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| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: coppice on June 18, 2020, 06:43:47 pm --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on June 18, 2020, 06:35:16 pm --- --- Quote from: Syntax Error on June 18, 2020, 05:05:56 pm ---This is what happens when you let the British public sector 'do' apps... UK abandons coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model. Government will switch to contact-tracing model preferred by tech giants in latest embarrassing U-turn. "The NHS has abandoned a near three month attempt to build a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app and will instead switch to the model preferred by the technology firms Apple and Google." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/uk-poised-to-abandon-coronavirus-app-in-favour-of-apple-and-google-models "NHS developers spent weeks trying to find a way of making their approach work, but it failed because once Apple phones had “gone to sleep” because they were inactive, they stopped communicating via Bluetooth." https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/issues Fail > :-BROKE --- End quote --- Probably not the fault of NHS developers. Apple bluetooth stuff is fairly closed and Apple engineers will always have "first dibs" at making things work, so if there is a big market for something, it won't be the third party developers that get the easiest ride. --- End quote --- They were told 3 months why they would fail, and they proposed no cunning plan to workaround the problem they were presented with. --- End quote --- Winners never quit, and Quitters never win - but if you never quit and you never win, you are an idiot! |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on June 18, 2020, 06:53:08 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on June 18, 2020, 05:13:06 pm ---Mr. Gove has told us in the past though that we are "sick of listening to the experts"... --- End quote --- What he acutally said was: --- Quote ---I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong. --- End quote --- Which is rather different to the misquote you are (hopefully) unwittingly promulgating. Given the context in which he was speaking, your version is even more adrift from reality. He is, IMO, a shameless and disloyal toad (even for a politician) but sticking made-up stuff on him just dilutes his the real stuff. --- End quote --- The problem with Gove's statement is - what is the alternative? Non-expert, populist politicians saying that they know what is best... and getting it consistently wrong? |
| duckduck:
And now for something completely different... Months ago I ordered a ton of stuff on AliExpress and I expected it to never show up. The shipping window (before being eligible for a refund) was closing. All of a sudden I get two items yesterday (magnifying lamp and aluminzed ESD bags) and another one (FY6900 60 MHz AWG) today. Ha! A couple of days ago I got tired of waiting so I bought a Rigol DG1022 20 MHz AWG off of eBay. Looks like there's going to be a function generator shoot-out in the duckduck lab ;-) My point in writing this post is to speculate about shipping from China. Maybe they are starting to catch up now, or a plane-load hit (or a boat-load?)? |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: coppice on June 18, 2020, 06:43:47 pm --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on June 18, 2020, 06:35:16 pm --- --- Quote from: Syntax Error on June 18, 2020, 05:05:56 pm ---This is what happens when you let the British public sector 'do' apps... UK abandons coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model. Government will switch to contact-tracing model preferred by tech giants in latest embarrassing U-turn. "The NHS has abandoned a near three month attempt to build a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app and will instead switch to the model preferred by the technology firms Apple and Google." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/uk-poised-to-abandon-coronavirus-app-in-favour-of-apple-and-google-models "NHS developers spent weeks trying to find a way of making their approach work, but it failed because once Apple phones had “gone to sleep” because they were inactive, they stopped communicating via Bluetooth." https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/issues Fail > :-BROKE --- End quote --- Probably not the fault of NHS developers. Apple bluetooth stuff is fairly closed and Apple engineers will always have "first dibs" at making things work, so if there is a big market for something, it won't be the third party developers that get the easiest ride. --- End quote --- They were told 3 months ago why they would fail, and they proposed no cunning plan to workaround the problem they were presented with. --- End quote --- Many phones purposely randomize their MAC to avoid being tracked.. |
| themadhippy:
The uk track n trace wasnt a failure,it made a nice wedge of cash for a few and gave them access to lots of data they can sell off to the highest bidder. |
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