Reply to: It's that time of year - I need ideas for my PLAN B.

[GJABS]

For a plan B, I think with your hairy outer, and apparently motile tongue, some ladies might hire you as an escort for some monkey business?

[tomtomagain]

Why didn't your last Plan B work? What was it and why did it fail?

[BR14]

It's why you look like the ******* elephant man.

Only joking, never met you.

I did do a bit of software for the nuclear industry, apparently it took 5 years to finalise the requirements document and then they wanted the system written in 3 months.

nae borra, - i was an engineer before i got into IT.
worked for the DSIR
long time ago, etc etc

[woohoo]

No doubt it was the safety system which will now be offshored to the cheapest bidder who makes BobShawadiwadi look like NickFitz.....

Luckily for everyone it was to do with long term management of the surrounding area rather than anything crucial to the plant itself.

[BrilloPad]

I did do a bit of software for the nuclear industry, apparently it took 5 years to finalise the requirements document and then they wanted the system written in 3 months.

No doubt it was the safety system which will now be offshored to the cheapest bidder who makes BobShawadiwadi look like NickFitz.....

[woohoo]

Is that why i glow at night?

It's why you look like the ******* elephant man.

Only joking, never met you.

I did do a bit of software for the nuclear industry, apparently it took 5 years to finalise the requirements document and then they wanted the system written in 3 months.

[BR14]

not me, - i worked in one a very long time ago.

Is that why i glow at night?

[BR14]

Sadly so does the whole of the UK.

not me, - i worked in one a very long time ago.

[PhiltheGreek]

If I had the time (and money, TBH) I'd be trying to develop a small robot using AI to identify pests such as caterpillars and beetles on plants in a greenhouse and then destroy them or suck them into a hopper.

Sounds pretty low key and niche, but when used commercially it could literally revolutionise agriculture by avoiding the need for pesticides and would make the patent owner millions.

Something that would let Charles spend more time in the house?

[BR14]

How about jumping on the bandwagon, and introducing your own cryptocurrency? I'm sure scooter will invest....

or a library app ??

[greenlake]

It's that time of year - I need ideas for my PLAN B.

How about jumping on the bandwagon, and introducing your own cryptocurrency? I'm sure scooter will invest....

[OwlHoot]

Right I know you are making a joke but when I first started driving around the continent I used to panic about filling up.

I would have defo paid a pound for a vr app that had all the different types and their translations.

Something like a topless Helga showing the vr viewer how to fill her up, the car I mean.

I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to develop a tiny Bluetooth Low-Energy gadget with a micro-spectrometer you could stick to the inside of a car's fuel inlet, to trigger a warning alarm in the car if it detected the wrong kind of fuel starting to be poured.

Come to think of it, garages have number plate recognition systems. So why can't the garage do a check to see what type of fuel the car takes and warn you if you unhook the wrong nozzle!

(It would have to be advisory, asking you to press a button on the keypad to confirm, because for example you might be driving a petrol car but wanting to fill a can of diesel for some other vehicle.)

[BrilloPad]

Unfortunately I have limited knowledge with nuclear power stations.

Sadly so does the whole of the UK.

[OwlHoot]

So go on and patent it !!! AFAIK, you don't have to construct it and make it work in order to file the patent.

I think with something like that you need a working prototype.

Otherwise you could just patent a 3D human organ printer or some similar "aspirational" device that might take decades to realise (and having been patented in abstract would deprive anyone of the financial incentive to actually develop one that worked).

[woohoo]

more nuclear power stations etc.

but yes using TV's could be a use case.

Unfortunately I have limited knowledge with nuclear power stations.