Posts by Glen 1 960 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009
"“female” should be replaced by “jack” or “socket” while “plug” should be used instead of “male”"
As one of the resident Woke/SJW brigade who sees the renaming of stuff as generally a good thing....
In this case, even *I* am like "why?" There was never any good/bad connotation attached to male/female *connectors*
slave can be argued as bad
black having negative connotations can be argued as bad.
male/female? Wheres the implication one is bad?
If I buy a house, didn't get a survey and later discover something wrong with it, it has become *my* problem.
If I *did* get a survey... Is the problem something a surveyor should have spotted? Even If the problem is only discovered 10 years later? 20?
We pays our money and makes our choice.
My understanding is that the point of the new(ish) trendy agile canban woowoo is that it *expects* changes in specifications, and tries to factor them in.
The problem being that if the changes never stop (because, say, the folks in charge don't know what they're doing), then neither does the project. That suits Crapita all the way to the shareholders meeting.
Not sure if that's the case in this specific instance, but have seen it happen elsewhere. A manager sees the new shiny, and suddenly its a "must have".
Lucrelout is outright delusional. Just look at their post history. Were talking Eadon-level trolling. Remember that guy?.
"Not one remainer, no one reason, in more than 4 years."
Just like there is "No evidence" of Russian interference in the referendum. Like I said, delusional.
I can always tell when they are back on the site, as my recent posts all acquire an extra down-vote, regardless of topic. Ever since attempting to take them seriously.
*shrug*
Do you think they automated that, or are they really that petty?
The fundamental problem is that the EU wants privacy for its citizens, and the USA doesn't.
If the EU doesn't enforce this (or can't or won't), the EU is shown to have no teeth. (as was the case with "safe harbour")
If the EU *can* enforce this, the USA is shown to not be the exceptional little snowflake it thinks it is.
Expect tantrums either way.
The Apple "hate" largely comes from Apple itself not responding well to being called out on it's bullshit.
As in no longer replying to requests for comment if you're not prepared to brown nose them. Biting the hand that feeds IT and all that.
Microsoft might not have a glowing reputation around these parts, but I don't think *they* ever blacklisted el reg.
Its as if you're new around here...
There are Brexiters in these here forums that think the EU is a racist organisation. By think, I mean use the accusation as covering fire. After all, it doesn't have to make sense to put folk on the defensive. Something about white majority countries.
Ironic given that most of Africa has tariff free trade access to the EU ("Everything But Arms")... something the UK *won't* have unless a deal is sorted out.
Doubly ironic given that the possibility of Turkey joining was given as a reason to leave... "Breaking point" wasn't it?
As "project fear" aligns closer and closer with reality, you have to wonder at the thought processes of folk who are still in denial about the downsides.
see also: the "Farage garage"™, expats complaining about "Brussels" potentially ending *their* freedom of movement, Sunderland being "unsustainable" in the event of no deal.
I just hope I'm wrong about the lack of upsides, if only for the sake of those whos jobs will be affected.
Sidenote: Its not just the "lefty" "woke" "snowflakes" (as an equally lazy stereotype) that think Brexit is going to be a shitshow.
Apologies for replying to my own post.
Regarding cost of different speed broadband.
The example I used above for Virgin Media's 100mb connection was so I was comparing like for like (approximately). For the 30mb figure given in the post I was replying to, here are some UK prices for context:
So Vodafone's 5G price (£30) is more expensive, but comparable
"That fibre on the other hand is 10Gbps *to every user*"
"Also that mast won't have anything more than 10Gbps connection anyway "
The fibres to the mast, and the fibres to the premises terminate in the same place - at the exchange. There isn't going to be enough back haul there for 10Gbps per user either way. That's unless you're leasing the whole line, and paying accordingly.
Complaining about contention for one, but conveniently ignoring it for the other, just makes you look ignorant. Fibre will always be faster point to point, but that doesn't matter if the bottle neck is somewhere else.
"I see 5G as major BS which is used to sell new phones."
Something can be both useful and require marketing. Just look at how wifi has changed over the years. Electric cars? Smartphones? Twas ever thus.
"Irrelevant as you (or anyone else) is *not* going to pay 10* price for that speed. You believe ISPs will sell that speed at the same price you get now 30Mbps?"
10* the price? Try again.
Vodafone £30 per month for unlimited data "fastest available" 5G price plan.
Compare to Virgin media's "£28 a month for 18 months then £44 a month" for 100mb
That's *right now*.
Of course, thats signal dependant, and VM will no doubt increase speed to compete as 5G coverage increases.
"Also, all of that 5G "speed" is *shared* speed among all users. 200Mbs to 100 users isn't any more than *DSL now and *much less* than even slow fiber."
Try again. 150-200 is the expected average. Its the "above 1Gbps" peak part that is shared between phones. Even then, it will be the back-haul that's the bottleneck.(underlying tech tops out at 10Gbps as previously stated)
If you want actual, tested, reality, my phone on *4G* just hit 9mb in a speed test on *2* bars. National average looks to be about 25mb. Source
With 5G looking to be 10 times faster, it is most definitely comparable to a regular internet connection. Hell, only 4 times faster than the national 4G average is comparable.
*shrug*
Im not going to specifically upgrade for 5G, nor would I want it as a home connection (I don't want cariier NAT), but you laugh it off as if its a fantasy, when a decent 4G signal can *already* beat a crappy wet string ADSL connection in some places. I know, because *I've already done it* with a 4G router on a client site.
"Seriously, why the hell do we need 5G when we have fibre-optic cables?"
because having a 5G mast hanging of the end of 1 fibre is less hassle than installing many FTTP connections.
Remember, 3G speeds were already comparable to many folks home broadband in the few cases where it worked *reliably*. Part of the selling point of 4G was greater range/capacity with the same base stations in part due to frequency changes.
According to my mobile network 5G should "average speeds of 150-200Mbps, and peak speeds will reach above 1Gbps". 5G can top out at 10 gigabits per second depending on equipment.
If you want to pay for FTTP go ahead, but many of us in urban areas will be enjoying a better connection just by upgrading our phones in the next few years. For those in non urban areas it may take longer, but not as long as waiting for the fibre train to arrive, I'll wager.
or... everyone buys the from the cheapest supplier that is "good enough". Creating defacto monopolies, if not for individual companies, then for countries/areas those items are produced.
Which is exactly how we got here in the first place.
Remember Thailand's floods affecting hard drive supplies in 2011?
The capacitor plague from Taiwan?
When people try to switch suppliers en mass, there is a lag while production is ramped up. The thing is, such increases not sustainable, as once supply is restored, everyone switches back, because of the same reasons that made them pick those suppliers in the first place.
Yes, there are things you can to do mitigate, but at a cost. At some point a bean-counter is going to try to shave that cost.
The bottom line rules all, it would seem.
The TIOBE Index is *descriptive* not prescriptive.
Certain languages are *unsuitable* for a beginner actually wanting a job, as most of the the jobs are for senior/experienced devs only (e.g COBOL, perl, assembly)
Rhetorical questions:
Where was swift a few years ago? How did it get on the index if folks only learned what was already there?
"Occasionally someone can't so all they can do is follow you round downvoting you."
After a fairly recent anti-Brexit rant, I found that my downvote total had more than doubled. Hundreds of downvotes in the space of a few days. No single post had a notable (new) spike. Flipping through my post history, I found that 1 or 2 new downvotes had appeared on my posts going back nearly a decade.
Nice to know I touched a nerve.
I remember working on a loaner ibook thingy years ago.
Thought id try to put Ubuntu on it. It was a slot loader, so I burn a CD (DVD?) and put it in the slot.
Nothing. The drive didn't want to take the disk. There was a foam seal around the opening that was holding the disk in place.
I hadn't used a slot loader before,so I wasn't sure if there was a knack. I *gently* applied pressure, and the disk slid in.
*CLUNK*
I pick the device up
*RATTLE*
Turns out the previous owner had removed the drive, and Id just posted the disk into an empty drive bay.
I have found a factor is not holding the device in place for long enough. It can take 1-2 seconds.
I have a pingit device attached to my watch strap. *Very* handy. These days, its unusual for me to need my wallet (I keep other stuff in there, so I still carry it).
As for security, my thinking is that if i'm going to get mugged, they will get my watch and wallet anyway. Skimming my wrist will be more obvious than skimming my wallet, and I'm rarely - (maybe once a year), in an environment crowded enough where it wouldn't be pretty obvious what was going on.
Still more secure than swipe and sign.
That's a small car. We already have hire cars/vans/trucks. If you want electric you can hire a Nissan Leaf.
I seem to remember some pilot schemes where you could hire smart cars on a PAYG basis, and leave them wherever for pickup, but I don't think it lasted very long.
A rack of bikes/scooters takes up waaaay less space than a car park, and can therefore be located where people actually want to go, rather than the current trend for de-car-ification (sorry) of our city centres.
In the UK at least, having to pay for parking is a growing problem. Local Councils seem to want to attract the people (or rather their money), but don't want the traffic. People are voting with their feet (and wheels).
Compare: shopping online. vs out of town retail park/mall vs city centre retail district.
You can literally get more done from the passenger seat while sat in traffic than traipsing round the shops. There is something to be said for seeing what you are buying, for clothes etc, but once you know you are a certain size in a certain store, is it worth another journey?
Sidenote: At the moment, a lot of these gate-keeping schemes are based on emissions. (congestion charge, VED). What is going to happen once everything is electric? kW of engine (motor) power?
I suppose the emissions will have just moved to the power plants. However, as we move to more sustainable energy sources the gate-keeping will be revealed for the lie we already know it is:
Its not about emissions, its about not having so many vehicles on the road it gridlocks our beleaguered transport infrastructure.
"allowing new cars to still have analog receivers fitted"
Allowing? As in not banning? Even ignoring the chicken and egg problem, that's a dumb thing to say.
Given the crappy reception of DAB in many parts of the country, the cars would effectively no longer have a radio.
Which would just create an after market demand such as with phone docks. Or even making older cars more desirable.
As for the racist delusion. "Most African countries enjoy duty-free and quota-free access to the EU market" (pdf)
It isn't remainers baying about uncontrolled immigration. The Vox pops about needing to leave the EU because of the muslims. But, hey don't let facts intrude on your delusions, amirite?
You have already been given several reasons by other commenters, you just ignore them or dismiss them without actually refuting them, Thus my comment about "La-la-la-not-listening". Its like talking to flat earther. Whats the point in engaging with someone who cant form a cogent counter argument?
At least CodeJunky actually makes points. You just sound like General Melchet, eager to send the boys over the top. Ignorant to any thoughts that don't already agree with your mindset.
From the exodus of manufacturing, to half our exports suddenly being less competitive thanks to tariffs imposed by our biggest export market Our fishing industry, so beloved of people whining about sovereignty, currently sell most of their catch into the EU... which , as it looks like we are heading to no-deal, will be subject to tariffs and customs checks. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
So when the head man himself says that Nissan Sunderland is "unsustainable" in the event of No deal. Well... what? Do think he never said that? Thats its somehow lefty propaganda? Do you think hes lying? Just trying to get a handout? Do you think hes an EU plant? or do you just not care?
The latter, I think. Thats what makes you immune to evidence. I belive its called wilful ignorance. With a large side helping of conformation bias.
"Private medical care is much cheaper than the NHS"
The amount spent in the US would suggest that isnt true. The US *Tax payer* pays more per head than we do for the whole NHS, and they still need private insurance *on top* of that. Link
Any local difference in price for private care is going to be down to UK insurers/providers needing to compete with the "free at point of use" NHS.
" paying for people to live broken lives on welfare"
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
I mean, we could go through your delusions one by one, and your "La-la-la-me-no-listening have a logical fallacy with no sources" replies when presented with counterpoints, but I will just deal with the biggest one.
The delusion that rEU is the UKs equal. Germany *ON ITS OWN* has a big enough economy that we would be the junior partner in any trade deal. That you hold onto the delusion that the UK can go to-to-toe with the EU - an economy that is the second largest in the world and a GDP over 4.5 times the UK.... your grip on reality is tentative at best. Link including GDP table
Everything else is you just saying "here are some idiots who agree with me" without siting any sources - as if that is some kind of appeal to authority.
We're not going to convince you. Trying to bring facts and reality to the table just causes you to dismiss it as remainer propaganda, or a lefty conspiracy theory. Fortunately reality doesn't give a shit about your delusions. Unfortunately voters are easily duped.
How much cognitive dissonance must the U.S. right-wing have to go through to still be convinced Trump is the right guy?
Just out of interest, what would it take to convince you you were wrong?
Yes, but how many levels of abstraction below the one we work on do any of us really understand?
There has to be trust *somewhere*, else we would all be (bad) chip designers. Or possibly (bad) kernel developers.
There comes a point where you call a function and "magic" happens.
Would it not make sense to have a separate craft to sort/store transmit the data?
If a stationary lander (or orbiter) can act as a server with occasional uplink, that would free up the rover to do more rovery things.
You could even use some of the current orbiters as comms satellites for when the rover is over the horizon.
I think given the number of probes and craft we will be sending to Mars over the next 10-20 years, it would be worth the investment in setting up a high bandwidth satellite comms/storage network. With the last hop to Earth being a "Big Dish" or possibly even a laser. Want more transmit power? Put more solar on it.
So many things wrong with your post. Talk about out of touch with reality. Ill just deal with the main points.
"far too fragile for life, "
Or rather - they're not about to put up with your bullshit, and have enough of a backbone to act accordingly, rather than be so cowed that they never speak up.
see also: feminism, civil rights, gay rights, rewinding...Sufragette movement, abolition of slavery, rewinding... no taxation without representation, rewinding... The magna carta existed because a bunch of lords were no longer going to put up with the King's bullshit.
In a more modern context: Unwanted sexual touching is sexual assault. Slapping someone on the ass is a) often unwanted b) usually sexual in nature. Therefore anyone who does that where it was not consented to, has committed sexual assault. Spelling it out like this often annoys certain people, their thought pattern seems to go like this:
People who do sexual assault are obviously Bad People, and *they* are not Bad People, therefore, what they do *cannot* be sexual assault. If the victims make a fuss, they are accused of being "too sensitive" or "fragile". Its like the folk who think they are good drivers because they keep taking risks and haven't been in accident (having caused plenty).
"demanded salaries way in excess of their actual abilities"
its called market forces. The managers didn't have to say yes to those demands, but they did. Why? If the managers don't see your worth relative to the yunguns in the same way as you do, some of that blame lies with you. You can be secure in the knowledge that you are right as you apply for a dwindling number of higher level jobs. Hope you kept those skills up-to-date.
"By their own choice"
Gentrification is what happens *after* these young folk who *go on* to become professionals move in. Until then, its the cheapest place to live, crime rates are high as no-one has anything. Think Brixton or Queens from 10-20 years ago. The trendy coffee/wine bars spring up because its where their market *is*, not the other way round. Leafy suburbs are for rich people.
"So they have their own little community already then."
Spoken as someone who has obviously never lived in a house share.
"...hospitality do have a lot of young staff and are down the swanny, but that's a small proportion of the young."
No. it really isnt.
Young folk are more likely to be in hospitality or retail than any other industry.
"you can't be furloughed from not having a job"
A few that might have been true during the age of "The young ones" ~40 years ago. Show me a student that doesn't have a job today, and I'll show you someone who is being bankrolled by their parents. Maybe that's more common in the US, but over here, part of the leaving-home-for-uni right of passage includes financial independence. Unless, of course, your parents are absolutely loaded, but most folks just aren't that rich.
In conclusion, your worldview seems to be of someone who doesn't think the world has changed in the last 30 years. It has. With Millennials now pushing 40, it's not just "young people" with these newfangled viewpoints. Society is always changing. Keep up or get left behind.
D.C. is not a state. Deliberately so no state could claim to have the capital.
Also, didn't one of the territories recently hold a referendum to become a state? It would be a shame if they were being taxed without representation... (not that I have any knowledge of the territories' current arrangements)
"...derelict car factory in Birmingham..."
fewer than you might think.
Longbridge (Rover) was flattened and redeveloped years ago.
Large parts of the former inner city factories (which are now cheap-ish offices and lockups) are either being flattened for HS2, or will have their rents raised to match somewhere (just about) commutable from London.
"university full of bright kids right?"
Yes. However, experience is the best teacher.
Off topic sidenote: I always wonder were folks in the IT industry think others got their experience from.
I sometimes see people posting words to the effect of "You don't hire people to do X unless they have already done X for years" or "that's what you get for hiring people who don't know what they're doing"
Its as if they expect university to have taught their new hires years worth of experience in this one particular job near the start of their career. I wonder if these people stopped learning some time ago, and if these are the folks writing the job ads.
See also: Junior developer roles requiring years of experience. If you have that experience, you're not applying for roles with 'Junior' in the title.
"We had it so good. And then had to make sure the next generation couldn't profit like we did!"
I prefer the phrase "voted not to pay for it". As that puts the responsibility where it lies. With the voters.
When tuition fees were ~£1K per year, its was possible to support yourself from a part time job (with optionally minimal student debt). I know, because I did it.
With fees currently at £9k, even a median income person ( ~£25k ) would be paying more than a third of their income. That's assuming you could fit in around your full time job. Which tells you all you need to know about the types of folk the gov want getting degrees.
Student finance in the UK looks generous at first glance. Loans are large and low interest. You don't have to begin paying them back until after you earn over a reasonably high threshold.
Until you dig deeper into the payback rules on the other side. The way the thresholds work effectively create a new tax bracket where you are paying an *extra* 9% of what you earn over the threshold. (extra to other taxes, because no, its not tax deductible). Given the large sums owed you could be paying that rate into your 50s.
So its hilarious when politicians look like they are committing career suicide by suggesting regular income tax gets tweaked by a percent of so.
If you make education expensive, only the rich get educated. There are those that turn their nose up at everyone and their dog being able to get a Bachelors degree. Somehow, they see the competition as a bad thing.
The thing is, If all these folks were always capable of earning that degree, artificially limiting access for those people serves no purpose other than gate-keeping. (insert prejudice of choice here)
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