Posts by xyz 763 posts • joined 7 Dec 2007
Yeah but you're forgetting that England is small and overcrowded, whereas the rest of the planet, apart from cities, is sparsely populated and needs some other form of comms. My house in the village 6kms from my farm has 300mbps fibre and 5G etc but out here in the woods, no mobile signal, no nothing, hence Starlink run off solar, mesh WiFi and LoRa. This is not for fun, this is to improve crop productivity, so you can slob in front of your streaming telly with a full belly.
Google advertising growth is flat-lining and everyone is jumping on the "social" bandwagon, so I suppose El Musko sees a few future schekels in Twitter. I'm still trying to get over the horror that befell me last night on YouTube. Thought I'd watch the Klendathu drop scene from Starship Troopers and BANG! an effin great fullscreen advert jumped at me right at the good bit. And these idiots think I'm going to contemplate a purchase instead of just pissing me off. Didn't mean to rant, it sort of just happened.
And I thought it was a new shiny thing Musky was doling out, until, i saw he wanted me to pay 25 somethings a month towards his twitter fund.
A) People use Starlink where there is no other option.
B) i have tried registering coordinates as a service address on the app and it isn't having any of that, so I have to use my house address.
C) i know a lot of the RV crowd use starlink because they could just park up and do whatever RV types do online. They will not be happy.
All in all, suddenly, i feel dirty.
I'm currently building an in the woods LoRa set up and the big problem with IoT is that no corp sales johnny seems to know what iIoT is for, so you get massive overpricing and full on buzzword bingo (cloud, mesh, smart city etc etc) where a manhole sensor costs about $40.
On the other side of the divide you get men in sheds wanking over their ability to remotely control an LED from a laptop via the internet like they were in TBBT.
The upshot of all this is that you can put together sone pretty impressive shit for almost no charge but you have to know a lot of stuff.
The big issue with city based IoT is that it's old fashioned tech no matter how you dress it up, so flogging a product is always going to be niche and will probably be out of date in 12 months
Just my 2 cents.
>>I keep looking at starlink and oneweb. However the pings need to come down quite a bit.
Out here in Catalunya we've got fibre to every village which is great. My bolt hole in the forest (6kms out of town) though has nothing so I run skyDSL (40 down/ 5 up) but, but, but my Starlink dish comes next week!!! Hope my solar power set up can handle the load. Hello 21st century!!!
Oh, remember OneWeb sats are launched from Russia, so that might bugger things up a bit.
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Didn't know something like this was on the go.
IMHO... this would work well, if it works. My idea was everyone controls their own data;,yes a personal blockchain is needed for your historic audit. Then you can give out time limited access to virtual areas containing documents necessary for whatever org. No need for data controllers, no need for orgs to keep your data etc etc. Makes more sense than all that photocopying hioo ha I have to go through everytime I "interface" with a new Borg collective of civil servants.
Geezza joab!
Wish I was black, but can't have everything.
Anyhoo as a farmer, IT bod and Scot, everytime that gobshite opens his trap, all I know is someone is going to try and fuck me over at some point soon. Apart from the jam tomorrow and diversionality aspects all I can see is buzzword tech where little regulation exists, mates can see an opportunity and party on!
We all know this is crap from a bullshitter. Christ, he's beginning to make Trump look smart.
That's the doings that go on inside the iPhone-o-sphere then. All seems a bit wanky. Glad I'm not suitable, given that I'm currently sharpening my chainsaw chains so I can go to work on my 4x4 quad in the morning. Sending this via my satellite dish running off solar power. Now that's cool IMHO.
Thanks for the info, that should save me a bob or 2.
Oh... Dear Telescopiteers,
I understand that there are various professional organisations who do that space stuff and have pictures... Here's the address of one of them... Nasa.com. I'm baffled as to why you think you'll get better tesults from your garden shed unless of course you're looking for Nibiru or something with NCC 1701 written on it. Mind youI've never been a fan of paraffin heaters, tin mugs of tea and radio 4 on the witeless so who am I to judge.
I live off grid in the woods (in europe) and I'm holding out for starlink in 2022. Sorry you're telescoping is toasted by my selfish desire to get an internet connection, but my current options are zero and musky's mini birds seem like my salvation. Old satellite offerings are hobbled by dodgy sales fiends, I can't plug into the fibre cable a km from my gaff and there is no mobile signal to boost. Ok, a Dishy McFlatface may consume 100w an hour (and therefore I need more batteries) but at least I can work 21st century style.
All hail Emperor Zuck! Mind you, the big clog in the "network" will be slow human thought, so that lot will have to be deprecated and replaced by virtual human constructs that provide his Glorious Empire will data whilst avoiding all that eat, sleep and shit downtime.
Or we'll be eating rats or something.
Travis Perkins missed the boat about 10 years ago when everyone else started switching to construction sales online. They are now an industry joke and they still "don't get it". At least they are now trying to do something, but you get the impression that the board comprises people who think their grandkids are experts with that computery stuff etc. Forget about Oracle (sheesh), the big words that are missing are SEO, delivery times and drop ship. If you've got shares... Sell.
Bashing the IKEA. Maybe they were testing their meatball throughput time from mouth to pan? Maybe their head of security is a perv? There is no way in hell anyone, anywhere, in any company, is going to think putting cameras in bogs is a goer, so trying to blag your way out of this shithole (no pun ) just makes the whole thing worse. I mean their excuse is like the old casualty joke of "I was hoovering naked when..."
Can't we play a game.... Person A sends a whatsapp of aaaaaaaa etc (many As) to 10 person Bs, each of whom sends a whatsapp of bbbbbb etc (many Bs) to 10 more etc and see how quickly we can KABOOM servers and make data mining a hoot. I'm sure AIs would do that sort of thing for fun.
8 million quid for...
"sewer monitors and developing in parallel the associated analytics to make appropriate and effective use of the additional information to prevent sewer blockages developing"
Many software sales persons will be sniggering.
They wont even get out of bed for that sort of money.
I've got a catalan digital ID. It's kept on a memory stick and you just stick it in a USB port when you need to login to a gov website. In fact Spain and the EU have many diferent ones and all are accepted at a gov site. Obviously they're not blue which may be the problem.
Dont get me wrong, the manifesto was bang on, however all that has happened in the 20 or so years is that effin group wank called scrum, devs not listening to clients whilst they try to shoehorn the latest CV must have into the project and a lot of sticky notes on walls that never get to 100%.
Rant over.
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