Posts by werdsmith 7122 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
and almost certainly contained the first mircoprocessor "chip" running software in the home.
The early Pong consoles might have a claim there. They were available 3 years before the Speak & Spell and Simon arrived in 1978. In the late 70s and very early 80s the Teletext was only on the higher end TV sets. Ours didn't even have a remote control in those days.
“ If NVIDIA are able to buy ARM then they can set whatever terms and conditions they want when it comes time to renew your license”.
For new projects maybe, but paying big billions for a tech and then kill it by encouraging potential clients to look elsewhere, which in turn will accelerate development of the open source rival, leaving NVidia with dwindling existing royalties only. Unless they plan to keep the tech to themselves.
With the rise of an open source alternative, ARM need to get a bit more generous with terms and conditions.
So no, that is definitely not all of it.
They are a critical part of the approach and landing for low visibility and autoland approaches where they give the accuracy needed that a pressure altimeter can't. At higher alitutudes, altitude is based on a standard pressure which separate aircraft by flight levels, and may not necessarily be the actual height above ground level, because it is affected by change in the weather systems. But the same for all aircraft relative to each other.
I’m happy to be stuck with an iPhone 8, given that there is no incentive to change up and I can’t stand the alternative popular phone OS. The only thing on later iPhones that I would like are the cameras but not worth hundreds to acquire.
I do have one device running Sailfish and it’s the best phone to use by far. Just misses a couple of vital apps.
I would happily switch to Sailfish otherwise.
At the end of the day, Apple can sell all that they can get made for them, so their biggest problem is supply, same as everyone else. I doubt they’ll lose much sleep over a few nerds sneering about them.
modern "driver assistance" features because they work. Proximity radar and line assist help in dense traffic - especially when stop/start queues form.
No. I have these. They are crap in heavy traffic. They are influenced constantly by the actions of other drivers and when there are a lot of cars close together then they become ridiculous. They are only really good for less dense traffic. Incidentally, the wide load overhanging your lane would cause the car to brake, not continue to try to pass. I would expect not to be lane keeping in a lane that has an obstruction in it anyway, a driver's responsibility.
if you have your windshields coated with rain repellent
I have no problem seeing through my windscreen, the wipers in good condition will keep it clear enough. Fog and spray, though, are a different matter.
100% focus. The reality is that none of us can maintain that for hours,
It's still needed and it's still our duty to try.
The roads are an awful place to drive these days, and certainly no playground. There's no way I'm going driving without a real need. I avoid it a lot. I've also mentioned a few reasons, I haven't touched on the worst one yet, the behaviour of other road users.
While they're at it, what about redesigning the user interface to avoid soft, screen based controls?
This should be market driven, but seems to be manufacturers driving the market. I'm incredulous that car makers push this stuff. If people just stopped buying cars that use this approach, then it would stop. But they won't.
Some car makers, notably Honda, have put the controls back on rotary knobs, as well as on the steering wheel. I think anything you need whilst driving, with the arguable exception of sat nav, is on proper controls or on the steering wheel.
I find driving creep-forward stop start in heavy traffic as uninteresting as it is possible to be.
I find the 100% focus you need when a road is crowded but the traffic is still moving at high speed to be very tiring. Add to that the wet conditions and low visibility, I will do all I can to avoid driving.
Nothing interesting about it after all these years. When I was a new driver maybe, now it's just 100% trying to get to my destination without incident.
Btw anyone got a handy reference guide to adding hyperlinks to register comments?
Thankfully. Look at the subsidies needed to make these fabs in expensive countries. We have high costs in labour, bureaucracy, health and safety, electricity, etc to produce something we cannot compete on price with. Better let the US and EU pay it out and UK benefit like the rest of the world from cheaper chips.
This is an example of the massive ignorance and short-sightedness, blinkered vision that has led us into the mess we are in. Or it's a desperate barrel scraping attempt to save face when you are looking at being part of the most embarrassing fuck up ever.
I think these are just arbitrary lead times, they don’t mean anything but a number sometime in the future because there are no firm dates being offered by manufacturers . Expect them to change when supply starts to trickle through.
Try and get a Google Coral USB with importing a used one from Japan for triple the price.
I think they are trying to prove that he was staying with his parents at their home, rather than renting a house from his parents.
If he was staying with his parents at their home he is incurring lesser costs than using a house that his parents could otherwise be gaining income from if they were able to rent it out.
However I fear that the terrorists are winning the economic argument here. £200,000 for the missile vs how much for a small drone?
I don't think so. I'm sure that the RAF have stocked up with certain types of air to air missile, but having not fired one in anger for 40 years, those old ordnance have become obsolete and just been used up on live fire training exercises or decommissioned and scrapped. No big difference between shooting a little target in an active zone, or shooting an aerial dummy target in training.
Yes, the ipad can do that. It has "smart invert" mode that will ignore images, media and apps that are dark already. It also has a classic invert mode that just inverts everything.
It also has modes to reduce white point, filter certain colours, and differentiate UI items that rely on only colour.
It's also possible to invert within the app only, if the app supports it. Like Kindle app for example.
"First morning journey" are the operative words here as it was emphasised that the guy started work "immediately without having breakfast beforehand" – the suggestion being that if he had descended the staircase and fallen while on his way to fill a bowl of Frosties, the claim he was commuting could have failed.
So he fell and broke his back and then immediately started work. This says nothing about his intent when he first stepped on the staircase.
This is true, when I go on meetings with colleagues in the USA or Eastern Europe they have no idea if I'm working in an office or at home, and neither do I for them. This is the same as it was 2+ years ago when I would do 2 days a week working from home. Location is an irrelevance.
As for managers monitoring staff. I've encountered plenty of lead-swinging from people who were doing 11 hours in the office. It's what you actually produce that is the tell, not where you are sitting.
Neither of them have a job now.
Sounds like a shitty environment anyway, they are better off out.
No such problems from either of my employers, both happy for anyone to continue to work from home indefinitely. All my working life I've looked at commute journeys as idiotic wastes of time and so it as come be to proven.
There used to be a backup system.
Using embossed card copiers, in fact the process that was used to take card payments before electronics got involved.
A cashier would rummage below the counter and pull out a big old chunky device.
Your card would be laid on the device and then more rummaging and a carbon paper triplicate thing would be found, that resembled a long forgotten airline ticket formant.
The triplicate carbon thing would laid atop the card and then a sliding roller thing would be pulled across the whole thing and back. This would create a copy of the card on the triplicate form.
Which you would then sign. Cashier would visually compare the signature with the one on the back of the card.
Then you would be handed a semi-transparent leaf from the carbon triplicate thing and your purchase is complete.
The car analogy again.
MySQL/ Maria are the little granny shopping hatches, like a Focus or a Golf.
They are perfectly adequate for most jobs, just don’t ask too much of them for load scale or speed. Of course you could use a fleet of little Golfs to scale. They won’t need a great deal of maintenance.
Oracle is a 44 tonne multi axle truck, which in some circumstances can be tweaked to go fast. But you’re going to need a service team to keep it on the road.
Postgres: SUV.
SQL Server: Transit van
Mongo and similar: these are your new dangled electric vehicles.
I found a use for it.
Some years ago I decided to experiment with mining because I'd heard all the fuss and wanted to learn about it.
It paid off my mortgage.
Now I regret paying off my mortgage because had I not done so I could have paid off 10 such mortgages later. I'm so gullible I fell for that bitcoin scam.
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