Politicians cashing in on the carefully nurtured panic about global warming and its association with CO2. They could have just said "the car more fuel than expected"... but that is too tame to stir up the public with.
Or it's the emissions that we're concerned about, not the fuel usage. Sure, they go hand-in-hand, but from a regulation point of view we're worried about the pollutants more than the raw usage of fuel.
Because of course there were never gangs of youths in the 60s or 70s. Oh, no, wait, Mods and Rockers - those times were *famous* for it.
You post just screams "conform, it doesn't matter what you do it's what we think you might do". Face it, you're old and have determined the youth of today are somehow inferior, like every ageing generation ever.
Just don't answer your phone for any number that you don't recognize; if it's really important they'll leave a voicemail message. Debt collectors and scumbags don't leave messages, typically; there, problem solved.
How is that problem solved? You're still interrupted. You've still changed your phone habits to a whitelist - so will miss any calls, potentially important or emergency ones. (And then you have to check that voicemail, again inconveniencing you). You have to change your behaviour to out-of-the-ordinary to avoid dodgy new business practises.
Ah, fair enough. Still, nearly always when someone points out the (many) shortcomings of the RPi they seem to be pointing out that it's not a full machine. Which it's not. It's built to a price.
Everybody want a different thing added, and if they got their way it wouldn't be a small cheap device anymore.
Bespoke is not "weird UK English". It's common English and used in the USA as well, I've heard and seen American colleagues use it regularly.
Yeah, especially since the substitute phrase contains two obscure three-letter-acronyms that I had to look up... and I couldn't actually find what "SBC" means.
Well it depends where you live, I don't have data for Japan but in the UK winter, the peak electricity usage is at 5pm, when there's no useful light (it's either dark or going dark)
Renewable stations take up a lot of land for the energy they produce, and are unreliable. They can be part of the solution but to claim that you can replace 45 (reliable, predictable, compact) coal stations with magic renewables is... unlikely.
I'm surprised given it's geography that Japan isn't a fantastic candidate for a combination of wind (onshore, and off), hydro, tidal, and geothermal.
Anyone know why they're more interested in building coal than harnessing more of their renewable resources? Does Japan have masses of cheap coal or something? I'd have assumed it has to import a lot of it?
I agree with you about nuclear over coal, but I'm struggling to see why Japan would need either. For such a high tech country it seems to be resorting to an insanely low tech sub-optimal and dirty solution.
You're assuming that these renewables are feasible options for a densely-packed high-power-usage country. Which they are not - the only places renewables are a significant proportion of power needed are the sparsely populated ones. Wind doesn't always blow. Solar doesn't shine when you need most power. Hydro-electric (the only one that is usable on-demand) requires lots of land in specific configurations.
Renewable power is not magic, you can't just throw money at it and get what you want.
Sure you can. You can put in a SDcard slot, so people can upgrade the memory to whatever they want.
But since they didn't bother doing this, because they want everyone to store everything in "the cloud" and pay high data-access fees to get to it, I for one won't be buying one of these devices.
And then I'd be less happy because it would have taken space that could have battery and/or put the cost up. All product development is a compromise to a price. *Your* priorities are not everybody else's.
It's not like init/SystemD, where init really was a bug ridden piece of garbage that's needed replacing now since before Linux itself came on the scene, and SystemD implements everything init did but does it right.
Let’s say you overhear that your next-door neighbour is about to hire a chainsaw for £80 to chop down a small tree in his back garden. As it turns out, you bought yourself a chainsaw for a similar task last year and now it’s just sitting unused in your garage.
So, just before your neighbour sets off to the hire shop, you pop round and offer to lend him yours in return for £30. This is much cheaper than the hire shop, he says, and accepts. You pocket £30 and he chops down his tree.
A month later, you have hired out your chainsaw to half the street. You have taken more than £500. This is brilliant. This is not, however, the ‘sharing economy’ any more: it is the ‘black economy’. You are acting as a chainsaw-hire business but without paying tax on your new-found business income.
Hurrah for the black economy!
Oh dear, that nice old man down the street hired your chainsaw yesterday but, because you hadn’t maintained the kit properly, the chain broke and sliced his head off. You had looked into the cost of chainsaw maintenance but it would have pushed up your costs, so didn’t bother.
Hurrah for contributory negligence!
The nice old man’s family now want to sue you for compensation but you are uninsured. You had looked into the cost of insurance but it would have pushed up your costs, so didn’t bother. Instead, you simply declare personal bankruptcy and avoid paying the family a penny.
Yeah but in my experience the Knowledge seems to get us very little in practice. I have never been able to jump in a cab and not had to provide directions at some point during the journey. Capped off recently when the driver was Tweeting on his dash-mounted phone while driving down Euston Road. I don't like Uber, but the taxi drivers don't help themselves either.
Apparently the original 2012 Nexus 7 is not getting Marshmallow. It will still get updates for security, apps and Google system components, but the core OS will stay on Lollipop.
Given how badly it performs, it really should never have got Lollipop.
Right yes yes it sucks, change the record already.
It sucks to not get free upgrades, but you know what also sucks? Having your previously working phone 'upgraded' into performing so poorly it is effectively useless. I have a Nexus 7 that is an exercise in futility to use now, and I've seen countless iPhones also basically bricks due to OS upgrades that they can't handle.
Atleast with Android you have a choice, you can get a Nexus if you want to take the risk on the latest, or you can stick with Manufacturers which are much more careful / reticent / lazy about their upgrades.
Frankly, whining about not getting the latest features on a phone that you never were promised said features when you bought it is entirely missing the point of the one thing that we *should* be getting and cannot: *security* fixes that don't destroy the user experience. That's the middle ground that you can't have at the moment. Either have a more demanding featureful upgrade with UI changes that you might not like and security fixes, or nothing at all.
Agreed, this is the tradeoff of updates. I've recently refreshed it with Kit Kat again, and it's much better...
It's not even just a Nexus problem, I've seen countless iOS devices upgraded into uselessness. Upgrades are overrated - I'd rather the hardware I bought continued to work correctly...
I want to know, honestly, how one carries around a phablet. It's too big for your pocket, but it doesn't come with a laptop-style carrying case. So what do you do, carry it around in your hand? Wear baggy clown pants to your pockets are large enough...?
Some people live in cold countries where they can usually keep the device in a coat pocket, some people regularly carry bags (eg... women). Personally since I got a smart watch, I keep the phone in a bag now, since I don't have to worry about missing calls anymore.
If a few Muslims would stand up, and say, "This is not Islam!", it would help a lot. But Muslims won't do that, because they don't want to.
Yeah, they do that all the fucking time, but you're so embedded in your us-vs-them mindset you choose to ignore it. You want a simple 'evil' enemy that you can just demonise. I would put real money that you know no Muslim people at all.
The passengers on Flight 93 are the heroes you deride.
Absolutely not - I don't deride them at all. In fact what they did was *all the more remarkable* for the fact that people don't in general do that, and they couldn't really have been sure that their situation was unwinnable. But they were still one plane out of 4. It was the grandparent poster that was deriding the other planes' passengers for somehow not being superhuman like Flight 93.
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So your argument about not persecuting advocates going after someone who hasn't broken the law but has an opinion you merely disagree with.
Genius double-standards there.
"What is going on there?"
Politicians cashing in on the carefully nurtured panic about global warming and its association with CO2. They could have just said "the car more fuel than expected" ... but that is too tame to stir up the public with.
Or it's the emissions that we're concerned about, not the fuel usage. Sure, they go hand-in-hand, but from a regulation point of view we're worried about the pollutants more than the raw usage of fuel.
If you say dumb, callous shit in public forum don't be surprised if people think you're a grade-A twat.
Because of course there were never gangs of youths in the 60s or 70s. Oh, no, wait, Mods and Rockers - those times were *famous* for it.
You post just screams "conform, it doesn't matter what you do it's what we think you might do". Face it, you're old and have determined the youth of today are somehow inferior, like every ageing generation ever.
Just don't answer your phone for any number that you don't recognize; if it's really important they'll leave a voicemail message. Debt collectors and scumbags don't leave messages, typically; there, problem solved.
How is that problem solved? You're still interrupted. You've still changed your phone habits to a whitelist - so will miss any calls, potentially important or emergency ones. (And then you have to check that voicemail, again inconveniencing you). You have to change your behaviour to out-of-the-ordinary to avoid dodgy new business practises.
Or how about plain old sata and more than one nic? A networking asic add on would be nice too
I'd like a pony, too.
Ah, fair enough. Still, nearly always when someone points out the (many) shortcomings of the RPi they seem to be pointing out that it's not a full machine. Which it's not. It's built to a price.
Everybody want a different thing added, and if they got their way it wouldn't be a small cheap device anymore.
Still waiting on eSATA with gigabit ethernet...*sigh*
Have you used one? There isn't really enough CPU power to handle 100base, let alone 1000...
And if you want eSATA - I think actually what you're looking for is a completely different device!
Bespoke is not "weird UK English". It's common English and used in the USA as well, I've heard and seen American colleagues use it regularly.
Yeah, especially since the substitute phrase contains two obscure three-letter-acronyms that I had to look up... and I couldn't actually find what "SBC" means.
Seems a bit of a contradiction to call someone a coward for not wanting their life ruined.
Well it depends where you live, I don't have data for Japan but in the UK winter, the peak electricity usage is at 5pm, when there's no useful light (it's either dark or going dark)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci...
Renewable stations take up a lot of land for the energy they produce, and are unreliable. They can be part of the solution but to claim that you can replace 45 (reliable, predictable, compact) coal stations with magic renewables is... unlikely.
No they don't but thanks for playing.
Thanks, that's very informative.
I'm surprised given it's geography that Japan isn't a fantastic candidate for a combination of wind (onshore, and off), hydro, tidal, and geothermal.
Anyone know why they're more interested in building coal than harnessing more of their renewable resources? Does Japan have masses of cheap coal or something? I'd have assumed it has to import a lot of it?
I agree with you about nuclear over coal, but I'm struggling to see why Japan would need either. For such a high tech country it seems to be resorting to an insanely low tech sub-optimal and dirty solution.
You're assuming that these renewables are feasible options for a densely-packed high-power-usage country. Which they are not - the only places renewables are a significant proportion of power needed are the sparsely populated ones. Wind doesn't always blow. Solar doesn't shine when you need most power. Hydro-electric (the only one that is usable on-demand) requires lots of land in specific configurations.
Renewable power is not magic, you can't just throw money at it and get what you want.
Sure you can. You can put in a SDcard slot, so people can upgrade the memory to whatever they want.
But since they didn't bother doing this, because they want everyone to store everything in "the cloud" and pay high data-access fees to get to it, I for one won't be buying one of these devices.
And then I'd be less happy because it would have taken space that could have battery and/or put the cost up. All product development is a compromise to a price. *Your* priorities are not everybody else's.
I think it's one of those conventions to maintain some form of order, and it's not a good idea anyway since the accuser looks silly / hysterical.
It's more or less impossible to accuse someone of lying in the UK as you open yourself up to slander lawsuits unless you can prove malicious intent.
It's not like init/SystemD, where init really was a bug ridden piece of garbage that's needed replacing now since before Linux itself came on the scene, and SystemD implements everything init did but does it right.
Talking of statements that take some gall...
There is a good analogy here as to why regulation... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Let’s say you overhear that your next-door neighbour is about to hire a chainsaw for £80 to chop down a small tree in his back garden. As it turns out, you bought yourself a chainsaw for a similar task last year and now it’s just sitting unused in your garage.
So, just before your neighbour sets off to the hire shop, you pop round and offer to lend him yours in return for £30. This is much cheaper than the hire shop, he says, and accepts. You pocket £30 and he chops down his tree.
A month later, you have hired out your chainsaw to half the street. You have taken more than £500. This is brilliant. This is not, however, the ‘sharing economy’ any more: it is the ‘black economy’. You are acting as a chainsaw-hire business but without paying tax on your new-found business income.
Hurrah for the black economy!
Oh dear, that nice old man down the street hired your chainsaw yesterday but, because you hadn’t maintained the kit properly, the chain broke and sliced his head off. You had looked into the cost of chainsaw maintenance but it would have pushed up your costs, so didn’t bother.
Hurrah for contributory negligence!
The nice old man’s family now want to sue you for compensation but you are uninsured. You had looked into the cost of insurance but it would have pushed up your costs, so didn’t bother. Instead, you simply declare personal bankruptcy and avoid paying the family a penny.
Hurrah for uninsured cowboys!
Hurrah for tax-dodging, uninsured murderers!
Yeah but in my experience the Knowledge seems to get us very little in practice. I have never been able to jump in a cab and not had to provide directions at some point during the journey. Capped off recently when the driver was Tweeting on his dash-mounted phone while driving down Euston Road. I don't like Uber, but the taxi drivers don't help themselves either.
Apparently the original 2012 Nexus 7 is not getting Marshmallow. It will still get updates for security, apps and Google system components, but the core OS will stay on Lollipop.
Given how badly it performs, it really should never have got Lollipop.
Right yes yes it sucks, change the record already.
It sucks to not get free upgrades, but you know what also sucks? Having your previously working phone 'upgraded' into performing so poorly it is effectively useless. I have a Nexus 7 that is an exercise in futility to use now, and I've seen countless iPhones also basically bricks due to OS upgrades that they can't handle.
Atleast with Android you have a choice, you can get a Nexus if you want to take the risk on the latest, or you can stick with Manufacturers which are much more careful / reticent / lazy about their upgrades.
Frankly, whining about not getting the latest features on a phone that you never were promised said features when you bought it is entirely missing the point of the one thing that we *should* be getting and cannot: *security* fixes that don't destroy the user experience. That's the middle ground that you can't have at the moment. Either have a more demanding featureful upgrade with UI changes that you might not like and security fixes, or nothing at all.
Agreed, this is the tradeoff of updates. I've recently refreshed it with Kit Kat again, and it's much better...
It's not even just a Nexus problem, I've seen countless iOS devices upgraded into uselessness. Upgrades are overrated - I'd rather the hardware I bought continued to work correctly...
I want to know, honestly, how one carries around a phablet. It's too big for your pocket, but it doesn't come with a laptop-style carrying case. So what do you do, carry it around in your hand? Wear baggy clown pants to your pockets are large enough...?
Some people live in cold countries where they can usually keep the device in a coat pocket, some people regularly carry bags (eg... women). Personally since I got a smart watch, I keep the phone in a bag now, since I don't have to worry about missing calls anymore.
If a few Muslims would stand up, and say, "This is not Islam!", it would help a lot. But Muslims won't do that, because they don't want to.
Yeah, they do that all the fucking time, but you're so embedded in your us-vs-them mindset you choose to ignore it. You want a simple 'evil' enemy that you can just demonise. I would put real money that you know no Muslim people at all.
Troll on.
With subtle and intimate knowledge of the situation like that, no wonder you're winning the argument.
Oh, no, wait, all you've done is generalise and completely ignore everything the parent poster said. Great stuff.
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The passengers on Flight 93 are the heroes you deride.
Absolutely not - I don't deride them at all. In fact what they did was *all the more remarkable* for the fact that people don't in general do that, and they couldn't really have been sure that their situation was unwinnable. But they were still one plane out of 4. It was the grandparent poster that was deriding the other planes' passengers for somehow not being superhuman like Flight 93.