Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: One place I visited...

Same here on the west coast, most places have unlimited vacation - which means no vacation and they don't have to pay you for any unused holiday when you leave

Re: Perhaps Elon Musk...

>Can we just say that, as a general principle, a supersonic aircraft in ground effect would not be a safe vehicle in which to ride?

I think it's called an Exocet

>Getting the MOT might be a bit of a challenge...

Emissions test is tricky. This is a classic / no OBD port - so presumably they stick a probe up the exhaust

Re: Perhaps Elon Musk...

>Touching the ground

Land speed record for a "train" (ie rocket sled on rails) is about mach 8 - admittedly unmanned

But for a real British record, get a track, a sled, a bunch of rockets, an idiot and some Mallard blue paint and have a proper speed record

Re: So?

IBM business model:

1, fire all your customers

2, fire all your engineers

3, hire a new CEO

Re: As expensive as flagship phones are they should be grateful anybody ever upgrades.

People don't spend $1000 on a phone - they get a "free" phone upgrade every 3 years with their $100-150/month phone plan

Wait till Apple trigger the gravity-inverter which causes it to jump out of your hands and smash itself on the floor

Re: Kwalifried sparky

I had a very old house that wasn't wired with a ring - but direct runs to each (admittedly scarce) socket.

Needed to fit a modern consumer unit and had to explain to dozens of PFY that they were putting the wrong fuse values - eventually got a grey beard electrician who would accept that "not a ring main" could exist, and was arguably better.

Re: Boeing Aircraft Wiring

I thought we used up all that dodgy fragile insulation rewiring Nimrods ?

Re: Disco Beer

> find the extension lead was simply a hefty two core, no earth lead!

Common at music venues - 'easiest' way to avoid earth loop hum

(for certain illegal values of easiest)

Re: Professionals built the titanic...

It doesn't say 2 it says 7

ps. It does explain why Swans are evil. All the evil people and animals were drowned, except presumably ducks and fish. So we have Sharks, Alligators and Swans = evil buggers than can survive floods.

Re: Respect the experience

Students, can't even tazer them these days - bloody elf+safety

Re: Professionals built the titanic...

>building the arc did have the highest level of guidance possible.

The last project where the bloke handing out the specification actually WAS omniscient - instead of just thinking they were.

Re: In true Clouseau style ..

>"cut it and see"

Step 3 being, if live replace electrician and goto step 1 ?

Re: The neutral doesn't join up with anything on the switch!

>You do know what an RCD is?

Yes it's a thing that does fsck-all to protect you if it hasn't been wired up right

Re: You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right?

If you keep doing that - how will they ever learn ?

If you stop Darwin putting a little chlorine in the gene pool then look what we ended up with ...

Re: You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right?

>. "I am qualified to design power stations but not to extend a domestic circuit."

Oh the wailing and nashing of teeth when PATT testing met the university engineering dept.

Re: What a shame they didn't go down the RiscV route...

What precisely isn't open about the Arm-M0 ISA?

Yes, you can't make a gate-gate copy and sell it under your own name without paying ARM 0.01c, but it's not like there are secret instructions you aren't being told about which you could use on RISC-V

The original Pi wasn't totally open because they used an off-the-shelf SOC and the maker of that part doesn't let you use it how you want. This is because they sell the same part for different applications at different price points with different features enabled - that's the economics of SOCs.

It wasn't because it was only for education and kids don't need to know details of the shader architecture.

Re: 12-bit A/D disappointing

True 16bit are still expensive, because you need reference voltages that are good to much better than 1/64K. The ones you can afford are successive approximation (ie don't believe the last 4 digits).

I remember when Burr-Brown 16Bit at 100Khz were a thousand quid and came in their own metal box.

Re: Neither fish nor fowl

>So it is difficult to see what this addition to a crowded market has to offer - apart from the "Pi" branding.

So it's an Arduino Due with RPi built-in "educational approval" and hopefully a well supported infrastructure for the price of a Chinse Arduino-Nano knock off ?

Re: Neither fish nor fowl

If it's all written in C and connects with I2C / SPI it should just be a matter of redefining pins.

The package manager for Arduino libs is very nice though, hope they manage to make something like that for this Pi.

Re: Neither fish nor fowl

Arduino also comes with a lot of libraries for things I don't want to write from scratch. Hopefully someone will put some effort into porting them to this

Re: Interesting

The analog ports on things like Arduino are normally very slow, don't know if you could use them for audio sampling

Re: No WiFi?

WiFi approval is long and expensive. ESP32 get round this by not bothering, not an option for RPI

Nope, this came up in whether Google has to repay the $MM in compensation it got from Uber.

A pardon is "you did it, but we like you so you're free - but you still did it"

Re: Colour me surprised

Why would he need a pardon when he is guilty of nothing but being too soft-hearted to crush the deep-state liberal elite that stole the election?

Please send contribution to Trump@marlargo make checks out to Confederate America Saving Heroes or C.A.S.H

Re: Colour me surprised

This is America, rich people aren't subject to little things like debts.

Trump Holdings-A, the wholly owned subsidiary of Trump Holdings-B might have debts but that doesn't worry Trump Holdings-C.

Re: Trump knew Ghislaine...

>But not well enough to give her a pardon.

It would be a waste with her suicide coming up

Re: So..

That's why the right to bear arms should cover WMD.

If I can't have nukes the Queen of England can just walk in and take over

Re: Good idea in theory

Other countries don't have all their civil servants being political appointees.

If we extrapolate the last few years, in future we are going to have to replace all the police, security services and army chiefs as well as all the government scientists every time the WH changes hands

Re: Lost leadership

But what would you rather have, robot probes landing on asteroids and bringing back samples or swimming around the oceans of Jupiters moons - or some crew cut space marine saluting the flag on the moon on live TV

The general opinion seems to be that's what they need to HAVE done.

But now their fab is so far behind the curve that spun-off it wouldn't be viable and certainly couldn't invest enough to get into the 3-5nm business.

While Intel's high margin chip design business isn't high volume enough for Samsung/TSMC to devote the sort of effort they currently give to their Arm/GPU customers

Re: Single point of failure

We're already in a monopoly with ASML. One outbreak of food poisoning at a Dutch company picnic and we are back to making computers from vacuum tubes

People drive 2 hours in their 10mpg pickup truck from their air conditioned home to their air conditioned office - but reducing standby power in their phone charger from the CE required >1W to >0.5W is going to save the planet ?