Posts by Oh Matron! 470 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Nov 2013
Yep. Probably more so.
I'm in Singapore right now, and had to walk through Shoppes (Yes, really) at Marina Bay Sands. As it was minutes after opening, all the purveyors of luxury tat had their employees stood like zombies staring into their iDevices. Literally, every single one. At least 30 of them.
If it's already got those of voting age hooked, how damaging is it to those who can't make informed judgements?
I use Vinegar on iOS and macOS which has made, crap content notwithstanding, watch youtube a pleasant experience
However, I also understand the need to support the very content I'm watching
And, Google, if you're watching: It doesn't need to be content-ad-content-ad-content
It can be banners whilst watching the content. Or a side bar, or a whole host of other things. I see this quite often in the US when watching motorracing: we'd all hate to miss a moment of interest because of ads, so there's picture in picture and a whole host of other techniques used.
So, this doesn't need to be binary. I'm sure that you can com up with a better way of serving ads that are so intrusive
Greenland.Has stayed pretty much where it's currently at for a LONG time. Before the splitting of the atlantic, Scotland (north of Inverness) was connected to greenland until the splitting of the atlantic. However, south of carlisle was once 60 degrees south of the equator! Cornwall: well, that's another story. But, the north american plate is relatively stable
I really do. I have to use Apple, Microsoft and Google as part of my work, and Apple really do make things simple.
But, Tim, for the love of everything that is holy, stop being a prick. You can't evangeliise about all sorts of stuff when governments have to force you to do the right thing
USB-C, 3rd party app stores, right to repair, iMessage, etc. Don't even get me started about the inability to move my itunes purchases from one account another (if you mention family sharing, I'll start throwing things)
Tim, you come across as being a nice bloke. But, secretly, I believe that you use a combination of O'Leary and Musk as role models
and the fact that it's ***ing expensive.
I bought the satellite dish for £400 a couple of years ago, used it a handful of times (I was planning on moving to a valley in italy with no connectivity of any kind), and then sold the dish a couple of weeks ago on ebay for £450!
The service worked as expected, and stood in for the week I had no internets due to squirrels. But, your average Joe does not have £80 per month of internet. And that doesn't com bundled with any
content.
And the areas or potential growth for Starlink does not have the numbers to make this successful either
This is STILL a problem!
However, around 15 years ago, I was at a ETSI conference somewhere: Was talking to a colleague in the public area of the centre when, all of a sudden, there was a collective, "What the f***!" arise from many people. Not sure what happened (probably a manformed packet on the network), but those with a particular Lenovo all bluecsreened all at the same time
Apple, in my eyes, has always been great with accessibility features.
However, I also use Siri to dictate on my iPhone as I'd rather keep my phone in my pocket rather than advertise to the scroats of london that I have an iPhone
However, iOS 16 has been absolute Garbage compared to iOS of old.... It *may* be that I use my Airpods pro rather than my older powerbeats pro to dictate, not sure...
Even having Siri read stuff back is hideously broken: It can't differentiate between
"I live here" and "Now, live from Norwich..."
This is a choice by Apple to be this bad. If their goggles want to be successful, eye and hand gestures can't be relied upon solely: Voice has to be right up there too.
Sorry, Android users, although there's probably a Chrome extension that does the same thing
Vinegar is a Safari Extension that blocks Facebook and Youtube ads when watching videos
And it's so effective, when you have the need to use the normal FB or YT app, you realize what such a poor experience video consumption is on mobile devices
"But, what of the poor content creators who are not getting Ad revenue?"
You mean the same content creators that stick a minute's worth of "This video is brought to you in partnership with" in every video?
My XC90 (RIP) used MAC based authorisation for things like the Radio, etc, and replacement radios wouldn't work unless you switched off the MOST protection
HOWEVER: The second that you turn on mechanisms like this for the entire bus, hobbiest CANBus readers are likely to stop working for all but the most simplistic of faults
At the very least, radio keyfob messsages should be signed
Was literally listening to this on the World Service's Science Hour:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3b09
Back then, only Helium and Hydrogen existed (with maybe a touch of lithium), which allowed stars to be much bigger, but not as dense, as no other elements existed
Big stars burn quicker, thought, which resulted in more death of stars into supernova / black holes, which is where elements up to and including iron were formed.
And it's only when black holes collided that everything else was created
I find this stuff truly fascinating......
And that's the point.... Flexibility. This is not a binary decision: I'm in the office today, amongst colleagues I love, and have already solved a couple of problems face to face.
However, the work I do from home is different and has different requirements. I can go for a run through unmanaged forest, instead of the 40 minute bike ride from Chelsea and Westminister (Thankfully the ankle biters are at home this week, so things are a little quiet).
Flexibility is king. And that's the message a company needs to message.
Footnote: When I work from home, my pesos are more likely to go into local businesses rather than the megacorps that frequent london and pay no tax
I've been binge watching Mentour Pilot on Youtube, and what is VERY apparent is that, under high workloads, pilots panic and do the craziest things, including shutting down the wrong engines. Pretty much nearly every crash is due to operator error rather than equipment.
HOWEVER: There's an astoundingly big caveat to that: Some of the situations are because there's no president: The Air France flight from Brazil, for example: To Have all three speed readings wrong was unheard of, and the pilots had only trained for stalls at low level, not at 35,000 feet.
That:
"He said SpaceX could publish a clock correction for each satellite - something that is currently done for GPS - which would reduce errors to under one meter"
Is due to relativity. Because the satellites are moving so fast (relative to you), you need the correction to account for the differences in time between you and the satellite!
This stuff fascinates me :-)
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