Posts by Mage 9273 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Nov 2007
Not to build it or decommission it,
Carbon costs of building an EV, and especially the batteries, tyres and other replaced items are rarely mention. Or "carbon pay back" time needed for wind turbines or solar panels. B&Q had a DIY wind turbine with run/operation life too short!
And HW TPM 2.0 or maybe later.
Was looking at Win11 info after installing Win10 on a spare slightly broken laptop, Pleanty of good ones here with Linux. Why does MS think spamming Win10 users with apps you can't remove, ghastly flat UI with an insult to claim to have themes. And then have a world of pain with Win11. At least Win2K, XP, Vista and to an extent Win7 you could find stuff and change the appearance of the UI (though not as much as current Mate Desktop or Linux).
A pile of poo. Though the 32G isn't needed (likely 8G works), the min specs here sound a bit like fantasy!
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-system-requirements-86c11283-ea52-4782-9efd-7674389a7ba3
Win3.x, Win9x etc Notepad could only load a 64K file.
NT Notepad always worked with larger files. But couldn't do UNIX text.
So replaced with something else and then Notepad++
I used Notepad++ on WINE for a while after jumping ship full time to Linux and then switched to KATE, for its session management.
Remember Inmos and Margaret Thatcher?
Getting rid of coal mining had been discussed 60 years earlier, Two World Wars preserved the coal industry. But much else of Thacherism was madness leading to UK's elite love of off shoring and money laundering, which was the real reason for Brexit. Why is IoM, Channel Is not in UK? Why are UK overseas dependences not got the rights & support French ones have?
Gibraltar is a special case. It can neither be in UK or independent, only a UK colony or Spanish.
On mil-spec stuff and Alumina substrates in late 1960s. I worked on 1" x 2" alumina wafers in early 1970s with SMD devices and printed resistors.
On industrial consumer electronics since late 1980s.
Soldering or reworking BGAs needs specialist gear, but a regular 3mm tip soldering iron and stripboard can be used for SMD. Solder to track side. Split a track to two with craft knife either side of holes. Solder up to 64 pin SMD ICs via DIL adaptors.
Octal bases obsoleted by 1945 and tag strips during 1950s. PCBs are since mid 1950s. ICs only widely used from early 1970s and stripboard AKA Veroboard old hat by then. That's 50 years ago.
I use an 8" and 10" Kobo eInk ereaders and free LO Writer and calibre ebook management. Photos are viewed on HD or 4K TVs and monitors. A cheap HD DVB-T modulator with HDMI loop through allows photos, music and video on any HD TV in the house.
The laser printer now only used for crochet & knitting patterns.
But blunders in implementing this system have left at least the above named devices vulnerable to unlocking – provided one can nab the gear long enough to connect some electronics.
Anyone would be mad to use it to unlock anyway. What if your finger(s) are injured?
Well over 15, nearly 20.
WIKIPED1A (I remember 1 and it was 1st 64 bit since prototype NT4.0 64bit for alpha)
Two versions of Windows XP 64-Bit [Itanium] Edition were released:
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for Itanium systems, Version 2002 – Based on Windows XP codebase, was released simultaneously alongside the 32-bit (IA-32) version of Windows XP on October 25, 2001.[37]
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, Version 2003 – Based on Windows Server 2003 codebase (which added support for the Itanium 2 processor), was released on March 28, 2003.[38]
This edition was discontinued in January 2005, after Hewlett-Packard, the last distributor of Itanium-based workstations, stopped selling Itanium systems marketed as 'workstations'
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (for AMD type x86-64 cpus) was 2005.
Obviously Itanium was "dead man walking" by 2004 and essentially dead in 2005. The only other totally pointless Windows versions was maybe ME & Win 8. Win7 was essentially a Service Pack for Vista.
Or a different chair, sausage, filled roll. Easy for a two year old. Then there is "lateral thinking" where the child uses a box as a seat or uses scissors to cut a pizza when they previously only encountered precut ones.
Yet computers can do things we thought needed AI, without AI (Chess) and other things we never imagined. In the 1960s they called it the AI paradox. Now since 1980s expert systems, later Google's "rosetta stone" approach to translation (feed computer all the EU docs and translated books) and today's giant data hoovering matching / prediction engines (LLMs) the real AI research and language research is nearly dead. Whatever about Chomsky's Politics, ask him about language.
LLMs only regurgitate. Examination of program coding tasks given show no evidence of any of those.
LLMs only acquire data from "browsing the internet" or humans feeding files. It's not knowledge or skill as the systems can't tell fact from fiction.
An AI "taught" to play chess or Go won't play poker. And no-one likes to play card counters, they get banned from casinos.
An LLM or an AI does none of these in the sense a human or even a rook does:
Reasoning: The ability to think logically and draw conclusions from information.
Problem-solving: The ability to identify and solve problems.
Learning: The ability to acquire new knowledge and skills.
Adaptation: The ability to change one's behavior to meet new demands.
It may sometimes seem like it does. An LLM doesn't hallucinate. It fails. All AI is spectacularly fragile.
Much more likely. We know it's possible as we see it during the day when it's not raining.
It might need a very big "reactor".
We have no idea how AGI might work, because we've never seen it. Biological intelligence is baffling as is fact many anaimals and birds have vocabulary and intelligence (not related to brain size, cf: rook, chimp, dolphin, horse, whale) but so far not evidence of language.
The LLM don't have language either, just an illusion of it, yet zero intelligence.
He didn't. The 3 laws were mostly a maguffin to write SF themed detective mysteries. The daftest thing was 30 or 40 years after Foundation to combine the two storyverses. Foundation was inspired by Gibbon's Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire.
The Robot stories were never originally about the development of AI. Set up the 3 laws, have a "robot" then apparently break one/them and solve the mystery.
The Turing Test was a sort of idea by someone who knew little about how intelligence works. The Turing Machine was good work, but it was mathematics. The Turing Test idea was purely speculative.
At best it's a test of human naivety. See reaction to Eliza, Parry, Racter, ALICE and ChatGPT. A rook can't pass the Turing test, yet they are very intelligent.
It's often plausible junk.
I don't care about ads (as long as static and small and not disguised as content). I do object to 3rd party scripts and 3rd party cookies. That's what I block. Some stupid companies have web sites that are entirely blocked claiming you are blocking their ads and depriving them of revenue when you do that. They are idiots. Even CNN and BBC has had adverts serving malware. Which 3rd party advert sellers / script providers are honest and trustworthy?
Yes that needs to be illegal. Along with dark grey text on black or light grey text on white. Or forcing a mobile version of the site on a big hi-res screen because OS is iOS or Android.
Or designing desktop applications or websites as if everyone has a 6″ screen with only touch.
Apple is stupid having Safari, Books and Pages.
MS having Word, Excel, Explorer, Windows and Edge as names is crazy.
How do you search internet?
There is good reason to have made up names like Kleenex and Sellotape.
The GIMP is a stupid name for the image editor.
Except Gutenberg is free in bulk
https://www.gutenberg.org/help/mirroring.html
https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/robot_access.html
Though the content is intended for humans.
Actually it may be IP / copyright violation to scrape most websites for AI as the content is intended for direct human consumption and bots at worst to index for search. There is also robots.txt Does OpenAI or Alphabet/Google care?
Why did they decide the limit between Moped and Motorbike was engine cc (less than 50 cc) rather than top speed on flat (say 40 mph = 64 km/h) and maybe power?
Also shouldn't anything on two wheels not being a motorbike be a moped if any kind of engine able to exceed 5mph (8km/h) on the flat?
Though it went about twice as fast as Raleigh Wisp.
The Wisp was unreliable rubbish, whereas the Honda 50 was reliable, if somewhat slow. But could be driven on a car licence. A Honda 90 needed a motorcycle licence.
These things do need better regulation. Saw an escooter at 11.15pm in dark and rain on main road with no lights this week.
Sony Ericsson Xperia running Android 4.0.x does this, though I didn't connect RTL SDR (have done on an Android 8 tablet). It's older than an iPhone 4s. Still goes and still installs many Playstore Apps. Battery clips in. SD card. Even an HDMI socket. Wireless screen casting seems rubbish on every new gadget/TV.
The iPhone 4S has been a paperweight for years.
I doubt it's valuable. I sent 3 off 19" 4:3 CRTs that were 1600 x 1200 and could do 1920x1080 with reduced scan height for correct 16:9 aspect.
No-one wanted them.
We have some lovely Benq QHD screens with VGA, DVI & HDMI. They work well at any game resolution on a VGA 3D card. Under €200.
Currently I use a 23.5" UHD with DP and HDMI. Under €300.
The HD and 4K TV sets with HDMI work well with cheap adaptors off Amazon and eBay.
All HDMI out:
1) Composite in. NTSC or PAL
2) Component in needing progressive. Some DVD players.
3) Component and Y/C in that works with S-VHS Y/C or DVD Component.
4) VGA in and HD HDMI with a 3.5mm jack audio in for sound on HDMI.
CGA can easily be adapted to composite or Y/C as it's basically an RGB version of NTSC using an old console RGB to composite adaptor.
EGA can be adapted to a VGA connector. So actually can CGA, MDA and Hercules, but few VGA inputs will take those signals.
CGA, MDA, Hercules or EGA can be adapted to component. A decent component to HDMI can take interlace or progressive.
Some HD & 4K TVs that have no analogue inputs still have an analogue tuner for RF, though those are usually PAL or NTSC, never both unlike composite & Y/C inputs.
It's only in last few years that the picture quality on decent LCDs has surpassed the top of range CRTs. My Samsung & LG 4K screens are as relaxing as eink to read. flicker free and can be calibrated for photoediting.
Virtual box took away Direct 3D oprion on XP. Some very modest games like Scrabble used it.Going back to the earlier Vbox on Linux seems nearly impossible due to the older libraries the last Virtual Box with XP 3D. Of course these stupidly coded old games don't work on Windows 7 or Windows 10, either real HW or VM.
Decent booklet / brochure / paperback book printing?
How does the old Alps model with opaque "inks" including white work?
Punching / binding / stapling?
Vinyl cutting?
PCBs (either direct milling or UV head)
Cropping?
Tiling giant image to 100s of pages?
Some of these have been done by applications and some by printer / plotter driver in the past. Plotter drivers often were installed as "printer" drivers, though "printing" from other than vector based app was crazy. Then there were plotters that really were inkjet printers. They rasterised the vectors.
Mills and 3D printers have tended to use custom applications and communication.
I can't imagine really, and MS is even less likely to. Any alliance with Xerox or HP or Lexmark is bad for customers.
WIA was terrible compared to TWAIN
Morpira UWP sounds bad, because UWP is stupid for a desktop OS.
But it all went wrong at NT 3.1. Print drivers needing to use the GDI? I understood the logic, but it was faulty logic.
Then when GDI was moved into Kernel with NT4.0 a bad print driver could blue-screen NT.
I'm not fond of USA spelling, much of which was invented by Webster and not representative at the time. Very anti-French -our -re etc, also ruled against doubling 'L".
OED is reflective of use, not prescriptive like USA.
"its rover has detected sulfur as well as aluminum,"
At least no greengrocer's apostrophe.
Brilliant achievement by India.
Russia had to build a new spaceport because the USSR main one is now outside Russia. Not surprise me if Russia breaks up further.
And
The efficacy and legitimacy of Scientology's use of the E-meter has been subject to extensive litigation[4][5][6] and in accordance with a federal court order, the Church of Scientology publishes disclaimers declaring that the E-meter "by itself does nothing", is incapable of improving health, and is used specifically for spiritual purposes.[7]
Such devices have been used as research tools in many human studies, and as one of several components of the Leonarde Keeler's polygraph (lie detector) system, which has been widely criticized as ineffective and pseudoscientific by legal experts and psychologists.[8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-meter
I'd like to say what I think of Scientology, but that could be disadvantageous.
Here in Ireland, the Ice-cream machines have cleaning instructions. Food places are inspected too. However having worked on designing an Ice-cream making machine and considering items in freezers above the red loading lines, I'm not sure inspections are frequent enough. Though even big name supermarkets have been fined and premises closed.
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