Same situation outside IT, with mechanical service staff, who after 40~50 years of solving mechanical machine problems on site in oilfield or refinery exist as a very small 2 to 3 men (world wide) over 60 years of age with no trainees or replacements. They are mending machines that were designed in the 1950s/1960s but with a 80 year operational life. At retirement the manufacturer loses: good spares part business, field time invoicing and a competitor bids for new machinery to replace. End of company. Age replacement training and passover of skills is a basic survival strategy for a business.
I expect a phone to last at least 10 years on my payroll grade, as do many in non-developed countries. Thus I limit my selection to (A) MUST have removable battery (can be away from an electric supply for days!) (B) desirable; Works and can be viewed in bright sunlight
The discontinuence of a maker / designer / brand owner supplying goods does not stop retailers or merchants holding stock legitamately at that time from later selling them, and warranty claims go through seller to manufacturer for latent defaults. In most countries latent defaults have a very long period such as 20 years after point of sale,(for gross negligence time unlimited) specifically to avoid manufacturers abandoning claims where there might have been latent faults. A batter fault is most specifically a 'latent defect', as buyer cannot check QA on battery
The physical laws of mathematics will long outlive any 'Australian Law'. Even those mathematical laws we do not know yet (say in Quantun Theory) will be discovered , and found to have worked since in our knowledge the known universe existed.
From a doctor's report known to me, A Western UK doctor who travelled in Soviet Russia, in a remote location a Russian medical doctor caring for a vast area was shipped out of date or old 'Foreign Medicine' in English labelled packaging by Soviet central planning. The UK doctor spent time translating the labels etc. for the local doctor's use. The local doctor used these and on subsequent visits the Uk doctor learned they were mostly OK, some were not so effective, so local doctor had increased the dose rate. Likewise food stored in Scot's hut in Antartica was edible during a 1960's test at my university on recovery 50 years later. The poor cannnot be litigous and must use what is available, perhaps a concerted USA effort to ship out of date but expensive medicine to poorer countries or poorer places inside the USA to give a level of medicare availability , perhaps with a 'no lawsuit proviso', would help the indigenous poor in USA or elsewhere.
"the only people that seem to see ghosts are those people that believe in ghosts." Not so. A squad of soldiers (I was one of them) stopped for lunch in remote valley and saw a horse walking on the grass on other side of the lake at the bottom of valley. One of our squad was a trained horseman and he saw that a part of the equipage was broken, which would normally happen when a horse shed its rider. We confirmed this through binoculars. We reported the horse incident to local police in the nearby village later that day as we throught a rider might be missing or injured. The police just said, 'no problem; its a gost horse seen by many folk these past years'. Thereafter we (the squad of soldiers) who did not believe in ghosts , having seen one in broad daylight just after noon, did believe.
Europeans who have a direct vote to elect "Presidents" (hand counted) consider the usefulness of an electorial college a slightly bad thing now travel and communication are so easy. The USA electorial college is somewhat similar to the UK system where the majority party is allowed to nominate its leader for Prime Minister, which usually happens. However there is an overriding vote in that the Queen (of the Commonwealth [note 1] does not need to accept or offer to that noninated person). (Note 1) Once during her reign she had in conjunction with her appointed representative in one Commonwealth country, removed the 'in place Prime Minister" (but with stalemate budget/parliament problem) and replaced her/him with another, so that parliament could continue and government budget could work. This is the Sovereign's reserve power against the 'major party electorial college'. not working correctly.
20170516 I understand why folk should update and I do so on most machines, however some machine tool manufacturers - no longer in business - used XP to run the machine tools they supplied. Computer inside machine control is an XP system with drivers only for XP. Thus These machines are and will be working on XP for about next 40 years! [Machine tools have a life of upwards of 60 years in manufacturing plants.] Inability to keep XP running due to drivers for machine tools ONLY being available for Windows XP, means they have to keep XP working. At one site. value of machine tools about USD $400,000 by 3 machines, value of XP USD 40, Value of drivers on XP specific machine tool drivers equates to machine tool replacement costs (modern equivalent) about USD 1.6 Million each at current prices. NHS has similar problems as drivers for some medical equipment are XP specific. NHS did not learn to obtain a certified copy and source code of drivers (oh! proprietary - you can not have) so in event of supplier demise , they could rebuild the drivers onto an XP system. Likewise the machine tool using guy I support.
No problem with wind WHEN it is in the viable wind-speed range. My location about 40 miles from coast has available wind only 40% of time. (Many days it is much to high to operate wind turbines, they are all locked off. Other days calm. Like solar; wind is not 365/7/24 dependable so you cannot tie an ecomony or hospitals to them. There must be a 365/7/24 back up or availability of 60% of demand or we cannot access/.
Various slide rules and fingers/brain; then a BBC Micro (I am in UK) but it was never as good as my slide rules until I added a spreadsheet option, Then a second hand IBM '286' chip machine.
As an export sales engineer from UK to rest of world, I had 35 years of very routine flights (60 to 80 flights abroad per year, with many more domestic and international when abroad), I understood the over booking process, and found that it worked well. When I had time, e.g. a Friday night flight to a place for Monday work, the airlines I used had a note I was quite willing to go Saturday if they sorted out my hotel. Many times this mutual convenience worked and I found I obtained good service, especially from KLM.
As one who came to Linux because I had to operate on computers in English (my usual language) but inside COMECON (Soviet times), I used Live Linux Knoppix, (3.5 inch floppies) it worked on any IBM the state companies owned, so I could disregard the Cyrillic keyboards, once I convinved them I was not 'adjusting' their IBMs. This allowed me to get printers and machinery 'on line' while giving basic GUI applications and Terminal operation so I could print out instructions and controls. Try Knoppix as Live Linux disc on old computer and see how it feels , then move to say OpenSUSE (very good contols in YaST) or Linux Mint (make sure you set up a root account on loading -if you intend to play with machinery) AND ensure your machinery can talk to Linux. A single proprietary driver fixed to Windows DOS or an IE6 browser could destroy any transfer unless you know what controls your machinery!
Essential. if you do any scientific number work or in normal business accountancy of bookkeeping. I do not buy any laptop which is without a number pad. 7 Laptops with number pads in use in the house.
Some of my friends are buying second hand (Windows 7 era) devices and making them into Linux boxes to retain the right to use what they want. Second hand prices going up, MS devices dependent on locked OEMs. This may effect OEM box makers.
Very easy. If a business you charge yourself the sales tax/VAT by a reverse charge mechanism in your MONTHLY VAT submittals, if you are a private person the sales tax/VAT is collected by the seller. It works well. i do this often both as a private person and as a business official.
I was not arguing the 'correct' mingling of person's opinions. I was defining the system. If you accept that a majority is democracy then if in the 'minor camp' you can only change it by later action or leave the system and go elsewhere. Yes, I understand that 'rule by majority' is 'unfair' on the lesser. The major political implication of majority in recent times was the Bolshevic (majority) Menshevic (minority) division and the later development therefrom. I completely agree with your analysis of a Norway solution, however that seems ruled out, as they accepted free movement of people, the real red line for present government. Ultimate injustice, a majority of one (8 to 7) in a Scottish court could hang a person. Majority verdicts in Scots odd numbered jury system.
If 35 million vote in UK, one side (say with 2 parties only) gets 1 more member of parliament by a single vote in a single constituency, but that single member gives it a majority of one member in house of commons , that becomes the government. That defines democracy. You either accept such results or you do not want a democracy. Democracy means rule by majority however slender. It's like a board of directors split with only one more on winning side, but it is effective in law and custom. Plurality of a consensus of opinions is not a democracy, refer to Belgium with its convoluted rules for the two language sides which gives a somewhat ineffective government , police force etc.
Whether I was one side or another of 'Brexit'; I as a person and I as a company director must plan as I see fit for Brexit reality, However as my trade is mostly UK and Asia (little Continental Europe involvement) it only affects my company slightly but all foreign employees will come under the same rules in future , without 'EU' preference AND the information exchange rules will probably tighten to be more that EU rules thus EU 'safe haven rules' will be the minimum, whether or not the residual EU recognises that fact.
I have a problem. End points of my main long journey are about 350 miles apart, I usually fill up on petrol (gas) at half tank so never go more than 200 mile between fill up stops. I would want electric vehicles to have same ability, . i.e . top up to full in say 15 minutes during half way stop. This is the critical factor to occasional long distance use, when normal commutes etc are about 60 miles per day. I rejected a hybrid because of cost, and until electric-top ups are both cost ( money) and time (short time) they do not have any benefit except in commuter areas, which I appreciate helps urban living and health. It might leads to an urban person have a short distance car and hiring a petrol( gas) cas for weekend or long trips.
I watch 3D shows at my local theatre. Live people and in 3D. I believe the blood and guts story Titus Andronicus pulled then in in the 1500s to make the theatre cast's salaries better than normal - violent 'porn' . I see no reason to spend on electronic devices that do not give me the same realism, and ability to talk to the cast afterwards.
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Same situation outside IT, with mechanical service staff, who after 40~50 years of solving mechanical machine problems on site in oilfield or refinery exist as a very small 2 to 3 men (world wide) over 60 years of age with no trainees or replacements. They are mending machines that were designed in the 1950s/1960s but with a 80 year operational life. At retirement the manufacturer loses: good spares part business, field time invoicing and a competitor bids for new machinery to replace. End of company. Age replacement training and passover of skills is a basic survival strategy for a business.
I expect a phone to last at least 10 years on my payroll grade, as do many in non-developed countries. Thus I limit my selection to (A) MUST have removable battery (can be away from an electric supply for days!) (B) desirable; Works and can be viewed in bright sunlight
This is not satisfactory. KISS factor applies. Provide a good browser not a Cxxxxx clone, otherwise we just shift en-masse to Cxxxxx
The discontinuence of a maker / designer / brand owner supplying goods does not stop retailers or merchants holding stock legitamately at that time from later selling them, and warranty claims go through seller to manufacturer for latent defaults. In most countries latent defaults have a very long period such as 20 years after point of sale,(for gross negligence time unlimited) specifically to avoid manufacturers abandoning claims where there might have been latent faults. A batter fault is most specifically a 'latent defect', as buyer cannot check QA on battery
The physical laws of mathematics will long outlive any 'Australian Law'. Even those mathematical laws we do not know yet (say in Quantun Theory) will be discovered , and found to have worked since in our knowledge the known universe existed.
From a doctor's report known to me, A Western UK doctor who travelled in Soviet Russia, in a remote location a Russian medical doctor caring for a vast area was shipped out of date or old 'Foreign Medicine' in English labelled packaging by Soviet central planning. The UK doctor spent time translating the labels etc. for the local doctor's use. The local doctor used these and on subsequent visits the Uk doctor learned they were mostly OK, some were not so effective, so local doctor had increased the dose rate. Likewise food stored in Scot's hut in Antartica was edible during a 1960's test at my university on recovery 50 years later. The poor cannnot be litigous and must use what is available, perhaps a concerted USA effort to ship out of date but expensive medicine to poorer countries or poorer places inside the USA to give a level of medicare availability , perhaps with a 'no lawsuit proviso', would help the indigenous poor in USA or elsewhere.
QUOTE : I suppose you still have manual windows in your car.
Yes. So I can open windows to escape if electrics fail.
"the only people that seem to see ghosts are those people that believe in ghosts."
Not so. A squad of soldiers (I was one of them) stopped for lunch in remote valley and saw a horse walking on the grass on other side of the lake at the bottom of valley. One of our squad was a trained horseman and he saw that a part of the equipage was broken, which would normally happen when a horse shed its rider. We confirmed this through binoculars. We reported the horse incident to local police in the nearby village later that day as we throught a rider might be missing or injured. The police just said, 'no problem; its a gost horse seen by many folk these past years'. Thereafter we (the squad of soldiers) who did not believe in ghosts , having seen one in broad daylight just after noon, did believe.
Europeans who have a direct vote to elect "Presidents" (hand counted) consider the usefulness of an electorial college a slightly bad thing now travel and communication are so easy.
The USA electorial college is somewhat similar to the UK system where the majority party is allowed to nominate its leader for Prime Minister, which usually happens. However there is an overriding vote in that the Queen (of the Commonwealth [note 1] does not need to accept or offer to that noninated person). (Note 1) Once during her reign she had in conjunction with her appointed representative in one Commonwealth country, removed the 'in place Prime Minister" (but with stalemate budget/parliament problem) and replaced her/him with another, so that parliament could continue and government budget could work. This is the Sovereign's reserve power against the 'major party electorial college'. not working correctly.
20170516 I understand why folk should update and I do so on most machines, however some machine tool manufacturers - no longer in business - used XP to run the machine tools they supplied. Computer inside machine control is an XP system with drivers only for XP. Thus These machines are and will be working on XP for about next 40 years! [Machine tools have a life of upwards of 60 years in manufacturing plants.] Inability to keep XP running due to drivers for machine tools ONLY being available for Windows XP, means they have to keep XP working.
At one site. value of machine tools about USD $400,000 by 3 machines, value of XP USD 40, Value of drivers on XP specific machine tool drivers equates to machine tool replacement costs (modern equivalent) about USD 1.6 Million each at current prices. NHS has similar problems as drivers for some medical equipment are XP specific.
NHS did not learn to obtain a certified copy and source code of drivers (oh! proprietary - you can not have) so in event of supplier demise , they could rebuild the drivers onto an XP system. Likewise the machine tool using guy I support.
No problem with wind WHEN it is in the viable wind-speed range. My location about 40 miles from coast has available wind only 40% of time. (Many days it is much to high to operate wind turbines, they are all locked off. Other days calm. Like solar; wind is not 365/7/24 dependable so you cannot tie an ecomony or hospitals to them. There must be a 365/7/24 back up or availability of 60% of demand or we cannot access /.
Various slide rules and fingers/brain; then a BBC Micro (I am in UK) but it was never as good as my slide rules until I added a spreadsheet option, Then a second hand IBM '286' chip machine.
As an export sales engineer from UK to rest of world, I had 35 years of very routine flights (60 to 80 flights abroad per year, with many more domestic and international when abroad), I understood the over booking process, and found that it worked well. When I had time, e.g. a Friday night flight to a place for Monday work, the airlines I used had a note I was quite willing to go Saturday if they sorted out my hotel. Many times this mutual convenience worked and I found I obtained good service, especially from KLM.
As one who came to Linux because I had to operate on computers in English (my usual language) but inside COMECON (Soviet times), I used Live Linux Knoppix, (3.5 inch floppies) it worked on any IBM the state companies owned, so I could disregard the Cyrillic keyboards, once I convinved them I was not 'adjusting' their IBMs.
This allowed me to get printers and machinery 'on line' while giving basic GUI applications and Terminal operation so I could print out instructions and controls.
Try Knoppix as Live Linux disc on old computer and see how it feels , then move to say OpenSUSE (very good contols in YaST) or Linux Mint (make sure you set up a root account on loading -if you intend to play with machinery) AND ensure your machinery can talk to Linux. A single proprietary driver fixed to Windows DOS or an IE6 browser could destroy any transfer unless you know what controls your machinery!
Essential. if you do any scientific number work or in normal business accountancy of bookkeeping.
I do not buy any laptop which is without a number pad. 7 Laptops with number pads in use in the house.
Some of my friends are buying second hand (Windows 7 era) devices and making them into Linux boxes to retain the right to use what they want. Second hand prices going up, MS devices dependent on locked OEMs. This may effect OEM box makers.
Very easy. If a business you charge yourself the sales tax/VAT by a reverse charge mechanism in your MONTHLY VAT submittals, if you are a private person the sales tax/VAT is collected by the seller. It works well. i do this often both as a private person and as a business official.
I was not arguing the 'correct' mingling of person's opinions. I was defining the system. If you accept that a majority is democracy then if in the 'minor camp' you can only change it by later action or leave the system and go elsewhere. Yes, I understand that 'rule by majority' is 'unfair' on the lesser. The major political implication of majority in recent times was the Bolshevic (majority) Menshevic (minority) division and the later development therefrom. I completely agree with your analysis of a Norway solution, however that seems ruled out, as they accepted free movement of people, the real red line for present government.
Ultimate injustice, a majority of one (8 to 7) in a Scottish court could hang a person. Majority verdicts in Scots odd numbered jury system.
If 35 million vote in UK, one side (say with 2 parties only) gets 1 more member of parliament by a single vote in a single constituency, but that single member gives it a majority of one member in house of commons , that becomes the government. That defines democracy. You either accept such results or you do not want a democracy. Democracy means rule by majority however slender. It's like a board of directors split with only one more on winning side, but it is effective in law and custom.
Plurality of a consensus of opinions is not a democracy, refer to Belgium with its convoluted rules for the two language sides which gives a somewhat ineffective government , police force etc.
Whether I was one side or another of 'Brexit'; I as a person and I as a company director must plan as I see fit for Brexit reality, However as my trade is mostly UK and Asia (little Continental Europe involvement) it only affects my company slightly but all foreign employees will come under the same rules in future , without 'EU' preference AND the information exchange rules will probably tighten to be more that EU rules thus EU 'safe haven rules' will be the minimum, whether or not the residual EU recognises that fact.
The original article is good but a long read.
I have a problem. End points of my main long journey are about 350 miles apart, I usually fill up on petrol (gas) at half tank so never go more than 200 mile between fill up stops. I would want electric vehicles to have same ability, . i.e . top up to full in say 15 minutes during half way stop. This is the critical factor to occasional long distance use, when normal commutes etc are about 60 miles per day.
I rejected a hybrid because of cost, and until electric-top ups are both cost ( money) and time (short time) they do not have any benefit except in commuter areas, which I appreciate helps urban living and health. It might leads to an urban person have a short distance car and hiring a petrol( gas) cas for weekend or long trips.
My phone is from 2002. Still in use in UK. Phones ok, texts ok. Nothing more required.
If not in GNU system, would the maintainer please advise where they have lodged the source code for download.
I watch 3D shows at my local theatre. Live people and in 3D. I believe the blood and guts story Titus Andronicus pulled then in in the 1500s to make the theatre cast's salaries better than normal - violent 'porn' . I see no reason to spend on electronic devices that do not give me the same realism, and ability to talk to the cast afterwards.
If recalled and compensation paid or new phone, why law suit?