Posts by Batcow44 posts • joined Thursday 22nd January 2009 11:21 GMT
I've tried looking on Google to find cool stuff that people have done with the Pi, but can't find anything. When I was a teenage electronics hobbyist something like this would be like a dream come true, surely someone has got it to do something interesting, a robot hoover? remote control for your cat? Any links would make interesting reading.
And how can it possibly cost hundreds of millions? Half a dozen mainframe or as/400 bods could write it in a year, and give it to you for free, and the maintenance would cost no more than their salaries.
Something has gone wrong with I/T.
What caused the Fukushima disaster was a catastrophic power failure, that's all. They lost power for days and therefore couldn't cool the reactors once they had shut down. There are many possible screnarios that could cause such a thing here, if were were at war for example. Not to mention the fact that nuclear reactors would be a target in such an instance.
We were all duped by the idea that nuclear reactors are supposed to be fail-safe. Fukushima has proven that assumption wrong, and that’s why some European countries have already canned their nuclear projects.
Look ant many I/T departments in London and you will see about 50% or more 'bad hires' who are unable or unwilling to do their job well despite years of employment. The British way is just to lower our expectations.
I bet he would also try to take them back under warranty after he threw them on the floor... "Has this machine suffered any shock?" "Er.. well.. I dunno, maybe when it was with one of the kids"
1 million iPads, what's that in sheep?
...should perhaps be in quotes.
Titanic.
It's head and shoulders beneath the rest of them.
What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout.
I remember the RPi being compared to the old BBC Micro, in its expected impact in education and hobbyist circles.
The BBC had terrible problems too on its hasty first release with a suspiciously named “Version 0.1” operating system.
I guess the lesson is not to rush these things out the door before they’re ready.
Would-be employers can already pay for infromation about us that isn't widely available, it's only a small step for Facebook etc. to offer a paying service that lets them see what they want without having to ask for your password.
I like the fact that I only have to pay once for my home internet but the hardware, software, and comms businesses probably wish that Wifi could be uninvented. They’ll kill it off if we let them.
It starts with Blackberry apps that for no real reason will only work over a mobile connection, and now this – an Apple device on which LTE outperforms Wifi, something that ought to be impossible.
At the end of this road is where you have prospective employers paying for a service where they give your email address and are then allowed to browse any network that you've joined, including this one. oops.
$230,000 seems to be a number that the US justice department pulled out of the air. They don't have to show any evidence remember.
Does SIm City have a cheat mode where you can borrow as much money as you like and just have fun building a city? And then get bailed out by Germany?
I find that the 6-digit PINs I'm given here in Switzerland work in all UK ATMs and outlets, except for Clydesdale Bank cash machines in Scotland - most annoying.
6 digits are as easy to remember as 4, though I suppose that doesn't necessarily get round the 'date of birth' problem. I don't know why the UK went with 4 in the first place. Are you allowed to change your PIN to a 6 digit one in the UK? Try it and see.
CSC seemingly don't know how to play the game. Other software providers seem to be able to fail big govt. I/T projects and make money.
It seems that if any would-be invader wants to send a gunboat or two up the Thames, they can bide their time while our defence get worse and worse.
"The UK space agency has warned that Russia and Kazakhstan will be responsible for any damage..."
Has someone told these guys that the cold war is over? Would they shoot out such a terse and rude warning if it were a NASA probe?
The UK Space Agency should welcome Russia as a fellow member of the Mars Failure Club instead of trying to humiliate them.
I already thought of that, and had the foresight to register a patent. So that's a 100 trillion dollars to anyone who's interested.
Seriously though, is nuclear fusion still dependent on materials that haven't been invented yet?
He was a true visionary who in his work always made quality his first priority, something from which so many in the tech. world can and should learn. rip.
How can anyone expect a gambling organisation not to be crooked?
...as a unit of measure, 30 rhinos is of course equivalent to 600 sheep.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weight+of+white+rhino+%2F+weight+of+sheep
There's no adequate motive to explain what Apple has gone to this trouble to do unless they're making money. Perhaps they are collaborating with social network sites who would love to get their hands on this data and could easily use their iphone or computer app to retrieve it.
XP to Linux, then, eventually, disillusioned, back to XP. That’s what millions of home users have done over the last 5 years, including me. Why should it be a surprise when organizations do the same? Linux just isn’t as good as the competition, there doesn’t have to be a better reason than that.
The Passports for Murder scandal showed the Israeli government to be an identity thief of the worst kind imaginable, and it chose several EU citizens as its victims. Israel’s government also has no qualms about abducting people from EU countries such as Mordechai Vanunu. It’s incredible to think that the EU has given Israel such a status of trust with Europeans’ private data. Would it give the same status to Iran if they promise to install an anti-virus?
I imagine that the technology will be at 'hollywood' levels faster than we think. One day soon you'll be able to point your phone at a stranger and instantly id them, google them, plus whatever Facebook lets you do at that time. The anti-privacy culture of the Internet will spill over into the real world.
If you're on the Tube reading this on your phone, don't just stand there, walk up to me and tell me I was right.
I wonder if it can check the wind direction before it triggers a meltdown?
So if you've avoided Facebook because you don't like Mark Zuckerberg to have your details and friends list on his database, he'll get them next time you host a party.
Facebook's business model is based on harvesting people's personal information, with or without their consent, and they're always looking for new ways to do it. Who can stop them?
A susceptibility of fanbois?
I still haven't forgiven them for how they rustled those sheep-fanciers out of the "baa.com" domain.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/03/23/baa_attempts_to_shaft_sheep/
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When the CEO of the company declares that privacy is dead, it's not surprising when his programmers err on the side of disclosure time and time again.
He who takes the Mark of the Beast "will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.” Revelation 14:9,10
Although I don't have a FB account, I know that at least some of my friends have allowed FB to scan their email to create a list of their friends and acquaintances, which would include at least my name and email address. It would be easy for FB to use this data to create a pseudo profile for me which includes the details of many people that I know, and if this profile is given to third parties the question of permission would not arise, at least not my permission.
The behaviour of networking sites in harvesting information about people and their friends is quite frankly creepy and is getting worse as the sites think of new ways to get people to acknowledge friendships and pass on private information. For example Friends Reunited has started asking me to accept people whose profiles I've ever viewed as friends, and it's probably doing the same to them too. I didn't ask them to do that, and can't switch off this behaviour.
I would advise anyone to ditch these sites if they value their privacy, that of their friends, and their friendships.
The Daily Mail story shows photos of both Thomson and Venables, seemingly naming them both as Jon Venables. We'll never find them now.
Swissdisk seems to be based in Las Vegas, Nevada and not in Switzerland at all, so cut it out with the cheese jokes you guys.
I wonder if rednecks in America can buy bullets with Barack Obama's name stamped on them?
HHJK
The biggest blocker to mainstream acceptance of Linux is that anyone who was ever going to listen to the Linux fans has already tried Linux, found out its shortcomings, given up on it, and told all their friends. I had 2 such episodes with different versions of Ubuntu when I really gave it a good try, A wasted weekend getting my wireless modem configured is apparently not a unique experience, neither is leaving my Dell PC switched on overnight to find it crashed the next morning most of the time. The worst thing that the Linux people can do is repeat this mantra that linux is better than Windows, because when they do come out with something genuinely superior no-one will believe them.
All the data seems to be in flat-file format. It lacks the relational database that would give the product distinctive value by enabling powerful and specific searches. There a very obvious ‘Entities’ but very little in the way of entity-to-entity relations, for example if there were entities like ‘Animal’ and ‘Region’ then there should be a many-to-many relation to show that an animal can be native to many regions and a region can host many animals. WA does have some of this kind of structure but far far too little - which is ironic because it is exactly this kind data structure that would give the product distinctive value and differentiate it. Someone somewhere wants to know which countries in western Africa have nut-eating tree-dwelling herbivores, or on how old was Marlon Brando on the date of the moon landing, or which chemotherapy agents are soluble in water, or which composers were alive on 1st Jan 1800. It currently takes multiple searches for each of these, but so it would with Google! A relational database would give WA power and distinctive value.
It also lacks the formal syntax rules that would enable the above, including rules for nested searches which would add a new dimension to the product’s abilities. There is a lot useless ‘Q&A’stuff that would be best left to Google. Searches on ‘fastest land animal’ and ‘meaning of life’ produce cleverly contrived results but they are a waste of time for WA.
The "The Identity & Passport Service". When did it change its name?? What was wrong with "The Passport Service?". We don't have ID cards yet and unless uk.gov can balance its books soon then we won't have them in future. The name change looks presumtious and frivolous.
Jacqui Smith has learned how unpleasant it is to have ones privacy invaded, however it’s probably asking too much for her to take this on board when contemplating putting all our private details on an uber-database.
Here's Groton Submarine Base in CT, just to make the Brits even.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=groton+naval+ct&sll=41.389302,-72.08426&sspn=0.013136,0.02738&ie=UTF8&ll=41.395435,-72.091438&spn=0.005722,0.009613&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr
Does this mean there'll be fewer unboxing videos on YouTube?
Mark Shuttleworth is using well known sales techniques. When comparing Windows XP with his own product he invites us to believe that the two products are equivalent. They are not. When he says that Windows 7 is a “Great operating system” he gives the impression that he’s the kind of guy that knows what a great operating system should look like, in fact there’s scant evidence of that.
