Yeah, I assumed that was a typo. Far too cheap, more likely a billion knowing how incompetent the UK is.
Posts by J. R. Hartley
1016 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2011
Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme
Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year
The real significance of Apple's Macintosh
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
UK telcos didn't collude to put Phones 4u out of business – judge
In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one
Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure
Apple, Samsung, and Intel to invest in Arm IPO, and emerge with some control: report
Apple owes Brit iOS app devs millions from excessively high commission, lawsuit claims
Twitter name and blue bird logo to be 'blowtorched' off company branding
Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!
No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal
The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111
Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office
Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it
Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!
The title is no longer required.
"BT who managed to get one of my customers signed up to separate multi year ISDN line and call bundle packages with different expiry dates. Cancelling one could only be done by taking a hit on the early cancellation fee of the other."
Come on. That is genuinely impressive.
That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse
Alien versus Predator? No, this Android spyware works together
Billionaire BT stalker Patrick Drahi increases stake to 24.5%
Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more
Telco giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 staff as part of its turnaround plan
National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece
Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra is a worthy heir to the Note
AmigaOS 3.2.2 released for those feeling nostalgic
Arm swans off to Nasdaq despite UK gov pleas to IPO in London
BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere
Microsoft to move some Teams features to more costly 'Premium' edition
Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT
As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave
In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity
Re: Nice to have.
The ST only had MIDI as an afterthought because its sound chip was so shite and Jack Tramiel just wanted the machine out ASAP.
And as for the ST being rock solid, that only happens because the software has to take over the entire machine, the Amigas timing was rock solid with OctaMED running over Workbench and anything else you had running.
Yes, proper Amiga fanboy here. Wish I'd never sold my A4000T but I wanted to buy a house :(
UK government will not step in over Altice’s growing stake in BT
Strike days should serve as 'wake-up call' to BT's top brass, says union
Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing
Windows 10 22H2 edges closer to the enterprise as OS hits Release Preview
I've been fired, says engineer who claimed Google chatbot was sentient
Israel aims to build its own upgradable quantum computer
Apple forgoes cooling systems in M2 MacBook Air
BT strikes to start this month, 40,000 workers to down tools
CP/M's open-source status clarified after 21 years
BT strike action is coming: Comms union to serve notice to company
Re: Happy days are here again!
"What I'd really like to understand is why today, given that the tax take is a higher proportion of GDP than it's ever been, we can't afford to provide council houses, better benefits, uni. fees and grants, and all the other support that let me and my brother get out of benefits dependence."
Tories. That's why.