Posts by Dan 55 15436 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
I'm not confusing it, JavaScript just does not do convincing desktop apps no matter how the app got there. This is what AC wrote:
Offline capability exists and in many cases would run just as fast as a traditional app.
This is just not true. If you think it is, lay off the kool aid.
American companies are not for it, but the PR angle isn't very good. Uncle Sam is speaking on their behalf.
The British government is dysfunctional and all-consumed by Brexit. The UK won't do anything to upset the US or Russia now as those are apparently countries which the UK will do trade deals with (May said she wanted to talk to Russia again a couple of days back).
Germany is strange though.
It really would be worth having a site that does keep track of what odd spares we have around since one persons rubbish really is anothers gold when that part breaks on a production system that really should have been replaced a lifetime ago.
It seems from another story that the Navy will be interested in anything...
SEO gaming, what an innocent time. A decade and a bit later, we find two videos circulating about a Q&A session in a recent White House press conference. One has red circles and ding-dong noises all over it and the other has been slowed down and sped up at various points, and both claim to be a true representation of what happened, but of course neither is. Both videos are carried by their standard-bearers and their armies mass around them before charging into battle on the fields of Facebook and Twitter.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be like this. There's a debate if it should be fixed with a code of conduct or a law, but implementation details aside, how could this example even be fixed in the first place?
There's no guarantee that local data mode is local data mode either as you don't know if the binary came from the source. You'd need to be able to compile the source yourself using switches to turn off cloud crap and update the drone with your binary to have some guarantee of security.
And DJI's competition (also in China) will copy and paste everything. Heh.
They wants small, light, long life and if the compromise is that its a single unmaintainable slab
Well that's not Apple either as there are many cases of MacBooks with known design flaws such as GPUs which die, capacitors which blow, glue that comes unstuck due to heat, and hard drive cables which fail and instead of replacing the part (which is something that can be done, despite Apple's best attempts) Apple say they can do nothing for you apart from replacing the whole board which will cost $CURRENCY 800-1200 please. And instead of getting it fixed you throw it away and buy another.
Problem is no one buys such devices today. You can't have thin and lightweight without glue.
I think Louis Rossmann mentioned in one of his recent videos that the later MacBook Airs had glued-in batteries and earlier ones didn't, however glue has nothing to do with the size of the machine as the size of the later MacBook Air models remained the same after the change.
So I had a quick look at iFixit's teardown for the Mac Mini 2018.
Yes it has an accessible modular design without any glue or strange screws.
Yes it has replaceable/upgradable memory, unlike the Mac Mini 2014.
No it doesn't have replaceable/upgradable storage and they market this something which can do server work.
Way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, Apple.
Even so, it got 6/10. So you can see grade inflation is at work, because 6/10 for computer without replaceable storage would have been unthinkable a few years back.
They still have a grip on Magsafe and they charge a high price for it. They don't have a firm grip on USB-C but that requires you to buy new glued-up hardware which they charge a high price for... and I think Benson Leung has shown why USB-C power is a minefield all of its own.
Why not have a look at the price of their power supplies?
Magsafe is a cool idea but I doubt it really warrants that price, and if you could be sure you wouldn't have problems with Apple power supplies they might be considered value for money but you can't be sure of that either.
I've heard plenty of people try to justify their insistence that, for some weird reason, a gigabyte should be understood as a "gibibyte"
In the computing word KB, MB, GB, and TB were all understood to mean powers of two until hard drive manufacturers noticed they could use powers of ten and claim that the size difference may very due to the space used by putting a filesystem on the drive.
Meanwhile RAM manufacturers always used powers of two as they couldn't get away with it.
Eventually the IEC had to step in in the mid 2000s and add new units of measurement so GiB and TiB are relatively new. If it weren't for that, we would be using memory and hard drives both labelled GB with similar values but using different units of measurement.
but at the end of the day 1 megabyte is the space required to store 1 second of data arriving on a synchronous bit serial connection using an 8 megahertz clock... and therefore 1 gigabyte is the space requires to store 1000 seconds of data.
O_o
This would be the same meeting where Surrey MP and noted Brexit cheerleader Dominic Raab said he didn't understand the importance of Dover in the UK's trading relationships? The same Dover that's home to one of the world's busiest ports and a mere 80 miles from his constituency?
Yes it is. Indeed, he said he only just realised its importance at the very same event being reported on in the article.
So forgive me if I'm sceptical if he's got a handle on what data flows are, or data, or even the letter D.
That is mentioned in the article:
At this point Penguinistas would expect to be able to reach for the Apple Startup Security Utility, which provides the option to boot with No Security. However, according to Apple, this option "does not enforce any requirements on the bootable OS".
Obviously, this has its downsides, but if you're savvy enough to try to put Linux on a Mac, you should understand the implications.
The problem is that, according to a posting on StackExchange, changing the Secure Boot option "makes no difference".
Seems they've already found us... they just drove past slowly looking at the mess.
Welcome to the world of grown ups. The current hard right push is mainly down to a decade of political liberalism being thrust upon people in the west whether they wanted it or not.
All that treating people nicely obviously had to backfire one day, right?
As someone who sits in the political middle I've watched the pendulum fly past me in both directions a number of times with a forlorn hope that one day it might stop.
I have to say I don't have your certainty that that I've never changed my political views.
Why stop at American politics? The current political climate means we get to see all kinds of strange flora and fauna flourish around the world that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
Like this lot who have hijacked a gaming conference for their own agenda.
As we are finding out, the checks and balances we thought we had are mainly just people's own self-control.
Not in my experience. The only part of the UK where politicians can safely espouse particular religious beliefs is Arlene's bit
Maybe a decade and a half ago when Blair was reminded that "we don't do God". Not any more.
The 2010 Academies Act under Cameron also opened the floodgates for religious schools to convert into academies and deviate from the national curriculum and teach mystical woo as a subject.
Not quite - watch the first 1 minute 30 seconds at least.
He then went on to claim 33+ million people in the UK suffer from the UK's membership of the EU, peddled nonsense about his father's fishing business, set up some strawman elite vs. the people bollocks, ignored Faisal saying he's blaming the EU for the UK's austerity politics, said something about Juncker's private jet, and then went on to make unfounded claims about what was on the side of the red bus.
There are still customs controls between the EU and Israel, although there might be agreements to speed them up.
Look at the EEA states which have their own trade agreements. They still have their own free trade area and need their own customs controls with the EU, precisely because they have their own trade agreements.
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