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When I was a pre-teen and before the restrictive days of Elf &Safety and terrorists under every stone I used to build and fly models powered by a miniature rocket engine (iirc the motive fuel was small cylinders of cordite). Great fun, but sadly no longer available.
I never recommended that bulb ed. I’ve never had that one, (or heard off ).
My bad – I know you pointed me towards RGB LED lights, and Xiaomi but on the way through Amazon I finished up with Lumiman, and I cannot remember who pointed me there!
I have the Lumiman RGB bulbs you recommended at one time and I’m happy with the easy way they set up wifi, as well as the ‘plusminus’ control app. My only niggle is that I have not yet located the SDK for bulb control as I fancy using the bulbs in one room as colour changing chasers for Christmas.
Hard to say wrt cost effectiveness, however using programmed RGB lights in strategic places like the bedrooms, and TV room in the manner detailed by Steve are scientifically proven to be a healthy option.
i.e. green/blue/white lighting to wake up with kickstarts your circadian clock, then yellow->red lights in the evening improves sleep habits and promotes natural melatonin. Red is particularly useful in that it offsets the harsh blues of TVs and PC screens.
Recent updates have reset settings!
Until we actually leave it was made clear that we are still in the EU under the same benefits and obligations as before.
If we accept May’s deal or Remain in the EU we are at the mercy of the EU which will cherry pick this country dry. Why would they not do so in their own best interests?
That statement is either disingenuous or fatuous.
If we remain in the EU then like any other EU member we can and should contribute to its governance. Instead of stacking the UK’s membership with Bexiteer saboteurs we should be electing people with the interests of the UK at heart. (Most of the South East UK MEPs are avowed ‘leavers’ belonging to the so-called freedom party.)
The EU is committed to increasing the GDP of the member states and contributions to the EU budget are based on national GNP. There is absolutely no incentive for the EU as a body to reduce the wealth of any member state.
Sorry for the necro-post, but I remembered that a number of people were using the relatively cheap TP-Link HS-100 smart plug. Out of the box this is a smart phone only appliance with no facility to do much programming other than the simple app facilities.
This blog by George allows a bit more control in that it gives scripts that the plug uses.
I recommend going to the Github link as the script in the blog appears to be truncated on the rhs.
That country is already our biggest (single state) trading partner and the potential remains massive with a trade deal.
What makes you think we can do any better? Remember the motto of the US State Dept – ‘America First!’. In any case our trade with the US is a lot less than that of German, and the EU are 90% of the way to cutting a trading deal..
The first rule of any trade is that you have to be selling something the others want. What possible increments of trade could we get that we cannot already obtain? All a trade deal means with the US is that they will ship poisonous GM crops to us and tie us into their stupid software patent system. We will get crumbs in return.
The Windows OS now ‘tries’ to make use of available RAM (if the software can make use of it.). If you have Chrome on your PC it will gobble the lot! 4-8GB for the average user is thought to be OK, but others need much more. link
Windows nasty Photo app will gobble huge amounts when indexing especially if you have a lot of photos.
…everyone knew, Especally on the US side of the pond.
Hell, it was even obvious to me so I went ‘liquid’ a year ahead of the crash. Most people knew, but dare not be the first to say it as they would have been accused of causing a crisis or market manipulation. When the AVERAGE S&P 500 stock was returning a PE of 20+ then it was damned obvious that the market was unsustainable – the current one is a little better but still a tad high, and some of the income statements now look ‘manipulated’ as judged by their cash flow.
I class the Bank’s forecast as a lot better than BoJo et als forecast of what we could obtain from all the Brexit negotiations. These negotiations were if you recall led for 95% of the time by ardent Brexiteers such the Brexit Bulldog Davis and the smarmy guy with the foreign name Dominic Raab..
Bob, I believe you earlier stated that the college were aware of his dyslexia. That being the case I would have thought that there were grounds for appeal and a request that the written part be handled as a an oral exam (viva voce), and if necessary ask the British Dyslexia society if they can help.
You may be better off looking on your Linux drive, assuming you have not binned it:
There is a very good chance that nothing can be recovered. Had you done it once and realised your error you would probably have been able to recover it all.
However, be that as it may your first step should be to do a dd clone of the card. (do not forget to umount the card first!). Then you MUST only work on that copy as there is a high probability you will screw it up! For Linux use Photorec (install using Synaptic it comes up as Testdisk).
Good luck – you will need lots!
@Graham, if you are still playing with C++ check out Godot on Steam (free) this is a C++ (or C#) game engine. Even if you do not like games please do not dismiss it, I have used similar engines to carry out simulation studies (mainly GPSS-;like Montecarlo simulations. but the particle system could allow anything, even fire-spread to be modelled)
I know. I try to live my life bye giving people a chance. The Eu had theirs. Time to beat them up.
We were a fully participating member of the EU.
If there are faults with the EU and anyone to blame, then blame ignorant a-holes like Faragh for not taking full advantage of that position and persuading other member states to alter the rules. Bureaucracy is a system that always cuts both ways if you have the guile to see where bureaucratic rules work in your favour.
I disagree Ed. A good negotiator can make the other side buckle even if he has no cards. And we have lots.
Sorry you are wrong.
Although I agree a good negotiator is worth their salt, they absolutely need to know exactly what their sticking points are and what ‘worthless’ items they can trade to get them. this is what differentiates a Trade Negotiator from a common or garden negotiator. Believe it or not, that requires both a lot of intelligence as well as the skill to draw out such details from (say) the manufacturing sector in question. such deals are rarely binary, but normally cover a package of different items.
Although we probably get a free-ride on trade details for the automotive sector, just think of all the myriad of components each of which could well be subject to different tariffs depending on their point of origin. Anyone negotiating a ‘car’ deal with (say) Brazil would have to be capable of not just comprehending the finished article but also all the bits (and implications) that make up a car. If (say) that deal is the counterpart to a deal on tariff-free coffee then the implications for national GDP for both would need to be projected and comprehended in the trade deal.
The EU and the ‘open’ Irish border add a further raft of Trade complications.
[edit] I forgot to add that Tariff Codes (Hs codes) are often ambiguous and multi-featured devices often fit several tariff code descriptions. It also depends if an article is ‘finished’ the US is notorious for having few tariffs on finished goods but swingeing tariffs on their components! In addition country of origin is set by the last country where the HS code was changed and a ‘finished article emerges. It is a subject of extreme complexity and specialisation!
We GET some negotiators and NOT the ones trained by whitehall ! All good manners and fair play will get you nowhere and nothing from the EU. Send in the bully boys. Pull Norman Tebit out of retirement if you must but tell THEM the way it is GOING to be !
Unfortunately that comment shows that like all politicians and most Civil Servants you know very little about the ball-breaking details of trade negotiations. My role in an earlier life pre the EU take-over of the Trade role (Wedgie-Benn days) was as an Industry Advisor , but even from my small corner I could see the need to grasp a whole lot of intertwined minutia, and if there is one thing both politicians and the Civil Service suck at, it is details!
I will grant that to some extent GATT changes have made this easier, but it isn’t something that any ‘good’ negotiator can do without a couple of years training. We are currently still looking for >250 people to start training!
How about both our biggest single trading partner with the total EU trade exceeding that of the US.
I wish someone would explain exactly how (without any trained negotiators) we expect to displace EU deals with the rest of the world.
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