It was my school friend that had it (or rather, his elder brother). Given that they crashed it almost every week in the early 1960's, no chance it is still in one piece.
My grandmother wrote off our Heinkel in the winter of 1964 - going too fast on an icy bend. She and my father were probably drunk. Neither was harmed in the accident. The car had a steel roll cage. Even the car was not very badly damaged - it drove home after a truck drive helped them right it, but was "beyond economic repair" according to the lying fucks who run insurance companies. (My Mercedes A160* was "written off" when hit by a huge pickup three years a go. A few months later, the new owners phone me and asked for the service record book).
* not much bigger than a bubble car - economical, easy to park in London, but with an engine about 5 times the size of the Heinkel's.
My family had a Heinkel in the 60's, which looks very similar to the Isetta.
It was great fun. The front opening door was really practical - you drove up to the kerb, front on, and us kids got out safely. Visibility was great - although large trucks might find it hard to see you. Mostly it was driven under the same rules as a motor bike. Had a motorbike type gear change as well, but the Heinkel had a reverse gear, I believe the Isetta did not. I think they should not be allowed on motorways though.
A friend of mine had a Messerschmidtt (the car, not the fighter) - not nearly as good, and much less safe.
Electric is definitely preferable to a 1950's 2-stroke engine in almost any way you can imagine.
As an IP owner, your ability to alienate potential customers is a power you need to be careful with.
If you want us, the general public, to protect your IP, you need to remember not to rub us the wrong way - or, when the genie gets out of the lamp, it might not do you any favours.
IP protection is a contract between you and us, and it is looking like our side of the negotiating table has sold us down the river. We are NOT happy bunnies.
Today's PCs do not appear to out perform 11 year old ones if you go by screen size and processor clock speed. Assuming you can find the spec at PC world. "Ideal for general home use" is not a spec - it is a speck of information.
My Thinkpad T61 will be old enough to go to secondary school in September!
It is known as "fight for the right to be exploited" and is normally considered an extreme left wing position. The object of the strategy is to ensure that the largest possible number are slaves who will rely on the union for "protection".
The reason for all the waste is that a lot of the chargers, and almost all the micro-usb cables seem to last about a week in the hands of non-technical users. Last week I saw
Someone pulling the plug board across the floor by the USB cable in the charger
Someone pushing a USB3 plug into a USB A socket and complaining it did not connect
There is no law against stupidity, and you can be quite sure no politician would ever enact one, on the grounds that they would incriminate themselves.
Engineers need to address the stupidity problem with as much ADHD zeal as they can muster, or possibly more.
I don't understand why Mozilla thinks the browser has any business directing DNS to whoever they think it should go to
I don't understand how anyone (including Firefox's design team) can think this is different from any other malware doing the same thing. Surely it is a criminal act?
Reghardless of whether Cloudflare is God or the devil, it is NOT what I want. Not what I have configured, and if I get it, then it causes me a lot of support calls from users who don't get what they paid for, It is like having Systemd bypass your settings for DNS resolve - a source of very difficult to diagnose harassment for support workers, with no warning
This should not be done without a popup saying "Do you want me to fuck with your settings without asking?" then the person who codes it will understand how it will be perceived by users.
I send my DNS requests to where I want. If they don't go where I want this is hijacking. Surely an offense under the "molestation of computers act" or whatever its called this week. I want them sent to jail.
As for Google hijacking my searches (if I request https://my.domain.home/ then I bloodly well DO NOT want to be redirected to "google.com?search=https://my.domain.home" or anything vaguely similar any more than if I take an Uber, I which to be transported to Uber's head office and waterboarded). I want them jailed TWICE OVER.
Disclaimer: Yes I am fucking pissed off about this.Google, you are very evil indeed.
Dead right: nothing is the clear winner compared to college when it comes to discipline. As a former mature student, I am in a position to speak on this.
In the 2/3 of the world that has never seen or heard of "letter sized paper" that still makes no sense. Which letter did you have in mind? It is N-size of M-sized? That is too small to fit. Forget an I-sized speck.
"Load more paper" or "load tray 1" might work.
The real problem with this stupidity was that you were unable to access the configuration menu to set the locale so it would ask for A4 paper until you had US Letter paper present, and no one in EMEA has any idea where to get "letter sized paper", and even if the had access to pre-1965 paper, the UK letter size was not the same as US letter size. In effect, the printer was totally useless. (HP printers specifically - AFAIK, Tektronics, Xerox and IBM/Lexmark could be reconfigured with some considerable struggle. Most Japanese products did not have this issue).
I imagine that people who have long term serious illnesses probably don't go to the sauna - especially if they are in hospital or a care home.
But I have no actual data, so i could be wrong.
Does your local hospital have a Sauna?
Did you ever go there when healthy?
Do health care researchers have a clue about statistics? (you don't need to answer that one).
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I am sure they are quaking in their boots at this very minute with the thought of a slap on the wrist with a chicken feather from the UK regulator.
It was my school friend that had it (or rather, his elder brother). Given that they crashed it almost every week in the early 1960's, no chance it is still in one piece.
My grandmother wrote off our Heinkel in the winter of 1964 - going too fast on an icy bend. She and my father were probably drunk. Neither was harmed in the accident. The car had a steel roll cage. Even the car was not very badly damaged - it drove home after a truck drive helped them right it, but was "beyond economic repair" according to the lying fucks who run insurance companies. (My Mercedes A160* was "written off" when hit by a huge pickup three years a go. A few months later, the new owners phone me and asked for the service record book).
* not much bigger than a bubble car - economical, easy to park in London, but with an engine about 5 times the size of the Heinkel's.
I don't have to imagine. I once did it. I live in England. A lot of our lawns are not much bigger than an American double bed.
You obviously don't live in London.
It was great fun. The front opening door was really practical - you drove up to the kerb, front on, and us kids got out safely. Visibility was great - although large trucks might find it hard to see you. Mostly it was driven under the same rules as a motor bike. Had a motorbike type gear change as well, but the Heinkel had a reverse gear, I believe the Isetta did not. I think they should not be allowed on motorways though.
A friend of mine had a Messerschmidtt (the car, not the fighter) - not nearly as good, and much less safe. Electric is definitely preferable to a 1950's 2-stroke engine in almost any way you can imagine.
You mean it wasn't Al Gore that did it?
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
FTFY
As an IP owner, your ability to alienate potential customers is a power you need to be careful with. If you want us, the general public, to protect your IP, you need to remember not to rub us the wrong way - or, when the genie gets out of the lamp, it might not do you any favours. IP protection is a contract between you and us, and it is looking like our side of the negotiating table has sold us down the river. We are NOT happy bunnies.
Today's PCs do not appear to out perform 11 year old ones if you go by screen size and processor clock speed. Assuming you can find the spec at PC world. "Ideal for general home use" is not a spec - it is a speck of information.
My Thinkpad T61 will be old enough to go to secondary school in September!
Self employed is the enemy of the union.
Someone pulling the plug board across the floor by the USB cable in the charger
Someone pushing a USB3 plug into a USB A socket and complaining it did not connect
There is no law against stupidity, and you can be quite sure no politician would ever enact one, on the grounds that they would incriminate themselves.
Engineers need to address the stupidity problem with as much ADHD zeal as they can muster, or possibly more.
If so, I am seriously worried - Windows IS the Zombie apocalypse your mother warned you about!
But given the level of gun related deaths, you have to admit Americans are working hard on reducing the number of people.
Don't hold your breath. Those advising you to do so have scurrilous motives.
(if it is hidden behind a thick black curtain, the curtain is not there by accident).
and never trust guys wearing balaclavas and carrying guns.
I don't understand how anyone (including Firefox's design team) can think this is different from any other malware doing the same thing. Surely it is a criminal act?
This should not be done without a popup saying "Do you want me to fuck with your settings without asking?" then the person who codes it will understand how it will be perceived by users.
As for Google hijacking my searches (if I request https://my.domain.home/ then I bloodly well DO NOT want to be redirected to "google.com?search=https://my.domain.home" or anything vaguely similar any more than if I take an Uber, I which to be transported to Uber's head office and waterboarded). I want them jailed TWICE OVER.
Disclaimer: Yes I am fucking pissed off about this.Google, you are very evil indeed.
Dead right: nothing is the clear winner compared to college when it comes to discipline. As a former mature student, I am in a position to speak on this.
Grandma always used to say "don't forget to leave the lights on so the burglars can see what they are stealing!"
YOU may not have a soul. Don't speak for the set of us.
Someone where I worked hacked the printer configuration on an HP Laserjet (5, I think) to say "Load Lettuce" - at least it made people laugh.
In the 2/3 of the world that has never seen or heard of "letter sized paper" that still makes no sense. Which letter did you have in mind? It is N-size of M-sized? That is too small to fit. Forget an I-sized speck.
"Load more paper" or "load tray 1" might work.
The real problem with this stupidity was that you were unable to access the configuration menu to set the locale so it would ask for A4 paper until you had US Letter paper present, and no one in EMEA has any idea where to get "letter sized paper", and even if the had access to pre-1965 paper, the UK letter size was not the same as US letter size. In effect, the printer was totally useless. (HP printers specifically - AFAIK, Tektronics, Xerox and IBM/Lexmark could be reconfigured with some considerable struggle. Most Japanese products did not have this issue).
Don't be too sure - you never know - all of them may be cyborgs.
Including me [Mwa -ha- ha-haaaaah]
But I have no actual data, so i could be wrong.
Does your local hospital have a Sauna?
Did you ever go there when healthy?
Do health care researchers have a clue about statistics? (you don't need to answer that one).