* Posts by M0les

9 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2012

Star Trek to go boldly back onto telly, then beam down in streams

M0les

Tar Dreck: On borrowed time

I'm inwardly "Squee-ing" like an ante-pubescent schoolgirl upon hearing a group of 30-something "boys" are shortly to appear at my local shopping mall.

Nevertheless I find your attempts to define what is, and is-not a "re-boot" troubling. Budding Jeffrey Albertsons might say that TOS was the first reboot from the pilot. Yes, Captain Pike came back as a parody of Jeffrey Hunter's acting skills in one of Hollywood's earliest ancestors of a "Clip show", but they have markedly different feels.

Similarly one could claim that TNG->DS9->V'GER (With their overlapping run-times) were really just one big show sliced-up as talent-contracts became too expensive.

NBN Co says TWO broadband connections are better than one

M0les
WTF?

Yeah... weird

The issue of "contention" superficially makes some sense (i.e. one service could be "best effort" and the other is "lifeline"), but SDH/ATM (The underpinnings of all the DSLs) allow allocating hard minimum limits and priorities on more than 1 virtual path/circuit (VP/VC), so it's actually a moot issue.

The idea of having 2 services terminating in different places in the premises has no relevance to what technologies they use (Surely 2 x FTTP is better than having an HFC in the mix?) and the repeater/extender argument is entirely valid.

DIY IoT computer smaller than a square inch

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Looks promising

I think you lot should send S. Sharwood up to Taiyuan for a look-see when he's done in Taiwan.

Jodee 'One.Tel' Rich spruiks .CEO sites for email LIKE A BOSS

M0les
FAIL

How sad

Interestingly, their Kred service tells me I have twice the followers as their VP of Operations and ten times the tweets of their VP of social strategy (And I wouldn't say I'm particularly "engaged" in this social media malarkey)

Is the government's NBN policy changing your vote? Greens Senator Scott Ludlam thinks so

M0les

More-or-less "yes"

I'm a pinko leftie, so The Greens were never far from the top of my ballot anyway. Since the last election they're at the top of the parties that might actually get a seat (There's usually a variety of rag-tag single-issue parties I put first, but they're really just protests).

Although it sounds a bit unclear, it is actually a promotion in rank.

Nothing to sniff at: Dell Ultrabooks REEK OF CAT PEE, scream users

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FWIW 2012 XPS 15 is good to go

I just gave it a good sniff - Nothing untoward coming out of there.

I think you need to keep digging with this story! - Get a before/after loaner from DingDong so we can have an independent appraisal of the issue.

Another Apple maps desert death trap down under

M0les
Trollface

In this case they've improved their customer's lives

I mean really... Who wants to go towards Mount Isa?

Commbank shouts free beer, meals, to promote NFC

M0les
FAIL

Kachinteroperability?

What's the chance this will work with any other bank's commercial or private customers? What about other phones, possibly ones with inbuilt NFC like Google a producing.

I suspect it's somewhere around zero percent (but I sincerely hope the banks/manufacturers/telcos make me eat my words on this).

Microbee flies again

M0les
Trollface

Good to see! I never had one, but a friend did and it was always intriguing to fiddle with.