Posts by tony2heads

Re: People use beautiful things

I beg to differ.

For getting work done I go with function over 'beauty' every time. My garden spade looks pretty rusty but works, nobody will gaze in admiration at my screwdriver set and it is the same with the software I need. I prefer CLI over GUI --unless-- the GUI has some real added value for the extra screen space it uses.

My data reduction is run with a CLI (which can be easily scripted) and save the pretty stuff for showing the results.

The appealing looks maybe useful for selling games (yes I'm thinking of Kate 'Game of War' Upton) but does not help the game quality.

Re: Tracey Emin...

Art is 'worth' what somebody will pay for it.

Personally I like the train set, but getting it from the manufacturer has a better guarantee than that from the artist.

No sign of 'art for art's sake' with this lot.

Re: Security questions about mother's name

I couldn't because it is Irish and starts with an " O' "

Their software could not accept " ' " as it wanted letters only.

I suspect it would have the same problem in South Africa where some names include " ! " for the click sounds.

Re: Radio Amateurs to embed with Emergency services...

Have to agree; if you want resilience get away from digital and if you want coverage go below 100MHz.

This allows anyone to listen, so you may need to use code phrases.

@Gene Cash

I know a guy who wrote a full screen text editor in FORTRAN for a bet.

Re: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Get hold of a friendly geek and pay them to write the negative scanner.

If you feel more adventurous try DIY

Re: I did Nazi that coming

To have been in the Nazi Government you would have to have been at least 20 years old in 1945, so that means you would have to have been born in 1925, making you about 91 years old.

This is hardly relevant to the vast bulk of air travellers.

Re: Firefox direction

try Vivaldi

Re: 1957: Russia is planning to launch an artificial satellite

According to Wikipedia, the R100 was designed by Barnes Wallis (a serious boffin) ; the R101 was designed by a government appointed team. That may be the reason

@sawatts

For observing pulsars, pure area is what you need.

For almost anything else you want the resolution too.

Re: You can kick instruments

Calibration is a regular part of any scientific instrument, both internal (do sensors respond in a reasonable way) and external (check against various known results from a totally different instrument using different software).

Re: Although the burden of proof lies with Love

Context matters with memory. I had an instance inside a bank where I needed my banking PIN, but could not remember it.

I stepped outside to the ATM and it the memory came bank instantly.

If Lauri has the same thing he might need to sit in front of his computer to remember the code

Re: Felines triumph?

No

Cats were looked upon as gods in ancient Egypt. They still remember.

Re: @Gray ... Military aggression

Chinese one is BeiDou, but its coverage is only useful around Asia/Australasia

Re: Microsoft needs to realise...

.. and about as comfortable.

As an aside I am sick of "1 size fits all" in socks too - my (UK) size 11 feet will not fit into something that was not too baggy for somebody with a size 7. Software is often similar, in that a small app to handle 50 items in a static list will not need the same infrastructure as one for dynamic database of millions of items. GUIs that look acceptable on a tiny screen may look like crap on a big screen with decent resolution.

Who to trust?

USA or China - a touch one. Corporatist or Capitalist?

Re: Keep The Faith

HAHAHAHA - nice piece of sarcasm there.

It was sarcasm, right?