Posts by Trollslayer

The keyword that counts

"Trendy".

Aimed at people who think 'gullible'

means thing you are a seabird.

Anyone know who Hon Hai are?

Yes, one of the top three contract electronics manufacturers who created a division called Foxconn because of US xenophobia of a Chinese company manufacturing the iPhone.

Security problem? Not for security agencies

Nice way to hide their spyware.

"It completely blocks out any light from coming into the house"

It's five feet high. Surely the sun gets higher in the Scottish sky.

There is a reason

that London and Glasgow aren't on the list.

This approach means that for a given budget at this stage you can test in different areas to try adn get variables in there.

Sorry folks, you aren't worth conspiring against.

There is no such thing as an LTE SIM card

There is, however, such as things as an LTE modem which can take a SIM.

El Reg units

"enough to keep ten of our journalists in booze and ciggies for a whole week"

Patents

Qualcomm are having to move into other sectors now because they can't strangle competitors by penalising customer with differential patent licensing fees as the patents are expiring.

The killed a number of competitors that way except for Mediatek who are showing them how to get designs out there.

Office 10 was the last real version

After that it started getting dumbed down.

A few years ago I worked on a power consumption model for the modem section for models coming out in a few years.

The most difficult part was modelling efficiency of DC-DC converters because of the number of factors and non linearity which meant curve fitting in sub bands across several dimensions, took a minute to run the spreadsheet set per output power level.

Outlook 2016 is bad enough but the Excel online doesn't even allow you to reference on sheet from another within the workbook unless you use a named value.

Assembling not manufacturing

I.e. final assembly, a big difference so as Blank Reg said, low skilled $40k pa jobs.

Facial recognition 'trials'

Yes, this is the same as the UK police keep running 'trials' of facial recognition systems, keep DNA well beyond the legal limit and the government refuses to do anything about it.

Funny

How this only happened when there was a lot of publicity.

Assumptions

seem to be the basis of the posts here.

His lawyer should be able to get evidence of forwarding from the company or his personal email provider.

Black pudding

Lovely stuff.

Unfortunately is is low in fat, high in protein and iron so good for you.

Best ever!

Plus the parts were really salvaged from Cybermen,

That's nice

But what will ordinary people do with it?

Bunch of

cnuts.

Got this

We have a 'workers forum' where bloody stupid ideas come out.

I could have been part of it except this article is real life.

How dare they

expect us to take responsibility for problems we cause!

One little prick

In the tunnel wall that is!

You lose the vacuum with a train travelling at several hundred miles and hour.