Posts by ArrZarr

Re: WiFi, control by app or voice?

When you leave for work in the morning, you can tell the hoover to give the floor a once-over so that you don't need to listen to the thing.

Seems like a reasonable idea to me.

Re: TWO Gateways required to save costs...

"If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere". - Robert Heinlein

An Earth to Moon transfer and Moon to Earth transfer are very small amounts of Delta-V compared to getting into orbit.

Re: Dona Sarkar's Twitter Tag Line

I like the Windows 10 start menu. Being able to go from desktop to internet search or application with the windows button and typing is a genuine improvement that gets what I'm after first try almost every time. It's a PITA that they restricted the system to just Bing on Edge, but it is a useful feature.

But considering I also really liked the Win8 Start Screen, apparently I'm just a hopeless mutant.

In response to your dev in 5 minutes point, I agree but the concept I think (hope) she's trying to get across is that the act of programming isn't as complicated as many think. It only gets difficult when you start trying to write something for other people to use.

Re: He'd better hurry - Virgin Galactic only a year away from launch!

Everything is a compromise, especially in rocketry.

You're right that the reliable and simple work horse may turn out better in the long run - it certainly has historically for rockets.

To me, the difference is that Starship isn't nearly as complicated relatively speaking given the general tech level today as the Shuttle or even Soyuz were when designed. It's more complex that Soyuz, but technology has come on leaps and bounds since the 60s and we know way more about the practicalities of orbital mechanics and re-usable vehicles than either of those earlier designs, Hell, everybody who owns a copy of KSP can mod it up to be damn near an engineering tool and test everything right there.

That might be the 5th amendment, which protects against self incrimination.

IANAL, but I can see how you might wrangle the 5th in this situation, although it appears to be mostly used in different circumstances.

Re: Well that ruling has a timespan of about 30 days in the UK

To my knowledge, the UK parliament can (and have) force the PM to ask for an extension, but that doesn't mean that the EU will grant any extension.

If no extension is granted, it doesn't matter what laws are passed by the commons as they don't have the jurisdiction to force anything on the decision maker(s).

Re: Does an AI lie detector already exist?

The customer is always right. Even when objectively wrong and in a way that is provable in seventeen different ways, the customer is always right.

You'll probably get a lot of responses about how certain tech savvy readers of El Reg. were able to "school" the ISP's first line support because they had designed the equipment, written the specificaiton or been designing everything in the ecosystem.

one account paying for the instance is less difficult to obscure than multiple accounts that have been granted access to the bucket. There would also be somebody paying for the instance either way.

Re: I'm sure it's a nice browser

I haven't used Chromium, but Vivaldi comes with a pretty decent speed dial system. If your work entails lots of different logins to the same tool, chrome profiles are a godsend, having independent versions of a single, mainstream browser on one install. The problem with having all sorts of different Chrome profiles is that having Chrome as your default browser means that any link you click will open into the last Chrome profile you were in. A non-Chrome browser with all sorts of configuration options as default sidesteps that problem neatly.

As the place where I access the most sites, the Speed dial system on Vivaldi working well, out of the box without needing to faff around with extensions but that can sideload Chrome extensions if required makes Vivaldi a compelling choice

Show me a piece of software without bugs and I'll show you Hello World.

Any sane cyclist knows that they're the smallest & lightest thing on the road, and in the event of a crash, will lose.

Personally, as somebody who can drive, I just follow the same rules and I expect that sensible cyclists do the same thing, because my bike was expensive and I'm quite attached to my teeth.

Re: One question.

Because the phone didn't come with the Play Store/wouldn't install it.

And if you're being picky about semantics, then don't be. Users care about semantics in the same way they care about your feelings.

Re: Growing Brains in jars

Plan A to remove a stuck wire is probably pretty clever.

Plan B is probably still pretty good.

Plan C involves an MRI, using the "Ripping off a band-aid" conjecture

Re: A pro-rogue prorogation?

I believe that the OP was discussing the monarch not using royal prerogative at the request/advice of their first minister rather than following the request/advice of their first minister.

Re: but Microsoft probably will be

While in Europe Google have >90% market share, Bing do have ~30% of the market share in the US.

That's still a lot of money.

Re: Hydrogen? Seriously?

The main problem with hydrogen fires is the transparency of the flame, being almost invisible in bright sunshine.

I don't know enough about being in petrol fires/Li-Ion fires and Hydrogen fires to know which is the worst, but you wouldn't accidentally walk into a petrol flame, at least.

Thanks for the answer. I guess if it were easy then it would have been done already.