Posts by Triggerfish

Re: I'd broadly agree with you

Worth checking the Chinese brands, I bought some soundmagic e10 for about twenty quid, beats my coworkers £150 Bose hands down, better sound , way better made.

Re: Keats: A thing of beauty is a joy forever--no, wait, what?

If you've just dropped $1000 on a phone, you'll probably be quite keen on not breaking it. Which means that pretty glass thing is going to be shrouded in a case almost immediately, no? At which point, what was the point?

Merely anecdotal but most iphone owners seem less likely to have a case from what I have noticed.

Re: @ Voland's right hand

It's a bit YMMV. I am sure I'd end up with a broken phone at some point. I have the phone on me all the time and the risk of it getting knocked when it is in my pocket and out and about added to the fact where I live even carpets and rugs are not common and so knocking it off a table or fumbling it is always a drop to a hard floor (the case has easily justified itself in this alone pretty sure screen would be a goner by now). For me it's just asking for it. I can live with the bulk it makes my current phone 12mm thick in total and has admittedly caused it to weigh twice as much but it's a minor inconvenience compared with it being well protected for me.

Also 1-2mm of plastic is not going to do naff all especially as its part of the structure, all that shock from a drop will pretty much go to the screen, a corner drop is not going to be good.

@ Voland's right hand

I agree with that comment on the bezeless phones actually real nice look, but it's going in a case as soon as I get one anyway, thing lives in my pocket all day.

Re: "a $1,000 iPhone is your 'future'"

You know there is one good thing about the release of super expensive phones like this and the note.

The prices of decent flagships from last year start dropping like stones, you can pick up an S8 plus now for about £500.

Re: These "new" iPhones

This has been rumored for two years, before anyone else was shipping bezel-less phones

Except for China, who has been chucking them out for a couple of years even at relatively budget level.

The way I see it is this.

1. They are real buggers to be around they are unpredictable, I have had them sit quietly near me taking pictures and then have them rush past to attack a bunch of people behind me that somehow offended them. They are pretty damn strong even smaller ones can ruin your day, they attack in groups, they have pretty good teeth, some have real big incisors. Giving your camera to one is a risk if it takes it you probably are not getting it back and they like thieving. He probably did a fair bit of work to get to the point the animal did that. He paid money to get out there and do it with the aim of getting those shots in mind.

2. Its a monkey for ffs.

Re: Interesting principles behind this

An interesting point, but we sort of do, but not with cats. Take a bear or lion for instance. If one killed a human, it wasn't uncommon to hunt it down and kill it. Now, is this not effectively finding it guilty of killing a human (murder) and then exacting a punishment (death row) just like if it was a human being?

No because we are not really taking them to trial and asking them to defend their actions. Killing something like a maneater is an act of self defence. I wouldn't feel it was murder for it to hunt or eat us, it's an animal doing its thing that's become a problem because its found humans are easy targets.

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I think the act of murder takes more consciousness than that.

Also that's attributing a lot of intelligence to a lot of the animals that become problems for us like bears or big cats and sharks. If I was going to choose an animal that I might think would do an act of murder it would be something closer to an elephant and even then more than likely it's acting for some other reason.

Re: I don't understand

That's a good point is there a power of attorney letter with Naruto scrawled on it somewhere? If not aren't they infringing the monkeys rights by involving it in a lawsuit it was unaware of? Has anyone sat down with the monkey and explained possible liability issues? Has it got a tax advisor and accountant set up for the profits? PETA seem pretty reckless to me about this poor monkey and its freedom.

Re: Interesting principles behind this

I feel that whilst we should offer some rights and protections, conservation etc. It's probably going to far to think they should be getting royalties and setting them up with a bank account. Admittedly if said monkey does want to have a shop at Bloomingdales then fair enough. But it's pretty unlikely. The photographer was giving 10% of proceeds to a sanctuary which seems a fair compromise even though IMO the opinion that the photo is his really,

Re: Where's the AI angle? @Stoneshop

I could do with one for the balcony. :)

I would think that would do the job, dodgy one from a Thai market that had hell of a zap and vaporised mossies, just caused it to sit there and crackle while looking like an angry manga death wasp, a tad disconcerting.

Re: Where's the AI angle?

As others have said, ecological disaster and for the most part you leave em alone they will leave you alone. Even if it lands on you stay still don't flail about it will probably just take off an leave. Mosquitos and other annoying insects also fall in the category of pain but getting rid may not be a good idea. mossies for example pollinate and feed a lot of bats.

Also I have hit an Asian Hornet with one of those electric bug tennis rackets, it just looked annoyed any drone would probably have to be a scaled down Apache gunship.

Re: What people have really missed is

True but right now there is this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Myanmar%E2%80%93Thailand_Trilateral_Highway

Would cut a lot of shipping time across the Indian Ocean.

Re: a matter of pride?

Bit off topic, but I've always been a bit perplexed by this:

Why do people who vaccinate their kids care about people who don't? If my kids are vaccinated and I believe the vaccination works, then surely it doesn't matter how many kids are unvaccinated. My kids would still be protected even if they are the only ones vaccinated and everyone else isn't.

Because there are people who have conditions that do not allow them to be vaccinated, some of these conditions are often to do with already compromised immunity. Or maybe due to something else that causes a suppression of immunity. Those people are relying on herd immunity to keep their kids or themselves alive, and so the anti vaccine lot who are happily allowing things like measles and whooping cough to flourish thinking they are minor diseases anyway (waiting to see when polios downgraded) when they are not, are basically plague rabbits for them. Also not all vaccines are 100% certain AFAIK.

Re: a matter of pride?

If the whale species really DO become endangered, as bluefin tuna is close to becoming

I am not sure what species of whale are being hunted but I believe* some species are still near enough to endangered that it shouldn't be done with those species.

Bluefin is definitely endangered it's one of the reasons they bring such high price, the rarer it becomes the more valuable it is, and they stock up on it for that reason. Taking out a keystone species for the cachet of saying you ate something rare is not the most laudable practice....but then again Nobu restaurants in London didn't give a crap either.

*As in what I remember may be out of date

Re: @Triggerfish ... Trump was right the first time

Maybe so but I think you are on dodgy ground when you start building an equivalency between Nazis and the other protestors, especially since the Nazi's were mostly brought in from out of state whilst most of the protestors were apparently locals.

Uhm... no.

Umm yes.

You can also use google to see quite what the difference was. Now also please note I have not said the antifa were peaceful. I said it was mainly locals who were there, a lot of which got attacked.

And if you build a false equivalency between a hate group that is spouting bullshit about why other races should die versus them even with the antifa and by not being plain on this then you give them more power, so I think you are going the down the wrong path.

Its quite simple free speech or not there is nothing wrong with thinking the Nazis and those following that ideology are utterly foul. To put them in the same region as those against it says that there is a tacit approval of the fact that this ethos is as valid as theirs and has a place in modern society.

If a bunch of people wandered down the street being vile and shouting for I dunno say the right to rape and kill, and people argued against them would you paint them as the same? Or would you say one lot might have used the wrong tactics to counter protest which we can't condone say like the antifa, but at least they are fighting from a better moral ground. There is no moral equivalency with Nazi's and you shouldn't try and make one.

Also yes they were not assault rifles, but and no gun expert but an AR15 fires either a .556 Nato, or a .22 long round if I am correct, both rounds that have plenty of penetration power, easily will go through someone, or the usual sort of cover like a car or say someones sheetrock house wall. I believe some military units like the marines also carry single shot automatic rifles nowadays rather than the something that can provide auto. So technicality aside on the actual name of the weapon, that's a weapon with a serious round and capability to be carrying in a peaceful protest.

Re: Trump was right the first time

Keeping in mind that since this is still America, you can say and believe anything you damn well please, no matter who you piss off.

Maybe so but I think you are on dodgy ground when you start building an equivalency between Nazis and the other protestors, especially since the Nazi's were mostly brought in from out of state whilst most of the protestors were apparently locals. Also many weapons were being carried I am not sure how that fits with a peaceful protest.

It gave the impression everyone had turned up just to fight, and also seemed to give some legitimacy to the Nazi's many of those sites were playing on this.

Considering America is supposed to be a free and equal place totally denouncing them and showing the presidency holds to a better ideal may have been a far better idea.

Re: It's not the odd bit of the pig

Sometimes you want crap.

I used to live near several excellent butchers, but even so I sometimes found myself craving those cheap arse Richmond's sausages.

Re: Dodgy Conjunction?

We have a similar colour codes, for our projects, Green = all fine and dandy, Amber = We have an issue, time to bump it up, get advice, let people know there is a issue, work on a fix. Red = It's in trouble, senior management will be asking questions, you better have told them it was in amber and given them a heads up. All hands on deck etc.

Course you need to trust the people putting the status codes up, and they need to trust management isn't going to go mental over a project not being green.