Posts by AndrueC

Bringing a class action in an English court? Is that even possible? I seem to recall that our judicial system barely (if at all) supports the concept.

This doesn't sound clever at all. The justice system already struggles to run at a decent pace and now they want to hand the back orifice functionality over to cheap labour in a foreign land? At least keep it on our shores and use some cheap eastern EU labour. That way we get some money back from taxation.

Cutting out all the tasty and naughty things doesn't make you live longer. It just feels like it.

pace was still "a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers"

Ah, give it time. We're capable of it - just got to get big business to see the possibilities then we'll be away :)

Next thing on the list - vectoring for mobiles. Now that would surely kill battery life. Impressive if they could get it to work though.

That might start appearing for FTTC in the UK soon(TM). Still seems kinda odd though - huge amounts of processing power just to help data go a bit faster.

based on the 6502 processor then being used in the BBC Micro, the Commodore 64 and the Apple II, and judged in the competitive analysis to be more highly regarded than the Z80

You what?! No way in hell. The Z80 was more complicated to program but the 6502 was just a glorified hardware controller. The real advantage it had over the Z80 was price, not technology.

So there.

(*)Programmers had to be able to count beyond three to keep track of the registers :)

It's not clear why the ultra-low-power devices hooked up to the "Internet of Things" would need 10Gb/s

Good, because they won't get it for long. That 10Gb/s will be for the entire cell so the device will be sharing it with anything else in that area. That's the nature of wireless internet and always has been. The proponents do so love to chuck out these large numbers then neglect to mention that what an individual device/user will get depends on:

* Number of other devices competing for the mast's bandwidth.

* Distance from mast.

* Obstructions between them and mast.

* Weather.

So at 3am on a lovely evening if your device is sat within 100 metres of the mast you might indeed get 10Gb/s. At 8pm on a wet evening, sat in a house or office in the centre of a city..not so much.

5G should be better than 4G but neither is going to live up to the hype.

About six months ago my ex-colleagues and I hired a skip or two and got rid of years (a couple of decades worth pretty much) of tat and crap. Unopened boxes of Borland Builder, books extolling the virtues of Lotus-123. The hardware front was mostly just old PCs but we also disposed of a rack mounted RAID box we'd been gifted.

What shocked us was estimating the cost at time of purchase. We reckoned we binned nearly half a million quid of stuff. None of it the slightest use any longer.

What saddened me was the software though. I remember buying it in high anticipation and now it's all just superseded crap. Some of it led to greater things but so much of it just stopped being relevant and was nearly forgotten.

There's a moral to this story but I'm not sure what it is. Except that three months after we filled the skips the office was closed down and most of us made redundant. Apparently my time hasn't yet come though as within a month I was back at work. So for now at least it appears that after 25 years programming I've not yet been superseded. I just have to survive another 8 years until I'm 55 :)

Ofcom's decisions can be derailed too easily, through technical challenges that ignore the substance of the regulator's judgments

Well of course we wouldn't want technical information to interfere with the running of our telecoms industry, would we?

Don't worry Ofcom we wub you weally.

I imagine the view of the UK will generally look like this but hopefully higher resolution and in colour.

I found just moving the sensor half an inch lower could make all the difference, as the strap on can ride up with wear.

Is it being sold through Grace Brothers then?

My suspicions were aroused when the part-time fool..

What is he the rest of the time? Most of the ones I've met have been full-time fools.

Anyway don't bother using the PO for parcels. It's cheaper (and often quicker) to order a courier online. Most of them will even come and pick your parcel up instead of you having to trudge over to them.

50Mb/s for an entire A380. Hmmm. Ought to be okay for browsing but for streaming video not so good.

Meh. I stopped using it after I tried the Windows 'Remote Assistance' feature. That suffices for providing tech. support to friends and family and there are other solutions if you want remote control of, say, a server. I just use out-of-the-box RDC for my server.

My budgie could say 'Ploppy Bottom'. That might have landed me in even more trouble.

Hopefully they have sense to realise that .me.uk is something completely different.

Well personally I'm at DEFCON 3 but that's just the result of a day in the office and Banbury traffic. :)