Posts by h3

Re: A site dedicated to anti-privacy is tracking you? Inconceivable!

You are still the product when it comes to Cable TV. Just paying for something doesn't really change anything. (Maybe if you use a blackberry unless they have changed recently).

Re: Pointless math

Better performance on 3 than EE where I am (Supposedly one of the right cities).

Here is the thing 3 has more masts 3 times as many when I did all I could to try and check. (EE doesn't seem to want to advertise this).

They also block loads of stuff and mess with jpg's re-compressing them and do other stuff that trashes downloads. (Think Downloading a grml cd in an emergency and it costing £5 then it doesn't even boot).

Tmobile used to be good but now EE are copying the Orange way of doing business. (By nickel and diming everything and not investing properly).

Here is the other thing using three it feels loads faster (I routinely get 20Mb) but latency is loads less I presume due to more masts.

BT cannot really lose. Ofcom cannot really sanction them properly because they cannot be allowed to fail.

I don't think the cheapest one wins people like me are lazy. (Pay Virgin more than I need to because I hate their customer services.)

Going to switch to BT before next seasons premiership rugby union starts on them but I want whatever guarantees I won't get carrier grade nat and will get native ipv6. (Don't mind paying for Business or a static ip if I need to still probably be at least £50 less than I pay Virgin.)

Re: Well, I know which manufacturer not to buy form then.

Motorola are American through and through. (To the point of taking the we only care about America attitude probably about as far as any phone manufacturer).

Re: Land of the free... home of the brave

America pays us for the spy base in North Yorkshire. They drive on the right and use dollars. (And have Disney Land like facilities). They even give you free unlimited beer after playing Rugby with them. (Junk American beer but it is free).

The whole set up is stupid. If you are going to do something just say you are.

Re: Come on you lot...

Iraq under Saddam was no worse than Saudi Arabia.

Re: The arrogance is breathtaking.

Works for Apple. Probably work for MS for a while.

(The Ubuntu style ad's in Desktop Search thing will get me to remove every single metro app and change to a start menu replacement if it is true. At the moment I am somewhat indifferent to Metro.)

Re: What they say and what they do.

Sony totally does assume their users as pirates that is why they removed OtherOS in the first place (If you want to keep your OtherOS then you cannot even independently update your bluray firmware).

I am glad I don't care about any of Ubisoft's junk games. (Even if I did I wouldn't suffer uplay).

Re: VMS?

It has CDE and Firefox so it should probably be enough.

Re: Facebook is providing a meeting place for paedophiles

It is obvious it is. Graph Search is just what they need.

Now all we need is Facebook to be added to the IWF blacklist and the world could just become that little bit more pleasant to be in.

Re: Fuck yeh

I think Putin has quite a funny sense of humour based on his recent public comments.

The reason UK energy generation is starting to fall apart is due to it being privatised so no longer being done properly. It might cost the country a bit of money but it is worth it as it seems to be the only way to get truly reliable stuff done.

The National Grid was a good design. We will never end up with anything like that for broadband. Our postal service is going down the toilet.

They could have made the 2015 broadband happen sensibly with a proper control of BT still. (Maybe just the wholesale part of it).

Cheap and Reliable are not a thing that private business is at all good at delivering. They can do super expensive and reliable but that is not a suitable model for things that everybody needs access to and they can do cheap and badly. (Which doesn't matter for some things but does for basic services).

(The amount of money wasted on bailing out the banks could have paid for those industries for quite a long time.)

Re: We could ban Excel for a start

Most of the investment banks use mainly Sybase as far as I know unless it has changed quite recently.

Powerpoint is bad because it is mostly used by people who don't have anything remotely worthwhile or interesting to say and the way they use it makes at least me switch off completely.

People doing public speaking should do it without prompts and actually understand and know from memory properly what they are speaking about.

One Powerpoint maybe at the end with the main points. (Might help to remind the speaker that he hasn't missed out anything).

If other people want to use Excel or Access I don't have a problem with it. (I use Octave or Matlab or Mathematica for simple calculations when I need to. Usually octave these days.) If it works for them it is fine by me.

What isn't fine is Powerpoint users systematically wasting the time of every single person in a room day in day out.

Re: Sourceforge & Classic Shell to the rescue!

Windows 8's main problem is people with stupid opinions who haven't even attempted to use it properly.

Re: It's not what you see that counts

At least speaker wire theoretically should be better if it is made out of solid silver than whatever the absolute cheapest 99p stuff uses.

(I use pretty cheap stranded reasonably thick copper speaker wire think it cost about a tenner in total).

HDMI or any thing else digital is just a blatant lie with no basis whatsoever in anything.

Re: *looks at Eadon and laughs*

It is not UNIX compliant because the only way is by getting the trademark from the open group. There is other things that it doesn't do for legacy reasons that would have to be done to get it the certification.

Linux isn't UNIX compliant for that reason. (It is not even POSIX compliant or certified doesn't support POSIX AIO - At one point Linux FT was going to be certified by POSIX and paid for but I don't think it ever was). It mixes too many things up as well. If you make any reasonably complicated application on Linux primarily and try and just do a simple make on other real UNIX systems chances are it will be a fair amount of effort to sort it out. (The other way is easier.). Funny Linux is copying the embrace extend extinguish thing from MS.

Re: Hilarious

All I know is at a most basic level somehow science starts with nothing and then suddenly there is something.

This makes me technically agnostic.

There is no proof of anything. (Lack of evidence for is not the same as proof against).

(I think the world could do with a bringer of death destroyer of worlds. I wouldn't mind one of those ceremonial daggers sikh's get to wear.)

Re: So: basically it's a protection racket

What I want to know is why they let Vodafone off 6 billion fairly recently. (Or some huge sum in exchange for a billion right now). At least this site said so didn't bother checking the facts but either way 5 million is peanuts in comparison.

Re: it's nice to be wanted

Do RIM do anything like that ? (I don't know I presume they might but they make out they don't).

Re: Please

Not the type of women that are worth having anything to do with. If you just want a gold digger then there are specific actions that you can take to guarantee success. Presuming you are reasonably well off.

Re: No bureaucracy

If they just taxed the drugs like they do alcohol and tobacco then the organised crime wouldn't be a problem (At least anything like the same and as well resourced. You still get people selling fake illegal cigs/booze in some places but its not the same.)

That is the stupid thing about it there is enough money in that black market to pay off all our debt without changing anything else. They could beat it using the same type of tactics the supermarkets use with price wars. They could get them legitimately made for nothing kill off the black market and then increase the price gradually.

Re: Brute force attacks

Anyone trying to get something will obviously choose the easiest way.

Most of that encryption research is paid for by the military.

I used to know a pro shoplifter who got away with it for at least 5 years then a 3 month prison sentence. Now he is a health and safety manager on a building site.

Stuff can be set up so it is more difficult to just blag your way in. (Telehouse is much harder than the pretenders to blag your way in if you forget your card).

If something is really important it shouldn't be written down just stored in someones mind with a suitable memory.

Re: Amazon cornered the market all right...

Supermarkets frequently sell those same books as a loss leader.

Google does the same type of cross subsidising (So does Microsoft / Sony).

Re: NATO

That is like listening to an orchestra with a sock in your ears total waste of time.

Re: Re; wowfood

Means they will be both garbage. (I have the 3DS Kingdom Hearts and I hate it more than any game I have paid full price for in a long time).

Final Fantasy the name is all that is left (And it is worthless now). The only good part of Square Enix only caters to Japan. The international part of it is an absolute waste of time. Think the good people from it are at an obscure Nintendo owned studio.

Dragon Quest is much better dunno about the MMO one.