Posts by hammarbtyp

Re: What next?

Being in possession of an offensive wife

Re: And yet...

That's all very nice and all, but in this particular thread we were discussing ships, not drill rigs.

There are many drill rigs that are movable. Many large ships are basically large industrial plants with propellers, the same lessons apply

Re: Style Council

@iron

Sound quality is subjective, whether you look a prat is universal

"Congress should pass a bill calling for an all out United States effort to develop better technology at lower cost to defeat Huawei on 5G worldwide by simply outcompeting them and driving them out of markets,"

Maybe they could have a 5 year plan. call it the "great leap forward" or something

Re: Good, good.

@codejunky

I hear that from remain and yes some racists supported brexit (I found some supporting remain too).

spend a lot of time with racists do you?

Re: SR-71 Blackbird.

Have you ever *sat* on a Concorde?

No but I have done Ryanair...

and if it was a choice of 3 hours transatlantic on Concoirde compared to 8 hours cattle class on a Delta, I know which one I would take

Re: "Within the next decade we'll either have it or we won't"

Reminds me of the famous Nostradamus prediction

"In the future two armies will fight, one will win"

(Woody Allen)

Re: Progress

"Yet they could get their trains running again faster than we can now, in the 21st century?"

Steam trains are incredible time consuming to get going. Apart from the effort in cleaning ashes, it takes a long time to bring steam up to pressure. Nor were they particular reliable and when they went wrong, it tended to be a catastrophic failure.

It easy to look at rose tinted glasses at the age of steam, but they are inefficient, labour intensive and most of the drivers who drove them for a living were glad to see the back of them

Re: Slightly confused...

it's one of the few differences between an ESTA and a full visa.

For the moment...

"yet not a single one of you able to summon an argument for why my post is wrong."

Well, here's one argument. When UKIP was minority party in the European parliament and had no sitting MPs, he was invited consistently, while no other Euro MPs were invited onto the show.

However this is because QT a long time ago stopped become a forum for serious debate and became a mixture of the Jerry Springer show and the Daily Express, where people were invited not so much for there political discourse but as shock jocks. Even the audience is now invited based on not so much a selection of the country, but on who will give the best 1 minute tag line which is why it largely consists of red face 50 year old white blokes complaining about immigrants cluttering up their golf courses

Re: Assange != Journalism

The most significant award was 8 years ago. At that point it was believed Wikileaks was a organisation dedicated to journalistic values. In the subsequent period we have learnt that Assange is primarily concerned about himself even to the point of selectively releasing information to damage certain democratic parties who he has issues against.

Rather than a crusading protector of free speech, he turned out to be a petty demigod only interested only in his own glory, and screw anyone else (sic)

Be careful who you make your heroes

Re: The internet will be privatised

Psst-Fancy a IPV4 address, hardly used, fell off the the back of a lorry

Re: Dog from hell

I cannot see one with out thinking of metalhead from

Black Mirror

I believe it was even based on the Boston Dynamics robot. Far scarier and believable than any terminator

Re: I, Tonya

my email is 1st initial + Surname so i have no idea what Tonya email address is. I've sort of looked but to no avail

Re: loophole?

My kickstarter for 4 drones, each weighing 249g that combine in flight has just been registered

Re: Filling station power requirement

While I agree with your maths, the idea of replacing petrol pumps withe charging stations is old school thinking

Because there is no need for large petrol storage tanks., electrical charging stations can be distributed anywhere there is a adequate power supply.

Re: Think of the positive side...

It will certainly improve Aussie IT skills

Re: TL;DR

Dear AC

I too work for a well known multi-national company.

Firstly the best engineers are not exclusive to any part of the world. I would bet our German engineers against any in embedded and industrial control development. Our 2 best power system engineers were Greek, until they got nicked by Jaguar Landrover. The biggest obstacle is cultural and language, this is where we find that certain cultures work better together. Skill set is one thing, but it is generally easier to work with say a set of German colleagues in project development than say India. That is not to say we don't use both, but years of outsourcing has shown you cannot just swap groups out

But to your points

1) I hear this from some Brexiters that one of the upsides is that know we can pick and choose from a global pool instead of being limited to just Europe. Does anyone out there truly believe that the same people who seem offended that a pole wishes to speak Polish on a UK street is going to be perfectly happy to open immigration to all parts of the world, especially the none-white bits? Its a classic bit of Gas lighting. What we will find is that it will be increasingly difficult to recruit from anywhere outside the UK, and those who come will be treated as second class citizens. Not only that but skilled UK workers will be locked out of the wider European market, making co-operation and joint projects more difficult.

2) I have never had an issue with sending non-white engineers to France or Germany, while we have had racism to some Indian engineers here. Maybe you should of fought back a bit more. In truth it sounds more like a cultural problem at your company rather than a Belgium issue, but hey if they people like you in HR, maybe thats not a surprise

Re: Who's gonna be making them?

Not only made by playtex, but by women who were basically just pulled from the production line. However each spacesuit was made bespoke and the playtex women were the best seamstresses around. The amount of work and quality control that went into each one was outstanding, especially if you consider one failure in any of the seams would of resulted in death.,

Their story is just one of those hidden narratives about the space race which tends to concentrate on the big engineering and misses out the little details and subplots which were just as important and performed by basically ordinary people who found themselves involved in the great quest.

It also raises an interesting point whether the new suits are as bespoke and hard to make as the old ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QIEMobU6Eg

Re: Signed documents

"I've long ago understood and accepted that signatures never, ever get checked, unless and until somebody actively requires them to be checked. They are not an authentication device; they are an ass-covering device."

True, this is why I now have fun writing various doodles when the amazon delivery arrives and they want my signature on a 2 by 2 inch piece of slippery plastic.

To be honest my pepper pig graffiti is probably more identifiable than any signature that I have managed on one of those things

Re: An alternative solution

"They voted sensibly, they just didn't accept your definition of sense. You still lost."

We all lost, just some of us are a bit ahead in terms of how much

Re: "infuriatingly but also admirably bonkers"

Oh to return to the good old days where us Brits could have a good laugh about the weird practices and politics of our European neighbors

Re: Sour Grapes

"If it happened on a crewed ship, they'd be all dead. Big deal if you ask me."

That's why tests are unmanned.

Re: Hmmmm

TCP in the Real Time embedded world is generally frowned upon, basically because if you are streaming real time data such as machine control, the last thing you want on a dropped package is to attempted retry. On the other hand HTTP has become the lingua-franca between the enterprise of control worlds .

It will be interesting to see how this works, and possibly push the HTTP further down the stack.

waskell?

Re: Suffolk.....

If you want a two for one, I recommend the Bawdsey Radar museum as well. Its only small, but well run and a good representation of a home front radar station (it is just a pity the mast is not an original, but a modern mobile phone one. The original I was told would of been far larger)