Posts by Charlie Clark 13458 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Apr 2007
If that's a money making opportunity, why doesn't the A380 have upper deck front windows?
Windows are something any aircraft designer would love to do away with: improve body strength, reduce weight, and better AC. There are already plenty of design studies illustrating the advantages.
just maybe someone whose a bit more neurotypical might be the way to go
Well, except that Corbyn has already demonstrated more typical "leadership" qualities such as applying the whip over the Article 50 vote, despite his own record of voting against the party line.
Whatever the politics the high turnout at the election was fantastic. Corbyn, and the rest of the party, should be congratulated on the way it got the vote out, especially among younger voters. But the task was made a whole lot easier by a Tory manifesto memorable mainly for promising to bring back fox hunting and seizing the houses of elderly people.
I think that the problem that I and many is less with Corbyn personally, who seems largely to be a principled and reasonable person, than those around him (McDonnell is an unreconstructed Marxist) and Momentum. We remember how Militant in the 1980s successfully drove an incredibly unpolitical agenda.
Many of the new Labour seats have ridiculously thin majorities so that, should there be another election, the Tories with a more effective campaigner as leader, might well get that majority they want so that they can on with the business of rolling back the welfare state. Of course, when the Tories inevitably do change their leader, they might think twice before calling another election. But with the DUP on board some kind of crisis, including a resurgence of violence in Northern Ireland, can't be far off.
shy Tories having been replaced by shy Corbynites
Not so fast. The Labour voters in the North who voted UKIP and to leave were never likely to adopt the Tories en masse. 2015, the referendum and now: a continuing protest vote over the standard of living and immigration. The tuition fees was an easy sop to get students on board.
If May hadn't been such a dreadful campaigner then Corbyn's expensive promises and gaffes could have cost him a lot of votes. But as things turned out she appeared to get more and uncomfortable meeting real whereas Jezzer grew in confidence after bathing in the crowds. And the Labour Party actually got behind the campaign.
UKIP are basically deceased now, so their support cannot prop up the conservatives
I wish. Super-Kipper is dusting off his action man suit and ready to lead the party again if there is another election.
What am I saying if? Coalitions can work very well if both parties are committed to the idea (spot the Liberal) but a Tory party desperate to dump Mother Theresa in bed with the DUP?
Subtract Ken Clarke who thankfully did not stand down at this election
Yep, I think he's looking forward to playing Ted Heath/Geoffrey Howe to Theresa's Thatcher. Was pleasantly surprised to see him standing again having presumably refused a peerage.
I've no time for the Tories but Clarke was the best leader they never had. He stood up to Maggie, he gave the BoE independence, he was one of the few to warn about the abuse of parliament over the Iraq war and he voted with his conscience, as all MPs are supposed to over Article 50. And he would have cauterised the EU wound in the Tory party. As things stand they've probably just ripped it open again.
If the DUP is involved in the government in any way then I can think we expect problems with the Northern Ireland Assembly. And if May thought her own backbenchers were difficult to manage, she's going to find out what real hardliners are like.
Couldn't have happened to a nice person.
I seem to recall, but I could easily be wrong, that Transmeta's approach was vindicated by the courts so presumably anyone who licensed that would be reasonably safe.
But I think there are other established methods of code interception and emulation such as that used by Rosetta in MacOS, that could be employed in software with just some kind of hardware accelerator. For Microsoft the biggest hurdle will be the shitty x86 instruction set, which is out of patent and for which they probably already have a licence. For anything that really requires SSE and similar optimisations where software emulation isn't fast enough recompiling might solve the problem, especially if .NET is being used correctly. But somehow I don't think that video encoders from 2002 are going to be high on the list of must run software.
Intel's defence would be to get an injunction on the sale of devices but there are risks that it would be slapped down or that it would be limited to devices sold in the US. That Qualcom is a major supplier to US Department of Defense could never influence any court, could it?
Microsoft's risk is being shut out of the fast growing mobile market altogether.
Here in Germany you can go straight to a specialist. However, this is considered one of the main reasons why healthcare is so expensive. And also, due to the way things are budgeted here, appointments with specialists for non-private patients quickly become very rare and Germany spends a lot more per person on health than the UK.
On the whole I much prefer the referral by GP approach because a good GP should be able to refer to you the right specialist quickly. Digital records and more powerful practice nurses could also help here but at the end of the more resources: financial, personnel and technological are required. Won't stop the solutionists lobbying for purely virtual solutions though: you can get a free VR consultation which virtually solves your shoulder problem.
For years the Tories have been chanting the mantra of greater efficiency (listening to Yes Minister from the early 1980s is eerily prescient) meaning more can be done with less. But it never can. Outcomes only really improved and waiting lists declined when Labour started spending heavily on health, though they also fell for the dreadful PPI scams.
Until the IRA started bombing on the mainland it was seen as sufficient to send troops to Ireland for extra training. As long as only people in Belfast and Enniskillen were being blown up it wasn't really considered to be a problem. Same with Afghanistan except that there the US also supplied a lot of the weapons. As it is doing again in Yemen…
And add to the list the RAF (the German lot), Italy's Red Brigade and ETA.
The RAF definitely were keen on indiscriminate murder because they felt the whole society was evil, definite parallels with the current lot of extremists, and ETA and the IRA also had their moments. Manchester in 1996 very nearly was a bloodbath, in the end "only" 200 people were injured.
Ideological conflicts often have multiple causes: the Israeli/Palestinian mess is certainly one but the various "regime changes" for oil haven't helped. And, of course, the Americans created their very one by setting up madrasas in Pakistan and supplying guns to the Mujaheddin. But you also get nutters like Breivik who need no reason for reaping havoc.
@Ledswinger I was referring more specifically to the intercity rail network, which after a dreadful start, is now being reasonably managed. Otherwise, sure, China is full of infrastructure white elephants. But which country doesn't have its fair share of those? Robin Hood or Kassel-Kalden airports perchance?
I cant see the airlocks being an issue at all...
You might be a in minority there. There's a world of difference between maintaining a vacuum in a school lab, lab conditions, and doing the same on an industrial scale in the real world. Look at some of the problems they have to deal with at CERN and that's a tiny installation in comparison.
hey, dickshit: the last one to claim there was electoral fraud was your locker-room buddy, Donald who claimed "millions" of votes were fraudulent.
The investigations into collusion are, as always, about money and influence: Trump's mate Flynn was on the payroll of the Russians and the Turks and broke the Logan Law.
The answer is probably "yes" but prepare for new bugs. Apple has an unfortunate history of using major OS releases to fix bugs they introduced in a previous minor release as a way of forcing users to update. I can't remember a single recent release where this wasn't the case.
Anyway, be thankful you've just got problems with WiFi that have a chance of being resolved. Apple's record on Bluetooth is frankly awful.
I'm inclined to agree with you that this was mainly a carefully orchestrated media circus to please the base and deflect attention from the investigations about collusion with Russia for a couple of days. The decision is easily reversible at some point in the the future. The Trump chumps will cheer for a bit until they realise that they're jobs aren't coming back: shale gas has done more to destroy the coal industry than renewables ever could, and in the sunbelt solar is pretty much unbeatable. And US companies will continue to develop for the Californian market (because it's so big) and compete in the global one.
But there is collateral damage: Trump's rudeness to the EU did not go down well at all and means that the US will have less influence on trade going forward. Inevitably this will also lead to less business investment in cleaner energy in the US than would have otherwise been the case and the export market may well become choosier: if the US thinks that polluting as much as China is a good thing then we might as well buy Chinese if it's cheaper.
It seems that the media circus around the attack has at last convinced people to dump IE 9, which has dropped from around 1% to less than 0.4%. Why should you care? Well, while IE 9 isn't too bad a browser (MS did do a lot work for >= 9), it doesn't do Flexbox the way other browsers do, which makes it harder to write nice semantic HTML and let CSS do the arranging.
This ahead of Sharwood's mainly useless OS breakdown…
German TV news trumpeted this last night with the obligatory chart highlighting how little public wifi there is. As expected it skirted the security risks both to operators and users of public wifi if they're not done safely and securely. Most public wifis now are little more than honeypots and should not be used without a VPN. The convenience of not having to login is tempered by the risk of exposing your device to a potentially malicious network.
He personally is grossly incompetent.
And presumably already negotiating his exit so that blame doesn't spread up to the IAG board.
So, he'll leave early on a fat settlement and the cuts will continue, presumably after a round of pink slips for those who just happened to be in the building.
USB 2 is good enough for most peripherals but USB 3 allows for more power which means it can also drive machines. Of course, this just means that Apple can save money by reducing the number of ports they provide…
To really break through the new port has to be adopted by the phone makers. If I were Intel I'd have dropped draught recommendation by the European Commission to allow charges to be either micro-USB or USB 3…
But there's a big business in making them seem okay: governments love them because they add to the security theatre while allowing them to fire expensive meatware, which is easier to trick but harder to deceive.
You seem unreasonably optimistic if these domains are being used for scamming then anything under a couple of thousand makes them cheap.
ICANN should simply evaluate this vanity project and refuse to renew the majority of these stupid TLDs when they come up for it. Apart from tourism: .berlin, .bayern, .quebec, etc. the only one that looked useful was .club, though even that makes more sense wrapped by a country's TLD.
Apple works very hard to maintain the impression of a technological leader and never fails to make such points at product launches. But it works even harder to create the impression of hiding all that wonderful but complicated technology from us frightened users. But to stay successful it must continue to invest in technology.
In my experience of MacOS, Apple deliberately sabotages the Bluetooth stack because it prefers proprietary formats for which it can charge a licence. ITunes will always crap out on Bluetooth after a couple of hours whereas my S5 will happily stream all day and all night.
FWIW I've been using Bluetooth devices since my Ericsson r520
Dear Disgusted,
you may have noticed a few changes to our website. While we will indeed soon be getting rid of Flash, we will also be introducing some creepy web-DRM and forcing you to log on. We will also be sharing your data with the TV licensing authority and selected partners…
IOW: be careful what you wish for.
Not really. All employment contracts have confidentiality clauses and if your business is mainly around IP then you need your employees to understand that careless talk costs jobs as the recent Waymo vs. Uber case highlights. And then there are possible effects of the share price of a publicly traded company to worry about: leak stuff about success or failure of a product division and the company can be open to lawsuits from shareholders. Conversely, the board has a duty, cf. VW, to inform shareholders of potential risks.
Of course, there's a significant difference between putting the company's repository online and passing on water cooler gossip.
If Fadell wasn't technically an employee then it can be assumed he had extra clauses in his contract to go along with the fat paycheck or stock options he was given. Guess the courts will get to decide.
Eager to catch up to Amazon and its Echo interactive speaker
Not really, Amazon has sold a couple of million of these, Google Assistant is already on far more phones and growing faster. Also Echo is very much a one-trick Pony, Google has already mapped out added value (to users) services to Assistant whereas Amazon is still working on speech recognition. But the main difference is that Amazon is in the game of selling stuff, Google is much more focused on improving its AI services: if speech/image/demand recognition works well for consumers then companies will be desperate to signup for the AI engine that provides the services.
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