Re: allow Copilot to interrogate shoppers
influence, irritate. Same thing.
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"We will also have to standardise electric car charging cables, and I don't want the precedent that Ford can make a Ford-only cable that you have to have Ford adaptors or go to a Ford charger to use... which is exactly what happen if we don't dictate base-level standards occasionally."
Ford is switching to the TESLA connector, so that's that worry put to bed.
Last night i had the pleasure of downloading a 110GB image ISO from a one drive Sharepoint. It took 2 tries, failing at 12 GB the first try. Over all about 4 hours to do the download and the another bunch of hours to put it on a boot stick using Rufus. I wonder about who imagines a 110 GB image is a good idea.
On my Win 10 as well. However, for easy access to Emojis, I added the on-screen keyboard to which you can add what ever format of keyboards you like.
Many years ago, we were investigating changing our insurance management software to a package our home office was developing for IBM S/38s, later AS400s and were talking to IBM about localisation since we are in Canada and the Quebec language laws mandated French for use in the office. Our older software didn't support that, but it was kind of grandfathered. IBM suggested that the best way to localise would be to use message codes to look up the appropriate message in a language database before displaying it. We spent six months reviewing the package being developed and came up with 6 2" binders of required changes.
We put that in our requirements and got "For a million dollars, we'll change the spelling of check to cheque".
One company I worked in the for 80's had added a computer room late in the planning stages so the only place available for it was between 2 sets of elevators on the 53rd floor. They had a Halon system which had a don't flood button, which need to be held until the cancel button was activated, on a wall about 20 feet from the phone. Unfortunately the cancel button was in a sister company's computer room 2 floors above. Fortunately we never had a fire in there.
My past 2 cars have been capless. I didn't even realize it until i went to fill them up. This was not a selling point to me. My thought, now that you have mentioned it, is that it is less expensive for the manufacturers.
As for GMs, I have one and I despise the "infotainment" system. Although the vehicle is only 3 years old, this "infotainment" system frequently functions incorrectly. I was adjusting the climate controls yesterday (using knobs, not the touch screen) and noticed as I changed the fan speed, the change of speed was not being noted on the popup display. Similarly there are 4 lights on that display for various functions including A/C, Recirculate, and 2 others i mis-remember. Only one of them changed when I pushed the appropriate button. It also frequently shows "Climate off" when making changes. Other issues with the "Infotainment" system have included it not turning on, the tuner for the radio not being available and not connecting to my phone. I am planning on not buying GM when I decide to change vehicles, reinforced now that they are planning on including ChatAI.
""UK influencers and content creators earned on average $146.86 and $113.19 per hour respectively – the highest in the world."
This is about the UK. First part of the article is in US$ only and then halfway down it is £ to $
Can El Reg stop this please? Go back to UK units and then convert for the US audience?"
The US is not the only place that calls their currency dollars. Dollars are also used in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It would be nice if the country being converted to was indicated, for example US$, C$, A$, or NZ$.
In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and other places in Canada where the winters can get VERY cold, many people do not have driveways or garages to store their cars overnight, so they are parked on the road. The IC engines have block heaters to keep them warm. The people run an extension cord out from the house to plug the car in. There is no reason that cannot be done to charge a battery overnight.
Did you stop using cars because the police use cars? Nothing in the article says that the PI foundation was involved in police surveillance, it says that they hired a FORMER police officer who put Pis to use in innovative ways to surveil criminals, surely in order to use his expertise with the devices.
with 80 gallons of fuel, I would expect you can do over 1,000 miles between fill ups, especially diesel so no big surprise there. Sonoma to West Endover Nevada (you didnt say where in Nevada) is only 594 miles. the average for your vehicle appears to be 13.8mpg.
https://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/f-350_super_duty
Just this week I received a survey email from a printer sales company regarding the printers that had been recently delivered. One of the questions was 'would I recommend them' to which I chose (1-10) a 5 as the phone lady is very nice and helpful. I quickly got an email asking why to which I replied ' 2 of the mid-sized printers have had input paper tray-lifting problems, the large one's output hopper tray fell off because somebody didn't put the screws in to hold it on and it has had 2 wake from sleep issues requiring it to be turned off and on again requiring a firmware upgrade. All of these issues should have been resolved while you were assembling the printers before shipping them to us.' Also the one large printer, only one which handles 11x17 paper, has a jam at the stapler, according to the info screen and the recommendation from the info screen has not worked. I haven't heard back.
Not truly relevant to the ooops you screwed up, but i really wanted to get that off my chest.
one of my favourites is when someone tries to print one of the documents they received from Europe and since none of our printers have A4, they stop and request that some be put in. Since we are in North America we don't have any so the users complain to IT that the printer is broken so we have to tell the printers to print on 8 1/2 x 11, which isn't really very good. My users are resistant to learning to change the format of the document to an existing size of paper before printing.
I was going to say that anything that is legal in the licensing location (state, province) is ok in locations that are not the licensing locations. Then I remembered that California doesn't allow anything except transponders to be attached to windshields.
Winchester drives have the platters and heads in 1 removable unit.
"The IBM 3340 Direct Access Storage Facility, code-named Winchester, was introduced in March 1973 for use with IBM System/370.[40] Three models were announced, the 3340-A2 with two drives and a controller, the models B2 (two drives) and B1 (one drive). B-units can connect to the model A2 to a maximum of eight drives.
It uses removable data modules that included the head and arm assembly; an access door of the data module opens or closes during a mechanical load/unload process to connect the data module to the drive; unlike previous disk packs and cartridges there is no cover to remove during the insertion process. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives