Posts by Robert E A Harvey

Or invent something else. Necessity etc etc etc.

Re: Caveat emptor

Not over simplified at all.

I don't actually care one way or the other. either they knew or didn't. They paid over the odds for somethign that turned out to be less than was expected. I suspect thier customers know the feeling.

welcome to capitalism, lads. How do you like them apples?

floated around on its exhaust like

... and what a disaster it was. I used to pick it up so it would suck harder. More effort going into float than suck.

before my 50th b'day

My 70th, maybe.

What the blue blistering blazes are we all doing with all this data? I have getting on for a TB of photos I have taken - and I never look at the damn things.

Re: If they have to buy a whole new machine...

VFD -variable frequency drive. Yes you /can/ enter basic parameters through the keypad, but debugging and tuning requires a monitor. And those run on windows.

https://customer.honeywell.com/en-US/support/commercial/software/vfds/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.nidec-asi.com/english/ARTICS_sw_platform.php

http://www.abb.com/product/us/9AAC113388.aspx

And are you seriously telling me you can write programmes for a PLC5 or an S7 with some sort of text terminal? Because I doubt that very much.

http://www.industry.siemens.com/topics/global/en/tia-portal/pages/default.aspx

https://www.rockwellautomation.com/rockwellsoftware/design/rslogix5/overview.page

http://www.mitsubishielectric.com/fa/products/cnt/plceng/items/index.html

Re: How much?

>And want to charge £900 for the privilege?

Some years ago I formulated Harvey's Law. From about 1975 to about 2000 any desirable computer cost just about a thousand quid, because that was how much the chap in the shop needed to take off people to make enough profit to pay the rent and rates.

Then we had the laptop-price-crash and people were buying machines for £350. The trade doesn't make enough money like that, they needed to take a grand off folk, hence the rise of things like this and ultrabooks (which are only slightly better than a netbook, for four times the price).

It ain't the components. It's the rest of the business that costs the money!

Re: Optimal solution?

Surely the optimal solution is to stop having wars?

Re: SPF natwest.com

>set up by a big boy

No, they were lying. It is what businesses do now when caught out.

Re: Do they have quantum PC's yet

yes.

and no.

They did. I saw one in Brazil at about that time, along with one shaped like a pen that was /entirely/ voice-op

Re: It's coming along

Yes. This.

Bloody good show for trying.

Really hope something wonderful happens.

They have to buy their own printer

Yep

I've used it when self employed to manage my business, and to do Xwindows development on.

I also persuaded a couple of survey ships to standardise on it to avoid the continual virus infections they were getting.

It is superb for electronic chart applications too: run VNC on the chart computer and display it anywhere withoug worrying about licence fees or updating or antivirus. Or people installing stupid games.

What the UK can bring to the table.

We have a pretty impressive set of people who would improve the planet. By leaving it.

Democratised

Yep. For example look at geograph.org.uk .

3 million pictures by people, people like me.

A handful are good photography. You still need to know where to point it,what not to include, and how to be patient.

Re: So that's one fondleslab

>1280x1024 (svga) recommended

And yet they flogged us all those x600 or x768 screens!

Re: Are offset touchpads common now ?

It seems to happen when there is a numeric keypad, yes.

I'd quite like the touchpad to be at the end near where I would use the mouse - so I did not keep moving the cursor while touch typing.

Ah

So it's you who has my old saw? I was looking for it this morning.

Re: Build It And It Will Come

Don't bother.