You are not the only one fearing from what should become a disunited Kingdom with Scotland and NIO going their own separate ways. Living in Scotland (and with an Irish passport) I would welcome it.
Posts by BebopWeBop
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As UK Parliament heads back to in-person voting, select committees are told they can continue working via Zoom
BoJo looks to jumpstart UK economy with £6k taxpayer-funded incentive for Brits to buy electric cars – report
Re: Buy more cars - drive them less
Snap - although the other way round on the long trip. We do have an elserly petrol vehicle - a little two seater, it has sone about 4 months to the gallon. Although when its time comes for the next service I iwll not be prepared to spend much money, so its scrappage (as a vanity vehicle) might come sooner than later.
US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year
Huawei launches UK charm offensive: We've provided 2G, 3G and 4G for 20 years, and you're worried about 5G?
Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen
Re: All part of the planned obsolesence
Hmmm. A beer cooled phone. It reminds me of a meeting I was at. We all had those Nokia 6150s (lovely). One of my colleagues was highly amused at the vibrate function and announced that it was even better when contained in a glass. T our delight he set it to vibrate, asked someone to call it and dripped into the glass in front of him. It was full of water.
How we laughed.
Franco-German cloud framework floated to protect European's data from foreign tech firms slurpage
Brit MP demands answers from Fujitsu about Horizon IT system after Post Office staff jailed over accounting errors
If Daddy doesn't want me to touch the buttons, why did they make them so colourful?
Not just its VCS console that's MIA, Atari is a no-show in court, too: Reborn biz ignores hardware architect's lawsuit over unpaid wages
Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want
As anti-brutality protests fill streets of American cities, netizens cram police app with K-Pop, airwaves with NWA
Re: I'm not afraid of the police. At all.
Balls. If you are going to post here try and get your facts right. Someone will look up blithely stated non facts in favour of an argument.
Take one year - 2019
Officers killed in the line of duty 131, source 'Officer Down Memorial page' https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2019
Other years are available there
'Civilians' killed by police 2019, 1004, source of data the Washington Post study which collates incomplete FBI records with verified media reports across the US.
Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades
Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system
After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts
AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne
HP Ink sales are in the red: Total revenue down 11 per cent as CEO says coronavirus knackered supply chain
Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?
Broadcom sends its England-based staff back into office as UK lockdown eases – though Welsh workers get a free pass
IBM's sacking spree reaches Australia – and as staff wait to exit, they're offered AU$4k to find new workers
Contact-tracing app may become a permanent fixture in major Chinese city
Dude, where's my laser?
For the price tag, this iPad Pro keyboard better damn well be Magic: It isn't... but it's not completely useless either
Re: Because ... it’ll just work : Nope
Yup, I updated our time capsule with an SDD - mainly because the HD gave up the ghost after 9 years and three house moves with much abuse in between. It still works quietly very happily and in the background - although it is not a terribly difficult thing to do.
I (and my partner and daughter) use 12" (approx) iPad Pros for drawing and photo manipulation with the rather wonderful Affinity Photo. Very portable, very fine control with a pen - but of course eye wateringly expensive. However for the job (and my daughter is a professional in that illustrations and photo editing are part of her day job) they are difficult to beat at the moment. It does other things as well, so I justify it on the basis that I also use Mathcad and Mathematica as well as a decent word processor and spreadsheet - so it is a legitimate business expense :-)
HPE's Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan
Many years go, while I was at HP, just after Fiorina arrived (certainly the beginning of the end), we were asked to take a 10% cut to save posts. As far as I am aware (I was not a manager), takeup in our R&D group was about 80%. It lasted for 3 months, following which they promptly slashed and slashed. At least at that time, they were offering decent redundancy terms (which I left on about 8 years later).
Combined with the explanations and choices made, that action destroyed a lot of goodwill - to the companies detriment. A vicious feedback loop that inevitably did not help.