Posts by 27escape

clip on units already available

The manufacturers magnetic attachments that can go on the meters and capture the LED pulses that the meters give out every x units of energy. These attachments can also 'talk' to the meter to obtain information such as units used etc.

It would not take much to extend these to send this information to the 'internet' so that your smart phone can read it.

The manufacturers obviously will not like this as its cheap and they will not get lots of new meters, they will whine about security of the meters, though this simple comms is not using security.

Note that payg gas meters already have a clip on unit that does this and communicates with a smart card to limit gas and display information.

"We will re-invent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more."

Does this mean they are migrating to Linux then?

No roaming because of 999/112

Surely they can check the dialled number and if its one of those route via normal phone connection, otherwise used WiFi

Its not rocket science, though it allows them to make roaming money

could be worse

Chubby as he was, at least he was a sidekick to a superhero

#kevinthegerbil

Homeopathy?

Maybe they are believers in homeopathy, drinking a microscopically dilute amount of this perps pee is the same as drinking gallons of the stuff!

its about time

someone used URIs properly

now will we have an app that can handle gopher:// once again?

Be on the lookout for apps that register themselves as being able to handle yourbank:// etc

it could describle a smartphone

prior art

Playing with friends FTW

Whether split-screen or lanparty or all getting together in the same online 'world', is always a blast, especially if you can manage to keep killing the same person time after time, even if its you being killed like that, very funny

Game/life theory - doing things with friends is more fun than on your own

Should have used perl

Everyone knows God uses perl.

He messed up the results because the researcher uses the language of Satan!

Its doesn't happen often

That government sponsored software is delivered to spec, on time and under budget.

We should be celebrating the positives of this nasty snooping system!

New pound coin - Worth less than a thrupenny bit!

£1 may get you 1/3rd of a pint and somewhere between 1/7th and 1/12th of a cinema ticket

That's inflation for you

Its been 2 factor for ages for me

For some reason I need to enter the password twice every time :)

Even though my browser remembers it!

Stupid 365 website

Just let us have UK roaming

And they would not have to have these kind of deals

An internet connected weather station

with a photo of Lewis Page on it?

missing lots of content

Plus the high bit rate stuff I uploaded, seems to come back to me at a very low bitrate.

£9.99 compares to spotify, so the £7.99 early adaptor price would be a draw if it had more of the music I like

active vs passive brewing

Should the bag/leaves be left to stand and brew the tea due to convection currents in the hot water or should you stir it like a b4stad till the spoon stands on its own?

Doesn't NuoDB already do this

From the data they repeatedly send me, they do

... and the programmers wherever it is that they wish to be (as it should be of course).

If only IT type companies accepted remote workers, living in the North and asking companies based in and around London if remote working is available is a lesson in futility.

However I do know quite a few people in other businesses that are accepted as remote workers, for some reason IT companies can't keep up with the pace of IT or do not trust their workers

If they have not made a profit

And are giving £5M that they do not have to pay to the government, then surely this is some sort of payment offset.

And hence they can claim tax back on it.

Brilliant!

So google are going to be be hiring like the oher companies?

tell us something hard you have done

where do you see yourself in 5 years

why did you leave company 'x'

etc.

Ancient Roman version of The Register?

This image (http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67333000/jpg/_67333533_staffordshire-hoard-624.jpg) at the BBC would suggest so (story link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-22359844)

old news

They were recruiting for STB developers back in February for UK roles

Looks like sci-fi tv from the 50's

Love it :)

RDBMS vs NoSQL

Try not to throw valuable data away, it does not matter if you store it in RDBMS or NoSQL, if you failed to store it you will always fail to find it with a search.

A number of RDBMS allow you to store semi-structured data (think JSON or XML), just like their NoSQL brethren, this allows you to manage structured and semi structured data in the same system, allows you to keep to ACID and all those things that are important. Just don't mess (update/delete entries) with the JSON/XML structures too much as this could be a big DB hit.

Do indexing, yes even in NoSQL, saves your big HBASE batch jobs from taking far too long.

Most importantly understand your data and its relationships, if you don't know that a field exists because your developers are a bit vague, then you will never be able to search on it, unless it is in a RDMBS of course, where you will have that helpful schema to fall back upon.

Poor timing for Eric to go

But no one has said that its poor timing for New Mexico governor Bill Richardson to go.

Dual standards at work or something more sinister?

:)

Saw plenty of spiders when I was there

But not this one, will have to go back!

2Mbs for fibre?

are they not also investing in some quicker kit at the exchanges too, appalling data rates.

Oh, thats the best we can do, unless UK gov stumps up more cash in a couple more years.

Shouldn't that be

Martian Scorsese?

Bit concerning

The the father of C++ is just coming round to the idea that passing pointers (or references) is a better idea than passing full scale objects.

Maybe too much believing that the OO paradigm is the one true path?

:)

Could you send a copy of your data

Cue a fax of the floppy disk.

Another send the data on a 5.25 floppy, stapled through the disc attached to a covering letter.

Ahh the good old days

Handy Christmas presents

Saves buying the kids those dinosaur bones archaeology things from the museums.

Don't buy cheap bluetooth devices

Get the more expensive ones that have their own chargers and stands.

My Logitech DeNovo Edge has been going strong fot the past 6 years or so, no worries, put it in the stand once a month and its good!

Don't get a smart TV, get a smart STB they are much cheaper

And you can replace them every couple of years as they improve/decrease in price.

TV UIs are often a bit crap as Rovi have loads and loads of patents in this area meaning that the developers either have to work around obvious prior art functionality or get their companies to stump up cash for licenses.

Finally the software generally is not as good as PC software as the margins are so much tighter than on PCs, though the retail markups are much higher. This means less testing, cheaper development teams churning out any old crap in a few months for the latest variant on a tier 1 product, software is not backwards compatible as chipsets have changed, meaning the consumers have to suck it up or buy another TV.

Not so 'smart' now are they!

Acer are not very good with ongoing support

So even though the price and spec are good, I would not touch one.

Don't expect any android updates after 6 months, it will effectively be EOL'd.

Just the same as their tablets!

Why are mobile connections more expensive

I know its the norm, but I generally stream at a lower bitrate than from a PC or wired connection. Surely it is in the interest of the companies to promote this as their costs are lower?

If I don't have unlimited data on mobile I am less likely to constantly leave such a service on all the time, but I may leave my PC version playing 8 hours+ through the day