Posts by P. Pod

Battery

What I really want is a phone that can run for at least a week (preferably a lot more) without charging the battery. Phones have had enough processing power for any normal use for years now.

Programmes

I would prefer to have decent programmes in 2D rather than the same old rubbish tarted up with 3D.

Routers?

Are there any consumer grade routers that support IPV6?

Are there any real benefits for end users to move to IPV6?

A title

If you have an unsecured wifi connection anybody can see your stuff, not just Google. If Google were cracking secured connections to get the data then this would be a worthwhile story.

Isolated incident

Of course it's an "isolated incident". There's only about half a dozen people with a card and only one of those has been stupid enough to try and use it...

Who knows??

SInce they can't even forecast the weather for the next 24 hours correctly, how do they expect me to believe that they can get it right 50 years into the future.

I can forecast the weather for Monday though... It's a bank holiday, so it will rain.

Amazing

The times quoted really show what a staggering achievment Colossus was. The laptop was only 280 times faster, which is not much when you consider that computer power has generally followed Moore's Law.

BA

"BA can fly me and my luggage 4,500 miles in a tad over 4.5 hours."

Not since Concorde went out of service though...

"Hoes in My Room,"

For all us white, middle aged, Englishmen who don't know what "Hoes in My Room," is all about, Alan Titchmarsh will soon be releasing his new single called "Hoes in my shed". Time for a nice cup of tea I think...

Rough landings

I thought any landing you could walk away from was a good one:-)

Memory

"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981

Don't forget that in 1981 by far the most common home computer in the UK was the Sinclair ZX81 with a massive 1K of RAM or if you were really extravogant 16K with the RAM pack. Most Vista machines today probably have 2GB RAM - what applications can you think of that will need a million times as much memory?

It's very easy to make snide remarks about Bill's predictions but I don't recall anybody predicting the scale of the computing revolution that has occured. In 1981 I only knew three other people who had computers at home, now most homes have at least one.

Linux

Does anybody here know one single person not employed in the IT industry who runs Linux as an everyday machine? I bet you don't! The only people I know who use Linux every day are Linux developers who need that OS for a good reason.

There are some round here who won't want to admit it, but XP and Vista work perfectly well on any Dell pre-installation. As for those that complain about the price - well if you buy a few million copies like Dell then Microsoft will offer you a good price too!

Assumptions

"In joining HSBC, many students assumed they could make free overdrafts after graduation"

And the first lesson the students need to learn is... Never make assumtions about what the small print contains!

Arm Robbers

You need to watch out for those Arm Robbers. They're mostly 'armless until they steal your arms...

Eyewitness statement

An eye witness said "I thought there was something fishy about him"