oldcynic

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by oldcynic 9y ago
Has it not been that way since the days of the PS1? The cost of games is like printers and ink. The hardware is the loss leader more than made up for by the "subscription" to those over-priced consumables. There was anger and upse
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Yes it is, but I think - perhaps counter intuitively to some, that the larger the company the larger the risk of being left without the product or service you grow to like. In the case of Google, Microsoft and some others I'm now wary
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Well as the article says it's for "applications for all visa types" can you enlighten me how this would help with giving Brits or Americans a better chance of employment? Any corporate bringing people in under a skill-based e
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> a dozen real-life friends ... used an email address I created just for Facebook Faking data doesn't work when they have a significant shadow profile with 'votes' from many of your friends. I imagine some of your dozen re
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> most average things ever ie sports and such (which I don't follow -at all-). Like, really, you have nothing better on me ? To me, that is part of the problem. For years Facebook, and Google, have been telling the world they unders
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I've done jury duty and can see there are some flaws in the UK system. Nonetheless I would far rather face a jury trial than any of the alternatives.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
For at least some of those things just around the corner, they could have been here, tax cuts and the occasional vastly expensive defence gewgaw were chosen instead.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> access to friend data has always been more limited than you imply here, and more recently, it’s become so limited that using apps for data collection about friends is almost a pointless endeavor. Not sure what was limited, but you were
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Degree is irrelevant until sentencing is it not? Failing to read the TOS is not the same as being informed either. The judiciary seem aware of that too.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Correct me where I'm wrong but did it not used to be the case that facebook apps could access almost as much info about your friends as they could about you? So where is the consent? Fred gives consent to run a personality quiz and
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> The driver has the right to refuse letting anyone in their vehicle Whilst complying with the law. Self employment does not exempt you. A disabled passenger would have grounds for a case against the "self employed" driver if t
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Then they should not be driving an Uber. Everywhere else, be that shops, taxis, trains etc, there is a legal requirement to allow guide dogs and other service animals. This is the case in the EU at least. Allowing drivers to opt in or out o
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by oldcynic 9y ago
...and the EU, for all its many faults, has been quite successful restraining the worst of those tendencies, and balancing the needs of citizens.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Interesting. Didn't know that had changed.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
There is law that TV licensing get told your address every time a TV is sold[0], which Argos etc will also do. That is entirely separate from NMPR and CheckMend, which I hadn't heard of before. So seems to be an Amazon initiative. [0]
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I set it up, once, it gets automatically renewed indefinitely. Haven't had to change a CC number, or trip over any of the usual selection of billing and renewal gotchas. Fits my definition of free, even after valuing my time as non-zer
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I'm sure it's on someone's list. There's been enough scifi with animated tattoos that I think it has to happen. :)
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by oldcynic 9y ago
First time I heard that fusion was 15 years away was around 35 years ago, in an already old book belonging to my eldest brother. They were talking about ZETA (late 50s). Wake me when the first power station is being built.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Material Design is as much part of the flat and ugly problem as anyone else. I was on Android until 12 months ago when I switched back to iOS. They both have their low points, and less low points, but both are flat, ugly, anti-design, exper
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by oldcynic 9y ago
The floppy - sure, that's obsolete. With what should it be replaced that's universally recognised? Does your youngest need to know it's a floppy, and what that once meant, or just it's the funny icon for save? Just lik
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. I was a reluctant convert to the cult of flatness - the OS changed beneath me (if OSX still allowed theming I would have instantly regressed). Then they took it so far that you no longer have enough visual cues. I&
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> outside of tech often don't know about the data collection to quite the extent you're talking about and don't care Quite, but some of those very same people who don't care will call it creepy when they are on the
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by oldcynic 9y ago
This is a conversation I have occasionally had with non tech friends. I'm sorry, you are the one being hyperbolic. It's like you haven't even noticed what's been happening the last 10 years or so. > You get those fr
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Management stopped and restarted AAA and 3000+ several times, including replacing a significant chunk of hardware people with PC guys. That ultimately led to the cheap hack of AGA, the cheap and nasty (4000), and the cost saving entry (600)
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by oldcynic 9y ago
If they want cover in the event of an accident they do.
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No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch?(theguardian.com)
5 points by oldcynic 9y ago|1 comments
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Nope. They have to be able to cope with extreme changes in load, and I think have higher precision of frequency adjustment to pull the rest of the grid into sync. Some coal plants had gas turbines[0] fitted solely to allow a black start, ot
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Definitely. Dinorwig[0] has the turbine hall built inside a mountain, using a lake in a disused slate quarry. Stop to maximum power in 12s or something similarly ridiculous. They do tours, which I highly recommend if you are in the UK. Yo
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Grids ensure the cycle count is correct over the day. There will be some drift from spikes and peak loads, but they adjust the frequency to compensate. They have atomic clocks, for the EU grid it's in Switzerland, to track the cycle co
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by oldcynic 9y ago
You sure that's the cause? The UK has legislation limiting amount of drift from 50Hz, and the Grid adjusts frequency multiple times a day, outside spikes, to ensure the cycle count is correct.

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