Posts by Steve Davies 3 7147 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Why the resistance to registering?
The great god that is Apple is giving you the software for free so why not give them a little something in return? You do need to recharge your personal RDF from time to time. The stupid GUI provides you with an ideal opportunity to say a few prayers at the church of St Jobs.
Of you could gearch on Google for 'OSX 10.10 download'. I'm sure there are a good number of sites who will gladly supply it for you.
It is the card processor who pays Apple a very small sum per transaction.(0.015% if my memory serves me right)
The Card details are stored in the security chip on the phone. Then you auth the payment with your finger (yes, you are giving Apple the Finger!)
The difference between this and the other types of payment service is that the merchant does not see your card details. Thus they can't track your shopping habits!
For the likes of Tesco this is not good. I will very surprised if they sign up for apple Pay at launch.
Or is that why Tesco are selling their data analytics company?
you forgot a key point
and Securing
It is naff all use setting up a network is it is open to every Tom, Ahamed, Wong and Ivan to hack into now is it?
Othewise a devent article for the masses (viz those who are not Linux masters) would be useful to give to relatives. Then you can say, "follow these easy steps and I might consider supporting you. If you don't then you are on your own sunshine!"
I timed a US Sitcom recently as it was broadcast on E4
The show 'lasted' 30 minutes but the actual programme was 18 minutes long. The rest was Adverts.
An hour long show is actually 44-46 minutes.
During my quite frequent visits to the US, I rarely turn on the TV. If I do, it is for the Weather Channel to get the forcast for the next day. Otherwise trying to watch even half decent shows without the aid of a PVR is just too frustrating to be bothered with.
Is it any wonder that if the US wins a bid to host the FIFA world cup in the future, they will virtually insist that the 45minute 'halves' is split into at least two if not three sections just to satisfy the Advertisers.
As a certified GOM (Grumpy Old Man) I hate all forms of Advertising. we GOM's are not a target market for the advertisers but we have to sit through the crap that is aimed at everyone but us. They should be made to pay me to endure this shite.
as far as I'm concerned then all ad agencies should 'Eat This' (See Icon)
One of my favourite Floyd Albums. Very underrated IMHO.
I have one of these cards in my D800. I agree about the WiFi connection. The problems I encountered were due to too many other networks being on the same channel (Linux to the rescue here). When I reached a spot where there was no other WiFi networks competing for the channel it worked perfectly.
My other issue is that the write speed is not excatly fast. Sure it is a class 10 device but it can't hold a candle up to the SanDisk 95Mb/s cards that I normally use.
Now that there are 280Mb/s cards available, I can't see much use for this in the future.
http://www.sandisk.co.uk/products/memory-cards/sd/extremepro-sdxc-sdhc-uhs-ii/?capacity=32GB
campaigning for Chelsea's release from gaol?
Thaty would reduce the amount of $$$ that the US Gov spends keeping her locked up.
The sad thing is that those saving wouldn't get anywhere near the VA budget.
You should know that Governments the world over don't do that sort of joined up finance.
Whilst you might be correct reports like this are needed to keep at least some of those ANALysist's in gainful employment.
After all there is only so many times they can write articles (sorry fiction) stating that company XXXXX is doomed and everyone should sell their stock today.
Where is the...
won't someone think of the analysist's icon when you need it?
Ahhhhh the memories of Channel Cables.
I used to look after a tiny MicroVax that was used to connect two mainframes (IBM and Amdhal) together using a channel interconnect.
One day I found the microVax sitting in the middle of the floor. Well, not exactly on the floor. The channel cables had been moved a bit to install some more Storage drives and the unit was actually off the floor. The two channel cables and the power cable was clearly visible underneath the Vax.
Oh the memories.
Oh sorry, I forgot that most Americans think that the USofA is the lower 48 states and forget about Hawaii and Alaska.
Or perhaps Putin has re-purchased Alaska from the Yanks and didn't tell anyone?
At least in most of Canada you can be really alone (apart from the mozzies that is). The danger from failing drones can be minimised. Perhaps el Reg should move it's rocket from NM to SK?
when the juggernaut that is Apple Pay is coming along the road.
I'm more of a cash person than anything (and I dont have a smartphone) so I'm unlikely to use any of the solutions but it does seem to me that Apple have done it just about right with a KISS solution. By not holding any of the details themselves is the way forward. The other solutions just seem to be horribly complicated.
Perhaps this is another case of the first to market is not always the best.
I'm pretty certain the customer would like to have their watch as soon as possible, and show it off on their wrist as they walk out of the store.
and into the arms of the muggers waiting outside for the suckers to emerge inside from the store hoping that their own RDF will protect them.
As it is this time of the parliamentary cycle are you:-
1) standing for election on the abolish BST platform?
2) voting for a candidate that will propose 1) above if that is so vitally important to you
3) do nowt?
What is it then. It is it 1) then I am sure that you'd get a few votes from the readers here. not so sure about the wider electorate though.
100GB of bundled, free-for-two-years OneDrive cloud storage is said to be the remedy for the missing expansion slot. Samsung makes that assertion by assuming you've got an LTE connection with plenty of download allowance to spare.
There must be a good number of Mobile providers rubbing their hands with glee at this.
Walk into any large Tesco's at the moment and see their package offers. 500Mb or 1Gb is not uncommon. This is easily used up with a few uploads to the cloud.
Imagine the punters face when they see their data bill for their backups....
The more savvy of us will make sure that this is strictly controlled. The average sucker? not a chance.
I even wonder if a few operators might make 'backup everything to the cloud' a default=ON 'feature' with some offerings.
If that is the case then this is a complete deal breaker for me.
I'm looking at replacing my 11yr old car with something like this but if it can't handle man sized coffee cups then what were the designers thingking of?
I wonder what sort of expression would appear on the salemsans face when I tell him that this bit of stupidity will cost him a sale?
How many El Reg readers have even heard of SBC before this article popped up on their screens?
I certainly haven't but there again, I have never worked in this area of tech.
As has been said already, using home kit for a business just sounds like a bunch of shyster lawyers wanting to do the job on the cheap. I wish we knew the name of the company then we could avoid using them in the future.
but I'd be asking this one as well.
Ok Mr Application Vendor, do the claims you put alongside your product in the AppStore actually hold up to close examination? If they don't then... bye-bye.
If these products don't 'does what it says on the tin' then they should be booted off. The same goes for any App Store be it iOS, Android or whatever.
Er? Just who has access to the HSM's? Who has the master keys to those devices?
Microsoft. That's who.
Are you really sure they can't get their sticky mits on your encrypted data?
More importantly, are you willing to bet your business on their inability to get hold of it.
The only upside is that it isn't Google.
That won't work.
The Residences of the PM and Chancellor are provided by the State as part of their job. I'd even doubt that there are even leccy and Gas meters there to read/convert.
Nice idea though. You could get them on Millibands place because all that Hot Air has to come from somewhere....
This article links to a report by a Child Psychologist who claims that smartphone use by children is damaging them.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/03/23/038220/child-psychotherapist-easy-and-constant-access-to-the-internet-is-harming-kids
If this report is otally twrong then why are children going apeshit (or worse) when they go into a mobile phone not-spot for a few hours/days? Can someone care to explain?
Seeing the tantrums of a 14yr old American Girl last week when she had no mobile phone reception out in the Negev I quite believe the girl was showing the same sort of addiction.
This girl went totally apeshit and called her parents Torturers, War Criminals and worse. The family was only going to be out of phone range for two days but for this girl, it was the end of the world.
This is a real sad state of affairs. These kids need proper help not lampooning.
Even if we stop using all forms of Petrol and Diesel/Fule Oil tomorrow.
We will still have machinery in all those leccy thingies.
That machinery will need lubricants most of which will be derrived from a carbon based resource.
Sure it will be a lot less than now but we can't totally elimiate Carbon use from our lives.
Plastic 'stuff' will mostly be a thing of the past because that comes directly from Oil.
any analyst who preticts that we will be able to survive using no carbon originated stuff at all is a total idion IMHO. Even the most fervent Greens I have met accept that for some things we will have to use some oil in our lives but this is the Grauniad so all bets are off as to the sanity of the writer (joking!)
I bought a projector in this size range more about 10 years ago. It was a tad noisy but is the size of a Jack Reacher paperback and has native 1024x768 resolution. Cost around £1100 back then.
I'm in the market for a replacement device now. It has to be 1080p as a minimum. After all, these things have to last a tad longer than the latest smartphone don't they?
As many of these devices seem to quote rather small native resolutions might it be possible to know if 720i, 720p, 1080i or 1080p output is supported?
That would make the comparisons an awful lot easier.
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