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ios12.2 is the latest. I’d see no point in regressing to an earlier version as that could well lack security fixes. Just buy a Pad and let it update. Probably the bigger choice is wifi only or one with 4G as there is a hefty price hike for the 4G. (I have wifi only and never missed the 4G, ditto my Apple developer son who uses the things like smart channel changers, and media interfaces. I guess however you will need the 4G to fully test remote access.
Dave, I assume that you will be exploring commercial apps from reputable publishers and not home-brew stuff. (Difficult and expensive for developers to keep up with new Apple hardware). The ios side of it is easy, apple releases new ios software FOC. Most of the time this software works on fairly old Apple kit. (I have an iPad mini that is now about 6 years old and still updating). However, Apple do from time to time have a CPU upheaval and one looks in the offing. At this time Apple will only do security releases on the old CPU for a period of time.
I guess it depends how much future proofing you need, but my advice would be to purchase a cheap iPad mini from IJT or similar. If you find you have to support the newest Apple hardware, bite the bullet at that time.
What I would say is that Apple plays very badly in the IoT area due to its heavily curated hardware especially BlueTooth. My son uses a Pi to act as an interface between Apple and (say) the Google world, he would probably do the same in the security camera world to avoid paying the Apple hardware tax!
Even a 64Gb USB flash drive at <£10 is cheaper and better than optical. I’d be shocked if your individual files or projects exceed the capacity of one. A 128Gb flash costs around £15 and will do a full system backup.
Spend your pennies on USB3 rather than optical.
I hear what you say, but watch those announcements disappear in the case of a Hard Brexit. One month ago when such decisions were made the betting was on May’s deal or No Brexit. We probably will not know what the real score is until the end of May. (all meanings to May apply!).
I wish that someone would add up all the costs of May’s lack of backbone – I reckon £10 billion as a minimum.
+1 to BL. Unfortunately optical media’s longevity is a myth. Try opening something you burned 5 years ago. Unless it was burnt on a ‘gold’ CD then good luck!
I tend to use my remaining stocks of DVD/CDs (mostly the blue dye carp) as boot disks e.g. recovery/anti-virus stuff. It just does not have either the capacity or longevity to be very useful today.
Has anyone spotted what May is up to. Looks ploitically that the piggy in the middle is going to win on both sides. One or the other: Europe the conservatives will throw out? May will work away and say its no preblem for me its a problem for you.
I guess it depends on your viewpoint, but to me May has broken her primary election promise “…to emerge from Brexit a strong and united nation, ” If anything we are more divided and bitter. Instead of seeking a consensus from all parties of the best way to handle Brexit it became a ‘My way or no way’ approach, with no being capable of being interpreted as both a ‘Hard Brexit’ and a ‘No Brexit’
In my opinion the only things she has succeeded at are to alienate the population and demonstrated the undemocratic evils of an elected Dictatorship.
I suspect that she has thoroughly annoyed the House of Commons in all the political shades – a rare success!
Tippon I think that was Duke’s point, it is not so much about vibrancy but subtly raising the intensity of the dark parts.
My Lumix camera is set to automatically fire off three shots spanning an exposure range. Most times I just choose the middle one out of the three but there are times (e.g. wedding shots inside the church) when you want to use bits from all the different exposures. Even hand balancing it all it is still difficult to ensure that it does not look artificial.
Look after yourself, it is a tough period in life. You may want to ask about Bereavement Counsellors in your area, they are trained to help you get through this understandable depression and out the other side.
Heaven knows how they do it, I certainly know I would be useless at it, as I would at any of the other counselling roles.
“I continually wonder how Labour can be ahead in the polls”
Easy – would you even trust this Government (and its ex-ministers like Bojo) with anything? The ERG lot are even worse – as creepy a bunch as you could wish for – they all look like they have just crept out of a crypt after sucking the blood from yet another innocent victim. Would you actually trust any of them to keep their word? If so, I have a bridge to sell to you!
March 19, 2019 at 11:57 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #31886Apparently a US criminal investigation has been launched:
“On Sunday, the Seattle Times, the home-town newspaper of Boeing’s commercial division, published the results of a lengthy investigation into the federal certification of the 737 Max. It found that the F.A.A. outsourced key elements of the certification process to Boeing itself, and that Boeing’s safety analysis of the new plane contained some serious flaws, including several relating to the MCAS.”
““Federal prosecutors and Department of Transportation officials are scrutinizing the development of Boeing Co.’s 737 MAX jetliners,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. “A grand jury in Washington, D.C., issued a broad subpoena dated March 11 to at least one person involved in the 737 MAX’s development, seeking related documents, including correspondence, emails and other messages,”
March 19, 2019 at 11:46 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #31885What worries me is the amount of money and (US Defense budget) associated with getting these potential disasters back in the air. I can see the FAA ruling that fitting a second set of sensors will solve all the problems and throw them on to the pilot.
Given the proven unreliability of the angle of attack sensors there is a very finite chance that both will fail. Without data I cannot calculate a probability but based on hearsay data the probability of two simultaneous failures appears to be well below a one in a million chance of death. (When I was involved with the HSE in some design scoping they were looking at plane crash events of one in ten million as being an unacceptable level of risk).
Talking of House of Lords – I was absolutely astonished by Lord Ashton of Hyde, he actually is the right man in the right job!
During discussions on the use of (what looks like) AI in Public Authorities he was able to speak off the cuff and give a word-perfect definition of ‘algorithm’. Quite frankly I would be astounded if such technical knowledge exists in the House of Commons assuming Grayling is top twenty percent, and judging by some of their stupidity when dealing with the Internet or cryptography.
Lord Ashton of Hyde
“My Lords, I am not an expert, but I am sure that the noble Lord can go back to his school days and remember from his study of Greek that Euclid was producing algorithms in 300 BC —he will remember that this was for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers. Essentially, an algorithm is a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations. Today, they are used mainly by computers for calculations, machine learning and artificial intelligence
Never seen it! I guess because Steam is not loaded by default.
He did. I am not a constitutional lawyer so I cannot say if he has stretched any interpretations in so doing. However, I do think that he has justifiably established some very slight limitations on our nasty system of Partially-Elected Dictatorship!
Yes, I am fully aware of the Electoral College system in the USA. That’s the point. Being federal didn’t stop that crazy Presidential system arising, did it.
I do not think I have ever seen such a blatant distort in order to fit your view of the world.
Its all moot unfortunately unless Bercow’s recent ruling gives an option to just dump this Brexit mess.
Check out your hdmi cable- see link
If you have been cheap and reused an old cable there is a fair chance it cannot do full hdtv 12 bit or even 10 bit.
Richard I think you raise issues that only a specialist/medical researcher can answer.
From a theory standpoint all genetic diseases can eventually be eliminated by gene editing CRISPR-Cas9 etc, but the real question is when will this become affordable/available to all?
I’m veering towards saying show and tell based on my wife’s niece, but this carries very heavy emotional stability risks.
Almost anything would be better than the UK first past the post system.
I really do not like voting for political parties. I hate political Whips, and our elective dictatorship. Even assuming they will remotely respect manifesto promises each party’s manifesto contains something I would like but each also contains something that makes me want to barf.
What I really want is to be able to elect someone I can respect who will to their best ability do what is right for the country and tell Whips to stick it – Minister or No.
I also want a system that can sack (from Parliament) proven idiots and incompetents such as Grayling.
I’m never going to see any of these unfortunately.
btw VFM – your comment on Trump has very little to do with Federalisation – Trump’s election was based on their Electoral College system.
March 17, 2019 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #31828Scary as hell!
@Richard tbh I do not know. Having spent time with the US Health Insurance system, if you think there is a finite probability that the lunatic right wing of the Toty Party will force private health insurance on us, then I would be very hesitant to leave my family with more than a sealed envelope and instructions when to open it. Like the UK, US Insurance companies require the divulgence of all related info, and parental genetic testing results can be a sure fire way of raising premiums and adding exclusions.
[Edit] There can be a positive side to passing on info. The females on my wife’s side of the family share a genetic predisposition to thyroid deficiency in later years. This can be a silent killer so a niece was very grateful of being able to alert her GP and after testing, catch the problem early on.
I suspect only you can balance the risk/reward equation.
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