Posts by Roland6

Re: Forgot NI? @elsergiovolador

I thought it was all about liability (to the agency); by getting contractors to be Ltd's the agency significantly reduced their contractual risk exposure and could also be all sloppy shouldered about tax liabilities.

In some respects, it is hardly surprising the agencies have again played fast-and-loose and off-shored umbrella companies, to the detriment of HMRC.

Re: Sorry, why is this about DAB?

>“make internet radio available to anyone who wants it on their devices”.

The recommendation is:

" to ensure radio stations and radio and audio content can be easily found and is discoverable by users of voice assistant platforms"

I thought "Alexa play Radio 2" was sufficiently simple, or am I missing something?

Re: Hmmm @Draco

>yellow card data

Yes, as an event organiser it is quite interesting...

For an event the size of the London Marathon for example, event organisation includes planning for heart attacks and deaths, just because statistically with that number of people, several are going to happen even before taking into consideration the elevation of risk the runners experience (for which the London Marathon now have many years of data to draw upon).

Because of the scale and speed of vaccination and the reporting of possible side effects, for probably the first time in human history we have some of the safest vaccines around. So the connection between AZ and the known to be rare blood clots was established within weeks and mitigated, rather than years. Yes this was only 4~6 deaths per million, however medical science has been able to move rapidly and select other vaccines for high risk groups.

However, for the nutters and parts of the media the perception is the risk of actually having a side effect from a vaccine is much higher than the risk of contracting CoViD - which as we know is just a mild dose of flu... I think there is probably sufficient data to show there is a significant statistical connection between being an anti-vac and having a higher risk of dying from CoViD19.

>Don’t make me wear a life vest because you can’t swim.

No, I'm making you wear a life vest so that if you fall in the water you will float, others don't have to watch you struggle and risk their lives recovering your body from the bottom of the lake.

>One of the other issues is that alot of services are in unknown locations..

Another is that they aren't in the location the plans or system says they are.

A laugh I have is that my house is 3ft closer to the road than indicated on the plan, but it is in the right place if you use the geographic data off the plan - I know this because the OS surveyed it.

The problem was that the road was built 3ft off the plan location, given they had already done the foundations for my house the only option was to build the house between mine and the road 3ft closer to my house, but failed to amend the plan... Result neighbour thought the boundary fence should be located 3ft into my land rather than being located where it was...

Re: "GM is projecting an all-electric future..."

>You shouldn't be - vampire drain should only account for ~1 mile a day at worst.

Not got a 'modern' car then.

My neighbour's car was constantly on trickle charge during lockdown because of all the electrics that won't shutdown...

Re: "GM is projecting an all-electric future..."

>Interesting that we don't even come close to the max rating per household at any given time.

We may not, but we do max. out the grid at times like... half-time...

I note the UK government has already proposed limits on the times at which EVs can be charged at domestic charging points. Which would suggest there are some systemic issues with the large-scale charging of EVs via the domestic grid.

Re: "GM is projecting an all-electric future..."

>The cracker, however, is tax. As you cannot tell wall power from fast charger power I suspect you'll be facing road pricing.

Well, there is metadata...

My newly installed charging point is intelligent, only cars I have registered to it can use it and the charging point will only offer electricity to the car according to the schedule and rules I have specified.

With smart meters (I suspect integration with car charging points isn't possible with current generation of UK smart meters :) ), it is relatively simple to have different tariffs...

As for road pricing, well I expect overall we will be paying more (in taxes/duties) to the government and its contracted agencies than we are today.

Re: "GM is projecting an all-electric future..."

>Which would still make fossil fuel power generation the cheaper option followed by nuclear. Increased reliance on windfarms/solar just increases our reliance on gas and massively overcharges us all for energy.

@codejunky - nice dig at UK government policy for the last 30+ years...

Re: "GM is projecting an all-electric future..."

>I'm fascinated by petrol heads who think that recharging must be an exact analogue of petrol stations.

That's the model being sold by EV fans!

A petrol station is just a static charging point, costs etc. mean that there are relatively few of them; but petrol could be delivered to people's homes, just like coal, heating oil, gas, water and electricity...

Personally, the hybrid is a good fit to where we are today. Interestingly, I suspect an ICE designed to generate electricity rather than horsepower would be much smaller than what s under the typical bonnet today.

Re: more pc crap

>Peter and Jane books

They were Janet and John in my day...

Re: Even better....don't bother yet!

>Tell that to the people who run the payroll or cut your paychecks

They will be using Sage... So unlikely to be running W11 (or anything more recent than Office 365/2016 32-bit for sometime yet...

Re: I'm not sure how well i'd do with NT4 and things like manually assigning IRQ's

From what I remember this issue wasn't so much the IRQ's but shuffling the various memory areas so everything fitted.

Re: Environmental homicide

>No, I suspect lots of those will go into the refurb market.

But these can only be installed with Win10 (until 2025) - assuming MS continue to sell refurbishers Windows 10 licences (or W11 licences with downgrade rights).

So this probably means refurb PC's won't be having Windows installed, so it is beginning to look like Linux is going to be your friend whatever your preferences, unless ReactOS progresses rapidly...

Re: Compatibility tool fail

>Why should most users be expected to perform that sort of research ?

Totally agree, however, my experience, albeit from a few months back, was that it simply gave a yes - no verdict. Whilst a simple 'yes' is usable, the simple 'no' isn't particularly as all that maybe required is to change a BIOS setting or add memory...

>Perhaps it should come with a warning "If this tool doesn't run then your PC is not compatible with Windows 11"

Well I can see some daft MS employee or fanboy jumping to that false logic conclusion. Unfortunately, Joe Public will be taken in by it and purchase a new PC...

Re: Compatibility tool fail

Well the compatibility tool only goes so far, from my experience you still need to research both the CPU (it may have a software TPM2 that has been disabled in favour of a separate TPM1 module) and the system BIOS (it may allow you to disable the TPM1 module and/or enable the CPU TPM2 module).

Re: On the other hand

Potentially...

Remember there is a chip shortage that will take a few years to resolve, adding a requirement for a further 700M systems to be replaced by 2025...

I could be doing 2+2=5 but it does seem MS really don't want corporations to be running Windows on the desktop beyond 2025....

Re: Where were they pointing?

>Given that the red light on the camera was visible from below, and that red lights on CCTV cameras tend to be on the front of the camera... I suspect the camera was pointing roughly in the direction from which the light was observed ...

Not at all. The front mounted LED typically isn't shielded; the camera's I've installed the dome of the LED cover is proud of faceplate and so it is visible within a 180 degree arc.

Also note how the camera was discovered:

"The discovery was made last week when the lights were switched off. A member of staff spotted what appeared to be a small red light between the panels of a suspended ceiling."

Firstly the lights were off so the red glow (and its reflection) of an LED would be more visible, secondly it was seen between (suspended) ceiling panels ie. through a crack, note it wasn't until the source was investigated that a camera was discovered. I suspect that if the camera really was intended to pick up users of the facilities, the discoverer would have seen and thus reported a camera lens hole in the ceiling tiles.

But then that does assume the "infrared light" seen was the camera LED and not light being used to illuminate the ceiling void so that the camera can perform its smoke detection/void monitoring function.

Re: Here I was thinking …

Given where Quantum computing really is - namely still playing around with a handful of qubits, I think the 5 year olds you are referring to are the children of today's 5 year olds...

Quantum Computing - come back when you've got something equivalent to an Intel 4004.

Re: Apple Cars

>If ever Apple end up going into their will-they-won't-they electric car biz, then expect age old standard things like tyres to be a special Apple design available only from Apple and fitted by their own Genius Mechanics.

Well, Neal Stephenson did 'forecast 'this back in 1999: In the Beginning... Was the Command Line ....

Re: The Pope is a Catholic

>"> Wireless, no matter which "G" can only replace broadband if every other street lamp is fibre fed and a 5G or 4G cell.

We will reach that point sooner than you think."

Not in the UK, unless the telco's are buying up existing lamp post installations. Remember with the energy efficiency/climate change/bio-diversity agenda, local authorities are turning off and removing lamp posts.

In my village the only lamp posts now turned on are the one's covering the turning off the main road circa 2 miles away.

Re: well, that's wildly unconvincing

>Actually it's much much much more cheaper for a $TELCO to put some 5G Antenna on top of a pylon to provide 5G Fixed Wireless, than lay the kilometers of fiber needed to reach your home.

Depends on which $TELCO you are talking about given $TELCO's still basically fall into two camps: fixed and mobile...

Also, it is only cheaper whilst there is surplus capacity. Remember the first use of the 3G spectrum (by the established operators) was voice calls, to ease congestion on the 2G spectrum. New network operators like Three offered massive data allowances to drive service takeup, once they had a reasonable number of subscribers the offers became more expensive; I expect similar to happen with 5G.

Re: well, that's wildly unconvincing

They are using peoples lack of understanding of the fixed Internet to sell 5G. 'Edge' isn't something unique to mobile networks. I suggest in the real world "rural" environment 'Edge' on (FTTP) fixed network is likely to perform better than 'Edge' on the rural 5G.