Posts by Steve Davies 3 7145 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Essentially the most polarizing event in recent years.
You ain't seen nothing yet. Just wait for the election deniers after Nov 8th. When they don't win, they will revolt (in soft focus like Kari Lake) and refuse to accept the will of the people.
If you are not wearing your 'made in China' MAGA hat then watch out.. You are a target for the loonies.
on both sides of the house. Far too many PPE grads who would not know what a real job is even if one hit them in the face.
IMHO, Lawyers and PPE grads should be barred from becoming an MP unless they have worked in a non-legal or political business (inc lobbyists) for at least 10 years.
to see what is happening to the property market in San Diego right now.
If the people inside QC think they are going to lose then you might see a lot more properties come onto the market/or leases not being renewed.
People voting with their feet is a great way to find out what is happening without the company saying a word.
Birmingham's supply from the Elan Valley is a wonderful example of a gravity system.
These are just so elegant and simple that only the Victorians could have done them. Today, they'd be over engineered, attract a gazillion protests, cost at least £100Billion and take 30 years. And to think that we have all those wonderful machines when the Victorians had human labor and blasting powder.
Progress? hardly.
Nothing is free in Physics... good point
Then, old Newtonian physics comes along and makes it even more complicated.
There are a load of ads on YouTube promoting these miracle heaters. They are supposed to heat a large room in seconds for a few pence.
This wonder device has been invented at MIT, a school in Scotland and by NASA to name a few.
One of the ads even mentions the words 'Perpetual Motion'.
Scams. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
What is theoretically possible is a long way from a practical implementation. How long have we been saying that free electricity from Nuclear Fusion is 20 years away?
Consider me sceptical.
Move along there.
Seriously, I'd like to know how many Surface devices they sell (note not ship) in a year and how that compares to others in the marketplace.
The few people I know who had (note the past tense) hated them with a vengeance. They were so locked down as to make them next to useless.
Weren't these hyped as the big Mac killer? Now that Apple has shown how to make an Arm based laptop, MS is IMHO, pissing in the wind with these. Old CPU's and not a lot to warrant replacing existing units with new shiny-shiny.
The race to the bottom is not a good long-term strategy after all?
Apple kit is undoubtedly pricey but this is being typed on a 2015 15in MBP. That has been ultra reliable and as far as I'm concerned, well worth what I paid for it. I'm probably going to buy an M2 powered 16in device after Christmas.
It will be nice not to have the fans blasting away whenever I open 5 or 6 PSD files in Photoshop.
Naturally, YMMV.
Yet
Another
Minister
Who
Hasn't
A
Clue
In ten years' time, when we are regarded as a 3rd world country, the likes of Boris and Farage will be regarded as the people responsible for the fiasco.
I fully expect that if things carry on the way it is, we'll be going begging to the IMF for a bailout. It wouldn't surprise me if they just laughed in our faces.
They did it before when the Wilson/Callaghan government broke the bank.
If you can get out... go now before it is too late and they stop us from leaving.
from both parties to protect and promote high-tech investment in the UK
Nothing... repeat nothing has changed since Mr Gannex himself, Prime Minister Harold Wilson promised to make the UK 'the white heat of technology" almost 60 years ago.
clearly, the brown envelopes are not big enough. (sic)
I use it in conjunction with Lazarus to build the apps that I can't get for MacOS(you need XCode to build for macOS). By that, I mean an NC lather controller that used to need Win98... it is that old.
I also use the same apps on macOS and Linux (and before I gave it the finger, Windows) Firefox, Libre Office and Thunderbird are my goto choice of apps.
also want to outlaw ANY form of contraception that wasn't given by god. No condoms for the men either.
But... with zero parental leave after birth in most of those states, the woman is caught between a rock and a hard place. Add to that zero post-natal help for the mother and you have a disaster in the making.
Google does whatever is best for its bottom line. Those fake clinics pay to be top of the search rankings no matter how distasteful that is to many of us.
IMHO, don't use google for search. I don't and neither should anyone else.
for 3rd party client access?
MS could make the rules and hurdles so difficult to overcome that people will have to be forced to use Outlook or some other approved client?
If this is true then Redmond should have already allocated a hefty budget to lobby against the inevitable anti-trust cases that will be filed.
My area was 'cabled' for FTTP/FTTH in Aug/Sep 2021. Yet, it has yet to be activated. The boxes at the top of the poles remain DOA.
What is taking them so long?
All attempts to get a date for activation is met with "it is in our plan." Will they say when? Nope.
apparently, OpenRetch wasn't involved in the work in my area. They went to an outfit called TOOB.
Apart from giving me a 'From' price their website is bare of real facts.
I guess that they are waiting for enough suckers to sign up before switching it on?
The RIGHT only tolerates those who agree with them. Which is a long way of saying they are intolerant.
There, fixed it for you.
You only need to look at the moves to limit abortion in the USA. The removal of the Roe Vs Wade president is NOT universally popular with the US population.
Those who want to strip a woman of the right to control her own body are on the right not the left.
Those who want to limit access to contraception are on the right.
Those who want to ban same sex marriages are on the right.
Those who want to ban inter-racial marriages are on the right.
Cancel Culture is mostly in the minds of those on the right. They are the ones banning things not those on the left.
Cuba, that socialist/left wing stronghold just 90 miles from Florida had just passed laws allowing for same sex marriage.
Care to think again?
Rule 1 - In order to maximize the profits for our dear Leader, the prime directive is to keep the plebs in their place. They are to be actively dissuaded from organising any form of trade association.
Rule 2 - To support rule 1, workers are to be paid the minimum wage or below if possible.
Rule 3 - There is no rule 3.
For many of us who prefer to live and work totally outside the MS world, this is a huge advantage and most certainly not a negative.
Please take your 'MS is the only solution' blinkers off. We all know that their software is shite (all those horrific patch tuesday articles are pretty damming evidence) so why keep on perpetuating the myth that the only choice is to use MS shit.
have an upvote for 'was'.
Lots of instructions have been added since the original concept. It happens with almost all CPU architectures over time.
If you go back to around 1970, the DEC PDP-8 had a very simple (or very reduced) instruction set of 6 instructions.
https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/man/mri.html
The original ARM (As in Acorn days) had few instructions compared to what we see today.
are not an insignificant part of the population. People like Marjorie Taylor Green, Donald 33,000 lies Trump continue to spout rubbish about Solar and Wind Power. Their rants are heard both inside and outside the USA.
While they are spreading their version of bovine excrement the USA as a whole will find it hard to move forward with greening their economy.
That's ignoring the threats of the GQP to decimate the EPA and other agencies should they regain any two of the house/the Senate and the Presidency.
Russia has a whole fleet of Boeing and Airbus planes that they impounded after EU/US sanctions were applied after their invasion of Ukraine.
Those (spares willing) will keep their airlines in business for years without needing to buy from China.
AFAIK, there are close to 300 airframes involved.
Another victim of El Reg's bovine excrement new American house style.
That's a lot better. I for one regret how US-centric this site has become. It is almost as if the world outside the lower 48 does not exist. For most Americans, the world outside their state/city/town is a big bad place.
Doh! It already has gone down to the lowest level against the USD for a long time because of the threat of recession here in Blighty.
I'm still waiting for touchID under glass. As it isn't here yet then I'll keep on using my iPhone SE (bought secondhand like my three previous iDevices)
Now Comrade.... That is a lovely window you have there. It would be such a shame if you were to... you know... take a dive head first out of it...
So shut the 'H' up and do not rock the boat. We will make sure that comrade Trump wins every race in November. After all, the name Trump will be the only name on each and every ballot.
That is how we do things in MY Russia.
Yours... Voldemort Putin
AFAIK, in some states, anyone convicted of a felony that involves a weapon is then barred from legally owning a controlled weapon for the rest of their life.
It may also depend upon the state and/or the severity of the crime.
The same rules often apply to voting. In some places, if a felon votes, they could be back in jail for a 5-10 stretch.
The USA is a quagmire of conflicting laws at county, state and federal level. There is a law that makes federal crimes 'trump' state ones but some GOP states are ignoring that and hoping that the SCOTUS will back them up (with their GOP/Federalist society 6:3 majority).
If any normal person had committed even 1% of the crimes that Donald J Trump has done (and in many cases admitted it) they'd be locked up but he's free to cheat at golf on an almost daily basis.
Making W10 a useless POS/leaving it to fester and rot while enhancing W11.
They'll get makers to stop allowing W10 to be installed on new kit without some devlish hacking.
If you have been around IT kit for long enough, you will have seen this before.
"The day is not done unless Notes won't run."
Any slap in the face that Amazon gets is fine by me.
It is clear to me that Amazon wants to rule the world without opposition.
It used to be 'the retail world' but with the purchase of a healthcare giant, they want to be in every aspect of our lives.
What's next? Buying someone like JP Morgan? Wells Fargo? Chase?
If we don't stop them soon, there will be no escape.
Can we stop this AMERICANISATION of El Reg?
This used to be a quirky UK centric tech site. No longer.
WE... As in the readership know where Surrey is.
Soon we'll be seeing "London, England' everywhere. Same on you editors, shame on you. Go and sit on the naughty step.
I wonder how your readership profile had changed since you moved to being US Centric? Care to share?
Tesla reportedly wants to remove other controls just to save money.
First to go will be the stalk that controls the direction, forward, reverse or park. This will all be done via the main screen
Then the stalk that controls the indicators. Again this will be moved to the screen.
Just to save a few quid in build costs... sic.
I'd avoid a Tesla at all costs. I'll stick with my Kia Niro EV thank you.
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