The Bush branded products from Argos were far ahead of their time.
They new the day they had been purchased and were able to fail exactly one day out of warranty.
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The first and foremost reason to replace hardware is to be able to run software with up to date security patches. Big corps also like to have hardware that's in warranty
AI? That's not even in the equation.
The manufacturers know this, most of what these droids were saying was to try to get investors to buy more shares.
"Although this was firmly in the middle of Oracle’s own guidance, the revenue growth missed analysts' average estimate for growth of about 7.6 percent, according to LSEG data."
So oracle was right and greedy shareholding analysts wanting to pump up the share price by over inflating expectations were wrong.
Sad I am not.
Disappointingly the greedy analyst will have sold before the price fell.
With so many civil servants having studied PPE or PPH or classics, perhaps it's time for the universities to update their syllabuses with some STEM so that the graduates have idea of what it is.
This might actually make these graduates employable outside of the civil service and cause the civil service to actually cast the net a bit wider employ from a broader candidate base.
Because hydrogen is easier to store in larger quantities (Vs big battery banks), energy conversion losses and transmission losses are less than for stored and transmitted electricity.
Also the pipework infrastructure is already there whereas the electricity grid simply won't cope with everyone going electric for everything.
I had an occasion when somebody had misdialled their fax and was trying to fax my phone at work.
After I had answered and listened to the telltale noises a few times I redirected my phone to the office fax machine.
A few minutes later the usually silent machine dutyfully started printing an purchase order that appeared to be to a builders mechants on the other side of the country.
The PO went in the floor bound round filer and I was able to remove the redirect from my phone.
I wonder how the UK left feels about train drivers
They earn plenty more than the UK average and are very strongly unionised in jobs with high barriers to entry in an industry that can't simply close its doors or move elsewhere to save money.
(Detail: the train driver's union is ASLEF, not the more well known RMT.)
But they are cheaper for the manufacturer, who can also sell you new software features.
Then the garages can charge you for installing bug fix updates.
Then the manufacturer can sell you an entire new car when you crash your existing one because you're too busy trying to touch the correct patch of screen going through menus to drive the car itself.
It's win win win for everybody except the customers.
I was going to comment something similar.
The change I noticed in the screenshots is that the ribbon bar has got bigger using even more valuable vertical space than it did before.
Monitors have gone wide-screen and have got more pixels than ever but GUI designers have decided that people want this space consumed by whitespace rather than leaving it available for usability and productivity.
It's probably a 7.5 digit meter.
It should have less uncertainty than cheaper meters although I have seen 7.5 digit meters with identical specs to 6.5 digit meters and the seventh digit is little more than a random number.
I used to automate Keysight 3458a 8.5 digit meters in a manufacturing environment, they used to sell for more than £6k, you can't buy them new in the EU these days as they don't comply with ROHS.