Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: VAT Numbers

Are printed on many invoices so what's to stop you from using say the VAT No of your local chippy or the Berlin Hilton for every purchase?

Re: Oldham

May I suggest a trip to the Ardnamurchan penunsular. It rains there a lot more than in Oldham (so I'be heard)

The Peninsular would be a good place to test 5g. A lot of the cottages and bothy's have walls several feet thick.

Re: How is it different

Those chopper pilots are flying under the direction of the local ATC. Drones (unless they are the professional ones) are not and often piloted by people who may well have had a few beers (or more).

These idiots will more than likely only hasten the day when all drones will be banned unless the pilot is qualified, licensed and insured.

VR Glasses

Yep already in the discount bin.

Nokia bailed from the VR Biz last week citing slower than expected sales.

apart from games there is no compelling reason to buy into the VR Hype.

It might be that apart from Games and a few specialised applications, VR goes the way of 3D.

Re: Banned in Britain

Yes, it was unlikely that the train was in any danger. That isn't the point really.

The Drone regulations are there to protect the people on the ground from drones flown by twats that fall out of the sky.

Also, you need a proper drone operators license if you want to make money from the photos. i.e you are a professional photographer.

As soon as you start charging for pictures all sorts of Jobsworths get in your way and then the Inland Revenue want their cut.

As a photographer myself, I have no time for these plonkers. They are making life more difficult for every other photographer. All it needs is for one child to get injured and the kneejerk reaction of Whitehall will be to ban all of us even if we don't use drones.

Re: Not environmentally-friendly high-tech jobs! Anything but that!

One of the objectors, Alan Daly is an American-born immigrant. His concerns centered around strain on the Irish electrical grid and no apparent plans to cope with greenhouse gas emissions from the data center.

As the centre runs on Electricity and given Apple's commitment to renewables I can only thing that the greenhouse emissions must come from the outside lavvy.

Some people will find anything to complaine about. Mr Daly is also complaining about a proposed Amazon DC near Dublin.

Re: Tesla is not typical

Cars with 100KWh of battery are going to be very rare for 5-10 years. Go look at how much a P100D costs.

That is serious money.

For us mere mortals, a Nissan Leaf with a 40KWh battery (made in Sunderland) is more typical.

in a few years, 40KWh will be 50-60KWh but for most of us that would mean charging once a week.

I have a PHEV (Outlander) and get around 22 miles of local driving. That usually costs me £0.00p as I charge it from my PV system when the sun is shining or at my local Open CP (at Sainsbury's). That is free leccy for any EV/PHEV.

Until you have a proper PHEV or EV then you don't really understand the whole concept. Getting a PV system for your home is a no brainer when you have a battery powered vehicle.

My overall leccy consumption is around 50% of what it was before I had the PV system installed,

I'll be that that reduction in grid comsuption was not included in the 'back of envelope' calculations made by other posters OR the huge amounts of Offshore wind that has been approved this year.

Re: not available in Ecosse

Except in 1978....

Re: Any hope, a silver lining

What will they do with their 'Surface' thingies if you take away all that delightful (in Redmonds eyes) touchy feely interface?

Should they can the Surface then the way is open but I really, really doubt that MS will do a 'U' turn of such magnitude and get rid of METRO/Tiles etc.

Re: Does that mean we can now drop the crappy Win10 interface?

There is as much chance of that as there is of Jeremy Clarkson becoming the Pope.

I'd love to be wrong but SatNad has too much invested in those [redacted] stupid tiles to back down. If he did then he'll probably be out of a job.

Re: Dumping all your settings

That is SOP for Microsoft these days. You will DO IT THEIR way or NOT AT ALL.

It is their OS after all. It isn't yours. They can and will make you confirm until you give in or give up.

Re: product manager course

Don't forget the endless PowerPoint waffle that sends everyone to sleep so that no one can remember what was agreed.

Re: TNMOC rocks!

The jobsworths at BP Security still stick up their noses when you say that you are going to NMOC rather than BP itself...

The BP 'tour' makes little or no mention of the NMOC so I guess they haven't kissed and made up.

A bit sad really.

I spent 6 happy weeks at BP when it was a GPO Training Centre. I still use some of the tools from those days.

Re: Debt Collectors

What is happening is the old law

"You owe the bank £10 and it is your problem. You owe the bank £10,000,000,000 and it is the Banks problem."

in action. You and your missed car tax are the low hanging fruit. Easy pickings.

Amazon, Apple and the rest have teams of high paid lawyers that will take things through the courts until someone at the top says Yes or No. For the EU to fine the Irish Government for not collecting the Apple money even while an appeal to the court is outstanding is a bit disingenious to me.

It would not surprise me that the Apple money is sitting in an Escrow account somewhere waiting for the legal moves to end.

Telly Tax

I was always under the impression that if you don't have a TV or other methods of receiving live TV then you don't need a Telly License. Getting difficult to police with streaming services and 4K or 5K monitors being attached or part of a Computer but there you go.

I'd rather watch paint dry than some of the pure shite that is on commercial TV that has one poster already said, is peppered with adverts every 10 minutes. Anything that is worth watching gets recorded and the PVR skips over the ads but I'd like to watch stuff like the TdF live it gets really annoying to have all those endless ads for funeral plans, over 50's life assurance, that idot standing on the wing of a bi-plane and other such crap. They are almost enough to drive one to an early grave.

Re: Disabilities

Why? Insurance companies and lawyers that's why.

If you don't mandate something then the answer will be 'No', 'too risky', PRemium? Hows about $10000/yr for starters? etc etc

Re: iTunes on Windows

If you are still using Vista then iTunes won't be the only thing that won't work before long. It is just slightly better than using XP on a machine that is connected to the Internet.

No security updates. AV software going EOL etc etc etc

The writing has been clearly marked on the wall for some time when it comes to Vista.

I'm afraid that it is time to upgrade your OS. If it can't hack Windows 7 then there are plenty of reconditioned machines availble on the internet. Some start at less than £100.

Many of these will be even capable of running Windows 10... Should you desire to.

Re: You were doing so well...

When it comes to blaming no wriggle room is necessary, they will blame you anyway. Arse covering in the name of the day.

There fixed it for you.

Apple till in Ireland

They wouldn't get many sales when the Fanbois using their UK Stores discover that the Irish VAT rate has been applied rather than the UK one. HMRC would not be amused either. Unlike Google claiming that all their business was done in Dublin a physical transtaction for phycial goods is much harder to, cough, cough hide.

Now Corporation Tax payments are another issue entirely and Apple along with MS, Google and especially Amazon need to be brought to book pronto.

Re: A binary future for the Microsoft shop

Well, they have to do something to arract the punters... Oh wait, they might not actually sell anything....

Last year, I went to a Mall in Delaware. There was an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store.

The staff in the MS store outnumbered the customers and this was in the middle of a Saturday Afternoon.

Now, if they offered classes in how to remove their slurping from Windows 10 in ways that survived 'updates' I would think the place would be packed out for at least a few weeks at any rate.

If the offer gaming then how is that really an advert for MS? Gamers already know which games are on which platform so they'll go there for the game and buy it from wherever is cheapest in the Internet.

Which leads me to wonder what the income per sq ft of the new store will be. After all they are setting up shop in possibly the most expensive bit of retail real estate in the country.