Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Stop using your mobile 'phone

Banks phoning customers.

Yep an obvious ploy to get your details so give them the wrong ones and then make a call to the bank yourself.

Re: Coffee Shops?

Er? But...? Aren't coffee shops substitute homes/home offices?

Hand up, how many here have used a WiFi friendly coffee shop to do some work, work?

You know the situation when you are working from home and you run out of milk/bread/gin/etc so you pop down to the supermarket and your phone tells you that there is an email that needs answering right now.

Thankfully, you have your laptop in the car so you get a 'Grande Latte' and settle down and do the work.

time flie by and you suddenly find that several hours have passed.

Non-City France

Having just returned from two weeks in FrogLand and avoiding the cities wherever possible, my experience is that data speeds are pretty slow when compared to the UK.

Mind you, I live next to a Voda not spot but naturally they refuse to ack that it exists so I use 3 as my network.

Ironically, the best speeds I got on the whole trip were out in the middle of the Carmargue.

Re: Telsa following History

with 400,000 $1,000 deposits/reservations for the Model 3, the VC's can see a return on their investment in the next 2-3 years. It is all up to Tesla to deliver the car on time and on price.

OTOH, if the M3 turns out to be a bit of a failure... What then?

Re: The Gods are at war again...

Don't forget the Google Pixel. That appears to be exactly the same price as the iPhone 7 here in the UK.

Apple is not alone in selling expensive 'shiny-shiny' phones but don't let the facts get in the way of a good bit of fake news.

If it is not fake then please give us a link to an Apple dealer who is selling an iToy at $1200.

Goibg to Jail?

They'd better build a wall around the Country then. Anyone who owns an Android is running the Linux kernel and as for Apple... HMG can go sing before they give up their encryption or put backdoors in their iDevices. The FBI and NSA have already hit that brickwall.

Re: A prankster...

The Friday Afternoon special Marina

That is Brown - 2-Tone with a Vanden Plas badge stuck on at an angle.

Re: Used to recommend Nimble

Your post could have changed HPE for .... say Microsoft and it would have made just as much sense... Perfect sense.

What is it with these companies that fart around with good stuff they buy and make crap that they then release on us.

I honestly don't know of even on tech giant that digests other companies very well.

Oh well, the Nimble bosses are probably sitting on some tropical island right now counting their lucre so what do the care eh?

Re: That picture

They might have started out like they were copying MacOS but things went awry like a government IT project.

The end result is again like HMG IT projects, sort of works but does things you don't really need while not doing things you need in a way that you, the user can understand.

Re: I would buy an iPad but…

If you want an iPad Pro then look in the pawn brokers and secondhand dealers. You will get a bargain there.

Re: Casey Jones (1863–1900)

More importantly, was he licensed in every state that he worked? in Every city for that matter.

The USA gets sillier each and every day.

But in this case, his rights of free speech were violated. That 'Trumps' any local laws but the burgers in Oregon don't think so. Anyway, been there twice and given the parking ticket I got in ****, Or, I really have no willingness to go back. I was parked with my tyre (note the correct spelling) on the white line. Local laws (and how as a tourist am I supposed to know that) dictate that in this zone, i must be parked inside the lines. Even the locals laughed when I told them.

Shame really, the coast of Oregon is beautiful.

Re: DRM vs Property Rights

Just like windows and MSOrifice then?

Re: Did I get that right?

It probablydoes not fit especialy if the sums don't add up AND/OR the value of the sums paid to the IP rights holder change according to retail price of the bit of kit being made.

I think the latter is Apple's biggest beef with QC.

Re: Fun fact.

What a load of bulls testicles.

Yes, the first motorway in the UK was a bit of the M6 near Preston. Then came the M1 from Edgware to Rugby.

Eventually, the M6 was completed and it should really be split into two bits.

1) The bit that is a virtual car park most days i.e. from where it leaves the M1 to the end of the original bit north of Preston

2) The rest of it from Preston to Carslile where it joins the M74.

Then we'd have a more representative sample.

As for using the Toll road? Have you see the charges? Sorry no thanks.

Anyway the M6 Car Park through Brum should have good 4G as much of it is built on stilts.

Personally, I can get 4G at home if I'm upstairs at the back. 3G in the rest of the house but if I walk 500yards down the road not even 2g works and I'm not in a hilly part of the country. The lack of mobile signal is knocking £5K off the price of houses in that area.

Re: Organizations are turning to Microsoft as a partner they can trust.

Have I ever worked in IT? Yes, yes and yes. Wrote my first program in 1972 and been in the business ever since.

Worked for a variety of companies in that time and did stuff ranging from building hardware and writing device drivers to architecting systems that ran industrial plant 24/7. Oh, yes I had to build systems that only used Windows. Server 2008R2 was IMHO the best release. Subsequent releases went downhill fast as far as I'm concerned.

As for the Desktop Windows 7 was as good as it got IMHO.

Luckily in all cases where we hit major snags, someone else had found the problem and a work around ALL without involving MS Support which frankly when compared to many other companies is a joke.

Does that answer your question and why I said ROFL?

Re: Collateral Damage

Half life of insanity?

About three full terms of a US President.

Re: Help!

They have removed most of its functionality!

That is called deliberate dumbing down!

Re: Bah!

Flash is a bug ridden POC that is not fit anything these days.

The sooner it goes away once and for all, the better.

Love him or loath him, Steve Jobs made a really good decision (IMHO) to not allow flash on iDevices.

To me, that started the death wane of flash. I signed up to a Photo printing service a few months ago. It needed Flash to upload my images. WTF moment. Deleted account 5 minutes later.

Your VPN is probably out of the arc but IT departments are loathe to change those sorts of things. More than their jobs worth.

So you will have to stick with IE until MS decides that they should junk it (please properly kill Silverlight at the same time).

Re: depressing...

Sheesh, anyone would think that there is an election just around the corner. Oh wait... Yep, there is.

Be prepared for more of this before polling day.

The incumbents have gotta look tough on terrorists because Jeremy's pals with a lot of freedom fighters (nee terrorists with a left wing bias)

Old Trots never truly die that just wither away singing 'the red flag'.

Re: Er????

According to the last figures, the sums paid to the Government vs the sums paid in subsidy to the TOC's is around £816M per anum in favour of the Government.

This little factoid is glossed over by those who want to re-nationalise the railways.

Granted, the GW electricification has been an unmitigated disaster yet Crossrail will come in on time and on budget. Perhaps the lack of meddling by the government in Crossrail might have something to do with it?

The newly let Southwest Trains Franchise will have to pay mony to HMG right from day 1. No subsidy there. Crazy decision to axe the new class 700 trains for the Windsor/Reading lines before they have all been built... Railways seem to have this effect on people. Look at some of the frankly stupid schemes that received royal acent in the 19th Century.

Re: MS still selling shit?

No my dear boy, they are not selling 'shit' as you so aptly put it.

They are renting it to you.

Failure to pay the rent and you lose access to your documents. This is especially true if you for some strange reason store them in the likes of OneDrive and other MS cloudly offerings.

I look forward to the day when a large company gets into deep do-do because the Purchasing manager went 'How much? You gotta be kidding..." when faced with the next MS bill and the CEO happened to be off playing Golf on MS's dime and couldn't agree the purchase order.

Re: No good options

but.... this is for powering the cloud (or at least DC's)

Catch-22 becons.

I don't know if Qualcomm have an ARM Architecture License or not but my guess you'd need to do some magic with the Architecture in order to make this work at anything more than a 'Meh' level. Much like what Apple has done with the ARM Cpu's they use. They get impressive single core performance from their iDevice kit. As many applications are not really optomised for multi-core this sort of thing would help sell it.

OTOH, how many times before have we heard about some great/fantastic/gonna rule the world in the DC idea that uses ARM chips only for it to never be heard of again?

Hardware specs

perhaps this is a gentle nudge in the direction of HP and Dell etc who still seem to think that a screen with a resolution of 1366x768 is good enough in 2017. It is not even full HD for heavens sakes.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 circa 2003ish that had a screen resolution of 1600x1200.

Then you have mobile devices with screens approaching QHD in terms of resolution. It is almost as if the makers of laptops etc have decided that there is no future/money to be made in anything better.

Shame on them and shame on the businesses that foist these things on their employees.

Re: SPAM

Don't forget the {immortal} Monty Python sketch of the same name.

Re: Leasing companies

Oh yes.

A BMW 318i on a lease for business. Drive more than 5,000 miles in a year and you will pay around £1.00 per mile extra.

Why would anyone sign up for that sort of deal?

The same goes for a lot of Phone contracts.

Tesco Mobile, iPhone 5S, 24 months £17/month Really?