Posts by Mage

Re: UK already had on the books

But refused to apply them to UK controlled territories such as IoM, Channel Is, and the Overseas Territories. Also refused to put them all into UK Law. The EU agreements applied till 31st December 2020 and the UK was in violation, even for IoM and Channel Is. Also even the US has fined UK Finance operating out of the City of London.

The other alternative for Tory & Rich People led Brexit is total stupidity if it's not about Banking & Finance. If you look at the names of big donors and supporters to Brexit etc, are they people wanting the best for Joe Public, or people with Offshoring, tax avoidance, Hedge Funds and wanting Currency speculation. We won't say actual tax evasion and money laundering, but…

Re: a boundary in the Irish Sea.

And one between GB and Gibraltar!

Imagine if UK had agreed that Irish Gov would manage all NI airports and ports?

UK Sovereignty.

Yet Spain is to manage Gibraltar's Port and Airport. They are joining Schengen, so an even closer EU relationship than NI & EU. Talk of the fence between Spain and Gibraltar being removed.

Meanwhile some companies with European or Irish HQs in Ireland have moved to Jersey. The UK isn't implementing much of the banking, tax and transparency stuff agreed by 2016, and even made law in Switzerland in 2019 and 2020. I can't see the EU adding Finance & Banking to the trade deal when the UK was already in default over Channel Is, IoM, Cayman, Bermuda and British Virgin Islands etc.

Even Singapore & Panama are going to reform. Luxembourg, Monaco etc have reformed. The Dutch-Irish Sandwich is history.

UK is set to be the Money laundering, offshoring and tax evasion capital of the world. Already diverged on EU standards. That's what UK excels at, so perhaps the goods exports to EU won't diverge.

Farage and the Brexiteers wanted to attack and split EU. Seems they are splitting the Union and also Gibraltar (which is a colony or Overseas Territory, like IoM and Channel Is, doesn't return MPs and isn't in the UK) from England and Wales.

Apple Car

Any colour as long as it's white.

Only authorised Apple service.

Only Apple charging points.

Rounded corners.

A notch out of each window.

No sockets inside.

Only Apple tyres.

Special tools for newly invented head profile on all the bolts.

Glue anywhere possible instead of screws, poppers, clips or bolts.

No door key, use an iPhone or Apple watch.

No main key.

No buttons or knobs, only touch panels.

No steering wheel, gestures instead.

No door handles to spoil the smooth lines, use touch gestures.

Air jets instead of ugly wipers on the windscreen.

No mirrors, only cameras.

You've to buy a different version for a bigger battery pack with longer range.

Also twice as expensive as the most expensive electric cars.

Re: Good Move

For Microsoft's Azure.

But for retail Laptops etc etc for windows you need x86, or else you might as well go Apple ARM or Linux ARM.

My coat used to have one of the first ARM pocket laptops, the N9210i.

Re: 12 inch CDs?

You can still buy new single play steel needles. It was used for about 60 years but even in 1930s the deluxe models playing a stack, or even able to play both sides of a stack used sapphire or diamond.

You can get a stylus for almost any pickup, except the suitcase style junk in the supermarket todat, though Chinese sellers have complete cartridges with a stylus cheaply. Also despite having a 78rpm speed, they usually don't have a suitable stylus for a 78.

Re: I thought...

In theory DAB+ gives better quality at same bit rate.

OF COURSE they use half the bit rate to fit twice the number of channels at slightly less quality.

Regular DAB would be OK if there were x2 as many masts and 256 k bit rate. Greed has made it Garbage, though even then less good than decent FM (without excessive compression and enough masts) which could have been expanded to 76 - 108. Many sets actually do that. Some even do 64 to 108 (for old Eastern Europe band) and some even have 138 MHz to 275 MHz. A £5 converter would have added Band III and Band I to existing FM HiFi.

DAB was oversold, not enough muxes (to save money) thus stupidly low 128 k and 64K, and not enough fill in lower power masts. The SFN was hyped to save spectrum, except there was no need to save Band III spectrum and also that's only any use for National Muxes.

Don't waste time.

Modern doors are PVC and vulnerable to any portable plumbing blow torch using disposable butane cylinders

Re: Infra-red

I don't connect any TV set to WiFi or ethernet. I use a laptop or tablet for that. Android TV by default sends titles of discs played by HDMI and selected TV channels as well as all other usage to up to three companies.

Re: same network

Not so if you can see the screen and have the IR remote. Though some use BT too or instead.

Depends on the model.

Same with BT keyboard pairing. If the victim goes to loo or stares at some handsome hulk / pretty person, use the opera glasses to read the 4 digits popping up on the screen when you pair. Oddly nothing needed pressed on one Android tablet I tried. The 4 digits had to be typed on the new keyboard to complete pairing.

I always have my laptop BT off, except if testing some BT device.

Re: I don't understand

On Office 2007 you can install Classic Menu. Brings back most of the previous Office GUI. I don't know if it works on later versions. The Ribbon is pretty stupid, as are personalised menus that hide little used options (especially needed on menu) or menus that reorder by MRU. All stupidity.

Re: interesting for roaming animals

No, they can be tagged. Tags are 100% reliable. Facial recognition is rubbish in comparison.

Re: Nokia Communicator

The first two mono (1996 to 2000?) Communicators used a 486. They did have a form of DOS

The N9210 and better N9210i used an ARM and Symbian, but a more advanced Symbian GUI (Series 80) than later smaller screen phones. Symbain was always in two parts, the OS and the GUI. S60 was a step backwards in GUI as internally the Rot in Nokia started in 2003*. It started with CCFL backlights and later had LED backlights.

But it was functionally a pocket PC in terms of applications.

I was thinking of the N9210i which I had from 2002 to 2005.

(* Was Elop Nokia's Trojan to dump a doomed division on MS? MS got no IP and only time limited use of the Branding)

Re: Alpha Micro...

Depends how much spectrum you have!

My backup internet runs 8 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up over almost 14 km.

My first smartphone had 14.4 kbps over GSM, 20 years ago. If you paid twice as much per second you could have 28.8 kbps too, only slightly slower than my landline. It also did faxes.