Posts by Josco 154 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jul 2009
Not aways possible. I was at a large hotel in Leicester and for various reasons we required another room. I went to reception where the spotty youth said they were fully booked. In front of him I whipped out my phone, went to Booking.com and booked a room there and then for that night. Job done.
Personally I am very comfortable in Cook’s walled garden. I knew when I moved all my own IT systems to Apple that my options would be slightly limited but I trade that for security and privacy (perceived or not). My IPhone, IPad and Mac all talk to each other, everything just works and iCloud for £2.50 per month is not expensive. Because of work I have to have Excel and Word on the system and they really know how to charge!
Basically who would I rather have looking after my data? Cook, Bezos, Zuckerberg or Nadella?
"But many people don't as Xcode itself isn't very well documented."
I agree with that. I am not a developer or code writer in any shape or form, just an inquisitive amateur, but I've had an idea for a (brilliant) iPhone app that I fancied having a go at. The help for the Xcode SDK is no help to me and I've got bogged down at the first hurdle....
Ah well, back to HTML, CSS and a little poorly written PHP. My plans for a money making app on the back burner.
I use Google quite a lot, Gmail, Maps et al but I have never knowingly clicked an advert link nor responded to any of the adverts that are thrust upon me. I have a similar response to junk calls. So who is responding and making the advertisers cough up?
I could be willing to pay for email (an allowable cost against tax I should imagine) if that would prevent a lot of spam.
A few years ago I had a temp job changing the signage on a certain banks network of ATMs. This required me to have unfettered access to the machines and all work was carried out during opening hours. Rarely was I questioned about what I was doing by members of staff, and there was never any check that I was certified to carry out the work and no ID was ever requested. On external machines I would await my turn to access the ATM with members of the public in the queue and then proceed to attack the machine with various tools to remove its outer coverings. No one questioned me, not even the two coppers who passed on one occasion.
I have to say that at no point was I able to actually connect to the inner workings because I had neither the knowledge or the tools, but I doubt any one would have said anything even if I had.
Amazing what a Hi-Vis vest can do.
In my little town there are 4 vape shops all within sight of each other, they are each almost completely empty of both product and customers. I'm not sure what rent they have to pay, and I have no idea as to the cost of the product or the markup, but it doesn't seem economically viable as a business. Is it a front?
There are reckoned to be over 6 million CCTV cameras in use by the authorities in the UK, never mind the number of personal and business systems. By one estimate people in urban areas of the UK are likely to be captured by about 30 surveillance camera systems every day. That's systems, not individual cameras.
Big brother is in the house.
Both wind and solar are intermittent, usually producing power when it is not needed. I recall hearing an interview on the radio where it was suggested that the power produced could be used to create gas, this gas could then be absorbed by the national gas grid which has sufficient elasticity to accommodate this irregular . When power is needed then a gas power station is fired up. Simples!
I also agree with those respondents who suggest river power. My local river (The Wharf) has never run dry in all the years I've been here.
Not all of us here are programmers and I could stare at that code for an eternity and not know what I'm looking for.
I do a little HTML, CSS and PHP and some aeons ago a small amount of classic ASP, all of it laughably simple. I've always thought of coding as a little like Shakespeare; I can read Shakespeare, I can understand (some) Shakespeare but I certainly can't write it.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
