Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: Dissing the competition always works right?

the ICar V1 will be crap.

Isn't it true that V1 products are always shite?

Perhaps by iCar 3 it will be great.

That seems to be the norm in this industry

Re: Something is missing

Nah, what is missing is Cortana doing a Darth Vader impression of 'You've got Mail!'.

Re: Needs recalculation, TimR.

I have only found two places in the USofA that does not eat Streaky-grilled to a crisp- Bacon

If Jake sells what us Brots calls Bacon then kudos to him.

Most American folks (IMHO) don't have a clue about cuts of Meat. Having spent a good amoubt of time working in a Butchers when I was a Student I guess I know more than most. but Chain meat is a new on on me. for those who don't know, it is the offcuts from Tenderloin. I can see how Jake gets the numbers of Steers to kill when that is used. such a waste.

Got a nice bit of Black Beef Shin (from a local herd) for sunday. Slow cook for 4-5 hours Delicious.

Cheek is another really nice cut.

VM coax

The thing that run past my house was laid by NTL around 20 years ago. The original coax is still there and being used today. Naff all investment in upgrading it so as a result the speeds between 3pm-Midnight are back to dialup days. BT OTOH have put a nice new green cabinet at the end of the street and we now get FTTC from BT and several other companies that have LLU (inc Sky & T-T) kit in the local exchange.

68Mbit down/16Mbit up as of 10 mins ago

Re: I don't think the vast majority of people would even notice

Perhaps the majority of Crapple users are locked away in the Business Class Lounge?

Re: Last quarter's fall

Less trading days due to Thanksgiving and Crimble perhaps?

Thus totally ignoring Black Friday....

Statistics, Figures and Damm Lies. It is Gartner after all. They seem to sprout reports that say just what the main sponsor wants it to say. Most of it is guestimates anyway.

Re: Will Delphi survive?

Same here. I stopped when they brought in the new license server. It failed and after repeated calls they would not let me create another License server.

I told them straight that I was done with them.

I would not hold out much hope of any price reductions from the new owners.

Re: Their (lack of) privacy stance will strangle this in the crib.

Sopt on sir.

The stance that Apple has taken on privacy (loathe or love them) has set the bar pretty high.

If MS wants to be taken seriously in this segment then all this data slurping (all in the name of product improvement... yeah right) has to stop OR Sataya has to stand up and make a statement along the lines of what Tim Cook has done many times w.r.t. Apple's Privacy policy.

Until then?

He might as well stand on the poop deck of SS Microsoft and piss into the wind.

Is the new Surface Book sexy? Only time will tell if it stands up to the sort of abuse that all MacBooks get on a regular basis.

Then there is the resale value. I just sold a 2009 13in MacBook for £300. No need to say anything else.

White Van Man

also drives at most 6in from the rear of your car even if you are doing 85mph on the motorway.

IT comes complete with multiple copies of the Sun/Mirror/Star on the dash and the cab has 'Clean Me' written on the back doors.

Re: Lot of nonsense

That probably makes your contract Null and void under the unfair contract laws.

May I humbly suggest that you take legal advice in the UK and not from some Night School US Law Grad.

Stinking Cheese

Most Swiss Cheese (the stuff with the holes in it) does not smell.

Now if you had said a well ripened Tomme De Savoir then I would agree with you. I've even seen one removed from the cabin of a plane because of the frankly rank sweaty feet odor that permutates from the thing.

Tastes good though.

Re: Now

Have an upvote

Being serious for a moment the comment might not be that far from reality given the level of feedback that Windows 10 OOTB sends to Uncle Sataya.

Then we might get Cortana saying

"I see that you have been using your Battery a lot recently. Could I interest you in a portable powerpack? Designed to go with your device. Only $59 and $10.99 a month."

Re: Want one

When you get one how about writing a piece for us not believers on how it works, constricted etc, etc.

A good few of us may well never see one in the wild so I'd expect a good deal of interest.

Re: Hmmm...

What you say is certainly true however would you want it to be the ONLY way to access your remote system?

Think about the usability of using a 5.whatever screen all day every day?

What effect will looking at that fine detail (viz text) in 5pt font on your eyes?

The MS droid os clearly promoting their total 'EcoSystem' but is it practical? I really doubt it.

I sort of feel sorry for the workers whoose Bosses buy into this particular brand of 'cool-aid'.

Re: Are Win7 users not upgrading because of Win8/10's tiles?

Go and sit on the Naughty Step.

You are not the atypical user that MS wants to trap in their EcoSystem..

I will join you because I refuse to do what Mommy Sataya tells me to do.

The Ribbon and Tiles just get in the way of doing stuff but (here's the rub) we are in the Minority of Minorities in our opinion. Therefore we don't count. We can be ignored while MS carries on shooting themselves with a Footgun (IMHO).

They would prefer if we died off or moved to a better OS. MS Does not need us and whatever we say/do will not even be on their Radar.

Rant over.

Re: SystemD

sure RedHat havea commercial support business. They is also distros like CentOS which are built on the GPL's source code from RH. How does that fit in with your monetization?

I do think that Canonical will have to become financiall more astute very soon. however If the want to follow the same model as RH I think they will fail. Far too many Ubuntu users are 'Freetards' and will revert to Debian etc.

Struggling Hybrids?

Well, my Hybrid simply sends power from the Battery to the leccy motors when needed. such as climbing hills. There is a nice little display that shows there the power from the battery and engine is being directed.

If my experience of US 2.5L engines is anything to go by, is that they are gutless beyond belief. Their Auto Transmissions seem to make everything just soft and slow and well... crap.

I drove an Chevy Equinox and a Nissan Sentra last week. The Nissan was far more responsive and returned better road MPG. both had 2.5L engines.

What gives eh?

Re: Holes

They don't to it coz it don't look cool and hip. It is all about the design innit?

Re: A question

But..... I've still not seen anyone brave/foolhardy/idiotic/etc wearing an Apple Watch.

Even in the Apple Store in Washington DC I visited earlier today (to get out of the rain...) I failed to spot anyone wearing one.

Bit of a damp squid if you ask me.

On the otherhand, a quick glance around the BA Lounge at Dulles there was hardly any non Apple device in operation.

Make what you want of that.

Kudos to the Apple Store though, the did have a MacPro on show and working.

Oh, and the Computer Museum at Bletchley Park has a Cray-1 complete with seats.

Re: Intel's Skylake CPU and Windows 10 should help drive up PC memory demand.

Or for our US readers

The PC Market is going about as fast as Hurricane Joaquim. viz, nowhere fast (6mph)

If PC/Laptop makers were a bit imaginitive they might sell a few more units. There are far too many basically identical devices at the bottom of the market.

Then using SATA even with an SSD is dog slow compared to PCI-E drives. Why not take a leaf out of Apple's book and use them. A USP if I every saw one.

Oh, and stop selling devices less than 256GB capacity. There really is very little money to be made at the bottom of the market.

Then introduce affordable 2TB drives. You might actually sell a shed load and make lots of folding green ones.

Re: Lock 'em up

Do it at night.

Stake them out Apache style then attach the leads from the panels to their dangly bits and wait for the sun to come up.

I'm sure that you could sell tickets to it.

Tell the world that this is a warning to others. They will get the same but from a much bigger array.

Re: It's a sad commentary on technological "progress"...

But, but ,but according to Google we are supposed to be doing everything in a browser especially Chrome so that they can snaffle all that lovely jubly data of yours.

Joking aside, browsers were once upon a time lightweight application. Just go and look at how much memory your browser is using..... Arrggghhhh 638Mb WTF!

A sign of the times

What makes you think that Google does not have...

plenty of Friends in Washington DC

IMHO Google probably spends more on Lobbyists than Apple (just a feeling)

Nah

They'd answer with a Glasgow Handshake.

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