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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by LP -
Managing the pill is a big part of cricket, and being able to swing or seam the pill is a big part of cricket.

I'd assert the majority of the cheats aren't people who can and do swing or seam the pill, it's likely the duds who bowl a million miles an hour and barely get it off straight!

As for bowling fast, it's not the thing that determines effectiveness. Terry Aldermann, Max Walker and Gary Gilmore weren't express, Aldermann wasn't particularly quick at all, and they often had batsmen in knots. In his later years, Lillee had lost 10 - 15kph, but was a better bowler because he could do it all. McGrath was a good 15 - 20 kph slower than Starc, and a better bowler in my opinion.

The spuds you hear commenting about conditions not suiting bowlers, most likely batsmen, they have NFI! Blokes like Aldermann and Hadlee could move the ball in any conditions on any surface.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Lods -
Looks like the planes are right to go again....but it's going to take some time to clear the backlog.

Two eevents may be a coincidence...lets see whether anything a bit strange happens in the next few days.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by Thryleon -
Id be more inclined to green light whatever they want.

Think about it, you level the playing field and ability becomes the difference maker again.

Its not like a performance enhancement here, its level playing field.  Let them take screw drivers to the thing if needed.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: Lods – on
Strange going ons.... ::)

Worldwide Microsoft outage yesterday.
All flights in the USA grounded today.

id say that the events may have some correlation.

I.e.  communication issues with emails out, meant that my job became more inefficient. I couldnt communicate without a call (normally a quick message and move on) and it also meant we couldnt get written confirmation about permission back to perform any tasks, lodge change forms with peer review as sharepoint was impacted, and we could get them signed off at the client either.

It meant delay, not end, which is likely why flights are grounded.  Too much air traffic and one method of transmitting data via secure messaging impacted significantly means its likely a check and balance cant be performed.

Id say the Microsoft outage could be cyber terrorism but thats a sliding scale of things.  More likely not given the timing. Microsoft patch Tuesday just happened.  Internet facing servers require patching within 48 hours which times nicely with the beginning of the outage.  Odds are their patch impacted exchange servers adversely and here we are.  I count 6 times in the last 12 months a monthly patched released has caused some sort of service degradation in many walks of life.

The only alternative is an sftp but even those usually email upon success and failure so you can get a notification.   Id say thats likely why flights were grounded as a precaution given a check couldnt ensure safety and now a review of alternative means of doing something will be sought. 

The systems that drive our lives are generally antiquated under the hood.  They'll be legacy Unix systems that just keep performing the task with a gui on top to implement the bells and whistles.