ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Can’t they just stick some more RAM in the old one and defrag the hard drive?

Its not even five years old, and cost £96million...and now they are going to splash out another £1.2billion on a new one!

Old computer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29789208

New one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51504002


How many rivers could be dredged with £1.296billion ?

IdonthaveaScooby

Isn’t the problem further upstream

Tidgy

in high end computing its well into end of life, whole architecture will be different and i expect the current one is already maxed as much as it can be

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Cryocool it and overclock it?



Seriously, I don’t need a billion quid computer to tell you the weather: Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy with a p*ssy weather front coming down from the north.

Tidgy

its all about modeling weather patterns

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

They’d be better off drawing the patterns with a spirograph

LewisScoob

iTrader: (5)

You'd have to stop them eating the crayons first!

Tidgy

prob more accurate,,,, pmsl

BMWhere?

I bet you're the first to complain when a storm hits and and nobody warned you!

andy97

iTrader: (1)

Just ask the lady who told Michael Fish.

Just look out of the windows at the horizon, that will tell you the weather for most of the day.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Nope I complain about people who moan about the weather!

JackClark

Foggy with a chance of anything.

Dr Hu

Well the BBC don't buy their Weather from the Met Office any more - it went out to tender and they awarded it to MeteoGroup - a European Weather Agency. So the Weather Forecasts you see on the News is not MetOffice data.
Why in sweet jesus' name a publicly funded UK Weather Group (the Met Office - considered the best in the World!) can't supply data to a UK Publicly Funded Broadcaster (BBC) using British technology and British Public Funds, lets keep the money within the country/treasury 'ey boys! - feckin boils my sodding ****.....
Annnnnd Breeaathe......

Roll on Brexit

IdonthaveaScooby

Yes indeed , we should stop Surviving on French electric supply and regain our fishing licenses that we flogged to the Spanish

roll on brexit !

BMWhere?

Beggars belief as MeteoGroup actually buy some of their services from the Met Office!

Apparently the Met Office not only used to provide the weather data to the BBC, but also the presenting staff. When the BBC switched to MeteoGroup, they got a cheaper forecast based on Met Office data, but no presenters, so the BBC had to then employ the presenters from the Met Office. So there is probably no net saving for the BBC and the BBC will also have to take on the costs of training any new presenters.

Probably some stupid accountant just looked at the numbers without comparing the services being provided!

lozgti1

I love the weather forecasts on the radio news. 'Sunny in Ireland and a bit of rain in Edinburgh and the rest of you can just guess'

No one will ever tell the future, computer or not. Just give us a best guesstimate

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Sunny showers is code for it’ll probably rain, but then again it may not.

And generally speaking that is British weather. Golf brolly (Don’t play golf...was given it went I went round the Bentley factory in Crewe ) and storm proof winter 3in1 coat lives in my car.

In winter it also had a folding shovel and tow rope dumped in there....which I never needed, even during the ‘beast from the east’ when I had Pilot sport 3s with less than 3mm of tread and was forced to use side roads due to plebs getting stuck and blocking the main roads. All the weather warnings did was make all the office desk drivers panicky, so they all finish work early and all and try to race home at the same time causing chaos. The fact they still went to work despite plenty of warning in cars not equipped and no ability to drive in snow kind of proves that regardless of how advanced or accurate the warning is, it will cause chaos...you’ll still get stuck in snow, or get blocked in by someone who gets stuck and if your house is in lowlands and flood planes it will still flood.

lozgti1

Result! Lucky sod. Tour and the brolly

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

I could have had a road test if I brought my driver’s license

Got to be taken for spin by one of the stability/handling engineers instead (who owns a original BMW 3000cs)...which was probably more interesting as he could show the how the various systems affected the ride and handling...

Also answered my question and showed me what happens if you press the parking brake button whilst driving

lozgti1

They sound like a pretty fine bunch!

What happens if you press it? lol

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Activates the brake assist and does a full-on emergency stop

lozgti1

Head kisses dashboard.lol