Re: An easy first step
Even on a sunny winters day, my small PV array can generate enough KWh to give my car enough charge for around 10 miles of travel.
How many sunny days are there in winter?
about 5 in December...
Posts by itzman
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Networks in 2016: A full fibre diet for UK.gov
Those online ads driving you bonkers are virtually 'worthless for brands'
Wednesday 4th January 2017 05:44 GMT
Re: Puzzled
I have observed two people buying products that are heavily advertised 'because they are better'
I am afraid it works.
In my case, I try never to buy anything that is heavily advertised.
I sometimes wonder if i am in fact simply failing to remember stuff I have been bombarded with.
I feel proud that no website I have ever built features adverts, or even cookies unless needed for transactions of some sort.
'I told him to cut it out' – Obama is convinced Putin's hackers swung the election for Trump
Monday 19th December 2016 09:41 GMT
Re: Can it just be over?
"all indications are that the economy is doing fine under her Democratic predecessor."
Don't send me no more postcards, no
Not unless you send them from
Desolation Row"
Try saying that in the rustbelts, to the mom and pop stores going under, to millions of people in flyover country who are NOT in well paid middle class jobs on the coastal strips.
Monday 19th December 2016 09:37 GMT
Re: firmly believing in something that does not exist is clinically a form of psychosis.
In which case our total sense of reality is a form of psychosis, as Quantum physics clearly demonstrates it's not 'really there' in the sense with which our 'psychotic fantasies' regard it as being.
The real issue, (to be revealed in my next paper 'metaphysics for a post-truth world') is which psychotic delusion you chose to pick.
And that in a nutshell, is what has happened with Brexit and with Trump. Substantial groups of people have decided not to adhere to the standard issue psychosis, and have picked - according to you lights - either a more, or a less, delusional and dysfunctional one.
And of course the key point of my paper, is not which is more true, but which in the end is sustainable and for how long. Boffing your enemies and ruling the world works, until you run out of enemies, when its sometimes tempting to invent them instead. If you like bossing biffing and ruling and strutting about.
(And for sure the Left does. More than the Right does).
Its a sea change in public consciousness. Get used to it. We have had 50 years of Leftism, and people are simply bored with it. Its past is sell by date. One look at Hillaries cadaver like visage and resurrected hairdo is enough to see that.
Of COURSE we will get fooled again. But for the time being is a blissful respite from moaning whining politically correct social justice warriors, and a strong clean smell of honest corruption openly declared, self interest and a rare and candid moment of almost honesty.
Monday 19th December 2016 09:16 GMT
" if the election was manipulated, there should be something done."
All elections are manipulated. The barrage of faux news from all sides that comprises the hustings, is manipulation.
As are the revelations, the legal actions the general fog of disinformation.
And at more local levels, one hopes, the direct frauds of non-existent people voting, or deliberate invalidation of voting slips.
This is not really an issue.
What is an issue is that when all that fails to deliver the results that rich and powerful people want, they seek to supplant the democratic process itself.
Leaving no option but armed insurrection to achieve 'regime change'.
Monday 19th December 2016 08:43 GMT
Re: Making facts the hard way
when someone has decades of experience in a special field they do know what they are talking about.
Another model based assumption totally at odds with the facts.
How many people who have been using computers for decades still really only have a hazy idea what an operating system is, and have almost no idea of security at all?
Monday 19th December 2016 08:40 GMT
Re: DNC - Remove the mote from your own eye
The Daily Mail, home of the clickbait headline? along with the express, the guardian, the telegraph, the bbc, sky news, fox news, the NYT....
In fact I don't think its possible to read a newspaper that isn't unashamed opinion and spin over a flimsy carcase of 'interpretable events'.
Dog bites man.
It was Russian dog.
It was too hot as a result of climate change
It was too cold as a result of climate change
It was being fed non organic processed dog food.
Its hard right owner trained it that way.
Its owner was a liberal pussy and hadn't trained it at all.
It has a deep seated Islamophobic temperament.
Its been repressed for years as part of a cultural attack on Dog Kind.
Its owner runs Linux...
Climate change bust up: We'll launch our own damn satellites if Trump pulls plug – Gov Brown
Thursday 15th December 2016 03:30 GMT
Re: "Deniers" a pejorative? I think not
The basic — and may I repeat that? thanks: "basic, basic, basic, basic" — and irrefutable physics behind the blockage, absorption, and re-radiation of long-wave radiation by large, active molecules such as CO2, CH4, N2O, and the like, and how that blockage and re-radiation warms the troposphere, surface, and ocean in quite easily measurable and quantifiable amounts while concomitantly and measurably cooling the stratosphere, have been well-demonstrated for many decades.
Sadly their effect on climate - essentially zero - has also been demonstrated for many decades.
If you actually care to run the numbers, you will find that the physics alone gives almost no importance to CO2.
The AGW theory has had to 'improve' on the physics by adding the completely unjustified concept of 'positive feedback' whose presence should have been revealed by atmospheric hotspots and particular distributions of temperature that have absolutely never been observed.
'Climate sceptics' do not deny climate change, or the physics of IR absorption. And its significant that these are always the straw men used to discredit them.
In reality the 'climate deniers' are those who cling to theories based on a feedback system supported by commercial and political interests, but sadly not by the data.
Busted Windows 8, 10 update blamed for breaking Brits' DHCP
Saturday 10th December 2016 06:58 GMT
Re: Our Customers Never Believe Us
Ah, you've evidently met either my girlfriend or some spiritual twin of hers. Every time her work laptop fails to connect to a keyboard, mouse or the same router everything else in the house is perfectly happy with, or her VPN just randomly drops, I get exactly that look.
Is her name 'Cortana'??
Brits think broadband more important than mobes, cars or savings
Friday 9th December 2016 07:30 GMT
Re: Those in large contry houses...
If you REALLY want better than ADSL wire speeds, houses can of course get fibre installed and buy themselves ten grand a year's worth of 10Mb/s totally private internet..
And stick up an aerial and share it with their neighbours.
Its the poor sods in the cottages that cant even GET ADSL OR 3G/4G.....
90 per cent of the UK's NHS is STILL relying on Windows XP
Friday 9th December 2016 07:19 GMT
Re: Maybe they should consider going over to Linux?
Its pure inertia.
Medical software is specoialised, and if it happens to be written for XP, thats what you use, and then if the next hardware vendor comes along and sees an installed base of XP. that's what he's going to write for, as well.
I asked this question about a relatives dental practice. Basically 'you want a x-ray machine, it runs Vista/XP'. End of.
Few people outside of major corporates have the financial power to get software written for them: The rest have to buy what's on offer, and not much is on offer for Linux.
HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'
San Francisco's sinking luxury Millennium Tower: Tilt spotted FROM SPACE
Microsoft's cmd.exe deposed by PowerShell in Windows 10 preview
Monday 21st November 2016 08:21 GMT
Re: MICROSOFT IS OUT OF CONTROL
And I doubt they'd care. They're Micro-shaft. They're *POWERFUL*. They can DICTATE THE TERMS, and FORCE COMPLIANCE. Why SHOULD they care?
Well...Brexit. Donald Trump.
In some sort of weird 'life Imitates Art' the Users are fighting back against the MCP.
Actually, I suspect that what has happened is that some psychological threshold has been passed, and now >50% of people who think at all, have decided that they distrust being told what to think by people who are clearly much more privileged than they are.
M$ mistake is to think that just because once they were the only game in town, means that they still are.We bought MS because it had stuff we wanted. We carried on buying it, because we had no choice, even when it had optional stuff we didn't want. Now we resent paying for it because it is imposing stuff we really don't want on us.
Gone in 70 seconds: Holding Enter key can smash through defense
Russia shoves antitrust probe into Microsoft after Kaspersky gripes about Windows 10
Silicon Valley VCs: We're gonna make California great again – on its own
FBI drops bombshell, and investigation: Clinton still in the clear
James Dyson's new startup: A university for engineers that doesn't suck
Standing out from the crowd with an Android phone? You and 90 per cent of the market
Computer forensics defuses FBI's Clinton email 'bombshell'
Windows 10 market share stalls after free upgrade offer ends
Thursday 3rd November 2016 06:33 GMT
Re: I'm not surprised...
I'm still waiting for printer manufacturers to develop printer drivers for Linux!
You dont need a 'printer driver' for linux. It already exists as CUPS.
What you need are PPDS.
And if you have a winprinter that you bought for $20, then I argue that isn't a printer at all.
Thursday 3rd November 2016 06:28 GMT
Re: As long as Win10 continues to be a piece of spyware...@Jess
For WIN games, there is dual boot.
For everything else there is VirtualBox. (or WINE)
My WIN XP VM restores from 'saved machine state' in under 4 seconds. I have enough RAM to leave it permanently running, though I dont.
That's way quicker than rebooting to windows, which might be at least a minute, and with no possibility of cutting and pasting between linux/windows environments.
Ghost of DEC Alpha is why Windows is rubbish at file compression
Wednesday 2nd November 2016 07:22 GMT
Re: Yet another thing Microsoft sucks at
To really grasp why Microsoft is so technically inept, you need to understand that it isn't actually a software development company, it's just a sales company, and salesmen make lousy software engineers.
Or, as we used to say 'Designed to sell, not to work'
Biting the hand that feeds IT
