Posts by PhilipN 1641 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2010
Esp recycling old kit.
But the problem being as we all know you can't just solder in a new diode any more it's got to be the whole PCB (for example) (same as cars but that's another story).
Then it means those of us sourcing old components from Ebay and having them delivered by Airbus are not helping the carbon footprint after all (and no more jokes about African vs. European carrier pigeons, thanks).
Old news but seasonal visitors said yesterday Google Maps would have sent them on a >one-hour walk to reach us instead of the 10 minutes we told them it would take. Trouble is it is the same story back home where they live in the heart of the metropolis.
Youtube browser is enough. For today's lossless music the sound coming out of the Ipad from Youtube is to my non-audiophile ears perfect. Maybe not as good as coming out of a friend's high end hi-fi (right down to the depleted uranium cables, the lot) but most likely I couldn't tell the difference anyway.
“ Apple literally taught Foxconn”..??!! Apple has no production skills. Foxconn and its fellow islanders built those skills from around 1980 onwards.
And China did not start from zero. It had an industrial infrastructure - antiquated but massive - long before it became the workshop of the World.
Mentioned a mate's Discovery in another post here. This concerns onboard software. When his vehicle was delivered the electronics were dead as a dodo. Dealer said they's try to reinstall but if that didn't work the vehicle would have to go back to the factory. Mate lives in Australia....
Acc to a mate of mine the Discovery he bought a couple of years ago was made up of parts from all over the Continent which were all finally bolted together in Croatia (or somewhere that way). So what precisely are JLR's plants for and how much of this subsidy is going to domestic suppliers?
Some time ago young guy - OK a miscreant - was caught after 2 months because CCTV caught the registration of the (stolen) car he was driving.
Honestly - young fellow can't boost a car to take his girlfriend out at the weekend without risking arrest? [Shakes head in disbelief}
That's a bloody joke for a start. I have (had - my wife still is) been a Jag owner since the early 90's moving to each iteration of the XJ as it came out. And would be doing so today except 5 years ago the dealer said "there won't be another XJ for 2 years and then it will be electric". So if they can give two fingers to the loyal customer I can do the same to them.
Fact is, apart from anything else, their service network was abominable. It got to the point I had to source parts online from other Jaguar shops since the factory did not have them. So not even persevering with the old XJ. Bye-bye JLR it was not fun.
AS a non-techie I don't get it. If all traffic has to transit systems provided by a US company why is there a national security issue? That is, even though the hosting is supposed to be neutral and transparent (yeah right) what is there to stop Oracle directly throttling personal data of millions of Americans being fed to the Evil Empire and thereby undermining Western security?
I have over the years seen the vitriol applied here to the gent topic of this piece but I have to express admiration for his staying the course for 4 decades.
I said "admiration". I didn't say I like the guy and the only time I visit Delphi is for Virtualbox (which he picked up from a German company).
Worth following the links for which thanks, El Reg. This ^ one goes to a page of - ta-da! - the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office not the Brit IT Admin. Impressive roster of subscribers to the deal, but it strikes me as a good way for Uncle Sam to keep track of what other countries are doing so they can ..... (shhh!).
Also check any reference to a think tank : "Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership ...." Oh what a giveaway!
Wasn't Elon muttering recently about using AI to write an OS? Or was he sleep-talking?
Would be interesting if only to find out how much bloat AI wrote into the OS.
Especially since Microserfs' outpourings are surely incorporated in the AI dataset, having a deleterious impact on...everything.
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