Posts by Hans Neeson-Bumpsadese 1867 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jul 2014
At least they used to, not sure nowadays whether their chips have a function taht completely disables them when empty.
I don't think they get disabled - a local charity collects ink cartridges on the condition that they are (a) genuine form printer manufacturer, (b) chip is still present
Apparently they make about 3 or 4 quid off each one
That's got me thinking. Whenever I see a trailer for a new movie, it's invariably a remake or re-imagining of some older film. The games industry seems much more focused on coming up with truly new content. I'd actually quite like it if they did what Hollywood does - a 2019 remake of Monty Mole or Manic Miner with all the graphical and audio goodness that a modern PC/console is capable of could be quite a thing to behold.
Developers thus may not want to provide their games for the platform because it seems there are no security controls, making it easy to copy, share, and pirate titles.
Sounds like a true retro experience - it basically describes the model we had when I was at school and we were all trading cassette copies of games for the Speccy, C64 et al
When I was at school (many moons ago) my woodwork teacher was in the habit of calling me Alec (which is not my name) and also got a lot of other peoples' names wrong. I kept correcting him, but he kept doing it Finally explained his reasoning....
"You work at that bench. The person who works at that bench always gets called Alec. That kid works at that bench, so he gets called Brian because that's what I always call people at that bench, and so on. It saves me learning new names each term. I just keep a ready-reckoner to get real names for people when I'm writing an end-of-term report or doing a parents' evening."
One of the joys of having your own domain with a catch-all mailbox is you can tell them that your email address is thespammingc***tsatthisstorewillabusethisemailaddress@mydomain.com - it's especially joyful to ask them to read it back loudly and clearly to me to ensure they've got it correctly.
I've had a couple of machines from PC Dixons Carphone Curry World in the past (not my retailer of choice, but it was a necessary evil under the circumstances).
They were priced as with or without a year of McAfee A/V. I wasn't bothered about it, so asked for the "without" model. I still ended up getting one with McAfee pre-installed. Happened both times so I don't think it was a stock-picking error - more like they only have one system build. I did briefly consider keeping the free A/V software for a year but in the end just went through the bother of uninstalling it.
I would suggest that a GPS vehicle tracker is not the same as Find MyiPhone but I could be wrong.
I would be inclined to agree with you.
We went through a phase in the late 90's/early 00's where existing patented ideas were re-patented with "on the internet"....and then a similar thing started to happen around the mid 00's but using "on a mobile phone"
In 2016, SoftBank's £24.3bn purchase of UK chip-maker Arm was said to be due to sterling being significantly weaker in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, commented: "These fantastic figures show the confidence overseas investors have in UK tech with investment flows from the US and Asia at an all-time high.
It might be a question of semantics, but I thought there was a difference between "investing in" and "buying up and taking complete control of"
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for them communicating with their customers....I was just idly making the observation that phishing messages masquerading as this type of notification have become so prevalent that it's pretty much a reflex action to bin them. That's got to make life harder for banks when they genuinely need to get a message through.
I had the guided tour at the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight a few years ago. Very good stuff. One thing that stayed with me was the fact about just how little ammunition Spitfires and Hurricanes actually had. In the moves you'll see the pilots firing a number of relatively lengthy bursts during dogfights - in reality they had maybe 4 or 5 seconds of total trigger time at best.
Years ago there was an accident on a local farm, where one of the workers accidentally fed himself into some machinery and ended up losing one of his hands.
Once the dust had settled, the farm was visited by the Health & Safety Executive, who wanted to investigate the accident. The guy demonstrated what had happened, and proceeded to lose his other hand.
China has a new program of grabbing cell handsets and they are surreptitiously loading ghost software that 'spies' on your cell activity including GPS locations.
I'll bear that in mind....if their masterplan involves building a list of cell towers near pubs and curry houses then my phone will be their #1 target.
Well, yes. That should have been obvious, given the choices. You’d have been fucked if the other guy had won, too. The only question is which one is worse.
True. The difference between the two though is that Bojo has stated (in discussion with an EU official - I can't remember which one) that his policy on Brexit is "f*** business". Sadly I'm not paraphrasing.
A lot of hate here for The Apprentice, but I have to say that I think it's a vital part of the TV schedules.
Any time I'm feeling down, a bit bad about myself, thinking that I'm maybe under-achieving or not making a positive contribution to the human race....I watch an old episode of The Apprentice. Instantly, I am reminded that there are a number of people who are far worse human beings than I am, and I instantly feel better.
Surely the basic problem is we still don't really know how the brain works
Given the myriad of different personality types (even the ones which fall into a loose category of "normal", and discounting those which could be considered as buggy, like psychopath, etc) can we even say that there is even *a* way in which the brain works.
I wonder if it's more likely a very basic platform (analogous to a core operating system, as a micro level) but the things which we recognise as "the brain working" are individual, inherited, DNA-influenced things analogous to programs. Each one includes some variations and mutations which define the individual behaviours, personality types, etc.
For example, you and I are likely to approach solving a given problem in slightly different ways - different processes within different programs...not a single thing approach which can be modeled as an algorithm for how the brain works in a generic sense
In any sensible world the penalty clauses within the contract would have been invoked by now, with EE having to pay the continuing costs of keeping Airwave running.
EE are only providing the physical network infrastructure - there are a couple of other companies involved. One of these is Motorola. Motorola are also responsible, separately, for Airwave. So...get Moto to stump up a load of cash to pay to Moto to keep Airwave alive.
Ahh....Government procurement
I would never defend someone for not doing enough testing, but I find it hard to hate these guys for this issue. It constantly amazes me just how much the Pi provides in such a small package, at such a low price. Speaking strictly a hobbyist, personally I wouldn't have a problem paying for an official power supply on top of the Pi unit itself - still seems like good value for money.
That's just my personal opinion based on my personal circumstances though. Like other have noted, if I was someone buying in bulk / using these in a large scale non-hobbyist context then my opinion may well be different.
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