Posts by katrinab

Re: Phones are lovely but they'd be much better without cameras

Being able to take a photo of a document and copy/paste the text is useful. You don't need an SLR for that, and the SLR wouldn't work as well anyway.

Indeed. I only once had to make use of my pre-update backup to roll-back an upgrade to a new major release, and that was because rclone had not yet been updated to support it. I tried again a couple of months later, and that time it worked fine.

Re: That's Phillips screwed then.....

Are they covered by the USB-C law?

I have hair straighteners that charge via USB-C. It would be nice if my shaver also did.

Re: Similarity to "BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure" article in The Register?

There is a big difference between advanced features in a VOIP system, and paying £20 per month for a power switch. The hardware version of a heater switch costs pennies. To buy, not rent.

Re: So answer this.

If Google Maps didn't exist, you would be using whatever the American equivalent of the A-Z maps is, and probably would stick to main roads.

Re: I understand why they want to sell it

Most people don't buy hardware features, that is true, but they do buy hardware capable of running specific software.

So it is down to what software makes use of it.

As a starting point, I would look at what people are runing the requires for example Apple Neural Engine or Google Tensor Cores, and then ask if it moves sense to move that from the phone to the desktop.

For me, being able to recognise text in photos and copy/paste it, is useful. Works on my iPad with an A14, but not on my iPhone with an A11.

Re: Lay off guys

People still seem to be thinking back to when the Soviet Union + Soviet-aligned countries were the 2nd largest "country" in the world behind China.

India overtook them in the 1960s, and overtook China earlier this year.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, around 1/3 of the population was Russia, 1/3 other Soviet Union, and 1/3 aligned countries.

Now they are only a little over twice the size of the UK, and smaller than countries like Bangladesh and Nigeria. They are still the largest country in the world in terms of km², but it is mostly uninhabited.

Re: Is Excel really the right tool for numerical analysis?

You no longer need to copy the formula 1000 times.

You could for example put =SEQUENCE(1000) in cell A1

In B1, you could put =A1#*2 [The # means that it references all of the cells output by the formula in A1, not just A1 itself.]

In C1, you could put =SUM(B1#)

Or, you could do =SUM(SEQUENCE(1000)*2) to get the same result.

That is because it is the principal of it.

People understand that a seat with heating elements in it is going to cost more than one without. You can decide whether it is worth paying £350 for.

People understand that Netflix has an ongoing cost to cover servers, bandwidth, royalties to film producers and so on and they can decide whether it is worth paying £16 per month.

If they are going to fit the more expensive type of seats to the car anyway, then there is no ongoing cost to BMW to allow you to use the switch to operate them.

Re: Amazon has offered product from brands called CARWORNIC and TBMPOY

Just looking at some random shoe brands that come up:

Wealsex

Covidi

Wbdk

Vocntvy

Noagenjt

Mgnlrti

Dkny [actually that is a real brand]

Dghm

The SSL stuff needs updates otherwise it will basically stop working.

Re: Get Rich Quick

Nope.

Re: Illness

I'm guessing the attraction of Coutts to rich people is that they can flash their card around and let people know they are rich, which only works if normal people actually know that Coutts is a rich person's bank. Otherwise it is an obscure bank that nobody has heard of, and flashing the card doesn't have the desired effect.

Apple Keychain uses TouchID/FaceID, so I don't need to worry about that. I'm pretty sure Google's password manager is the same on Android.

Re: A first?

Indeed. How could anyone "enjoy" that POS. If you want to run software from that era, put it on Windows 98 SE.

Re: It needs to be asked

I think it is both.

Re: For many of us, hybrids make more sense than BEVs

Are you suggesting you can get electricity for 2.76p/kWh? No chance of that.

Or £2.76/kWh? It isn't quite that bad yet. Give it another couple of years though.

Or maybe you are confused with 5p vs £5? It seems to be a very British thing to quote prices in our subdivision unit of currency. 5p = £0.05.

You've already paid for the heating elements to be fitted in the seats, they are just charging you extra to use them, and going to extra expense to make the car less functional by restricting access to this feature.

I'm OK with charging a subscription for things like a revenue camera database, because that is something that needs to be updated, and that requires extra work beyond what it took to get your car in its completed state to the BMW dealer forecourt.

Just give me a convenient place to put my phone though, as I would prefer to use that for things like navigation.