Posts by Will Godfrey

Utter Bastards

I don't usually agree with extreme responses but this group needs to be taken out permanently and very publicly.

Sad

This certainly isn't the Acorn Risc Machines company that I remember with the new, exciting Acorn Archimedes.

What a terrible descent this has been from a well respected platform to a filthy gouging monster this has become.

I I be a-goin there, I be-n't start from here

To me, part of the blame lies with the manufacturer of said very expensive kit.

Anything of that nature that requires external power should have at least basic safety 'crowbars' fitted. It's not difficult or expensive.

They can get on with it

The rest of us will run Gnome free

None of my machines have a recycle bin

I know that if I delete something then it's gone - teaches you the 'measure twice, cut once'.

It never went away!

I've been using it since I first heard about it in the early 1990s, although the number of groups I'm on has dwinded somewhat.

More funny money

... and castles in the sky.

I'd like to say I was surprised, but, well, you know.

So NATS went NUTS

Actually I'm rather surprised nobody got there before me.

Come on commentards keep up!

Yawn

Best get used to being also-rans. That's what the incumbents are likely to become if this stupid trade war continues.

Did nobody spot a problem with this?

"Transportation, typical home, workplace and public level 2 chargers can take a battery from full to empty in anywhere from four to ten hours."

Sequential switches are your friend

In the dim distant past I worked for a firm that built complete bespoke Audio/Video systems in 6ft racks for people with more money than sense. If the whole lot came on at once it would take out quite hefty contactors, so each rack was fitted with these switchers. For one rather large auditorium we even have to have built a 'slow' sequential switch for the lighting system.

Again?

Is there anyone out there paying any attention to these things?

Actually, this topic itself suggests the answer is NO.

Here be dragons!

I would regard Amazon being interested in anything I was involved with as the final nail in the coffin.

G no me

I left before V3. I've always preferred lightweight desktops, you know, ones that get out of the way and so you can actually do stuff.

The AI quesation has a missing option

'It's irrelevant to what we are doing here'

I hate being wrong

but I keep thinking it couldn't get worse... then it does.

Seems to be a common problem

Several SpaceX failures have been due to this, and I vaguely remember it turns up with some of the others from time to time. I wonder if there is some sort of conceptual issue.

I shall watch with interest

I actually hope they do well with this. We need more diversity. To much of the world has become dependent on the USA which is steadily becoming more aggressively dictatorial.

Hmmm

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need I go on?

The basic idea is not new.

I think it was in France a good few years ago where there was an experiment with paving tiles that moved slightly underfoot. However it was realised that even slight movement caused some people to stumble - especially elderly or blind people.

Just... No!

About 30 years ago in a pub, a girl in her late teens sang 'Streets of London' accompanying herself with a guitar. There was utter silence until she finished after which the pub near exploded with applause, and I don't think there was a dry eye in the place. I'll never forget it.

I don't envisage AI ever getting anywhere near such an emotional performance.