Posts by Simon Harris 3093 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2007
That happened to us at work with OneDrive.
A few years ago we were encouraged not to keep much on our local machines or fileservers, but to stick everything on OneDrive.
Last year the memo came round. Essentially it said 'Everyone take your OneDrive use down to below 200GB, or Microsoft are going to charge us shitloads to use it'.
Doesn't surprise me that they'd do that with AI tokens too.
Also, remember, if you're trying to resurrect something like a PET, Sharp MZ-80K or Amstrad 8256/9512, etc. with their built-in screens those CRTs need something in the region of 10kV (something with an integrated colour screen even more) and those capacitors in the flyback circuit will put a dangerous voltage on the CRT anode, even for some time after the machine is switched off.
"I have software on floppies, CDs and DVDs"
Pah! I still have software on C60s from decades ago. Haven't actually tried to load it since the 1980s though. I suspect restoring my original computer will become a retirement project.
Yeah, I'm getting old ----------------->
... or the ISS will have deorbited.
I believe current thinking is to launch the deorbit module in 2030 and fire it up in 2031. The timescale dependent on (1) the ISS not already having fallen to pieces, and (2) someone else (not the Russians or Chinese) launching a commercial space station in the mean-time.
That's just reminded me of a date I went on about 15 years ago. The woman I was meeting was obsessed by pagers. She wanted to know if I had a pager, and why I didn't have one. Apparently every important person she knew had a pager. The date lasted about 15 minutes and we didn't even get as far as a coffee shop before we went our separate ways.
It is however a use case that should have been predicted by SNCF. I remember in 1991 taking the ferry to Calais, and an overnight train to Nice, which split in Paris. I remember particularly well, because I was in the wrong part of the train and had to make a mad rush to get to the Nice part before it disappeared into the night.
It amuses me when waiting for a train at Shepherd's Bush to see the train indicator showing not only that a train has been cancelled, but how many carriages the now non-existent train has.
(it is not so amusing when it's the train I wanted to be on).
Although, to be fair, Microsoft Teams is as bad by giving me reminders of how long it is until a meeting that has been marked as cancelled is due to start.
"About the only niche I can envisage a use for this is where you don’t want people to be able to casually access the system whilst travelling and thus have the potential for casual over-the-shoulder viewing of the screen…"
My Elonex LT386SX from around 1990 fitted that category. Being a plasma screen 'laptop' without a battery, you could carry it around but could only use it at the destination with an electrical socket. It was bloody heavy too at an leg numbing almost 7kg if you actually did use it as a laptop.
Having seen this German TV show, I’m going with very worrying
My passport stopped working in Border Control eGates about 4 years ago, and suddenly worked again last year. Nobody can tell me why. Oh well, it expires soon anyway, suppose I'll just have to get myself one of those very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue ones.
Mine's the one with the Father Ted DVD in the pocket. ------>
But in a digital system the value you get for arctan(0.245) is going to be an approximation, even 0.245 itself could be an approximation.
What the paper here is trying to do is synthesise mathematical functions from a single type of building block. If you could make arctan(x) out of such a collection of blocks, and feed 0.245 into it, mathematically you would get exactly arctan(0.245) out. Further, if exp and ln are defined for complex numbers, your synthesised function should mathematically work on complex numbers too.
Not the fx450 - the flap there was just for standard scientific functions and hex digits (or the fx451, which was basically a fx450 with solar panels that worked other than at mid-day in the Sahara). It could do polar<->rectangular conversion, which you may be thinking of on that panel, but didn't have complex numbers.
The fx991 series is apparently the Casio to go to for complex numbers these days. Historically it was the fx100D and fx570D.
That's somewhat optimistic. My iPhone SE took something like half an hour to update to iOS 26, plus all the time pressing cancel on the 'would you like to learn more about this new iOS26 feature?' screens, and then I had to wait some more while the apps updated themselves too.
You can plug a USB cable between the PC and an iPhone (I can only speak for Windows, but I presume other OSes let you do the same) and the pictures/videos appear in a DCIM folder that you can copy across (although don't try to copy them all in one go as it tends to time-out and drop the connection after a while if you're not paying attention). IIRC, there are sub-folders within the DCIM folder, labelled by year and month, but the order within each folder can be a bit scrambled.
