Posts by ida71u

The aerospace community is now suffering from exactly what was predicted by older engineers. The companies are now becoming populated with mediocre calibre engineers who are too young & have zero experience, but huge self belief. The old guys have left & the middle management are just as complacent as the 12 year old engineers they are supposed to supervise.

As a friend said humanity has a 30 collective memory, Apollo 13 was in flight 50 years ago, you do the math.

Space-X crushing their own rocket is beyond belief. Boeing, who after all are well known for their recent programming & risk analysis skills (anyone for a 737max8 ?) being allowed to launch a defective vehicle, just shows how far the rot has set in. When your 12 year old programmer fucks up an app, it’s embarrassing. As Gus Grissom said, when asked how it felt just before launch of his Mercury mission, “How would you feel knowing your sitting on the efforts of a 100 low bidders”. As regards Apollo 13 O2 tank issue showed, assumptions & lack of QA lead to fuck ups.

The Boeing 777, would not fly. The new boys used computers & said all good to go. The old boys who were still around when it first flew insisted on some empirical testing. The engine stalled it’s compressor on first take off due to a bad “computer modelled” inlet lip. Luckily it was attached to the 747 test bed airframe that was able to fly on its other three engines. If the old boys had not prevailed, then the first 777 test flight would have crashed & probably killed the program.

You have been warned, supervise your 12 year olds, QA their work & ensure a robust & comprehensive risk analysis is performed on all designs, whether physical or virtual. Lives may depend on it.

Bloody 12 year olds

The aerospace community is now suffering from exactly what was predicted by older engineers. The companies are now becoming populated with mediocre calibre engineers who are too young & have zero experience, but huge self belief. The old guys have left & the middle management are just as complacent as the 12 year old engineers they are supposed to supervise.

As a friend said humanity has a 30 collective memory, Apollo 13 was in flight 50 years ago, you do the math.

Space-X crushing their own rocket is beyond belief. Boeing, who after all are well known for their recent programming & risk analysis skills (anyone for a 737max8 ?) being allowed to launch a defective vehicle, just shows how far the rot has set in. When your 12 year old programmer fucks up an app, it’s embarrassing. As Gus Grissom said, when asked how it felt just before launch of his Mercury mission, “How would you feel knowing your sitting on the efforts of a 100 low bidders”. As regards Apollo 13 O2 tank issue showed, assumptions & lack of QA lead to fuck ups.

The Boeing 777, would not fly. The new boys used computers & said all good to go. The old boys who were still around when it first flew insisted on some empirical testing. The engine stalled it’s compressor on first take off due to a bad “computer modelled” inlet lip. Luckily it was attached to the 747 test bed airframe that was able to fly on its other three engines. If the old boys had not prevailed, then the first 777 test flight would have crashed & probably killed the program.

You have been warned, supervise your 12 year olds, QA their work & ensure a robust & comprehensive risk analysis is performed on all designs, whether physical or virtual. Lives may depend on it.

Ethical you say ?

So the company that has put the price of their product up by the same number as the phone edition in dollars, then sold it to us mugs in the UK in the same number but in pounds & tried to make old phones run slowly until they were taken to court, is ethical ??? WTF you must be smoking Androids :)

So my 3 was £300, the 4 was £400 the 5/6/7/8 were the same in pounds & the 9 was skipped & went straight to the X (10) at £1000 due to poor sales of the 8. Now its does not cost anymore to import from China to the UK or the rest of Europe than it does to the USA, so a $999 phone should have been about £765 +VAT, so circa £920. Highest taxes in the USA are around 10% so the $999 would have been worst case $1100 !

So I would not call a company that charges customers in one country more than another just because they can, ethical.

But given the choice of the Malware hell that is Android & its disparate lack of commonality, I'll stick with my iPhone.

YMMV

You Missed WYSIWYG the magic of wizzy wig ! Youngsters have never had it so good, well apart from the Mal/Ransome/Crypto WARE that is now sinking the digital ship :(

Need a new calculator as in the person !

Check your sums, at todays exchange rate €4.34B = £3.875B Not £5B

or did someone want the $ sign ! Oops a daisy

With CLOUDS you get RAIN

RAIN = Random Access Information Network !

Nuff said :(

Self Drive Cars ! Yeah Right :(

So GPS jamming can be built for (or possibly even with) Peanuts ! Now you can have GPS diversion control. And they want to introduce self driving cars that rely on GPS for location info & routing, even if its not strictly necessary for it to move ! I can see the sh!ts & giggles coming that sitting on a city street corner with either a jammer or a diverter will cause for any teenage miscreant that wants a bit of fun while watching the hapless autonomous vehicles driving in circles, with a passenger that has no control. Priceless :)

Illegal to charge VAT in secondhand items ! But HMRC changed the rules to line the governments coffers so VAT registered businesses have to charge VAT on their sales, even if the item was originally sold with VAT the first time.

On the plane, its a two seater which I don't believe the Germans ever built, its running a British engine & was built in Spain, so I'm fairly certain its not a Bf or ME anything !

I've flown a Mustang, that was converted to a two seater after the war, but at least it was a pucka 1944 built warbird :) best hour of my life.

The Law's an Ass

Strangely in the UK we hear about these things all the time. But having been a long time model aircraft enthusiast, the laws have been in place since radio control was invented to stop the illegal use of RC aircraft. Drones are RC aircraft & thus can NOT be flown anywhere you do NOT have explicit permission to do so. Thus all public places are off limits, as are any open spaces where you do not have the land owners permission etc etc.

Shooting them down suits me, I'll get my shotgun, oh wait a mo maybe not I'd get arrested, but plod do nothing to the idiots with drones !

Dig some holes

WSM is crying out for cable, as are many other places, but they can't be bothered to dig more holes, its cheaper to upgrade existing fibre provided cabs than add new ones in new areas :(

Kill its access !

So whilst the NAG screen is up, close all other windows, do a Ctrl+Alt+Del, start task manager & check the processes for the process that is the NAG screen. Open file manager, find the process file that is the NAG screen, that directory is the windows 10 upgrade NAG directory, now open properties on the directory containing this file & set security permission to NONE for the system on that directory.

The NAG screen can NO Longer launch ! Job Jobbed, never to be heard from again !

You will also find a hidden folder containing the Win10 upgrade files located on your root directory or C:\ do a web search for details, called something like Windows10-BT IIRC, just delete it if you do NOT intend to upgrade to Windows10. This will give you a few gigs of disk back that MS stole without your knowledge !

Have fun.