Posts by Joe 278 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Mar 2007
Quite right, apparently - according to the current issue of Private Eye "the BBC has announced that is will be compensating Hot Sauce, the production company that makes Ross's Radio 2 programme and his BBC1 chat show, for 'all relevant production costs' during the three months the programmes will be off-air due to his suspension. The owner of Hot Sauce? One Jonathan Ross."
Ross might be an idiot, but he's not stupid!
You know, it's odd that you say that Rackspace are a bit freaky. I got a quote from them months ago but went elsewhere (the client had someone else they preferred) and Rackspace won't stop calling me now! They're like some crazy girl you'd meet on a night out, and now she keeps calling wanting to know why you haven't called back, and don't you like her? Take the hint, I'm seeing someone else! Crazy women. What am I talking about again?
Intel must surely know they're talking nonsense here! What does the processor architecture have to do with the Internet (in whole or part). As long as the processor has enough speed, it's the software that's responsible for something as high-level as a browser, surely?
[Insert your own car/petrol/road analogy here.]
Kudos to all who have helped expose this!
Capitalism has no ethics: Skype would be doing the same in East Germany if it still existed, and they'd be doing the same in the UK if Hitler had won the war.
Also that link to the Skype blog is interesting. No reply to the comments, but at least they've let the comments stay.
...had this exact same problem. I spent ages on the phone to an O2/Be tech support guy discussing this, and he found it as bizarre as I did.
When the iPlayer stream changed from the channel logo video to the programme proper, the router would go into a "BBC-only" mode - i.e. I could only access *.bbc.co.uk domains, and all other domains would time-out. (The programme would stream okay during this time, as it came from a bbc.co.uk domain.)
After a few minutes of this, the whole connection would drop, and the router would reset. (Probably 3m34s - the same issue as Ivan's client, above!)
They sent me a new O2 Wireless Box II, which works fine!
"I bet they recognise and give credit to the diligent study of other mythologies, such as Greek, Hindu, Norse, Chinese, etc."
How much do you want to bet? Have you researched this? Or is it just a hunch?
Also: hurrah for common sense! As a child I didn't know what to believe, but the older I get the more I'm convinced that religion is hogwash and I don't know how any sane adult could fall for it.
"...the laptop is not up to the job, with its single core CPU and 1GB of RAM.
If the general public are installing Vista on pieces of rubbish like this, then they are going to have problems."
You're getting it the wrong way round - the OS is meant to run the hardware, not vice-versa. (Remember, it's an Operating System, not an Operated System.)
So if Vista can't operate most people's hardware then it's no good for them, is it? I know that computer technology marches onwards and upwards, but Vista requires a Great Leap Forward in terms of power and cost which most people aren't prepared to pay.
Microsoft fumbled - they wanted people to buy Vista but XP running on an old PC with 512meg of RAM does everything most people want. Why pay good money for no obvious benefit?
Vista is the wrong OS for your laptop, obviously, but MS offer no suitable OS for sale. If Microsoft is wanting to sell a niche OS for high-end gear then that's their choice, but I don't think that was their plan.
I agree with Ian Ferguson up there - 99.9% of folk can't tell the difference. Us geeks know but the "general public" don't know or care.
AM radio is still popular. My mum bought a HD-Ready television, but watches VHS tapes on it. My friends can't see that YouTube video looks crap.
I used to be a real audiophile - I bought a Rega turntable, for gods' sake! - but then I realised that the music is more important than the sound quality, and the high-end audio market is just selling snake oil.
Like the fonts, the geeky language, the names...
"The Gimp" - who the hell would use that over Photoshop? I'm not talking about functionality, I'm talking about not getting funny looks when you mention it to people.
Gnome? Awful name.
And the different Ubuntus (Xubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.) just sound dreadful.
To geeks, techy stuff wins out every time, but I'm sure a big part of Windows success is it's name. Names like Xubuntu or Gnome or Puppy Linux just don't sound good.
"The likelihood is that this theft was carried out in an opportunistic manner by a thief who will not realise that there is any personal data on the laptop and who may just erase what is on the hard disk in order to disguise the fact that the laptop is stolen."
Fingers crossed it was stolen by a crack addict, eh?
"I can assure you that we take security of personal data very seriously and have, since this incident, which was inadvertently caused by a technical issue, already further strengthened procedures."
It's obvious that we don't take security of personal data very seriously (this wouldn't have happened if we did) but I'm going to say we do anyway and hope that pacifies you.
The public are insane! Who would see someone taking pictures of buses in Pontypridd and think "terrorist!"? Why would that be the logical conclusion, instead of "nerd"?
Like any self-respecting terrorist would target Pontypridd. Wouldn't even make the national news, let alone get George Bush's knickers in a twist.
Isn't the refund thing to help people who mis-type their desired domain name in? Domains are cheap enough these days, and if someone is silly enough to not check the spelling before buying it's hardly going to bankrupt them to have to buy the right one. It's their own silly fault for not checking before buying anyway.
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