Spot on. I remember trying to get petrol in Belgium at night sometime in the late 90s. The country had its own smart debit card programme (very leading edge) and garages there had unattended pumps that would accept these cards to cater for out-of-hours customers. But, being a UK tourist without a local payment card, I was stuffed. Stopped at every garage along the way, getting increasingly concerned, before coasting in on fumes to one that was actually open all night and would accept my Visa or MC.
If you had a ram expansion pack fitted an overly enthusiastic key press could cause it to wobble - it was only held in place by a connector which fitted onto the zx81’s circuit board iirc, and that could cause a power cycle
This is fine. Whenever things change, some proportion of the userbase pushes back and wants to just keep things like they are. Not a problem, and doesn't mean the change is not worthwhile.
I can't imagine anyone meeting WordPress for the first time today would say "It's great but I HATE that editor! Don't they have something a bit more... classic?"
Yes, the potted history is Galactic Software (selling games from hand-drawn ads in Popular Computing Weekly) when they were still at school in Somerset, then worked with Mirrorsoft and Mastertronic in London, then off to start Codemasters in Banbury.
This is the closest answer. I was there. Codies actually got its start in a small light industrial unit in Banbury, about 20 miles down the road, but when the Darling family bought a run-down farm in Southam we all (well, probably less than 10 people at that point) relocated to some hastily renovated stables there. I don’t think it was ever anticipated to be a huge employment hub. That just sort of happened. We gradually grew a crop of portable buildings out the back to accommodate all the programmers that came to work on special projects as the company moved beyond the budget games market, and a small team of builders were on site for literally years gradually converting outbuildings and improving the house etc. There were no other developers around, save for Archer McLean who coincidentally lived a couple of fields away. The Leamington-centric games dev community all grew out of Codies. I expect that’s a good part of why the boys picked up CBEs a few years ago.
I’ve just been gradually de-Googling. It took years to take slowly take over my life, so I figured I’d play the same game and have just been picking something else every time I have a choice. So now I’m on iOS, not Android; personal email has moved to Fastmail, my sites have moved to Clicky instead of GA. There’s still plenty of Google in my life, but a few years from now it will just be gone.
The way I heard it, Cern could be considered to be indirectly financed by the war machine as it was essentially provided as a playground for Europe’s atomic scientists to stop any one nation running away with the ball.
They will have missed Monaco, as they only looked at the 150 most populated cities. When I was there around the millennium it was the clear leader in police officers per head of population, so I expect it’s also doing well on cameras.
I’m in Wales. In my part of the country we only have a few ICU beds. The government is trying hard to protect us. But it’s a fast moving situation, and we’ve only a small population and consequently a small government. So of course guidance is made up on the fly to some extent, and then adjusted later. But some like to run around pointing out inconsistencies and using them to score points. Same old same old, really. Nothing to see here.
If it helps, I bought one around 25 years ago. It is a thing of great beauty. But I’ve used it maybe twice, and lugged it through maybe six house moves since then. All a bit pointless.
I remember people flying out to NY on Concorde from the UK (left at about 11am?), getting in almost a whole day of business, and then flying back 'slowly' on a 747 overnight. Was still expensive though!
Also, if a target site is behind Cloudflare then you probably won’t be able to masquerade as any of the popular bots - they block fake google/yandex bots.
I’m surprised Zoom is happy for Facebook to know exactly who its customers are. This is information that could be used against the company at some point, for example if FB made a video conferencing play.
This is IMHO the most correct answer. Apple. From experience lots of folks wanted to implement NFC but as soon as they got their idea to the C-suite all the execs whipped out their iPhones and it was game over.
Add to that the years of shenanigans as mobile operators tried to make sure they were the gatekeepers for any sort of serious NFC usage (by controlling access to the SIM-based secure element) and the fact that QR can be implemented in an afternoon by any developer who fancies it without reference to anyone else and, well, here we are.
But the NFC world is becoming a more hospitable place, and we will now see NFC gradually supplementing then replacing QR in many use cases (though not all, as some are much better suited to one or the other tech; they are not 100% interchangeable)
And the ones working on the licensed ports were lucky, with their fancy arcade machines on free play in the corner of the office. Authors of, er, 'tributes' just had to wander down to the local arcade with a pocket full of coins and play until they'd remembered everything.
Seconded. It really emphasises how far things have come in a relatively short time, with the technology not so long ago being very basic compared to what we read about from, for example, Snowden.
On a related point, I visited Sunnyvale from the UK last week and was surprised to see legions of battered RVs parked on the backstreets in the area. What's going on there? Is it workers who can't afford to rent in the area?