Posts by philct 2 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Nov 2016
A few weeks ago one of their updates screwed up my Windows 10 laptop. Luckily I had access to another PC to download the Windows 10 s/w to repair it. No help from McAfee support for 10 days probably because they were coping with all the other users with the same problem. No response to online chat despite promise that the queue was only 10 minutes long.
No apologies, no decent support so no more subscriptions from me.
While everyone's focussing on charging networks how about thinking about a more fundamental question - where's the extra generating capacity coming from? The UK barely has enough spare capacity now and a report covered in a recent Reg article predicted that increasing IT-related power demands alone would exceed world generating capacity by 2040.
Given the lead times for building power generation plants somebody had better start planning now. Perhaps the car manufacturers - so keen to bang the drum for electric cars - could pay for them :-).
Any Reg readers like to work out the extra capacity required?
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