The British Isles is a geographic term. It includes(&always has) Ireland given that Ireland is a part of the British Isles but has never been part of Great Britain (the land mass).
The United Kingdom you refer to has a fuller name - "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" (past) replaced by "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) (present).
I assume you're familiar enough with history to recognise that Ireland(landmass/people/culture) was a colony of the British (with or without your pedantry)?
Always choose this app but find myself using Irfan view for printing nearly every time as the Windows native print dialog which paint.net and other image apps use to be severely lacking.
Although the tweet is not clear, people who were at that presentation seem to confirm that's exactly what he said. There are a few of those sparse in this thread.
Not really a straight comparison. That one on alibaba has a 100 unit minimum. But yeah, for some extra money, the dudes on alibaba will slap your logo and print your packaging.
> But Donegal is, essentially, 100% Hicktown. It's a rural lifestyle and you raise cows or you farm or you cut peat bogs or something.
This is possibly the most uninformed and ignorant thing I've read on here in quite some time.
> I have been doing extensive genealogical work lately, and my ancestors hail from County Donegal
Well, that definitely qualifies you as an expert.
You know there are actual Irish people on this site with far more local knowledge than yourself?
It's not just other uninformed Americans who you may have become accustomed to swallowing your utter braindead nonsense.
Donegal is a rural area - correct. It also (shocker!) has international software companies there(like SITA!). Ireland is geographically small so remote isn't hours on end to reach civilization. But I don't want to disperse any more tales your ancestors may have passed down through the family.
I am sorry for insulting the inhabitants of Donegal in such a way (although I probably used insulting terms for it, I don't consider the rural life to be dishonorable in any way).
Admittedly my impressions are hasty and not based on a first-hand experience of any kind. Basically, I toured the place on Google Maps, did some tourism research, and basically did a lot of planning for a trip I won't be taking any time soon.
I did find that there are no major urban centers. Sure, Derry is right up there, but technically it's in Northern Ireland and not in Donegal. Every village I inspected (again, through the lens of Google Maps) seemed to contain a coffeehouse, a pub or two, a hotel, and a few independently-owned little shoppes.
I definitely know of a department store from which I ordered goods online, but what I did not spot in Donegal were any apartment-block highrises, downtown centres with a fast-food district and a promenade for people to stroll around, or any of the marks of upscale urban life. In learning about professions and occupations throughout Donegal, I came to know many dairy and beef farmers, lots of fishermen, there was one King of Tory Island in fact, and it seemed like a lot of subsistence workers and rather a lack of office workers in a "thriving tech industry" of some kind.
So correct me if I'm wrong, or just flame away instead, if that's your inclination, I guess. And then I can add "verbally abusive" to my impression of today's Irishman.
signals can be blocked and drowned out (cat and mouse situation)
Not as easy as you think. In this cat and mouse game, the cat has the advantage because he knows the next move, the mouse has to try and figure it out.
At the end of the day, wireless means they're sending a signal on some frequency over the air(either up to satellite, down to ground stations or on some axis emanating from the aircraft using some known or as of yet unknown medium). If it can be detected, it can be blocked through brute force flooding with noise.
You can't remote control something if it can't receive signal from source and (less importantly) (in effect) can't send signal back to source.
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The submitted title isn't the article title.
You are the only person posting links to this domain.
This isn't growth hacking. It's spam.
I am very dubious how this got 4 upvotes already as the article is completely void of content.
Although China also has most of the crappy knock-off drone brands that don't get the fundamentals right.
As commenter further up said:
" If they don't want that to be the case, someone would need to crack down on the lies and knockoffs."
Even though China can and has done good manufacturing and engineering, I think of crappy knockoffs when I think of Chinese engineering.
Not so much for the Germans or the Swiss.
Given how much power the CCP has, they could rectify this in no time. Much like a corporation, they seem to be focused on short term gains (lots of tiny profits coming from knockoffs and frankly dangerous products which don't comply with laws of buyer's country) rather than medium/long term reputation.
To add to that, the forced data sharing and backdoors CCP forces companies to install just means they're eroding international trust in Chinese companies at the expense of long term reputation.
I feel bad for any actual Chinese engineering companies because they will have that reputation no matter what as long as they are China HQ'd.
You're right. Chinese products do have questionable reputation.
> Not so much for the Germans or the Swiss.
Since the Germans are known for cars, let's talk cars.
I drive a W212 Mercedes-Benz E250 CDI which I bought new a few years ago. My impression of German products is forever tainted.
It's lovely to drive when everything works, but everything doesn't always work.
It's designed in a complicated way that things are prone to failure, and when it does fail you'll have to take apart the whole car to fix it thereby increasing the labour cost to work on it.
It's been a money pit.
The ride and handling is pretty good though if ignore the weird suspension noises.
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Now, I don't own VWs myself, but you should look into transmission problems with their DSG dual-clutch transmission. Just Google "DSG mechatronic failure".
It's a lovely gearbox, but it's guaranteed to fail at some point. And VW knows it. Yet they still continue to fit it in VW and Skoda cars (amongst others). The rest of the car is relatively fine though. Skoda especially makes superb products (pun intended) — too bad they don't sell in USA.
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I hope you still remember the whole dieselgate scam of European car manufacturers.
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You might want to rethink your perception of German engineering.
(Note that this is not a reflection of German people or anything. The few Germans that I personally know, and the many more that I've interacted with indirectly are wonderful people.)
All engineering has tradeoffs. There is still nothing I have driven that compares well to a high end German BMW in regards to how it feels on the road. Smooth, quiet, but powerful and stuck to the road. The 3 and 5 series are different cars. The 750+ series is where it's at. And like the Mercedes, things break often and are ridiculously expensive to fix. They have obviously prioritized other things. But if you want that premium, BMW feel that makes driving anything else feel and sound like a fun can on wheels, that high end German engineering with all it's flaws is about your only option.
BMWs tend to be more reliable than Mercedes, based on acquaintances who drive BMWs.
> But if you want that premium, BMW feel that makes driving anything else feel and sound like a fun can on wheels
You forget Porsche ;)
Anyway, before the end of this century computers will probably be doing the driving, and high-end handling likely won't be a priority for anybody anymore.
All large corporations are corrupt and should be considered amoral at best. This applies to VW and any other multinational megacorporation.
If they can milk you dry and get away with it, they will do so.
I'm pretty sure that the good sentiment for German engineering is rooted in smaller and more specialized goods, i.e high quality gardening tools at this point. The time when carmakers considered anything but short term profits is long gone
