Posts by Dagg

...but have no idea what to expect because they've never encountered it before?

You mean like alcohol?

Re: energy beaming

Even if it is "safe" "yea, right, just like cigarettes!" for humans and animals you will now have a weather machine. The power lost in the atmosphere would be enough to cause local changes. A heat island type effect.

Re: You've got to ask yourself...

Those who can do.

Those who can't teach

And those with no clue at all manage!

Corporations are all like this

Yep, So IBM!! know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. I've been gone from them over 10 years and still suffer the PTSD. Bastards.

Re: When you work for the man, you work for the man

And I liked them as you had privacy!!!!! It also reduced the noise level and the stench from either BO or excessive cologne/perfume

Re: At least they didn't burst out in flames

I was waiting for a HCF instruction

Re: Why ? Surely no one can't work it out ?

Vinyl is not totally lossless. Because it requires mechanical reproduction the bass frequencies are recorded as mono to prevent the needle from jumping out of the groove if there is a large left / right dynamic volume difference. Also the total dynamic range of the recording is also compressed because of the again the requirement of a needle to track a physical groove. And then there is the RIAA frequency compensation.

Then if you really, really need to get the best you need to speed mega bucks on a moving coil cartridge, quality deck etc. And even then the vinyl will damage each time it is played. I remember going through three copies of the wall (my fav at the time) as each started to degrade (I was a bastard and on-sold the old copies).

The problem was the first CD's were cut from the same masters as the vinyl so they had initial compression. It was only with the newer remastered CD's that you could get lossless.

Re: Banks have zero security

The actual protocol is ISO8583 also known AS2805 in aus and nz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8583

Re: ...contrasts strongly with India’s space program,

Still doesn't compare well to New Zealand's Rocket labs first launch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electron_launches

Re: Beam forming?

It is illegal to operate any radio equipment within cooee of the SKA.

It appears that the problem is not actually any transmitters or beacons on the satellites. It is the actual electronic noise the internal electronics emit as they are operating. So the only options would be to turn the satellite off while over the SKA or to shield all the internal electronics in a nice Faraday cage.

Re: Other bright stars

Depends on the country. Australia has too much dust in the ski even in the outback. Central Otago and the Mackenzie country in the south island of NZ have very clear skies and the Magellan clouds, the southern cross along with things like the coal sack and carina nebula really stand out.

The other method to find the south pole is to find the two pointers Alpha and Proxima Centauri and use the method detailed here

https://www.snowys.com.au/blog/bush-astronomy-a-couple-of-pointers-on-the-southern-cross/

Re: Eh?

One of the major issues I have had was the requirements were crap. The code worked to the requirements but didn't actually do was was actually required or in some cases the requirements had changed and no bastard had told us.

Maybe the best option is to get AI to actually determine and to manage the requirements.

Re: Tesla that burned so hot, it melted part of the road

"floor it and marvel at the black cloud" method to clean shit out.

Used to do the same with the 'old 2 stroke bike going up a steep hill. Lovely long white cloud (Aotearoa) in my wake.

This emulator; what would it look like? Might it look a lot like WINE? How would it differ, apart from calling itself not an emulator?

Simple, it would actually work! It would allow provide the same functionality as say W10 and even allow the use of W10 drives and FULL access to the hardware.

In Australia (or at least Victoria) bikes are allowed to use the emergency lane on the freeway outside of the city. One of the main reasons for that in many cases there are no other suitable roads.

Have any of the UK Post office execs served time yet?

But just make sure you don't lose that token...

Re: TODO

Person 2: Use Wine.

What happens if the windows software doesn't work correctly under wine?

You could try a virtual windows, but as I've found all you get is a little toy that doesn't allow you to use the full features of the hardware.

Re: big tech and the future

Stop telling us cash is finished tech bro bellends.

Yep, I was at my local pub and the internal network failed. Till were still working but all the EFTPOS shoes were down. Cash was king!

Re: Trump doesn't think

it needs a step to the side as well.

Lets do the time warp again...

Re: Just once...

You need to understand that accountants are not economists.

Re: Optical media stable?

You need to be extremely careful with tape. I've had issues with humidity causing the tape to stick together and then de-laminate when it was played. These were old DC600 cartridges that had just been stored on a shelf. I would assume that these newish tapes are stored in an environmentally controlled area.

And just watch out for hurricanes/cyclones etc.

Re: My father too

My father in law was also "just" a radio operator in one of the "Y" stations. Only found out after he died. I would have loved to talk to him about it.

They are actually looking at using induction through the skin to charge/power it. Similar to a mobile phone charger.

Re: C is the new COBOL

Problem was not the small number of fixed fonts fixed the problem and a proportional font stuffed up the indenting.

Re: One of them hasn't even lasted a day

These days that's down to 24 minutes...

Is that the attention span of an orange one?

Re: Considering the Orange Oaf's track record with paying out...

I wonder how many will still be gullible enough to take the offer.

Take the money and run, you can always come back as a highly paid consultant and do the same job for more money. I've seen it here in Australia many times with a conservative government "cost cutting efforts"/"too many public servants" mandates.

Actually you are wrong it is defiantly not the doctors.

When I had a car accident in the US I asked the nurse "what the hell is going on?" her comment was "are you a kiwi?" "Yes", she said "same here, they are NOT trying to cure you, they are just making sure you can't sue them!"

And she "said it was the insurance companies that determined what treatment could be paid for"

So you are wrong.

Re: Why?

What happens if the memory access is live, IE an array overrun from a user or database entered value. This cannot be detected at compile time, so what happens in the production system?