Re: Fake news!
Amandrommars? What about Eadon?
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but there are many, many people in the USA who see it as Nirvana, the promised land. A good number of them are Tesla Fanbois but that is another issue.
Unless ALL vehicles are equipped with the same level of automation and these vehicles are working together, it is a disaster waiting to happen (in my worthless opinion)
I don't normally agree with the views expressed in the articles by Christian Wolmar but his book
"Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere (Perspectives)" published last January is a good read and does provide an insight into the problems involved on the rock road to driverless utopia.
no matter how good the automation is that vehicles of the future will employ there is always the unpredictability of us Humans and don't forget Animals as well. Given the death recently in the USA, I don't think that driverless is going to be here before 2024 at the earliest.
While I agree with you, do those who Might just possibly use an iPad in Education need a cellular version of the device?
I don't think so but you do make a valid point. Apple do take the piss. Mind you HP were not that much better when charging a similar amount for a mobile card for my old work laptop.
Apple has been sued more times than I can remember because of fires caused by fake chargers and cables.
I guess this is an attempt to stop them in their tracks? There are many examples of people claiming that it is all Apple's fault that their trailer home burned down. Some might be the case but in many cases no one knows for sure but in Litigation Happy USA, it is either Sue or Shoot first and ask questions later.
Lawyers 1, Punters 0.
Don't forget those counties down south that have 'sex' in their names. I had web sites refuse to register me in the past when entering the county.
There are even a few of them over in the land of the Good Ole Boys as well.
Middlesex becomes Middleshhhhcan'ttellyou.
How will TOWIE carry on? the 'sex' bit was part of their MO.
Oh yes, that's what is supposed to be done by the hundreds (if not thousnds) of people in S. Asia (and other cheapo places).
All they'll need is a few people on zero days contracts to go to sites to press the big red button from time to time.
What IBM does today, HP does tomorrow... Or is that the other way around? No matter. We are doomed.
Note to self... Make sure my grandkids keep well away from IT as a possible career as there won't be one in 5-10 years ay the outside.
I saw him at the Royal Festival Hall in '71 or '72. Blew my mind away with the sounds he could get from an acoustic guitar. Saw him several times after that as well.
RIP John, you were a one off and a true musician who knew how to play an instrument. Sadly far too many so called musicians today... well aren't and could not play an instrument or hold a tune to save their lives.
Hands up all those who think that the ICO won't find diddly squat at CA. All the incriminating evidence will be long gone either to the shredder and incinerator and security erased after being copied to somewhere that governments in the west can't get at ... say Russia or China?
then next week, CA will go into Liquidation and rise from the ashes as Oxford Analytica.
That alone makes this all the more strange.
I've been working on building an ARM (RPi 3) based device that emulates an even older computer. The kit even comes with a case, close to 100 diodes (for the front panel), circuit boards and all the front panel switches. This is all put together by someone in their spare time. No need to Loadsa crowdfunding here.
http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8
This makes IMHO the Sinclair thing even more of a scam. IT might not be but at the moment thats the way it seems to me.
Your explanation shows how silly the concept of everyone using a CAAS for their transportation.
I carried a Microlight engine in the back of my car yesterday. It leaked a bit of oil. I cleaned it up but there is still a bit of a mark left. With CAAS, that would probably leave me with a huge fine.
I'll be collecting it next week after the overhaul is done. Over Easter, I'll be carrying people and a couple of dogs who leave lots of hair. Again, I'd have to valet the car before retutning it.
CAAS ? Not for me thanks.
Yet over on the Tesla Fan Sites they almost drool over the prospect of CAAS, autonomous driving and even taking a nap while driving. As above, I think the Pink Unicorns are out an about in force.
is obviously put there for the FBI etc who can at a glance see what you have been doing without their specialists.
Also for your PHB's (who obviously have nothing better to do) so that they can overtly monitor your work and importantly non work activities. No more sneaky key loggers and the like.
What's a betting that there are already some 'rulez' being coded to stop this from being disabled in corporate environments.
MS are obviously lacking in ideas about what to do next...
Given the poll results so far (10 mins after posting of the article) the majority of El Reg readers are NOT going to be using MS software in the future... It will be interesting to see how this pans out over the working day here in the UK.
which is why Budweiser as in the American kind is not beer according to the German Laws. Why? Bud use Rice in the brewing process.
Here's a thought... Hows about we grow the hops and send them to the USA???? The Hops grown near me don't need any irrigation. The clay soil really holds the water.
Ah Wait... this comes from California. The state where most crops grown south of San Francisco need huge amounts of extra water. Perhaps it is time to abandon the central valley as a place to grow stuff?
that is very low in the sky just when you want to drive home
Try going south along the A3 past Guildford when the January sun is setting. As you get close to the top of the hill, the sun is right in your eyes. If they can manage that test then I'll accept that they are ok.
I'm sure that other posters have their own bit of road that they love to hate at certain times of the year.
I'm truly saddened to say it, but we're toast
That has been evident from the day after we voted to leave. The reaction of the EU was that we were to be punished and hard for daring to leave their cozy club and that they'd never let anyone be so foolish ever again.
I look forward to paying £70++ for a Visa to go on holiday to Benidorm from 2021 onwards. But hey, we voted to go our own way didn't we?
Probably after the UK finishes the process the rules will be changed to either be less optimistic with the deadlines or have a better structure in place to deal with it all.
More likely they will make it impossible for anyone to leave now that they have got rid of the thorn in their side that is the UK. constantly saying no to EU stuff and not embracing the Euro was the last straw for many in Brussels.
Several people high up in the French Government have admitted that if there was a FREXIT Refferendum, they would not be surprised if the result would be for an exit. The EU obviously can't allow one of the founders of the European Iron and Steel Community to leave now can they?
As I've said all along, the BREXIT process won't end well. The EU (esp Barnier) will make it so that we carry on bending over and letting them shaft us at will.
I can run (emulated) OS-8 (PDP-8) and soon RSX11M (PDP-11) on a Raspberry Pi.
A Model 3 runs OS-8 around twenty times as fast as the original.
Lots of other Obsolete kit can be run as well.
It is really nice that people are taking the time and effort and making old systems live again.
Intel X86 is not the only game in town these days.
{Waiting for the RPi to emulate Z/OS. Imagine a Beowolf cluster of them all running Z/OS!!!! IBM wouldn't like it though :) :) }
They (MS) seem to be taking the 'Walled Garden' approach to levels that Apple can only dream of and in contract seem like rank amateurs when compared to Microsoft.
IMHO (and I could be very wrong...) this is all a prelude to moving to a perpetual subscription model for their Operating System.
"Roll up folks. For only £9.99/month you can get full support from us. Just let us install patches when we want to and to hell with what you are doing with the computer at the time. All in the interests of your personal safety and security you understand."
Sorry Redmond, I stopped playing your tune in 2016 and I'm not going back.
Because (sic) 5G is the promised land of free milk and honey, roads paved with gold and Gov Ministers will be able to walk on water.
Well, that's what the kit makers are telling governments all over the world.
Then it will be 6G, 7G etg
sceptic? you bet.
As you say, it would be better to get proper 4G everywhere and with enough capacity to handle the load.
Next election vote a party who will reapply to the EU and sign up to the full package.
Which one might that me then?
Tories? Nope
Labor? Not with Jeremy "I have a bottomless pit of money for everyone" Corbyn as its head.
That leaves
Lib Dems and the SNP....
Good luck electing either of them.
We are doomed I tell ye, doomed.
For a mega company that has more people wanting to work for it than there are jobs. Some parts of the organisation seem to think that if you can't take it, then walk as there are plenty more wanting your job.
No one should suffer sexual harrasment no matter how big or small the company is but it does seem that the bigger they are, the more ********** ********* they employ.