Posts by Steve Davies 3 7145 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
You raise some excellent points.
However... If you go to any of the forums where Teslaoids (blinkered Tesla Fans) hangout they are talking about 2022 for full level 5. I know they are smoking some good shit but 2022? Really?
The legal framework for this will take years to resolve. For example, can you use a fully autonomous car to take you home drunk?
Mine went to the great recycling centre only last week.
It outlived a T410....
IMHO, the longest lasting kit I've ever used was IBM Thinkpads followed by Macbook Pro's. (2010 17in MBP still going strong)
HP produced some decent lappies (Elitebook 8770W) but were really hard to get here. They couldn't be half arsed to put a UK KB and ship them here.
My old company was still issuing HP Lappies with 1366x768 screens this time last year.
If I was still working I'd be angling for a new Thinkpad.
If it was then the whole of the country north of Watford (the town not the M1 Service station) and west of Slough would be complaining loudly.
Note that neither Glasgow nor Edinburgh are on the list but that remote outpost called Aberdeen.
Perhaps this is at least one part of HMG that is aware of the feelings towards London from the rest of the country.
Note that this won't stop the complaints but will lessen them a bit.
Now if HMG were to stump up the cash and electrify the railway lines from York-Leed-Manchester and Sheffield-Manchester (via the Woodhead line naturally as that had 1500v Overhead lines) then a lot more of the complaints from 'up north' about favourtism towards London will go away (for the time being) but they won't.
Don't worry people once all those banks etc have flown the nest to Paris and Frankfurt, London will be out with the begging bowl just like you.
Crossrail 2 will be just another long forgotten pipedream that we won't be able to afford.
We'll be back with the begging bowl to the IMF before long.
just one Yuan here and then bang, a suit for a few billion Yuan will follow.
It don't matter if they can't copy the cables correctly Apple must pay (as usual)
I am sure that eventually, the cost of doing business in China will outweigh the advantages. Then you will get sued for not selling your kit in China. You just can't win now can you...
Yet, 12K people per hour is far more than you generally can get out of flying between A and B.
I do think it is very expensive but hey, the capital expenditure might stop or slow down the Chinese take over of the rest of the world(by buying everything in sight) so not all bad eh?
Haven't we been told that wearables are deader than the deadest duck time and time again?
And then there is the matter of Tizen. Weren't there a whole slew of reports a few months ago about how insecure and buggy it was?
At least Samsung keep us on our toes unlike boring old Apple.
But I am sure that a good number of the El Reg readers want to know when SSD's etc that have sizes greater than 512Gb are going to drop in price to affordable levels...
It is all well and good for companies to announce 100TB (or whatever) sized Devices but to most of us these are in fantasy land when it comes to the cost.
I have one 2TB SSD but that was only affordable after a nice bit of compensation came my way due to a very delayed flight from Thailand.
The 4K Videos that I have shot in the past year occupy a good portion of that. I added almost 32Gb to the total on Saturday (raw + rendered)
I shudder to think what storage 8K Videos will take up.
Yep, had that one. So we put down the time spent claiming expenses on our timesheets. One week, I logged 15 hours on it after a week in the USA on a client site.
The SAP module didn't last long when the £100/hour we would be billing customers was taken into consideration vs the hours spent filling in the claims.
Then there are the timesheet systems that won't let you book more or less than the standard day/week.
So your 14 hour day up to your neck in client issues (after a 4hr drive to the site) looks all find and dandy to the bean counters as a normal 7.5 hours.
Talk about fixing the books.
To enforce a 10mph rolling road block. I seem to encounter one at least twice a week on the southern section of the M25 car park.
Lane changing for anything more than 3 trucks will be crash heaven. As has been said some idiot in a Micra or Prius will get inbetween them and will never be seen again.
when HMG wake up and realise that it (BREXIT) is all too complicated and abandon the whole idea.
Naturally the Mail, Express, Newscorp etc will all explode in an instant but that might not be such a bad thing in the long run.
If the EU start demanding £100/person Schengen Area visas for that hen night in [wherever] and that the time to get a visa is 3-6 months a few more people might get the idea that leaving is just too much of a PITA.
Not saying it will happen but the EU seem hell bent on putting as many obsticles in the way just to make sure that no other country even thinks about leaving in the future.
The Makers will inevitably suss that out and start demanding Internet access (to phone home all that lovely data about you) or the device will stop working.
My 4K Sony has only been connected to the internet twice in nearly 3 years. They still can't fix the sodding thing from switching itself off after 4 hours despite it being configured not to. A PITA at times.
All the signals it displays come from a Humax FreeSat PVR and even that is not connected to the internet and never will be.
All those wonderful pictures of your kids(from the builtin camera) dancing around in your living room while they watch and dance to Teletubbies etc could be considered Pron if got into the wrong hands. You have been warned. Big Brother is watching you.
sure Openreach is a monopoly but unlike the USA it is forced to allow other carriers to use their exchange to subscriber kit.
In the USA one telco will go to extraordinary lengths to stop other carriers getting access to their turf. This inlcudes removing poles and even sabotage.
Which would you rather have eh?
and Ad Blockers. But these days if a web page does not pull in stuff from 10 or 20 other sites then it could be considered badly designed.(sic)
One site I use from time to time has 24 tracking sites linked to it. WTF!!!! Strangely if I fire up my VPN and access the site from Germany the trackers drop to 5. Funny that. It also loads quicker.
It is just getting out of hand. All these 'other' sites slow down web pages.
Die Trackers
Die Slurpers
Die Ad slingers.
Just wait until we get close to Crimble and the pawn shops/cash converters will have plenty of iPhone 7/7+ and 6s/6s+ for sale at very good prices.
It is just not worth upgrading to new anymore like buying new cars. Let some other sucker carry the off the lot/out of the store depreciation.
The Dear leader keeps on telling the world the Hillary is a criminal and should be locked up for the rest of her life for deleting emails.
Based upon the record of the current administration they won't let up on this quest to get the dirty on everyone concerned.
IF you visited that site then I might want to get a lawyer on speeddial.
are still going strong. Interest rates of 1251% are quoted in TV adverts.
And the BoE Base rate is 0.25%.... someone is getting really screwed into the ground.
The more of these sharks that go to the wall the better IMHO
Back in the day, purcheases on the 'Never Never' (Hire Purchase) with interest rates of 33% over 3 years was bearable with gritted teeth.
Now... your credit score gets marked down (worsens) if you pay off your Credit Cards/store accounts fully each month.
Madness.
There will be a big reconing very soon. We have had it too good for far too long when it comes to getting loans/ zero intereste Credit cards.
This could make what happened 10 years ago a mere ripple in a pond compared to what shit is going to hit the fan shortly. Hundreds of thousants of people could lose their homes due to repossession.
The US will Nuke Norks (no not North Yorkshire...) and hope that China does not retaliate.
The only hope would be for the US to use Tactical Nuclear Weapons. These are much much smaller and have limited blast area. A few of those on strategic sites might just do the trick without angering the Chinese too much.
However with DC giving a decent approximation of Trumpton at the moment, Postman Donald may well go Huge, Bigly, Magnificent. God help all of us if he does.
I had to rebuild a desktop earlier this year after a PSU failure took out a Motherboard. The tower had been in almost daily use for around 5 years. So a CPU + Motherboard (and new PSU) deal from Novatech and it was up and running again in a few hours.
I don't envisage it needing to be changed before 2021.
Once you get past the HDD to SSD upgrade what is there to be gained from swapping out the old with the new?
CPU performance is adequate for most users already.
Then there is MS saying that Windows 7 won't be supported on the latest Intel CPU's.
A few sticks of RAM here and there and that's taken care of.
So what is left?
How about getting off the MS subscription gravy train?
But that's hard, too hard for many.
So they stick with what they have until it breaks and they can't buy secondhand replacements.
Not a lot to do with BREXIT really but Gartner has to find some neat hook to embiggen their reports that thy charge two arms and a leg for.
and eveyone (and that includes you Apple) is being dragged into the LED generation?
By LED I mean OLED or MicroLED or some new fangled LED Technology.
So all that taxpayers money will end up offshore and all they'll have to show for it will be a huge empty building with the words 'Suckers' written in Chinese and taped to the front door.
According to a lot of those on the extreme right, it is because it will 'Make America Great'.
It might very well end up uniting the anti-right protestors into a single coherent unit.
If that happens then the hard right may well have bitten off more than they can chew and they'll head for them there hills and their enclaves.
Perhaps a wall should be built around them? Then they can have their little bit of utopia leaving the rest of the population in peace.
Will it happen?
Probably not.
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