Posts by mr_jrt 18 publicly visible posts • joined 22 May 2012
I can't get fibre at my location because BT won't enable the cabinet in a major urban area because Virgin have a cable up the street, so they deem it unprofitable. I want service from a specialist ISP though (i.e. Andrew & Arnold, etc.), not Virgin's generalist tosh.
Having two wholesale networks would drive proper competition for wholesale business and we might end up with some proper competition again since all the cable networks (NTL, C&W, etc) merged under the virgin umbrella.
Personally, I'm more interested in making Virgin/Liberty unbundle THEIR fibre network. You don't have true choice and competition until the ISPs have choice in network provision. In my road, for example, BT won't enable the cabinet as the road has Virgin cable so it's not profitable to do so, but I don't want Virgin as they don't offer services meeting my requirements...so I'm screwed until I move. :(
Having two wholesale providers should drive some actual competition and innovation rather than relying on BT's bloated mass to get around to providing services as and when they bloody well feel like it ("and we should be grateful for it too"). I suspect we'd have got fibre far sooner (and without them requiring large subsidies to do so) if everyone started getting their internet via a NTL (as it would have been back then) as BT started losing more and more of their appalling line rental fees as people switch to another wholesale fibre connection.
Just look at the choice you get from ISPs thanks to LLU unbundling...
My dislike with closed OSes is that I can't customise them to meet my requirements. I'm locked into the software developer's "vision", and to hell with what I want.
Such is the path to useful features being removed and bugs going unfixed. That's why Maemo et al had me rooting for them...a phone with a chance to fix those annoying bugs myself? Yes please! Being forced into a crippled OS that can't even do everything Symbian did 10 years ago? Humbug.
Amen.
Why on earth they don't have a similar arrangement to the CAM sockets whereby you can just plug a "computer" into the TV to generate the image I don't know. ...and I'm talking a simple recessed area on the back, maybe with a cover or some such.
All a TV needs is the screen, a pretty housing, and the 'PC' bay. Your choice of TV would thus be the size, quality, and tech of the screen and the design of the housing...as for the connection, HDMI does control signals (and Displayport can carry USB), so some standardised control information from the TV's remote should be possible, or even better, have the remote controls using bluetooth, and then all you need is a receiver in the 'PC'.
The array of inputs you would want is a bit more tricky...but an arrangement similar to the ATX back panel could probably be found, depending on the design of the PC module, and would enable you to update the inputs (via a new computer module, perhaps, to keep things simple) as technology evolves. Of course, the TV housing could offer side or front breakout connections that simply plug into the ones on the back, but that would be a manufacturer option...
It's essentially how these things are manufactured anyway...it's the same screen in Bravias and Samsung TVs, it's just the electronics generating the picture (i.e. the "Bravia engine") that differs.
I think you're forgetting about WINE. Apparently Skyrim runs particularly well...once the Linux store is up and running them packaging up the game with a tweaked version of WINE for the Linux version (a-la the existing games on there that just use DOSBox to wrap the old DOS binaries) becomes a viable way forward.
They may have fired all the engineers, but good to know they kept all the same brain-dead marketing drones in place.
Good old Nokia still shooting itself in the foot by having a set of products all missing one or more features and no "deluxe" model offering them all. Want feature A? Sure here's model 1. What feature B? Sure, here's model 2. Want features A & B? No deal.
...idiots.
Secure boot is a wonderful thing - as long as it's your keys in the motherboard, and you sign the software you're installing. No nasty viruses then.
...but that's not what Microsoft are"allowing". They allow you to turn it off on x86...so it's their way or the highway if you want security....unless the mobo manufacturers play nice and let us upload our own keys....otherwise our PCs essentially belong to whomsoever's keys are on the motherboard - i.e. Microsoft.
Not strictly speaking true - there are plenty of options to pursue for storing excess energy when the renewable sources are available (i.e. the wind is blowing or the sun is shining) - hydroelectric (pumping water into a reservoir), molten salt, massive flywheel installations, etc.
> It runs an ARM11 chip, which (confusingly) uses the ARMv6 instruction set, as opposed to the ARMv7 more commonly found in your garden variety smartphone, so support for the chips isn't that widespread.
You sure about that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM11#ARM11-based_products
...seems to suggest quite a few phones use ARM11 chips and few seem to use ARMv7 chips?
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