Posts by werdsmith 7138 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
As many as one cyclist in 20 observing Highway Code H1 would be a miracle. “be considerate to other road users “
And I’m a cyclist. I try not to hold up the traffic, it’s bad for CO2 and it’s a really uncomfortable feeling. Find a safe place and stop for a few seconds. It makes little difference to my journey but it improves dozens of others.
Yeah. Where? On mobile devices, i.e. smartphones or laptops?
Nobody cares. Apple is an outlier in the laptop/desktop market (around 14% market share) and marginal in the smartphone market (around 15% market share). They've been stuck in that percentage for more than a decade:
Since M1 arrived, Apple have had a jump in sales of Macbooks because people like the idea of longer battery life and cooler running devices with increased performance.
If you consider that Apple operate in the premium laptop sector only, their market share in that field is much higher. They don't make high selling cheapo units, which boosts the market share of the Windows vendors.
There are actually quite a few different arrangements for manual shift gates. Particularly in the way reverse is selected. And they used to have the overdrive switch on top.
And there are automatic PDNR boxes, J-gates, DSG, paddle shifters, or just a rotary selector. Some cars put an autoshifter on the steering column.
Some cars have a pedal operated handbrake, some have an auto handbrake.
Some electric cars have one pedal drive.
But a linux like car, you might look up how to drive it on the web and find instructions on how to change timing by loosening and rotating the distributor.
My car doesn't have a gear shift lever. Why would I want one?
Manual gear shift for lightness, simplicity, cheapness, efficiency and control.
Even modern improvements over the old torque converter based auto boxes, like DSG, are heavy, expensive and complex.
Manual shifting will start to disappear now with the EV revolution, but they still have their place.
Now, my computer doesn't have a CLI. Why would I want one?
You mean take a full day to install, and then another to add patches, can't help.
Who installs Windows? Most Windows users get issued a company PC or laptop which the IT department has used an imaging tool to prepare in a few minutes. Patching doesn't take a day or even an hour at worst.
If somebody buys their own then it is pre-installed and goes through a startup initialisation.
When the zealots get themselves out of denial and quit with the lies and sanctimony, then Linux will start to stand a chance.
The middle group is most common and most likely to drive like a twat.
The vast majority were marketing led inadequates who drive like twats. The BMW image naturally attracted the road jerk. However, when Bangle got involved with styling, there was a mass exodus of jerks to Audi which is why the Audi driver has assumed the role of total wanker driver now.
I take walks, 15 to 20 minutes at least twice during the day. I also try to get about 1 hour sleep in the mid afternoon. Some years ago I was an active amateur boxer and rugby player (not at the same time). I am nowhere near that fitness now but do try to keep at least some level.
A plane change does cost fuel. But you launch and boost into the direction of your plane, regardless of where you are, you avoid a launch on one plane and changing to another. A high latitude launch is for high inclination orbits as it loses the advantage of being launched to the East to gain from the Earth rotation. It seems stupid to restrict launch sites to high inclination orbits only just for the sake of being able to launch from sovereign territory. There must be places available near the equator with an unpopulated north and eastern downrange that would be a better launch site.
It isn’t a decision for Raspberry Pi. When MS decided to support Raspberry Pi with the IoT version of Windows, it was welcomed by Eben, who made some comments about MS Windows validating Pi as a proper computer.
It is Ms that would have to do the work to support api, and it is MS that have chosen to go with a sap dragon. For their ARM version.
They can see it coming, RISC V is already winning the hearts and minds battle and is starting to snowball. It will be used in education and develop just like ARM did, stealing ground behind ARM as ARM steals ground from Intel. It is ARM's next move that is going to be really interesting because they can't go on like they are forever.
For clearly a very smart man, the fact that he didn’t see this coming is somewhat surprising
“Fact”? Do you know he didn’t see it coming for a fact, or is it all planned in? I find it somewhat surprising that people think Musk is doing this all by himself and not using a number of advisers.
That being said @elonmusk … you can count on me for £GBP25 in cash, £100 in Tesco Clubcard vouchers and a packet of Toffo’s to add to your war chest
I am going to rival bid with 250 bazooka Joe comics and a book of green shield stamps. If that isn’t enough I’m going to break out the Embassy cigarette tokens.
Any Boris success in the elections is largely due to the totally dire alternatives that were offered rather than any particular confidence in him.
The electorate decided that if they are going to have to select from a choice of cretins then they might as well have some comedy out of it.
If the OS, whether it’s Windows 10 or 11, a billion variations on a Linux UI, or Mac or whatever, is forgotten about, then you wouldn't need to even think about using RISC OS for distraction-free writing, let alone actually use it.
That’s deliberately obtuse. And rubbish.
I don’t look at The Register when using RISC OS.
It’s not surprising that on The Register an article about someone who has done a technical challenge turns into a whingathon about Windows UI.
I run any OS not because “I want to” but because it is the means to get into the applications I want to use. I switch on, launch my application and work away. The OS, whether it’s Windows 10 or 11, a billion variations on a Linux UI, or Mac or whatever, is forgotten about. I don’t directly use the OS except to get into my productive applications. At which point, for any practical measure, the OS is irrelevant. I don’t even pay for any of them myself.
The only OS I specifically choose for its direct benefit is RISC OS. I use this for writing when I want no distraction.
What is clear is that there are two types of remote workers, production heroes and work-shy wasters.--
There are two types of in the office workers, production heroes and work-shy wasters.
The MP was in the office when he was looking at his tractors on his phone.
Isaac Newton was working from home at Woolsthorpe when the apple fell.
"I would't call either of your examples lazy, they were just working on outside projects."
That would be covered by my "colleague who was not lazy" words.
But the point is, it doesn't matter that they were in an office under the nose of management, or they were at home. They could have been working on a novel, or looking at tractor websites, where they were working was not relevant.
I my experience, if someone is lazy then they won’t do much work regardless of where their desk is.
I also recall a colleague who was not lazy, but worked hard on his code in an open plan office just a few metres from his managers. He was working hard on a project where he developed software unrelated to the company business. He then started a side hustle with the software and eventually struck out on his own and had a very successful business.
Another colleague spent her time writing a masters dissertation, in the office under the noses of everyone.
To keep people happy then we should go back to harvesting wheat with a hand sickle. so many thousands of people will be needed but the cost of food will increase massively. So you might not be paying extra tax to feed those people but you will be paying far more to keep them in work.
Automate me out of work? I absolutely love the idea. Bring it on, there are many things I could be doing with my time that I will enjoy much more.
Yes exactly. MS, as an active part of the Linux world now, have found a vulnerability and addressed it. Nothing to do with whataboutery. The Register has mischievously baited the zealots with its headline and judging by the hilarious indignation in these comments, quite a few have bitten.
I used to do regular screen and battery replacement on iphones up to version 7. I found that the non OEM batteries I could buy were better than the Apple ones, would give more battery life and last more charge/discharge cycles.
Screens were variable quality. I rejected quite a few for pinky casts.
I stopped doing this for other people when Apple started selling phones as water resistant.
If Softbank expect the value to increase, then it will also increase for small investors.
Everything depends on the strategic response to RISC V. The newcomer holds emotional favour right now because of the open source ISA but that won't necessarily make it cheaper in the market. It is likely to be preferred in the education sector where it was born, which will give it the advantage in the lower power devices and it will grow upwards from there. The brains at ARM will be considering what they need to do to maintain their place or what new position to take.
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