Posts by simmo 6 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Apr 2018
For a RPN calculator, search for SwissMicros. They make clones of the classic HP RPN calculators (HP 15C, HP 42C, HP 41S, etc) with firmware from the open source Free42 project. They even have tiny credit card-sized versions of the HP15C.
I nearly bought one, but hesitated because I already have my dad's 1980s HP 15C (still running on the original batteries!) and the Touch 11i Free app on my Android phone.
Last weekend me and my partner sat in amusement in a cafe watching a Telsa driver totally fail to back out of an angled parking spot, then drive forward into the car in the adjoining bay, then double park and get told off for boxing someone else in, then move forward a few carlengths still double parked next to a narrow bridge blocking cyclists and boxing in another car trying to get out.
Clueless and dangerous doesn't begin to describe it.... The one positive thing you could say is, being an electric car, it all happened very quietly. Apart from the crunching of car against car, and the yells of "Get out of the way!".
> Canon is know for its MAP (minimum advertised price) policies, for example, to discourage resellers to make "special offers" outside its own ones.
MAP sounded dodgy to me. A quick search found this comment: "Minimum advertised pricing is not legal in either the UK or Europe as it infringes the Competition Act in the UK and the general EU provisions concerning competition law in the EU. Essentially, any agreement between a manufacturer and distributors as to pricing is caught by these provisions. Competition law demands that there be free pricing by all competing in a market. Any attempt to set pricing is caught by the competition law provisions. This essentially takes all ability to price a product out of the hands of the manufacturer and ensures that it is the free market which sets the price, and the mark-up on the product. This law applies equally to e-commerce as it does to other forms of buying and selling."
Engadget just gave me a comprehensive list of ad partners serving personalized ads[1]. Along with an 'opt out of all' button that on Firefox apparently did nothing. Does that count as opting out or not?
[1] https://guce.oath.com/collectConsent?brandType=eu&.done=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2Fuk%2F%3Fguccounter%3D1
Agree with your comment, apart from the final three words. The Netherlands has "identiteitsplicht", an ID requirement. Basically everyone over 14 must at all times be able to show proof of identity and (depending on the circumstances) residence if requested by a policeman and certain other officials. Most Dutch citizens carry their credit card sized ID cards for this purpose. The cards are optional, and certainly more convenient than the alternative of carrying a passport. Non-Dutch EU-issued drivers licences may sometimes be treated as proof of identity but not residence.
When I lived in the Netherlands, I broke the strict letter of the law by carrying a drivers licence but not my passport. I never got fined, but it was sometimes inconvenient. e.g. when I forgot the post office would only let me pick up parcels if I had my passport.
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