Posts by werdsmith

Re: Your no-socket Powerbook might get replaced after 5 years

Planned obsolescence for a high value (when new) item such as a car would not be good. Expensive and time wasting return to dealership repairs damage the reputation of the car maker, drive down perceived reliability and used prices. A poor resale market hurts the new car market as residual values are important to lease type and PCP type deals.

Re: "Anyone wanna buy this bridge?"

The bridge incident that is referred to here turned out to be a very intelligent and astute puchase for Mr McCulloch and Lake Havasu City. He knew what he was doing and it is his detractors that turned out to be the idiots.

I don't think phone radio receivers are superhets.

All SDR.

Re: Peak Planet

I don't think Planet can afford to keep honing updates themselves.

Already done this, CircusMole earlier in the thread.

Not innovative in any way, nor claimed to be, but the PSion style keyboard is a differentiator.

Re: Peak Planet

Had it not been for the keyboard integration, I wouldn't have bothered.

I already have a phone, but a lose keyboard is nothing like the same ergonomics.

Re: The Cake is a lie !

He actually got on board with Vega+ after the trouble blew up and failed to fix it. It was unfixable.

Since then he has successfully delivered Gemini and Cosmo via Indiegogo.

Re: Waiting for Teams

What did they use in the USSR?

Re: Commonality

He was not smart enough to realise that the message he sent to discredit somebody else claiming his work was encrypted beyond the capability of the law enforcement at the time. He most likely expected it to be cracked but wanted to make them work hard for it.

Re: Auguste Kerckhoffs

Bletchley.

I can’t imagine how Bletchley Park coped in the early 40s with their mechanical logic and flying tape readers.

Re: "Not so good at spelling"

John Milton in 1667 didn’t use a C in Parasdise even.

How strange that someone should write a long post based on this false idea.

Re: EVs = bad for planet, bad for poor people, bad for practicality

The alarmist conversations about the capacity of the grid are also propaganda.

Depends which side suits your cognitive bias, decides which one you believe.

AFAIK it’s not all about the UK and that date merely brings us into line with other nations. Some countries are going for 2025.

Re: F-150 engine

The AA and other recovery companies have a charger pack on some of their vans.

Re: Funny headline

Most pigs are fed on vegetable food waste, so bacon is vegan friendly.

Re: EVs = bad for planet, bad for poor people, bad for practicality

Kettle on!

Re: Charging

Far, far cheaper to have hardened valve seats installed. Increases the resale value of the car, too, unlike an electric conversion. While you're doing the head(s), look into installing new fuel system bits & bobs that will make conversion to alcohol easier.

Far far cheaper to keep using additive. This car won’t do enough hard miles to cause significant valve seat wear even if I didn’t use the additive. It’s not a money matter anyway, I don’t foresee ever getting rid of It and I fancy the torque of electric power, is far more fun than petrol.

Check out the series Vintage Voltage on the freeview channels.

Re: EVs = bad for planet, bad for poor people, bad for practicality

This “I read it on Faecebook” crap about the national grid and EVs is actually very tiresome.

Read more here: https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/5-myths-about-electric-vehicles-busted

Re: If it was me...

Which model of white Tesla?

Re: Charging

There are a lot of problems with batteries. Present tense.

But 2030 is in the future, and alternative power is lucrative enough to drive development, so who know what the problems with batteries or whatever fuel cells appear will be in the future? Who knows how the world will be adapted for charging or what range the new generations of cars will have.

And if there are no vehicles for sale in 2030 that suit your lifestyle, then keep driving ICE vehicles. I have a weekend car in my garage that has soft iron valve seats so it doesn’t even like unleaded fuel. I’m considering having that converted to EV, but I’ll wait and see what developments happen over the next few years. Wouldn’t want to be laden with old tech like these early adopter domestic solar roofs.

Re: real website is showing £75.

Supposedly a user can’t change an iPhone battery, but it’s trivially easy.

Re: Typo is fixed

Probably nothing went wrong. A placeholder for a price that wasn’t available for a service that isn’t available for a product that isn’t available yet.

A bore and his cliche.

This was some bizarre number posted arbitrarily for a product that you can’t even buy and the real website is showing £75.

Re: How's that #Brexit going?

Probably stop buying expensive imports, but yes Brexit is turning out to be the shitshow that anyone with a working brain expected. Still no expected benefit beyond some nebulous perception of sovereignty that we always had anyway.

It’s £75 on the UK site. Must have been a temporary number.