That screen would be nice to watch a DVD or BluRay disk on. Oh hang on, it doesn't have an optical drive.
WTF are they thinking of? Do they really think they are so ahead of their time that DVD/BD have died as a media format? That everyone has already dumped their collections? That low cost, high bandwidth mobile HD video streaming technology has become ubiquitous?
> The problem with mounting the stuff on top is that the balloon swells as it ascends.
That's why I suggested using a net. The net would be (ideally) circular and able to contain (say) the top 25% of the balloon at full size. You'd fix the launch platform to the net, put the balloon under the net, and hang the payload from a number of points around the net, using kite string of sufficient length to accommodate to the expansion of the balloon.
Why could the balloon itself not transmit the stabilization moment? (Assuming the avionics package was tethered from a fixed point at the base of the balloon and the launch platform similar at a fixed point at the top of the balloon. (Or from similarly fixed points on a net surrounding the balloon.))
Or do you mean by "statically unstable" that "it would wobble a bit"? Surely less so than the currently proposed truss arrangement that will be swinging in the wind and blasted in every direction by the rocket launch.
So long as the tethered avionic package is significantly heavier than the rocket then LOHAN should be pointing mostly up all of the time. That's more than the truss can ever offer, plus there'll be no need to avoid the balloon at launch.
Why not launch LOHAN straight up from the TOP of the balloon? Thusly:
.....^.....
....| |.... - Lohan
.OOO.
OOOO - Balloon
.OOO.
.....|.....
.....|..... - cable
.....|.....
===== - avioncs
The teathered avionics should provide enough counterweight to ensure LOHAN is pointed and launched upwards. No worries about twisting effects or icing (or weight!) from the truss/rod arrangement.
Obviously some sort of net would be needed around the balloon to support the launch platform on the vastly expanding balloon. Easily tested on the ground, I'd've thought.
Why not launch LOHAN straight up from the TOP of the balloon? Thusly:
^
| | - Lohan
OOO
OOOO - Balloon
OOO
|
| - cable
|
===== - avioncs
The teathered avionics should provide enough counterweight to ensure LOHAN is pointed and launched upwards. No worries about twisting effects or icing (or weight!) from the truss/rod arrangement.
Obviously some sort of net would be needed around the balloon to support the launch platform on the vastly expanding balloon. Easily tested on the ground, I'd've thought.
I suspect that the main motivation behind the points listed (multiple choice versus written answers, etc.) was to make the exams easier to mark rather than to be easier to pass. If we return to the older/harder style then the the exam boards are going to have to dump their automated marking computers and/or stop outsourcing the work to unqualified 3rd world sweatshop workers.
And elsewhere we learn that Microsoft has just entered a $300 million e-reader partnership with B&N. No doubt that'll go as well as there partnership with Nokia. Hopes Amazon.
Amazon should buy the whole B&N business. Merge the Nook and Kindle ranges. Use the shops as pick-up points for internet orders (since UPS/DHL/etc will never deliver when someone is at home) as well as showrooms for books and e-readers/tablets as at present. Personally I prefer the ambiance of a bookstore to to that of an Apple store. If Amazon bought B&N, they'd instantly have a physical presence to rival Apple.
That deals with rocket blowing the truss backwards, but increases the risk of LOHAN sticking - since she's now being penetrated by two rods rather than one. (snarf.)
I think LOHAN sticking is as big a potential problem as LOHAN pushing the truss backwards. If she sticks she'll pull the truss forwards and launch directly at the balloon, or even spin round and round like a high-altitude catherine-wheel.
Is El Reg suggesting that the iPad and other Apple products are not actually "Designed in California" but rather in Taiwan? Or that Foxconn are also selling iPads under their own name?
Foxconn are just, like, making things for Apple, right?
I know it's probably meant it as a throw-away joke, but there's got to be some logic to it, doesn't there?
Ms Noname might win or lose this case, but FB are cruising for a bruising with this non-permitted photo usage. Just imagine - and I'm not suggesting anyone tries this - but just imagine you create a FB profile in the name of Someone Famous, and set the profile picture to be of that Someone Famous, and then you click on a bunch of Like links using this profile. The FB PHP script will then grind into action and Someone Famous will be seen endorsing a bunch of products without their knowledge. And you can be pretty sure that Someone Famous will have some mighty expensive lawyers who will slap Mr Zuckerberg around the court for doing so. Can't happen soon enough.
Siri is that evil computer. She's recognized that Woz's question is stupid, checked his chubbiness, reviewed his tastes in restaurants via his credit card history, and therefore suggested he might be happier tucking into a steak.
> Apple's proposed card is the same length as the width of current micro SIMs
Good grief, so they're really just making it thinner? WTF? Do we really need to be worrying about slimming down by fractions of a millimetre when we don't even have batteries that last through a day?
Not really. The Beeb chap (Ros Atkins) reports the "claims" fairly sceptically, finishing with "if you ask me I think he probably just spend some time on his PC with some video editing software".
Of course, if you didn't register these words then it's likely that most others won't either, but I can't really blame the Beeb for that. A viral video fake is about as newsworthy as a skateboarding duck.
The figures are probably screwed up by people like me who have an Apple TV (2nd Gen), Popcorn Hour and a WD TV Live. (In different rooms.)
Hmm. I suppose that does give Apple about 33% market share in our household.
If you're interested, the WD has impressed me most with price/performance. Seems to play everything I throw at it.
Prices for film streaming from Apple are just plain silly. Who wants to pay DVD prices for 2 days permission to watch? With the risk of buffering pauses thrown in.
So, they were forced to give the Chinese workers more money when details of the low pay, bad conditions and child labour got out, so now they're moving to the Philippines to exploit their workers in the same way ... and, erm, we're supposed to not notice this time ... ?
Or do they figure it will be a few years before we find out, and then they can move on elsewhere?
I'm impressed that they managed to find so many young people with IT skills beyond the usage of Word and Excel which is all they appear to teach at school today.
Now that these talented exceptions have been successfully removed from the employment market, this senior softy feels slightly more secure in his job. Thank you FBI et al.!
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Re: I wonder
> it looks like it totally blinds the driver.
So it should stop hit-and-runs then. Another win!
Re: We've become innured.
Sorry, I went into a bit of a daydream there ... imagining watching Into The Blue in Holo TV.
Playmobil Reconstruction?
Or at least a quote from the Vulture 1 pilot?
Re: The true price
If it gets to $0.01 we'll be told that it was our pension fund money that was "invested" in it.
Gah!
That screen would be nice to watch a DVD or BluRay disk on. Oh hang on, it doesn't have an optical drive.
WTF are they thinking of? Do they really think they are so ahead of their time that DVD/BD have died as a media format? That everyone has already dumped their collections? That low cost, high bandwidth mobile HD video streaming technology has become ubiquitous?
What is this "Planet Future" they come from?
I also read that the next MacBook Pro is going to be yet another stupid super-skinny laptop with no optical drive. That makes it a MacBook Air you morons!
Gah! Simply: Gah!
> The problem with mounting the stuff on top is that the balloon swells as it ascends.
That's why I suggested using a net. The net would be (ideally) circular and able to contain (say) the top 25% of the balloon at full size. You'd fix the launch platform to the net, put the balloon under the net, and hang the payload from a number of points around the net, using kite string of sufficient length to accommodate to the expansion of the balloon.
So, at launch, something like this:
.....^.....
....| |.... - rocket
..===.. - launch platform
.####.
##### - balloon in net
#####
|....|....|
|....|....|
|....|....|
|....|....|
\....|..../
.|...|...|.
.|...|...|.
.|...|...|.
.|...|...|. - strings from net to avionics
..\..|../..
..|..|..|..
..|..|..|..
..|..|..|..
..|..|..|..
..|..|..|..
...\.|./...
...|.|.|...
...|.|.|...
...|.|.|...
...|.|.|...
....\|/....
.....|.....
===== - avionics
And at high altitude, something like this:
.........................................^.........................................
........................................| | ......- rocket ...................
......................................===.....- launch platform...
.......................###############..........................
...............######################...-net .......
............/OOOO|OOOOO|OOOO|OOOO\................
...........|OOOO|OOOOO|OOOO|OOOOO| - strings
...........|OOOO|OOOOO|OOOO|OOOOO|... enclosing
...........|OOOO|OOOOO|OOOO|OOOOO|.... balloon
............\OOOO|OOOOO|OOOO|OOOO/................
..............\OOO|OOOOO|OOOO|OOOO/.................
................\OOO\OOOO|OOOO/OOOO/..................
...................\...OO\OOO|OOO/OOO.../.....................
......................\.........\....O|O..../........../........................
..........................\.......\.....|...../......../............................
...............................\ ....\..|.../..../..................................
....................................\.\.|././.......................................
.......................................\|/..........................................
........................................|...........................................
...................................===== - avionics .................
Why could the balloon itself not transmit the stabilization moment? (Assuming the avionics package was tethered from a fixed point at the base of the balloon and the launch platform similar at a fixed point at the top of the balloon. (Or from similarly fixed points on a net surrounding the balloon.))
Or do you mean by "statically unstable" that "it would wobble a bit"? Surely less so than the currently proposed truss arrangement that will be swinging in the wind and blasted in every direction by the rocket launch.
So long as the tethered avionic package is significantly heavier than the rocket then LOHAN should be pointing mostly up all of the time. That's more than the truss can ever offer, plus there'll be no need to avoid the balloon at launch.
LOHAN On Top?
Why not launch LOHAN straight up from the TOP of the balloon? Thusly:
.....^.....
....| |.... - Lohan
.OOO.
OOOO - Balloon
.OOO.
.....|.....
.....|..... - cable
.....|.....
===== - avioncs
The teathered avionics should provide enough counterweight to ensure LOHAN is pointed and launched upwards. No worries about twisting effects or icing (or weight!) from the truss/rod arrangement.
Obviously some sort of net would be needed around the balloon to support the launch platform on the vastly expanding balloon. Easily tested on the ground, I'd've thought.
Let's try that ASCII art again:
Why not launch LOHAN straight up from the TOP of the balloon? Thusly:
.....^.....
....| |.... - Lohan
.OOO.
OOOO - Balloon
.OOO.
.....|.....
.....|..... - cable
.....|.....
===== - avioncs
Why not launch LOHAN straight up from the TOP of the balloon? Thusly:
^
| | - Lohan
OOO
OOOO - Balloon
OOO
|
| - cable
|
===== - avioncs
The teathered avionics should provide enough counterweight to ensure LOHAN is pointed and launched upwards. No worries about twisting effects or icing (or weight!) from the truss/rod arrangement.
Obviously some sort of net would be needed around the balloon to support the launch platform on the vastly expanding balloon. Easily tested on the ground, I'd've thought.
IrfanView?
IrfanView is a great little picture viewer/modifier.
It'll never get to market ...
... because of the round corners.
Child Labour at the Mother of Parliament?
So who's that young lad in the picture with Her Maj? Looks to be of school age to me, so why's he not at school?
Re: Ivybridge
I'm absolutely holding out for Stoneybridge.
It's near the Yetts of Muckhart.
"We wrote this. You're reading it."
Yebbut, to be honest, neither of us was terribly interested. It ain't working.
Re: Erm...
> Eierkopf!
That'd be "bollockhead", Shirley?
(But if the hat fits ...)
Easier for Whom?
I suspect that the main motivation behind the points listed (multiple choice versus written answers, etc.) was to make the exams easier to mark rather than to be easier to pass. If we return to the older/harder style then the the exam boards are going to have to dump their automated marking computers and/or stop outsourcing the work to unqualified 3rd world sweatshop workers.
It's gonna cost.
Re: Merge the Nook and Kindle
Or Noodle?
Re: Amazon Should Buy B&N
And elsewhere we learn that Microsoft has just entered a $300 million e-reader partnership with B&N. No doubt that'll go as well as there partnership with Nokia. Hopes Amazon.
Amazon Should Buy B&N
Amazon should buy the whole B&N business. Merge the Nook and Kindle ranges. Use the shops as pick-up points for internet orders (since UPS/DHL/etc will never deliver when someone is at home) as well as showrooms for books and e-readers/tablets as at present. Personally I prefer the ambiance of a bookstore to to that of an Apple store. If Amazon bought B&N, they'd instantly have a physical presence to rival Apple.
Re: Please not Gore
But he invented the Internet, didn't he?
Re: How about this ?
That deals with rocket blowing the truss backwards, but increases the risk of LOHAN sticking - since she's now being penetrated by two rods rather than one. (snarf.)
I think LOHAN sticking is as big a potential problem as LOHAN pushing the truss backwards. If she sticks she'll pull the truss forwards and launch directly at the balloon, or even spin round and round like a high-altitude catherine-wheel.
Bouffant?
Boris doesn't have a bouffant, he has a gummidge.
Challenging my arse
> Elop describing the UK market as "challenging"
Or rather the UK market describing Elop's strategy as "deluded".
Have I Got This Right?
Murdoch is shopping his partners-in-crime in order to avoid charges for initiating the said crimes?!
Is he really going to get away with this?!
"Foxconn-rebrander"?
Is El Reg suggesting that the iPad and other Apple products are not actually "Designed in California" but rather in Taiwan? Or that Foxconn are also selling iPads under their own name?
Foxconn are just, like, making things for Apple, right?
I know it's probably meant it as a throw-away joke, but there's got to be some logic to it, doesn't there?
Cruising for a Bruising
Ms Noname might win or lose this case, but FB are cruising for a bruising with this non-permitted photo usage. Just imagine - and I'm not suggesting anyone tries this - but just imagine you create a FB profile in the name of Someone Famous, and set the profile picture to be of that Someone Famous, and then you click on a bunch of Like links using this profile. The FB PHP script will then grind into action and Someone Famous will be seen endorsing a bunch of products without their knowledge. And you can be pretty sure that Someone Famous will have some mighty expensive lawyers who will slap Mr Zuckerberg around the court for doing so. Can't happen soon enough.
I thought that too. Perhaps it also explains why Toshiba's "Oblong" was actually not oblong but oval.
Re: It is official
Yeah, well, the Chinese might have done it, but I expect it was Murdoch who paid them to do it.
Re: They did this in Star Trek
Siri is that evil computer. She's recognized that Woz's question is stupid, checked his chubbiness, reviewed his tastes in restaurants via his credit card history, and therefore suggested he might be happier tucking into a steak.
New Request Methods?
In addition to HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, etc., I guess we'll also have EMBRACE, EXTEND and EXTINGUISH.
What could go wrong?
What could go right? You could sell a lot of shortbread, haggis, whisky and tartan to the USA.
> Apple's proposed card is the same length as the width of current micro SIMs
Good grief, so they're really just making it thinner? WTF? Do we really need to be worrying about slimming down by fractions of a millimetre when we don't even have batteries that last through a day?
Re: The BBC's been duped!
Not really. The Beeb chap (Ros Atkins) reports the "claims" fairly sceptically, finishing with "if you ask me I think he probably just spend some time on his PC with some video editing software".
Of course, if you didn't register these words then it's likely that most others won't either, but I can't really blame the Beeb for that. A viral video fake is about as newsworthy as a skateboarding duck.
Fake
I call "fake".
Where's the beef?
What assets have been mismanaged here? And how?
Do some real reporting, Reg, and go find the facts in this story.
Ooh, that was a bum pun!
I was there
Had a test drive in a Renault Twizy. It was wonderful fun. If they would drop (or at least lower) the battery rental costs, I'd buy one in a flash.
Pots and Kettles
While we're on the subject of artificially lifting the price of ebooks, HM Revenue & Customs decision to levy VAT on ebooks didn't help here either.
The European Commission should maybe take some action nearer at home before having a go at Apple. Or ideally at the same time as.
(Although I fear the "solution" found would be to levy VAT on dead-tree books too.)
> I seriously doubt anyone has written the core of a virus in Ada.
Well, you would say that, wouldn't you?
> Are you being paid by MS you shill?
Unlikely, given that several of his previous posts are also anti-MS. (See the Metro story comments.)
Memory Price Pain
I can buy a 16GB microSDHC card on Amazon for $6 and yet Apple are stll charging $100 for each 16GB step on the iPad.
Now I can accept some level of price gouging, but this is getting beyond a joke.
You might be better with XBMC.
Re: I don't trust those figures
The figures are probably screwed up by people like me who have an Apple TV (2nd Gen), Popcorn Hour and a WD TV Live. (In different rooms.)
Hmm. I suppose that does give Apple about 33% market share in our household.
If you're interested, the WD has impressed me most with price/performance. Seems to play everything I throw at it.
Prices for film streaming from Apple are just plain silly. Who wants to pay DVD prices for 2 days permission to watch? With the risk of buffering pauses thrown in.
Selective Racism?
So, they were forced to give the Chinese workers more money when details of the low pay, bad conditions and child labour got out, so now they're moving to the Philippines to exploit their workers in the same way ... and, erm, we're supposed to not notice this time ... ?
Or do they figure it will be a few years before we find out, and then they can move on elsewhere?
How do these people think?
Your mum's inbox is so fat (continued page 94 )
I'm Impressed
I'm impressed that they managed to find so many young people with IT skills beyond the usage of Word and Excel which is all they appear to teach at school today.
Now that these talented exceptions have been successfully removed from the employment market, this senior softy feels slightly more secure in his job. Thank you FBI et al.!
So?
2 out of 3 anti-malware scanners for any OS are not up to the job. This is what they call "industry standard", Shirley?
Re: If ...
I'd call it "Curtains".
If ...
If all applications have to run full screen then why is it still called "Windows"?
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