Posts by Gordon 10

I was in a similar boat 6 months ago. I seem to recall that getting the BB + Phone package was actually cheaper than getting just BB - though line rental may have been excluded on that.

Not to mention that line rental on a "line" wholly owned by Virgin is a bit of a scamola.

Re: Sometimes OS is hardware constrained

less Ram - more bits. Snow Leopard was the last Mac OS to support 32bit programs.

Re: Doubling of processing power?

Why does it need to keep within spitting distance of an apple chip? Comparing a chip designed to run completely different OSes is pretty pointless. The A9 will never run Android or Linux and the 820 will never run iOS.

Apple will always have a better opportunity to more tightly couple their software and hardware than Qualcomm will.

Comparing their performance is a dubious thing to do - there are too many variables involved.

Better to compare with Samsungs high end Arm processors.

Re: Mini-Chipzilla

I thought we had previously established their nickname was Chipzooki?

Will be interesting to see if the XDA devs guys can get the BB software package off it so you can integrate it with other Android variants such as Cyanogen.

Re: Goose, gander, etc.

Galloway seems not to be a saint if you do some research. The jury's out on the green lady.

Now if it was David Davis complaining he might have had a piont but I suspect he's far too aware of the galloping hypocrisy of doing so whilst still remaining a pro-privacy campaigner.

Re: I'm really pleased that MPs are taking security of personal data online seriously

Since Snoopers Charter XXX has just been published it seems increasingly likely that MP's are going to ensure ISP's do exactly that.

Time to write to your MP/Join the open rights group/big brother watch.

Re: Wrong and a disservice to readers

.Should anyone be allowed to lock you in for a year in response to the click of a mouse?

There is a 14 day cooling off period for any online purchase apart from digital downloads - so this is already covered in the consumer rights act.

Really? - care to explain what great insight you have into DB that lead you to that conclusion? The only way DB wont be here in 2 years is if the entire financial system implodes and if that happens we'll all have more important things to think about.

Its underlying business is generally profitable - revenues are around 30-40Bn pa - the vast bulk of its losses have come from Regulatory fines and Accounting write downs.

If DB stopped trading tomorrow the inertia of that 30-40Bn of revenue flow would keep segments of it trading for years to come.

Doubt it. There are some Androids that are so much hassle to root they don't bother. Suspect it will take much longer, but probably will be aided by the XDA tools.

Re: Does there need to be an obligation to "encrypt" ?

PCI-DSS only covers credit cards so Talk Talk are technically correct about not having to encrypt Bank Account details. I suspect however they are going to be part of the case law that leads to Bank account details being encrypted as "reasonable" under the data protection act.

Re: the lion, the witch and the ... police box

That's way too harsh. Her turn in GOT is one of the better ones and considering she's 18 and has been doing it for the last 6 years she's obviously a talent to watch - way ahead of day the Harry Potter actors at the same age.

Bear in mind that in GOT she's acting with virtually every UK character actor of a certain age plus a selection of handpicked international actors.

If she makes the right career choices she's a star in the making.

And if you haven't watched GOT - your loss.

WHERE IS THE CIO

And why didn't he vet the press release?

Even if the he's a PHB I would have expected clearer language than this. It's blatantly obvious that whoever wrote that release doesn't know a website from a webserver.

Hmm - looks like they may have a "CTO" and that they are CIO-less at the moment. (Ad heavy links)

http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/CIO-Interview-Gary-Steen-CTO-TalkTalk

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500248681/Former-TalkTalk-CIO-to-lead-Police-ICT-Company

Re: Here in Blighty...

Can't say I've seen that - only Ebay under cuts Amazon in general for the stuff I buy., and that's only in the Widgety tat from China department,

Quite often I choose Amazon coz they can get it to me faster than everyone else, that's worth 50p more.

Like them or hate them their Logistics model is batshit insanely good although I guess it has to be to correct for Yodels ability to fuck up.

Last week I had bought a CO alarm, returned it as faulty and got a new one over Thurs to Tue all from the comfort of my keyboard,

Or they could just stick a permanent Beta sign on everything like Google do.

Long in the tooth as in no longer available unless you go grey market or Amazon or eBay?

Or totally unable to function due to Lolipop 5.1 destroying my battery in the case of my Nexus 5. YMMV.

Limited liability and bankruptcy are essentially the same thing a method of reducing the risk involved for an entrepreneur starting a new economic activity. Essentially we are saying the gains to the economy are greater than the costs to an economy of supporting the occasional bankruptcy.