Posts by Ken 16 1414 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2009
I've been reading 'Rocket Men' by Robert Kurson and 'Shoot for the Moon' by James Donovan about Apollos 8 and 11 respectively (but I suggest you read them in the reverse order as Shoot for the Moon does a better job of giving background and introducing the wider team).
I generally agree, touchscreen laptops are of limited use and I hate leaving fingerprints on my display anyway so only used when I need to put away laptops but can keep tablets. The battery life is good enough for me, a full work day when travelling. I don't like the positioning of the numeric keys (the 1 is over the W not the Q) but I didn't like the layout of the Chromebook I used before that or the Surface with Touchcover either - I can adapt. I did consider a refurbed 11e Chromebook instead of this.
For the money I don't expect future proofing, I'll buy a replacement in a few years - and the iPad isn't guaranteed to run the software Apple issue in 2021 either. Used Surfaces for the same price are very hard used ex corporate and I doubt the battery life left.
eBay for £110 + delivery and a tenner for the case, under twenty for the card. I was about to contradict you on the Amazon price but checked first and you're right - there were some on offer new for £155 at the time I was looking. I don't claim it to be the perfect solution but I've had a work issued Surface before and neither was that, the Miix can at least be used on my lap. It doesn't charge from USB-C so I bought a USB to 3.5mm barrel cable to let me travel without the charger.
My particular requirement is something that has a keyboard for when I remote access my work desktop AND converts to a tablet that I don't have to put away for takeoff and landing when watching Netflix and similar but I quite like it for general (limited) use with Vivaldi brower and WPS Office installed on the SD.
iPads do seem better built and have a better infrastructure but I'd only us one (or a Surface) if they're company issued and insured.
It's got a decent magnetically attached keyboard, a high resolution screen and I put a 128GB high speed SD in, total cost with a nice case, under £140. It runs Windows 10 and as many applications as I'd care to put on something with a small screen and keyboard. I can't have more than one open at a time or too many browser tabs but again it's for meetings and airports. I don't understand the Apple premium.
On that basis, I paid £10 for a network locked Blackberry Classic on eBay a few months ago, put in a PAYG SIM, stuck FDroid and Aptoide on and did a bit of trial and error to find out which FOSS apps (and old versions of apps) run smoothly. It's fine for WhatsApp with fileshare patch and MagicEarth gets me around, the old Blackberry Apps mostly still work (aside from Travel), it's solid on voice calls and I suspect if I drop it, the floor tiles will break before the phone does.
Having too much time on my hands, I used this in conjunction with a 2011 Sony Xperia Ray running LegacyXperia/CM11 Kitkat since anything that'll run on BB10 will run on Android 4.3/4.4 to have a phone small enough to fit in my coin pocket.
If the rivalry motivates either or both of them, bring it on. I think they are both flawed, possibly unpleasant, businessmen doing a great thing for mankind as a boost for their egos. The railways benefited from the same robber baron mentality in the 19th Century as did cars and aircraft in the early 20th.
I found his minimum survival populations unrealistic (without additional time and technology not mentioned in the book) as well as lack of non-american on-planet survivor groups. I also kept mis-reading the title as seveneyes but that one's all on me. That said, if they make a film, Gwendoline Christie would make a great Tekla.
I bet you'd have fallen asleep or gone for a crap within the first 30 days, maybe even the first 10.
Have you never tried to plan support for an application that is so simple one person can handle it, then you realise it's needed 16 hours/day so 2 shifts x 3 people to cater for leave and illness and then there's training for them and some admin resource etc. until what seemed a cheap option is costing more than paying someone else to do it? Why do you think SaaS sells??
I don't mean this as criticism of Nammo's engine, it got them to the moon and landing was always ambitious. Well done to the whole team.
I did find the UK news coverage a little amusing as over the course of the week every story mentioned "British built main engine" in the first paragraph until last night when it became a failure of the Israeli spacecrafts main engine that caused the crash.
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