Posts by Steve Foster 863 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Oct 2007
Not fired, no.
But they probably have a pension that can be "accidentally" cancelled/removed. Or claim they're a member of a south american drugs gang and surrepticiously deport them to El Salvador.
EDIT: Isn't there some mechanism for service retirees to be recalled back to active duty? Then he could be court-martialled...
"good stuff"
such as James Burke's Connections. It may be from the 70s (and a few bits have dated), but ir's still extremely relevant today. Everyone should watch at least the first episode, and show it to their children, and hopefully they'll want to see more. He does get a bit repetitive in the 3rd series (and yet it's still better than today's efforts).
Helpfully, it plays quite well at 1.5x speed, which gets you the benefit without quite as much of the time cost.
I think you might be misreading the situation:
VeryLargeCo deploys SAP on-site, and stores VLC data in SAP.
Later, VLC decides it wants to analyse what is actually going on in their systems (to see how/where that differs from what's supposed to be going on), and calls in Celonis.
Celonis finds that it cannot access VLC's data in SAP, because SAP is actively obstructing them, and trying to persuade VLC to use its own Signavio instead.
IOW, SAP is accused of trying to use its dominance in ERP to bootstrap Signavio (a SAP subsidiary) into pole position in the less mature process-mining marketplace.
"documentation..."
Meanwhile, they've been busy breaking all the published links to VMWare resources by switching from *.vmware.com to *.broadcom.com without maintaining proper internal connection or useful redirects. It looks like a lot of older content has been deleted in the process too, regardless of whether it was still relevant or not.
I think they took lessons from Microsoft, another organisation that's been thoroughly destroying most of the good content they'd had for years (unless it relates to W11 or cloudy stuff) - the MS KB is pining for the fjords.
EVs are not currently liable for the £40k+ list-price VED "Expensive Car Supplement" (more accurately, the DVLA vehicle tax tables state "You do not have to pay this if you have a zero emission vehicle").
That exemption will end for new EV registrations from 1 April 2025 and they will be liable for the expensive car supplement on the same basis as ICE vehicles (ie £40k+ list price) from then on. Although there is a small chance that the list-price threshold may be raised just for EVs (Budget 2024 item 5.87), such that the supplement would apply at different price points (we'll find out soon enough).
It's very easy in an EV to pull away at lights and junctions and leave just about any dino-juice vehicle for dead, even fancy sports models and supercars (for about a second to a second and a half before their ICE get going and they shoot past me in a roar of noise and indignation).
OTOH, if the conditions aren't perfect, pressing hard on the accelerator from stationary just tends to spin the wheels (there's usually more torque available than they can handle).
I read somewhere that the main reason manufacturers are removing "off, and stay off" options for the driver assistance features is that NCAP won't award a 5* rating if that's possible (in much the same way that all models including the base [that no-one ever buys] must have all the safety features for a car to avoid a 0* rating [as recently happened to the Zoe]).
Practically all EVs have a 12v car battery; it's there to run the all the ancillary automotive systems that have all been designed to work with and run from a 12v car battery. It gets charged from the HV traction battery.
At some stage, they may get designed out (as they shouldn't strictly speaking be necessary).
Not quite - as Moraes was also one of the 5.
Not sure how that works, as you would expect him not to be involved in reviewing his own decision. So while the panel ruling may well be entirely reasonable, his participation does taint it somewhat (ie it would undoubtedly have been preferable if he had not been on the panel).
There is a Dutch company, Muxsan, that specialise in retrofit upgrades for Nissan Leafs and the eNV-200 vans. They do battery replacements (either same size or bigger [for 1st/2nd gen models]), 2nd battery options, and a CCS upgrade (which means such vehicles can charge from either CCS or Chademo).
They're the only one out there that I've ever come across though (and the upgrades are not cheap).
However, it would be better if Nissan stepped up to the plate and did the right thing for their Leaf and eNV-200 owners at a reasonable price.
Lexus cars are not built here, and the UX series is probably one of the last models from Toyota where they were still in EV-denial and betting on hydrogen to get them out of their hybrid dead-end.
Besides, they'll only sell 6 anyway...
Cable theft from rapid and ultra-rapid chargers is a problem, mainly in the north-west of England. Thieving sods are just hacking or chopping the cables off, rendering the chargers unusable. The cables are not live until an EV is plugged in, so unfortunately the scrotes are not at risk of electrocution.
It mostly is. CCS is the predominant connector, trailled by Chademo and proprietary connectors (early Tesla, mainly). Tesla and the USA are mucking about trying to establish a new standard there (NACS, I think it's called) for no obviously important reason (except perhaps N-I-H syndrome).
In the EU and UK at least, any new model launched today will have CCS.
All the CPOs are deploying CCS chargers now (some with Chademo as well, but in fewer and fewer numbers).
There are a lot more computers¹ than there are vehicles, and computing power consumption is routinely close to 24×7 while vehicle power consumption isn't (possibly equivalent to 8×7), so even if every vehicle on the planet went electric, I don't think total vehicle power consumption would ever reach that of computing.
Note that I didn't say *all* "AI" is a waste. But the likes of ChatGPT aren't genuinely doing anything constructive, are they?
¹ I suspect there's probably more computers than just about any other single electrical/electronic device there is, other than smartphones (though they are computers really).
Charging a car at 56kW is a short-term activity (1hr tops), while a 15kW GPU in a DC will be running 24×7. So that 15kW GPU will use more electricity than the car on a daily basis, and of course, it's not just *one* 15kW GPU - it's an entire DC full of the things.
Even worse, a lot of this so-called "AI" computing appears to be just a huge waste of time and energy with no discernable useful output - unlike the car, which at least serves an obvious purpose in getting people from A->B (although that activity might be unnecessary).
It shouldn't, and the better charging networks do support contactless payment.
But "the modern way" is to shove everything into bloomin' smartphone apps, so that tends to be the default action now. This has superceded the previous "web first" idiocy, and will no doubt be followed in a few years by something else equally hair-brained.
If petrol forecourts were just being invented, they would be implemented along the same lines.
That breaks down as $65m to make the show, and $400m set aside for lawsuits when <insert allegations of your choice/ cancel culture retrospective sin of the month> happens due to the actions of the <male lead/ female lead/ non-binary lead/ director/ producer/ alec baldwin/ all of the above>.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
