Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse 2452 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Sep 2007
Whilst I'm as appalled as everyone else with this sort of thing, I'm not entirely sure that what you have written here is correct...
"Brexit means they don't have to comply with the GDPR directive so they can do WTF they like with people's data?"
Happy to be corrected however by those better informed that I.
Properly interesting, and lays out the utter shambles that this is turning into. But in precis... morally bankrupt Americans sell off anything and everything for profit, to the detriment of everyone else who benefits from it? Does that sum it up?
No doubt being registered in Delaware, there will be a while host of shell companies, shady backdoor payments, payoffs and dubious agreements in place - which is why there is a lack of answers coming from the key protagonists.
Keep digging.
Exactly the reason I dropped Panasonic kit. I used to be a fan of their Viera range but dumped them for good when they internally baulked their software so no smart functions would work at all, and when I complained their "customer service" team tried to blame my internet connection as being faulty.
Not that I actually bother with the BBC these days, so can't comment on iPlayer as I refuse to pay the TV tax or allow the TV to connect to the network. I do have Eurosport player though and Netflix which work quite happily via a locked down Android TV box and the Playstation.
I love ads. I love them most when AdBlock, uBlock, Privacy Badger, Ghostery and PiHole flag up how many they have blocked during a session. It's almost as much fun as when a site tells me that I'm using an ad blocker and that I should disable to gain the "best user experience", but then I slowly and deliberately click "no, continue with ad blocker" instead.
I makes me feel as though I've made a useful contribution to humanity.
I'm doing no research into a company with such a pointless hipster name, but I'm going to assume that their company slogan is something like...
"Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend all your money on this pile of overpriced tosh. Go on... spend. It really will make you feel much wellness and make you a more better human than your friends. Honestly. SPEND!!!!!!!!!!"
Stop tying to derail the arguments with facts please. No-one likes that.
But you are right. I did a comparison on what I've paid in total taxes over the last couple of years against what I used to pay when I was at an umbrella company, and the difference if I have to go back to an umbrella or permie will be a net loss to HMRC of about £20k per year.
Interested to understand what end devices you have connecting to it that take advantage of the AX spec?
I have an ASUS AX88 router that I bought primarily for the enhanced VPN support rather than network speeds, but I can't see any USB wi-fi dongles or such like available anyway that I could use to take advantage of it even if I wanted to.
They are as bad as each other in terms of product support and leading you into an expensive walled garden, but I'd give SAP the edge in uptime & reliability, with Oracle EBS just nudging it for end user navigation and overall usability. Both get a bad rap for the implementation headache, but in my 15 years of implementing them both, it's normally mostly down to utterly crap third party SI's (Wipro and HCL spring to mind) and the lack of upfront legwork by the client business in terms of requirements, use cases and process mapping and such like - rather than the product itself.
There are some Open source ERPs that I've worked with in the past that are better than both of them, but ironically most enterprises won't implement them because they are not SAP or Oracle. Go figure!!!
And this is why I have a PS4. As I "game" for relaxation and entertainment, I just can't see the point of spending time having to coax minuscule graphical and performance changes out of software and hardware that most often times won't run properly anyway due to driver or API issues, or ends up having no actual or visible material impact on the experience - other than reducing it overall, or giving crap humble bragging rights as to who can claim to see the most pixels.
I quite like just flopping on the couch, pushing square, and get off and running with only the game play itself to concern myself with.
Hmmm... not so fast Tonto. It can get confusing. We had a Chris in our office that literally and suddenly overnight became "Christine". I have no issue with this per se, but claiming suddenly to be a woman on the basis of wearing a dress and slapping on some lipstick does sit somewhere between delusion and a fancy dress party.
I've never understood why people pay so much for BOSE stuff as all they seem to be doing these days is trading higher value on a phantom quality which went out of the window years ago.
Agree with you re Sony, I've got three different pairs and they are all fabulous. I'd like to point out that I also have two pairs of Sennheisers, and they are still doing it right also.
How on earth did I end up with 5 pairs of headphones though, that's a question :-$
I'm having no "smart" tech in my house whatsoever. I have an internet connected amp for internet radio, and that's about it other than a fairly powerful router.
I gives me lots of pleasure in almost being able to feel the misery of my "smart" TVs smartness having been neutered because I refuse to connect it to any form of network. If I want to adjust the heating or turn on a lamp, guess what... I just get up and adjust the heating and / or flick a switch.
As for Alexa or Google, over my dead body.
"They are not going to give you money without you working for it, my friend. "
To be fair to HMRC, my experience over the last 10 years or so has always been positive if I've been due a refund. After the online SA calculation is produced, and if a refund is due I am asked to input my sort code and bank account number, and then the money has always been in my account within 7 days 'ish.
No real work or fighting has ever been needed.
Even if they do suspend funding, then I doubt they can be trusted to fully shut it down anyway, and I will assume that some dark shady twats in the shadows will already have thought up ways of contingency funding this on the quiet...
"You didn't think they actually spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?"
"it might take a few trillion years but that's nothing when working in astronomical time scales."
Considering that the best scientific estimates we have currently put the Universe at somewhere between 12 - 14 billion years old, then I'd suggest that your "few trillion years" would certainly be SOMETHING in astronomical timescales, rather than the "nothing" you state.
Regardless, I'm fully expecting both of these probes to be either destroyed, or preferably appropriated by some advanced alien race and sent back to us on a fact finding mission. Thinking about it, that would make the basis of a half decent science fiction movi... oh...
No it's not. Definitions change yes - but "unlimited" has not done so. I would expect that if you asked 100 people to explain what it means then 99 people would be able to scrape up a similar meanings in volumetric terms. In this case this word is not being changed by "social convention" it is being distorted by liars in marketing departments to knowingly commit fraud and to mislead with no other goal than to line corporate pockets at the customers expense.
I'm not sure "doom and gloom" puts it correctly. "A healthy amount of scepticism and cynicism with a humorous undercurrent" is how I've always considered the coverage of things on these hallowed pages.
And that is why El Reg continues to win my reading time when I should actually be doing some work.
I have this view that eventually there will be more than one internet, one owned by the corporates that becomes a morass of crap similar to as it is today, and then another totally legal "neutral" internet, similar to the dark web, but less full of perverts, drug pedelers and hitmen, This is where the rebellion live (i.e. the normal people).
So your whole view on the fitness / wearables industry is based on seeing a couple of fat people discussing step count? Have you tried going to watch a few marathons, a swim meet, or a 10k run perhaps? How about a Parkrun or a middle or sprint distance Triathlon? I think you'd find that the sheer volume of people out there using these devices to successfully help track their performances and ongoing fitness would destroy your somewhat blinkered viewpoint instantly.
Personally I wouldn't have either an Apple or Fitbit watch as neither IMHO are really fit for purpose; but Garmin in my opinion still produce the best sports watches and I'd rate my 935xt far higher than either of the former.
"And if you're anything like me, the main story will take a backseat until every other available side plot has been exhausted."
I'm more of a sofa based console gamer, but I have big a thing for open world games and usually spend most of my time exploring every nook and cranny of the landscape rather than actually playing the game. I spent about 200hrs in Assassins creed Odyssey last winter of which I believe a major proportion was me just muppeting around enjoying the views like some crap instagram tourist.
I did eventually finish it though... eventually.
The thing I've always struggled with with Apple headphones is volume. I have pairs of Apple, Sennheiser and Sony wired headphones, and the Apple ones are so much quieter on max vol than either of the others. I also have a set of the Sony WL-1000x bluetooth jobbies, and whilst not as loud as the others, they are still again, a fair whack louder than the standard Apple wired ones.
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