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Bayer-Monsanto products have attracted a lot of ire for developing insect nerve agents that reputedly kill or disorientate pollinating insects. If you know a bit about inimical products then you would have found a Monsanto sticker on many of them. everything from DDT and,PCBs through to glyphosphates.
Colour and resolution are very personal things. For myself, colour is more important than resolution and a true 10bit 4K is a step change improvement over a cheaper 8bit 4K. [edit] The Samsung SUHD canyon shot demonstrates this improvement link
I recently sold off my old Canon photographic equipment and splashed out on a Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5 that has 10bit capability video capability. (and HDR on the fly). It makes my old Canon look like something out of the ark. (imo as a photographic company Canon have completely lost the plot and are well behind in their technology).
HDR is however something else. When used subtly it has the capability of enhancing pics with areas of strong light and shade in a very natural manner. (The classic example is a photo of a wedding group inside a church). However it is also capable of making pictures look garish and artificial. I suspect that one person’s HDR setting may well be something that others hate – for that reason I’m not sure about using any HDR tweaks on a family TV. I’m happy just to take the 4K 10bit colour as it comes. (great for footie btw)
One car lesson I take is do not put off to tomorrow what you can afford today!
When we were younger my wife and I both fancied sports cars, but because we had kids and were ‘responsible’, we never did much better than an XR4i. Now we are older and do not have the ‘responsibilities’ we no longer fit into sports cars – my wife has a hip problem and I cannot get out of ’em except by rolling out of the door!
I suspect that it was simply the power to weight ratio that mattered on very long drags up steep hills. The Civic (also second hand) had a Power to Weight ratio that was 50% better than the BMW. (146 versus 89.5).
BTW at that time everyone had second-hand cars as the NZ duty on imports crippled the new car market. A ‘new’ car was almost certainly 3 years old! IIrc Japanese cars (imported as second hand from Japan) tended to be somewhat younger.
As you said earlier — details, details details.
Politicians are known to be useless with detail, but unfortunately that is what Brexit is all about. Even simple details such as issuing carnets becomes a huge burden if the infrastructure to administer them no longer exists. Have you seen any urgent attempts to staff up shipping and forwarding agencies? (BTW in the past I worked closely with a couple of such companies and it is a non-trivial task involving a huge amount of detail and money in the form of bonds. Dropping back to GATT the preferred hard Brexit solution will involve mountains of paperwork and the tying up of large sums of money, it is NOT an easy answer!).
It is the complete absence of detail that has been one of my major complaints and concerns, even full-on Brexiters such as ‘Offshore’ Mogg show very little grasp of the complexities of running an import/export business and irresponsibly duck any detailed questions with a ‘we are going to negotiate that concern away’. The simple answer of course is not to leave the EU, and the more complicated one is to back the softer Brexit that May has proposed. A hard Brexit is just about as dumb a solution as can be possibly imagined.
I had a second-hand one in New Zealand (lots of 1 in 4 or 5 hills). It was b-awful, and had the pulling power of a wet lettuce. My wife’s Honda Civic used to run rings around it. It put me off BMW for life.
I gather TENS machines are good on muscle/arthritis etc, but maybe not so good on nerve pain. Does anyone have experience of using one with shingles?
Hard Brexiters will hate it — too many concrete facts.
I can just imagine BoJo blustering about it all being FUD. He will reassure people by saying that everyone knows it will be alright on the night. He will say there are many simple solutions such as a shutdown of our own road haulage business and flinging the doors wide open to the Continental haulage companies with no border checks — see, it is trivial to solve such issues!
The bit about using the Army to move stuff around needs to be explored a little. We no longer have adequate refinery capacity to meet our current transport fuel needs and about 25% of our strategic reserve of oil stocks is held overseas. About 50% of our diesel is imported, and about 60% of our petrol. link Lets hope that ways are found to keep fuel stocks moving or else we may have to put the Household Cavalry on more productive duties such as pulling petrol tankers about the countryside!
Yes we have three, all sub 7.
Our mantra is ‘if you ask us to take the kids then we are ‘in loco parentis‘ and have freedom of parental action, and set our own rules.
If you couldn’t see the implicit smiley with ‘revenge time’ then I’m sorry but I obviously have a very different sense of humour! It also means that you were lucky to have never had teenagers that drove you up the wall, or caused you real worries and concerns. (all thankfully long grown out of and no longer any issue).
With respect to spoiling, I guess it depends on your definition of ‘spoil’. We have no hesitation in giving them things that will expand their thinking or artistic abilities. e.g. Playdoh, plasticine, painting materials, reading books and Lego/Brix, making robots together etc. We also spoil by giving them some of the time and attention that working parents find hard to give, and take them out to places we think they will enjoy or that will expand their world-views. We also have very little compunction in treating them to some of the foods that their parents, and Government Food Police would hesitate to give them e.g Burgers etc. However it does mean they tend to be a bit hyper and full of themselves when we hand them back! Obesity is of zero concern as all of them are very sporty and athletic. All of them stretch my ability to keep up when they go running off in the Park. One of the boys is probably in the top 2% in terms of running speed. In fact he was asked to join the local football “baby’s squad”, but his parents refused to allow it saying that he was far too young, and it demanded too much dedication and surrendering potential academic progress. (They had also read of some of the brutal effects that take place at 16/17+ when a ‘rising club star’ is suddenly dropped.)
Grand-children are great. Spoil the kids rotten, give them more freedoms, give them a major sugar rush, then hand them back in time for their parents to take all the consequences.
I call it revenge time for all the angst their parents caused during their own teenage years. e.g. sons pushing boundaries to their limits, and moody, tantrum-prone daughters.
OK then maybe the question for you is whether you need GPT and disks of 2TB+.
For backups I certainly find being able to use huge disks a useful plus. (I tend to use the old three version backup rotation which gobbles up disk space)
Might be the easiest solution to buy one from CEX. (£15), and gut it.
You are lucky JayCeeDee my Authority will only accept very small amounts of domestic asbestos. I’ve not tested what this means but it sounds like the old Rawlplug asbestos pots!
I’m lucky I do not have the BAP1 (mesothelioma) mutation, as I used to nearly wade around in asbestos when I worked as a teenager at a small shipyard that made LCTs for the Normandy Invasion..
Probably you are correct, but according to Phoronix, support is limited. As always, the devil is in the interface code. It depends how Linux support has developed over the years but the early Phoronix advice was to use Windows to sort out motherboard issues.
Since that time, UEFITool has appeared and maybe this would bridge the gap.
Thanks Dave for the info. So I should add a PCIe drive card for each ssd/hdd I want to speed up?
I guess just adding a multiport card does not have the same effect or does a multiport RAID card have multiple controllers(?).
If it truly is an asbestos roof then do not be tempted to do a DIY as deep trouble could ensue(£30000+costs)! Unfortunately when the word asbestos comes up the £££s signs start to mount, not only for the demolition work but also the waste disposal via approved transport to an approved site. link
I think I would rather move house than do that! We had enough issues when a (non-asbestos) kitchen ceiling had to be replaced as a result of a water leak. In the end it turned out to have been installed post-asbestos ceiling days but the palaver that went around the testing (moon suits etc) made me glad that it was just an Insurance job.
Thanks Wheels for the tip. However I’ll stick to degrading the M$ account as it is too nosey!
Btw This link addresses various ways of meeting Tippon’s requirement, the suggested method of using a *symlink is probably the cleanest, and safest.
*actually a directory junction.
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CD\Users
MKLINK /J Tippon tippoJust to add to Wheels latter comment, mobo makers sometimes provide low level uefi modules that monitor drivers and update them and the bios as required. (Asustek is a good example, but probably Windows only).
I dislike using a public email name as my Admin account. My first actions are to set up an Admin Account with some obscure name and only use that for Admin purposes. I then set up a daily user with user only access and degrade the M$ account to very restricted user status. I use it once in a blue moon on the VERY rare occasions I want to install a M$ app.
M$ normally complains whenever there is a major update but I do not care!
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