Posts by Ben1892

Re: This video was more what I was expecting

+1 for defining "urgent": beer, steaks, ammo, pizza

Re: A number of sound decisions?

We liked exploiting cheap labour from the poorer EU countries which is why we wanted to remain.

Re: Astronaut wings

Scott Manley covers it very nicely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKx-QD5w9Ew

Re: Tittybong (Australia) and Dildo, Canada

That's funny, I live in Fucking, Austria too ( according to FB anyway) although they are about to change or already have changed the name because too many people steal the village sign :)

It amazing how many of our users have said things like "Company X got <insert cloud product here> up and running in 4 days, why is it taking you so long?" - yes, you can buy a cloud product and turn it on without any design or security work but that's where it'll come and bite them. If they don't even have a vanity domain, I wonder if the NHS has any kind of conditional access in place?

Re: At those speeds...

So the way I read it, the 1 Jub payload will hit the 259.5 Jub telescope - which according to back of fag packet, if each object is travelling at 0.2435% of the maximum velocity of a sheep in vacuum works out about 1046149301 Norrises or about 7 tons of TNT

Re: Mensa...

I'm sure it used to be an IQ of 140 or above for MENSA .... just why would they lower the entry bar to allow more people to pay £59.95 a year to them?

Re: Woo

...so are people that deliberately misquote headlines for dramatic effect, but hey there's no censorship here so you're free to think what you like

Re: Looks knackered

Was one of the parts actually being used as an ash-tray in the officers mess - or it that a myth?

Re: Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich

tbh I was expecting a reply along the lines of "but what about Jersey?" as I like a reasoned debate, but why is it Amazon EU S.a.r.L who bills me? Not sure that tax paid in Luxembourg will go to fixing the roads 1-Click deliveries use. Yes, I did read the reports and watch the video - the argument seems to be "we may as well give it to Ireland and Luxembourg because we won't get the tax benefits anyway"

Re: Freedom gas needs big ships

Exactly, turns out all that liberty fracking has created a glut on their market and a re-brand is needed to differentiate from the communist gas from the east.

I'm sure we built the LNG terminal at Milford Haven for strategic reasons last time the Russians started talking about turning off the supply in winter - trouble is we've already got a cheap supply from the Middle East.

Seriously though, WTF with calling it freedom gas ??? I really had to check the date to make sure I wasn't being trolled and just shows how far out of reality the US is.

Re: Not smart

"I watched an episode of The Grand Tour where they showed how good the Chinese were at putting up roads/motorways, even over difficult terrain. In comparison the rest of the World ..."

Erm, easy when nobody owns the land apart from the Party and anyone in the way gets told to move - I'm sure that would work here just fine, no protests or riots or anything. Nothing to do with Health and Safety, everything to do with you plowing through my family semi that's in the way of HS2

Re: Boeing - would you buy an aircraft from them?

I've always wondered why they didn't just have a stall warning alarm and allow the pilot to pitch down / throttle as required

Re: re: why a manufacturer thought it would be fine to store details of the use of its products

Google trawling your email content to sell you stuff is different how? People will gladly sign-up to T&Cs that share more personally sensitive info, via their email conversations, than intimate massage habits

Re: Double standards

I think there are double standards the other way too;

Google = Evil data slurp merchants

Apple = Angelic personal data custodians

I still think £400 for the 3a phone is still expensive, but if I paid £700 for a phone it would need to be perfect in every way, for £1000 I'd expect to get laid every time I flashed it at the pub.

Full disclosure on the type of phone-owner I am: I'm still on my 3 year old, £150 Vodafone Smart Ultra 6, so I can accept compromises if it's only cost me an average of £4 per month over the life of the phone

Re: DNS

Don't you just love the term; "new, exciting features" - if it bricks the routers, it suggests there's already a difference between using 3rd party DNS and Sky's "special" DNS.

Sounds like the start of a walled garden consisting only of "carefully chosen partners"

As a VF customer experiencing this problem (and an IT professional who knows how difficult it is to track down issues like this) this seems the most realistic diagnosis, but getting them to analyse the problem in the correct way is very frustrating - no I don't want to unscrew my wall socket and plug directly in. I'm syncing fine at 63-odd mbps - but that's how they measure their commitment to the broadband guarantee - because they can't control "the internets" if you sync at 60-70 then not their problem guv...

I suspect they'd rather send the excess stock to landfill to maintain demand rather than drop prices

I'm guessing the precise timing ( using meteors - very clever ! ) and separation of the scopes allows triangulation?

"...In addition, a precise time synchronization method needed for simultaneous occultation detection is developed using faint meteors..."

https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/69/4/68/3952364

Again, most of the posts coming from those that don't use O365. I'm in the same as above; OneDrive for Business has been working fine for me all day since I started work at 7:30, Email was fine all week (and last week too for that matter) maybe we're using a different cloud?

Re: Fewer Things Better

You know you're in deep do-do when you are taking your new strategy pretty much verbatim from W1A;

“The fact is, this is about us identifying what we do best and finding more ways of doing less of it better,” Director of Better, Anna Rampton