Posts by werdsmith 7138 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
First, I find those Ts & Cs appalling and would never buy a Cybertruck and by extension now, will never buy a Tesla - there's better electric cars on the market anyway.
I don't think Tesla much cares.
If such a clause is actually needed then they must be confident of selling more than they can make, so your custom is irrelevant.
I was about to comment about the 486 DX2 picture, I was going to excuse myself for being off topic.
Anyway, lovely nostalgic feelings and memories of bosses who looked at the occasional word document demanding that they are upgraded to the latest whatever Intel CPU appeared. DX2-100 and they demanded whatever math co-pros. SX for the plebs who were doing all the work and making the documents. .
It’s quite funnY to see dull-boys shitting themselves over the price of Apple stuff. Companies buy them, and expenses. They don’t care.
I have a max spec M2 Air which cost me zero as it is supplied by the company and is mere bagatelle compared to the home working set up costs they have afforded me.
If somebody does by one with their own cash, then I’m sure they will get a chunk back when they upgrade and sell it on.
The best thing about it is the consistency of it, the problem with linux is all the different ways of doing things and all the different shite that is needed to do it all. Especially for learner users following web guides. Some say choice is good, and of course it is. But just like cars have the pedals and the steering wheel generally providing a consistent UI, it would really help learners if there wasn't a hundred package managers and every online tutorial has a different one.
If you are proficient with various flavours of linux and scoffing at this, you may be suffering "the curse of knowledge". Put yourself in the position of learners and don't give me any of this supercilious "read it on the man page" shite.
They are using Pis, just not in the curriculum. Some computing teachers are doing extra-curricular teaching. The students fund their own Pis and arduinos etc. The schools chip in a bit and they make their robots and enter them into competitions against other schools.
That things about "only learning how to do Word and Powerpoint" has been inaccurate pub bore BS for years.
For GCSE they do algorithms, programming, data representation, systems, networks, cyber security relational databases and SQL plus ethic, legal, environmental and privacy.
at A-level:
The characteristics of
contemporary processors,
input, output and storage
devices
• Software and software
development
• Exchanging data
• Data types, data structures and
algorithms
• Legal, moral, cultural and
ethical issues
• Elements of computational
thinking
• Problem solving and
programming
• Algorithms to solve problems
and standard algorithms
with: • Analysis of the problem
• Design of the solution
• Developing the solution
• Evaluation
they were too busy trying to figure out which part of the system was responsible for it being so annoying compared to every other computer they saw.
you just described my StarFive VisionFive 2 RISC V SBC.
There was the BBC micro:bit also, which as really quite good for what it does. But the schools in the UK have all got computers in already, and there's not that much in the curriculum for embedded and maker projects.The are loads of code clubs and web projects that use Pis though.
I use the driver aids when the road is quietish, it makes a surprising difference to how tiring the journey is.
But on busy roads, they get influenced too much by other vehicles different interpretations of how to drive so I don’t use them. I just switch them off when I don’t want to use them. Simple concept,
The days where you can sell software are almost over.
Certain software occupies a very de facto place in the market. The move to subscription for these is the only thing that’s changing. People are still handing over cash for it,
Subscription pushed me to drop Photoshop for Affinity though.
I won't be so sad if transport regresses back 100 years.
It will be a blessing if local areas need to provide for their local communities, so all the local services we've lost over the decades reappear.
Employers that are not online will set up for employing local people. Such as where I grew up at the back end of a time where 80% of the main earners work for the same employer.
Need to go anywhere occasionally, cars available for hire for those journeys, optionally with a driver.
Improved public transport.
The bicycle thing is fine in the right sort of weather.
I won't miss cars because the roads are such a tedious place, congested and with obnoxious manners.
What will be missed, if air transport has to be curtailed will be getting to see other places and cultures, which if approached in the right* way does expand the mind and understanding.
* not 2 weeks in Lanzarote lounging about in the sun expecting an FEB every morning and and Sky TV.
People love to make stuff up. New houses get 100AMP. Electricity providers will upgrade your fuse if needed.
A load management device can regulate current to the car charger if the people in the house are using the hot tub, shower, sauna, oven, smelting furnace and several kettles at the same time.
The photo disclosed the number plate and the number plate allowed DVLA look up to confirm it was diesel model. It really isn't a big deal, this came under scrutiny because people are interested, not since Zafria B heater fan wiring went rogue has there been such a witch hunt.
"It was a hybrid. You can even see the bright orange flare of the batteries venting in the video that was posted of it."
It was a 2014 Range Rover Sport.
So must have been a very early protoype vehicle escaped from JLR development site.
Anti EV nutcases were so disappointed by this news that they have spun up several conspiracy theories.
The car park fires in Liverpool and Stavanger were also started by ICE vehicles
Companies that have their computers due for replacement get Apple products as they are now in another league, in very much every metric.
Companies that replace their end user computers buy products that work easily with their existing support infrastructure and knowledge.
That usually means Active Directory, Group Policy, SCCM etc. Apple products are not in the same league in that very important metric.
Between all this and the arse grabbing, cock flashing, (alleged) raping
I'm quite happy this this stuff is getting called out now, as they've probably been doing it with impunity for many decades.
"what's the world coming when you can't sexually harass your staff?"
[USA] Supersonic land overflights were banned,
Supersonic overflights were banned in UK and France too. The flightpath out of LHR was down to the Bristol Channel and then accelerate, people in South Wales or Cornwall might hear a boom.
French Concorde accelerated once it was overhead La Manche.
But yes, the BA service started to Bahrain if I recall. This was subsonic over the continent and supersonic over the med. Air France went to Rio via Dakar.
he didn't think they were any great shakes as an actual flying experience
I flew on one of the Bay of Biscay jolly flights and will never forget it. Apart from reaching Mach 2 and 60,000 feet the take of was amazing.
Yes it was noisy and small, the windows tiny (but an amazing view at cruise).
There was a significant feeling of acceleration and the continued acceleration after take off along with the pitch gave me the feeling the thing was climbing much steeper than it was.
Maybe the Bay of Biscay flights with less fuel and no baggage in the hold made the performance that much more lively, but it was a very different experience to a normal airliner.
Of course, people on scheduled flights getting from A to B in a very short time was what it was about.
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