Posts by Ian 62

FINALLY!!!

These guys will get my money if they can do it for the UK.

Its positivily INSANE that there 'appears' to be no way of knowing or finding out if a supermarket has an item instock, never mind where it might be.

Dont try tell me that the millions they spend on inventory control cant tell me if theres a packet of jaffa cakes in the store.

I know they want me to wander like a drone through the aisles buying random things I didnt want... But these days if i cant find something I need I hand back the basket of what I've got, explain they dont have what I need, and walk out.

Sign me up

After a day like today with the pointy haired bosses doing their best to grab defeat from the jaws of victory.... Where do I sign up?

Cunning plan to avoid the politcos

NASA I'm sure have already said that they suffer again and again from changing administrations, budgets, and flavour of the 'term'.

If they could get on with LONG projects they might be allowed to do something special, but having to get the funding and do it, before someone changes their mind is a difficult one.

So if it wasn't 'NASA' as we know it, but some independant outfit that didnt get involved in the politics and campaigning and votes I can see there could be some long term real results from this.

Just finding the way to stop the corrupt expenses and power loons from making a mess of it??? Thats the hard part.

Stadiums are empty...

Plenty of space at the empty stadiums (stadia?) when they do turn up. No need to worry.

Whats the data on there worth to them?

So.. It has to be capable of powering on and running. Running what?

Is 'No boot device found' enough?

Or do they want to see it boot to windows?

Let face it, most people who would go to Dixons to trade in a computer wont have gone to the bother of securly deleting the data. So I wonder how many of their 'curious' techs will have a nose around these old machines...

"Whats THAT picture worth to you Sir? It looks like you had an 'interesting' time with the flying goggles and wet celery! Shall we say, more than 50quid?"

Why should they bother?

Plenty of other manufacturers of gadgets only supply Wintel drivers, so why should Apple feel the need to provide anything except MacOS drivers?

Learn from everyone else?

In a previous lives, wearing different colours of boilersuits, I think every place I've worked at already did this.

Either they did an IT audit each year, to find out who had lost what kit so that the IT budget could claw back some money from the department budget.

Or, they rolled it into the PAT process. While youre checking that plug, Mr Sparks.. Take a note of what bit of kit it's attached to.

Is this just a side effect of the civil service? No one watches the profit/loss book.. So they dont care about 'loss/lost'?

So why cant I?

Living on the coast.. Seagulls are a constant menace, noise, source of poop... (And not just the glow in the dark kind). Yet we're always told that its an offence to rid yourself of the gulls. And the council wont do much either.

So how come theyre allowed to nuke the gulls?

Old documents used...Here it comes..

"However a Foreign Office spokesman told El Reg that it has already been established that all the suspect passports were forgeries of older passports without biometric chips"

So how long before the FCO announcement... "We're recalling all old documentation and it MUST be replaced by biometric ones" ?

But 'ofcourse' biometric passwords would have been safe

Tinfoil hat on...

Its all spin, the next report will be that IF everyone had biometric passports this sort of thing could never happen...

Therefore to save the world and end terrorism we all must have RF ID tags implanted in our heads.

Marketing spin

400% coverage increase!

4 x the signal quality

etc

etc

Wait for the cynical marketing to appear once its switched over to 11.

Even the banks dont know what its for

First time I saw 'Verified by Visa', I was a bit doubtful it was legit. Even though I was shopping on a top ranked online site.

I called my Credit Card company. The call center had never heard of Verified by Visa. So they immediatly stopped my card.

Couple of days later they'd obviously been given the training course on what it was.

Camera turned off

So the camera was turned off. He gets 7days suspended with pay.

If the camera had been turned on, that would have been filming the of torture of a child.

Think of the children! What sentance would he have got for making video of that!!!!

Blu-fail

Damnit.. I want my blu-ray drive.

But oooo nice, appart from that.

Choose your tinfoil hat

Currently, you can use a Blu-Ray for data, but not movies. MacOS doesnt have the codec for it.

2 conspiracy theories on this..

1) The 'required' encryption on the digital video signal isnt there. You'd be able to get round the copy protection via a DVI/HDMI breakout box. That'll be something the Blu-ray consortium folks will be leaning on apple about.

2) The more sinister plot... Apple wont support blu-ray as they want you to get all your movie needs via the video iTunes rental market. More cash for them.

Tax payer funded

By my reading of their financial report for 2007/08 they got £25.5 million from the Department of media, culture,sport. (read Tax payer). Its also free to visit.

Doesnt that mean we've all paid for the works anyway? At least in the UK. How about they get wiki to IP address limit access to UK residents. That'd be fair.

No?

(cant see it happening).