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Comment Fix old problems first (Score 1) 218

Can we fix existing issues before creating new ones, please? I have a rear camera but in darkness it sucks readly badly. And while the car is in reverse the screen is blindingly bright at night. For years I'm considering an XXL cardboard flap to cover the piece of . The adaptive cruise control can turn into a test of courage on a windy road. If it loses view with the vehicle ahead in a curve it will increase speed. The car will happily reject the RFID key but helpfully suggest I should visit a repair shop. The electric tail gate is so depressingly slow I'm pulling out my phone and checking slashdot, watching all youtube videos and solving world hunger and peace before the bloody tail gate has finally opened or closed. What's faster than the tailgate is my neighbours waking up to the tailgate's beeping sound. The stupid engine start button cycles through the car's modes in one way only. No way to go back from engine running to ignition on without turning it off entirely. Which turns off the radio and that will need like 10 seconds+ to boot. The radio is nice enough to remember the last volume setting. The radio will start well before the user interface. So if the radio was playing at high volume before the car was turned off it will do so for several seconds again after being turned on and there's nothing one can do about it. The proprietary navigation system may crash or start to missbehave and the only way to fix that is by stopping and turning the car off completely. Occasionally the car will think the SD card or USB stick with the music has been changed even though it hasn't. Which results in looking for the music again on a user interface that makes Norton Commander on MS-DOS (or a shell on TOPS-20 for that matter) look like an achievement. I could continue ...

My other car is from the 90s and has the cheapest electronics of that not very long option list. A dream! I just works.

Comment One hour ... (Score 1) 196

... after installing it and I had the first crash.

They really took the consistency in the user interface a bit too far. And while I'm at it, can I have a 64-bit rpm, pretty please? With a Fedora on top? Really folks, forget about 32-bit. It's wasted time. Nobody sane is still running 32-bit software on an x86 Linux system. Oh and there are new artifacts in the video. I guess that's what's called inovation.

Comment Business as normal (Score 1) 317

This is business as normal. The magnetic pole has always wandered around. Most major airports managed to renumber runways in a single night. The renumbering will be announced in NOTAMs then in “night 0” numbers will be repainted, signs changed and AIP updated. A few hours later it is as if old numbers never existed. London Stansted has done this on 2010-07-02 while nearby Cambridge airport at current rates of change will have about 40 years until having to renumber.

So runways get renumbered but it's still a rare event, even looking at the scope of an entire country.

The whole problem could be killed at a pen stroke by switching by basing runway designators on geographic north but for a bunch of reasons including tradition runway designators are based on magnetic runway heading.

Comment Inacuracies (Score 1) 102

MIPS, Inc. does not design the processors used by SGI in their systems. Some lowend processors such as the R5000 were designed by the MIPS licensee IDT but SGI's highend processors R10000, R12000 and the upcomming R14000 were designed inhouse at SGI and fabbed at NEC. No longer shipping processors such as the R4000 / R4400 was indeed designed by MIPS.

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