Posts by Dan 55

Re: Still no damn onboard flash

It's Google, there isn't a month that goes by now without them announcing they're killing something. They make nice toys but don't count on them for anything.

For normal Android on Pi try RTAndroid or Emteria.

Re: victims of own success

A working / usable software 'ecosystem' (ugh) also costs money to set up.

Re: victims of own success

Look at the price points of each Raspberry Pi model. The 1Gb version is no more expensive than the original Pi 1 B. Cheaper if you count inflation.

Re: Pi-top

On my Pi-top the power and audio out are carried out to the external case, they're close together but not too close.

Re: Pi-top

I forgot if it used HDMI or the display pins to connect, I thought maybe if it used the display pins there was a chance of a drop-in replacement.

I guess I'll have to send them an e-mail and hopefully a new bridge won't be erm, premium, pricing...

Re: B****r!

You've got 14 days to return for any reason if you bought online.

Re: I knew I had seen something like this before!

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit."

Re: A reason for no physical reset

If you have a room full of these light bulbs you'd be hoping and praying they're all on the same firmware version.

Re: How many GE engineers you need...

Can you imagine the amount of soul-destroying Skype for Business meetings scheduled across different timezones between PMs, BAs, sales, marketing, hardware engineers, software engineers, and so on?

By the end of the process the emperor well and truly had no clothes, but nobody was going to admit to it.

Re: Hahaha, no

Try the security-only updates.

Also the Windows 10 nagger got its own KB.

Re: Don't you love the EU?

That's often the problem with EU Diktats.. They can be a bit vague.

Something to do with national sovereignty perhaps?

And I'm also guess it's why DCMS is seeking approval.

They can't seek approval for "SELECT domain_name FROM internet WHERE content_type = 'porn'" though. They have to give a specific name and seek approval every time, probably to stop it being abused.

And I guess that's what they've just worked out this week.

Re: Don't you love the EU?

Are a porn site or YouTube really the same as Netflix and Amazon Prime?

Audiovisual media services are:

[...]

under the editorial responsibility of a media service provider – meaning they control the selection and organisation of the programmes.

I really doubt it.

Also:

If [emphasis on if] a country objects to the content of a foreign television broadcast wholly or mostly targeted at it, it can ask the authorities in the broadcast’s country of origin to issue a non-binding request for the broadcaster to comply with the rules of the targeted country. Factors determining whether a country is “targeted” include: origin of advertising or subscription revenues, main language, targeted advertising, etc.

If the broadcaster circumvents the objecting country’s rules, the authorities there can impose binding restrictions – with the Commission’s prior approval, and provided the measures are solely a response to the circumvention. Binding measures could include banning: retransmission (cable, terrestrial, IPTV) advertising for the broadcasts or programmes advertising of local companies (under own jurisdiction) publication in printed or electronic programme guides sale of subscriptions/smart cards for pay-TV

The porn ban seems very much 'over and above' what this directive states.

Re: There's something I don't get

It'd be interesting to find out who realised the EU hadn't been notified.

I.e. the nasty EU telling the plucky UK what to do or someone in Whitehall saying "oh no, I've just realised we've forgot to send this fax, we've got to bring it all to a halt, bury it, and never speak of it ever again".

Re: This was always May's toy

May very much depend if Dr Robotnik stays on at the Home Office.

Re: "data warfare"

The marketdroid ACs are strong today.

Discounts on coffee? You sell yourself so cheaply, and if you're interested in your health you should be cutting back on coffee anyway. Why on earth should private health insurance try to get you to drink more coffee?

There are no discounts on private insurance in return for data, just raises for people who don't use the stalker app. See also "careful driver" apps.

Living a healthy lifestyle can't be determined with a cheap bunch of electronics strapped to your wrist, you're just selling your location data to advertisers with your insurance company as acting as the broker rewarding you with cups of coffee.

Re: "data warfare"

Kid has a vivofit jr. An account is required to get the watch to show the time, so much for GDPR. Also no server-side storage should be required for any of the app features apart from setting up an online group to share results with if I wanted to, yet somehow I have to set one up anyway.

Which left me unimpressed and determined to put the privacy settings on maximum (if they actually do anything) and not put any real names or information in the app.

Re: "data warfare"

This article seems to be written by someone who doesn't know the value of their own data, otherwise they wouldn't be willing to give it away for... nothing.

The health question is pretty easy, either you eat less, exercise more, or both. Repeat until you lose weight.

Re: WOW...

Obligatory link to free legit PDFs (scroll down to the bottom).

Those and Input by Marshall Cavendish got me where I am today (more's the pity, boom boom).

Re: Today

How about RISC OS Pico which is about as cut-back as it gets these days? It starts up with an Acorn-style BASIC prompt.

Re: In the UK...

If you listed the program and got the full keyword back then it was tokenized, if you got the abbreviated keyword back it wasn't, which would be strange on a machine with the Atom's memory size (or indeed any 8-bit computer's memory size).

Re: In the UK...

I think Nine Tiles had greater ideas and issue 1 and 2 Spectrums had a ROM socket so it could be updated, but then Sinclair realised he sold too many and he thought it was too expensive to send out new ROMs to everyone and it was selling anyway so who cares?

But then he got upset when people considered it a games machine.

So setting up registers and calling routines listed in The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly had to suffice... I think you could use the ROM tape loader if you really needed to.

Re: In the UK...

Well, because there was another 16K EPROM for the OS...

Re: In the UK...

Not sure why BBC Basic mentioned as later than Spectrum Basic either.

The US imports and the MSX computers all ran MS Basic which were pretty uninspired versions of the language.

Meanwhile MS-DOS was a ripoff of CP/M and MSX could run CP/M software but that's another story. Not sure what Kildall did to piss Gates off so much.

Fortunately with it locked down in "Performance" mode there seems to be no difference in actual battery life.

Such is IT now - where if the next version didn't get worse then you could probably even consider if an improvement.

Shame you have to fight the task killers that smartphones are now loaded with first. If it were Tron inside there it'd look like the French revolution.