Posts by Richard 12 6103 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2009
The stupid decision the Germans made was to close their nuclear plants in a fit of insane panic after a massive earthquake and tsunami broke the diesel pumps in a plant on the other side of the world.
They even had at least one brand-new plant almost complete, I think it was only awaiting sign-off before fuelling.
If they had not panicked, and instead actually looked at the real risks in a country where tsunamis are literally impossible..
When you look at the figures, the US Government actually pays more for healthcare per resident than almost anywhere in Europe.
Odd how that works.
Of course, if Medicare was allowed to negotiate with suppliers, that would change. Oh yes, Biden and the Democrats just passed that law, so maybe you'll finally start getting some value for your tax money. I do hope so.
Presumably the individual designated phone 123-1425 as device B for system A.
*sigh* You might want to think about this for half a second.
Miscreant attempts to log into system A at roughly the same time as you also attempt to log in.
You get a notification. Do you say yes, or do you say no?
Let the right one in...
(And remember, users don't read anything unless forced.)
Let me get this straight.
You try to log on using system A, and device B pops up a message "Allow log in, yes/no"?
That's not multifactor.
Multifactor means Device B pops up a code for you to manually enter into A, thus proving that both are being used by the same individual.
Otherwise, HTF can the back end possibly even vaguely infer that both system A and device B are being used by the same individual?
Even if the user is perfectly diligent, spamming would mean they will eventually authorise a miscreant because the legitimate user was trying to log in at the same time.
Ireland has pretty decent workers rights laws.
While the Irish government have been quite relaxed about large tech companies paying taxes, large illegal redundancies are a different matter.
And unlike P&O, Musk xan't rely on a totally incompetent government.
How long can Twitter bleed money?
It's apparently never made a profit, so now that it's private and can't just sell more shares to cover day to day expenses, and now has many billions more debt thanks to the way it was taken private...
How much is in the kitty, and how many months can it lose money before insolvency?
It'd probably get tossed out instantly in court, but that's not the point.
The purpose is of course to try to force the other party to settle, by way of bad publicity. As a tactic, it has even been known to work - look at many of the comments here.
It's also been known to backfire spectacularly, as it does tend to show that your hand is rather poor and can easily cross the line into libel.
The most probable reason for this statement by Qualcomm is that they know they haven't got a leg to stand on.
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.
I agree. It's terrible. It's also true.
The problem is well known, well documented and suits the two major parties just fine - because it almost perfectly ensures there can never be a third major party.
That's the point. The problem, and why FPTP needs to go.
FPTP is bloody terrible.
Not only is it unrepresentative, it also causes polarisation and "us vs them" because you usually can't vote for anyone, you have to vote "tactically" against the party you hate the most.
So it entrenches hatred, and in general that pushes the "major" parties further apart until something breaks horribly.
We desperately need a GE, but it's not going to happen until the last possible moment because the Conservative Party know they will lose.
Recent polls put Labour with a supermajority and the Liberal Democrats as His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
So expect the Tories to milk their current position for everything they can, while they wait for a miracle.
It's a formal, legal statement that they have no ties to the UK, and will be leaving the country forever after a few years.
Rather like having a US Green Card, the problem is not really the taxation, it's the formal legal statement that they don't give a toss about the UK.
Early implementations are often slow, as the emphasis is on correctness over speed.
And as JPEG2000 got killed by patents very early on, nobody bothered trying to improve it.
As it stands, I very much doubt anyone would go back and try as there are several newer compression schemes that give similar gains.
Space inspires many of the scientists and engineers who go on to work in medical and other pure and practical research.
It's worth it for that alone, even if you ignore all the medical and other innovations directly coming from space science and engineering.
And all that aside, space funding is a rounding error when compared to military spending, which has helped with trauma medicine but not much else.
I'm sure they can. They may have even tried.
I'm also absolutely certain that any attempts at such policy enforcement over the last decade would have immediately resulted in Ministers screaming that they can't do their jobs if they have to follow the law and the ministerial code, and said civil servant is going to get fired if they don't let them email anything they want to anyone right this second.
That kind of IT policy only survives if the boss really wants it to. Johnson has repeatedly proven his opinion of how important the law and ministerial code is.
It's not atomic, which makes it a poor choice for removable media. Ideally you want a removable media filesystem to cope with being ripped untimely from its mother's womb and have every write either safely completed, or as if it never happened.
But it is simple. And simple is good, especially for small embedded systems like cameras and the like.
If the wind blows, the panels will rock.
And on will live InSight, cameras and all.
So there's still a chance.
And the real reason is that cleaning staticy sharp dust from a panel without damaging the panel or the cleaning thingy is exceedingly difficult.
On Earth we can only really do this using water and detergent, an approach that's simply impossible on Mars. Sadly.
Starlink is a US company, therefore a military attack on Starlink property would be an act of war against the USA.
Space is considered pretty much the same as international waters. Sinking a civilian ship has brought that nation into more than one conflict.
Now, what exactly the USA would do about that is open to question. Putin probably wouldn't survive it, though.
Erm, did you read your first paragraph?
Apple make a licencing fee on every Lightning cable and every Lightning device sold, on top of the annual fees for being permitted to manufacture Lightning cables or devices.
That revenue stream will disappear.
Totally wrong in every possible way
The regulation is that if the device uses a detachable ELV cable for power, the connector must be USB-C.
So if it does not use a cable at all, it complies.
Of course, this would never have become law if Apple hadn't been taking the piss and wilfully ignored the previous voluntary agreements.
There have been many copyright cases in courts around the world about plagiarism, where the arguments were that two books/pieces of music/paintings/photos had "significant similarities".
So yes, plenty of settled case law in whichever jurisdiction you choose to name.
"The" service - running a git server, issues tracking and email redirect. And buildbots if explicitly opted in.
Not "Any" service.
It's not a free pass to do whatever the **** they want.
Code that was published under a licence with an attribution clause requires attribution. Copilot does not provide that attribution, and therefore has breached the licence.
If it was only using "public domain" code in the training set, there wouldn't be a problem.
The trouble is that (a) there's no such thing, all code ever written is copyright to someone, and (b) they hoovered up GPL, AGPL, BSD etc licenced works, but do not provide any possible way for the copilot customer to comply with the licence obligations when sections of those are vomited forth.
There is a very small amount of code that is licenced as DWTFYW or similar, but they wanted more.
Except that you need a fairly large room for most VR 'experiences'
A 2m square is basically the minimum safe distance. If there's no spare bedroom, that means a living room at least 4-4.5m by 3m to allow a sofa without punching the TV.
And even if you do have that, what does the rest of the household do while one person is In The Metaverse?
Quest 2 is by far the most popular headset.
There's around 15 million Quest 2 headsets on the planet today (Facebook have better figures, but it doesn't really matter for this estimate)
So assume 30 million VR systems worldwide, and that they're used for that hour daily.
There are 332 million people in the USA, so that's roughly 83 million headsets, just for the USA. If all existing headsets were in the USA, and none of them break or go out of use, that'd need 53 million more headsets in the USA.
There are 8 billion people on the planet. To reach 25% would need roughly 1970 million more headsets. In three years.
It's not even theoretically possible to make that many, let alone sell them.
Are on crack.
That figure is so blatantly obviously inexcusable bollocks that anyone reading it who continues to pay Gartner for any market analysis needs removing from their post and to spend some time in therapy.
It's not even physically possible for that many VR headsets to exist within that timescale, even if that many people genuinely wanted and could afford to shell out the minimum cost of entry.
Your comment is invalid. PDF defines the page size and embeds the fonts.
The problem with PDF is that the authoring tools mostly suck, so a lot of the PDFs you see are terrible as the author either couldn't force the tool to do the sane thing or didn't know it was possible. Adobe are the worst, unsurprisingly.
HTML has exactly the same problem, of course.
The problem with DP is the labelling.
A DP++ socket means it does DP and HDMI.
But that also means a DP++ to HDMI adapter is simply a passthru, and is not as good as a DP to HDMI adapter. Despite the ++
On top of that, many GPUs have multiple DP+ outputs but can only do HDMI on a subset of them at a time. So it works just fine until you plug in one more than it supports, then nobody knows what happens, because it's not supported and usually, not tested either.
And unplugging any of them makes the others work again. Highly confusing.
It used to be very common.
DVI-* is also a great example of how to handle compatibility.
A DVI-I to VGA adapter will not physically fit into a DVI-D socket. Because it won't work, so it doesn't have the holes.
DVI-D and HDMI 1.2* are actually exactly the same, the only difference is the licence fee.
(I think it's 1.2. Might be 1.1)
I suspect this hell has been caused by beancounters who don't understand their market. It's been coming for a long time.
The fabs have been stopping making the boring cheap things using ancient processes, and building capacity for the flagship high-value components.
Nevermind that the actual profit is higher on the cheap things, because the market is vastly larger. Sell one $50 CPU and make $25 or a hundred $1 support components and make $40?
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