Re: Fuck 'em
We'll forget about our privacy laws the day they repeal their right to bear arms.
(yeah never)
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That's nice for you but here I sit in my just outside city centre property with 12Mb down/1Mb up and that's the best I can get. Despite being the city with the largest population in my part of the UK, 30 minutes walk from the city centre and with lots of businesses in the area there's no fibre, no cable and I can't even get the 20Mb broadband I was sold even though I'm less than 1km from the exchange.
And when are BT going to install FTTC? That's anybody's guess because they've been puching the date back 3 months, every 3 months for the last year.
It's not been the same company for a long time but they'll still be missed. I'll never forget the first time I saw Pong as a bright eyed 6 year old, one of the two things that eventually led to my programming carreer.
I still have my 2600 and other than the PSU it's still 100% original and still working. I pull it out of the cupboard once a year or so for some childhood nostalgia with my mates. It's also useful for showing children who think owning a PS2 is retro what real retro games are.
"There'd be no home gaming market today had Nintendo not come along"
Bull. There were plenty of good and profitable games for home computers from the Spectrum / C64 era to the Amiga / Atari era and onwards that had nothing to do with Nintendo. The console market died in 1984 but home gaming did not.
Acually in my experience the patient comes into the doctor's office, the doctor doesn't really listen to them & prescribes a drug from whichever company took them golfing most recently, the patient says "I can't take that I'm allergic, it says so in my notes", the doctor prescribes another drug, the patient takes it for a week & it makes them violently ill but no better. Eventually the illness goes away by itself.
At least that's how it goes for the missus.
There are plenty of reasons not to use DropBox. Lack of encryption of your data, staff having access to your data, if you're in Europe you need to consider the Data Protection Act because their servers are in the USA so you're transferring data outside the EU... I'm not saying I would use Mega or that it solves all these problems but DropBox is not the amazing and obvious choice many think it is.
Agreed, that nonsense about now showing open windows had me wondering if the author has ever used Fedora before and I lost all faith in what he was saying.
As for the "only experienced users need apply" comments, Fedora 17 works perfectly for my gf who was on Ubuntu untill they decided to turn it into spyware. She's had no problems with the transition and likes Gnome 3. Admitedly she had me to set it up for her but I didn't think it any harder than the Ubuntu or Win7 installers.
Dual SIM isn't important? I'll just go tell the billions of people in Africa, India and other similar locations that they don't need their 2 and 3 SIM phones.
Just because you don't need a replaceable battery or dual SIM phone doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't either.
BT's reaction is seriously dissapointing. The ruling is 100% correct and I'd like to see some penalties for BT over this, maybe take some of that lovely EU gravy off them. They certainly don't deserve it.
The dates for FTTC roll out in my part of Glasgow have been postponed from May 2012 to Sept 2012 to Dec 2012 and now March 2013! There is no way they ever intended do the work in May 2012 if they have now delayed it by almost a year. This is preventing myself and my company upgrading our connections and is actually having a negative effect on our business plans. If they don't hurry up my job could be sent to London and I'll be added to the unemployment figures!
Not that I would buy anything from BT but until they roll out FTTC I can't buy it from anyone else either.
"even our Highland bureau can experience 20th Century connectivity - even if the majority of Scots can't"
The majority of Scots live in Glasgow, Edinburgh & Aberedeen and we can get 3G just fine thanks. The majority of Scotland is outside these places but that's where the people are.
Go read about the cables from Locus Design, they make the Audioquest cables look like a Ford Fiesta. :p
"Ah yes, those were the days when the 64 in a computer name meant 64K of Ram, not the size of the word. ;-)"
Except it didn't. It meant the size of the memory, including both RAM and ROM. So the 48K Spectrum had 41K of RAM and the Commodore 64 had 30 something. A fact Commodore owners never liked to hear.
A living standard? That's a cracker.
A living standard is completely useless to everyone because no one knows what is actually standard in the language. Developers would need to decide which browser(s) they want to support, look up their capabilities and write HTML just for that. Time consuming, a pain in the ass and will end up excluding some users because they aren't using the right browser. Welcome to the late 90s.
That's progress for you.
"Until then, Windows 8 is about as painless to use as trying to find apps in Android by wandering through the huge flat-list-of-icons App Drawer"
Actually it's worse! At least in recent versions of Android you can have the App Drawer automatically order itself alphabetically which makes apps easy to find if you can remember the name. TIFKAM has no such feature so the app you want could be anywhere in the multicolour mess of giant squares.
"Incidentally, 15 years does not equal energy security give the time it take to build say a nuclear reactor and make it operational..."
You're assuming the only gas we have will come from fracking. I can assure you there is more than 15 years worth of gas in the North Sea gas basin. Most of it is even in large fields which are easy to exploit.
"What do you get when some attractive students..."
"Many of the cast and crew are also actual physicists."
Actual physicists are not attractive.
Film itself looks pretty good though so I will be downloading. Lack of acting experience is generally a bonus in low budget horror movies. Just watch Night of the Living Dead (or any early Romero movie) for the perfect example.