Posts by Nik 2

Re: It's garbage

Try it. Open Outlook, pick up an email with the mouse and drag it to the desktop. You'll see the behaviour the OP is referring to.

I doubt I've don that more than once since I moved from Lotus Notes in 2003, but that's the point of this thread. Users use features in lots of different ways and those features are important to those users.

I discovered yesterday that new Teams can't alert you when a user comes back online, which was occasionally very useful to me. Why it's not there is anybody's guess, but I suppose MS knows how much it was used. I don't care if I'm in a minority of one, it was a handy feature for me.

Re: It is still not as simple as pulling up in a forecourt and filling up a tank

For most of the chargers I use, the situation is better than this suggests. I carry my charge lead with me and the Type 2 connector is the equivalent of the USB-A socket that is on the other end.

Ancient and Low Powered?

I would love to be able to install Win11 on ancient and low-powered machines - my 700+ desktop fleet includes some very old machines, but my school doesn't have the budget to upgrade them all before 2025. Security updates are important to us, as is a setup that is as consistent as possible for teachers, students and sysadmins.

That would be my second choice, behind having a Win10 with updates.

3rd party software like this? Interesting and clever as it may be, it's not for us.

RAF since April Fool's day in 1918

Royal Flying Corps and Royal Navy Air Service prior to that.

Re: Any scientists left at NASA?

<quote>We might get slightly better batteries in the future, but battery technology is not subject to Moore's law - we can't expect revolutionary new chemistry to turn up out of nowhere.</quote>

I broadly agree with you, but one should never underestimate the ingenuity of very smart people with a sufficient financial motivation. There are often ways round unsolvable problems, and lots of modern tech was seen as improbable or impossible [or pointless - ed] until it became commonplace.

Energy density has risen from 55Wh/litre to 1600 in 12 years, and 80Wh/kg to 700 since 1990*. Still a lot of dead weight to carry around, but never say never.

*https://physicsworld.com/a/lithium-ion-batteries-break-energy-density-record/

LOL to the cry-switch concept, but I think that you can do facial recognition on a Pi4.

Re: With apologies to the late Douglas Adams

Two months later, it's happening again

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/28/new_teams_client_preview/?td=rt-3a

Re: Small Rural AM station?

Thank you, Big_Boomer. I'll consider myself better informed. HAGW

Re: World's first AI government adviser in Romania

Does seem one of the more egregious uses of 'AI' as a label for something.

And, if they're looking to use a system to analyse users concerns to suggest polcy decisions then it's going to have to be really good at avoiding sampling bias.

Re: Ribbon interface holdouts

Me? Voice away, but I am genuinely surprised that this depth of feeling remains.

Re: R2 Unit

That would be the R3 unit, obviously.

The concept is derived entirely from Dr Zeuss' 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back', where Little Cats A through Z emerged from the hat of their predecessor.

JWST ls limited to the R9 unit due to the problems encountered in constructing robots smaller than a single atom, but DARPA is rumoured to be developing self-repairing quarks at the size of an R14.

Re: A30\A303

Not /quite/ as God intended. The full spiel should really refer to every turning by the name of an adjacent pub.

Capacity for EVs

"Electric cars by 2030 will massively increase generating capacity needed"

Total car and van miles in the UK is around 275 billion pa, which needs ~70TWh of energy.

That's about 20 of current total production, but given the cyclical nature of energy consumption, the increase to peak capacity will be much smaller, as long as the peak time for charging EVs doesn't coincide with the existing peaks.

Looked at the from the other end, an average car covers 20 miles a day [Per gov.uk figures], equating to ~5kWh. Recharging in the low demand period from 11pm to 6am gives an average load of ~850 watts per vehicle; 1.7kW for a 2-car household. I don't buy the argument that EVs mean that we have to increase local or national grid capacities because 850 watts is the sort of power the lights my kids leave on used to use before the move to LED.

Remembering

Extending that to a general skill for remembering where arbitrary objects have been put would be genuinely useful.

Linking it to a video device to note which member of the family took said item out and put it back somewhere else would be priceless.

Re: Not for me, I'm afraid.

It's the bane of much modern software; operating systems, browsers, MS Office...

I know users who keep updates switched off because they're convinced that things they can't find have been silently removed in an update for the sake of 'user convenience' And they're not always wrong.

Re: FFS!!!

Use of US units generally indicates a straight copy/paste from the press release, especially where the imperial measurement would usually be expressed in tonnes.

5 - for now...

It's also not necessarily a final position, either. The data so far accumulated gives sufficient confidence to go to 5, further data may (or may not) give confidence to go beyond that.

The "As a result, NASA has determined they are comfortable with up to a five-time reuse for both the Falcon 9 and the Crew Dragon capsule," is very very different to the sub-headline of "NASA urged to reuse Musk hardware no more than five times"

Poor editing, el reg.

Re: Catch and release, then.

The one that got away?

Re: With the 'Sale' of shares.......

The note about 'sharing the vision' suggests that Raspi has considered who it is selling to, and will therefore have had a condition attached.

They must be terribly expensive in tax

"They must be terribly expensive in tax"

£37,000,000,000 is the current estimate, and every penny paid for by taxes...

Re: "...the Department won't reveal its location "

Just over 3 miles from a paved road to the location given below, and only 500 yards along a gully from a road that an average 4x4 might be able to use.

Are you sure? Have you read the EULA?

Re: What about co-op sign-ins

<quote>Will this involve all my co-op sign-ins. Web sites that allow you to register/sign-in using your Google account.</quote>

No. Google accounts != Google+ accounts.