Posts by iron 2125 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2017
> If your car can get 40% of the 9.5kWh out of a litre of petrol, and is not harder to push down the road than my EV, then it should get at least 19 miles per litre -- more if my EV is less than 100% efficient -- or 85 1/2 miles per gallon. Does it?
My old 125cc motorcyle used to get over 90 miles to the gallon, no problem.
SpaceX and Starlink are not competitors.
SpaceX and Jeff's BO are barely competitors given BO have never built a rocket that can go to space and SpaceX have launched over 60 of them this year.
Jeff's BO is in the same league as North Korea when it comes to being a successful space launch provider.
> Bezos' satellite constellation still lacking any spacecraft in orbit
He needs to figure out how to get to space first. Oh and how to build a rocket.
Jeff's BO has never launched a rocket into space, sub-orbital hops below the Karman Line do not count as anything other than high altitude flight.
The WHO already has a database of vaccination records to help monitor and combat diseases across Africa, South America and Asia. It is available free of charge and without a requirement for an Oracle or MySQL license. I know because one of my open source projects is used to compile it.
I'd be impressed if Larry donated to improve that but no, he gives his money to a known liar and grifter to duplicate that effort.
The world is more nuanced than black and white so both statements can be true and neither is misinformation or conflicting reporting.
Crypto currency transactions are anonymous provided no one knows your wallet address.
But, if your wallet is known then every transaction is out there on the public blockchain making it possible to trace where it came from.
Please arrange a meeing with Musk or anyone else you think I would not be willing to tell what I think to their face - the evil robot that calls itself Zuck would be a good shout.
I'll happily tell them exactly how despicable they are and what I think of their companies.
Jeff's BO putting the cart before the horse again, or in this case planning to launch thousands of satellites before they have ever sent a rocket to space.
Engines that don't blow up would help too.
Try building the rocket first guys, it will save you a lot of time, money and embarassment.
And no, 65km does not count as space no matter how many times Jeff repeats that lie.
RH are still providing source to customers - people who have recieved their binaries - so they are not in violation of the GPL, legally speaking.
They may be violating the spirit of open source or what people understood the GPL to mean but strictly speaking they are in compliance with the law no matter how much we dislike it.
I worked in a VMWare shop about 4 years ago, long before Broadcom expressed an interest. Their tech appeared to be complete shite back then, with admin apps that used an out of date tech stack (Flash IIRC!) and replacements that did not cover all the features of the obsolete tools. Not what I was expecting based on my experience with VMWare in the early 2000s.
> Bezos' Blue Origin blew up one of its BE-4 methane/LOX rockets late last month, CNBC reported yesterday.
BE-4 is an ENGINE not a rocket.
> The explosion reportedly destroyed the engine and damaged test mount infrastructure, but caused no injuries.
Yes because it was an ENGINE test not a rocket test.
> The rocket was due to complete its testing in July before being delivered to the United Launch Alliance for use on its Vulcan craft
BE-4 is an ENGINE that will be fitted to the Vulcan rocket. It would make no sense to fit a rocket to another rocket, especially since without BE-4 Vulcan is a rocket with no engines!
It would be nice if El Reg's "journalists" could at least tell the difference between a rocket and an engine. Next you'll be calling a keyboard a computer.
> Not only will they not even install unless you give them full access, they will check every time they start up as well.
There are no Meta apps on my phone but I'm an Android and iOS dev so I know a thing or two about writing and publishing apps...
The first part of your statement is NOT POSSIBLE. Apps are installed from the relevant app store and Google / Apple DOES NOT enforce Meta's requirements before install. It just isn't possible to do that.
On every run, yes they probably ask for permission to check your colon and refuse to run without it but it is not possible for an app to ask for permissions before installation and refuse to install if not given access.
You are mistaken and Zuck is still evil.
Funnily enough none of my friends or family have ever been on Twitter.
None of my work colleages has ever mentioned being on Twitter.
I have never had a Twitter account either.
Are there any real people on Twitter at all or is it just billionaires, celebrities, scammers and conspiracy theorists?
If you're rich there's the not yet avaiable even though we've been hearing about it for years, presumably diamond encrusted at the price point iSadLoner or whatever Apple are calling it.
You will pay more than double the cost of the Quest Pro, which was mauled by reviewers and consumers alike for being far too expensive. But, no doubt somehow they will all queue up and praise Saint Jobs for offering them the opportunity to pay far more, probably for less features.
Shhh don't point it out or they'll do something like make YT refuse to work unless you have verifiable sound enabled and we won't be able to use this loophole any more.
As someone born partially deaf myself I'm very happy for the ad industry to ignore us.
> "Of course not all digital advertising is bad. Digital ads shown to humans are good and work as advertising.
Sorry Dr Fou but in my experience most ads are terrible, digital or otherwise, and almost no advertising works for anything other than brand awareness. Mostly to make me aware of brands I DON'T want to buy.
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