You knew as soon as you saw the headline that you didn't want to read it, so you want it tagged too because you didn't work it out from the headline, that you said you....
Give people something much better or half the cost.
Google+ just isn't much better, all this while Facebook continues to push forwards. Google+'s future might have been more interesting had it not insisted on real names, but it might be too late for that now.
You're right that Nuclear isn't as cost effective as coal. Trouble is that for some reason there's a problem burning coal. Nuclear Vs Wind power for price? Nuclear wins every time. Nuclear even edges out clean coal. Nuclear has fuel that could last for millenia, coal does not.
Re: Does wireless put people off with lower throughput?
Being a 50Mbps customer has nothing to do with it, I addressed one particular issue brought up about Wireless being a bottle neck. I'm on one of the fastest services available in the UK for download speeds and my wireless is not a bottleneck, I didn't even go out and buy special equipment.
Please read and judge what I actually wrote, rather than what I didn't.
Does wireless put people off with lower throughput?
I get 50.46 Mbps on speedtest.net with my laptop on the other side of the apartment using the Virgin Media superhub, so I'd say no to that question.
Of course wireless is only as good as the manufacturer's implementation. A high quality chipset and driver combination with dual band and you can get over 150 Mbps actual throughput. Buy cheap kit and you can have reliability issues and struggle to get more than 40 Mbps actual throughput.
Australia has large metal framed houses that are terrible for wireless signals, so wireless isn't perceived as such a great technology there.
When it comes to the UK, all of the major providers, Virgin, Be, BT, Talktalk & Sky all come with wireless routers. Should we be congratulating the telecoms companies?
If you're average person had to go out and buy a wireless router themselves the market penetration would be dramatically less. I really don't see what waving around the figures means or does.
Much of what I said I still stand by, but it's disappointing that the register haven't conveyed things accurately regarding the slowdown only affecting usenet and torrent traffic or not.
Virgin is still the fastest ISP I've seen with the exception of leased lines running into large apartment buildings.
Anyone wishing to enlighten me of other information is welcome to.
Seriously, have you actually investigated this? BT are the only people to offer "unlimited" offerings over FTTC. Everyone else has usage limits. Plusnet offer 120Gb a month for the same price BT offer unlimited. Before you say that unlimited isn't really unlimited, the same harsh fair usage applies to the capped products too.
I think one of the high end ISPs did offer unlimited over FTTC for something like £70 a month, but seriously??
I'm so excited. I can use the beta and when it comes out Adobe have agreed that I can pay for CS6 buy selling them one of my Kidney's! I don't know why anyone would want to pirate this product.
Let's not forget that Chrome isn't perfect. While it has definitely improved the web immensely, it's now the buggiest modern browser I know save the last time I looked at Opera.
Chrome is my main browser, but it's not hard for me to see when I do testing that IE9's graphics performance is far higher, I just prefer Chrome's appearance.
Jagged edges on rotated elements, rendering flaws that have crept in on fixed position stuff when GPU acceleration started and a pile of unfixed web kit bugs I still have to write fixes for means that Chrome may be a lot better than IE8 and it is, but it's no absolute knight in shining armour.
Bring on IE10 Microsoft, the world needs to be kept on it's toes.
Yeah, it was the upload rate that really made me want Infinity over cable, but I am very happy with cable and from the experience I have got vs Infinity customers who blog, I would say Virgin are much less throttled.
I'm torrenting the Debian AMD64 DVD 1 as a test, I set it off about several mins ago, it just read 4.1 MB/s. That's MegaBytes/s. It's 24% complete and 13 minutes ETA.
It was just reading 5.5 MB/s for a moment there (it's getting faster as I finish this comment), which works out at 44 Megabits per second torrent throughput.
Even if BT say you can have Infinity, they can change their mind
BT royally cocked up the order I put in for Infinity which was accepted. I even had a chat with the BT engineer (it got beyond installing a BT line) and he pointed out the green cab over the road I'd be getting the connection from.
A few days later and BT were telling me it wasn't available at the exchange, which was just BS. BS because not only did the engineer have it at his premises, he was installing in the area and had mentioned he'd probably be the one sent out to do mine. I even saw him since around the place I live and he basically told me to complain and that they were talking crap.
Now happily with Virgin and getting a very good service. :D
I think it's fair comment that there have been a shocking number of repeats recently, but I still love new Horizon episodes I watch a bit of Top Gear too, but other than that there's not really that much I want to watch. The license fee is kind of steep for just two shows I want to watch.
The only real advantage of the iPad3 is the higher resolution screen, which is great, but I've kind of gotten used to each product launch being a lot more spectacular. It remains to be seen whether Tim Cook can keep up the pace that Steve Jobs did.
I know that if you have connection problems that it's immensely frustrating, but after the hell I went through attempting to get BT Infinity (and failing after they said I could get it), Virgin Media have provided a fast and reliable connection.
I have noticed occasional streaming dropouts from iPlayer in HD mode on my 50 Mb service, but if I speedtest at the same time I've got loads of bandwidth there.
It's a crapload better than the flaky limited rubbish my parents have to pay plus.net who pay BT wholesale for.
Speed tested just now. I relied on this connection while BT sat with their thumb up their ass thinking about installing Infinity for me (which they said was available), before deciding 6 weeks later that they couldn't do Infinity because the exchange wasn't enabled yet (despite the phone line engineer living in a house we could see from my back window already having Infinity).
Maybe I haven't dug around enough, but how do these guys make money? They have a professional looking site and it's all very smart in appearance, but it makes me quite uncomfortable not knowing how they plan on making money from me when they're not asking for any.
Have people stopped asking this question or something?
It's a bit chicken and egg for that don't you think? With games having high GPU requirements and best suiting large monitors?
You know this thing about overheads is misleading. When I'm sitting about in Windows it's not mindlessly gobbling CPU, actually I just task-managered and found Chrome was the one using 21% of my CPU out of 28%. The memory overhead is about 1.2Gb of RAM on a system with nothing really going on, I know that's not great, but you know what, it's not really a big deal either. RAM is relatively cheap. GPU performance? Well my bitcoin miner doesn't run faster under a baseline linux install than it does under Windows.
Windows only has two significant overheads, Hard disk space and RAM usage, neither of which are a deal breaker for me.
I'm waiting for OLED for the general crappy laptop screens to be replaced with something decent, or gorgeous :D
Seriously, the latest laptop I could get (I was hunting for the best screens to) has a great image once calibrated (shouldn't have to do that) but the black level is chronically bad compared to any other modern display.
I want an OLED laptop screen damn it!
That or an IPS one, but only Apple seem to do those for any length of time.
Would it be too much to ask for at least one of these new laptops to come with the screen tech that makes the iPad, Touchpad and some Android tablets such a joy to use?
I am so sick of laptops with crappy looking screens and terrible black levels.
If I walk through John Lewis and properly eye up all the laptop displays it's really just the very expensively priced Apple laptops that have screens which really look superb.
It's odd because you can buy a cheap desktop LCD screen and it's really not that bad, but put a screen in a laptop and almost everybody butchers the quality.
As much as we forget the past at our folly, we need to grow up and embrace the future.
It's not hard to see that switching from a planned economy to a more free market approach has brought unparalleled prosperity to a previously poor nation. I simply don't see any repeat of Soviet style communism.
What China offers in a positive light, is a possible alternative to democracy that may put them ahead of us. I certainly want to be in a Democracy, but it's going to be interesting watching China. Can China outperform Democracy in terms of bringing it's people the best?
One can't help but admire the epic levels of growth the country is going through.
I wish them well and I respect them. I also think that globally we need to be more co-operative and less confrontational.
Mmmm... the crashy goodness of VirtualBox but for the Enterprise.
I use VirtualBox for it's leading 3D support (3D acceleration in Linux makes it look and work a lot better) for Linux & Windows aero (which they finally sorted out). Free is a wonderful price too, but if someone suggested running something mission critical on VirtualBox I'd just laugh.
Only yesterday one of my VM's became inaccessible after I upgraded to the latest release and attempts to restore back to a previous snapshot failed. I had to clone it and terminate the original to get the VM working again.
Having got a lovely Dell Studio less than a year old from eBay for £300, an HP Touchpad for £200, what I really need in my life is a laptop that's thin and light but too awkward to use like a tablet, yet offering no real advantage over my existing laptop.
I hope it's at least twice the price of both my other gadgets combined too!
Google voice recognition is.... well, see for yourself.
Original:
"Google voice recognition is so chronically bad that it's not worth bothering with if you can try a few times and edit out the mistakes"
Recognised on my android phone as:
"Google voice recognition for chronically bad it's not worth living with you can try a few times in the state"
That's not bad as far as Google voice recognition goes either. The other day it told a friend of mine that I wanted him to listen to sex. The original text message was completely work safe and just a status update on my journey.
The shit that comes out of the back of a horse is more practical and useful than the stuff Google thinks I said. (I'm well spoken without any real regional tone to my voice)
Because people never hit their head when falling after being tasered. They never get concussion, fits or convulsions. It doesn't sometimes cause ventricular fibrillation either.
Tasers are an important tool in a cops arsenal, but they are a very long way from safe. When you see a taser demo on TV with cops, they're usually set up so the person doing the demo doesn't have to fall on to a hard surface like concrete and there are paramedics on standby.
It's quite possible while you can't control your body to fall and hit your head on something hard enough to kill you.
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Re: As soon as I saw "hippies" in the headline...
You knew as soon as you saw the headline that you didn't want to read it, so you want it tagged too because you didn't work it out from the headline, that you said you....
Ohhh...
I see. You're an idiot.
Old Addage
Give people something much better or half the cost.
Google+ just isn't much better, all this while Facebook continues to push forwards. Google+'s future might have been more interesting had it not insisted on real names, but it might be too late for that now.
Innovation fail.
Re: Samsung plus CyanogenMod.
CyanogenMod is absolutely awesome, but counting on a stable, fully functional release that will happen any time soon after launch seems foolish to me.
I'm so glad our government doesn't have any heavy handed monitoring and censorship plans!
Re: Excellent.
You're right that Nuclear isn't as cost effective as coal. Trouble is that for some reason there's a problem burning coal. Nuclear Vs Wind power for price? Nuclear wins every time. Nuclear even edges out clean coal. Nuclear has fuel that could last for millenia, coal does not.
Now, you tell me, what's sustainable?
15 Mbps Up
What, so with the upgrade to 76 / 19 Mbps for FTTC, FTTP customers have to have an artificial limit of 15 Mbps on their upload?
I'd be sore about that.
Re: " emergency situations don't usually come with good WiFi."
This is for use cases where strict regulatory issues over spectrum use take precedence over stopping nuclear meltdowns. :P
Re: 'Dumb' robots
I think this is a far more achievable task. I think DARPA have gone a bit crazy with the requirements on this challenge.
Re: Why build a robot?
Robocop had a human brain, pretty useless in a high radiation environment.
Re: Does wireless put people off with lower throughput?
Being a 50Mbps customer has nothing to do with it, I addressed one particular issue brought up about Wireless being a bottle neck. I'm on one of the fastest services available in the UK for download speeds and my wireless is not a bottleneck, I didn't even go out and buy special equipment.
Please read and judge what I actually wrote, rather than what I didn't.
Does wireless put people off with lower throughput?
I get 50.46 Mbps on speedtest.net with my laptop on the other side of the apartment using the Virgin Media superhub, so I'd say no to that question.
Of course wireless is only as good as the manufacturer's implementation. A high quality chipset and driver combination with dual band and you can get over 150 Mbps actual throughput. Buy cheap kit and you can have reliability issues and struggle to get more than 40 Mbps actual throughput.
What does this all really mean anyway?
Australia has large metal framed houses that are terrible for wireless signals, so wireless isn't perceived as such a great technology there.
When it comes to the UK, all of the major providers, Virgin, Be, BT, Talktalk & Sky all come with wireless routers. Should we be congratulating the telecoms companies?
If you're average person had to go out and buy a wireless router themselves the market penetration would be dramatically less. I really don't see what waving around the figures means or does.
Re: The fastest UK broadband service...
Just to come back at some things:
Much of what I said I still stand by, but it's disappointing that the register haven't conveyed things accurately regarding the slowdown only affecting usenet and torrent traffic or not.
Virgin is still the fastest ISP I've seen with the exception of leased lines running into large apartment buildings.
Anyone wishing to enlighten me of other information is welcome to.
Re: The fastest UK broadband service...
Oh that's so funny and so ignorant too.
* Everyone except Be Internet does traffic management at the normal price range.
* Torrents on BT are ALWAYS aggressively throttled (go google: "bt infinity torrent performance").
* At 1/2 speed I bet my 50Mbps virgin connection (soon to go up to 120) is still faster than any BT or BT Wholesale based product for torrenting.
* It's only usenet and torrent traffic that's throttled.
Don't get me wrong, the news saddens me, I am just sick of the whining unfair comparison brigade.
Developing for Blackberry
While I'm at it, I was thinking of a neat new app I could write for Windows Mobile 6.5.
Re: 30%
Not that big a deal.
Re: No static IP and a terrible fair use policy
Seriously, have you actually investigated this? BT are the only people to offer "unlimited" offerings over FTTC. Everyone else has usage limits. Plusnet offer 120Gb a month for the same price BT offer unlimited. Before you say that unlimited isn't really unlimited, the same harsh fair usage applies to the capped products too.
I think one of the high end ISPs did offer unlimited over FTTC for something like £70 a month, but seriously??
So Affordable!
I'm so excited. I can use the beta and when it comes out Adobe have agreed that I can pay for CS6 buy selling them one of my Kidney's! I don't know why anyone would want to pirate this product.
The sun does not shine out of the ass of Chrome.
Let's not forget that Chrome isn't perfect. While it has definitely improved the web immensely, it's now the buggiest modern browser I know save the last time I looked at Opera.
Chrome is my main browser, but it's not hard for me to see when I do testing that IE9's graphics performance is far higher, I just prefer Chrome's appearance.
Jagged edges on rotated elements, rendering flaws that have crept in on fixed position stuff when GPU acceleration started and a pile of unfixed web kit bugs I still have to write fixes for means that Chrome may be a lot better than IE8 and it is, but it's no absolute knight in shining armour.
Bring on IE10 Microsoft, the world needs to be kept on it's toes.
Re: Smug bastard
Don't you mean *the* satisfied customer? :P
I did look at Talk Talk FTTC, but 2Mbps upload? Really talk talk?
Re: Anyone actually have Infinity
Yeah, it was the upload rate that really made me want Infinity over cable, but I am very happy with cable and from the experience I have got vs Infinity customers who blog, I would say Virgin are much less throttled.
I'm torrenting the Debian AMD64 DVD 1 as a test, I set it off about several mins ago, it just read 4.1 MB/s. That's MegaBytes/s. It's 24% complete and 13 minutes ETA.
It was just reading 5.5 MB/s for a moment there (it's getting faster as I finish this comment), which works out at 44 Megabits per second torrent throughput.
Even if BT say you can have Infinity, they can change their mind
BT royally cocked up the order I put in for Infinity which was accepted. I even had a chat with the BT engineer (it got beyond installing a BT line) and he pointed out the green cab over the road I'd be getting the connection from.
A few days later and BT were telling me it wasn't available at the exchange, which was just BS. BS because not only did the engineer have it at his premises, he was installing in the area and had mentioned he'd probably be the one sent out to do mine. I even saw him since around the place I live and he basically told me to complain and that they were talking crap.
Now happily with Virgin and getting a very good service. :D
Re: One flaw
I think it's fair comment that there have been a shocking number of repeats recently, but I still love new Horizon episodes I watch a bit of Top Gear too, but other than that there's not really that much I want to watch. The license fee is kind of steep for just two shows I want to watch.
Share Value
Let's hope he doesn't do a Ballmer though eh?
The only real advantage of the iPad3 is the higher resolution screen, which is great, but I've kind of gotten used to each product launch being a lot more spectacular. It remains to be seen whether Tim Cook can keep up the pace that Steve Jobs did.
Dr Pimp Called
He wants his prostitutes back.
Balance
I know that if you have connection problems that it's immensely frustrating, but after the hell I went through attempting to get BT Infinity (and failing after they said I could get it), Virgin Media have provided a fast and reliable connection.
I have noticed occasional streaming dropouts from iPlayer in HD mode on my 50 Mb service, but if I speedtest at the same time I've got loads of bandwidth there.
It's a crapload better than the flaky limited rubbish my parents have to pay plus.net who pay BT wholesale for.
And when the BT home hub get's 802.11ac...
I bet it will still have a real throughput of around 24 Mbps.
1.9Mbps / 1.1Mbps, three, one plan (Down / Up)
Speed tested just now. I relied on this connection while BT sat with their thumb up their ass thinking about installing Infinity for me (which they said was available), before deciding 6 weeks later that they couldn't do Infinity because the exchange wasn't enabled yet (despite the phone line engineer living in a house we could see from my back window already having Infinity).
I thought Greenpeace were still busy working on making energy more expensive to better impede the development of starving children in Africa.
Illegal XML
Having a space in a tag name is invalid XML. May I suggest::
<tinfoil_hat>Content</tinfoil_hat>
How do they make money?
Maybe I haven't dug around enough, but how do these guys make money? They have a professional looking site and it's all very smart in appearance, but it makes me quite uncomfortable not knowing how they plan on making money from me when they're not asking for any.
Have people stopped asking this question or something?
Overhead Scmoverhead
It's a bit chicken and egg for that don't you think? With games having high GPU requirements and best suiting large monitors?
You know this thing about overheads is misleading. When I'm sitting about in Windows it's not mindlessly gobbling CPU, actually I just task-managered and found Chrome was the one using 21% of my CPU out of 28%. The memory overhead is about 1.2Gb of RAM on a system with nothing really going on, I know that's not great, but you know what, it's not really a big deal either. RAM is relatively cheap. GPU performance? Well my bitcoin miner doesn't run faster under a baseline linux install than it does under Windows.
Windows only has two significant overheads, Hard disk space and RAM usage, neither of which are a deal breaker for me.
"Apparently low temperature thermoplastics are a bad choice for Internal Combustions Engines" - he said, sitting in a pile of hot goo on his driveway.
I'm waiting for OLED for the general crappy laptop screens to be replaced with something decent, or gorgeous :D
Seriously, the latest laptop I could get (I was hunting for the best screens to) has a great image once calibrated (shouldn't have to do that) but the black level is chronically bad compared to any other modern display.
I want an OLED laptop screen damn it!
That or an IPS one, but only Apple seem to do those for any length of time.
They were also told they were VERY naughty boys and girls. In a loud stern voice.
Time to dig those CDs out again so I can rerip them in Even More Advanced Audio Codec.
Perhaps you'd like some cherries with that? Oh! I see you've already got some :P
Measurement Mystery
It just makes me wonder how on earth they connected the crocodile clips leading to the multimeter on each end of it. :P
"There have been a few reports of phorid flies opportunistically causing human myiasis."
*puts on best Star Wars Emperor voice*
Kill them, kill them all.
IPS Screens or Equivalent
Would it be too much to ask for at least one of these new laptops to come with the screen tech that makes the iPad, Touchpad and some Android tablets such a joy to use?
I am so sick of laptops with crappy looking screens and terrible black levels.
If I walk through John Lewis and properly eye up all the laptop displays it's really just the very expensively priced Apple laptops that have screens which really look superb.
It's odd because you can buy a cheap desktop LCD screen and it's really not that bad, but put a screen in a laptop and almost everybody butchers the quality.
Lose the Tin Foil hats
As much as we forget the past at our folly, we need to grow up and embrace the future.
It's not hard to see that switching from a planned economy to a more free market approach has brought unparalleled prosperity to a previously poor nation. I simply don't see any repeat of Soviet style communism.
What China offers in a positive light, is a possible alternative to democracy that may put them ahead of us. I certainly want to be in a Democracy, but it's going to be interesting watching China. Can China outperform Democracy in terms of bringing it's people the best?
One can't help but admire the epic levels of growth the country is going through.
I wish them well and I respect them. I also think that globally we need to be more co-operative and less confrontational.
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Mmmm... the crashy goodness of VirtualBox but for the Enterprise.
I use VirtualBox for it's leading 3D support (3D acceleration in Linux makes it look and work a lot better) for Linux & Windows aero (which they finally sorted out). Free is a wonderful price too, but if someone suggested running something mission critical on VirtualBox I'd just laugh.
Only yesterday one of my VM's became inaccessible after I upgraded to the latest release and attempts to restore back to a previous snapshot failed. I had to clone it and terminate the original to get the VM working again.
Closely followed by...
gs.statcounter.com lists IE6 below 1% in the UK, and IE7 just dropped below 4%.
Maybe we should be waving goodbye to IE7 too.
Ultrabooks, A Pointless Premium
Having got a lovely Dell Studio less than a year old from eBay for £300, an HP Touchpad for £200, what I really need in my life is a laptop that's thin and light but too awkward to use like a tablet, yet offering no real advantage over my existing laptop.
I hope it's at least twice the price of both my other gadgets combined too!
I for one think this technology is very exciting. I'm actually quite tired of a small minority bashing it.
It's the most ambitious use of radio frequency since the cell phone and look what an enormous industry that is now.
I think as a world wide society, moving data around is going to be almost as important as moving power around.
Easy To Fix Interference Problems
So let's say you allow whitespace comms and there is an area being affected by a database not having accurate enough information.
Problem is reported, database is updated, devices get updated information.
Where's your problem?
Winning?
Google voice recognition is.... well, see for yourself.
Original:
"Google voice recognition is so chronically bad that it's not worth bothering with if you can try a few times and edit out the mistakes"
Recognised on my android phone as:
"Google voice recognition for chronically bad it's not worth living with you can try a few times in the state"
That's not bad as far as Google voice recognition goes either. The other day it told a friend of mine that I wanted him to listen to sex. The original text message was completely work safe and just a status update on my journey.
The shit that comes out of the back of a horse is more practical and useful than the stuff Google thinks I said. (I'm well spoken without any real regional tone to my voice)
Because people never hit their head when falling after being tasered. They never get concussion, fits or convulsions. It doesn't sometimes cause ventricular fibrillation either.
Tasers are an important tool in a cops arsenal, but they are a very long way from safe. When you see a taser demo on TV with cops, they're usually set up so the person doing the demo doesn't have to fall on to a hard surface like concrete and there are paramedics on standby.
It's quite possible while you can't control your body to fall and hit your head on something hard enough to kill you.
Sometimes an embarrassing international incident has to occur before people sit up and take note.
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