Posts by I am David Jones 81 posts • joined 6 May 2012
Not really. Most alleged sightings seem to boil down to “small thing moving fast in the sky”. No smartphone will be able to capture that well, even if you had advance warning and could set up a tripod.
So for once I won’t fully agree with Randall https://xkcd.com/1235/
Absolutely! Every now and again I read about some development, like a new paint or wingtip design, that will save 1-2% in fuel and hence $billions in annual savings. But they’re happy to throw away 10-30% (or whatever it is) just for wireless charging???
I genuinely can’t think of a single advantage of wireless changing for a plane that is parked up for (dis)embarkation.
Same for cars tbh.
Having said all that, in-air wireless charging could be fun :)
Anyone can study social media/Facebook, just as anyone can study tobacco companies.
What I think this is about is getting privileged access to data/APIs to help with the research, and no doubt FB do indeed keep this for “friendly” researchers.
But I doubt that tobacco firms opened up their internal archives to any random person that asked…
For those who are questioning the substantive merit of the food container invention, bear in mind that a patent application will not even land on an examiner’s desk until certain formal requirements are met. These include eg fees being paid and a valid inventor being named.
Without commenting specifically on Dr Thaler’s invention, many many patent applications have no chance of being granted and they should not be taken as indicative of how easy/hard it is to meet patentability requirements.
As I’ve said before, this is clearly a test case and the invention itself is irrelevant.
As a non-consultant, I can only really talk about my own experience in a large company. The option to homework is here to stay and a big chunk of staff will be exercising that option. Which means that, even post-COVID, the vast majority of our internal and external meetings will be by videoconference.
Typing a command into terminal is as easy as pie….if you know what to type.
My first foray into the world of Linux/Ubuntu (about 10yrs ago I think) had me trying to install OpenOffice the Windows way, ie downloading the installer from the website. Guess what, double-clicking the installer file doesn’t work and trying to install the program from the file (.deb?) took me, a competent Windows user but a Linux novice, into a world of pain (I’ll spare you the details).
Of course, I was doing it all wrong but everything i had read about Ubuntu was that it had made great strides in usability and for basic computing tasks a Windows user would have no problem. A bit of a rude awakening for me!
"Sentences passed by judges are never applied in full."
Without changing any sentence lengths, I always think the headline sentence should be the minimum time in jail, which is then extendable by n years depending on behaviour/risk to the public/whatever else they use to decide parole.
It's always a bit of a disappointment when I hear some evil b*******'s* sentence and a couple of seconds later have to remember to divide by two.
There's no doubt a good legal reason for the judge announcing it as they do (e.g. separation of sentencing guidelines and parole rules) but the press could do the math for us...
*this is not a comment on the subject of the article about whom I've not formed any opinion.
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