Posts by Anonymous Coward 1965 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2008
But if you can get rid of the big stuff, that significantly reduces the chances of a collision generating a whole load more small stuff.
And it's easier to work with, more rewarding etc, which means they can develop on this path and gradually work towards the smaller stuff once they've got better at it.
The answer is always "gravity"
The sun has a lot of gravity. That pulls material together with enough force to create nuclear reactions. Those reactions produce emissions across the EM spectrum. Those emissions, upon hitting the earth, make grass grow. Cows eat grass. Cows produce milk. Cows get milked at top of hill. Gravity makes the milk flow downhill (on its own or pushing the vehicle)
The consistency will have an advantage over a blob of conductive paint applied by hand. Knowing the resistance of each "wire" allows more precise interpretation of data.
Although I must admit I'm concerned that the "wires" will act the same as the electrodes and will thus get interference from other parts of the brain - taking those traces away from the head would be an advantage from that perspective.
I suspect it's more that they've done the proof of concept work and now need to refine it. Refining it has a clear first step - target tracking (and second step: hair styling). To do that they want/need more funding, so announce this giant step now and secure funding for the next stage.
The eMclient software doesn't care what address you use, but their licensing department does. After a few months they come at you with "it looks like you're using this for business. Pay up" - I've had several clients suffer that, despite their domains being some variation of their full name and genuinely not for business use.
A person doesn't get made redundant, it's the job that does. That means that the employer can't make someone redundant and then hire a replacement. Therein lies the difference between redundancy and being fired. (Noting that in the UK you can't fire someone without due cause)
Most likely the security would just pay more attention to that individual, so when they put something in a pocket rather than a trolley it is noticed and THAT can be acted upon. They do that with known shoplifters anyway, so having a system to highlight potential offenders is likely to save some effort and reduce wasted time.
IANAL but...
> commissioner Kind found Bunnings could not "have reasonably believed that collecting, via the FRT system
... they were not "collecting" facial data. It was transient processing. Had they been storing everyone's likeness in a database, that would be collecting.
And
I don't know what the law is like in Oz, but here in the UK there's the "expectation of privacy" - if it's a busy public place, you have to expect to be seen and caught on camera.
I would disagree with some of your selection, but we probably live in very different regions and what is sensible where you are doesn't necessarily match what's sensible where I am. I have a selection in my car, that I've had to put to use on a couple of occasions.
Biggest lessons to learn: cars get colder than you think quicker than you think, so wrap up even inside. And check your kit regularly - including making sure you have power in your battery packs.
I have used many different graphics packages over the (many!) years and have found that they are ALL a pain to get to grips with. All of them have terrible UIs, probably because they have so many tools and ways of doing things that get combined in a way which is obvious to whoever built it.
But in all cases after a couple of months of using a package, it becomes somewhat intuitive - because I know where the things I use are.
I do graphics stuff about once a week, so not a heavy user but regular enough to need to be familiar/efficient.
I settled on GIMP about 15 years ago and haven't had a reason to change yet. I can't remember all of the shortcuts for the tools, but I can definitely find them. Yes, it would be great if it were simpler, but that would mean dropping some features which I may not use but others do (or vice versa)
Is the call termination fee greater or less than the cost of electricity for Daisy to answer those calls? If they're making a profit, they can deploy at scale. I somehow doubt it though.
It does beg the question though: at what point would such tactics be classed as fraud? They're encouraging a third party (albeit scammers) to call a number, which they've set to answer, and they get money each time that call connects. No court would convict O2 in this regard, but the lawyers would stand to make some money.
Imagine you're in a boat about 150 miles away from a safe harbour and 10000 miles away from another safe harbour. There are sharks in all water and many thousands of other boats, most of which are somewhere between you and the further safe harbour.
Which one would you choose to aim for? Is the potential for future salvage enough to warrant the risks and expense of the journey, especially given the level of re-processing that would be required? (material degrades in space, so without a thorough inspection you can't assume that any space-borne resource is suitable for reuse)
"Classic Outlook" and Outlook as part of Office/Microsoft 365 are the same thing, just with a different license structure.
The article refers to Classic Outlook to differentiate it from "New Outlook", which is the latest incarnation of Outlook Express - the hobbled, even less predictable, half cousin of actual Outlook.
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft have done some market research and found the Outlook is the only product that businesses deem critical to get from MS and as such everything is gradually being renamed to Outlook - hence Outlook (the latest incarnation of Hotmail), Outlook (the email/calendar/contacts app), Outlook (the mobile version that's so different to the desktop that it should have a distinct name) and Outlook (the 'new' pile of dung)
> "I have to wonder why they haven't built a scaled version of Starship they could launch with a Falcon to test thermal protection designs with and run that concurrently with things they are doing in Texas. To iterate a design, you have to be able to examine the failures. I've gone through plenty where no amount of instrumentation would have been adequate, but Mk1 eyeballs did the job."
Because they've worked out that getting things up is relatively easy, it's the getting them back down intact that is difficult. Scaled models have issues because of the scaling, so if you can lob something up at full size, why not do that? It's also parallel development of booster, ship and production methods.
Yes, if you can get your eyes on something afterwards that helps a lot (and they're very much working on that), but they've also got some pretty impressive camera tech on board relaying live HD video which gives an awful lot of information alongside the plethora of sensors.
You also learn a lot more from failures than successes, so the iterative "test, boom, next" approach they're taking is valid.
My local is still described as HWRC
And I have put double mattresses in small cars - they roll up quite well with the use of ratchet straps. Even better if you can vacuum pack them first (although I suspect anyone with those facilities would have a large enough vehicle anyway)
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