Posts by Dr. G. Freeman 405 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2009
On the other hand, if a problem for the Government arises, their lawyers can interpret the law in such a way that the problem can be dealt with quickly under "current legislation" and removed quickly
Or if the problem means the Government can't do something, oh well the law can be interpreted another way to let them do it.
"Or can we expect an announcement that one of Manchester / Sheffield / Leeds is the new location of the UKs exascale computer…"
More likely Imperial, UCL, King's College, or out in the wilds of Oxbridge.
Don't want it too far from London
(message sent from the University of Aberdeen, beyond the "here be dragons" bit on the map)
Oh the BT business hub, the bane of my existence 2006-2008. I was on the frontline Helldesk for BT business tech support.
I would have just taken the little thing, and put it out of its misery by your favourite method of destruction. (best I heard was as a clay pigeon substitute)
It's more humane than actually using it for its BT anointed job.
I don't believe them. Or any other political party at the moment.
As it's election time, they'll promise anything to anyone to get the votes to stay on the gravy train of being in parliament.
Heard too many promises from people with different coloured rosettes over the years, that as soon as they got the job, deny ever saying such things, even when you show them the manifestos.
From the ESA Genesis Device website...
"Fix a satellite’s own position in space accurately enough and you can measure Earth beneath it much more precisely too. To achieve this goal down to millimetre level, ESA’s GENESIS satellite will combine and co-locate the four reference existing ‘geodetic’ – or Earth-measuring – techniques on a single platform for the first time. "
So using the satellite itself as zero point, and measuring relative to that.
"In school, it was all BBC/Acorns (including an Archimedes) all the way to at least 89. "
My secondary school, in the wilds of Eastern Scotland, still used BBC/Acorn/Archimedes up until 1998 in the computing, and technical departments (The Archy was bolted to a bench in the woodwork classroom)- think the BBC's still going in the science department as a pH meter.
NHS Fife are more annoyed that someone off the street walked in and did a better job of looking after patients (as in, "want you water jug refilled Mrs. McGinty ?" and "Cold Tom ?, I'll get you another blanket) than the actual staff, showing them up.
The data breach was that the person was handed a bit of paper with who's in each bed and what was wrong with them, didn't know what to do with that, so just put it in their pocket.
[This information is from the Dundee Courier (local paper), apart from the names of patients, so it wasn't me.]
CERN turns all the knobs to 11, and maxes out the particle beams of the LHC, which collide and form the first stable wormhole to another dimension.
Turns out we're the evil alternate universe.
A guy called Nole comes over with cold fusion, flying cars, and a bug free version of Windows on a dirt cheap open source hardware Mac for everyone.
I'm finding I use sci-hub/libgen more and more these days, as the books and papers are getting harder to find.
I'll find a reference to a book, either it's not in the library (dark mutterings about the University,) or it's out of print, and not available at the usual booksellers, even second hand.
As for papers, well, the university, and personally can only afford so many subscriptions, and there's a lot of journals, and it just so happens to be published in a journal, 1) you've never heard of, 2) isn't part of your subscription bundle- looking at you RSC.
So, off to the high seas it is.
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