Posts by MT Field

Bristol - possibly the world's most amateur international airport.

Nothing to stop ARM from adopting Risc-V is there? Apart from the usual commercial considerations.

You know what would be really amazing - if Ceres turned out to be much older than we previously thought, older than the sun, older than the solar system.

My theory

as I know you are all eager to hear it is that these big black holes precede the big bang somehow. Hey it's only a theory.

It's tricky to land on Mars, land on Mars, land on Mars

It's tricky to land on Mars, it's tricky tricky tricky.

Sounds like they were taken to court for non-payment of the club's penalty charge. A civil case. Should've read the T&C's.

It will be killed for idelogical reasons

It will be powerful enough to make potentially blasphemous observations and that means the god-lobby want it killed off. Welcome to the new dark ages.

Nice theory. Next!

Goodnight and good luck.

They've put the god-damn fingerprint sensor on the back FFS.

Lovely America.

FTFY

The government faces a complex challenge in encouraging four departments to work together and get anything done.

Yes we are governed by cretins and the state is administered by highly educated cretins. We must like it as it is otherwise we wouldn't put up with it, would we?

Given the Royal Navy's modern role of combat-capable humanitarian relief, should we not be funding, building, and manning replacements for HMS Ocean in perpetuity?

Also find space on board for a Contact section, complete with special circumstances unit.

Seems to me the cops would be in breach of data protection if they were still employed by the Met. As they are retired they are fairly immune to any sort of sanction. And they certainly would have taken advice on the matter of this being a criminal act.

So it was just a case of them sticking the boot into Dirty Damian's career. Perhaps they didn't like him.

All this fuss?

Seems like your typical day in the new America. Why bother, just let them get on with it.

Erm yeh about that BMW

Wouldn't buy another one myself.

I still think that the US Govt should have used anti-trust legislation to break MS up into separate companies for the desktop OS business and the applications business.

I think you'll find the 306 was generally considered a decent motor.

Apparently Scott was an absolute bastard to work for, but to his eternal credit he did manage to make Blade Runner with considerable creative vision, despite the studio's repeated attempts to stop him because of budget (and probably other) issues. It's that creative vision we still value in the original film despite its many glaring flaws.

Why do they (us) still insist on naming everything after some figure from classical mythology?

Presumably now we are out of Europe we no longer have to work with those solidly stubborn Germans or smelly French. So we can go and do our own stuff in our own way, like in the good ol' days. There were good ol' days, right?

Arrival was good - the best sci-fi film I've seen for a long time.

Let's hope this one isn't a stinker. But already judging by the lazy special-effects spoilers in the official trailer it's going to pretty formulaic.

The shame

Hm mm yeh. The decline of reasoned debate.

1) The guy has a problem and it has ruined his career and very possibly his life.

2) You can't be in politics without getting at least a little dirty - it is mostly a business where you wrestle with pigs after all.

3) There is no conspiricy - it's all just stupidity, arrogance, cheating and greed.

The most significant thing for me in the article was how the girl sold her story to an English Newspaper. The shame ....

"contains an unfortunate bug that causes phones to burn through their monthly mobile data allowances"

Yes its called Google Play Services and it also eats your battery.