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Posts by Adrian Midgley 1
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It looks worth measuring what is happening
And this article does not add anything.
not designed to be nuclear war proof
A wireless (or even wired) mesh might be said to be designed for that category of problems, but the Internet we have was not, and is not.
What was designed to continuie communicating despite a lot of nodes being nuked was an earlier and limited wireless relay system.
It is an old story, often repeated. But not true.
An interesting bit of unwiring
The mesh might creep into the rest of the world, and carry rather more than fire data, in time.
Something similar in the 5th Framework
PICNIC Project last century. Results Open Source, as is proper since it was funded publicly.
Also something similar running around Exeter, the next PCT and Trust area over, for a few years.
"four times closer to Earth"
What does that mean?
A quarter as far away?
Is Exchange a mail system?
for 100 000 people?
I know it does email, but then all large programs do.
And the NHS use of the cleverness in MSE/O is minimal.
Significance and magnitude
Larger is not the same as more significant.
Public space == www
I agree much of the media commentary is poorly based but this in no way stops any of us from commenting on the data and the recipes which are in a spacemore public than any
they'd be more generous, profligate or whatever.
Really, apply some logic, if the scientists are not getting much, their unnamed and largely mythical sponsors" are not giving much. If they expected to get large advantage through the science, they'd be funding it largely.
I suppose they could learn one more word
although it is clear that many people don't look things up, the proportion using the Web are probably a bit more likely to.
_Stern_ show?
Ball show surely.
No: "as the reservoirs refill) it'd produce nothing for six hours"
If it is designed like the Rance Estuary scheme then it will produce power for those 6 hours as the water flooding into the reservoir turns the turbines,
Backwards, you might say.
No, there are two tricky periods, around slack water, when some otehr way of storing energy has to be used if you want continuous power.
Alternatively, you could sell power cheaply when the turbines will be spinning, and more expensively when it comes from other sources, and let power-users adjust themselves.
The tides have an advantage of being predictable for arbitrarily long times into the future, so scheduling is not ridiculous.
Almost everything is wrong, including
that that doesn't demonstrate irony.
My incompetence at programming does not constitute your control.
And there is no wall around the garden of FLOSS.
No. You can pay for services, or not
your choice.
And the reason the documentation is poor is that you didn't write it.
Almost entirely neither did I, but I'm not complaining.
"The clocks can then be compared"
How?
The position sensors showed continental drift
during the period of the experiment, with a glitch when there was an earthquake, according to a popular report I read.
I think it is possible that the experimenters devoted some thought to how far apart they were.
They are now looking for _non_-obvious "hmm that's odds".
Who?
"Have you never heart of advanced, intelligent, open-minded, scientists who have developed religious faith BECAUSE of what science has taught us, not in spite of it?"
No.
You were perhaps going to give an example?
General Practice IT was the bit that worked in 2000
It has mostly stood still since then, apart from churn and the effort to set up distant servers with wet string to connect them to the desktop at the other end of the country.
There are EDIFACT and suchlike interfaces to the GP automation for several significant data streams.
I'd blame the difficulty in connecting partly on the closed source nature of the systems, partly on the companies owning and maintaining them, and partly on the tendency of the operators of out of hours or end of life or whatever other new idea system to decide that everyone else is to read one screen and type it into another to interface systems.
They've discovered the Web, you see.
Meanwhile, if you want a tested, operational, deployed, useful system for collections of hospitals, then the US Veterans' Administration suite of software is available.
Free, as it happens. The productised version is at http://worldvista.org
In 2001 a team from the NHSIA travelled to Washington DC, and we must understand reported that writing new software for NHS hospitals from scratch would be better, better value for money, and give a better result with less risk of failure, than taking on what was free and - to be fair - adapting it to UK use.
I can see the language difference between American and English would be a problem, but I think we might have overcome it.
Its easier now...
Not a single org. More like the Internet
A national health service would certainly be an interesting idea, but we don't have one.
Within the regions the General Practices are each a separate firm, and this is good.
So the problems of connectivity, and of handling whatever a medical record may be (it isn't as obvious as the people who thought they were going to deliver the contracts may have thought) are a lot more like the problems of connecting a lot of networks and hosts in the Internet.
Records is one thing, but
we want automation nowadays.
This thing called Google... these people called NASA
" The LM descent stage was jettisoned into lunar orbit. The LM and CSM rendezvous and redocking occurred 8 hours after separation at 03:22 UT on 23 May.
Later on May 23 the LM ascent stage was jettisoned into solar orbit, ..."
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1969-043A
I'm quite sure they were paying attention. Actually, at the time, so was I.
There is a marginally interesting question buried in the assumptions there - which is what the delta-V is for leaving lunar orbit into solar orbit.
It isn't much, for an object already in lunar orbit. Less than the delta-V required to bring a CSM back, I think.
Cooling in space is harder
No air to blow over things.
Business model broken, go quietly
I don't think the music industry's business model is workable.
Time for them to find something else to do with thier time and effort.
A smoke ring
or gas torus at any rate, as written about by Larry Niven, a long time after Asimov.
Ansel Adams' comment that much of photography is "knowing where to stand" applies to getting those pictures.
NO: heart failure is not an acceptable cause of death
for the medical certificate of cause of death aka "death certificate".
And the difference in French and British certification practices is a major confounding factor in the statistic Orlowski depends upon.
Nor, as noted above, has there been any secret about the source of the recommendation on amounts. Or about the previous work. There is a wonderful confounder of course, in that rather a lot of teetotallers are so because they became ill while drinking a lot.
The author is surprisingly bad at this stuff.
30 seconds with Google on IPCC cosmic rays shows the Third Annual Report contains ...
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/246.htm
Posted in Hundreds of dot-brand domains predicted
Wonderfully stupid
The marketeers are in their element.
It burns.
By which time the Linux kernel
will be past 3.1
DO you have a better data set?
If so it may be worth disclosing.
If each set of people who set up a data collecting weather station backl in the 17/18/19/20th century had knwon what form the data should be kept in so that it would all be handled easily now they might well have done so, but I suspect they did not.
Alas.
I also suspect there is a large element of the historian and archeologist in the approach to the data sets, which is irritating enough when it is the sort of old records I sometimes have to try t interpret, and must be more so with this.
However, if someone has a gold standard set of readings to compare the data against, lets see them.
all addresses and links to change again?
It would be sensible fo rthese various successive groups to pick a generic set of names and keep the pages at them even if they move computers and so on around.
That'd be a service to anyone who uses or links or refers to them.
The NHS is particularly crass at it.
I assumed the previous poster was speaking as the company
not as an individual within it.
Posted in 8m health records go walkabout
Making big collections
is a bad idea, and usually without merit.
Did the bank require the customer to use Windows?
If they did not, if their system works as well with other well-known operating systems, then their position is stronger.
Posted in The Bayeux Tapestry archiving model
Ridden down, not arrow
I understood (from an antiquarian and reliable source) that it shows Harold being killed by a mounted knight, with a sword. The guy with the arrow would be soemone else.
I like the article.
Posted in Fukushima reactor shell ruptured?
Concrete shell?
Which bit is that, on the diagrams?
You might have a word with Lewis page, perhaps?
Yes, you are totally wrong, as was
the graphics department of the Independent.
Posted in Iron Mountain hit by hedge fund attack
The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner
Is that where the name of the company comes from, and who are the Gottschalks in this instance if it did?
it fell a very long way
I doubt it will be fixable.
Being soaked in salt water may not help much either.
almost nobody _uses_ styles
Instead they go to each instance in the document, and change each of them individually.
Whether they are using Word or Writer or whatever the Apple on is.
And guess what. THey think that all that activity demonstrates how good they are at IT, and therefore how much they should be controlling how it is done by others.
volcanic gases
Much less than we release.
The other story is recirculating disinformation.
observation and communication is not only from below
Do low orbit satellites not have the capability to scream about a kidnapping to a satellite in the Clarke orbit? Three satellites there can offer a communication relay to and around the whole Earth if desired, and there are a lot more than 3.
Posted in UK fraud losses soar to over £38bn
Trend as a proportion?
Relative is more informative than absolute there, I think.
No bad thing, linkage onward to press and court reports?
it may become interesting when there is further linkage.
in what is not publicly owned
"a state owned private corporation."
State=public, no?
in my memory 1963
was colder.
Meanwhile, the temperature where I am is currently 25 deg C and we are feeling cold becuase it was 36 recently.
It may help your understanding of climate vs weather if you consider that the Earth has two hemispheres, and that in order for one to have personal experience of changes in climate over several decades, onne has to have lived for several decades.
3 successive years is less than several decades.
Little new there
and it will be interesting, if it survives being examined by people who know what they are doing.
"ALL radiators are 100% efficient"
An odd assertion in itself.
But effectiveness is not the same as efficiency - often the reverse - and I doubt there are many of us who have not been in a room where there is a radiator, but the room is not made sufficiently or comfortably warm by it.
That would be an ineffective radiator.
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David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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