Posts by AMBxx

Re: Why do people still use 123reg ?

Same reason people use the likes of Capita - the bad news stories don't get as far as we think.

Re: Wife's Skoda needs an update

I guess the resale value of my 3 year old Land Rover Defender just went up again.

Re: Market Saturation?

Perhaps I should have mentioned that my tablet is an i7 Surface Pro with 16 GB RAM. More than capable of anything I'm likely to throw at it.

Has a keyboard too - hence same thing, different form factor.

Do some reading!

Azure Stack is about havine MS Azure in your own data centre. Nothing to do with hosting in the cloud as we currently understand it.

It's be 'coming soon' for years. Whether it ever is released or is just there to prevent migration to competitors is another matter.

Re: I'm not sure that targeting specific companies is the way forward.

It also misses out on the notion that Amazon's margins are a lot lower than Facebook and Google. Amazon actually have to buy stuff to sell (except for marketplace) whereas Facebook and Google have enviable gross margins.

Re: Fitbit - lost the plot

Fitbit is great if you want to be told you're burning 5000 calories a day while sat at your desk.

I tried Android wear - mess of Google and manufacturer's conflicting apps.

Settled on a Samsung something or other.

Still miss my MS Band 2 though.

Re: Hmmm

By the time they work out the details, we'll no longer need a daily delivery of mail, so the problem will no longer exist.

Re: Call me a cynic..

Nope, with double entry book keeping, the server you bought has a value on the balance sheet. Tax credit in year one too.

Advantage of cloud is flexibility. If I opened an online shop, I'd want it to be on a cloud server just in case there was a sudden increase in sales. Cheaper than having spare hardware on standby.

They need to be told that Dilbert isn't a management manual.

Re: Infrastructure

50 years? I guess you're excluding the M25, M18, M60, M6 and most of the other motorways in the UK!

The M1 may have started in 1959, but the last bit wasn't built until 1972.

Re: PWC is managing the process, we are told.

Will be interesting to see if there was a mysterious dividend paid to the owners, ramping up the debt, bringing down the company.

How many more times are we going to see the same scenario?

I thought it was already a thing. I seem to recall a story some years ago about replacing the lead and tiles on church steeples so that could be used as masts.

Re: Can't say I'm sorry for the publishers.

>> but pop-ups, heavy interstitials, sticky ads and autoplaying videos

I'm struggling to see why anyone would complain about blocking that lot. Yes, Google are shits, but any site/publisher relying on irritating adverts deserves to suffer.

There's plenty of space if you make your unicorn take the bus.

Re: Corel still exist?

No. Corel is the place where undead software from the late 20th Century lurks.

Worse than that - flat keyboard and non-adjustable screen angle, No thanks.

Re: 60 calls a person

My clever Fritz!Box router handles all my telephone calls. Any junk call numbers are added to a list of unwanted callers. If they call again, they're redirected to another source of junk calls - BUPA.

Do men tend to do more miles on a motorway per trip? That mucks up any stats about women having more accidents per mile driven. All that really matters for insurance is mile per policy year.