360mW? Guess it is just a single iPhone X sitting on a velvet cushioned plinth under a single spotlingt
Posts by Major N
159 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Nov 2008
Score one for the bats and badgers! Apple bins €850m Irish bit barn bid
What's silent but violent and costs $250m? Yes, it's Lockheed Martin's super-quiet, supersonic X-plane for NASA
OK, deep breath, relax... Let's have a sober look at these 'ere annoying AMD chip security flaws
Text bomb, text bomb, you're my text bomb! Naughty HTML freezes Messages, Safari, etc
BT boss: Yeah, making a business case for 5G is hard
Re: Carrier?
I think a little of both - network vendors selling basestation kit and backhaul, consumer OEMs and networks using the jump in G-number as a way of propping up falling numbers of handsets and contracts being sold, as iteration means less and less difference between phones, and people hold onto their devices for longer and switch from expensive subsidized contracts to sim-only....
Coinhive crypto-jacking increasingly pops up in top 3 million websites
Footie ballsup: Petition kicks off to fix 'geometrically impossible' street signs
Hurricane Irma imperils first ever SpaceX shuttle launch: US military's secret squirrel X-37B
Who do you want to be Who? VOTE for the BBC's next Time Lord
Trump's taxing problem: The end of 'affordable' iPhones
Tim Cook: EU lied about Apple taxes. Watch out Ireland, this is a coup!
Re: Well, bears in the woods etc.
the way it works is Ireland won't tax the proportion of the value that is added by US Apple operation, Apple claim it is most of the value, due to the R&D, design, software manufacturing etc. taking place in the US, and thus it's taxable in the US, not Ireland. Ireland shrug and say 0.005% of a shitload of cash is better than none, and take the money, Apple ship the money to Bermuda and sit on it. Uncle Sam stares across the Caribbean, and waits.
So, Technically, it will be taxed by the US... IF they ever 'repatriate' it to the US from the Bermudan Black Hole. This is why they sit on $Bns in a tax exile while not paying dividends etc, because the instant they try to spend it, the IRS will take their rather generous cut.
A USB stick as a file server? We've done it!
Re: Sort of thing Apple used to 'evolve' (copy) into a decent product.
But then they wouldn't be able to charge you £100/32Gb premium for the larger models. and, heaven forfend, they might have to add a tenth of a millimeter onto the depth of the phone! Hear that low hum? It's Steve Jobs revolving in his grave at the very thought! If you strapped a few magnets to him, you could probably power Infinity Loop with the output...
Galileo in spaaace: France's 'equivalence principle' satellite
Re: No experimentation required
Technically, no, since what you would be doing would be accelerating the earth towards the second mass, although this would lead to a larger combinrded.velocity. also, if the mass was large enough to exhibit this in any meaningful way, you'd have a much bigger problem on your hands, that I'm not sure even Bruce Willis could save us from with nukes...
'Microsoft Office has been the bane of my life, while simultaneously keeping me employed'
Re: Difficult to describe this one
I've always found the biggest issue to be the amount of people who use select / activate far too much. You don't need to select sheets, ranges etc to perform actions on them. Just be specific.
i.e.
Sheet.Select
Range.Select
Selection.Copy
Sheet.Select
Sheet.Range.Select
Selection.Paste
Anything that interrupts that flow of selection (especially during debug) ruins your report.
If you're concise and explicit, that problem goes away.
Sheets(name).Range(Range).Copy
Sheets(otherSheet).Range(range).PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
The other one is where you open secondary workbooks. Noone ever seems to instance them into a variable, and as such rely on the filename as a handle, and when saving out date-specific versions to different places, that becomes a major issue just tracking the last name you saved it as.
I used to manage an estate of 90 reports, all run through excel vba, which were triggered through the Win2K task manager (I know, I know.. but it worked, mostly). By making the code concise and explicit, I could have 10 reports running simultaneously on the same machine, without fearing they'd screw each other up.
VBA is not evil in and of itself (the differences between versions, and even the versions used in different Office applications of the same vintage not withstanding...). Bad VBA is, however, and it is endemic, as most coders of it seem to learn only through recording macros and regurgitating what it records.
Google risks everything if it doesn’t grab Android round the throat
These Chicago teens can't graduate until they learn some compsci
Cyber-terror: How real is the threat? Squirrels are more of a danger
Terror in the Chernobyl dead zone: Life - of a wild kind - burgeons
Apple VICTORY: Old Samsung phones not sold any more can't be sold any more
Let's NUKE MARS to make it more like home says Elon Musk
What Ashley Madison did and did NOT delete if you paid $19 – and why it may cost it $5m+
Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology
Why do driverless car makers have this insatiable need for speed?
Perhaps middle-aged blokes SHOULDN'T try 34-hour-long road trips
Re: Lane merging
Yep, just mentioned that in another reply. Bredbury Scissors is an example of grand plans that never came to fruition. The M60 goes through a big right; this was originally meant to be a slip road for traffic coming off the M63 to merge onto the M66; heading south, the M66 would have continued straight to become the A6(M) Stockport/Hazel Grove bypass (which means it would not have been A road traffic merging into the outside lane, but motorway traffic). The M634 would have continued straight on to Hattersley, which would have joined the M67, which originally would have run both all the way into Manchester (which is why the A57 is so wide most of the way into town East of Manchester; space reserved for the motorway) to what is not the A57(M)/A635(M) Mancunian Way,. and all the way across the Pennines to meet the M1, either in Sheffield, or near J35A I believe, depending on who you talk to.
If you actually care, look up SELNEC, or go to Pathetic Motorways, which is fascinating if you care about the history of British Roads and bureaucracy, and what might have been, as well as the peculiar relics spattered about this isle of ours.
Re: Lane merging
Just like the M1 when it hits the M621 at the south of Leeds - reason for that being the M1 used to BE the M621 heading into Leeds, until they extended it North.
And the M60 at Bredbury in Stockport, where it hangs a sharp right, and the joining traffic comes in on the outside lane from an A-road roundabout. this used ot be the joining of the M63/M66, with the A-road merge originally being slated to be the A6(M) Stockport/Hazel Grove bypass, until it was binned.
There's myriad examples, usually they're due to roads being planned but never built. OR just pure bad expansion policy (see the centre of Derby for an example of how NOT to do roads.)
Playing with graphene? All the cool kids are using TIN – atom-thick sheets of stanene
The Breakfast (Table) of Champions: Micro Machines
Neat but narky at times: Pebble Time colour e-paper watch
Re: I see the usefulness, but not at full price
bought one second hand, the screen started tearing pretty much immediately. Contacted Pebble support, and after giving them the serial no, and pictures to prove I had that pebble, they sent me out a new one. Didn't even ask for the old one back. It took 6 weeks to arrive, but their customer service is great - they obviously decided that the financial hit for replacing them was worth more, as positive PR and increased consumer loyalty - than the negative press that would be generated by ignoring it.
Contact them - i'd be very surprised if you got nothing.
UK.gov makes total pig's ear of attempt to legalise home CD ripping
Goodbye Vulcan: Blighty's nuclear bomber retires for the last time
Ready to go again, soldier? Final Fantasy VII remake revealed
Don't panic. Stupid smart meters are still 50 years away
Long, sticky summer ahead: Win 10 will be with OEMs by 31 August
A good effort, if a bit odd: Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi 2
Citizens denied chance to vote in local-government IT cockup
My partner didn't receive a polling card; we spoke to the council who told us that she was registered and to just turn up; fortunately she is on the list at the station. We aren't in London, but it seems similar issues have occurred elsewhere, but our council was switched on enough to deal with it...
Who thinks Microsoft Edge sucks? Erm, Microsoft
Apple Watch WRISTJOB SHORTAGE: It's down to BAD VIBES
REVEALED: The 19 firms whose complaints form EU's antitrust case against Google
if that were the case, why listen to US companies?
I also find it interesting that 6 of the 19 are German..
Never heard of Foundem either..
This all strikes me as 'My product isn't good enough to beat the 'Merkin company,waah, daddy EU legislate me some market share' whining by a bunch of also-rans, whereby there will be court cases for years, there will be a fine, google will have to add 'did you mean to search with bing?' labels on their search listings, the EU bureaucrats all shake hands with each other and pontificate on what a great job they did, while the consumers all continue using Google because it is good enough, but now more annoying due to the extra crap they're forced to add. So they use a non-eu TLD version instead, like with the right to rape kids and have it deleted^w^w^w^w^w^wbe forgotten charade.
TL:DR; its total shit that will do nothing but annoy consumers slightly and make lawyers rich while demonstrably changing nothing.
Acer: 'We will be the last man standing in the PC industry'
Celebrated Pakistani female online activist Sabeen Mahmud dies in shooting
Ex-Windows designer: Ballmer was dogmatic, Sinofsky's bonkers, and WinPho needs to change
Google drives a tenth of news traffic? That's bull-doodie, to use the technical term
Oh no, Moto! Cable modem has hardcoded 'technician' backdoor
Want a more fuel efficient car? Then redesign it – here's how
Re: @ ChrisZ Advanced Motoring
"I believe they call it defensive driving to always assume everyone else outside of your own vehicle might an idiot."
Having spent years on a motorcycle, I live by that creed, albeit in the slightly elongated form "Assume everyone else on the road who is an idiot who is trying to kill you"
Riding a motorcycle makes you much more aware of what is going on in the road ahead of you; you're typically looking further ahead, aware of that person coming to the junction who may just pull out in front of you, or that car parked near an intersection so visibility of both parties at said intersection cannot see each other.
My pet hate is people in these ridiculously long vehicles who actually nose out into traffic just so they can see; I dread to think how many cyclists have been caught out by these... (though don't get me started on cyclists; red lights are for all road users, including you, don't blindly cycle through them like you own the road!). Is there a competition between german car manufacturers to a) sell to the biggest douches; b) see how close they can egt to getting the driver sitting in the boot?