Posts by Piloti

This is very tight lbne she is treading.....

Kroes said: "Mark my words: if measures to enhance competition are not enough to bring internet providers to offer real consumer choice, I am ready to prohibit the blocking of lawful services or applications. It's not OK for Skype and other such services to be throttled. That is anti-competitive. It's not OK to rip off consumers on connection speeds."

What she is inferring is that services like Skype must be carried, gratis, by the ISP and said ISP must continue to support more and more bandwidth hungry sites and services, for next to diddly squat in returns.

And here in lay the great dilemma around two tier internet etc, and some companies paying for their traffic to be given priority.

I do have some sympathy with the ISP here I have to say, but equally I am not in favour of a two tier system.

The problem I have with Kroes is that, once again, she seems to be shoving her enormous beak into things from which she should keep out. Net neutrality is a bit of a complicated minefield and there are some very good arguments on both sides. I find myself sliding around on this, not really sure where I sit. Kroes seems to have made her mind up and is now telling everybody else that need to agree with her, or she will revoke the licence.

can Kroes do that ? I have to say, that would be a very interesting one to see in a court of Law.

Perception from the rest of the world.....

Not wanting to start too much of a flame war, but, is it really not too surprising when the rest of worlds sees some arab / muslim states as being a be bit , well, paranoid, pre-historic, backward thinking ?

The life blood of any great country is usually the the small medium business, the entrepreneur, the risk taker and the philanthropist. And here is the UAE showing all the traits of a mis-trusting, paranoid Government that has fuelled the riots / protests etc across north Africa and the Middle East.

Tony Blair was an arse, but he could be voted out. He was superseded by another arse, and, subsequently, by another pair of them. But, with actions like this in the UAE, will things ever /really/ change over there ?

Now, where was the letter from Microsoft.... ?

I don't recall receiving "opt in" letter ?

Or is this another "you have no f-ing choice" service ?

Well done that man......

But, a question to 02 : Who owns the handset ?

O2 or the purchaser ?

The purchaser of course.

O2 really are a bunch of malignant $!£"%"£^" !!!!!

My advice to anyone is : never buy from a carrier.

I have never bought a subsidised handset - ever.

Which means that on my travels I can drop in any sim from any country and pay local rates for local calls. Always cheaper than roaming.

www.appstore.com

I tried this to see what happened.

Routes through to Apple.com.

Oh, and "apps' " is a terrible abbreviation. What is wrong with "application" ?

What is a Project Manager.... ?

And for me, here in lay the problem.

As a PMP Certified PM I understand what the PM community feels a PM is. And in facts demands recognition of the same. Anyone who has ploughed their way through the PMBoK will know what I mean.

The problem is, the rest of the world see PM's differently. I've been described as an administrator, facilitator, document monkey, the guy who draws the pictures and, perhaps ironically the most important, the guy who talks to the customer......

The "Anonymous Coward" post in the article is fine as it reflects two things : nobody knows what a PM really does and therefore, everybody else thinks that they can do it.

And do I do Perts ? Na. Nobody wants them, Give me the Gantt is usually the chant.....

FM Radio.....

.... is there anyway they can lump the FM Radio switch off in this, and kill that mad idea too?

300 million radios in the UK will be binned and we will import more trash from China.

Labour really were a sham.

I'd agree with the trust....

.... but the answer is not more "e-stuff", but the telephone.

Nothing sorts out confusion like a good talk.

Some Reality.....

As Ford Prefect said...

"If you can't scratch a window with it, I don't accept it."

P.

Not a fan....

.... but fair play to them for sticking with this continued digital route.

Personally, I like the physical format and then rip it for potability, but.....

.... this shows the big four Labels that consumers can be trusted and we are not all thieving shysters.

I may even download this and give them a second chance.....

I was going to say....

.... but why ?

But then so has everybody else.

The only thing I can think of that makes this idea a winner is fault repairing.

If the manufacturer can "see" what is wrong before the repair man comes out, in theory, he will haver the correct part, knows what to do and it should be quicker / cheaper.

But then again, how often do white goods actually break down... ?

P.

Forgive me if I am wrong...

... but, what they are describing is essentially a 'micro' RBS [Radio Base Station].

All the rest of the architecture described is essentially, "normal".

The 'central server farm' is currently the NOC, [Network Ops' Centre] which is often, but not always co-located with important elements such as the HLR, MSC and of course the Charging System, either for pre-paid or post-paid subscribers.

Getting the "band width" out to RBS has always been done by Fibre, or, as some would have it, fiber. Microwave is often also used on long runs, say, the north African coast.

In Blighty, BT or similar wholesalers carry the traffic.

Next in the food chain is often the BSC, or Base Station Controller. This is often the level at which RBS to RBS handovers are done, BSC's themselves being controlled by an MSC. Pooling can save resources here, allowing underused BSC's to take traffic when fellow nodes are over worked : busy hour periods are typical.

What Alcatel have done seems to be a device which would be ideal for in building coverage, especially given the 'directional' capability.

The rest of the network seems to be largely ignored.

I have to say.........

... I think this is beautiful.

As a piece of design, a sculptured article, it does not have to do anything, it is just beautiful to look at. Like a Phillippe Stark citrus squeezer or a Bang / Olufsen handset..... lovely.

Worth £120? If the feel in the hand is as good as it is pleasing to the eye; Yes.

I am confused about this ......

It is not often I side with SKY [in fact, never] but I do have some sympathy with them on this.

If I understand this correctly, what this Advocate is saying is that the packaging of country specific rights, to watch English footy, could be ended. Which means that the Prem' League will not be able to charge other countries, Germany, France, for example, on a country by country basis to watch English football.

As I say, I have some sympathy with this. For example, this is English football and if the French / Germans want to watch it, then they pay what is appropriate for each market to watch it. It is English football after all.

The flip side is of course that, Portugal, with it's much lower income than the UK will be charged the least and as such that will /may/ become the benchmark for euro-pricing of English football. Which means it could make football cheaper to watch in England. Which would mean less money for the clubs… and so on.

I am not too bothered about football. My club, York, are never on the box anyway, but my number one sport, Rugby, could be impacted by this, as a significant amount of money is paid to Rugby through the TV companies.

Another thought strikes me as well. The BBC often screen Rugby games via Free View. Does this mean, in theory, that the BBC will have to make their broadcast free to the eurozone, because it is 'free' in the UK ?

Confused…. I am.

What is the difference between....

.... paying for this content, even if it is only £1 / $1 week and, say, the Beeb's News site, which is updated, er, more often than Daily, has the best on line sports coverage there is, and, being covered by the licence fee, is free.!!

The Daily ? Pants.

P.

Anti competitive... ?

Surely, SURELY, there is something here which can be deemed 'anti-competitive' and therefore fall under the writ of the EU and Nellie Croes. She does little enough as it is, so she does have time to poke around at this.

The point is, if I buy a device, it is mine, mine I tell you, and I should be able to put on it anything I want. It should not be up to the hardware vendor to decide where I buy my reading material. Apple are a bunch of arrogant f%#@ers who should be stomped on for their communist views of "ownership".

P.

Looks like someone is getting a PS3 for his next birthday.....

.... or a book ?

So, does that mean.....

.... the end of a machine which is just a games machine ?

Why does everything have to be connected, wi-fi / 3g with gps blah blah.....

It does look like there is room for games only games machine, like the Game Boy used to be.

I wonder if Sega could be tempted to fill this niche. The Dreamcast [not hand held I know...] was a cracking good machine.....