Posts by mike.dee

Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs

Re: "sluggish sales"

A sizable part of the population doesn't need now to have a general purpose personal computer, but it's happily using their smartphone. Few people, outside business necessities, are buying PCs.

People buying a desktop or tower computer for home are almost all enthusiasts and gamers, the one that in the 1980s bought a ZX Spectrum or a Commodore 64: we were relatively few compared to the general markets, and even if there computer were sold in millions, they were used by a niche.

Beer gut-ted: As many as '70 million pints' spoiled during coronavirus pandemic must be destroyed in Britain

Re: Unpasteurised milk

It cost less than the one in supermarkets, the farmer gets more money, if you use your own glass bottle you make less waste. Besides, boiling milk isn't rocket science.

Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks

Re: Local wildlife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NIj6So_UII

I think for the UK market a different form factor robot (and easer to buld) will work better.

Don't forgert the ring modulator on the audio signal.

Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep 'net running amid coronavirus crunch

Re: Excuse me...

I pay TV license and still have a VHS and a DVD recorder, but now I an using a DVB receiver with an USB had disc attached.

Besides nowadays you can find a lot of CD, DVD ad even blue rays at low prices, especially in flea markets but in some small grocery stores you can find them, typically near the cash register like the chewing gums and the alkaline batteries.

Canadian family gives up modern tech to live like it's 1986

Everybody said that in 1986 home computers were widespread., so audio CDs. Actually I had my first PC in 1986, was a Sinclair QL. No modem until the '90s actually. At school we used a bunh of Olivetti M24 and a newfangled Olivetti M28 with their almost-XP or AT compatible architecture

I think that having to use an '80s computer could be really interesting as a learning experience. On that times to make something useful you have had to leanrd how a computer works and all of the quirks of the system you were using.

And for television. I stilll have only CRT tv sets, hooked to a dvb set top box.