Posts by vilemeister

Re: Mandatory 5 year minimum.

We don't have to guess, it looks like in a few years we'll know with the Apple car.

I won't ever buy one, but I'm interested to see what schemes they cook up to fleece the consumer who buys one of their vehicles.

Re: Power Grid

The absolutely massive wasteland caused by surface mining in western Germany had 1 train a day leaving before Germany shut down its nuclear generation capacity. Now it has ~6-7 trains a day leaving, all full of lovely coal to burn.

All caused by a Japanese earthquake and Tsunami, of course Germany is well known for having a long coastline and being geologically unstable.

Re: "when Wi-Fi gets more reliable every year"

I haven't got round to putting cat5 round my house even though I've lived here for 5 years and I'm very lucky I have 5ghz wireless - everyone else in housing estates with 2.4 is swamped.

Re: Nope

As a web dev who also plays around with ardupilots and other home made gadgety things this is a godsend. But do I want it implemented in chrome? Do I ****.

if you *need* to do something like this. shoehorn it off to a server, or installed binary or if you absolutely must, do it with electron. Obviously if you don't know how to do that, you shouldn't be allowed near it which defeats the point anyway.

Re: It can go

Schools usually have methods that have been around for centuries of determining who came into contact with who - its called a register.

As long as they seperate people in the playground/on breaks etc that should be much better than some app that was cobbled together in a few weeks. And it can't be hacked.

Re: Spotify declined to make an on-the-record statement...

I'm in 2 minds about heating - there are times when I decide after work to go for a booze up without going home and want to turn my heating off.

I've never invested in one because I doubt it would pay back over those times, but I think there is a use case for that.

Also in the depths of winter I could up the heating before I got out of bed if it was too cold. Nothing like laziness to spur the pounds to leave your wallet.

Its 'reviews' like this that will make the car manufacturers pot the entire engine bay in resin so can't remove something, and then you also have to go to them to get it repaired/a new engine installed.

Re: Finally!

I bought an Fxtec pro1 - they are out now (ish) - they had supply issues but I think finally getting there. Might be worth a look - I loved my desire Z too. Both of these don't hold the screen flat though...

It may work out cheaper but as someone who can afford to run a golf R in my salary I can't afford the initial upfront cost of an electric car. Its a shame, I really would like to move to electric, but the upfront cost is just too much.

And I cycle to work, so my car is used for a longer proportion of longer journeys than others, so I need one with longer range, which adds even more expense.

Or just explain away the fact they catch fire with 'well, you're using it wrong' or use lower capacity batteries, charge more for it and tout the benefits of having to visit a charger more often.

I really don't know why I hadn't thought of these to be honest. Apparently its been a long day for me too.

I think I was going for the decent selection of PCs in my hometown, you have no choice which is rather more correct.

Re: Is this really a surprise?

Someone came up with a way to reprogram that button on review phones, which was very quickly patched.

A real shame, it could do something useful. I've never used these voice assistants regularly, but I don't get whats wrong with the google one - I've tried it out and it seemed alright once.

It seems to be a race to see who can turn up with the most ridiculous sounding name though.

To be honest, those problems are just annoying.

I wouldn't class health emergencies or lack of energy 'annoying', I'd call them dangerous.

My old business had issues with broadband a few times a month. Which wouldn't usually be an issue, but there was no phone service either, in a large village just outside a large town. If my broadband goes down at home, I wouldn't usually mind, except my phone is through it because I have no mobile signal....in the middle of a large city.

The same way a spacecraft can use a planet or the Sun to slingshot itself across the Solar System without using much fuel at all.