Posts by Daniel Durrans
10 posts • joined Wednesday 16th April 2008 10:40 GMT
Posted in WTF is... up with e-book pricing?
Price fail
For as long as I can buy a new physical copy for less than the digital copy then there is something inherently wrong with the pricing model. Publishers need to understand this.
Secondly in order for me to accept eBooks I need them to either fully work across readers or for each book store to have the same range of books that Amazon can supply me in physical format.
Posted in 3D TVs to drop below £1000 in 2012
Only by restricting available TVs to only 3D
I for one am not interested in 3D content until I don't have to wear those silly glasses.
However if in 5 years time I replace my current TV will I be able to buy a decent set that isn't 3D ready? I highly doubt it. In the same way that you would be hard pushed going into Currys and buying a TV that isn't HD Ready.
How was the research conducted?
Up to 10Mbps from where to where? From my computer to the ISP? From my computer to OfCOM? From my computer to a server connected to the net at 2Mbps somewhere on the island of Aruba?
The problem is not the marketing bullshit which is totally accurate. You will get UP TO 8Mbps or UP TO 10Mbps. The problem is the public understanding of how the technology and for that matter the internet works. If you have a 1Gbps line connected directly into LINX you need to be very methodical in your speed testing before you start complaining you aren't getting your full 1Gbps.
Posted in CPW and Vodafone finally make up
And this affects the high-street how?
I really don't care. With only five viable consumer networks in the UK all fully represented multiple times over on any UK high-street consumer choice is hardly limited or expanded by CPW having or not having Vodafone on board.
But the home LAN has many advantages...
I quite like having a home LAN that is mostly secured from the outside world where I can share music around my devices and have my xbox talk with my pc talk with my laptop talk with my hifi without having to do weird negotiation with the outside world or having to VPN between them. Just saying.
Articles for the sake of articles is bad editorial. What is this, digg?
My X is better than your X
My car is better than your car
My dad is better than your dad
My house is bigger than your house
My mac is better than your PC
My operating system is better than your operating system
My programming language is better than your programming language
You get good developers and bad developers regardless of the language they use. So you hate PHP. Great, good for you. But without it there would be far less innovation on the web due to a higher barrier of entry. However you would still get badly written, unscalable applications no matter what language you are using.
Your mum is better than my mum.
Posted in E-car supplier demos battery swap-shop
Great idea
This is a good idea. It could actually make electric cars viable for long journeys. I don't see why it is such a difficult idea to have a standard physical size battery. The car manufacturers are being difficult on purpose. We have standard batteries for lots of gadgets - I really don't see the issue. Maybe the battery manufacturers could come up with a standard.
I hate VbV
My main problem with VbV and Securecode is that I don't purchase enough stuff to remember the secure password that I set. So either I have to store that password somewhere, which could be considered to be insecure, or I have to set a password that is very easy for me to remember (which will probably also be insecure).
I have found that even when there isn't a a "no thanks!" button with Natwest if you get past the first page of activation (before it asks you for a password) then on the second page there is a "cancel" link which has worked every time.
Paris because the system is retarded.
Spectrum Interactive
I used a Spectrum Interactive hotspot once. It was the most expensive hotspot I ever used to the point where I don't think I will be staying in the Hilton Euston ever again. I don't see UK01 as being any competition for the established players.
All very well and good, but...
Firstly you have to actually block the other signals. Also for the Jesus phone you would have to block out the cell phone tower signal since it uses that as well. So assuming that the user doesn't notice that they don't have any mobile coverage then yes it could be done. However in practice this sounds like scaremongering with a hint of possibility.
