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Ofcom ploughs up UK spectrum fields, reseeds them with 4G

Monday 4th February 2013 10:35 GMT tremtastic

Re: 3dB

There's some poor maths going on in the article.

I think the author is assuming that 3dB means there is 2^3 times the power.

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BT in ad slapdown after 'misleading' punters on fibre deployment dates

Wednesday 9th January 2013 13:04 GMT tremtastic

Re: Misleading

At least if you're "too close" to the exchange, you should already have reasonably speedy internet. Not like the 1.5mbps we get!

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 12:48 GMT tremtastic

Misleading

What is really misleading is telling you that your exchange will be activated on whatever date, then realising the cabinet your line is attached to will never be upgraded!

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Schmidt 'very proud' of Google's tiny tax bill: 'It's called capitalism'

Thursday 13th December 2012 14:07 GMT tremtastic

Re: Go Capitalism!

I suspect that Google pay for the following:

Train tickets, road tax, petrol duty.

Their electricity and gas bills.

Private health care for their employees.

Wages for said employees that are then taxed with Employees National Insurance, Employers National Insurance, Income Tax.

The employees then pay council tax for their "local services" and VAT on virtually everything they buy.

This all probably amounts to slightly more than bugger all.

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Thursday 13th December 2012 14:01 GMT tremtastic

Good for them.

I'm all for this.

The less money those 650 idiots in Parliament have to spend on bribing the electorate, the better.

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Windows 8: A soaraway Kinect? Or is it Red Ink Friday for Microsoft?

Friday 23rd November 2012 12:57 GMT tremtastic

Re: "This was Microsoft’s second foray into hardware"

And, obviously, the first Xbox.

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Web snooping bill an 'odious shopping list of new gov powers'

Thursday 12th July 2012 09:57 GMT tremtastic

Re: The political maverick is not dead

You should read Douglas Carswell's blog if you want to see an MP sticking it to their own party...

http://www.talkcarswell.com

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Strong ARM: The Acorn Archimedes is 25

Friday 1st June 2012 10:23 GMT tremtastic

Those were the days

I spent many hours playing 4th dimension games on this... E-Type, Saloon Cars, Nevron, Apocalypse, etc. Maybe you could do an Antique Code Show of these.

We had a word-processor, a paint program and a 9 pin dot-matrix printer. And an adapter that allowed you to use Amiga joysticks via the parallel port. And a handheld scanner!!

The best time came when my mum brought home a digital camera from school that used floppy disks!

Crikey, nostalgia o'clock.

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