Posts by Ken G 533 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Apr 2021
People with Androids won't be converted by these. I've been given iPhones at work in my last 2 places, a 7(?) and an SE. I honestly couldn't tell them apart.
I like their size in my hand, like my old Mi Play, but not the screen size, like my older Redmi 4X.
You will always have to conform to <EU> regulations... if you want to do business with EU countries. If you say "fuck business" you will have more freedom to diverge and achieve perfect sovereignty.
There's no reason the UK can't adopt 3 phase 330V 35Hz as the domestic power standard or insist on beer being served in quart marked mugs so long as cost is ignored.
Pilot error is the cause because the pilot is responsible. If the automated system goes wrong, the pilot is making an error in leaving it active, if the instruments fail, the pilot is making an error in trusting them, if air traffic control route them onto the wrong runway, the pilot is making an error in listening to them.
That sounds like a suicidal part of the driving test, if not for the individual student then for the driving inspector. Ah, 95% pass rate this week, shame the 5% smeared old John into the wall.
Why not accept that different drivers have different levels of ability and that automated driving aids can make the average driver safer. Maybe YOU are above average and don't need that help, but I can't help thinking of the survey that found, when they were asked to rank their driving skill, 93% of the Americans said they were better than average.
When I started working with a large international organisation then based west of Glasgow, the IT security manager was a few desks behind me. I was already pretty good about locking my screen when I got there but my habits improved soon after discovering his response to anyone walking away from their workstation without locking was to throw something from his desk at their head.
The clever and lazy you make Chief of Staff, because he will not try to do everybody else’s work, and will always have time to think. The clever and industrious you make his deputy. The stupid and lazy you put into a line battalion, and kick him into doing a job of work. The stupid and industrious you must get rid of at once, because he is a national danger.
Yes, Signal and Telegram and others.
Unfortunately the only point of messaging software is to talk to other people and other people don't have to agree with me on the value of privacy or the best tool for achieving it. So I have multiple messaging apps. I dropped WhatsApp when I decided the people who use it exclusively are people I didn't need to talk to and who can pay to talk to me.
I do judge people by which app they choose but I do that privately too.
Yeah, some of the context suggests the Emergency/Great Patriotic War/WW2 except Russia wasn't in that one. Usually "the" war is the current/latest one but that seems unlikely. If it was the one starting between 1931-1941 and ending 1945-1957 then I'm not sure how any of the equipment would hold up to sustained drone strikes, though it'd probably be hardened against cyberattack and social media manipulation. I thinkGM manufactured more trucks than Ford during that one, if you count all the subsidiaries; Vauxhall, Opel, Isuzu, etc.
The issue isn't how well it works, it's how well it renders MS Office documents. I've had issues with the presentation of MS docs in Star/Open/Libre/Symphony Office and how they present when saved and opened by MS Office. When my colleagues and clients run MS then it matters. I've been using WPS office for years and I'm happy to check out Only Office as a European alternative.
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