They started shipping last Friday 20th and some people had them the next day.
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is now available ... if you pre-ordered
It is 20 years since the last commercial flight of Concorde
[USA] Supersonic land overflights were banned,
Supersonic overflights were banned in UK and France too. The flightpath out of LHR was down to the Bristol Channel and then accelerate, people in South Wales or Cornwall might hear a boom.
French Concorde accelerated once it was overhead La Manche.
But yes, the BA service started to Bahrain if I recall. This was subsonic over the continent and supersonic over the med. Air France went to Rio via Dakar.
Re: Gorgeous aircraft
he didn't think they were any great shakes as an actual flying experience
I flew on one of the Bay of Biscay jolly flights and will never forget it. Apart from reaching Mach 2 and 60,000 feet the take of was amazing.
Yes it was noisy and small, the windows tiny (but an amazing view at cruise).
There was a significant feeling of acceleration and the continued acceleration after take off along with the pitch gave me the feeling the thing was climbing much steeper than it was.
Maybe the Bay of Biscay flights with less fuel and no baggage in the hold made the performance that much more lively, but it was a very different experience to a normal airliner.
Of course, people on scheduled flights getting from A to B in a very short time was what it was about.
Dropbox drops bucks to ditch digs in long-term WFH model
Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market
More X subscription tiers could spell doom for free access as biz bleeds cash
Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy
Re: Not viable in UK
It's a service that can only be used by people who choose to opt in and have had a survey of their landing area carried out.
So it won't be attempting to deliver to the 12th floor, flat b, Mandela House, Peckham. But would be fine for Rectory Cottage, Little Shitting, Berkshire.
Unfortunately I probably won't get to enjoy it, I'll have to be content with being under 10 mile final for an international airport.
Raspberry Pi 5: Hot takes and cooler mistakes
Re: "...let me count the ways..."
I don't think the Raspberry Pi foundation has ever stated that producing the best SBC on Earth, period, is one of their goals...they've always been straight about building the best they can to a given price point and to keep that price point as low as possible.
I don't think the Raspberry Pi foundation has had anything to do with making SBCs for many years.
Sony, Honda tease EV that aims to be a lounge on wheels
Microsoft gives unexpected tutorial on how to install Linux
Elon Musk's ambitions for Starship soar high while reality waits on launchpad
Lenovo to offer Android PCs, starting with an all-in-one that can pack a Core i9
I've lately discovered FreeBSD and what a breath of fresh air, simplified with optimal consistent tools. I wish I'd discovered it long ago and now my days of speccing linux for servers is coming to an end.
linux over the years seems to have morphed into what it stood against. I find it and its culture getting very tiresome. Windows as a sever OS on its own really does seem a bit wrong. But in an Enterprise the admin and management is very developed.
On the desktop I use mulitple major OSes. Windows as the boot on one, linux as the boot os on another. Linux as a guest OS on the Windows. Mac OS on an M2 with linux and Windows ARM as guest OSes. They all have their place. None of them are rubbish on the desktop because they are, after all, just a host for applications and applications is where the productivity happens on desktops.
Make-me-root 'Looney Tunables' security hole on Linux needs your attention
Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed
I really don't understand this comment that comes up all the time.
It's like I go to the shop for orange marmalade and someone suggests peanut butter as an alternative.
If I want to be part of the Pi movement, there is really no point in buying a second hand x86 with a PSU 10 times bigger than the Pi and a power consumption to match plus a noisy fan.
Re: Lost the plot
It’s an ARM ecosystem. Of course they are not going to break their line of compatibility for feeble RISC V cores.
If they do a RISC V then I expect it will be a separate parallel line, but Pi V development has been several years and £15 million so I doubt they have the capacity yet.
Their customer base are generally not interested in windows but many are. Fortunately most are mature enough to be tolerant of other interests.
UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities
California governor vetoes bill requiring human drivers in robo trucks
Re: Now that you mention it
Thumbs down, without explanation of why that could not physically function in that manner?
I never use the thumbs down or thumbs up things, but it's plain to see you are receiving thumbs down because you are writing shit like you are 11 years old and appearing to be a twat.
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is in danger of never launching
Re: HS2 - "people can't not know this"
The fast trains on the London to Birmingham route tie up more blocks than a slow freight train does.
Original London to Birmingham bypassed Northampton because the landowners didn't want it. Was it the Spencers? Maybe they were canal people. Dunno, but they soon came back to get their branch line built.
Anyway, original L&B 112 miles raised £2.5 million pounds to build it. It actually ended up costing £6.5 million to complete. So when people gasp in shock at inflated costs, they are acting.
Re: HS2
The purpose of HS2 is not widely understood and the project has failed to do a decent job of describing its purpose. Consequently you get all the ill informed pub talk like "all that money to save 20 minutes".
A project that gets priced up with a certain figure that people feel would be acceptable to get it past all the politics then in reality turns out to be several times more.... well that's new.... I'm certain that when people sign off on these giant projects they already know the cost is a ridiculous work of fiction because all costs always have magnified historically, people can't not know this.
US military F-35 readiness problems highlighted in aptly timed report
The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right
Re: Phones are lovely but they'd be much better without cameras
The compact camera itself is a compromised camera. Not much better than a good phone camera, nowhere near as good as a full frame or ever a 2/3.
DSLRs are going extinct very quickly now. The full frame mirrorless shows there is no need for flappy mirrors.
That's gas: CO2 found on Europa surface may hint at some possible sign of life
Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure
Re: Moving House
The thing about CDs is, you pay for them once on their storage media. You don't keep paying for them forever.
I own on CD probably about 98% of the music I'll ever want to listen to. I paid for it already, I don't want to have to pay for it again. Much of it came on very cheap used CDs.
It's all ripped and available wherever I need it.
I realise my way is not making more money for the artist and even more money for the music corporates.
BMW always offered the heated seats as a choice of a £350 one time forever payment rather than monthly, so this would have been exactly the same as choosing it from the options list. I guess very few took the monthly choice. Three years would have been a one time payment of £250, so £7 added to the monthly PCP payment which was probably at least £600 per month. Taking the £350 option would add about a tenner. I'm not sure if people are concerned about the odd £100 or £3 per month when speccing up a new BMW for £40k or more.
I guess it's just the idea of the never never. I actively avoid subscription, ongoing monthly wherever I can because I don't like the idea of my money being spent before I earn it. But it will be seen as normal for youngsters.
Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign
Re: in a 3-3 economy class configuration.
I think Ryanair brought back assigned seating because it makes it easier to split people 50/50 between the two sets of stairs.
Ryanair brought back assigned seating so they could separate families and people who were travelling together, they could then charge them money to choose seats.
Unity closes offices, cancels town hall after threat in wake of runtime fee restructure
Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup
Microsoft's Surface Duo phone hangs up, drops out of support
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