Posts by Chris G

Re: I want

I have a '92 Discovery, It flies through it's emissions test, requires simple maintenance and is reasonably economical, it is also built like a tank, is comfortable to drive and will go up any of the caminos and mountainsides where I live.

I doubt very much if any of the current 'connected' vehicles coming out today will ever become classics or last as long, partly because the support for the software and even the spares for modern cars will have a relatively short and predetermined life. Because consumerism requires that you should keep buying a new car every few years and modern culture and marketing insists on them be forever updated whether they need it or not.

A good deal of the way electronics and software is planned and designed into cars, while useful to the owner is to help ensure obsolescence and to keep you interested in buying the latest thing.

Such drones have also become a tool of a certain type of journalist and paparazzi, and they don't respect anyone or their privacy.

In Sony's defence, I have to say their cameras are excellent, I have used some of their DSLRs and a couple of the professional video cameras and was very impressed on how good they made my amateur skills look.

Sony camera drones are not likely to be affordable for the average idiot who would abuse such a thing and a serious drone operator would value the drone enough to not risk losing it.

Re: Hmm ...

And of course Ms Turing is definitely not some kind of bunny boiler.

You may be thinking of this: https://pneumatic.tube/the-pneumatic-railway-in-the-grounds-of-the-crystal-palace

Re: This is my own brand. Tres Comas.

Tres comas is basically Eat three.

Re: USA...

If BJ's friend has anything to do with it, the US will be too busy fighting in the courts and the streets for the foreseeable future before the overgrown orange rugrat is dragged kicking and screaming from the White House.

Guns, bullets and popcorn are becoming hard to buy.

Re: a scam

So pretty much like everywhere else in the world that doesn't have legislation to prevent that.

In the UK the full price must have been posted at least 28 days before it can be quoted as the 'full price' in a sale. At least that was the case when I lived there, it may have changed since then.

You have written pretty much what I was thinking.

Though I do use Google maps there are alternatives and a cloudy freeby like drive is essential to remove not add to your app list.

Re: prevent key tech?

It turns young people and others into vacuous,shuffle dancers, whose only aim in life is to assault the world with 30 second bites in the hope they will achieve fame and total vacuity.

It's become remarkably successful in a very short amount of time and poses a threat to America's dominance in the mental vacuum industry.

Nothing should be allowed to overshadow Twitter!

Re: The elephant in the room

Making coffee is complicated.

Apparently!

Google may have been caught not respecting the policies they pubish but those are not necessarily the policies they operate under.

They should be broken up to make way for someone else to slurp our data!

Isolation

Two weeks locked in a flat in Hull along with a case of Budweiser and any random internet influencer will reduce it to totally sterile and harmless.

Re: Simpler alternatives

Make sandwiches with Dwarf bread, that way you will always have a sandwich and it will double as a self defence item in times of trouble.

Also eco friendly as it will never be thrown away.

Re: WTF is up with Bing?

Bing,Yahoo and Duck Duck Go are all poor, DDG because it seems to be so US centric.

Google is also poor because even though my IP address makes it clear where I am, every search results in a deluge of ads and sales related items no matter how I phrase a search.

Google's BERT is designed to parse a search to return maximum ad potential for them not relevant results for the user.

The competition needs to up its game and Google needs to be more honest but I won't be holding my breath.

The caste system in India is tantamount to a system of apartheid it has and is holding back the development if India, as well as discriminating against 200 million Indians.

The problem is caste discrimination is not currently recognised under equality laws as they stand.

Re: What about multiple languages?

Odd that the article doesn't mention Spanish, there are around 120000 Spanish nationals living and working in the UK and I assume many others whose first language is Spanish from the Americas.

20T?

More like 36000Kg, or 40 US tons.

It would be interesting to see an autonomous vehicle performing an emergency stop on a wet or icy surface with an odd camber on a bend, particularly if it begins to jack knife . A challenge for a human driver but a human can read all the variables without necessarily having them pre-programmed, a robot will only be as good as the program.

It predates the nineties by centuries.

Think of any empire in the past, due to the inherent latencies that prevent instant command, all of the disparate parts would need to act semi autonamously for the benefit of the whole.

That would apply to armies in the field or local administration.

A slightly more modern situation isvthat of many shop chains where individual managers were better placed to apply strategies that suited any given shop according to its locale and demographics

Re: Lorryload of Hay

Mr NotSpartacus. Are you taking the p*ss?

Re: Rather you than me

My grandad always reckoned ' If you have nothing useful to say, say nothing'.

Of course that never applies to consultants who want you to pay huge amounts of money to them to spout endless streams of meaningless buzzwords at you.

Re: Huawei's going on

Probably, you can expect in the not too far distant future, that UMC will be winning contracts in the US in lieu of mainland Chinese businesses.

The DOJ initiated the case and they were found guilty so some kind of penalty had to be levied but due to the developing distance between the US ad PRC, reasonably amicable relationships need to be maintained with alternatives.

Re: 16 knots - are they mad?

Slow moving robots are easy, a handful of iron filings and a water pistol full of peroxide; instant rust!

Everyone should keep these itemw handy.

Re: I want to believe

There are many bosses and other high executiv who should be thaniful that password entry doesn't require joined up writing.

Re: AirBnB property owners...

"new furniture and carpets"

Presumably only from the B'n'B store.