Posts by macjules

Re: Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of auditors ..

You mean like Parliament TV, only with more wigs?

Re: Money and people sadly lacking

My understanding was that QE was never intended to be anything more than STOVL with the potential of the PoW to also have CATOBAR capabilities. Cue Big and Expensive seeing the actual CATOBAR costs being incurred and throwing up hands in horror, hence both carriers are simply STOVL.

In regards to crew numbers the highly mechanised weapons handling system (HMWHS) is supposed to reduce that requirement, although not known by what factor. You also need factor in the Capita Effect on crew recruitment (not enough recruits wanting to join the Royal Navy).

Re AWACS: both vessels have S1850M radar - supposedly capable of monitoring up to 1000 targets up to 400km away. Presumably they can 'daisy chain' off a Type 45 which also has the same capability, thus increasing the range?

Given that KCOM runs a genuinely high speed service (as opposed to the BT "1.5Mbps is all you need for broadband") I am not at all surprised. First company in the UK to provide Digital exchanges, ADSL, and the first to provide full FTTH etc.

Wiki page: The FTTH offering provides 400 Mbit/s service to residential customers and 1 Gbit/s service to business customers, with the remaining 4% of customers able to receive 75 Mbit/s VDSL2 service.

A shame that BT are not even remotely close to that in terms of competency.

Re: No racism but...

While they think we all look like Nigel Farage.

Re: Wait and see.

I want an A320 - no Boeing crap for me. Failing that Terminal 5 will do nicely.

Re: 330MBs ? Lucky to get 3 ...

Don't live in Holland Park do you? Exactly the same around here. The BT connection is as good as dead (2Mbps on a good day, average 400kbps) while the Virgin one is over 350Mbps.

Re: Time Travel is Real!

You are quite right. He is wearing the 2028 iWatch model. This is the one that [was introduced] [will be introduced] [is being introduced] after it had taken a further 10 years work to get it as slim as a 1970's Casio watch.

It [includes][included][should include] time travel as standard but due to an unfortunate problem with the supplied butterfly-effect keyboard it put Steve Jobs back to the mid 1970's when he keyed in "2029"

Re: They should be worried

"Will Brexit actually herald the beginning of the paperless office?"

Yes, no office = paperless office.

I don't know. "Justice for Cleaners" sounds awfully like a major league terrorist organisation to me though.

Re: Unfortunately....

All we need to do now is to appoint several hundred Metropolitan Police officers to be able to pick a random letter out of a scrabble bag.

Unfortunately I think that we might only get, "What do you get if you multiply eight by seven?" as a result.

Re: Error Messages

I used to place error report summary footer messages such as "You have arrived at Demon's Bottom. Please contact network". Later I would get the occasional, "there's a message with your name on it about something to do with Demons - what was that about?", to which the response was, "It means that they have reached an Impasse".

Obviously they had never heard of Discworld.

PBCNLB: Problem Between Chair and Nuclear Launch Button

Re: Facial recognition itself isn't bad

We have already had the invasive system you mention in place for some years, in the form of iBeacon. To date I have only seen iBeacon implemented successfully in one place in the UK - in a Wetherspoon pub trial where it worked perfectly with iOS devices of 6 or greater, but crashed when handling Android. If an iOS device owner purchased, say, 2 pints of lager via iPay he/she might then receive a push notification that "Buy another 2 pints now and we'll chuck in 2 packets of crisps".

I have seen intelligent use ideas for the technology, such as Waitrose shopping lists, using ML and based upon your past 3 months purchases to average what you probably need, but as yet have not seen any successful realtime deployment.

Me too, or a Bristol Centaurus-fitted Tempest, or even a Fury . I notice that following form that BAE Systems are prototyping a new fighter called Tempest .. as Tempest followed Typhoon, followed (Hawker) Tornado.

And "In 2013 Serco referred itself to the SFO"

I just bet they did that, "Hey sorry Mr Plod but we think we may have just committed a £23 million offence, but we have have definitely learned from this. Now, who wants a board position with Serco?"

Re: Hmm

There's an app that turns all humans into mindless furry creatures and then allows them to endlessly post pictures of themselves for the viewing pleasure of certain select lizards.

That would be 'facebook" to the rest of us

Re: Galaxy Note7 anyone?

Thanks. I also read Louis' video article at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGr0YwcSNZc which is well worth watching.

Re: Blast from the past

Unlike 1993's Myst, you won't get stuck for three months* because the puzzles are too obscure

IIRC the infuriating final Selenitic age puzzle actually had its answer revealed in the Mechanical age. You just had to presume that everything had significance and write it down.

Re: "Is there any evidence that electromagnetic fields can affect the behaviour of animals?"

Animals also don't floss. We should be concerned about their lack of dentistry.

Re: Time passes...

Well, given that a certain "social" network started its wretched existence as something slightly similar offering photos compiled from online facebooks and asking users to choose the "hotter" person, how long before Zuckerberg buys up Deepnude and offers it up to his online minions?

Re: But let's not forget...

Is that what they call future Prime Ministers now? I know it starts with "Pill".