings there, etc. will soon dry up. Allowing students with such views in, would be a very brave (or foolish!) thing to do.