Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

I still feel there is a solution, probably involving triangles.

Hmm. Guess I'll have to do some sort of Vivaldi vs Brave trial next weekend.

What, no 'Executive Summary'?

Interesting. The TLAs could outsource some of their snooping for a fraction of their usual budget.

"The challenge in the future for storage administrators is not in managing the hardware; with the introduction of flash all those old issues of performance management are gone.

I guess that's what they said when transistors replaced vacuum tubes... performance management will always be an issue. Or will have issues.

Its almost like the home office/government doesn't know how the Internet works ...

"MetaMind focuses on developing deep learning technology "to simplify, improve and automate decision making" for businesses."

Maybe MetaMind can come up with some decisions that lead to Salesforce actually turning a profit? That would be one impressive AI.

Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has resigned over Panama Papers

One down.

How many more to go?

"sometimes the European response here is more commercially driven than anything else."

So? They make money in Europe, they pay taxes in Europe. Besides, nothing wrong with being commercially driven in a capitalist system, now is it?

Won't anybody think of the robots?

"Social conventions regarding touching someone else's private parts apply to a robot's body parts as well. This research has implications for both robot design and theory of artificial systems."

Implications for robot design? Don't make any robots with 'private parts'.

Also, if a robot complains that it has a terrible pain in its diodes, replace them.

Desperate maneuver?

Yes.

Just stumbled across this: Funeral parlor 3D prints new faces for disfigured corpses

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair. I call them the Eggs Of Numbing Inevitability. And when I buy them, I always ask for them in the third person: "Bill Bailey would like the Eggs Of Numbing Inevitability." I did that the other day and it answered me back, and he said to me: "No, I am Bill Bailey. You are not Bill Bailey, you are just a mere doppelgänger. I am the true Bill Bailey, in another dimension." And I went, "Oh, I hadn't planned on that." Then I thought the only way to solve this, I have to run at my doppelgänger, then we will be fused forever. So I ran full-tilt at it, and just before I got there I realised it was the highly polished side of the cheese counter.

Bill Bailey, Bewilderness, 2001

Why do they always "design" those to look like they are from a low budget science fiction film? And nearly always with gullwing doors, too.

It's a car! They have been around for quite a while now, and there are certain design features that have proved themselves to be useful. 4 wheels. Doors and seats fit for an average sized human being. A boot. And so on. The key word is usabilty here.

And on this one the steering wheel is still on the wrong side.

Although, in this particular case, if I had that kind of money, I'd offer them 150k and a very unusual name...

Why the Pac Man logo?

Nice to see so many kids interested in space exploration. Also, how cool is having something you came up with going into space?

"For Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the future is definitely virtual reality, which he says is “going to change they way we live and work and communicate”."

Hardly surprising - if I'd spend 2 billion $$$ on a dead horse I'd try to flog it too...