Posts by ElNumbre

Right When Tested...

Seemed okay for me.

If I was an Openreach engineer that would mean that nothing had been wrong with it. EVER.

Can't wait...

... until this technology is rolled out to the fibre BT are installed to my house which is scheduled at some point Q2 in the year 2406.

There's an App for That..

Is there anything an iFondleslab can't do*? Its such a superhero.

*apart from its one weakness, Flash.

Canna Cope Captain...

Lets hope there arn't any big events coming up that lots of people might want to watch when they get home from work, like say the Olympics or maybe even some diamond jubblies, if their network can't cope with day to day usage.

Ohh...

Still having input?

The King is dead, long live the King.

Or... Mr Jobs can no longer participate in product decisions, and whilst the new board may use his previous guidance as a reference point, they will go ahead and do their own thing. So everything you knew about Apple may very well change over the next few years.

IMHO, Apple need a smaller (cheaper) iPad to compete with the Fire et al. But they'll never be as inexpensive as their competitors because they see themselves as a premium brand.

Far(kin)nell

Surprised to see Farnell still borked over 12hrs later. I was going to register for the next batch, but I guess not. I hope those that have bagged one are active in the community and build some great projects so when I eventually get mine, i'm not limited by my own imagination. Plus 10,000+ units in, hopefully any bugs and manufacturing kinks will be worked out.

Oh, and any bookies running odds on how many will end up on ebay?

New Computamabobs...

They seem to want new super computermabobs every 18 months or so. Why don't they just build one that can be upgraded? Clusters and the like?

<<Sent from my 5 year old Dell Laptop that won't be upgraded as it still does the job>>

Coventry Pie

Wonder if Raspberry Pi will be able to shift manufacturing to the UK as they originally wanted.

Too Busy.

Sorry, I was too busy making it with a hot female Earth chick.

Allo Allo

"the bonk triggers an encrypted exchange of information between the card and the till authorising the payment".

Good Moaning. I was pissing by and saw this article. When you say the bonk, does you mean the bank or the tap of the phones?

Argos, without stock.

I've heard, from two people who work (separately) for Amazon UK, that they're looking at offering collection services at their distribution centres, with the products available for collection within about 4hrs hours of ordering. I can only assume that the retail idea is the same thing, on an even more local basis.

Mandatory Standard API's

I've got gas and electricity smart meters supplied and fitted by eOn. All good, all working, very happy with it. I've now moved to nPower who were cheaper at that specific moment in time, and they don't support these smart meters. So now I'm back to reading the meter reading off of the 'consumer' read-out panel and typing that into their website every month because their computermabob sez no. However, I have been put on their waiting list to receive a NEW smart meter as and when their trial moves to the next stages.

Its a frankly dumb way to work and I'm sure all it involves is sending a man out to change the modem strings, but logic and utility providers is like water and oil.

I can't even write an API to do it myself as no-one will give me the encryption details of how to information is sent from the meter to the consumer display, and they didn't see the logic of adding a USB port to be able to download the data.

So, in my experience, smart meters are just dumb meters with blinkenlights.

Robots...

Would it not be easier to just get robots to do the vast majority of the construction?

The ones building Apple products could be called iRobots.

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.

A++ for any supplier which puts its nads on the plinth when there is a fault - no bullplop is refreshing. Id rather understand why something broke, than just being told it broke.

However, the worst thing in the world is when they just "make something up". We get that with one of the major telco's (or rather one of its incestuous divisions). I've lost track of the number of times I've seen a response of 'end-user equipment' when every link into an exchange has gone down. Or, 'right when tested' even though there is massive noise on the line when previously there wasn't. And unfortunately, since said major telco got rid of its expensive 'old hands', it seems to be standard training to the new apprentices that its acceptable to lie to customers, especially if there a service-visit charge can be applied later down the line.

XScale...

I wonder if Intel regret parting ways with XScale?

Its amazing what ATI and nVidia have achieved, particularly the latter integrating GPU and ARM CPU capabilities, whilst Intel still seem to struggle to produce anything that can render in 3D.

Don't Panic...

Don't panic! I've got a copy of the Internet on a couple of floppy disks, its all fine.

TOR?

I wish the author had of used ToR as the acronym, rather than TOR. I started thinking about The Onion Router project rather than Top of Rack switches and my little brain got all befuddled.

I wonder how the security of these backup wireless backbones performs? If companies are able to get 'boundary' protection wrong, transmitting back-end data centre traffic through the air fills me with dread that someone will find a way to listen in and have their dirty way with my data.

Also available in black...

Its not self-healing at all. They just crammed on so many gaudy logo's that no-one will notice the scratches.

Useful

I've been using this app for the last 9 months ago, and it seems pretty good. The only problem I have is that (rarely), it will spontaneously rearrange the channges into some random order.

I just wish Digiguide made a version of their Windows app for Android tables.

Watch out...

"Apple may have no rights to Jobs' name either. As Roberts points out, Apple's own list of the 178 terms for which it enjoys trademark rights doesn't have its cofounder's name on it."

No doubt they'll be correcting this oversight shortly. Also presumably they'll file to protect the wearing of a black polo and blue jeans.

Better watch out if your name is Steve, Steven or Stephen Jobs. They're also coming for you - best start saving now if you want to keep your name...

(I was going to use the Joke Alert icon, but now I think about it, I worry that this post may turn out to be true).

2000 odd UK people?

I never received this survey from YouGov. Does that make me 'normal' in their eyes?

Are 'odd' people statistically significant?

Send in the Drones....

Have Qinetiq et al not got a drone that can be flown to the scene of an accident quickly and take both photos and 3D laser scanned pictures of the scene? That way the surveys can commence whilst the police are other emergency services are dealing with scooping up brains and guts, all whilst providing situational awareness of whats going on both in relation to the the accident and its effect on the area? If the drone could do the heavy lifting then the on-scene plod would then only need to take a survey of any ground related information and weild a brush to sweep up?

Plus, they could use the drone for other 'intelligence' tasks when not at the scene of an accident.

Damn Dirty Scientists.

Well, its not exactly rocket science...

Ohh wait, it pretty much is.

Buy those engineers a beer, or a kool-aid or whatever liquid they fuel those brain cells with.

Oh God...

If the scientists can't get this right, what chance do we have when they say "the large meteorite will pass close by, but won't impact the Earth".

DOOMED I TELLS YA! DOOOOOOOOMED!

Happy 2012 everyone!