Poul-Henning Kamp

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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »Another shakeout of something like this would be in image processing and graphics; photoshop would remain a bit of a novelty[…]« Sorry, you lost me there ? If the premise is that we rewind to 1995, and all tech-promises magically...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »Every city was a microclimate.« It does not have to be a city to have micro climate, any variation in landscape which affects the low winds create a micro climate. A coastal cliff 8-10m tall will create a very distinct...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »In some ways I wonder if the choice to convert to lithium batteries as energy storage rather than hydrogen and fuel cells was because the cobalt, tantalum, lithium, and rare earths« I can guarantee you that it is not. Hydrogen...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »...finely etched upon goldleaf ribbon tape for indefinitely long storage? not magnetic but etched... will survive anything short of blowtorching...« It's been tried, but it is easily strechable, which why gold-leaf can be "painted" onto pretty much any shape, so...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  You're welcome. Many if my USAnian friends get really uncomfortable about that sketch, when I remind them about it before elections. (File removed)...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  try: http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/SNL-Al-Gore-5-14-06.wmv (I'll delete it again in some hours)...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »what of every New Yorker's nightmare, 11 SEP 2001? « Well, if all the promises of 1995 held, the president would have been Al Gore, so things would have been somewhat different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suv1hcBA3PY...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  »NC was Sun trying to colonize the PC landscape[…]« Not quite. NC was an Oracle idea to out-compete IBM mainframes, DB2 and 3270 with Sun servers, Oracle DB and thin graphical clients running a stripped and locked down FreeBSD. Sun...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »I am interested in what that own-goal is. Easy to assume regulatory capture, is that it?« If the public noticed that the PLD was being revised, they would surely ask their politicians to tighten the screws, for instance demanding longer...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »I bet the insane growth of Novo Nordisk is creating a few issues.« Not really ? Our laws already have geographical equalization measures because of companies like MÆRSK, Lego, Danfoss etc. Re: zoning. Yes, nobody can force you to build,...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  PS: Tomorrow the SCOTUS will hear arguments in "23-175 City of Grants Pass, Oregon vs. Gloria Johnson" to decide if banning involuntary homeless from sleeping under a blanket is "Cruel and unjust punishment"....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »Scandinavian housing policies« I can help you as far as Denmark. Building permits in Denmark expire, but it is up to the granting authority to decide how soon. One year to start construction and three years to complete it is...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »The Sci-Fi answer would be to run those exhaust vents all the way up to the top of the nearby sky-scrapers like chimneys« Vertial right-of-way in New York is so expensive, that companies buy $75K Cesium clocks with 10 year...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »I foresee a rash of preventative bankruptcies of companies that have sold internet-of-things devices within the EU.« If you think EUrocrats are that dense, think again :-)...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »...and testing regarded as the unloved orphan child of software development« That is about to change. EU is revising the 40 year old Product Liability Directive, the text fell into place last month, now awaiting only the council's vote, where...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »the idea that a building is sovereign territory of some other country is very recent, historically speaking.« It was gradual, it started with reliable mail delivery and a "consul" who was subject to the host nations laws, but treated as...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »COVID19 dropped life expectancy in the developed world by more than 24 months.« I can recommend this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01450-3 The arrow-plot on pdf page 3 makes it very obvious that the really important factor is the health-care system. A well...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »About 30-35 years ago I went all in on X-10 remote controls for lights and such in a house.« We built a new house 8 years ago, being in the IT/Security field nothing "smart" was allowed near it. The heatpump...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »IBM doesn't seem to have suffered any reputational damage from renting out the machines that ran the camps…« … because they also rented out the machines used to keep track of all the japanese citizens USA put in concentration camps,...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »Nation-states don't have immunity« I didn't say "immunity", I said "impunity"....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »There's a difference between complying with legal requirements -- if necessary going to court to clarify their lawfulness -- and bending over backwards to help an oppressive regime.« Yes. And that difference is, and always have been, »what makes the...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »But you need to recognize that if Apple bends over for the US government or the EU, then they've got no easy excuse for not bending over for China or India or J. Random Kleptocracy to demand spyware and backdoors...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  There was an obscure danish band called "Strange Party Orchestra", given your list, you might like them....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »I'm fairly sure that Shakespeare failing on his own works is an old Asimov short story. « "The Imortal Bard"...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that bleed air from the turbine compressor is a great way to aerosolize a high vapour pressure oily liquid« No, you need far higher pressure and, easier to fix, much lower...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »its stall speed is something like 7 knots« One of my friends grew up on an airbase, got his certificate as a teenager. One sunday he took one of the trainers up in a good wind, throttled way down and...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »Javier was working to a brief handed to him« Ohh, I'm not blaming him at all, he clearly gets The Laundry, it was precisely the US production-oids I was commenting on. The only "real" movie-person I know once lamented, that...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  »So it's probably a good thing it never got made.« Talk about dumbing down......
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  »More fun from the Dali: for one, Maersk has a policy that NO ONE is to tell the authorities of problems.« First: All shipping companies have that policy, because all harbors are /very/ corrupt, so revealing anything which could give...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  »Um, nope. NO HAZMATS in tunnels.« That's not nearly as universal as you seem to think. I can easily imagine why older tunnels may have that restriction, but modern tunnels seldom do....