Posts by balrog 45 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2016
Exactly. Because a UK double socket is usually rated at delivering 16A and the ring it is on is often 32A. So the 13A max cable/device needs protection. These days though the MCB at the consumer unit will flip long before the fuse in a plug goes if there is a short to neutral. Or the RCD will trip if there is an earth leak. Or the RCBO if you are using them, as is sensible, these days. Which reminds me of a small gripe, earth being called earth where its actually better described as a neutral reference. It is the same wire into most houses these days......
A mutli tiered or onion approach to safety which some other countries are less enthused by....
This is also why they are giving the go ahead to Heathrow and Gatwick expansions. Its money spent (i'll not say invested on purpose) into the UK economy that costs government nothing. If the big tech companies want to build huge buildings then why stop them? At least thats the current governments thinking it seems to me
Actually both countries are doing something illegal, spying on Americans in the USA is illegal regardless of your nationality. The point is when caught the host country can hurrummpppphhh and garrummppphh expel somebody and the elected officials can pretend they are as clean as fresh snow.
I think its more how you set up your privileges when you build your S3, if you allow access to everyone with no security Amazon says if thats what you want. For some use cases that could be fine, say a document repository.
It may be lazy developers who point the 'update url' in their app to a named S3 instance much as they could to any domain name. Once the domain name has lapsed you can buy it and do much the same.
Correct but you just got the timescale wrong, the move on happened a few years ago. The art of fucking like this is to exit while you can smell of roses. I'd look at 'retirements' and those 'looking for future challenges' from 4 or 5 years ago if you really want the arch manipulators here.
I think most EVs still have a 12v system, complete with canbus and maybe even a 12v lead acid battery, so that all the accessory items are off the peg bits from bosch! The high voltage DC supply will be separate with a positive and a neutral as this can not run in the same place as the 12v.. A three phase motor doesn't need a neutral, with three phase 'neutral' is the same as all phases connected (draw the phase diagram, add the amplitudes and watch them sum to zero, noodle fried yet?). So I can not see where either of the high voltages would be connected to the chassis but there is plenty of power in the 12v to start a fire.
....... is that even after some sort of apocalypse this sort of thing is staffed by locals. And locals loyalty is only available when they need you. So come apocalypse day whats to stop said locals booting Zuckerberg out on his arse to allow more space for their actual friends and family. Even those special 'security consultants' are going to be bright enough to see which way the wind is blowing.
He doesn't use a M series mac in an office environment and thats obvious. We use Studios in our err studio. And we hammer photoshop so I whimpered and paid out for 64Gb when we refreshed. Anyway a while later I needed to hire a couple to cover some temps and could only lay hands on 16Gb minis on an M2. And they are plenty fast enough for what we do. Best we dont let the bean counters find that out. In the mean time I'd bought more macs always upping office users to 16Gb. The last couple I got with 8Gb and we find them perfectly fine for MS Office/FileMaker/general use. Modern apple hardware does have some issues, heat in the intels, somewhat mediocre build quality, poor port selection and lets not even mention the keyboards but the tightly integrated processor, memory and ssd is not one of them.
John Deere are the poster boy for the lease it and tie them in. And the most interesting development in that is a tractor company restarting production on a model explicitly allowing you to change and adapt their product. The question that raises is there a car market big enough for a similar swing?
This I very much doubt. If you can travel through space that sort of distance what do you get from Earth? There are limitless sources of resources open to that level of tech. Which leaves religious or ideological idiocy. I rather hope that was something we had monopolised.
I can see this kind of thing working until batteries catch up with what we want. Charging on the go is a must though as fitting this wiring through junctions with lane changes is going to be impossible. Maybe it needs combining with 'teaming' vehicles so the maximum number of vehicles can be charged and moved at the same time.
Suicide doors and a central driving position? Nobody who has ever hooked up a trailer is going to like that. Also the likely weight is not ideal in the UK, we could use it as a lot of our trucking is under max weight, but its a real big deal in the US where their max weight is way lower.
There is one way to avoid jet lag. And its quality.
What you do is get flung half way round the planet to fix some bit of kit in a third world shit hole. But you promise to fix it outside office hours, obviously at a higher rate. So you turn up wherever work 'nights' locally then head home.Of course if you get it right you can time it so you are awake the same times you would be at home........
I am a short man. I also dont have a leg below my right knee and two replaced hips. 11 hours sat bolt upright is agony, so reclined I go. Off course if somebody doesnt want to let me recline I am the only person on board with a 12 inch long blunt instrument.......
You are lucky, my 17" died and now I have a 15" MBP. It plays nicely with my other stuff but if I had time to learn something new I would have ditched Apple for computers. Now my music is on one external disc, a load of other crap on another disc because 512Gb doesnt cut it and 500 quid to upgrade to a TB that still isnt enough is extortion.
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