Posts by TheVogon

Re: Identifying thumpers at a distance? GREAT!

LOL @ waste of billions of The Borg's dollars on buying Motorola. They are so out of it that they make Blackberry look relevant....

Re: Sabre Rattling.mp4

Regardless of the MPEG-LA license, Nokia have refused to license their technology in the VP codecs, so VP8/9 are as dead as a DoDo....

Re: Eventually Skype will replace lync

"MS will use its leverage on Exchange to get into the VOIP PBX business"

Erm, but MS has been in the VOIP PBX business for a number of years now....

"MS will launch a very expensive voice server at some point."

It's called Lync - and it's almost always the lowest TCO solution.....

Unless you mean Voicemail server - in which case the Exchange Unified Messaging Server role did that for years too.....

Re: TV License

"Health Sector - lots of private companies doing very well "

Companies may be doing well, but the people paying for it (eg via PFI), and the service users, aren't so happy.

FAIL - PFI is only government projects - not private healthcare.

"Energy supply - lots of private companies doing very well "

Companies may be doing well, but the customers being ripped off aren't so happy and they will be even less happy when the lights go out or the gas stops working.

That's just rubbish - we have numerous energy suppliers to choose from including 6 large ones and the industry works on extremely low margins similar to Tescos! The fact the market price of power is high is because we don't have enough capacity - due to years of government indecision - e.g. the failure to support new Nuclear Reactors that forced Centrica to drop out of the project to build them....and the government forcing our suppliers to build expensive renewable generation facilities - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9631000/9631864.stm

Telecoms: lots of race for the gutter competition in profitable areas, elsewhere in the non-cherry-picker areas, a BT monopoly just like the old days, but without the ability to control what they do with their "last mile" operations. Rail: Grayrigg mean anything to you?

Again simply not true - lots of large and small carriers in the market at all levels of service - BT are no longer a monopoly due to local loop unbundling, and the widespread roll out of highspeed cable networks.

GreyRigg - again a government controlled organisation failure (Railtrack).

"The Guardian hasn't been a left wing paper for years anyway."

Well just LOL - I can only assume you are a member of the Socialist Workers Party if you class the Guardian as not left wing. Try reading the weekly media section every Monday and look at the reams of BBC jobs....

Re: I can hardly believe

Windows Phone has higher market share than the iphone in 7 countries now, with million of phones in use, so that old FUD doesnt wash anymore....

Re: Deal breaker

Why not? That's pretty much how Steam works....You buy the license key per install, not the game itself.

Re: The Liberator - a bargain

That's out of date. There are better designs that don't have these issues:

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-lulz-liberator-25-gun-produced-on-a-cheap-desktop-3d-printer-fires-nine-shots_052013

Re: Recommendation from ACs

Commvault is a far more advanced product than VEEAM - I can second that. VEEAM is niche specialist. Commvault is full enterprise product.

Re: @asdf (was: This plonker claims to have invented the common or garden padlock?)

A padlock system is "something you have" and "something you know". A lock & key.

Erm no.

The key is something you have. The padlock is what checks it. So that would be 1 factor authentication.

Re: Cable TV overlays?

New 64 bit Arm CPUs are coming too, so Atom might not be the best low power option....

Re: Nope

Actually, Apple are copying Microsoft's approach in IOS 7!

Re: What about being a sole trader?

Why would you set up a company in another EU country? Possibly you might get marginally lower corporation tax rates, but at the cost of a lot of hastle...

Re: the fat lady is warming up

3-6 million Blackberry devices per quarter sounds about right including the older ones. That's a massive drop compared to where they were, is following the downward slope on the graph below, and likely a barely profit making position:

http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rim.0031.jpg

Re: @TheVogon

A lot more than I care about what you do or don't know :-)

Re: Hmmm

This should make the Wii-U look like a top seller.....

Re: Can somebody explain...

"So, WHAT CAUSED IT!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

These changes were generally over many thousands of years. Nowhere near 2-4 degrees per century like now....

Re: 10

Give up. No training here. 30 minutes wasted.

Couldn't even comment on how it worked on the most common blade (HP VC) Server architecture....

Re: Karma

it is not a secret API at all. It requires a per user access key, and Google won't give Microsoft one. That's like Microsoft refusing to sell Google a Windows activation key.

Microsoft have cleverly worked around the problem in a way that Google's shoddy code means can't easily be blocked, so Microsoft are having the last laugh.....Site terms and conditions? Never signed up to them...

Re: My two cents

Boat Anchors. That's all they are good for.

Re: "You'd be nuts to run your business using Office 365".

"Google Mail is apparently the choice of CIA operatives in Moscow, if recent reports are to be believed."

Errm, and the secret services are well known for disclosing the tools of their trade? It might be the choice for personal use, but i don't think you will find any of the CIA as has yet outsourced itself to Google Apps....The US Government prefers Office 365: http://finchannel.com/Main_News/Tech/127568_Businesses_choose_Microsoft_Office_365_over_Google_Apps/

"Firefox developer Gilbert Fitzgerald likened it to the sensors inside modern cars, which aggregate data from a vast number of cars in order to deliver better driving experiences."

Or like in Windows which has done this since Windows 7....

Re: Too Late

Yep - this is just bubbles from the sinking ship....

Re: Can't wait!

^Pirate