Posts by Dan 55 16877 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
I wont be sad to see Lightning go as it does eat cables but switch cleaner sorts the blackened contacts and sockets, cant do that on usb C
Can't say I've ever noticed that happening with either Micro-B or C connectors. Is eating cables and blackening contacts and sockets a Lightning-only innovation?
Edit: Apparently so.
They also have to figure out a way of artificially limiting transfer speed as a product differentiator. As with the iPad, so with the iPhone.
And check out the price of Apple's cables. Of course there'll be enough idiots to make selling them worthwhile.
So is Covid not a thing any more in your world?
If one person gets Covid and brings it to the office, a whole bunch of people who come to the office can be off sick for days or trying to work but not being very productive because they feel like crap.
Another argument for WFH BTW.
This seems about as necessary as the Amiga Global Alliance. And probably half the board isn't even Atari stuff and Atari won't like half of what's left so it bodes well for the future.
"The Blob" is about civil servants frustrating government policy, this is not that.
If you're unable to see that the arguments Cameron made about nobbling E2E encryption in the lead-up to the IPA 2016 are exactly the same as those made in the lead-up to the OSB, I can't help you any more. The policies aren't hand crafted each time, it's the same policy seven years later. Each time there's an attempt to put it into law, although each time it fails due to maths.
Here's an example of a civil servant with a bee in his bonnet about something over something which happened about 15 years previously.
No, really. Rishi Sunak is a right-winger
Mr Sunak’s perky and nerdy demeanour covers an overlooked fact: he is comfortably the most right-wing Conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. Taking a hard position on asylum-seekers is just the beginning. On everything from social issues, devolution and the environment to Brexit and the economy, Mr Sunak is to the right of the recent Tory occupants of 10 Downing Street. Yet neither voters nor his colleagues seem to have noticed.
The EU kicked Britain out of Horizon ( despite Israel being members ).
No, the UK could not be a full member of Horizon any more as it was not a member state any more and there was no legal basis for it to continue to be a full member of Horizon. The terms of the UK's associate status were agreed in the TCA.
Rejoining Horizon was negotiated a few years ago but the EU decided to hold it up.
There was no timeframe specified in the TCA over Horizon. However the UK did not implement many areas in the WA and TCA concerning Northern Ireland. So you're complaining about the EU taking its sweet time to do something at the same time as the UK was guilty of not keeping its side of the bargain. Oddly enough now the UK has finally promised to keep its side of the bargain the EU has stopped dragging its feet. Funny that.
The government decided to do the right thing and close the schools affected so nobody would die from this.
I suppose it also did the right thing in 2010 as well when the slithy Gove decided to stop renovating the school estate in good time (aka Building Schools for the Future) meaning nobody would have been in danger, no schools would have had to be closed at all, and nobody's education would have had to have been interrupted.
Or as the EU put it:
The UK has decided not to pursue its association to Euratom and Fusion4Energy/ITER [the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor]. This decision is guided by the UK’s assessment that its industry’s long absence from Euratom and F4E/ITER programmes cannot be reversed.
Meaning... the UK's nuclear industry has fell behind so much it can't catch up? Or it just means that uk.gov doesn't want to spend any money, for a change?
And yet here we still are are, several attacks on Sevastopol later and still no nuclear war.
Per Wikipedia, galaxy brain rocket scientist Musk listened to Pootler's empty threats and was stupid enough to actually believe him.
In early May 2022, the Russian head of Roscosmos and politician Dmitry Rogozin said Elon Musk will be accountable "as an adult" because of his providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Starlink satellites.[39] Later on February 3, 2023, Kremlin-backed spokesman Vladimir Solovyov issued threats over the use of Starlink by Ukraine to attack Russian targets, the Kremlin spokesman calling Musk a "war criminal".[40] The same month, SpaceX restricted military use of Starlink in Ukraine.[35]
... we can drop all this Internet nonsense and call it the Googlenet. Big proprietary US corporation in charge of everything, as was meant to happen in the mid 90s but MS screwed it up.
Both seem unaware that Northamptonshire (Con), Thurrock (Con), Woking (Con), Croydon (Con) have gone under. Also Kent (Con) and Hamptonshire (Con) are about to go under.
Also both seem unaware as to how councils are funded.
Anyway, you may now return to praising the Tory's exemplary experience in running a modern government. Hope you don't mind lumps of concrete falling on your offspring's head.
So it turns out the flight plan loader will crash if a flight plan includes two different waypoints with the same name in two different non-UK airspaces. This is, even in the head of NATS' own words, "perfectly compliant", as each airspace is responsible for naming its own waypoints.
How they fixed this in less than a day is anyone's guess, but it sounds like a temporary bodge to me.
But at least the French got blamed over this, that's the main thing.
Flight plans are in capital letters only according to this.
So it can't be choking over a character which is not capital, or numeric, or one of a few symbols since this is so simple to validate.
That depends on which country. There are successful countries with strong union representation, collective bargaining and retraining programmes like Germany, there's the UK where union representation is low and collective bargaining only exists in a handful of industries, and then there's the US where even Workers' Holiday was moved to another month so the proles don't get the wrong idea.
The economy of streaming platforms is nonsense anyway.
Actors weren't paid residuals on streaming platforms because contracts didn't specify that they must, hence a load of old series like Sopranos and Six-Foot Under stay on HBO Max but new series like Westworld which had residuals specified in the contract were unceremoniously pushed to other platforms with advertising because once the "all you can eat for a flat rate per month" model comes up against modern contracts which specify residuals per customer view it all falls apart.
Secondly if your theory about writers' jobs were true then streamers wouldn't be against the WGA's demands, however it seems they do wish to fire writers and get ChatGPT to come up with even worse dreck than the likes of Netflix have been producing recently on the cheap.
IBM kept flogging the dead horse for a long time but it was never going to win the race.
At OS/2's launch, IBM was big enough to price-match or beat Windows on price until the heat-death of the universe, they just decided not to.
Perhaps IBM didn't want to set a cheaper market price for their OS than the $200 they had in mind, but by not being competitive they eventually ended up setting that market price anyway - $0.
Got it.
That said the same principle holds. As ICAO codes have been a thing for years I find it difficult to believe that, in the Year of our Lord 2023, flight plans loaded by NATS are subject to the vagaries of encoding converters in the airport name in preference to the international code and one mashed up utf-8 or iso-8859-1 string or e.g. someone calling an airport by the town where it is ("Le Touquet Paris-Plage") instead of its real name is enough to bring the whole house of cards tumbling down.
It would mean that NATS would fail much more often.
The move came after a little bit of misguided shaming from Bill Gates, who mistook communication cables for power cables. Nonetheless, attention from the billionnaire techie was enough to drive the cables underground.
Telegraph poles are also a thing in the UK and US, maybe he should also drop a few hints in his home country and on visits to the UK.
Gaming and home computing did not collapse in a slump in Europe in 1984. The Atari VCS alone did though, probably because it was crimping out games like ET then burying them in a hole in the ground.
The only lead the VCS would have had this side of the pond would have between 1978-81. But still, I can't remember anyone I knew having one from 82 onwards. With game prices like these, nobody would want one. I can imagine them being sold on to the unwary to part-fund a home computer.
So it was launched in the UK in 1978 for £169.95 or £200 depending on where you look in this thread. Either price is quite pricey for 1978. It apparently sold 125,000 units in 1980.
Then the ZX80, 81, and Spectrum were released.
Then if you click here, search for "Numbers of units sold by Atari in 1984" for European sales figures, it's become a rounding error all over Europe compared to home computers.
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