Posts by Roger Greenwood

Re: Moody Planes

It's not the plane, it's gravity trying to kill you.

Re: This is the fault of Trevor's clients

2 things:-

1. I have a machine tool here less than 10 years old - it runs NT as XP was too new then. I expect it to run at least another 10 years.

2. We run Bricscad instead of AutoCad - it is also available on Linux and uses DWG file formats.

Er . . .

. . we could tell you, but the snooper dept. won't let us.

Re: Fix what's broken

You didn't mention the fact that by default they also seem to treat their customers like criminals.

Perhaps it's just me then.

Re: How would anybody know the difference?

Yes I have a model 212 safe here. Why 212? Because it can stand the heat.

Re: £2

and re-introduce the groat and farthing, so that even poor people can feel they have lots of money.

Re: Depends on if you mean when it was designed or built?

First Test Flight.

Yes we care

Not about the content, but next time someone asks you if "we really need x resource?" you can think about what happens if this project scales 100 fold, 1000 fold etc. Ask for the upper design limit in writing. Good luck with that.

BMW

If BMW did recalls on their owners instead that would be an improvement.

Re: The Alan Parsons Project

I see your Alan Parsons project link, and raise you Vulture Culture.

Maths

No your maths is correct, but you forgot about the costs of collection/distribution of the levy or "gravytrain" as some call it.

Re: pip pip pip pip...

Ahh 300 baud. I also miss prestel at 1200/75. Tell that to the youth of today and they won't believe you.

Re: If you must...

Exactly - and given the attrition rate of the average bit of tech kit in the hands of most kids you should go for the cheapest or it will cost twice what you thought.

Re: Excellent!

Er . . . Microsoft says it supports ODF, but if you upload an ODF file to skydrive, you get repeated warnings about loss of data, incompatibilities etc. This is for any file without special formatting. The warnings are there every time you open the file. Lets hope that gets fixed soon.

Re: That was not nice

"knowledgeable old guys" (and gals).

They are made of stern stuff. They lived through a war or two. You can't buy that kind of training.

Just got a C720 - nice bit of kit, about 8 to 10 hours battery. Apparently an Acer with a touch screen is coming soon.

Re: Antimatter information that is newsworthy:

"Transformers don't work on DC"

Er... actually they do, but not continuously. Can still create pulses.

Numbers

Say they want 50 million customers worldwide (not unreasonable?) adding 1000 per day means it will take over 130 years. Still, early days.

Re: PCs are selling fine

Or with a keyboard (just ordered another chromebook).

Re: Mobile wallets

Exactly - agree with above.

Also seems to be a solution in search of a problem. This morning on the radio they did a speed test for Zapp against cash:-

'Go'

'Here's a tenner ... how long did that take? - how far have you got with the phone?'

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25727333 for more info on Zapp

Re: WinOne

Surely they will be naming it "Skylight" so you get a better view of the clouds.

Re: GP's Opening Hours

Exactly. In my case you are lucky if you get to chat to a real person.

Re: I had to find out more about this....

"Chief of Growth" - isn't that a farmer?

Re: easy peasy

Also:- It's quite easy to overestimate the IT interest of the average person.

Re: That settles it. HP is in deep do-do

Exactly.

Dear HP:- IT peeps are smart and have memories like elephants. Servers like yours are not sold to dummies.

Re: The Mossie

Anyone feeling flush can bung these guys a few quid to get one flying again in UK:-

http://peoplesmosquito.wordpress.com/

Re: Coming to their senses?

No, it means most who want one already have one (or more).

Aldi sold all theirs already :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25299602

Re: Consumer vision

Maybe you are not seeing the bigger picture here. You and me are a small part of a minority of the 2bn people who already have a computer (or several). We are essentially a static market and only a disruptive product or replacements generates profits. The article is looking at the next big growth area of the 5bn who don't. They need technology as well, but it has to be affordable etc. That new (growing) market will drive changes in the existing one.

Keep your multiple monitors, as Trevor says there will always be a place for specialist kit, just not used by the majority.

Re: Nice parody of

"Look what they make you give"