Posts by Chris007 456 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Aug 2009
Most peoples perceptions on their mobile operator come from how it performs at their house. Personally I am on 3 and it's fantastic where I live but when I visit my sister the only operator that gets anywhere near a decent signal to the house is O2 - Imagine what I'd be saying if I were on 3 / Voda / EE and living there.
A prediction
Just watch how the use of Class A addresses (most of which are owned by American entities) are used to bolster the US economy because US companies will have access to Ipv4 well beyond the rest of the world (Class A addresses account for HALF of the 4 billion Ipv4 address available).
You can forget this bulls**t about not monetising IP addresses, selling them maybe difficult (but not impossible) so they'll lease them out instead.
you said "and hasn't there been at least one daleks episode in _every_ series of Dr Who?"
In a word - No.
IIRC, Tom Baker did 7 years of Dr Who and met the Daleks twice - In fact, until Dr Who was revived, most Doctors didn't see the Daleks every new series of episodes. Same goes for the Cybermen as well.
"The cynic in me would think that looking at prior art should be part of the patent office's job already"
Exactly what Google would like them to do - Prior art Patent searches through *google* infrastructure, what could possibly happen here...
Patent office bod: "I've done a search on this latest Apple patent and the [Google] prior art search engine says that this has more prior art than a disney studio. Patent denied"
Google exec at the same time "mwahaha"
I'm with you on this one Cubical Drone.
I love my gadgets but didn't get a smart phone until the S2 last year as the previous Androids, IMHO, were always a little "light" and I didn't want an iPhone.
I was asked if I was getting the S3 this year by people and most were surprised when I said "no, don't see the point".
I think LOTR had it right with the character Gollum and "my precious" shiny thing!!
You said "We all commented on how different they looked from the others of the time. (Iconia A500, Xoom, Asus TF101 etc) and how thing is was....like an iPad! Even the black edges with the white backing...we thought...kinda like an iPad!"
It's amazing - I was buying a pair of own-brand jeans from Tesco (UK retail store) and I was gob smacked how similar they were to Levi's Jeans :-
2 Legs
pockets front and back
zipper down the front at the middle
key/coin mini pocket just inside the RHS pocket
Honestly it's as if they'd copied the Levi's jeans...
This is why what apple are claiming should be thrown out of court with immediate effect - rounded corners FFS
Just wanted to say a massive thank you for the Dragon 32. It, without doubt, was the biggest reason I ended up working in IT. I spent hours and hours programming the thing and when I left school and into the wide world (as a YTS person) I was streets ahead of most of my peers and have been very well compensated for my work since.
once again thank you sir.
I was the one that ripped your games with perfect copies (not replicated tapes) and replaced your logo with the HyperSoft logo when the games were loading.
(this is from memory and is 29 yrs old so it maybe a little out!)
• write small program to load repeated text into memory from 1536 to highest memory point.
• load "whatevergameitwas", 1280 (this loaded them into higher memory and prevented the games from auto-running) (1536 was the start of high-res(!) graphics memory & games loaded at mem point 256)
• check memory dump to see where program load finished.
• change tape
• load "newlogo",2304 (this loaded my modified HyperSoft logo into what would be the "text buffer" - this was the logo that displayed whilst the game was loading)
• insert new tape
• save "name of game", 1536,<highmempointofprogramload,256 - Save code from mem point 1536 to high point and when loading execute at mem location 256 (allow auto-run)
Sorry...
1st - My point was that the OP stated that the inventor of the 3.5" format was still earning money "to this day" and if patents last 20yrs this wouldn't be true.
2nd - I was [sort of] right and therefore a Fail on you sir - http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/patents.jsp shows 20 years. Further basic checks showed that the length of patent protection in force in 1987 was actually 17 years.
An apology is not necessary but I sentence you to 100 hours of listening to Justin Beiber :)
"Rodime pateneted the 3.5" disc format factor and still get royalties from: Seagate, WDC, et al to this day."
I was under the impression that patents lasted 20 years??? I remember using 3.5" discs way back in the 80's so would have expected this patent to have expired?
article said "were prepared to see iPhone sales take a bit of a dive while users waited for the next-generation iPhone to appear, likely later this year – and that's exactly what happened, if you remove "a bit" from that sentence"
If you remove "a bit" you get :-
were prepared to see iPhone sales take of a dive while users waited for the next-generation iPhone to appear, likely later this year – and that's exactly what happened, if you remove "a bit" from that sentence.
Trolling 'cos I'm bored
"- Infinite scalability with a single volume that can grow to 20PB. Er, sorry NetApp but 20PB is not infinite. I know; we're being picky. "
Personally it's ludicrous claims like this that should be outlawed. You cannot say "infinite" and then say it can grow to 20PB - THAT IS NOT INFINITE.
El Reg - Shame on you for even apologising.
"Say what you like about BT, but if I build a brand new house, BT are obliged to cable it for £130 (or less) regardless of the actual cost"
Are you sure about this - I was under the impression that BT only had to do this if the costs were not "excessive" and they get to determine what excessive is.
Few years ago a couple asked BT for a phone line and were told that the cost would be about £15,000 (middle of nowhere, many 10's of poles would be required) - When they brought up the max charge BT said yes but not if excessive and we say £15k is excessive
"By limiting users to the appstore and only pre-approved apps then this helps eliminate the issue of dodgy code being installed"
This has already been proved to be incorrect - there was some guy who wrote an app, got it passed the App store detectives. He then (some time later) announced what else the App could do.
You didn't read the article too well.
Microsoft pretty much has the IM in business sewn up with OC / Lync - integrating Skype into these products could have the potential to lock out Cisco from business video.
The only saving grace is that because Skype opens soooo many bloody tcp/udp ports most corporate FW's will not allow the traffic out so MS will have to make changes here.
In addition some companies will not use Lync but a SIP based product - I can see MS taking the current Asterisk Skype plug-in and commercialising it as a SIP-Skype gateway to sell as a server add-on and use this to say they are not stifling competition
"Yes we'll pick it up. No we can't say when. No we can't say how long it'll take to replace. No I don't know if you can get a refund ..." and all the other things that call centres say instead of the ideal: "certainly sir, I'll personally bring round a wad of tenners and take the old crap away. See you in 5 minutes" that we can only dream about."
It doesn't matter a jot what some call centre drege tells you if you've paid by Credit Card (and the amount is over £50 or £100 I can never remember that bit) the CC company is liable to pay you back.
If still under manufacturer warranty and the manufacturer call centre try to give you the run-around you simply tell them that they have 14/30 days (something reasonable) to rectify the situation or you go to the CC company (also worth emailing / writing to them so you have it on record if you cannot record the call).
Never confused incompetence with revenue generating actions.
As others have noted a lot of companies allow you to /upgrade/ online very easily and without much effort.
However when it comes to /downgrades/ or /cancelling/ services they make it very difficult by:-
Not allowing downgrades/cancellations online
Making the information on how to downgrade/cancel very difficult to find on the website
The information then states that you have to write to them or perhaps call an 084xx [revenue generating] number
In this way a company can either get a few more days / weeks revenue or even keep a customer because that customer found it too difficult to change.
It would be easy to solve - If you are in the BB/TV/Phone business then if you provide an online service to sign-up / upgrade you MUST also provide an equivalent to cancel / downgrade otherwise you lose your license to be in that arena.
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