Posts by David Knell 9 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Aug 2006
Lee D - I'm not sure how you did your calculations, but you've made the classic mistake of believing the output of a calculator without filtering it through critical thought. Short of sticky tyres, fancier aerodynamics than a Tesla or running into something, the maximum achievable rate of change of velocity of a car is 1G.
Putting your numbers into the calculator you chose gives a deceleration of 7.8 m/s^2, which is far more reasonable.
We hosted with RapidSwitch for a while. They managed to find motherboards whose on-board Ethernet wasn't well-supported by Linux (driver locked up under heavy load), denied it at first, then ended up charging us for KVM attachments to allow us to fix the problem which was down to their hardware in the first place.
We're now with CoreIX, who have been absolutely top notch, and I'd recommend them without reservation.
--Dave
The News of the World published a photo from my wedding album, also lifted from Flickr. The highlight of my conversation with their pictures editor was his claim that he'd never heard of Flickr; he had some slightly non-standard views on copyright as well. Settled for £570 on the same day that they received the claim form.
All well and good, but the code examples are hardly beautiful or consistent, with indentation, spacing, whether strings go in single or double quotes and whether to place a for loop's opening { on the end of the line with the 'for' or on its own on the following one being generally undecided.
for($i=0; $I<$titleNodeList->length;$i++)
is a corker in one line. A space after each element of the for statement or not? Does PHP have case-insensitive variable names? Don't know, but I'd have to check..
One of the things which ICSTIS has been striving to do over the last few years is "increase stakeholder engagement", which you do by talking to the people that you deal with and, if you're going to do something major which might affect them, asking them first. That's called consultation. By their own admission, the ICSTIS rebrand is a major undertaking; yet there was no consultation with the industry.
ICSTIS are funded by the premium rate industry, who're in the position of seeing what's effectively their money spent on a rebrand dreamed up by a PR agency without their input. And it wouldn't really matter if it was universally accepted; that, though (to put it politely) hasn't been the case.
--Dave
Looking at their annual report, the chairman's also deputy chairman of iSoft.
Not that I'm suggesting there's a link, of course.
On a broader note, this strikes me as a classic case of a good idea overgilded. PL's figures show that each bedside unit's cost them about £2k (that's not just the unit, but installation, etc.); they were overspecified for the job in hand, partly as a result of unfulfilled expectations surrounding things like electronic delivery of patient records, and 25% of them are now in need of replacement.
A business which just provided phones could have done so at a small fraction of the cost, and would probably have a very different balance sheet by now.
Hindsight - it's a marvellous thing.
--Dave
The problem above isn't restricted to base 2 representations. All those who've suggested using base 10 need only pause for a moment to consider how they'd represent 1/3 in BCD to see the error of their ways. Those of us born in Springfield who count in base 3 (owing to that being the number of digits on one of our hands) can smugly claim an exact representation: 0.1. But then we do have a bit of a problem with 1/2..
--Dave
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