Posts by Dan 55 12070 posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
Perhaps they decided on a different way to funnel money to Branson instead of saving his airline.
Branson-backed OneWeb to raise $1bn for its satellite internet mega-constellation
If you switch off analogue without a DAB replacement, that means people start to ask questions like "why was the migration to DAB so screwed up over 25 years that it turns out we don't even need it now?"
Another symptom of the same screwing up is Ofcom daren't push for DAB+ as that means people start to ask the same type of questions.
So DAB is now nationally vital... as a face-saving exercise. Carry on regardless.
What happened to horizontal computer cases? They were much more practical than having a monolith from 2001 beside the monitor, sometimes so tall as to tower above it too, while the monitor itself is at the wrong level. Now, all that remains of them is very niche product.
So you can't really rely on string fields being quote delimited. If you code for a specific version of Excel then all you can really say is you can exchange data with that specific version of Excel.
Double quotes remind me of the 1980s, a backslash for escaping characters is more usual now.
To be honest on a UK keyboard the accent deadkeys are pretty nonsensical on both Mac and Windows. I ended up using Ukelele and Keyboard Layout Creator to put the deadkeys on the accent keys so it's more like a compose key.
The popup you get on later macOSes when you long-press a vowel is pretty useful for finding an accent you don't use much.
FT says this:
"The prime minister appears to have been won over by proposals from the Satellite Applications Catapult this year to develop an innovative positioning technology that could be installed on OneWeb’s low-earth-orbiting satellites, several people with knowledge of the discussions said."
Now either this is now being backpeddled into rural broadband (with a very different model to what they're presently doing) or they really are ploughing ahead with some kind of navigational service with no compatibility with any present device.
I am assuming that Cummings can a) get on the blower and get some preliminary findings or b) the report, like the Russia one, is not available to plebs or c) he just blundered on with this nonsense as he thought he knew all about satellites, as he thinks he knews about everything else (exhibit A, his blog). Either way, it was 92* million wasted.
* Sorry, not 96 million.
Also real reviews for one product on Amazon appear under other products that they consider similar. Also fake products find their way into Amazon warehouses because they are tagged by the seller as equivalent to the real product and fulfilled by Amazon, so you could buy the real product from Amazon themselves or a reputable third party store and still get a fake one. All of these problems are entirely of their own making.
The “Connected Home over IP” will be an IP-based protocol so it can connect directly to the network and internet rather than require a hub
They say a hub not necessary, your lightbulbs, switches, blinds, thermostats, cameras, etc... must connect directly to the Internet and give them that data. Those open source hub solutions looked like they were in danger of getting somewhere.
Intel processors are powerful and fast because they have more advanced instructions for complicated processes
Intel's CISC instruction set is internally translated into RISC. ARM doesn't have a translation layer and the compiler generates RISC code instead. There's no difference, except the amount of bloat on Intel's chips.
Another thing they're touting is running iOS apps better than macOS does currently but then what will the real difference be between an ARM Mac and an iPad? It's just the form factor.
So looking forward to a future of iOSified apps downloaded from a closed-walled garden on a Mac and running on an iOSified macOS (check out the 'features' which have made it across in Big Sur).
My God, make the corporate-matey bollocks speak stop.
But someone tell me how to get Windows 10 to at least wait instead of popping up the "Windows will restart" in a dialog box while you're typing, in the hope that you're going to hit a key which causes it to restart anyway.
This is already done in many countries, but presumably Johnny Virus hasn't reckoned on the Blitz spirit in the UK yet. By not letting this strand of RNA in a protein shell know we're afraid and carrying on as normal as if it wasn't a pandemic, we'll bally well beat it.
And just to make sure, we'll fiddle the figures.
Only they're not, because they actually listened to Google's and Apple's press statements on why a contract tracing API was necessary. Italy and Germany have made their code open source.
And it's not necessary for journalists to even understand technology, all they had to do was listen to Apple and Google's press statements on the matter and draw the logical conclusion that the British world beating app was beaten from the start. It ain't a matter of balancing opinons, it's fact vs. opinion.
But I guess it's easier to just copy verbatim whatever the minister is twunting on about today. Like "every other country building their own app is also now hitting".
Add this app to the list of yet another government IT failure, only this time the general public got to see the failure happen in real time, so this time there's a chance they might understand that a tech-adverse and fact-adverse ruling class being "held to account" by tech-adverse journalism incapable of checking facts actively works against the country's interests.
Rant over.
The Amiga although ahead of its time was a product of its time and didn't have memory management. Nowadays it should be possible to produce a crash-proof kernel. After all, it's just one device driver, it could be unloaded and loaded again. Your screen might flicker, your sound might stop, a file written to a hard drive might be lost, but the whole system should be able to carry on.
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