Posts by Lars 3513 posts • joined 21 May 2007
Nobody is going to confiscate your equipment and you will never run out of old flavour of USBs you won't even notice the possible change unless somebody tells you about it.
Just calm down you are perfectly safe and that goes for all your stuff until they stop working, and so forth.
I have 4 working laptops all have a different charger, and in a box I have at least 25 and that includes cellphone chargers.
Of course it's stupid and a waste, and it's not just the plug but all the different voltages too (that creates the demand for different size plugs).
It's a jungle and each company would like to make some money on it as long as they can.
Car manufacturers would create special size wheels too, more than they do, if given an opportunity
So the big brothers have to stand up and regulate it, and the EU is big enough to be able to do it.
And those who oppose it will pull the standard bullshit like - stifles innovation and harm consumers.
And who knows perhaps some Marxism and what not.
Also some people decided to remain in Chernobyl and when people had to leave and could not take their cows with them they let them loose so that now they have "wild" cows living a "free and happy life" in mother nature.
There is a video on YouTube about that.
One could however add that no species come back, what comes back is what already is there or moved there, they are just given a better chance to multiply, or well get "wild" again.
I am all for green and nuclear power.
The year of "Linux on the desktop" is the year you put it on your desktop. for me it was 1995.
I haven't had to use the command line once since more than 10 years, which is actually a bit annoying as I have started to forget commands.
There are things you can do using a script that are far faster than using the GUI, this of course is not part of the normal Windows world.
Also I have never had any problems getting a printer/scanner up running or any WiFi problems.
I settled for KDE now with Mageia, not because I consider Gnome or other distributions rubbish but I like to stick to something more European as we need the knowledge here too.
Comparing Linux to Windows is always a bit silly because Windows comes preinstalled in every possible shop.
Linux does not, so it will be up to you and perhaps your friends should you have some with Linux experience.
Steve Jobs understood very well that to compete with Windows side by side in the same shop was no good so he created his own Apple stores.
We won't find all that many Linux shops around.
@Justthefacts
So what, do nothing because somebody is ahead, or try to catch up.
Buy from abroad or try to produce a more domestic industry to buy from and sell to the rest of the globe.
What would have come of Airbus (or China) if they had thought like you.
Are you actually revealing the history of Britain without thinking of it.
@Justthefacts
"I can’t find any record at all of anything that came out of any of them.".
I am not all that convinced about the honesty of your comment but could it be you should have worked a bit harder or perhaps searched a bit harder.
PS. Britain was a part of the EU, perhaps you should look at the British failing more so than those 27 other memberstates.
Perhaps the real failure the "EU" made was really to let the British with guys like you waste money like that achieving nothing.
PPS. what makes you think RISC-V is useless, and over fifteen years behind the times.
PPPS. That comment was as dumb regardless if he was American or British or whatever.
And with your knowledge what would you recommend in stead.
@Gordon Shumway
Interesting question, caught up with what?
You might know that on the whole it's China that is catching up with the west and surpassing too in many fields.
To quote CIA on China.
"Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis that adjusts for price differences, China in 2017 stood as the largest economy in the world, surpassing the US in 2014 for the first time in modern history. China became the world's largest exporter in 2010, and the largest trading nation in 2013.".
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/china/#economy
@StrangerHereMyself
"RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. Unlike most other ISA designs, the RISC-V ISA is provided under open source licenses that do not require fees to use.".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
PS. No engines were invented in the USA.
There is this link to Nextplatform from 2018.
The article ends like this.
"Time will tell if Europe will be able to pull off the massive hardware and software development necessary to field a true exascale system. An interesting parallel to the EPI effort is Airbus, another multi-country European collaboration. Airbus has managed to succeed over time versus tough competition from Boeing, selling more single aisle planes than the American company and, more importantly, doing profitable business in a cutthroat industry. EPI is an Airbus-like collaboration addressing even bigger markets, can they engineer the same success?".
https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/24/the-plan-for-europes-homegrown-exascale-hpc/
OMG Arthur the cat
What is it with you, I wrote "that the pressure in both pipes is equal." and "It's as simple as that".
And now you write I don't understand what you are missing. Incredible.
OMG again, there are two pipes one with hot water and one with colder water.
They meet in a mixer in that one multipurpose tap (all without any air), in front of the boss, the person who decides how warm he/she wants the water to be coming out of the tap.
That person operates that incredible multipurpose tap "handle" by moving it horizontally, colder to the right and warmer to the left. For more or for less water that person will lift it higher for more, and for no water at all he/she will press it totally down. That works exactly as when screwing down one not so modern water tap.
I am beginning to understand the Brexit vote.
PS.there are more advanced taps too but lets wait with that.
"sometimes to carry,"
There are no such countries in the EU where you have to carry an ID and I don't think there is in the rest of Europe either.
PS. If I have to prove my identity I use my driving license.
I think they are not unknown or hated in Britain either.
Clegg wrote this many years ago and I had to copy/past it because I was surprising a politician had the guts to be both honest and brave and British.
"All nations have a cross to bear, and none more so than Germany with its memories of Nazism. But the British cross is more insidious still. A misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war, is much harder to shake off"
And I would claim he has managed to find a less crooked future than Cameron.
No the water problem is absolutely ridiculous you let your self remain behind the rest of Europe in exactly the same way taking a vote in the parliament takes half an hour with MPs wandering around the chicken house when the rest of Europe uses a minute or two before pressing a button.
Most Brits don't actually understand why they need two taps and I now wonder if it's still true, and for sure, it cannot be so in any bigger town.
Your explanation for the two taps is rubbish, also there was a time when you had no cars and still you have cars today.
I love you too and wish I could help you.
@ I ain't Spartacus
There is nothing wrong in being proud and optimistic about "oneself" but there is also a limit to the superlatives one can use before it gets ridiculous.
I once pointed out to one Brit that Britain is not the world's fifth largest economy anymore.
And his response was - yes but Britain is traditionally the fifth largest.
My question is what is it that makes the British repeat that in front of every text, every speech.
Is there even one other country that has this same funny need, France, Germany, China, India ?.
Is this need the result of a immense lack of belief.
A bit like a woman who keeps repeating - look I am beautiful, look I am beautiful.
Britain was number two in car manufacturing for some time after the war but about number thirteen today and foreign owned, an industry hardly happy with Brexit.
But I give you credit for not using the "world leading" even once.
The exports look like this so far.
Country Exports 2021
China $2.16 Tn
United States $1.58 Tn
Germany $1.40 Tn
Japan $683.30 Bn
South Korea $577.40 Bn
France $551.80 Bn
Netherlands $526.40 Bn
Italy $499.10 Bn
Hong Kong $496.90 Bn
United Kingdom $436.50 Bn
Canada $433.00 Bn
From:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/exports-by-country
The services part would make me worried due to the word that shall not be mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJrz3Ambln8
All the best, life goes on.
AZ is still AZ in the EU, I got the PF while my wife got the AZ.
But you are right, no head of state in the EU will start every speech with any mention of any vaccine.
Using the Wikipedia we find some information on price per dose and what has been produced around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deployment_of_COVID-19_vaccines#Equitable_access
As a Finnish programmer (ex) in a country with two official languages, Finnish and Swedish I can assure you it cannot be automated and it's not so easy at all.
One of the big reasons for that is that when, what you want to "say" in one language is fine in 10 characters it's gibberish in that other language.
I got 40 years of experience in that particular problem and it's easy only if you accept the result to be as we say in Finnish - "kuin juosten kustu". And no Google Translate is not there jet but you could of course try it out to understand it.
Size matters.
This on the transfer topic.
The importance of China’s high-speed tech transfer policy.
https://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurethe-importance-of-chinas-high-speed-tech-transfer-policy-5748075/
But I would shut up regarding the "stealing", companies are there because they expect to gain from it, and if they are not somebody else will and they don't like that to happen either.
If we want to be really worried about technology transfer we would close universities for foreign students but that would perhaps bankrupt them so it won't happen.
It's indeed called the Brussels effect:
"The Brussels effect is the process of unilateral regulatory globalisation caused by the European Union de facto (but not necessarily de jure) externalising its laws outside its borders through market mechanisms. Through the Brussels effect, regulated entities, especially corporations, end up complying with EU laws even outside the EU for a variety of reasons. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
History
• State established prior unification
872
• Old Kingdom of Norway (Peak extent)
1263
• Kalmar Union
1397
• Denmark–Norway
1524
• Re-established state[10]
25 February 1814
• Constitution
17 May 1814
• Union between Sweden and Norway
4 November 1814
• Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden
7 June 1905
Free to choose a year as you like.
Among those countries mentioned, that is Norway and Finland.
I am too lazy to find out if there was a war when Norway was a part of Sweden or during the Kalmar union when it was all one country.
Trekking in northern Fennoscandia is quite fun (very good fishing too) as you can move between Finland, Sweden and Norway without seeing any borders and only your chart will tell you in which country you are.
"But what about the bent bananas ?".
You find it under "Euromyth" in the Wikipedia here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth
"Straight bananas
The alleged ban on curved bananas is a long-standing, famous and stereotypical claim[16][17][18][19] that is used in headlines to typify the Euromyth.[20][21] With other issues of acceptable quality and standards, the regulation specifies minimum dimensions and states that bananas shall be free from deformation or abnormal curvature.[22] The provisions relating to shape apply fully only to bananas sold as Extra class; slight defects of shape (but not size) are permitted in Class I and Class II bananas. A proposal banning straight bananas and other misshapen fruits was brought before the European Parliament in 2008 and defeated".
You can also enjoy yourself just googling for "bendy bananas", it's all free.
"If you no longer want to be bound by a treaty you can withdraw from it - losing both the obligations and the benefits associated with it.".
That is a very simplistic view though, take the Belfast agreement and similar for instance.
An agreement might be part of British law or withdrawing might just be too difficult due to international reactions.
Britain is, remember, not an Empire any more and totally depending on international goodwill like in fact the rest of the world.
"However, some don't seem to understand the loss of benefits aspect and keep complaining about being punished.".
So true, the brexit way to hide this is to claim that the EU has introduced new rules just for Britain that did not exist earlier just to punish poor Britain.
I suppose it's all too difficult to grasp for a brexiteer.
I keep telling myself that all Brits are not retarded, and that my British friends are not, but with all the balloony, vitriol, lies and lack of knowledge coming out of Britain it's getting harder and harder.
I also keep telling myself all Americans are not Trumpists.
But there is something very similar in both countries.
Perhaps there is something here to consider.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBqU1RzV7o
How Murdoch’s Fox News allowed Trump's propaganda to destabilise democracy
@codejunky
You don't seem to learn anything do you.
In a large market like the EU buyers want to know in advance that what they order is what they get.
To accomplice this rules and standards are introduced in any part of the world.
A shop wouldn't be happy with half a ton of banana that look odd or half a ton of chicken egg a quarter of the "normal" size.
Standards serve both those who sell stuff as those who produce stuff, they both need them.
I would recommend Fintan O'Toole, "The Politics of Pain"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA08SXJ8mAY
as you don't seem to know what you fell for and why.
The damned thing is that for Boris and his ilk it was all a "funny game", sadly gullible people took it all seriously and still believe it to be true.
"character set would be restricted" argument is nonsense."
I wonder, are miss understanding it all on purpose or what is it.
It's not about the number of words in the Bible or elsewhere.
Somebody provided a link to an ascii-table, link below, and as you can see in that table there are 127 different codes, removing say lower case characters will leave a smaller number of different codes, and that is all there is to it.
https://www.alpharithms.com/wp-content/uploads/340/ascii-table-overcoded-scaled.jpg
The normal unwritten solution in Unix -world is to use only lower case letters and that will then leave Upper case to really stick out.
I still hate the Downloads, Music, Desktop ... on my Linux.
Why the hell should I need to press Shift just to write music, (not that there is a lot of writing these days).
(and the reason is no doubt to make life easier for who??).
I actually think there is something cheep, a smell of cheep in capital letters because that was all there was in the cheep OS beginning some of us remember well.
A few points on ESA and for those more interested try:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency
"The political perspective of the European Union (EU) was to make ESA an agency of the EU by 2014, however, this date was not met. The EU member states provide most of ESA's funding, and they are all either full ESA members or observers. ".
Note Britain was a EU member in 2014.
Budget contributions in % 2020.
France 26.9
Germany 20.1
Italy 13.7
Britain 9.5
Spain 5.1
.....
.....
Non-full members
Canada contr. 0.6%
Lithuania
Latvia
Slovenia 0.1%
Apart from that the EU also takes part in the budget.
I don't think Brits working for the ESA are all that vocal.
Who are those who generally hold China to have been second to the USA in the rover-landing caper.
Looking at the dates I would say that's rather silly.
It was the first successful landing on Mars after all. (Mars 2 was the first, (if not the last) unsuccessful landing on Mars).
Mars 3, Prop-M rover, landed successfully on December 2, 1971. 4.5 kilograms (9.9 lb) rover tethered to the Mars 3 lander. Lost when the Mars 3 lander stopped communicating about 14.5 seconds after landing.[18] The loss of communication may have been due to the extremely powerful Martian dust storm taking place at the time or an issue with the Mars 3 orbiter's ability to relay communications.
So who will be next then.
Planned
The European-Russian ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin is planned to launch in 2022.
Proposed
The JAXA Melos rover was supposed to be launched in 2022. JAXA has not given an update since 2015.
NASA Mars Geyser Hopper
Adding to my own comment.
There are those too with better inside information regarding Afghanistan than the majority of "us".
They will hardly agree on everything.
I think this is worth listening to also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ4Y0NMDn8s
The U.S. ignored corruption within the Afghan government. Did that lead to its fall.
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