Posts by Matt Bryant 9690 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2007
The secret identity of AVunit is....
1. Beaker from the Muppets - because he has those shifty eyes.
2. Michael Mcintyre - same crap level of humour involved trying to be passed of for "lulz".
3. Janet Jackson - "it was all an accidental wardrobe malfunction with a PC...."
4. Julian Assange - well, apart from the links to Wikileaks, what else has he got to do whilst he's stuck sucking his thumb in the Ecuadorean Embassy?
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and just watch me laugh at yours whilst I go on my way, untroubled by your shrieking froth. Oh look - one of your convicted e-crim "heros" turned out to be a child pr0n collector, doesn't that mean you and the rest of the sheeple should be screaming at him? Didn't the Anonyputzs say they were going to attack such types? LOL, now that must give them (and you) a dilemma!
"....On the other hand, making £2,500 a month on a botnet is pretty impressive, imagine that much money at 21!...." Seriously? Do the maths - the six hits he was convicted of, each at £2500, even if he managed them in one year, equates to an annual income of £15k, which is about what a junior sysadmin gets in the UK. I have known plenty of coders on more than that at age 21.
My uncle was a copper and would explain it to you the same way he explained to me why there never a shortage of losers ready to replace drug dealers he used to lock up. The problem is that losers are always looking for a shortcut to money, and they would look at that £2500 hit and fail to consider the risks involved. The money in drugs is even better, but the thing the losers fail to see is that there are very, very few drug dealers that live past forty, and they're usually the ones that got arrested and are in prison. There may be e-crims making big bucks, but they are getting caught and ending up with the type of criminal record that pretty much screws up their chances of working as anything other than first line PC support monkeys. But there will always be more ID10T5 that will think "Wow, £2500...."
"..... these sentences amount to little more than a slap on the wrist...." Yes, but with luck it will give the US authorities just enough time to get their indictments in and the extradition requests sorted, then they can go rot in an US prison at the US taxpayers' expense.
"....young boys "doin it for the Lulz"...." Renting out a botnet of 100,000 compromised systems at £2500 a pop to any criminal that comes along gives a hint - at least to those of us with an upbringing that included right and wrong and a grounding in personal responsibility - that "the Lulz" is just apologist froth from those bitter losers that would excuse anything that involved hitting out at "the Man". A pathetic fail to grasp the realities of their criminal activities due to socipolitical blinkers.
"and they'll get 30 years each....." Even better, as soon as they're on US soil, I expect the US companies involved will hit them for damages claims. In US courts they'll go down BIG TIME! Even if these ID10T5 ever get out of prison they will spend the rest of their lives scraping a living trying to pay off their debts. Now that's the lulz!
Sorry to surprise the twits that watched "Die Another Day" (including the article's author, apparently) and think all modern spies have face-warping electronic kit to change their appearance, but a lot of disguises used today are the same old makeup, hats, padding and - yes - wigs. A lot of the evading modern spies do nowadays is not of the Mark 1 Eyeball, which can spot a dodgy wig, but of cameras using automatic face recognition. As a registered diplomat, Fogle's face would have been on the FSB database and his movements tracked by camera across most of Moscow, but such computerised kit can be fooled with very little effort. Wigs change the hairline and can also be used to hide ears, which are as unique in shape as fingerprints. Facial recognition works on a 3D map of key points of the face and head, so if you screw the 3D map enough the identification will fail in situations the Mark 1 Eyeball would not be fooled. So, yes, I do not find it beyond the bounds of possibility that an American "diplomat" was out recruiting with a wig or two in his bag.
After all, if he was stopped with a wig or two in his bag he could make up a story about going to a fancy dress party, but if he was caught with some superduper Q gadget marked "If found please return to Langley, Virginia", do you seriously think he would have been better off?
".....The DL980 is two four socket boxes tied together with two glue chips. The problem is the I/O is tied to the processors so it is unbearable to get from one processor thru the glue chip to the other processor then finally out to the network....." The IBM FUD on the DL980 has had years to ferment given that IBM can't make x64 above four sockets. And why is it modular systems, glue chips and crossbar switches are only a problem in non-IBM systems, and NEVER in IBM systems like the Power servers? LOL!
".....Will be interesting to see when HP actually gets this system out the door....." Don't worry, Alli, by then IBM will have sold their failing x64 server biz to Lenovo and retreated to the mainframe market, and then all you'll have to worry about if FUDding NonStop, ClearPath and BS2000.
"Why Matt, I do believe you're whinging..." No, that's winning, again. To be frank, it doesn't really take much effort with the weak rebleating you put forth.
".....Everyone at The Reg who wanted to read http://usslibertyinquiry.com/law/jacobsen.pdf already has...." LOL, I like how you try to avoid admitting the places on the Web that share your views are either all drenched in white supremacist bile and swathed in swastikas or Islamist shrieking, or both. Someone once told me that the psychiatrists are convinced that people aren't born racist, but that the opinions form at an early age, often by seven, from the home environment, and are pretty much engrained by age twelve. So I suppose there's little chance of reforming you now, even if your mental age probably matches that of a twelve-year-old. Even your attempts to evade off into "safe" topics where you feel more comfortable rebleating your half-truths, lies and myths, are becoming sadly predictable.
I'll tell you what, just to give you a semblance of a chance to redeem yourself, I'll give you an easy one to come back on - why don't you post why you are so happy that Google has a www.google.ps page? Please explain how it has advanced anything anywhere, how it has changed the situation on the ground, given the Fakeistinians one ounce more legal right or might, or even caused Israel to surrender one square kilometer of land? Oh, but that's the problem for you - like most Fakeistinian "victories", this is just an empty echo lost on the Internet, achieving nothing more than giving the hating sheeple like you "hope". LOL! Enjoy!
And, yet again, Local Dupe adds nothing to the conversation other than what one suspects are his drug-addled "thoughts".
"....wearing a cowl...." If anyone is to be wearing any headgear I would suggest it is more likley to be you wearing a white hood, seeing as you seem to share a common vein of anti-semitism with that old Klan favourite, Stormfront. And - what a surprise! - Stormfront has a cesspool of a forum that likes to shriek hatred regarding one of your favourite Israel-bashing topics, the USS Liberty incident (warning, NSFW - http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t807427/). Truly you are a sad little individual.
"Matt, I know you might not have many friends the way you act....." Hate to break it to you but I have no problem getting on with intelligent people not trying to force-feed me their agenda. I just must hang out with people a lot smarter than the sheeple you spend time dribbling with.
".....so much abrasiveness and with the way you throw around insults...." Puh-lease, going by the idiocy in your posts, I find it very unlikely that you aren't called a fool on a daily basis! If you can't stand the heat (and you obviously can't supply any arguments to back up your "ideals"), then get out of the kitchen and go back to the kiddie websites, at least until you've grown up and learned enough to be able to participate like an educated adult.
".....By the way, how much does Hamas pay you to embarras yourself like this?" Is that tragic effort the best you can make towards a contribution to the thread? I pity you, I really do, that you somehow think that was either topical or humourous.
I think you'll find Hamas would be unlikely to pay me to expose the delusions of people like you, though they would probably enjoy the next bit. You see, unlike the PLO, Hamas haven't had forty years to develop a massive and illegal income ("..... In 1993 and 1994, the British National Criminal Intelligence Services estimated the total to be about $10 billion, with an annual income of $1.5 – $2 billion....." http://www.eufunding.org/terror/FundingEvil.pdf). Instead, they are spending the funds they should be using for developing Gaza on buying rockets and sending their fighters to train in Iran (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4127074/Hamas-fighters-now-a-well-organised-force.html). How long Iran is happy to fund them is also in question, now, given events in Syria.
Indeed, Hamas is a bit short of cash, and the Hamas fighters have been moonlighting as mercenaries for the Sunni Gulf peinces in Syria (http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/10056.html?m=0). You'd think the latter would be an embarassment for the Hamas leadership after they spent so many years hiding behind Assad's apron in Damascus, but once again it can be explained by the old Sunni-Shia schism - when they're not all hating Jews together, Muslims are quite happy to kill each other (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/24/us-syria-palestinians-idUSTRE81N1CC20120224).
I suspect that - unless the Gulf princes start making me an offer - I'll just have to keep exposing your idiocy for free! Enjoy!
"DEBUNK THIS, SIR....." Already have in a previous thread where it was no relation to the topic, so I can't be bothered to entertain your attempt to schwing off topic again. Please try and come up with something even remotely conencted to the thread topic - Google's "recognition" of Palestine as a "country" - and please do try a little original thought, rather than just rebleating some canned Israeli-bashing article that was spoonfed to you.
"....Your cleverness is a lot lower than I think it is......" Well, let's look at your track record in "thinking". Firstly, all you ever do is regurgitate the standard Internet attack pieces on any subject, all of which are predictable and very easy to debunk. Whilst there are often more complex and pertinent arguments you could deploy, you never do, probably because they are either too complex for you to regurgitate, or because the websites they occupy are not on your approved reading list. Then we have your constantly being wrong, as shown by how you always lose the argument and going schwinging off on a tangent. And then we have the most damning fact, that you keep getting caught out in blatant lies. So, applying your track record, for you to say my cleverness is a lot lower than you think it is would actually mean my cleverness is a lot higher than your limited outlook can comprehend. Thanks.
"....the USS Liberty...." Aaaaand SCHWING! Not only are you reaching for the bottled Israel-bashing sauce, this one you've already tried and been soundly shown up on! Please, if you're going to be ridiculously stupid, at least present a new case of your stupidity, otherwise you'll go from being childishly naive but amusing to just plain boring. Oh, and can we safely assume that your desperate change of tack is yet another case of you avoiding admitting that you have lost another argument? This is my surprised face, honest.
"......you've made the average Israel supporter look like a complete prick......" It seems your definition of "a prick" is someone that can provide verifiable facts in rebuttal to propaganda, myths and lies. I suppose it must be very disheartening for you when people don't give up reason and education just because you think you're so special that all you have to do is call them "a prick" to make them instantly and completely realign their views to your blinkered and naive outlook. Seriously, get over yourself. Yes, I am laughing at you.
".....Admit it, Matt, you haven't come up with as clever a line as that since you've been posting here. In all likelihood since you were born......" Apart from your definition of clever being a whole lot lower in cleverness than what seems to be the accepted norm for society, I would also have to point out I post verifiable facts and leave the lies, myths and hyperbole to you and your ilk. You moan that all your equally vacuous posters that post easily debunk able propaganda are "bullied"? Well, I just have to assume that was you reaction to education in general, which probably explains your naive and childish hatred for The Man - it's all just an extension of your unhappy childhood failings at school.
As of the Philistines, they were a completely separate ethnic group to the people that later became the Arabs, so for the Fakeistinians to claim the are the "rightful owners" of the whole Palestine Mandate territories by being descendants of the Philistines is also complete rubbish.
"That would depend on whether or not Einstein read the papers after he died in 1955?" Why? There were just as many vitriolic hate-pieces in circulation then as now. Where do you think the current generation of anti-Semites got their diseased views from if not from the previous generation of haters?
".....only you and Rush Limbaugh....your ridiculous opinions....." This from the cretin that got caught rebleating Keith Olbermann's hysterical accusation that Anna Ardin was a CIA spy (http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2013/04/19/assange_meets_schmidt/)! A critique of that accusation here (http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/07/olbermann-assange-and-the-holo). But then I suspect you didn't get it from Olbermann but direct from Israel Shamir's Jew-hating, Holocaust-denying website, or maybe just from Stormfront again.
Hey, look! I managed to expose your anti-Semite sillyness in two topics at once!
".....and was GERMANE to the topic." Sorry, it is unknown for you to post anything even remotely germane in any thread, so I'll have to regretfully decline to believe you. BTW, whilst we're on the topic of German physicists, have you heard of that guy called Albert Einstein? You probably haven't seeing as he was a Jew, once being offered the Presidency of Israel, and was a supporter of Israel right up to his death. Now, I wonder which Hawking would have listened to given the chance, Einstein or Chomsky?
"....The only relevant and constructive post I could make is the one we all want to tie you to before setting fire to the straw at your feet." Well, at least Local Dupe echoes the sentiment of the terrorists he so espouses - when you have lost the argument, threaten violence. Such a shame he is so outclassed in any form of verbal combat, probably even by a five-year-old. I have to wonder if the "we" is a reference to the voices in his head.
Meanwhile, Naom Chomskey, veteran ivory tower anarchist nutjob, has been exposed as the "Palestinian scientist" behind Hawking's decision (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/10/noam-chomsky-stephen-hawking-israel-boycott). You have to ask where was Chomsky's objection when Hawking was jetting off to conferences in China and Iran? After all, Chomsky was an early critic of Indonesia’s annexation of East Timor in 1975. A blind hypocrit leading one just as blind?
"You, Sir, are a humorless idiot....." On the contrary, I often have a pitying laugh at your posts. And did you miss the Planck joke? Sorry, I suppose only someone with some education higher than junior school physics would get the joke of exposing your Heisenberg error and then adding in a dig with Planck's Constant. At least I suppose you can take comfort in knowing you will never be accused of being a geek or nerd, you're obviously too intellectually limited. But I think it would be far too much to ask you to also add quantum physics to your remedial reading list, seeing as you are already so far behind on geography, history, religion, politics and geology. Don't worry, I'm sure there is someone somewhere that still hopes you may, one day, be able to make a relevant and constructive post.
".....There's little uncertainty about that......" Ah, there's no-one more certain than a fool! In the words of Norman Macdonald (and I know you love a quote, seeing as you seem to realise your one chance of passing off as having the vague semblance of an intelligent thought is to ape the works of others): "They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it." I apologise most insincerely for repeatedly posting evidence that might force you to realise the extent of your own ignorance of your ignorance.
".... I never said elections. "Election" being a formal and organized process of electing somebody to something. I said "electorate", those people qualified to vote and elect somebody IF and WHEN there's election...." Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle! Just man up and admit you were wrong, your evasions are simply tiresomely boring.
".....The Arabs living in the Mandate after 1922 were so qualified. However, the self-interested British only allowed the people to vote in plebiscites for monarchs the Brits had nominated. "At the Cairo Conference of 1921, the British set the parameters for Iraqi political life"...." Iraq was not part of the Palestine Mandate territories, it was under a separate Mandate of Mesopotamia (also sometimes known as the British Mandate of Iraq). You are so desperate to avoid admitting you were wrong you are trying to apply British measures from a completely different area to your vacuous denials of history.
"....And as for you previous contention that oil was unknown to the region until 1933...." Once again, you are applying the history of a completely different area - Iraq - to that of the Palestine Mandate! You stated that oil in Palestine was a prime consideration of your claimed British backing of the Jewish homeland in the Partition Plan, yet have failed to show any record of such, instead taking examples of oil in Saudi and Iraq and trying to make out they apply to the Palestine Mandate territories. Fail, fail, fail!
".....You remember "Heisenberg's Certainty Principle?" If one of your neighbors has oil underneath his country, you can be almost certain there's oil under yours....." Firstly, it is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Secondly, it is a rule of quantum physics, not geology. If you are going to make pseudo-scientific statements please at least try and stay within the correct field. So Heisenberg's principle does not apply, but geology most certainly does, and the geologies of the Palestine Mandate and Iraq areas are so different as to make the likelihood of oil in the Palestine Mandate very unlikely. Indeed, modern oil discovery techniques have found very little oil in either Israel, the West Bank or Jordan, and certainly nothing to compare to the Kirkuk oilfield discovered in Iraq in 1927. To give you an inkling of how stupid your "if one of your neighbours has oil" non-argument is, you may want to consider that California has six oilfields with deposits of over a billion barrels, but neighbouring Nevada has none, because the geology of the two states is completely different. Please add basic geology to your reading list. And please do try and think a lot harder before your next post involving science, otherwise you will come off Constantly looking like a complete Planck (badoom-doom-tish!).
"....Why would I do that?...." I know, you have made fact avoidance a staple of your life. Anything that might upset your carefully constructed fantasy view of reality must be avoided, right? I have news for you - denial is not a river in Egypt, before or after the British Protectorate. Enjoy!
"I'm guessing the objection is to Israeli policies regarding occupation of Palestinian territories and their forcing Palestinians into refugee status as a result" A more likely correct appraisal of the situation would be that his objection is due to his ignorance or denial of the realities of the situation, probably based on prejudice given his happiness to travel to an event in Iran, and no doubt ignoring the fact the Palestinian Arabs made themselves refugees and were then kept that way by the other Arab states.
"But from the Roman occupation until the Statehood scam in 1948, Jews never had a controlling majority of the population and electorate....." WTF? Is there nothing on kids' TV to keep you guys occupied? The Roman, Ottomans and the British never held elections.
".... But Arabs who had been living there before the so-called Statehood and fled the fighting, could never return....." Firstly, they didn't flee, they got out of harm's way at the request of the Arab neighbours that they hoped would drive out the Jews so they could all steal the Jews' lands. Secondly, every war has refugees and it is normal practice for them to be integrated into friendly countries. At the end of WW2 there were 11.5 million Germans alone who were expelled from Eastern Europe and had to be rehomed in the ruins of Western Germany. A special UN body was set up to help resettle the refugees of all the European nations, and despite the scale of the task it was completed in five years. Yet the Arabs, who had passed through the War with their countries relatively untouched, baulked at re-homing any refugees. Instead, they illegally herded them into camps and kept them there. Meanwhile, at least as many (if not more) Jews were expelled from the Arab countries and had to be absorbed into Israel, yet the much smaller Israeli state not only welcomed them but settled them all. The difference was the Jews cared about their own, whereas the Arabs just saw the Fakeistinian refugees as a propaganda tool. And thirdly, you are obviously oblivious to the large number of Arabs that stayed and became Israeli citizens.
"....Today when the world thinks of Jews, they just read stories on line about Bernie Madoff ...." I would suggest "thinking" is a bit strong for your desire to see the worst in Jews. After all, you could look at the long list of Jewish Nobel Prize Winners and their contribution to the World, but then that might upset a bigot like you.
"The British Mandate of Palestine ended "In September 1947."....." You know, the only thing funnier than when you get proven wrong again and again is when you try wriggling out of admitting you're wrong! Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle. Still, I suppose it's better than your desperate attempts to schwing off onto another topic, though it would be nice if you could actually post some facts for a change, hopefully in a related argument.
".....the Israelis would be armed to the teeth...." And wrong again. Compared to the Arab nations that attacked them, all with established armies with armour, artillery and air forces, the Israelis were barely armed at all. Their first two tanks were from British sympathisers who went AWOL over to the Israeli side and pinched a pair of Cromwell tanks in the process. During the 1948 war, the Egyptians alone fielded 135 tanks and 90 artillery guns. The average Israeli kibbutz had at most a dozen rifles and maybe the odd machinegun to withstand not just the local Arab gunmen but also the organised forces of the Arab invaders. The difference in the air was even less in Israel's favour - at the start of the war, the Egyptians alone had at least thirty combat-ready Spitfires and twenty Dakotas modified as bombers - when the Israeli Air Force was formed a fortnight after the Arabs invaded all they had was a dozen civilian light aircraft. But then that's the facts, so why would you know any of it? LOL! I know it's not PC to laugh at the afflicted but you really are more than a dohnut or two short of a bakery.
"it ended in 1947...." Once again, all you do is expose your lack of knowledge. The Brits originally intended to end their mandate on 1st August 1948, but brought the date forward to 1st May 1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine). Don't you ever get tired of being so quickly and easily exposed as wrong?
The Israelis declared the State of Israel on 14th May 1948 and it was recognised by the US, Soviet Russia, and the majority of UN members, excepting the bitter members of the Arab League.
"Stephen Hawking to Travel to Iran for International High School Physics Competition....." Oh, it was an international event that just happened to be held in Iran? I suppose that makes it alright and doesn't make Hawking a massive hypocrit. Silly me! Your non-denial of the fact that Hawking was quite happy to travel to one of the countries in the World that not only has one of the worst human rights records, that doesn't just call for Israel to be wiped off the face of the Earth, but also openly supports, arms and applauds terrorist groups that try to kill Israeli civilians on a daily basis. You're right, it's quite clear that Hawking is nothing more than another bigoted idiot, just like you.
".....Oil exploration in Israel began in 1953...." The British mandate ended in 1948, do the maths you complete moron. There was no oil in the Palestine Mandate, you lied out of vindictive bigotry, you got caught, just admit it and stop dribbling, you're just embarrassing yourself.
<Yawn> And yet again, right on cue, Local Dupe spouts absolute male genetalia rather than admit he has lost the argument.
Tell you what, I'll give you an easy one - please explain why, if Stephen Hawking is so moralistic, did he attend a conference in Iran, where he swapped pleasantries with the same authorities that regularly hang gays, stone adulterers, and execute those that blaspheme? Oh, and they also happen to imprison, torture and kill their political opponents. Could it be that Hawking's head is so far up his black hole that he seriously thinks the Iranian regime is somehow applaudable? It just goes to show that stellar intelligence does not equate to being smart.
".....So, you agree then that the current occupants were forced to accept imposed rule by a new Jewish state then......" Seriously, are you just being deliberately obtuse or do you actually have as little comprehensive capability as your posts suggest? The "current occupants" of the State of Israel as declared in 1948 WERE the Jews intent on creating the State of Israel, so nothing was imposed on them other than the need to defend themselves from the immediate murderous attacks of their Arab neighbours. Christian and Muslim Arabs that stayed in Israeli territory after the 1948 fighting were given Israeli citizenship and freedom to worship as they pleased, unlike the Jews who were illegally evicted by the defeated Arab states.
".....Most of mine have been FrankenPCs...." It seems that, in the "current econimic situation", businesses are also rediscovering the joy of upgrades as opposed to new purchases. I visited a company the other week that had ten-year-old Dell desktops that they have simply added memory and bigger disks to as required. The bigger issue for them is the projected end of Win XP support which could force them to grudgingly upgrade to Win8. I suspect there are many companies out there that would have been buyng new PCs that have decided to instead stretch the life of those they have.
"......Still some people condemn someone that takes 1-2 units (above that is of personal capability) of beer or wine and jumps on the throttle (i refer to cars here). To put things in perspective being a little tired, having your thoughts on other things than driving or just the kind of person who isn't so well coordinated. Is just as or even more dangerous than a couple of beers in traffic....." Having been in a serious accident with a drunk driver early in my driving experience I took the line of zero tolerance from an early age. The difference with tiredness versus alcohol is, even when you are mentally tired, your body can still make very quick trained reactions (when was the last time you had to think about how to make an emergency stop as opposed to just reflexively doing it?), especially with a kick of adrenaline. But even a little alcohol can seriously impair your reactions and judgement.
If we suppose that - somehow - Terriblefugup do get the technology to get either of their monstrosity designs airborne in numbers, they will actually be less of a hazard than other craft such as hot-air balloons. I was a passenger in a light aircraft that had a close miss with a hot-air balloon (literally saved by the experienced pilot's quick reflexes alone). Ever since I have stopped referring to glider pilots as the moped drivers of the air.
".....Those crappy Robinson heliocopters....." Sorry, I can't agree with that. I've been for several rides in R22s and an R44 without any hitches, roll-overs or other disasters, and they seemd quite neat little 'copters. I hear the original models had a problem with delamination of subcontracted mainblades but that has been fixed.
"Dear non-pilots, the term "my airspace" refers to that bubble of air surrounding "my aircraft"...." Yeah, I find ATC does a good job of covering the blind spots. Seeing as it is highly likely any "flying car" will be very tightly restricted in where and at which flight levels it can be a mobile hazard, they will probably present no more risk than you do now.
"..... Given that the great unwashed have substantial difficulty keeping from intruding into "my roadspace"....." Many years ago there were many that insisted the common man (let alone any woman) was simply too ill-educated and unfamiliar with machinery to be allowed to drive an automobile. That belief was shown to be cobblers too. The key to mass flight will be control through training and regulation, just as used today to ensure most motorists get through the day without killing each other. And if the system can be made largely automatic then the risk is even further reduced, to the point where you in your non-automated light aircraft actually become more of a risk. Besides, one thing that seems common to all the Terriblefugup ideas is that they are all so hideously expensive so as to make them completely out of the reach of the "great unwashed", so I don't think you or I will have to worry much during our lifetimes.
You have to ask why did they go to the extra complexity of folding rotors when they could simple feather them. true, a feathered rotor would still be quite draggy, but it would be simpler, use existing tech, and not require the additional weight and juice of the motors and hinges for unfolding into the airstream prior to landing. All in all I'd have to say this is even more of a fantasy design than the Transition.
".....I have proper aircraft....." One designed for safely landing on short strips, whereas the latest whimsy from Terriblefugup looks like it will have such a tiny wing surface area as to make low-speed approach turns instant stalls, followed by a quick spin into the ground! It looks like it will have the wing loading of a Lockheed Starfighter, which means either they will have to make the wings much longer or transition to assisted lift from the rotors at very high speeds, say 200mph, which I'm not even sure they power plant could deliver. All in all, even disregarding the massive gap between the reality of electric/battery power and their design requirements, as a flying machine it looks a complete death trap. IMHO, anyone still investing in these clowns needs their heads examined, and anyone actually willing to fly the eventual product probably won't live long enough to get their head examined!
"There is a big difference between what Larry Ellison says and what he does....." Gosh, you're not implying Larry is economic with the truth / lies to customers and shareholders / tries to influence the market with complete male bovine manure statements (delete as you see appropriate), are you? After all, wouldn't that be in conflict with Oracle's own Code of Conduct, as foreworded by Larry himself (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/investor-relations/cebc-176732.pdf)?
".....Oracle expects its employees to:
• Act ethically and with integrity in all
business dealings..."
/ROFLMAO!
Instead of checking the efficiency of a single unit, imagine them in trays or blades, plugging into a chassis with redundant and intelligent PSUs, where the larger PSUs will be much more effective than a dozen or so single PSUs, and then they will be a whole lot more power efficient.
Whilst I suspect a former Sun employee would know the stink of death and failure very well, I'm not so sure the spinning rust vendors are as dead as Shapiro seems to think. Seagate in particular has the muscle of Samsung behind them. I'm also not convinced with the focus on the hyperscale customers as there are so few of them compared to the average Joe companies that make up the bulk of the storage market. And 2.5in is not dead at all, it seems to be replacing 3.5in disk format with the real game changer being the shift to commodity-based array headers in multiples rather than pairs.
My prediction - Shapiro and co will soon be announcing yet another "me-too" all-flash array, and hopes he can talk spinning rust to death. Which is neatly ignoring the fact that tiering of data is still keeping even dead-slow-but-big-capacity-and-cheap SATA disks alive and healthy.
"How small are your pockets?....." It's a continued grumble in the office that our work Blackberrys are not "cool" but you can at least put them in your jeans pocket without castrating yourself everytime you sit down. Consequently, the BBs go everywhere with their owners, whereas other phones we have tried have often been left on the desk.
"..... Gingerbread Keyboard is free, better and comes with the predictive text we all crave....." Thanks, I'll point my colleague in that direction. Interestingly, given uknutz comment below, we could not find a setting for predictive text on my mate's S4. His was a Vodafone one, I wonder if that makes a difference?
".....predictive text is the spawn of satans curry turds...." Excellent! But predictive text is only bad when poorly implemented, such as the very annoying Apple version which doesn't just offer you what it thinks you want but also corrects your text regardless, leading to some hilarious errors.
A colleague brought one into work, and we all crowded round like good geeks to get a look. I didn't get much time actually playing with it but first impressions were that it was an excellent bit of kit, very fast, and with an truly outstanding screen, really a mini-tablet. On the downside, being a mini-tablet it was too big for most pockets and probably liable to tip out (expensively) from the majority of pockets big enough for it. Whilst it's fast, the Sammy GUI is simply pants compared to Sense, and it doesn't even come with predictive text. I do like the S4, it is certainly at least a match and in many ways better than any current iPhone (and not only does it have the detachable battery all iPhones lack, the S4 will charge off other vendors' chargers - tested with HTC and Blackberry models), but I couldn't help thinking that I still prefer the HTC One.
One of the most common complaints you hear during project reviews is "but we can't stop now, look at all the money we've spent!" Sometimes the smarter thing to do (and often the braver in terms of career prospects) is to upset some people by identifying a failure as a failure, pulling the plug, and stopping further money going to waste. Yes, £90m may have "gone to waste" (ignoring that hardware and software plus the experience gained could be re-used for another project or the second stab at the same project), but that's a lot better than letting a project meander through years of revisions and possibly billions of pounds before someone finally admits defeat. Whilst the headline will be (predictably) "90m wasted" that's probably not a completely realistic viewpoint.
The question is were Deloitte incompetent in identifying the requirement, or did they just build what they were told to build and now have been unfairly tarred as the cause of failure?
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